Wiimmfi Dolphin Guide

AwesomeKingClem

I know that there is netplay for retroarch, but I was wondering if I could get online play to work for lr-Dolphin. The normal method for setting up wiimmfi on dolphin consists of dumping the wii console's NAND and chucking it into the Dolphin files, which can be found here: wiki.dolphin-emu.org

retropieuser555

I've tested Bomberman Blast, Dr Mario and Tetris Party on wiiware using standalone dolphin and they work ok; Mario Kart Wii the framerate is too low so it's not a good experience online. No idea about the lr-dolphin and if it supports online

But yes I did the above method of copying the NAND from my Wii

Edit:- I should also point out, netplay on Retroarch isn't netplay you're thinking. It's a simulation of local multiplayer but across networks, rather than the actual netplay functions of Dreamcast and beyond

AwesomeKingClem

@retropieuser555 said in Wiimmfi Dolphin Guide:

I've tested Bomberman Blast, Dr Mario and Tetris Party

:O You have a fine taste within your retro library, comrade.

Jokes aside, did you use the Dolphin or Dolphin-GUI emulators, because those failed to boot on my end. N64 had the same issue for all the emulators I tried, including lib emulators, but I just changed the cpu core to cached_interpreter to fix that issue. Could that apply here? And if not, what could be the fix? I could probably find my answer for trying to run Dolphin or Dolphin-GUI somewhere, so I will try to research what I can.

retropieuser555

@AwesomeKingClem no it's unrelated to your n64 emulator issues (documented as a bug here:- https://github.com/mupen64plus/mupen64plus-core/issues/1047 amongst other places if you Google 16kb memory pages and pi 5)

The Dolphin-gui and dolphin is the same thing btw. GUI is graphical user interface. I'd copy the file from the pull request here https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/pull/3868 and replace the dolphin.sh in the scriptmodules. Then use that to install dolphin.sh from the experimental packages, should work ok

AwesomeKingClem

@retropieuser555 Thanks for the help. I will edit this reply when I get my results.

Edit: Goodness, it takes a while to download.

Edit the sequel: After quite a bit of life and stuff, I finally got to test it, and it does indeed boot and work! Here are a couple issues I have that I will list off while trying to find solutions and setting up wiimmfi when I can.

1: How do I fullscreen it?
2: How to I pause into Retroarch-GUI or something else to edit configurations, or do I need to edit them from file manager?
3: HOW DO I QUIT OUT?! Seriously, if this question can’t be solved on its own, then I’m going to chuck this core out the window. This is for an arcade build, anyways.
4: And if everything else works out, how do I set up wiimmfi correctly, considering the dolphin files are probably in different locations?

Thanks for your efforts, truly! :)

retropieuser555

@AwesomeKingClem I can't help you on the arcade build aspect, I'm assuming you're just running from the setup in your signature on here.

Anyway

Full screen, how's it appearing at the moment? As I had an issue with that but wasn't sure if it's specific to my display I use (my workaround involved messing with runcommand and changing the window display manager used)
The GUI for dolphin you'd need to edit emulators.cfg inside /opt/retropie/configs/gc and add this line:-

dolphin-editor = "XINIT-WMC:/opt/retropie/emulators/dolphin/bin/dolphin-emu"

Then when loading chose that, you will need a mouse I think to edit parameters, I'm not aware of a keyboard only setup for that. You could also edit the config files manually but it'll be tricky knowing what controller etc.

Quit is ESC by default. You can edit this using point 2 and editing the hotkey, can also be a combo such as start+select
wiimmf, You have your NAND keys and such? I'd follow the steps wiimmf have themselves, as you need to setup dolphin for it and then patch your roms to include the online functionality to point towards wiimmfs servers

AwesomeKingClem

@retropieuser555 Thanks for your assistance! I will try all of these one at a time, and I will get back to you for each of them that I fail to set up, because that's bound to happen with my luck :p

AwesomeKingClem

@AwesomeKingClem I am just now finally getting to it. Sorry about that!