Clinkers
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Hi,
I've been wondering if there was a version of MAME (Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator) available for Wii, and finally managed to find one that works. Had to spend a bit of time faffing around to make it run for me, but it's well worth a look.
Download MameWii, and the way I've set up my file is to:
Take the mame folder out of the mame-wii-v1.0 folder and put it on root of your SD card
Take the sdlmamewii folder out of the mame-wii-v1.0 folder and put it in the apps folder of your SD card
Put your roms in the rom mame/rom folder (I included as many version of the roms as I could, to try to get better compatability)
Run Homebrew and select MAME, turn Wiimote sideways and up and down to select, 2 to start game.
Home calls up the menu, and pressing 1+2 simultaneously should quit you back to homebrew channel.
Things still to do:
I cant get the aspect ratio to work properly, so vertical scrolling games are stretched to widescreen.
It has a habit of dumping out: hold the Wii power button for 5 secs to switch of then restart.
Find a forwarder to make it appear as a Wii channel
Find a version that will work from my HDD instead of the SD card
Not all roms work, MAME on PC is much more forgiving than this. But Nemesis on a 42" plasma TV is feckin' ACE!
Hope somebody else can get some use out of this, and maybe help me out with the screen stretch thing?
Clinkers
I've been wondering if there was a version of MAME (Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator) available for Wii, and finally managed to find one that works. Had to spend a bit of time faffing around to make it run for me, but it's well worth a look.
Download MameWii, and the way I've set up my file is to:
Take the mame folder out of the mame-wii-v1.0 folder and put it on root of your SD card
Take the sdlmamewii folder out of the mame-wii-v1.0 folder and put it in the apps folder of your SD card
Put your roms in the rom mame/rom folder (I included as many version of the roms as I could, to try to get better compatability)
Run Homebrew and select MAME, turn Wiimote sideways and up and down to select, 2 to start game.
Home calls up the menu, and pressing 1+2 simultaneously should quit you back to homebrew channel.
Things still to do:
I cant get the aspect ratio to work properly, so vertical scrolling games are stretched to widescreen.
It has a habit of dumping out: hold the Wii power button for 5 secs to switch of then restart.
Find a forwarder to make it appear as a Wii channel
Find a version that will work from my HDD instead of the SD card
Not all roms work, MAME on PC is much more forgiving than this. But Nemesis on a 42" plasma TV is feckin' ACE!
Hope somebody else can get some use out of this, and maybe help me out with the screen stretch thing?
Clinkers