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WiiColEm

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raz0red
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Joined: 29 Oct 2005
Posts: 646
Location: Sherwood, OR

WiiColEm

A port of the ColEm emulator for the Wii.

Current production release (v0.1):

http://www.twitchasylum.com/wiicolem/wiicolem-0_1.zip (Binaries)
http://www.twitchasylum.com/wiicolem/wiicolem-0_1-src.zip (Source)

Wiki (Wiibrew):

http://www.wiibrew.org/WiiColEm

Code:

WiiColEm is a port of the ColEm ColecoVision emulator version 2.5.2 developed
by Marat Fayzullin.

Features:

* Support for driving, roller, and super action controllers
* Tilt-based (Wiimote) driving support
* Cartridge database w/ recommended controller settings and keypad
descriptions for most commercial cartridges
* Per-cartridge button mappings
* On-screen keypad display
* High cartridge compatibility (see below)

The following additions/modifications were made to the core emulation code:

* "The Heist" now works correctly (memory initialization bug).
* Added support for Opcode RAM expansion.
* Added support for "Lord of the Dungeon" (original 32k or trimmed 24k).
* Mode 2 masking now works correctly (supports Daniel Bienvenu games).
* Mode 0 and Mode 3 now work correctly ("Cabbage Patch Kids Picture
Show" and "Smurf: Paint 'n Play Workshop" now work correctly).
* Fixed graphic corruption that would occur when switching between games
(VRAM and related state were not being reset correctly).
* Fixed save/load state bug where the emulator would incorrectly report
that the save was invalid (memory was not being cleared correctly).
* Fixed issue where noise channel wasn't starting when it should (Matt
Patrol).

01/28/10 (0.1)
-------------------
* Initial release

--Raz.

Tue Jan 26, 2010 9:16 am

cyrusmartin

Joined: 20 May 2010
Posts: 3

does this emulator support USB loading?

I can not get this thing to start no matter what I do.
I have followed all of the instructions and have the coleco.rom bios in the correct place.
I'm using a flash drive though and not an SD card.

When I try to start the emu, it loads a lack screen and then just sends me back to the homebrew channel.
Any ideas?

-Cy

Thu May 20, 2010 8:36 am

raz0red
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Joined: 29 Oct 2005
Posts: 646
Location: Sherwood, OR

Re: does this emulator support USB loading?

cyrusmartin wrote:
I can not get this thing to start no matter what I do.
I have followed all of the instructions and have the coleco.rom bios in the correct place.
I'm using a flash drive though and not an SD card.

When I try to start the emu, it loads a lack screen and then just sends me back to the homebrew channel.
Any ideas?

-Cy

Sadly it only currently works with SD Cards. I haven't ever really looked into supporting USB devices, but I may look into it for an upcoming release.

I have a 0.2 version of WiiColEm almost ready to be released. It now has overlay support, allows for resizing the screen to any dimensions, and uses GX for rendering (which smooths out the display on some games). I am hoping to release it early next week.

I am looking for some people to beta test. Please let me know if you would be interested.

Thanks.

--Raz.

Thu May 20, 2010 9:09 pm

cyrusmartin

Joined: 20 May 2010
Posts: 3

yes

I would be very interested.
If you ever do implement the USB option though then I would be eternally grateful.
Thank you for doing this at all though. Seriously.
I know it is a lot of hard work and I really appreciate it.

You rock.

-Cy

Fri May 21, 2010 11:54 pm

raz0red
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Joined: 29 Oct 2005
Posts: 646
Location: Sherwood, OR

Re: yes

cyrusmartin wrote:
I would be very interested.
If you ever do implement the USB option though then I would be eternally grateful.
Thank you for doing this at all though. Seriously.
I know it is a lot of hard work and I really appreciate it.

You rock.

-Cy

Heh, thanks a lot for the kind words.

I just looked around a bit and it appears that implementing USB support shouldn't be that hard to do (assuming I have a USB device to test with). I will give it a go later tonight. I will PM you in a couple days with info on a pre-release binary, etc.

Thanks a lot for helping to test this. If anyone else is interested please PM me (or respond to this thread).

--Raz.

Sat May 22, 2010 4:11 pm

meteorman_01

Joined: 23 May 2010
Posts: 2

forwarder or channel/wad

Is there anyone who has a channel for WiiColEm? The Emulator is great but wish I could launch it from menu as opposed to going through the homebrew channel.

Sun May 23, 2010 4:15 pm

raz0red
Site Admin

Joined: 29 Oct 2005
Posts: 646
Location: Sherwood, OR

Re: forwarder or channel/wad

meteorman_01 wrote:
Is there anyone who has a channel for WiiColEm? The Emulator is great but wish I could launch it from menu as opposed to going through the homebrew channel.

Unfortunately, I am not aware of one.

I know there are programs that allow you to create your own forwarder however. A quick search led me to this one, but I believe there are more recent ones as well.

http://www.consolespot.net/forums/wii-news/24706-release-dol-forwarder-creator-windows.html

--Raz.

Mon May 24, 2010 8:00 am

meteorman_01

Joined: 23 May 2010
Posts: 2

re: forwarder or channel/wad

unfortunately, I just can't figure this out... If someone has a WiiColEm forwarder already created and working with SDHC I would really appreciate it it you could post it. Thanks. I love this emulator....colem is ok....but just so slow to get past initial blue screen when launching app , can't scroll through list of roms easy (one at a time) and it doesn't see all roms. WiiColEm works perfect every time... now only if I could launch it as a channel.

Mon May 24, 2010 8:13 am

cyrusmartin

Joined: 20 May 2010
Posts: 3

Yes!

You are awesome.

Let me know as soon as You want me to test something.
Thank you again!!!!

-Cy

Mon May 24, 2010 8:03 pm

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