[Wii U] Retroarch Playlist Setup Guide

[@parksmush]

Thanks for the Wii U tutorials - very much appreciated. Have you considered a Bezel Project video for the Wii U? I have just done mine, renamed everything with Hyperspin tools and now it looks great.. I am starting to tidy up the playlists now, thanks to this episode..

[@ralphhardy6048]

Where were you back in 2017, nice job on the playlist got mine done and looking good but for some reason on the latest cores mine will freeze so I went back to a earlier model and things are running very smoothly with all of my artwork showing five stars buddy…

[@ArchadesGames]

Right here, but not many cared back then 😏

[@Daniel-Marson]

Really helpful video thanks, i used a standalone playlist editor but it was buggy and didn't work well. I have complete romsets for all emulated systems on Wii us version of Retroarch (only select stuff from CD based systems. The question i have is how do i handle translated ROMs. Also I have a massive collection of unlicensed games (mostly for Gameboy, NES) For example there is a Russian NES fan who runs a site called the Famicom dumping project and has hundreds and hundreds of dumps of unlicensed Chinese, Taiwanese and Russian games. Some really cool stuff, I also have the Shenzhen Nanjing south crystal tech nes unlicensed games, the Shenzhen NES games are actually really great, high quality for unlicensed (and an unlicensed NES dumps collection by a guy called Max Zhou) So would you make separate playlists for the unlicensed stuff? Because boxart is impossible, screenshots are the best i would get, but I would have to do them all myself lol.

[@ΠΟΛΥΔΩΡΟΣΜ]

Archades Gamer. Thank you so much for your videos. you are doing a very great job and you are really helpfull. I just want to add somethin gto help others... When you use the database (rdb files) on Retroarch Playlist Editor, roms must have exacly the same name of the database game names. This is the reason why online updater doest work 100percent. If you name the roms with the the database names then you are good to go. Thank you a lot for your amazing job. Keep it going!

[@ΠΟΛΥΔΩΡΟΣΜ]

when you put the database file on Retroarch Playlist Editor i believe that it doesnt rename your playlist's roms, it just adds extra info on the correct name roms

[@ArchadesGames]

It renames most of them if the filename is close to what it expects.

[@ΠΟΛΥΔΩΡΟΣΜ]

@@ArchadesGames for some reason this didn't happen to me. I had Roms without the region at the end and it couldn't much with the database. Anyway thank you a lot man. Keep it going!!

[@ArchadesGames]

It can be angry sometimes 😅 I've had that happen a few times as well.

[@bobmylo3814]

I have an issue the games won't start if the zip roms names don't match with the renamed playlist .😭

[@crocodileman94]

For some reason, the rom's won't load from the playlist. The non-playlist, non-thumbnailed ROM's work fine, so I'm not sure what the problem is.

[@Medachod]

Only issue I have is I do want to rename the playlist since the names are so long on some of them, most notably simplifying "NEC - PC Engine CD - TurboGrafx-16" to just "TurboGrafx-16" for a cleaner look. Got all my covers and stuff good to go, but when I rename the playlist, I lose the icon next to the name. I tried renaming the icon manually to address this, but unless I am just not finding the right path (retroarch/assets/ozone/png/icons), the icons all revert to the alien for the main one and spaceship for their content. What solution is there for this problem? I feel like there is one since I believe this method worked on the Switch RetroArch a while back. Don't believe I did anything differently either. Just that the Wii U refuses to load the icons if my playlist is renamed, even with the icon names matching perfectly.

[@wilmah8565]

Can anyone point me in the right direction to learn to do this for nvidia shield tv? I have a bunch of titles that do not show up on playlists.

[@hermanhoekstra7498]

Hello archades gamer One thing does not work for me I cannot drop thumbnails on the Windows version I have the F5 open Buy when i try to drop an image to drop image here Nothing happens What AM i doing wrong🤔

[@ArchadesGames]

They need to be in png format now

[@jaydenstephensonmiller8340]

I need help for my retro arch plz it keeps say this Installation Progress Failure reason: Windows cannot install package Microsoft.VCLibs.140.00_14.0.27810.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe because it has version 14.0.270.0. A higher version 14.0.2931.0 of this package is already installed. Failure text: The package could not be installed because a higher version of this package is already installed. (0x80073d06)

[@ArchadesGames]

This is a Wii U video not Xbox. Please keep it to the topic.

[@Aruseus123]

The entire time i was thinking, the wii u won't download thumbnails. How will he get around this?

[@ArchadesGames]

By saying hello PC! 😂

[@jwarner3949]

@Andrew did you ever figure out how to download the thumbnails? I'm able to download off Retroarch but the Thumbnail don't appear

[@jwarner3949]

@@ArchadesGames I have three playlists but was only able to get the Super Nintendo version to download thumbnails (via your PC method). Not sure why that is. My Sega and NES playlists will not load the region even when using the online playlist generator.

[@rdurkan3616]

Will it be possible one day to play Wii u on Xbox series x?

[@ArchadesGames]

No

[@ufoguy]

10 min of ads. Cheers !

[@ArchadesGames]

Holy crap man lol

[@ufoguy]

@@ArchadesGames Yes the crap is holy indeed :)