Name (Version if Applicable)	Result	Notes	Region	Revision
007 - Quantum of Solace	Works	runs slowly but it loads fine and is playable. Screen is sideways	USA	r185
Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth	Works	Slow, especially when displaying dialogue.	USA	r180
Advance Wars: Dual Strike	Works	Press any button to skip first screen. Speed and music is slow but functional.	USA	r185
Again	Works	Works perfectly. next Rev needs a side view mode	USA	r154
Age Of Empires - The Age of Kings	Works	Sound is buggy but speed is rather accurate. Playable	USA	r185
Alice in Wonderland	Works	Playable but sound is buggy and it runs very slowly.	USA	r185
Alvin & the Chipmunks	Title Screen	Music is buggy and unable to select the main menu.	USA	r185
Animal Crossing: Wild World	Works	Runs at a slow pace, can't read dilog, slow reading speed, Sound is constant buzz.	USA	r185
Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney	Works	Slow, especially when displaying dialogue.	USA	r180
Aquarium DS	Works	Slow but playable	USA	r185
Arthur & the Invisibles	Works	playable and emulates at a reasonable speed.	USA	r185
Assassin's Creed Altair's Chronicles	Works	Slow but playable	USA	r185
ATV Quad Frenzy	Works	Runs slow but playable. Pixels seems to be stretched out	USA	r185
Avatar The Last Airbender	Works	Sound is buggy, dilog stacks up making it unreadable. Very slow, seems to be playable	USA	r185
Backyard Baseball 2010	Works	Loads fast and playable. Plays at about 50% speed	USA	r185
Bakugan Battle Brawlers	Title Screen	Super slow loading time. Cannot progress past title.	USA	r79
Bakugan Battle Trainer	Title Screen	Cannot choose new game, or any option	USA	r79
Biker Mice From Mars	Works	Loads fast, sound is good. There is no video on the top screen when playing the game.	USA	r79
Bionicle Heroes	Title Screen	Loads fast and sounds good. Cannot get past the options screen before gameplay.	USA	r79
Black Sigil - Blade of the Exile	Works	Slightly slow, has a fuzzy sound issue sometimes.	USA	r180
Bomberman Land Touch!	Title Screen	Cannot get past title without stylus.	USA	r79
Call of Duty Modern Warfare	Works	Runs slow. Once in the game movement is really slow and cannot see much of anything in the top screen.	USA	r79
Call of Duty Modern Warfare: Mobilized	Works	Runs slow. Once in the game movement is really slow and cannot see much of anything in the top screen.	USA	r79
Call of Duty World at War	Works	Gets past title screen and past difficulty select screen to the Boot Camp main screen but doesn't progress past that.	USA	r79
Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow	Works	Very slow. Save file creation need few minutes.	USA	r180
Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin	Works	Very slow. Save file creation need few minutes.	USA	r180
Chrono Trigger	Works	Game is playable sound is near perfect, little lag happen sometime, the only problem seem for now is saving take a lot of time	USA	r180
Crash of the Titans	Title Screen	Freezes right before entering gameplay. Black screen, have to hard reboot.	USA	r79
CSI: Dark Motives	Works	Loads fast sound is bad during opening cutscene, but fine after. Cannot access bottom screen without stylus.	USA	r79
Custom Robo Arena	Works	Very slow.	EUR	r184
Deca Sports	Works	Loads to title screen but cannot use the stylus. A little lag in the audio/video	USA	r73
Dementium: The Ward	Works	Slow but playable. Bad Sound	EUR	r184
Digimon World - Dawn	Works	It is slow, but playable.	USA	r154
Digimon World - Dusk	Works	Plays very well. Some slowdown during battles, but I played for 15 minutes.	USA	r79
DK Jungle Climber	Works	Playable, but slow and contains graphical errors.	EUR	r154
Dokapon Journey	Works	Sound and game runs what seems like 50+% speed but playable	USA	r185
Dragonology	Title Screen	Loads fast and has good sound. Black screen after saving screen.	USA	r79
Elite Beat Agents	Works	Slow, static music, good sounds, graphics seem to be normal. Overall unplayable, but works.	USA	r185
Exit	Works	Loads fast, the sound is good. Just cannot figure out where the guy I am controlling is...:)	USA	r79
Feel the Magic: XY/XX	Uses microphone	Some parts of the game require the microphone, making you unable to progress. But the game seems to run good enough.	USA	r184
Final Fantasy IV	Works	Very slow but playable. Sound glitches some times	EUR	r184
Final Fantasy XII - Revenant Wings	Sound	Slow. Constant static.	USA	r184
Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles Rings Of Fate	Works	Slow. Occasional inverted colors on top screen.	USA	r184
Final Fantasy Fables - Chocobo Tales	Works	Runs at 20%. Audio static during intro.	USA	r184
Final Fantasy Tactics A2 Grimoire of the Rift	Works	Slow. Some sound loop errors.	USA	r184
Final Fantasy Tactics A2 - Grimoire of the Rift	Title Screen	Slow,freezes after selecting difficulty	EUR	r154
Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon	Works	Loads fast, runs kinda slow in spots and the sound is good. Plays almost perfectly	USA	r79
From the Abyss	Works	Plays at about 60% speed. Sound is good too!	USA	r79
Gardening Mama	Title Screen	Runs a little slow and cannot get past title screen.	USA	r79
Ghostbusters	Works	Loads slow and only the bottom screen has any graphics. The sounds is unbearable....	USA	r79
Harvest Moon Sunshine Islands	Works	Really slow but playable.	USA	r184
Hell's Kitchen	Title Screen	Sound is terrible. Cannot get past typing in name.	USA	r79
Iron Chef America: Supreme Cuisine	Title Screen	Sounds is terrible, cannot progress pat title screen.	USA	r79
Jump! Ultimate Stars(English Patched)	Works	Playable but sound is buggy and it runs very slowly.	JAP	r185
Kamen Rider Battle Ganbaride Card Battle Taisen	Works	Very slow; PCM based sound effects and voice clips come out as garbled nonsense, palette errors in card selection screen; small graphical glitches	JPN	r185
Kirby Super Star Ultra	Works	Loads slow, runs slow music is fine. Completely playable.	USA	r79
Kirby Squeak Squad	Works	Runs slowly, sound appears fine, noticable delays when loading (going through doors, etc). Could be considered playable despite the slowness.	PAL	r122
Legend of Spyro: A New Beginning	Title Screen	Plays Music Only	USA	r77
Legend of Spyro: Shadow Legacy	Works	Slow, but works	USA	r180
Lego Battles	Title Screen	Sound is bad. Loads very slowly.	USA	r79
Lionel Trains: On Track	Works	All aboard.	(E)	r185
Luminous Arc	Works	Slow during battles. Bad sound some times	EUR	r184
Luminous Arc 2	Title Screen	Cannot see/use stylus to get past. Boots back to HBC just fine	USA	r73
Lux Pain	Works	Slow,Colours flash,sound is terrible(static)	USA	r79
Mario Hoops 3-on-3	Title Screen	Loads up to menu with horrible Sound and once started game goes all weird..	USA	r77
Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa	Title Screen	Slow cutscenes. fast menus. Cannot progress past opening cutscenes to gameplay.	USA	r79
Mario Party DS	Works	Playable, Should work fine. Works on r79 as well	USA	r77
Mario Kart DS	Works	Playable, Should work fine	USA	r167
Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time	Works	Plays Nice and smoothly	USA	r77
Mega Man Battle Network 5: Double Team DS	Title Screen	After selecting new game and Team, it's all since You can't go through intro text (still no reaction to keys since r169 and probably olders, tested on GameCube controller)	USA	r179
Mega Man Star Force series	Works	Play slow	USA	r169
Mega Man ZX	Works	Play slow, music fine.	USA	r140
Mega Man ZX Advent	Works	Play slow, music fine.	USA	r140
Might & Magic: Clash of Heroes	Works	Runs slow, sound works, to get to a fight you have to do a tutorial first (tested with Fusing tutorial). During fight, horrible flickering on both screens, top screen has negative colors.	USA	r79
Monster Jam: Urban Assault	Works	Bad sound. Once racing you cannot see the road or other vehicles, just the on-screen display.	USA	r79
Moon	Title Screen	Bad sound. No video on top screen. Never makes it past choosing difficulty.	USA	r79
Naruto Shippuden: Ninja Council 4	Works	Gets to title very fast. Once in the game though you cannot see your character.	USA	r79
Nintendogs: Chihuahua & Friends	Works	A litte Laggy, But Playable	USA	r77
New Super Mario Bros.	Work	The 3D is not support yet; skips a bit	USA/PAL	r122, r167
Osu! Takatae! Ouendan!	First cutscene	Freezes right when first mission cutscene ends. But before that, the game runs rather nicely, with a bit of slowdown and graphical glitches here and there	Japan	r184
Pac-Man World 3	1/2 Title Screen	Loads up Nice looks Playable, But dosent load up to Title screen...	USA	r77
Phoenix Wright: Trials and Tribulations	Works	Slow, especially when displaying dialogue.	USA	r180 + r185
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney	Works	Slow, especially when displaying dialogue.	USA	r180 + r185
Phoenix Wright: Justice for All	Works	Slow, especially when displaying dialogue.	USA	r180 + r185
Ping Pals	Works	White screen few minutes, then game runs fine.	USA	r176
Pokemon Black	Works	Runs very slow speed. Frame Skip doesn't seem to help...	JPN	r208
Pokemon Dash	Working	A little slow but playable.	USA	r180
Pokemon Diamond	Works	Very slow. But speed is a little better then before.	USA	r185
Pokemon Heart Gold	Works	Very slow.	USA	r180
Pokemon Mystery Dungeon Blue Rescue Team	Works	Runs at 1/2 to 1/4 speed.	USA	r180
Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Darkness	Works	Runs at 1/2 to 1/4 speed.	USA	r180
Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky	Works	Runs at 1/2 to 1/4 speed.	USA	r180
Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time	Works	Runs at 1/2 speed mostly, some graphic issues, nothing serious. also, wont save.	USA	r154
Pokemon Platinum	Works	Very slow but playable	USA	r185
Pokemon Soul Silver	Works	Too slow to play(frame skipping does not help), at least the game works.	USA	r180
Pokémon SoulSilver	Black screen	It is slow, but it starts. After Prof. Oak's explanation you get a black screen	J	r154
Pokemon White	Works	Runs at a very slow speed.	USA	r185
Populous DS	Title Screen	Bottom screen does not show once on title screen. Cannot progress past it.	USA	r79
Price is Right 2010	Works	Gets to the screen to make a character and cannot use/see stylus. Boots to HBC just fine.	USA	r79
Prince of Persia: The Fallen King	Title Screen	Sound is terrible. Cannot get past language selection screen.	Europe	r79
Professor Layton and the Curious Village	Title Screen	Gets to Title Screen with working sound, but no stylus to progress past this point.	Europe	r122
Ragnarok DS	Title Screen	Sound horrible, slow, load Title but could not start game	USA	r86
Rayman DS: The Great Scape	Works	Very slow but playable.	EUR	r184
Rayman Raving Rabbids TV Party	Title Screen	Gets stuck at the 'saving game do not turn off' screen. Have to hard reboot.	USA	r79
Sonic Rush Adventure	Works	Reformatting save data screen, just turn off the wii and load the game again.	USA	r180
Sonic Rush	Works	White screen, grab a beer and wait until game starts, only happens on first load.	USA	r180
Super Mario 64 DS	Works	Slow but playable, freezes in first level, then back to HBC.	USA	r154
Super Monkey Ball Touch and Roll	Works	Very very Slow but other than that, it's perfect(even loads 3D)	USA	r154
Super Robot Wars OG Saga - Endless Frontier	Title Screen	Load sponsor but could not pass Title screen	USA	r86
Sims 2, Pets	Works	Graphics Good, Playable, Slow loading	USA	r170
Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey	Barely playable	Works, but it's unbearable at it's current state. Slow, awful sound, and the screens are badly colored.	Europe	r184
SBK: Snowboard Kids	Works	Very slow, but no graphic or audio glitches whatsoever.	USA	r184
Tales of Innocence	Title Screen	Up to the title screen it sounds like static and things flash a lot. After starting a new game, the first cut scene just shows a black and green flashing screen instead of any characters. Dialogue stuff still shows up.	USA	r200
Tetris DS	Title Screen	Loads fine, title has abnormal coloring, operational at this point, but beyond this, only the music works	USA	r154
Time Hollow	Title Screen	Loads fine til titlescreen, music is great... freezes as soon as you start the game.	USA	r185
Tomb Raider Underworld	Title Screen	The sound is unbearable and the graphics are a bit slow. Boots to HBC just fine.	USA	r79
Trackmania DS	Works	Works, but is really slow. Only fun if you like snailracing.	EU	r154
Tony Hawk's American Sk8land	Title Screen	Sound replaced with static; returns to HBC immediately after choosing your skin color.	USA	r184
Trauma Center: Under the Knife 1	Works	Sort of slow, but no graphical glitches. Sound runs fine regardless of speed, and cutscenes run 100%	USA	r184
Wario: Master of Disguise	Works	Sound is replaced with loud stuttering and screeching. Long loads. playble.	USA	r122
Warioware D.I.Y.	Works	works but very slow. stylus now visible	USA	r154
Warioware Touched!	Works	Movies are around 3/4 speed. Minigames run at full speed	USA/EU	r154
Worms - Open Warfare	Works	100% Speed with frame skip. Definitely playable.	USA	r182
X-Men Origins: Wolverine	Title Screen	Graphics run fast. Boots back to HBC just fine.	USA	r79
Yoshi's Island DS	Works	Sky might be a different colour. Best rom to play right now because it does not require stylus usage and runs at just a little under full speed. music is also a little sluggish. - r170 the graphics are near perfect, with frame skipping set one up the speed is 100%.	USA/EUR	r170
Zoo Keeper	Works	Slow, but seems fully playable	US	r79

• Wii To Usb Adapter
• Playing Wii Games From Usb
• How To Access Usb On Nintendo Wii

Wii To Usb Adapter

Install WAD Files on Any Wii: In this instructable, you will learn how to install a wad file onto your Nintendo Wii. A wad file is usually a file that, once installed, will become a channel, but can also be a patch or something else of the sort like the cios wad file. Channel getting the wii ready preparing and using usb loader gx ver. Playing games from a usb hard drive or thumb drive is advantageous usb loader gx wii 4 3u download because the games are all in one place, they. Download wii-u-version download wii-version download. Want to rip wii games directly from your wii’s dvd.

Set-up on your SD Card

For this tutorial to work, you will need a Nintendo Wii with the homebrew channel loaded onto it, a USB flash drive and a USB loader homebrew app. Once you have your USB loader downloaded onto a PC, follow this tutorial! Wii Backup Manager is a program to copy Wii games from your computer to a USB drive so you can play the games on your Wii. It also can download game covers from GameTDB and can be used to list what games you have. This tutorial will tell you how to copy over games from your computer to your USB drive. Extract USB Loader GX and put it in the apps folder on your USB drive or SD card. Insert your USB drive, and SD card if you’re using one, into your Wii and launch USB Loader GX from the Homebrew Channel.

1. Goto the downloads page and download the latest featured release.
   Download file: DeSmuME Wii r185.zip
   (DeSmuME Wii Revision 185) Jun 28, 2010 file size: 637.88KB
   
2. Extract it into your apps folder. Make sure the path is along the lines of root:/apps/namethisfolderanything/boot.dol
   
3. Place your DS ROMs in sd:/DSROM/ to make your life easier
   You can select any ROM to play that is stored anywhere on your SD Card.
   The default directory is sd:/DSROM/

Nintendo DS ROMs Working on Wii?

Playing Wii Games From Usb

• Right now, most NDS ROMs work.
  If anyone knows of a good compatibility chart, let us know please :)

How To Access Usb On Nintendo Wii

Known Issues with GX

Now that Desmume can run on native GX (translation: hardware acceleration baby!), let's look at some of the pitfalls and problems that plague us.

Problems and Roadblocks

1. The GPU renders things in lines. I do not know where the sprites are stored. Speaking with the 'Vanilla' Desmume developers, it seems that they are taken directly from the DS game. What does this mean? It means (unless there IS a big storage place that houses all the sprite layers, which would be awesome) that it may be very difficult to convert the individual lines into 4x4 texels, since each line would not comprise all the information that a 4x4 texel would need. Again, I am not 100% sure about this, so maybe there is hope.

2. This may involve significant rewriting of the Desmume GPU code in order to get native GX to run at full efficiency. This may affect the software renderer. This is just a possibility, however. Someone more familiar with the software renderer should be able to address this better than I.

What's wrong with GX?

There is actually very little wrong with GX, it is actually Desmume, and how it does its work, that is causing the trouble when we move to native GX code.

Problems: **Sprites** Textures

I will be using Super Mario 64 DS as an example. If you load up the game, you will see something very, very odd: What looks like four blue buttons on the top screen and blue gibberish on the bottom screen. What? It's broken! Not so. Here is why it does this:

I direct your gaze to the Draw() function in main.cpp. When we use the software renderer, everything ends up coming out in the wrong format, so we need to convert it to be 4x4 texels (what the Wii likes) in order to render it to the screen. Notice the line:

if(current3Dcore 1)

If current3Dcore is one, then we want to use GX, (if it is two, we use the software renderer). Notice that within that if statement we are not 'converting' the image before we render it to the screen. If you comment this out, you will see that the text is fine, but woe! The 3D has become gibberish! This is because GX will, obviously, render 3D in the correct format! But, the sprites (text) are not in the correct format, since these are generated via the Desmume software.

This also leads into the discussion of textures. You may still call the 3D star at the start of SM64DS a failure since it is clearly the wrong color, but in actuality I believe this is due to the same problem that we have rendering sprites: incorrect format. I am not 100% certain that this is the case, however. I could be wrong.

Possible Solutions

So what's the solution? Thankfully, I think I have managed to track down what is needed to be done, and I have a few possible alternatives.

1. Convert the Sprites, but not the 3D.

This would involve finding the source of the sprite generation. What we could do is apply the 'texel conversion' normally done in the Draw() function to the sprite upon its creation.

2. Render in layers.

Desmume uses a layered structure for its rendering engine. It will loop through every line and apply the background, sprites, 3D, and more sprites on top of that.

• The start of line 2087 does the background layer
• Line 2133 renders sprites with the function: 'gpu->spriteRender'
• 3D is rendered on line 2180: 'gpu->setFinalColor3d'
• And the final sprites are done on line 2212: 'gpu->setFinalColorSpr'

There's some more in there but this is a good example. The software will compare alpha combine pixels for each layer in the line. This is (I believe) accomplished in the function: GPU_RenderLine_layer in GPU.cpp.

It is possible to render each layer as a separate entity, convert the sprite layers, and combine them with the rendered 3D image (it's a texture) as a multi-layered texture using the GX hardware.

3. 'Unconvert' the 3D.

I do not like this one, but I thought that I should suggest it nonetheless. This would involve doing the exact opposite of the 4x4 texel conversion to the rendered 3D image. That way, when we convert it later, it will look correct. This, obviously, would involve more rather than less CPU cycles; the entire reason to use GX in the first place. This could be a quick-fix until a more permanent solution is found.

Conclusion

I would vote for the 'Render in Layers' approach. I believe the tradeoffs (having to hold space for each layer) would be offset by the fact that the hardware could combine them at a FAR greater efficiency than the software ever could. Look in the function '