UAE Wii

	UAE
General
Author(s)	Oibaf, Simon Kagstrom
Type	Computer emulator
License	GPL
Links
	Download
	Source
	Downloadable via the Homebrew Browser
	Downloadable via the Open Shop Channel
Peripherals

Introduction

UAE is a famous Amiga emulator ported to the Wii. UAE Wii can be found on Github at github.com/Oibaf66/uae-wii, and is based on the source code of E-UAE. It allows you to play Stunt car racer, Turrican, Midwinter and the other good old Amiga games on your Wii. The port uses SDL Wii. The initial port was made by Simon Kagstrom. From release 5.1 the project is carried out by Fabio Olimpieri (Oibaf).

Budbrain megademo on the wii

Stunt car racer on the wii

Compatibility

Installation

Untar the binary release on your SD card, which gives you a structure as follows:

uae/
uae/uaerc
uae/floppies/
uae/roms/
uae/harddisks/
uae/HD/
uae/saves/
apps/uae/
apps/uae/boot.dol
apps/uae/...

Amiga kickstart images go into /uae/roms/, with the default name from uaerc being kick.rom. Thereafter put your floppy images in /uae/floppies/ and you are set to go. The first filename character should not be "[" . You can also load the images from usb HD or from computer with a wi-fi connection through SMB protocol. In the last case, you should configure uaerc.smb file and select the option in the option menu. See the tinysmb page for additional information and troubleshooting.

UAE Wii comes with 3 freeware games: Sqrxz, Sqrxz2, Solid-Gold. Set "correct aspect ratio" to 100% to better play them.

Where do I get Amiga kickstart roms?

The easiest way to legally get a set of Amiga kickstart roms (and games) is to buy the Amiga forever CD from Cloanto. To use this with UAE-Wii, perform the following steps on your host computer:

1. Copy everything from the "/Amiga Files/Shared/adf" directory on your Amiga Forever CD to /uae/roms/ on your SD card.

2. Copy /Amiga Files/Shared/rom/amiga-os-130.rom to /uae/roms/kick.rom on your SD card

3. Copy /Amiga Files/Shared/rom/amiga-os-xx.rom to /uae/roms/kickxx.rom on your SD card following this mapping:

uae/roms/amiga-os-120.rom to /uae/roms/kick12.rom
uae/roms/amiga-os-130.rom to /uae/roms/kick13.rom
uae/roms/amiga-os-205.rom to /uae/roms/kick205.rom
uae/roms/amiga-os-310.rom to /uae/roms/kick31.rom

Note that amiga-os-130.rom must be copied twice.

4. If you have upgraded from an older version than 3, remove /uae/uaerc.saved from your SD card

You can also dump the kickstart-rom of one of your own real Amigas, this requires a rom-dumper program (can be found here) and you will need to be able to transfer files to and from your Amiga. The easiest way to achieve this is to also use an Amiga that can write PC-DOS disks (Amiga Workbench 2.0 or higher) or by using a terminal program on both ends and a null-modem cable. Lemon Amiga has more help on the subject here, they also explain how to transfer games.

Configuration

UAE is very configurable, so take some time to lookup how the configuration file format works. At start up UAE loads uaerc (default configurations) and, if it is present, uaerc.saved which will override uaerc. A lot of configuration options are configurable from the menu system and you can save the current configuration as uaerc.saved or as one of 5 configuration files (uaerc.user[1-5]).

The menu support allows selecting which amiga model to emulate. When switching model, UAE wii will try to load a matching kickstart image and thereafter reset the computer. If the kickstart is not found, it will keep the current, but remember that this might not give you a functioning Amiga. The model/kickstart mapping is as follows:

A1000: uae/roms/amiga-os-120.rom /uae/roms/kick12.rom
A500: uae/roms/amiga-os-130.rom /uae/roms/kick13.rom
A600: uae/roms/amiga-os-205.rom /uae/roms/kick205.rom
A1200: uae/roms/amiga-os-310.rom /uae/roms/kick31.rom

If you experience some problems in the emulation try to change the configurations. If you hear some glicthes in the sound or some slowing down try to set "CPU emulation accuracy" to fast, "CPU to chipset speed" to max, resolution to 320X240 and possibly reduce the framerate. Another very small improvement can be added setting "Collision level" to none (most of the games do not require the collision detection) and "leds" to off.

Most of the games can run at 100% framerate if the 320X240 resolution is set. Only very few AGA based games can not reach 50 fps.

If you have some problems in loading the files or in the emulation try to set "floppy speed" to normal, "CPU emulation accuracy" to compatible and "CPU to chipset speed" to real.

Usage

Wiimote 1 acts as both mouse in port 1 and joystick in port 2. To use Wiimote as mouse you have to point it towards the screen, also for the buttons. Some games require the disabling of the mouse emulation to work; others require the disabling of the second and third joystick button. You can also use a real mouse plugged into the usb port. There is a graphic virtual keybord called by "+" button which uses the IR Wiimote pointer.

In-emulator controls

					Action
					Joystick direction
					Fire button
					Mouse (A for left button, B for right)
					Configurable for keypresses in the menu
				F12	Enter menu
					Enter graphic vitual keyboard

Menu controls

					Action
				Up, Down, Left, Right	Move up/down/left/right in the menu
				Pgup/Pgdown	Move one page down/up in the menu
				Enter	Select current entry
				Esc	Exit from menu

Development

The googlecode page for UAE Wii contains build instructions, first look at those if you want to build UAE Wii.

Reporting issues

Please report issues and feature requests in the uae-wii issue tracker on Github.

Changelog

Version 12

Added background image in the GUI
Added sound in the GUI
Horizontally scrolling menu
More readable fonts in the GUI
Added autofire (configurable from virtual Keyboard)
Added vsync option
Moved Rumble option in wiimote menu
Changed the refresh rate option
Shorter bootstrap
Fixed file attributes in virtual filesystem emulation
Other bug fixes

Version 11

Update to E-UAE 0.8.29 (more compatibility)
Added 320X240 resolution (more emulation speed)
Added hardfile and Virtual File System support in the GUI
Amiga colors for GUI, added borders to the windows
Set sound frequency to 48k
Small bug fixes

Version 10

Added Gamecube controller support
Added graphic virtual keyboard with IR Wiimote pointer called by "+" button
Added Wiiflow support
Added new menus to save and load 5 configuration files
Added audio menu with new options
Path of last selected file remembered in the menu
Added Picasso96 memory configuration
Added number of floppies configuration
Added refresh rate option
Added blitter exact cycle option
Added 24/32 bit cpu address space option
Chip memory up to 8MB
Consistency check of configuration options with gui messages
Automatic reset emulator after memory or kickrom change
Removed noise entering the GUI
Fixed bug in blitter exact and adreess space configuration
Fixed bug in sound floppy configuration
Fixed bug in page up/down
Patch to increase rendering speed in double buffer mode
Case insensitive file order in the file menu

Version 9.1

Compiled against libogc 1.8.11 and SDL-Wii r101
Fixed full resolution in 576i video mode

Version 9

Added dms and zip support
Added drive sound
(build) Compiled against libogc 1.8.9

Version 8

Added rumble support
Added configurable aspect ratio
Reduced font size of list file menu
Utf8 font support

Version 7

Fixed Hardfile and virtual filesystem support
Added virtual keyboard
Added several menu options (immediate blits, collision level, real CPU speed, scanlines, ntsc and sound)
Menu reorganization
Other small improvements

Version 6

Added SMB support
Added USB FAT mass storage support
Many menu improvements (new colors, new popup messages, browsing with nunchuk, wider screen, etc.)
Added nunchuck menu browsing
Configuration file saved manually
Several improvements in input configuration menu (single wiimote configurations, snd and trd button joystick, enable/disable mouse emulation, etc.)
Name of the loaded file in the menu header
Added logfile option
Fixed correct aspect option (to adapt the Amiga screen to Wii screen)
Fixed mouse jerkiness
Fixed second Joystick configuration issue
Other small fixes

Version 5.1

(Binary) Rebuild against the latest devkitPPC (r24), libogc (1.8.7) and SDL (restores keyboard support)

Version 5

Fix the workbench graphics issue
(Binary) Rebuild against the latest devkitPPC, libogc and SDL (fixes some SD corruption issues caused by the old libfat)

Version 4

Support for the Mario Kart wheel in games where it makes sense to use it (stunt car racer!)
(Binary) Rebuild against the latest devkitPPC, libogc and SDL

Version 3

Correct banner showing errors. With this fix, a dialogue box is now opened if kick.rom is missing
Support Cloanto's amiga forever ROMs in the default config

Version 2

Allow configuring most important options from the menu (Amiga models etc)
Fix Nunchuk/Classic controller conflict
Add virtual keyboard to set keyboard-to-controller-button bindings
Store configuration when modified in the menu and allow uaerc.user to override the configuration
Saving and restoring states now work
Harddisk support is now built in, but works so-so (and has no menu support)
Hundreds of small fixes here and there

Version 1

Initial release
This version has only received light testing and there will be bugs
- Graphics look bad in Workbench, but hey - who cares about that?
There is a menu, but few menu options actually work. Patches are welcome!