Wii emulation with Nvidia Shield - any successes?

[SimonLev]

Hi all. I have the 2019 Nvidia Shield Pro and trying to get Wii emulation working.. Nothing I've tried will run at 100%. I've tried with the following ROMs:

Wii Sports
Wii Play
Mario Kart

I would say it's running at around 80% speed. I've tried all sorts of different settings to no avail. I'm testing with Wii Sports and Wii Play as these are small games which should be the easiest for the emulator to cope with. I've got the
Mayflash sensor bar working with 2 original Wii controllers.

The setup runs great (100%) on my laptop - Honor MagicBook with Ryzen CPU.

Has anyone here managed to get this setup at 100% on the Shield Pro? It seems so close, yet so far. I'm hoping I'm missing some obvious setting.

[LG Fanatic]

Set the emulated CPU clock to less than 100(35 to 75 range). It may lower the fps but it should run at 100 percent.

[SimonLev]

(01-05-2022, 09:18 AM)LG Fanatic Wrote: Set the emulated CPU clock to less than 100(35 to 75 range).  It may lower the fps but it should run at 100 percent.

Thanks for the tip. I tried that but no luck I'm afraid. I noticed that whatever setting I used for the clock speed, the FPS was always around 20-30 when playing the game - even with the default non-override setting. The game speed and audio is always slow.

I'm wondering if the Shield TV Pro is just not up to the job - or is there another setting that could help? As I mentioned, it works perfectly on my Honor MagicBook laptop with a Ryzen CPU. 

[LG Fanatic]

(01-05-2022, 07:32 PM)SimonLev Wrote: Thanks for the tip. I tried that but no luck I'm afraid. I noticed that whatever setting I used for the clock speed, the FPS was always around 20-30 when playing the game - even with the default non-override setting. The game speed and audio is always slow.

I'm wondering if the Shield TV Pro is just not up to the job - or is there another setting that could help? As I mentioned, it works perfectly on my Honor MagicBook laptop with a Ryzen CPU. 

The Shield TV despite its still powerful GPU has old CPU cores(A57 circa 2015).  Because of these older performance cores, it will struggle with even some medium level Wii games.  It will work pretry well with some GameCubes games like Mario Kart DD or Luigi's Mansion.  There is an old thread here that details which GC/Wii games work well with the Shield TV.