Mirroring Beta for Patrons

How to get started mirroring

Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/fizzi36

Discord: https://discord.gg/pPfEaW5

Twitter: https://twitter.com/Fizzi36

Update (3/10/19)

Mirroring is now out of early-release and available as a feature to everyone. Head over to https://slippi.gg/downloads to download the latest versions of Nintendont and the desktop app. There is also a more up-to-date guide by community member Art that can be found here: http://bit.ly/2TXmhCB

Mirroring

Wow has it already been over half a year since my original blog post? After loads of research, investigation, countless hours of work, and some amazing help, the feature I was dreaming of in my original post is finally ready for a limited beta release.

That fabled feature is called console to Dolphin mirroring. In more verbose terms — a game played on console can have its gameplay mirrored, real-time, to a computer running Dolphin. This allows for ultra high quality streaming of console gameplay, all with no additional hardware required! No capture card, no hardware memory card, just some optional networking equipment for a lower delay experience.

Mirroring demo. Capture card output in the bottom right.

Patreon

I believe this project has a ton of potential. To try and really do it justice, I recently switched to part time at my job at smash.gg. I decided to launch a Patreon to give people a method of supporting the work that has been done as well as helping to fund future work. Please visit my Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/fizzi36, read the description, and if you would like to support and feel you can afford it, the contribution would be greatly appreciated.

That said, I haven’t been in this alone. UnclePunch and metaconstruct have been absolutely amazing resources and have contributed a ton to the project for months now. UnclePunch has his own Patreon on which you can directly support him, but also I intend on sharing a portion of the first few months of my Patreon with both of them because without them, the project would not be where it is today.

As the title suggests, I’m making mirroring beta available for Tier 1 and up subscribers to my Patreon, the full release will be free for everyone. If you can’t afford or are not interested in becoming a Patron, you can still use all of the Dolphin functionality and stats breakdowns right now, head to the Discord to find out how.

The post will now continue with a Usage Instructions section to explain how to use the software. If you don’t care about that but are interested in the future plans of the project, scroll to the bottom!

Usage Instructions

A link to a download file and a password will be provided both in the Patron-only discord channel as well as on the Patreon page itself. The first step is to download the 7zip file for your operating system and extract it.

Nintendont — SD Card

Once you have extracted the file, you should see a folder called “Nintendont r2”, open it.

Contents of Nintendont r2 folder

See how there’s a readme.txt in there? It might be a good idea to read that now. There’s some disclaimers in there about how things might catastrophically fail and you probably want to be warned.

The instructions are in the readme file as well but you’ll want to start by opening the SD folder and copying the contents of that folder to the root of your SD card. That should leave you with the following folders in your SD card:

sd:/codes/GALE01.gct -> these are the mods required for Slippi to work, there are other ways to install Nintendont codes I believe but this is the one I use, make sure you don’t overwrite the codes with another Melee gct file elsewhere.

sd:/apps/Nintendont Slippi/… -> the 4 files in this directory are the Nintendont app you’ll want to boot. It’s the Nintendont logo with a frog on it.

You’ll then need to move your Melee 1.02 iso to the SD card

sd:/games/GALE01/game.iso -> this must be a Melee 1.02 iso

Network Connection

If your Wii’s network connection isn’t set up, you’ll need to find a Wii mote (ugh), probably buy batteries for it (-_-), and then navigate to your main Wii settings (the worst), to set it up. If you have a USB Ethernet adapter, it is highly recommended you use that as the connection will be much more stable and closer to real-time. It may also help to get a simple network switch such as this one to avoid having to route two long Ethernet cables from your router.

Once you have set up your network, open Homebrew Channel.