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Triforce
The Triforce is a arcade developed by a collaboration between
Namco, Sega, Nintendo. Its first games appeared in 2002. Added
in Batocera v34 for only x86_64.

The name “Triforce” was used to signify the three separate

companies working together to produce the board. Nintendo
provided the hardware's motherboard (very similar to the
GameCube), Sega provided one of the formats used to store the
game data on (GD-ROMs, the same disc format used by the
Dreamcast) and all three would help with developing the software.

Since the Triforce system uses much of the same hardware as the
GameCube, Dolphin is capable of emulating the system. However,
this was only supported by Dolphin's “Triforce” branch, which
hasn't been updated in eight years, and likely is never to be
integrated into the main branch in the state that it's in. The main
Dolphin branch just doesn't support Triforce games as of writing
(hence why its wiki says all games are at 1 star compatibility).

Dolphin Triforce's integration into Batocera is still under

development, some things won't work as smoothly as they do for
regular Dolphin for instance.

This system scrapes metadata for the “triforce, arcade” group(s)

and loads the triforce set from the currently selected theme, if
available.

Quick reference

Emulator: dolphin_triforce
Folder: /userdata/roms/triforce
Accepted ROM formats: .gcm, .iso, .gcz, .ciso, .wbfs, .elf, .dol, .m3u

BIOS

No Triforce emulator in Batocera needs a BIOS file to run.

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ROMs

Place your Triforce ROMs in /userdata/roms/triforce.

Triforce emulation is… troubled, to say the least. A specific version of Dolphin is needed to be used,
and certain games need certain workarounds in order to run. Luckily, Batocera automates most of
that, but manual user action is still required for some games.

Game workarounds

Generate MD5 sums.

F-Zero AX (GFZE01)

Verification required.

The arcade dump of the game is not currently possible to emulate successfully. However, the cool
thing about F-Zero AX is that is it basically F-Zero GX with certain flags set. In other words, you can
just use F-Zero GX with certain flags set to get F-Zero AX, so that's what we'll do.

MD5 sum: placeholder

Get the F-Zero GX image and put it into the ROMs folder. That's it, Batocera will automatically load F-
Zero GX in AX mode, replicating the arcade mode.

Mario Kart Arcade GP (GGPE01)

MD5 sum: placeholder

This game requires a savestate to be loaded in order to boot up. Download GGPE01.s01 from
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1skMJtfBgysmkneFWfsML75Aew60XEcOP and place it into your

/userdata/???/ folder. Boot up the game, and press on the keyboard to

load the state. If desired, press to switch the slot in order to create new save
states without overwriting the original one.

It is recommended to “buy” a new Mario card, to allow the game to “record” progression and unlock
rewards. Without the game, this cannot happen. However, since we can't actually use the physical
magnetic strip card, it is impossible to use its native save system. Instead, save states must be used
to maintain progression.

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Mario Kart Arcade GP 2 (GGPE02)

MD5 sum: placeholder

This game works as expected out of the box. Press Z to add a credit.

Virtua Striker 2002 (GVSJ8P)

MD5 sum: placeholder

This game requires a savestate to be loaded in order to boot up. Download GVSJ8P.s01 from
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1skMJtfBgysmkneFWfsML75Aew60XEcOP and place it into your

/userdata/???/ folder. Boot up the game, and press on the keyboard to

load the state. If desired, press to switch the slot in order to create new save
states without overwriting the original one.

Virtua Striker 4

Todo: instructions

MD5 sum: placeholder

Virtua Striker 4:Ver. 2006

Todo: instructions

MD5 sum: placeholder

Incompatible games

The following Triforce games cannot be emulated:

Gekitō Pro Yakyū

All The Key of Avalon games

Emulators

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Dolphin Triforce

Dolphin Triforce configuration

Standardized features available to all cores of this emulator: triforce.videomode,

triforce.decoration, triforce.padtokeyboard

ES setting name batocera.conf_key Description ⇒ ES option key_value

Settings that apply to all cores of this emulator
Enhancement. Increase the rendering resolution.
Makes 3D objects clearer.
RENDERING RESOLUTION ⇒ 1x native (640×528) 1, 2x 720p (1280×1056) 2, 3x
triforce.internal_resolution 1080p (1920×1584) 3, 4x 1440p (2560×2112) 4, 5x
(3200×2640) 5, 6x 4K (3840×3168) 6, 7x
(4480×3696) 7, 8x 5K (5120×4224) 8.
The final output image, unrelated to the Wii's
ASPECT RATIO
emulated NAND setting.
triforce.dolphin_aspect_ratio
⇒ Force 16:9 1, Force 4:3 2, Stretch to window 3.
Improve performance with Ubershaders. Ubershaders
take advantage of your GPU to avoid in-game stutters
as it generates shaders for the first time; this can
happen when a certain special effect shows on the
screen or a new model is rendered. Hybrid
ubershaders are preferred, it will use the GPU
accelerated ubershader if available to avoid stutter,
otherwise it will fall back to traditional shader
generation. Exclusive ubershaders will only use
ubershaders, only activate this option if you have an
extremely powerful GPU. Normally there is no
downside to activating ubershaders, however it does
increase the minimum requirements out of your GPU
UBERSHADERS triforce.ubershaders to run. On especially weak hardware, such as SBCs,
ubershaders are disabled by default. They can still be
manually turned on, but you may encounter more
stutter if on an SBC. Skip draw is a hack that opts to
take a different approach altogether: don't display
the object in game if its shader hasn't compiled yet.
Obviously, this can result in visual glitches, but may
be the best option performance-wise if your hardware
is extremely weak.; asynchronous is preferred,
synchronous is more compatible.
⇒ No Ubershaders no_ubershader, Exclusive
Ubershaders exclusive_ubershader, Hybrid
Ubershaders hybrid_ubershader, Skip Drawing
skip_draw.
Compile shaders on next launch of game (one time).
PRE-CACHE SHADERS
Reduces micro-freezes.
triforce.wait_for_shaders
⇒ Off (default) 0, On 1.

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ES setting name batocera.conf_key Description ⇒ ES option key_value

Increase emulator performance, at the cost of
accuracy/stability. Settings set to “True” with this
option: Defer EFB copies to RAM DeferEFBCopies,
Scaled EFB Copy EFBScaledCopy, EFB Copies
EFBToTextureEnable, Skip Presenting Duplicate
Frames SkipDuplicateXFBs, XFB copies
PERFORMANCE HACKS XFBToTextureEnable, Force Texture Filtering
triforce.perf_hacks ForceFiltering, Arbitrary Mipmap Detection
ArbitraryMipmapDetection, Disable Copy Filter
DisableCopyFilter, Force 24-Bit Color
ForceTrueColor. Settings set to “False” with this
option: Bounding Box BBoxEnable, Ignore Format
Changes EFBEmulateFormatChanges.
⇒ Off 0, On 1.
USE PAD PROFILES Search for custom configured joystick profiles.
triforce.use_pad_profiles ⇒ Off 0, On 1.
ANISOTROPIC FILTERING Improves clarity of distant textures.
triforce.anisotropic_filtering ⇒ Off 0, 2x 1, 4x 2, 8x 3, 16x 4.
Usually not much faster than single core mode.
DUAL CORE MODE triforce.dual_core Decreases stability.
⇒ Off 0, On 1.
Speed hack for dual core mode to fix some glitches.
GPU SYNC triforce.gpu_sync
⇒ Off 0, On 1.
Enhancement. Smooth out jagged edges on 3D object
ANTI-ALIASING triforce.antialiasing polygons.
⇒ Off 0, 2x 2, 4x 4, 8x 8.
Toggle MSAA/SSAA. Depends on anti-aliasing being
ANTI-ALIASING MODE
enabled.
triforce.use_ssaa
⇒ MSAA (default) 0, SSAA 1.
LOAD CUSTOM TEXTURES
triforce.hires_textures ⇒ Off 0, On 1.
Enhancement. Only works with a 16/9 ratio and
WIDESCREEN HACK (GLITCHY)
bezels disabled.
triforce.widescreen_hack
⇒ Off 0, On 1.
MEMORY MANAGEMENT UNIT Required by some games.
triforce.enable_mmu ⇒ Off 0, On 1.
Fix screen tearing. CPU heavy.
VSYNC triforce.vsync
⇒ Off 0, On 1.

RUMBLE triforce.rumble
⇒ Off 0, On 1.

Other settings can be configured from dolphin-triforce-config in the Applications menu ([F1]
on the system list).

Controls

Right now, automatic controller configuration is broken. The default configuration is set
up to support standard X-input controllers, but for other types of controllers manual
configuration is required.

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Triforce games typically have the GameCube's Z button (defaults to [R1]) bound to the “extra credit”
button, but some may opt to use the [START] button instead.

The GameCube's Y button is usually set to resetting the game. This button is unbound by default, but
it is possible to set this manually, so just keep that in mind if creating your own mapping.

Dolphin Triforce's mapping can be configured just like Dolphin's regular controller mapping using its
config application.

However saving a custom profile isn't required if just making a general mapping for all its
supported games. This may change in the future if automatic mapping gets fixed.

Here are the default Triforce's controls shown on a Batocera RetroPad:

Troubleshooting

Further troubleshooting

For further troubleshooting, refer to the generic support pages.

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