GBA cores crashing with exception (DSI) occured

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
c
Domain
embedded-iot

Research direction

Start by reproducing the crash on the Wii build with both mGBA and VBA-Next using the reported RetroArch 1.16.0 steps. Determine whether the DSI occurs in RetroArch rather than a core; done means GBA games launch successfully on Wii with both listed cores.

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Description

First and foremost consider this:

  • Only RetroArch bugs should be filed here. Not core bugs or game bugs
  • This is not a forum or a help section, this is strictly developer oriented

Description

On Wii version of Retroarch, when loading any GBA game with cores mGBA or VBA-Next, it results in Exception (DSI) occured screen.

Expected behavior

Game starts.

Actual behavior

Game loads, Wii reports exception DSI occured screen. Game doesn't start.

Steps to reproduce the bug
  1. Download and install latest RetroArch version for Wii (as of 14.01.2024.).
  2. Load any GBA game. The test was made with WarioWare Inc. Mega Microgames ROM.
  3. Choose either mGBA or VBA-Next cores.
Bisect Results

From the start

Version/Commit

You can find this information under Information/System Information

  • RetroArch: 1.16.0
Environment information
  • OS: Nintendo Wii
  • Compiler:
    20240114_192343
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