Retroarch: [Wii U] Broken XMB Icons in 1.7.5 Stable

[Em-K-IronFist]

XMB icons do not load correctly in 1.7.5 on Wii U. Instead, a font bitmap loads in place of the icons.
See image below.

[ShadowOne333]

I believe this is caused because the the assets themselves were updated in some form.
I had the same issue when I updated recently to some nightly near 1.7.5, and found out the icons were all missing.

You can fix this by simply re-downloading the assets, either from the online updater or manually.

[ghost]

I have this same issue, and downloading assets through "Online Updater" did not work either.

What bothers me more is that I placed roms in a folder:

SD root -> retroarch -> roms

I then scanned the directory, and none of the roms were placed into specific system directories, i.e., the Super Nintendo roms I placed in that directory to test didn't show up in a Super Nintendo specific directory in Retroarch.

This should work on the normal version of Retroarch, so I'm wondering if this is a bug with the recent nightly release for the Wii U version of Retroarch.

[dmooney]

Uncompressing the downloaded assets worked for me.

Workaround:

1. Update assets
2. Take the SD card and use a computer to unzip assets.zip in the media directory. Delete assets.zip.
3. Return the SD card to the Wii U and restart retroarch.

[RobLoach]

Is the assets bundle too large for RA/WiiU to handle?

[fr500]

Kinda, the whole downloader is broken in 32bit, it always loops and
restarts, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't
on WiiU it's just... more broken.

On Tue, Nov 27, 2018 at 1:29 PM Rob Loach [e-mail] wrote:

Is the assets bundle too large for RA/WiiU to handle?

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[pmdci]

Can we download the assets.zip manually from somewhere?

[RobLoach]

https://github.com/libretro/retroarch-assets

The Download button at the top right. You can also git clone it to where your assets directory is set too...

rm -rf ~/.config/retroarch/assets
git clone ~/.config/retroarch/assets

[ryperx]

Is there any Update?
I installed Retroarch the first time on WiiU and it is running but i get every time the message "assets are Missing"
Already tried to unzip the folder and put it into ./retroarch/assets or /retroarch/media/assets or the Zip into the media folder.
Every time the same, i tried it today with a fresh install with latest nightly (23.01.2019)

[realoliver9912]

Put it into ./retroarch/media instead of those two. I tryed one of those and after doing it in media it worked for me

[HarveyB02]

For anyone stuck on this still, I extracted the contents of the zip to ./retroarch/media/assets and changed the assets directory to that path within retroarch and it's working perfectly