VectrexWii

VectrexWii
General
Author	Aruskano
Type	Console
Version	0.3
License	Mixed
Last Updated	2011/07/01
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VectrexWii is a Wii port of Vecx, a Vectrex emulator written by Valavan Manohararajah.

Installation

The original/official vectrex games were made public domain some time ago and there are some homebrew ones on the internet. The vectrex came with a built in Asteroids-like game called Minestorm. This game is compiled in the binary and can be played if no ROM is found.

ROMs must be placed within a folder named vec at the root of either SD or USB. The file extension must be .vec (case insensitive).

User guide

Overlays

The vectrex used screen overlays to simulate color and add some decorations.

If you place a PNG image within the same folder of the loaded ROM and both of them are named exactly the same (excluding the file extension) that image is going to be used as the overlay for the corresponding ROM.

The image dimensions must be 388x480 pixels and it must be in RGBA mode.

Settings

Cartridge	Choose where to load ROMs from. Devices (SD or USB) will only be shown if a ROM was found within them.
Joystick	The controller that is listened to during the emulation. The controller that "turns the vectrex on" is automatically selected but this can be changed from the pause menu.
Overlay	The opacity/alpha channel of the overlay can be modified so you can make it less noticeable if preferred.
Custom color	Have the vectors/points drawn the color you want them to be. You can play around with the RGB components to get the color of your choice. If you turn this feature off the color computed by the emulator will be used.
Glow	Gives an effect of glowing lines/dots. Play around with the factor to see the results. Remember the higher the factor is the slower the drawing gets.
Persistence	Redraws old frames to give a persistence effect. You can choose how many frames are persistent (to use less resources if needed) and play around with the color (grayscale) and opacity (alpha component).

If you are getting low framerate consider disabling or modifying some of these features to get a faster rendering process.

Controls

There's no way to configure input buttons right now.

Wiimote Horizontal

Main menu:

D-Pad Up/Down - Move the cursor across the options

D-Pad Left/Right - Select a ROM in the current cartridge

Home - Return to loader

Any other - Trigger the selected option

Pause menu:

D-Pad Up/Down - Move the cursor across the options

D-Pad Left/Right - Toggle the selected option

Home - Select the Resume game option

A (hold) - Hide the menu to preview the changes

Any other - Go to the selected sub-menu

In game:

D-Pad - Vectrex Analog

A/B/1/2 - 1/2/3/4

GameCube Controller

Main menu:

D-Pad Up/Down - Move the cursor across the options

D-Pad Left/Right - Select a ROM in the current cartridge

Start - Return to loader

Any other - Trigger the selected option

Pause menu:

D-Pad Up/Down - Move the cursor across the options

D-Pad Left/Right - Toggle the selected option

Start - Select the Resume game option

R (hold) - Hide the menu to preview the changes

Any other - Go to the selected sub-menu

In game:

D-Pad - Vectrex Analog

A/B/X/Y - 1/2/3/4

Screenshots

Media

VectrexWii v0.2 (Cid2Mizard)

External links

• WiiBrew - https://wiibrew.org/wiki/VectrexWii