Porpoise 3.0 is the biggest update yet.
🌐 Online
- Online Hub in Settings → Online
- WiiLink WFC and Wiimmfi set up in a few steps
- WiiConnect24 channels
- Custom servers, saved by name, with a connection test
- No more freeze when connecting in Mario Kart Wii
📁 Games and library
- Network shares: play games from your computer or NAS (SMB or NFS)
- Computers on your network are found for you
- Games remembered between starts, so Porpoise opens faster
- USB games show up before network shares
- Hold a direction to scroll faster
- L2 / R2 jump to the previous or next letter
- The Wii filter shows Wii discs only (WiiWare and channels stay under Channels)
- Other consoles' games in a shared roms folder are left out
🎮 Controls
- Stick Sensitivity, for games whose steering feels twitchy (F-Zero GX)
- Stick Dead Zone
- Wii MotionPlus with the DualSense's gyroscope (Wii Sports Resort, Skyward Sword, Red Steel 2)
- Two button sets of your own for each Wii controller, for every game or just one
- Pointer Range for games whose pointer can't reach an edge
- The Wii pointer now reaches the top of the screen (Mario Kart Wii)
🖼️ Picture
- Riptide Boost (beta) speeds up games that run slow
- Universal widescreen (beta)
- FSR 1 upscaling
- Sharpen
- Extra Bloom
- Saturation, contrast and warmth
- New screen filters: 16-Bit, NTSC Composite and Aperture Grille
- HD texture packs listed in Settings → Textures, with the game each one is for
✨ Looks
- Four new themes: 8-Bit, Beige, Translucent and Arcade
- Eight new colors
- Seven new TV borders
- Spines and Spotlight library views
- Recently Played as a Dock, Floating boxes or Discs
- Settings split into more sections
- Screenshots from the in-game menu, or touch pad + Square
- New menu sounds
- Smaller text size and Bolder Focus options
🧩 Cheats and system
- Cheats and Patches shown as cards
- .txt cheat files with several codes read properly
- Wii System Data (beta): import your own Wii's BootMii NAND backup
- GameCube BIOS found under any file name
⚡ Performance and fixes
- PAL games switched to 60 Hz run at 60
- Games no longer run a little fast on some displays (the skipping sound in Mario Kart Wii)
- Smooth box flip in Details
- HD texture packs held to what the console's memory allows
- Crash after the jailbreak on 12.70 fixed
- Many smaller fixes
Tip
💙 Enjoying Porpoise?
If you've gotten some enjoyment out of this project, donations and love are always appreciated. Every bit helps keep Porpoise growing. Thank you!
Warning
Porpoise is still in early development on the PS5. If you run into bugs or glitches in a game, please report them on the [RIPALDA Discord](https://discord.gg/GgDE5Vynyu), with the game's name, and we'll get them fixed as soon as we can.
Install or update
Use ShadowMountPlus 1.7 beta 4 or newer. With older versions, Porpoise can close the moment it opens on some setups (firmware 12.x with the Lapy JB Daemon or LegacyJB).
From 2.0 or later: Settings → About → Updates.
By hand: download Porpoise-3.0.zip, delete /data/homebrew/PPSA99764/ on the PS5, and copy the PPSA99764 folder into /data/homebrew/. With FTP, use binary transfers (FileZilla: Transfer → Transfer type → Binary), or some text files won't copy. Your games, saves and settings in /data/porpoise/ are kept.
Porpoise contains no games, BIOS or firmware. Play only games you own. Not affiliated with Nintendo, Sony or RetroAchievements. Licenses are in licenses/README.txt inside the zip.
Porpoise-3.0.zip SHA-256: 69fe2fd5ffca3431bf115040689e5ebb38c768cc860c9938bea6d56bcfee8128