Complete OOB Tico Setup
Minimal Tico Setup with boxarts, cores, roms, BIOSs (untested, defaults seem to work for most systems). NO disc based systems, currently no boxart for FBNeo. Based on Tico 0.7.1 released 4/26/2026, all cores up to date except Flycast, which I manually updated but is still showing out of date in Tico. To use newer version of Tico with this set, copy /switch and /tico folders from new distribution over the current, merging folders and overwriting older versions of files.
To provide a drag and drop solution to getting Tico up and running on your NSW. Discord is inundated with "Where do the cores go?" "Where can I get the cores?" "The server is down!" "What format is the boxart in?" etc.
Extract to an easily accessible place on your PC or directly to the root of the SD card for your NSW. If extracted to your PC, copy files over to SD card. If asked, merge /switch and /tico folders and replace older files. Homescreen Forwarder provided, courtesy of https://nsp-forwarder.n8.io/ . Use DBI to install sd:/Tico - Forwarder.nsp
- Cores
- v0.2: All available at time of 0.7.1 release; sans Flycast. Awaiting MelonDS core.
- Boxarts
- All avaialble for all systems supported;
- Disc based systems and FBNeo not included. Unable to find a way to RELIABLY obtain all FBNeo boxarts, working on that for next release.
- ROMs
- Based on 1G1R sets where available
- FBNeo is using Cylum's set, based on 1.0.0.3, as obtained from the Internet Archive.
- Disc based systems were skipped due to size: (almost 4tb for all systems supported and 2.8TB is mostly untested)
- Nintendo Gamecube: 504GB
- Nintendo Wii: 2.3TB
- Sega Dreamcast: 184GB
- Sega Saturn : 213GB
- Sony Playstation: 556GB
- v0.2: Uploaded disc systems to /rom-sets repository under robzilla10001.
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