DOSBox

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Originally Posted by Robo Hobo

Judge for youself :)

Dosbox-0.74-ps3-r1:
Custom firmware
3.41 dongle

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Great news. Thanks!

I've tried to get MPXPlay working but after all the fine-tuning it still stutters badly and freezes sometimes but it looks promising :chinscrat
Odd because the system requirements are quite small:

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CPU: Intel 80486 100mhz (DX4-100) or above
RAM: 4-8Mb

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Anyway, those who want to try it out, here's the link: DosBox_PS3_MPXPlay.zip
Again, it stutters and freezes your ps3 sometimes. But no brick risk...
And it's 7.6MB big because it already includes a (free) mp3/mashup, for testing.
More instructions are in the archive... I've made it noob-proof :lol:

Sidenote... Those who want to mount folders from the ps3's hdd:

1. Use openps3ftp (or something similar) and create a folder inside dosbox's USRDIR:
/dev_hdd0/game/HBDB90000/USRDIR/yourfolder

2. open /dev_hdd0/game/HBDB90000/USRDIR/.dosbox/dosbox-0.74.conf and add this at the very bottom (after [autoexec]):
mount c ~/yourfolder
C:

You can create more folders in there and mount them as d, e, and so on... just edit dosbox-0.74.conf.
Too bad we can't use symlinks for linking c to /dev_hdd0 or d to the bd drive. Or can we?

With regards to the SDL PS3 port - is it using the software renderer?

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Originally Posted by Robo Hobo

Judge for youself :)

Dosbox-0.74-ps3-r1:
Custom firmware
3.41 dongle

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Wow, this works pretty well. Played a bit of Dangerous Dave in the Haunted Mansion (Old DOS platformer) and it played perfectly, sounded fine and picked up the DS3 as a mappable joystick. Impressive.

Awesome Robo Hobo! Thanks for your work :dance:



I dont know why this is not on the Front Page yet...

We should maybe compile a list of all the games that run well.

Runs well:

Wolfenstein 3D (perfect as far as I can tell)

Not so well:

Doom 2 (runs like treacle)

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Originally Posted by duckula

We should maybe compile a list of all the games that run well.

Runs well:

Wolfenstein 3D (perfect as far as I can tell)

Not so well:

Doom 2 (runs like treacle)

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Done ;)

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Originally Posted by duckula

We should maybe compile a list of all the games that run well.

Runs well:

Wolfenstein 3D (perfect as far as I can tell)

Not so well:

Doom 2 (runs like treacle)

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Just wondering, do the games need to be in any certain format once they are in the folders to run?

Great work as always Robo!

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Originally Posted by rstabbs71

Just wondering, do the games need to be in any certain format once they are in the folders to run?

Great work as always Robo!

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They work just fine as-is. You don't need to put them on your internal too. They can work on any external device as well. Just make sure to run the setup file to enable sound.

And thanks Robo Hobo for such an awesome emulator:D I can't wait for some performance updates so I can play Doom on the big screen seeing as how the original Doom port never got finished.

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Originally Posted by Traybourne

seeing as how the original Doom port never got finished.

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Is that so? I've never tried it. I was spending easter, avoiding family, looking for new targets for sdcell, and made a port of PrBOOM. It went smoothly, and I moved on without really intending to release it, but if the original doom port is incomplete I may as well.

Judging from the todo list all it needs is some controls mapped and testing, and networking I guess. Any interest?

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Originally Posted by manster

Awesome Robo Hobo! Thanks for your work :dance:



I dont know why this is not on the Front Page yet...

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It is at PSGroove and PS3hax. Tomorrow maybe?