FCEUltra for PS2

[ragnarok2040]

I ported FCEUltra to PS2 to play a couple NES games on a TV in a different room for the holiday season. I have an autistic brother who loves Megaman, heh.
The built-in game genie rom support works if you put the game genie rom as gg.rom. I haven't used any codes, so I'm not sure if they actually work on the PS2.

Some notes about the source code:
The original project source code that I ported is at sourceforge.net/projects/fceumm. It's a mapper modded version, which supports the most mappers of any FCEUltra version, I think. I tried to make as little change as possible, so using a diff utility won't be too much trouble to see the changes I made. From what I can remember:
I had to remove support from gzip compressed nes roms because of a reference to dup() which wasn't supported and it was over my head on how to implement a similar function.

Instructions for use:
Menu Input:
Select opens/closes Config Menu
Start is used to save the savepath or set the screen center.
Confirm
Cancel
Browse up one directory.

The emulator now uses a FCEUltra.cnf fie that stores the settings for the emulator
Both the digital pad and analog stick can be used for movement.
By default:
is A.
is B.
opens the ingame menu.
Select is Select.
Start is Start.
L3 is used for swapping FDS disks.
R3 is used for swapping FDS sides.
L2 loads savestate
R2 saves savestate

You can use the in-game menu to select your savestate number.

2 controllers should work, I haven't tested it myself, still.

The FCEUltra.cnf file should be in mc0:/FCEUMM/ so "mc0:/FCEUMM/FCEUltra.cnf".

# FCEULTRA.CNF == Configuration file for the emulator FCEUltra
# CNF Handling Code (c)2006 Ronald Andersson aka dlanor
# ------------------------------------------------------------
OffsetX      = 0
OffsetY      = 0
ButtonSwitch = 0
Display      = 0
Emulation    = 0
Interlace    = 0
Volume       = 50
LowPass      = 0
Turbo        = 0
Savepath     = mc0:/FCEUMM/
Elfpath      = mc0:/BOOT/BOOT.ELF
# ------------------------------------------------------------
# End-Of-File for FCEUltra.CNF

input1.cnf/input2.cnf

;Default configuration
JOY_Menu          = TRIANGLE
JOY_SaveState     = R2
JOY_LoadState     = L2
JOY_FDS_DiskSwap  = R3
JOY_FDS_SideSwap  = L3
JOY_A             = CROSS
JOY_B             = SQUARE
JOY_Select        = SELECT
JOY_Start         = START
JOY_Up            = UP
JOY_Down          = DOWN
JOY_Left          = LEFT
JOY_Right         = RIGHT

You can also use hex numbers that correspond to different buttons on the controller (taken from libpad.h):

LEFT      0x0080
DOWN      0x0040
RIGHT     0x0020
UP        0x0010
START     0x0008
R3        0x0004
L3        0x0002
SELECT    0x0001
SQUARE    0x8000
CROSS     0x4000
CIRCLE    0x2000
TRIANGLE  0x1000
R1        0x0800
L1        0x0400
R2        0x0200
L2        0x0100

If you want button combinations you can add them together in hex mode: e.g. select + square would be 0x8000 + 0x0001 = 0x8001. R1 + L1 would be 0x0800 + 0x0400 = 0x0C00.

For skins or color schemes:

# SKIN.CNF == Skin configuration file for the emulator FCEUltra
# CNF Handling Code (c)2006 Ronald Andersson aka dlanor        
# -------------------------------------------------------------
FrameColor  = 0x80FFFFFF
TextColor   = 0x80FFFFFF
Highlight   = 0x80408080
BGColor1    = 0x80000080
BGColor2    = 0x80000000
BGColor3    = 0x80000000
BGColor4    = 0x80000080
BGTexture   = mc0:/FCEUMM/back.png
BGMenu      = mc0:/FCEUMM/menu.png
# -------------------------------------------------------------
# End-Of-File for SKIN.CNF

You can define colors in... I think it's RRGGBBAA format. PNG/JPG textures are supported as well. The BGColors are applied to each corner in this order: top-left, top-right, bottom-left, bottom-right.

Thanks:
cah4e3 for making a version of FCEUltra with extra mapper support.
DCGrendel for providing a space to host my homebrew and helping me with various logic errors I had.
The entire ps2dev/ps2-scene community for PS2SDK, gsKit, and various other projects I utilized when porting FCEUltra, especially dlanor for his help and providing uLaunchelf's code as an example from which to work.

Latest release here.

Attached is the cleaned core code for FCEUltra. It doesn't have any ps2-related code as of this second since the port is in middle of a rewrite.

[latifundio]

Hey i tried zelda with this and play and looks nice, great job man!

Edit: also plays Castlevania 3 full speed... now this is sweet!

[gamecubesuxs]

Wow good job all we need is sound and more rom support and it will be perfect
to bad u cannot work on it more thanks for the bins and source im sure some one will pick it up

[bootsector]

OMG! It looks like that the scene is not really dead!

Maybe the great coders (dlanor, EP, Polo35 and many others) of the scene could help to improve it!

Great job, Ragnarok! Thank you!

Best regards,

bootsector

[gamecubesuxs]

This emu has way better video quality than than InfoNES and even savestates!

Like I said earlier just needs better rom loading options and sound

[gamecubesuxs]

Does anyone know why the program freezes when triangle is pushed?

[Bootlegninja]

Can't wait to try it out as soon as my ps2 get straightened back out.

[gamecubesuxs]

Game genie WORKS!

[ragnarok2040]

Thanks for all the great feedback, heh. As for the triangle button, pressing it does a call to exit(); which closes the program. It's needed for code profiling to dump the information to host: via xlink, but I forgot to remove it when I compiled the binaries. It doesn't do anything but freeze the ps2 without the -pg flag enabled.

[gamecubesuxs]

Originally Posted by ragnarok2040

Thanks for all the great feedback, heh. As for the triangle button, pressing it does a call to exit(); which closes the program. It's needed for code profiling to dump the information to host: via xlink, but I forgot to remove it when I compiled the binaries. It doesn't do anything but freeze the ps2 without the -pg flag enabled.

ok thanks im changing the source and compiling it to see it with sound. Do I have to boot .nes files from MC or is there something I could edit to boot more than 2 roms from a different source? BTW im no C or C++ programmer most Ive done is BASIC

[ragnarok2040]

The paths that are in FCEUI_LoadGame(); is in drivers/ps2/main.c, it pretty much just has hardcoded paths: "mc0:FCEUMM/nesrom1.nes" and near the bottom "mc0:FCEUMM/nesrom2.nes". Any type of rom browser function that returns a string could be used. The point where I added the nesrom2.nes code was where I had planned to add an in-game menu for opening other roms.

[gamecubesuxs]

may i ask what you used to compile it, I cannot seem to do it with any compiler so far

[ubergeek42]

The ps2sdk + toolchain from ps2dev.org?
Although it fails to compile with my cygwin toolchain, gcc segfaults on X6502_Run() in x6502.c:687.

[gamecubesuxs]

im using cygwin it fails

[Bootlegninja]

Anybody try the win32 package?

[ubergeek42]

@gamecubesuxs
"it fails" isn't too descriptive, detailed error messages would allow us to try help you.

@bootlegninja
Thats just a much more reduced cygwin environment from what I've heard.(That or MinGW)

@ragnorok2040
What operating system did you compile this on?

[gamecubesuxs]

@ubergeek
heres what i get when i compile it

[ragnarok2040]

Yeah, it's dependent on zlib. I used the one in ps2sdk-ports. Forgot to mention that it required that, lol. The system I used was a cross-compiled toolchain with MingW on XP.

[gamecubesuxs]

Originally Posted by ragnarok2040

Yeah, it's dependent on zlib. I used the one in ps2sdk-ports. Forgot to mention that it required that, lol. The system I used was a cross-compiled toolchain with MingW on XP.

Im not sure I understand, partly because Im slowy learning programming by myself
You used MingW to compile it but how did you get zlib on there?