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05-13-2008, 05:05 PM
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Snes9x for ps2
I decided to create a new thread for Snes9x so information about it doesn't get mixed with FCEUltra's feedback.
This is an early alpha. I've integrated the browser from my FCEUltra port so you can browse for a rom. There's no sound, yet. The only video mode supported is the low-res mode for now. There's no option to exit, either, so you'll have to reboot manually. Unfortunately, it's been crashing for me on my test rom in PCSX2, so I haven't tested it much. It might be from disabling 16-bit, transparencies, and hi-res modes so the compatability is severely limited in this release. Only one pad works, right now, and it's mapped the same as a normal snes pad. Analog should work as well. I don't think I've gotten input fully implemented yet, since it seems to expect all the button states to be handled manually. If you play an sram enabled game, it might try saving to the same path as the rom, so be wary. Test at your own risk,  . |
05-13-2008, 09:22 PM
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Christmas came early this year. I'll be sure to test this and report in when I get home! Thanks for all the hard work you've done! |
05-13-2008, 10:16 PM
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If you find any games that don't seem to crash, that'd be great to know. It might tell me what might be crashing it. The next release might not be for a while as I need to implement some basic settings, and flesh out the video modes, and add sound.
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05-13-2008, 11:43 PM
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- Asterix & Obelix
Is there a keycombo to get back to the ROM file requester? It would really simplify the testing...
Or do I have to reboot every time I would like to try a new ROM?
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05-14-2008, 08:47 AM
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Wooohoooo.. so it starts! 
Thank you for your efforts ragnarok! I'm sure it will turns out the best SNES emulator for PS2 outhere! |
05-14-2008, 08:54 AM
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Originally Posted by spkleader
Wooohoooo.. so it starts!
Thank you for your efforts ragnarok! I'm sure it will turns out the best SNES emulator for PS2 outhere! |
I double that hope :-) I have been dying to see this happen.
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05-14-2008, 10:17 AM
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Awesome! Trying it out now.
edit: I tried a few roms on mass, hdd, and mc0 and they all freeze at the first screens. I'll keep testing.
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05-14-2008, 05:31 PM
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Sorry, barf, I wasn't sure how to load another rom, if I had to call other functions, or deinit everything and start from scratch, which is why I didn't add the ability to exit a game. But after studying the source for the other ports, I think all I need to do to pop back to the browser is just pause the emulation and call Memory.LoadROM() again. I fixed the crashing, though. I wasn't allocating enough memory for the final texture size, so only some low-res title screens would work. After I add in some way to return to the browser I'll make another release.
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05-14-2008, 05:59 PM
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Superb! I’m looking forward :-)
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05-14-2008, 07:01 PM
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Ok, alpha 2 is ready. Push L2 in order to go back to the browser. I loaded a few roms so I don't think there's a memory leak, considering they're a megabyte and change each. I'll start work on implementing some settings.
I also took a look at the ports, and they lead me to opensnes9x, which might be helpful, but it hasn't been updated in a while. I'll keep looking though.
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05-14-2008, 07:17 PM
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Hey Ragnarok, I'm not a programmer, but I didn't know if I could help out somehow...the only thing I can offer is a background image (I'm in college studying graphic art design)..If you're interested, just tell me what format to submit in.
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05-14-2008, 08:20 PM
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That's be nice . I'll be adding back in the skin support after I get the settings figured out. As of right now, the GUI uses 2 images that can be jpg or png, one for the background of the file browser and one for the background for the menus, to create a basic theme. The sizes shouldn't really matter, 512x512 or so for the browser and 256x256 or so for the menus, but you can scale them to whatever size that looks the best. There's an example skin.cnf for FCEUltra on the first page of its thread. Transparency support right now is disabled, because my experience with the GS was limited, I'd planned on fixing it after a while, but I guess I just forgot, heh. |
05-14-2008, 09:29 PM
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I'll give it a try tonight.
Let's see if some rockman games work (if rockman & forte or runs it will be amazing).
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05-14-2008, 10:17 PM
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Alpha 2
- Mr Nutz, does not launch
+ Super Ghouls N Ghosts launches intro plays, video plays, levels scroll, game seems to play better than SNES-Station, also returns fine to file selector using L2
+ Donald Duck Mao Mallard launches, intro plays, screen goes black...
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- --- Mr Nutz
- --- Super Mario All Stars
- +++ Super Ghouls N Ghosts
- +-- Super Troll Islands
- +-- Diddy Kong’s Quest
- --- Donkey Kong Country
- --- Dixie Kong’s Double Trouble
- +-+ Asterix
- +-+ Asterix & Obelix
- +-+ Arkanoid - Doh it again
- +-+ Another World
- +-- Tin Tin in Tibet
- +-- Monopoly
- +-- Donald Duck Mao Mallard
- +++ Micro Machines
*1 launches, means that file selector screen disappears if it is a +, - if launch crashes and leaves the file selector frozen.
*2 playable when +
*3 returns to file selector when +
I must say from the two working games I found here, it’s better than SNES-Station.
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05-15-2008, 01:49 PM
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123*
+++Super Mario World German
--- Zelda III
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05-15-2008, 02:00 PM
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+++ Secret of Mana
+-- Megaman 7
--- Top Gear 2
Secret of Mana was a good surprise. I've picked it (besides I owning the original game) because it uses in a very few parts the hi-res (mode 8) and 3-d and zoom (mode 7) of super nintendo. Yes, the fonts in name selection that are in hi-res do not appear, but it did not crashed either.
Speed is pretty decent for a alfa-2 release that I suppose did not had any bit optimizations to run over the PS2
Just a suggestion: wehn you add sound support, disable it by default, because it will slow down games a lot, and we do not want people complaining that game XYZ is slow
PS: Donated again, hope this time it works
PS2: I'm creating a public-editable spreadshee in google docs to track games. Soon I'll add the address here, so anyone can add games to it (but still can post here also). |
05-15-2008, 02:10 PM
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A lot of games need to sync with the APU core, but it's disabled at the moment, which is probably causing the crashing. I'll try to add some sort of sound support in the next version and see if it helps, . I can also add Megaman X to the list as +++, as well. For the games that were freezing the file browser, were you loading them after other roms, or loading them directly after starting up snes9x? It could be a problem with the way I load new roms, :S.
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, thanks protomank, it did. I'll probably be buying a new hdd for my old computer so I can develop whenever my brother's on this one. I put the old hdd in my ps2, heh. |
05-15-2008, 02:12 PM
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game list spreadsheet
Feel free to add/edit games.
This way we can have a better track on compatibility than just having to search the forum
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05-15-2008, 02:21 PM
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Nice, thanks, that'll help me a lot since now I can test to see if anything I've changed has helped compatibility in some way. After adding sound support for the next build, I'll work on getting hi-res and transparencies working for the build after that, but it'll probably be a while since I need to figure out how to use double buffering on gsKit, . |
05-15-2008, 02:27 PM
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I've added a new column version.
So when the results change, instead of editing, we can add a new entry with the new version. This will help track what changed between releases
I'll try to find out if google spreadsheets can produce some kind of reports for this later, I do not know how to use spreadsheets very well | |
