Bench.fxe

[yaouank]

I wrote a small GP32 software to test battery autonomy on GP32.
I add a SMC write/read bench too even if results seems to be not very different from one card to another (the gp32 itself may be the main speed limiter)

link: http://yaouank.gp32news.com (hosted by http://www.gp32news.com )
Screenshots:
interface:

running bench:

 

[Meonlyeviler]

Aquafish already posted about it, but it looks cool

 

[diablo2]

that looks really good
i have to add that to my smc

 

[rcx21000]

I get 3h 45m @ 156MhZ FLU ON SOUND ON w/ 2100mah Ni-Mi

 

[ilarri]

it wasnt using this test, but i have some interesting info.

8 hours with 2100mah Ni-Mi;blu enabled.(yes test with blu unit, please no questions
ah! playing a divx 88 hours battery duration seeing a divx

 

[Steve-O]

it wasnt using this test, but i have some interesting info.

8 hours with 2100mah Ni-Mi;blu enabled.(yes test with blu unit, please no questions
ah! playing a divx 88 hours battery duration seeing a divx

who tested that??

 

[yaouank]

Aquafish already posted about it, but it looks cool

Sorry, I didn't knew (and he didn't told me).
rcx2100, your result is now published on the page.

 

[Alpha2]

Hey, this sounds like a great little application! nice work!

 

[Nitro]

How exactly does it calculate the battery life? Forgive me if the answer is blatently obvious :lol:

 

[Enslaved]

I think you run it till the batterys run out and it adds to a log file every 10 seconds.

 

[yaouank]

I think you run it till the batterys run out and it adds to a log file every 10 seconds.

Quite exact.
Precisely, it saves running time to a file every 15 minutes.
The first beta version did it every 15s and running times were very short. It seems that writing on SMC eats battery more than I thought.

 

[Da Fixer]

lolz :lol: it's works great

 

[Dozer]

Does it consume power if you are inputting controlls as well? For example if I left opensnes9x on an intro at 156mhz would it run down just as fast if I played the game at the same speed?

 

[Magic Knight]

excellent - nice one !

 

[Lethe]

nice to see my battery life before my gp turns off while im playing.

 

[yaouank]

Does it consume power if you are inputting controlls as well? For example if I left opensnes9x on an intro at 156mhz would it run down just as fast if I played the game at the same speed?

Honestly, I don't know. My instinct told me that battery consumption should be the same during the intro and during the play of a snes game.

The goal of my soft was to compare different brand of battery with the minimum amount of subjectivity.
If run at the same clock speed on two different gp32 (mine and one of someone that is 1000km away from me for example), bench.fxe will do EXACTLY the same operation inside our gp32.
Same program, (quite) same hardware, if the bench is longer on its gp32 it is because this guy has a better battery.

If we all launch this test (say, at 133MHz, flu off, sound 100%), we could gather our results and establish a list of which battery is better than which one.