Does Anyone Know If A Zn1, Zn2 And System 11 Emulator Will Be Made For

[phil128]

Does anyone know if a ZN1, ZN2 and System 11 emulator will be made for the gp2x?

ZN1 was a system designed by capcom and it supported games like: (copied from emulator zone :-D)

1 Star Gladiator (JP) [starglad, BIOS cpzn1]
2 Street Fighter EX (JP) [sfexj, parent sfex, BIOS cpzn1]
3 Street Fighter EX (ASIA) [sfexa, parent sfex, BIOS cpzn1]
4 Street Fighter EX Plus (US) [sfexp, BIOS cpzn1]
5 Street Fighter EX Plus (JP) [sfexpj, parent sfexp, BIOS cpzn1]
6 Street Fighter EX 2 (US) [sfex2j, parent sfex2, BIOS cpzn2]
7 Street Fighter EX 2 (JP) [sfex2j, parent sfex2, BIOS cpzn2]
8 Street Fighter EX 2 PLUS (US) [sfex2p, BIOS cpzn2]
9 Street Fighter EX 2 PLUS (JP) [sfex2pj, parent sfex2p, BIOS cpzn2]
10 Street Fighter EX 2 PLUS (ASIA) [sfex2pa, parent sfex2p, BIOS cpzn2]
11 Plasma Sword (US) [plsmaswd, BIOS cpzn2]
12 Star Gladiator 2 (JP) [stargld2, parent plsmaswd, BIOS cpzn2]
13 Rival Schools (ASIA) [rvschola, parent rvschool, BIOS cpzn2]
14 Justice Gakuen (JP) [jgakuen, parent rvschool, BIOS cpzn2]
15 Rival Schools (US) [rvschool, BIOS cpzn2]
16 Strider Hiryu 2 (JP) [shiryu2, parent strider2, BIOS cpzn2]
17 Strider 2 (ASIA) [strider2, BIOS cpzn2]
18 Kikaioh (JP) [kikaioh, parent techromn, BIOS cpzn2]
19 Tech Romancer (US) [techromn, BIOS cpzn2]
20 Battle Arena Toshinden 2 (US) [ts2, BIOS cpzn1]
21 Battle Arena Toshinden 2 (JP) [ts2j, parent ts2, BIOS cpzn1]
22 Tetris The Grand Master (JP) [tgmj, BIOS cpzn2]
23 Sonic Wings Limited (JP) [sncwgltd]
24 Beastorizer (US) *bootleg* [beastrzb, BIOS psarc95]
25 Beastorizer (US) [beastrzr, BIOS psarc95]
26 Bloody Roar 2 (JP) [bldyror2, BIOS psarc95]
27 Brave Blade (JP) [brvblade, BIOS tps]
28 Psychic Force (JP 2.4J) [psyforcj, parent psyforce, BIOS taitofx1]
29 Psychic Force (World 2.4O) [psyforce, BIOS taitofx1]
30 Psychic Force EX (JP 2.0J) [psyfrcex, parent psyforce, BIOS taitofx1]
31 Magical Date EX - sotsugyou kokuhaku daisakusen (JP 2.01J) [mgcldtex, BIOS taitofx1]
32 Raystorm (JP 2.05J) [raystorj, parent raystorm, BIOS taitofx1]
33 Raystorm (US 2.06A) [raystorm, BIOS taitofx1]
34 Fighters Impact A (JP 2.00J) [ftimpcta, BIOS taitofx1]
35 G-Darius (JP 2.01J) [gdarius, BIOS taitofx1]
36 G-Darius Ver.2 (JP 2.03J) [gdarius2, parent gdarius, BIOS taitofx1]
37 Dancing Eyes (JP) Ver. A [danceyes]
38 Xevious 3D/G (JP) Ver. A [xevi3dg]
39 Star Sweep (JP) Ver. A [starswep]
40 Kosodate Quiz My Angel 3 (JP) Ver. A [myangel3]
41 Tekken (JP) Ver. B [tekkenb, parent tekken]
42 Tekken (WORLD) Ver. B [tekkena, parent tekken]
43 Tekken (WORLD) Ver. C [tekken]
44 Tekken 2 (JP) Ver. B [tekken2a, parent tekken2]
45 Tekken 2 (World) Ver. A [tekken2b, parent tekken2]
46 Tekken 2 (World) Ver. B [tekken2]
47 Soul Edge (JP) SO3 Ver. A [souledga, parent souledge]
48 Soul Edge (JP) SO1 Ver. A [souledgb, parent souledge]
49 Soul Edge Ver. II (JP) SO4 Ver. C [souledge]
50 Dunk Mania (JP) DM2 Ver. C [dunkmnia]
51 Dunk Mania (JP) DM1 Ver. C [dunkmnic, parent dunkmnia]
52 Prime Goal EX (JP) Ver. A [primglex]
53 Wedding Rhapsody (JP) Ver. JAA [weddingr, BIOS konamigv]
54 Hyper Athlete (JP) Ver. 1.00 [hyperath, BIOS konamigv]
55 Powerful Baseball 96 (JP) Ver. 1.03 [pbball96, BIOS konamigv]
56 Susume! Taisen Puzzle-Dama (JP) Ver. 1.20 [susume, BIOS konamigv]
57 Fighting Layer (JP) Ver. B [fgtlayer]
58 Ehrgeiz (JP) Ver. A [ehrgeiz]
59 Tekken 3 (JP) Ver. A [tekken3]
60 Mr Driller (JP) Ver. A [mrdrillr]
61 Aqua Rush (JP) Ver. A [aquarush]
62 Paca Paca Passion (JP) Ver. A [pacapp]
63 Super World Stadium 99 (JP) Ver. A [sws99]
64 Gallop Racer 3 (JP) [glpracr3, BIOS tps]
65 Shanghai Matekibuyuu (JP) [shngmtkb, BIOS tps]
66 Cool Boarders Arcade Jam (US) [cbaj, BIOS tps]
67 Dead or Alive++ [doapp, BIOS tps]
68 Tondemo Crisis [tondemo, BIOS tps]
69 Monster Farm Jump (JP) [mfjump, BIOS tps]
70 Heaven's Gate [hvnsgate, BIOS atluspsx]

I haven't got a gp2x yet. Be getting mine this week :-D.

I dont know if the MAME emulator supports any of these.

I'm wondering if anything will be coded for the system as it does support fully functional 3D games, and yet only 2D games/emulator are really was the gp2x seems to be based around on.

Please let me know if the MAME emulator supports any of these;

Thanks people

 

[sehs33]

I doubt it will be possible, at least for the games am looking forward to: Rival Schools, Soul Blade and Tekken 3. All these require more horse power than the GP2X have, maybe the Pandora will be able to

 

[ledow]

Okay, just taking a basic look at the information on a couple of those boards:

Star Gladiator:

cpu PSX CPU @ 67.7376MHz
cpu Z80 @ 8MHz
audio SPU
audio Q-Sound @ 4MHz

Rival Schools:

cpu PSX CPU @ 100MHz
cpu Z80 @ 8MHz
audio SPU
audio Q-Sound @ 4MHz

Emulation of even just the main CPU is WAY, WAY beyond the GP2X. You'll be looking at emulating a playstation MINIMUM before you even start (if the co-ordination and timing between the chips is complex, it could be a LOT more).

The GP2X can *just* about manage to emulate the SNES:

Ricoh 5A22, based on a 16-bit 65c816 core
Bus: 3.55 MHz, 2.66 MHz, or 1.77 MHz

And as soon as you emulate the SuperFX chip (which is 10 or 20 MHz depending on the game), it comes to a grinding halt without an awful lot of special tricks.

The GP2X is (basically) 200-250Mhz - that's a ONE IN TEN ratio, at best - every MHz of emulated computer needs 10MHz on the GP2X. That's about right for full-system emulation. There are tricks such as dynarec and native virtualisation but they can achieve 1:2 at absolute theoretical best and are EXTREMELY hard to program and VERY specific to the machine running them and most of them can't come close to 1:2, e.g. the tricks employed to get SuperFX on GP2X SNES games still leave it in the region of 1:10.

For those games you listed, you are looking at about a 600MHz-1GHz native CPU speed to even get close. More likely 1-1.5GHz. The chances are that even the Pandora (600MHz) will seriously struggle with those games, even with the best optimised emulator in the world.