Gp2x-msx: Msx Emulator For Gp2x V1.0.4

[zx-81]

Hi All,

fMSX is a famous emulator of the MSX, MSX2, and MSX2+ 8bit home computers.
It runs MSX/MSX2/MSX2+ software on many different platforms including Windows and Unix.
See http://fms.komkon.org/fMSX/ for further informations.

It has been first written by Marat Fayzullin, and later Vincent van Dam ported it on SDL.

GP2X-MSX is a port on GP2X of the version 2.7.0.40 of fMSX-SDL
from Vincent van Dam that i had previously ported to PSP.

What's new in this version ?

- Huge speed improvements !
- New graphics
- Display and save thumbnail images for each save state
- Add a simple intro splash screen
- Support iso8859-1 fonts in print text functions
(might be useful to translate menus in german, french ...)
- Bug fix and code cleaning

How to use it ? Everything is in the README.txt file.

You can download it on my blog :
zx-81's blog

It's distributed under Marat Fayzullin's license for the original MSX part,
and under GNU license for all the GP2X part.

** UPDATE 9/23/2007 ** I've uploaded a new version to fix a bug (gp2x-msx crash when changing the ram size in the default settings). Thanks to 7th-son for his feedback.

Enjoy,

Zx.

 

[dosteridge]

Great

It good to hear off you zx-81

Any plans to update c16 plus 4?

I love your emu's they all have a wonderful front end.

Thanks for this and keep up the good work.

 

[zx-81]

For the moment i'm working on PSP version of my emulator port (mainly to make them work on the new PSP SLim). But after, why not spending a little time on all my gp2x ports

 

[Rivroner]

Thank you

 

[rokdcasbah]

awesome. glad to see you still have love for the 2x!

 

[imhotep]

Thanks, zx-81. I love your emulators.

 

[slaanesh]

I was just trying out the PSP version playing Antarctic Adventure and a couple others when BANG here it is for the GP2X! Great stuff!

 

[rememberthe8bit]

Interesting. By the way, what were the best MSX games...? I'm rather curious as to what people like to play with this emulator, as I've never been into the MSX scene...

 

[Jaylink]

Here some Top Games i always like to play at anytime on the msx Emu ^^

Metal Gear 1 and 2 (solid snake)
Nemesis 1, 2, 3
Firehawk (Thexder 2) ,
Knightmare 1 , 2 (Maze of Galious) , 3 (Shalom)
SD Snatcher ^^

Big ThnX for this Great release ZX-81

 

[superfly]

Thanks zx-81! Although I play a lot of emu's, the MSX and Commodore C-16 are the only systems I ever owned as a kid so this emu is special to me ;-)

rememberthe8bit: I liked HERO and King's Valley back then and they're still fun now!

 

[slaanesh]

I really like Penguin Adventure and Antarctic Adventure. These were Hideo Kojima's first games.

 

[euro48k]

thankyou zx-81
i thought you left us alone

 

[zx-81]

thankyou zx-81
i thought you left us alone

Yes, it was a long time ... I've to say that i like to develop wifi stuff, such as msn / irc / ssh clients, and unfortunatelly gp2x has no wifi capabilities, but psp yes.

 

[Don Miguel]

way to go, man! 8))

I love MSX games since mah school times 8)

 

[budweiser]

Awsome emu great job Bud

 

[DaveC]

thankyou zx-81
i thought you left us alone

Yes, it was a long time ... I've to say that i like to develop wifi stuff, such as msn / irc / ssh clients, and unfortunatelly gp2x has no wifi capabilities, but psp yes.



Thanks zx-81. Good to see you around

 

[slaanesh]

@ZX-81:

Just wondering how the speed ups were achieved? Is it a generic speed up which can be used on your other emulators or is it specific to this MSX port?

 

[zx-81]

@zx-81:

Just wondering how the speed ups were achieved? Is it a generic speed up which can be used on your other emulators or is it specific to this MSX port?

If you want the full story :

I had first ported this emulator to PSP, and using a cpu at 333Mhz it was fast enough so i didn't really take care of speed. Months later someone else ported fMSX on PSP, which was 2x faster than mine. Having a look on my fMSX code i reallized that i was creating a video frame as i was on a PC with high resolution (which the default in the original fMSX PC version). So i only change the default resolution to low res, and the speed was 2x ! So it's more a bug fix than a real improvement. And then i fixed this issue also on the gp2x version.

 

[Rivroner]

@zx-81:

Just wondering how the speed ups were achieved? Is it a generic speed up which can be used on your other emulators or is it specific to this MSX port?

If you want the full story :

I had first ported this emulator to PSP, and using a cpu at 333Mhz it was fast enough so i didn't really take care of speed. Months later someone else ported fMSX on PSP, which was 2x faster than mine. Having a look on my fMSX code i reallized that i was creating a video frame as i was on a PC with high resolution (which the default in the original fMSX PC version). So i only change the default resolution to low res, and the speed was 2x ! So it's more a bug fix than a real improvement. And then i fixed this issue also on the gp2x version.


So have we a perfect fullspeed msx emulator ? Thank you ^_______^

 

[jimmyslam]

Can somebody add USB keyboard support?


I wanna have a blue-chip msx at home!... well.. short of..

It will have usb support anyway. I will make it if is not done.. in a year I Promise!