Jimmy Overclocker

[Ruune]

Now, im new to GP32 so please dont flame if this already exists

I hear how lots of emus work pretty good now that overclocking is proven not so dangerous. So instead of making each game overclock itself, why not make a universal program that overclocks the entire time, for all applications? Just an idea.

 

[Mindar]

I dont think you can overclock the gp32 processor as you would a pentium or Athalon. Each program is integrated with code telling the cpu to go a certain clock speed. Now, if you made a program and searched for some hex values in a program and replaced the clock speed code automatically, that would be nice.

 

[jegHegy]

someone on the gp32emu forums wanted to do something like that. i haven't heard about it since then though.

 

[zboy9]

hey, couldn't they make the firmware overclocked or something? That is what some people use to boot their GP's up with, so why not make an overclocked firmware (if that's even possible)?

 

[Ruune]

Yup, that was kinda wthat i was thinkin, a whole system overclock utility h34r:

 

[CTLance]

But IIRC Sound and timer ticks are dependant on the clock... so all games would run e.g. twice as fast, but with hilariously distorted sound and perhaps stability problems...

99% of all programs needn't be run outside their specs. Why would someone overclock ASR, for example... no benefit from doing that. Only emulators could benefit from tweaking with the speed, I guess...

I think it woul be OK for a specialized loader program with speed selection, but only as fxe that loads fxe's itself... The european firmware loads way too fast anyway, so there's no need to upgrade that.

 

[generalnmx2]

Just make an overclock hex patcher. It shouldn't be too difficult. I might make one if I'm especially bored.

And the guy who says he was going to make one was called nomad.

 

[rcx21000_the_second]

if the FW works on anything (the clock speed might be re-set on prog launch, I don't know...) it wouldn't work on any emulators (unless they were left at default speed) because after the FW sets he speed, the emu would set it again, making what the FW did 100% usless.