Pcsx Rearmed

[stpat]

Can somebody explain what exactly the over/under-clocking of the psx cpu does?

By default, it's 50... lower values improve performance?

Tony Hawks Pro Skater PAL

Settings
Clock to 750Mhz
Auto frameskip
Disable XA Decoding On
psx cpu 30 %

Works very nice - in game there`s sound but no music with these settings

 

[qbertaddict]

I found out that setting frameskip to off fixes tempest and mr driller but makes them too slow. Setting it to frameskip 1 makes the picture disappear completely no matter if I user HLE or BIOS.

 

[someoneElse]

The ability to bind button combos would be useful, both for the L2/R2, as well as for savestates. The original pandora build probably didn't need that function since there are plenty of keys to bind on their own.



Oh, and if anyone hasn't figured out how to access the BIOS memory card manager yet, if you set it to use a BIOS under Options/[BIOS/plugins], then a 'Run BIOS' entry will appear in the Extra Stuff section. It's a high-res screen though so it'll be hard to see for now. One of the games I keep loaded on my card has a good saves manager built in, but I don't recall how common that was.

 

[ruffnutts]

Can somebody explain what exactly the over/under-clocking of the psx cpu does?

By default, it's 50... lower values improve performance?

Tony Hawks Pro Skater PAL

Settings
Clock to 750Mhz
Auto frameskip
Disable XA Decoding On
psx cpu 30 %

Works very nice - in game there`s sound but no music with these settings

Well I set it to 30% not sure wheather it made a differece - it does on pcsx4all though

 

[ruffnutts]

I found out that setting frameskip to off fixes tempest and mr driller but makes them too slow. Setting it to frameskip 1 makes the picture disappear completely no matter if I user HLE or BIOS.

Ok I`m using a ntsc version and overclock to 750Mhz no other settings - The game play aint slow but the music speeds up and slows down I noticed.

 

[stpat]

My version of Wipeout 2097 hangs at the loading screen... tried both HLE and BIOS... think I need to try a different image. Is yours PAL or NTSC?

This emulator is fantastic all the games I have thrown at it work and sometimes better than pcsx4all like Olypic Soccer works great and feels really nice to play @ 600Mhz, Cyber Tiger Golf plays great to

BTW wipeout 2097 runs excellent

Thanks again Notaz for your work on this, cant wait for next release this is truly awsome

 

[darklight1138]

Can somebody explain what exactly the over/under-clocking of the psx cpu does?
By default, it's 50... lower values improve performance?

I have the same question.

Parasite Eve runs well EXCEPT for some pretty frequent occurrences where all sprites disappear, including your character.

 

[ruffnutts]

My version of Wipeout 2097 hangs at the loading screen... tried both HLE and BIOS... think I need to try a different image. Is yours PAL or NTSC?

This emulator is fantastic all the games I have thrown at it work and sometimes better than pcsx4all like Olypic Soccer works great and feels really nice to play @ 600Mhz, Cyber Tiger Golf plays great to

BTW wipeout 2097 runs excellent

Thanks again Notaz for your work on this, cant wait for next release this is truly awsome

Well mine is a PAL .bin image and its also a rip - the music was ripped out of it lol, running at 750Mhz and auto frameskip

 

[stpat]

Not sure what mine is, but it's definitely not working.... I'll have to find a different version.

My version of Wipeout 2097 hangs at the loading screen... tried both HLE and BIOS... think I need to try a different image. Is yours PAL or NTSC?

This emulator is fantastic all the games I have thrown at it work and sometimes better than pcsx4all like Olypic Soccer works great and feels really nice to play @ 600Mhz, Cyber Tiger Golf plays great to

BTW wipeout 2097 runs excellent

Thanks again Notaz for your work on this, cant wait for next release this is truly awsome

Well mine is a PAL .bin image and its also a rip - the music was ripped out of it lol, running at 750Mhz and auto frameskip

 

[ruffnutts]

PM dude

Email sent

 

[notaz]

EDIT ok found a fault - the cut scene in the main lobby gets stuck on a loop lol,

When does that happen? I remember going up to the first zombie with Jill and everything was fine, but that was with some build between r9 and r10, not final one.

Yeah then to 24, I need to study deadzones more, what to you recommend?

I was hitting diagonals accidentally and that annoyed me too much, so made default 70, I guess I'll lower the default to 50 or something for next release.

Anyone got a banner for this or title bar even

Yeah I would include that with next release.

Speaking of controls. Is there a way to bind R2 and L2 buttons to button combs like [II]+L [II]+R?

Not yet, I can merge some code from PicoDrive for that I guess.

 

[KIRA_NIX]

Notaz, the TV-OUT doesn't work, if you can correct-it, please

 

[ruffnutts]

@ Notaz it happends after that when you go back to the lobby looking for wesker with barry
Not sure if this applies to directors cut though...

Thanks for this Notaz the emulator rocks!

BTW Would be nice to have a battery meter on display when playing lol

ruffnutts

 

[notaz]

Notaz, the TV-OUT doesn't work, if you can correct-it, please

Try this (extract in existing pcsx_rearmed folder)
http://notaz.gp2x.de/tmp/rearmed_tv_test.zip
and tell me if it works. It's the same r10 with some TV hacks.

EDIT: forgot to mention that you have to enable TV-out with something else before running rearmed.

 

[ruffnutts]

Never worked for me - all though I used a capture card, should still work though...

 

[darklight1138]

I agree about a battery meter. I wish all emulators had it.

Still this emulator is incredible!

If I can get photoshop running on this PC I'll try to whip up a titlebar.

 

[ruffnutts]

@ Notaz

I used the TV-OUT App but no go just loads of colours

 

[notaz]

@ Notaz

I used the TV-OUT App but no go just loads of colours

You mean the games are shown but with wrong colors or just a static screen?

 

[someoneElse]

Try this (extract in existing pcsx_rearmed folder)
http://notaz.gp2x.de/tmp/rearmed_tv_test.zip
and tell me if it works. It's the same r10 with some TV hacks.

It's displaying rapidly scrolling bands, but not the sort you'd see on a display with the wrong refresh rate. It's just noise and scrambled signals coming out.
This is at 531MHz (closest to stock I could get)

Before this test fix, the last r10 could display a solid picture through gmenu2X (Like Picodrive), but the in-game colors were just a bit messed up unless the Rearmed menu was brought up(displaying perfect cached snapshot in the background from some surface/buffer or wherever it gets them from.

This is how it appeared in the pre-fix r10 release, followed by how the scene should appear.

The same distortions were found in the built-in screenshot feature, obviously. This may help you track it down, rather than coding blind. Launching from Gmenu2X is the usual method of bypassing most TV-out problems with applications, so that may be a good compromise.

 

[notaz]

ok I've messed up one register, try again:
http://notaz.gp2x.de/tmp/rearmed_tv_test.zip

if it doesn't work, please try to explain what happens:
- frozen/animating image?
- good/bad colors?
- more details?