Picodrive 0.96

[reiboul]

Great release... Megadrive emulation is just getting better and better.

Thanks Notaz!

By the way, since DrMD was discontinued, would you consider using It's menu's for Picodrive? DrMD menus are one of it's finest features, and it would be great see that menu in Picodrive because it is intuitive, good looking and an all-round great menu.

Anyway, keep up this great work.

I'd rather keep the DrMD's menu, and take only the animated DrMD Background, as I think Picodrive menues are good enough

The only thing that need some work is the Key Config menu



PS : DESCENT 2 INTERPRETTER!!! YYAAAYYYY :blink:

 

[OPP]

Holy crap do I want a gp2x now.

 

[naples39]

Has anyone tied TV-out or USB joystick support?

I just tried it using TV-Out. The menu works fine, but as soon as you load a rom the GP2X appears to crash.

I have successfully used PicoDrive on tv-out, however I was doing it via the gmenu launcher, using kounch's tv out fixer on top of that. Everything seemed to go ok, though if I turned on the image stretching (was playing NHL 94), the image broke and I had to switch back to unscaled.

Oh, and come to think of it, this was on version .95 if that makes a difference.

 

[manhill]

Great release... Megadrive emulation is just getting better and better.

Thanks Notaz!

By the way, since DrMD was discontinued, would you consider using It's menu's for Picodrive? DrMD menus are one of it's finest features, and it would be great see that menu in Picodrive because it is intuitive, good looking and an all-round great menu.

Anyway, keep up this great work.

I'd rather keep the DrMD's menu, and take only the animated DrMD Background, as I think Picodrive menues are good enough

The only thing that need some work is the Key Config menu



PS : DESCENT 2 INTERPRETTER!!! YYAAAYYYY :blink:

first of all...:

thank you very much, unbelievable good work!

the only thing i would like to be changed in the menu is to have "load new rom" at first option. now it is at 5th position. but this aint really a problem...

 

[geise69]

This has been an amazing release! The only games I need to overclock are M.U.S.H.A and Alien Soldier. I was OCing them to 280 in the last release, but with accurate timing for sound and 8bit accurate to get full speed. The reason I was going up to 280 was that certain spots in those games needed the speed so I would have no frameskipping at all through out the game. Now I only need to OC to 250 and that's with 16bit accurate on and 44hz sound. This is a great release! I also would like to see Notaz for Guru! Thanks Notaz!

 

[BobBorakovitz]

ok, I've finally had time to test PicoDrive and I have to say - this is one really impressive emulator! Time Killers plays all the sounds correctly now and Toy Story's title screen and between level screens show properly now

These are the only problems I've found so far:
-Gargoyles resets randomly (3 different times, 3 different places, totally random)
-Aladdin II (UNL) plays no music but I am able to get past the first 1up now

Very impressive!

 

[reiboul]

I think I remember some missing sounds in Sonic 3 & Knuckles, more precisely the sound when you have 100 rings, and gain an extra life, all options on (accurate timers, 16 bits, 44khz stereo etc)

 

[TyBO!]

Wow... using both cores? I didn't think it could be done! Excellent work Notaz!

 

[notaz]

Just in theory, could you also use the 2nd cpu to playback external mp3s? Of course with disabling the game sound, but i mean, with no slowdowns? would be quite fun, but of course its nothing important

In theory I could, but I don't think I'm going to do this.

By the way, since DrMD was discontinued, would you consider using It's menu's for Picodrive?

DrMD's menu is DrMD's menu, and I don't like taking things which do not belong to me. If someone does a frontend from it, I don't mind.

The only thing that need some work is the Key Config menu

What kind of work? Be more precise, please.

Now I only need to OC to 250 and that's with 16bit accurate on and 44hz sound.

Have you tried "Use ARM940 core for sound" option? B)

-Gargoyles resets randomly (3 different times, 3 different places, totally random)
-Aladdin II (UNL) plays no music but I am able to get past the first 1up now

I think I remember some missing sounds in Sonic 3 & Knuckles, more precisely the sound when you have 100 rings, and gain an extra life, all options on (accurate timers, 16 bits, 44khz stereo etc)

ok, will check these some time later.

I just tried it using TV-Out. The menu works fine, but as soon as you load a rom the GP2X appears to crash.

aah, crashes.. If only I had a tv-out cable..

Somebody mentioned something about donations.. So, I currently need a TV out cable. Breakout Board and power supply would also help development. Maybe somebody could supply these? <_<

 

[Franxis]

Awesome work, Notaz, congratulations

But running of code in the 940 is a very hard (task queues, asm, uclibc )...

 

[Shikaku]

Somebody mentioned something about donations.. So, I currently need a TV out cable. Breakout Board and power supply would also help development. Maybe somebody could supply these? <_<

Ask ED. He might be nice enough to donate at least a TV-Out cable... =D

 

[WarmFluffyUK]

Wow, I am impressed with this. I never thought I would stray away from DrMD, but this has done it. Audio is crisper and no longer gritty. Sonic 1 now looks ohh so beautiful, better than what I have on my PC! This is one amazing emulator!!!!!

 

[kevcal]

Awesome work, Notaz, congratulations

But running of code in the 940 is a very hard (task queues, asm, uclibc )...

Yeah a lot of talk about memory conflicts between the two processors..
Not such a problem if you keep memory useage to a minimum - some kind of semaphoring for bandwidth sharing??? :huh:
Be interested to hear how it's been done

 

[gaterooze]

Somebody mentioned something about donations.. So, I currently need a TV out cable. Breakout Board and power supply would also help development. Maybe somebody could supply these? <_<

Do you have Paypal? If not, perhaps somebody (ED?) could accept Paypal donations on your behalf and use them to send you those items when enough tallies up?

 

[reiboul]

Awesome work, Notaz, congratulations

But running of code in the 940 is a very hard (task queues, asm, uclibc )...

Yeah Franxis, you're the one that deals with MAME2X, aren't you? You've done some nice work in the last few weeks! but if I may have a little suggestion, I have some games that could run below 133Mhz, so what about recreasing the CPU minimum speed? h34r:

 

[moz]

Awesome work, Notaz, congratulations

But running of code in the 940 is a very hard (task queues, asm, uclibc )...

Yeah Franxis, you're the one that deals with MAME2X, aren't you? You've done some nice work in the last few weeks! but if I may have a little suggestion, I have some games that could run below 133Mhz, so what about recreasing the CPU minimum speed? h34r:

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[reiboul]

how to win friends and influence people

err.. did I say something wrong?

 

[o0o0o]

err.. did I say something wrong?

No, but it doesn't really belong in this thread either.

 

[EvilDragon]

Did you use some parts of Reesy's code?

DrZ80 only

Thats mostly Flubba's code now

Hey, glad to see you still around here

 

[daclassicgamingmaster]

im currently using drmd, mainly because of the sms and gg emulation. I dont know much about this emu, so are these implemented? If not, will they be in the future?

thanks