Picodrive 1.40

[Duddyroar]

I honestly didn't think this emulator could get any better - excellent work! Virtua Racing runs like a dream!

 

[benjamouth]

Got my GP2X F200 last night and the first emulator I tried was Pico Drive, and frankly it's awesome. Great job Notaz and all who worked on it.

I tried a load of games last night, the only one that didn't seem to work was Championship PRO-AM, everything else worked like a charm.

Thanks again and keep up the great work.

 

[naples39]

Got my GP2X F200 last night and the first emulator I tried was Pico Drive, and frankly it's awesome. Great job Notaz and all who worked on it.

I tried a load of games last night, the only one that didn't seem to work was Championship PRO-AM, everything else worked like a charm.

Thanks again and keep up the great work.

Must be your rom. I play championship pro-am on picodrive all the time, including last night.

 

[Tonyx]

Great job! This emulator works incredibly well!

 

[benjamouth]

Must be your rom. I play championship pro-am on picodrive all the time, including last night.

Ahhh thanks for that, I'll try and get another one.

 

[fusion_power]

I honestly didn't think this emulator could get any better - excellent work! Virtua Racing runs like a dream!

The funny thing is, I've tried Virtua Racing on my PC with GENS...it doesn't work! :lol: A PC Emulator can't handle a game, the GP2X Emulator can, very interesting.

By the way, what's the correct aspect ratio of Virtua Racing? The unscaled Image in Picodrive or the horizontal streched one? The unscaled 1:1 looks sharp and good but it seems to be a little bit to "thin" ^^""

Ideas, anyone? ^_^

 

[PokeParadox]

SVP Emulation is very new, it's not so surprising that many pc emulators haven't added the support yet.

 

[notaz]

By the way, what's the correct aspect ratio of Virtua Racing? The unscaled Image in Picodrive or the horizontal streched one? The unscaled 1:1 looks sharp and good but it seems to be a little bit to "thin" ^^""

Ideas, anyone? ^_^

4:3, see a video from the real hardware:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cO7dbgTIUYs

 

[bomberman]

The funny thing is, I've tried Virtua Racing on my PC with GENS...it doesn't work! :lol: A PC Emulator can't handle a game, the GP2X Emulator can, very interesting.

Yeah, but Fusion(Gens) can handle VR 32X, so what is this, a tie?

 

[paulobecker]

Wow, I had already abandoned hope of seeing a 3D racing game on the GP2X. Thanks so much for the awesomeness Notaz! I'm gonna try this as soon as I get home.

 

[imhotep]

Notaz, would any of your work on the Virtua Processor be useful to people working on SuperFX for SNES emus? Just curious.

 

[notaz]

Yeah, but Fusion(Gens) can handle VR 32X, so what is this, a tie?

And they usually have > 10x of horsepower to do that..

Notaz, would any of your work on the Virtua Processor be useful to people working on SuperFX for SNES emus? Just curious.

No, unfortunately. SuperFX is a completely different beast.

 

[fusion_power]

SVP on a small machine like the GP2X do always win.

SVP has more power than the Nintendo SFX Chip. But I know how complicated the SNES emulation is. SFX Games are slow even on my (old 1.1GHz) PC when I play Starfox with ZNES. This Emulation Thing really can be a weird science when we see, that we have a Full-Speed Mega Drive Emulator WITH SVP Emulation on GP2X and we still have no full Speed SNES Emulator without SFX Emulation. :lol:

 

[rememberthe8bit]

I cannot do soft scaling anymore for some reason, it works when I am in the menus but it just disappears when I exit them.

 

[DaveC]

SVP on a small machine like the GP2X do always win.

SVP has more power than the Nintendo SFX Chip. But I know how complicated the SNES emulation is. SFX Games are slow even on my (old 1.1GHz) PC when I play Starfox with ZNES. This Emulation Thing really can be a weird science when we see, that we have a Full-Speed Mega Drive Emulator WITH SVP Emulation on GP2X and we still have no full Speed SNES Emulator without SFX Emulation. :lol:

Yeah even the normal SNES games can be slow still. I am hoping that eventually some more tweaks could be done to DrPocketSNES to maybe speed it up.

I think the rendering is what is slow to emulate.

Notaz, I know that you poked around in the SNES code before. Is it the rendering code that is inefficient? Are there things that still could be done if someone wrote a better renderer or is it at the limits of the GP2X hardware?

 

[notaz]

I cannot do soft scaling anymore for some reason, it works when I am in the menus but it just disappears when I exit them.

You have to use 16bit renderer for soft scaling to work.

Notaz, I know that you poked around in the SNES code before. Is it the rendering code that is inefficient? Are there things that still could be done if someone wrote a better renderer or is it at the limits of the GP2X hardware?

Probably, but I don't remember much, I know squidgesnes (which is only OpenSnes9xGP from gp32, really) had some really messy renderer code, and I haven't looked at PocketSnes renderer at all.

 

[notaz]

I've just uploaded another quick release with some recently reported minor bugs fixed. Download here.

 

[Manjuu]

I've just uploaded another quick release with some recently reported minor bugs fixed. Download here.


Nice... Thanks.

 

[naples39]

Thanks for the update Notaz, though I'm having trouble with the download. Can anybody who's already downloaded mirror this?

EDIT: Nevermind, working nice and fast now.

 

[Duddyroar]

Awesome, will download this now.

This really is the crowning glory of all GP2X emulators at the moment, I play this all the time.