Squidgesnes Won't Overclock

[mdinire]

I've got a MK2 GP2x running Firmware 2.0.0, here is my script

#!/bin/sh

/mnt/sd/cpu_speed.gpe 1 0 280 1.0
cd /mnt/sd/Games/snes/
./squidgesnes.gpe
sync

cd /usr/gp2x/
exec /usr/gp2x/gp2xmenu

I've got cpu_speed.gpe by itself in the root of my sd card and squidgesnes.gpe in the folder; Games/snes, yet when I play Squidgesnes (0.37c) I find no difference what so ever, I've searched the board and tryed everything so what am I doing wrong?

 

[iignotus]

Are you on Windows and not using Programmer's Notepad?

 

[mdinire]

im using notepad++ on win xp and yes i converted to Unix

 

[cwhobbes]

#!/bin/sh

/mnt/sd/cpu_speed 1 0 260 1.0
cd /mnt/sd/squidgesnes/
./squidgesnesa.gpe
sync

cd /usr/gp2x/
exec /usr/gp2x/gp2xmenu

...You need to rename cpu_speed.gpe to simply "cpu_speed"......both in the script and the actual program.

 

[mdinire]

I did that before and had the same results

 

[Emu&Co]

A combo of EvilDragons and my *nix experiene and my will to destroy my RAM ;-) And this one WILL work. I use it myself on my MKI (Be careful with your MKII, try those RAM settings carefully before you use them

#!/bin/sh
./cpu_speed.gpe --upll --timing 1 --cpuclk 280 --trc 7 --tras 4 --twr 1 --tmrd 1 --trfc 1 --trp 2 --trcd 2
sync
cd snes
./squidgesnes.gpe
cd /usr/gp2x/
exec ./gp2xmenu --boot --disable-autorun

 

[Alex.]

Renaming it makes no difference really, I use cpu_speed.gpe and it works fine, granted I never tried SquidgeSNES, only Quake.

- Alex

 

[gaterooze]

Check the capitalization of your directory and executable -- Unix is case sensitive.

 

[Squidge]

Also, don't forget there are two versions of cpu_speed. One that takes parameters like "1 0 260 1.0" and another that takes parameters like "--upll --timing 1 --cpuclk 280". Make sure your using the right command line for the right version!

 

[god_at_hell]

no .. that's not the problem, because the new version has a fallback if someone uses the old commandline-arguments. Both "styles" should work.

As i stated in another tread:

Try to pipe the output of cpu_speed to a file. This should look like this:

#!/bin/sh

/mnt/sd/cpu_speed.gpe 1 0 280 1.0 >> output.txt
cd /mnt/sd/Games/snes/
./squidgesnes.gpe
sync

cd /usr/gp2x/
exec /usr/gp2x/gp2xmenu

If there's no output.txt after you run the script or the file is empty, there's an error.
For your script, the output.txt file should contain this text:

No file found
...set to UPLL-Clockgen...
set Timing-Prescaler = 0
set CPU-Frequency = 280MHz
set gamma = 1.000000

If you can't get it to work with a script, you could also try to run squidgesnes by using the cpu_speed-configfile ... look at the readme of tweaker 2.0 for mor information.

For the record: You don't have to set the gamma-setting

 

[Wolfsclaw]

If you tried all this for like 3 hours you should stick to using GMenu2x from which you can very easily select overlock options for every program, including squidgesnes. Thata be the easy way.

 

[mdinire]

Thank you very much everyone, i finally got it to work via the config file.. but now after all this my batterys are dead haha..