Well... I've been on this all night, and I'm very impressed... I've spent some quality time with a number of games, including some that are absolutely gawd-awful in gp2xengine or HU6820, and they run beautifully... I've had two ROMs boot to black screens, but an alternate ROM for the same game worked in both cases (I'm a terrible file-keeper; I never clean out the crap!). Here's what I was at tonight... (GP2X firmware ver. 2.1.0, the emu clock set to 220MHz)
Splatterhouse (J) - to the end of Stage 5, zero issues! super smooth!!
R-Type (US) - the graphics were FULL SCREEN (?!? - this was curious as the other ROMs I played were slightly black barred on the left and right of the screen) and a tiny bit of the right side of the screen was cut off, but it played flawlessly... I only tried one ROM of this; I'll have to try another one to see if the full screen thing happens again...
Ninja Spirit (J) - played through the first three levels and bosses with absolutely no issues...
New Adventure Island - fast, smooth, and exciting as ever... the colors and graphics in this game really are something else!
Blazing Lazers (US) - played beautifully to Area 5 Cleared!
Darius Plus (J) - just two levels but it was schweet!!!
Bonk III (J) - I've had problems with this game in other emu's, but it runs great here (end of level 3)...
Air Zonk (US) - this is a killer game; it came out late in the life of the PCE/TG16, and if anything is gonna make an emulator cry, this is it! I played it through to the end of the third level only, but it ran beautifully. There was the very occasional graphics glitch in the background - at some points, it seemed the scrolling background graphics would appear on the very left hand edge of the screen just before they scrolled into view on the right - but these were rare, and the game played great despite them. This game doesn't run for crap in any other PCE emu on the GP2X...
Devil's Crush (US) - this is one of my favourite games of all time and without a doubt the game I know best on the TurboGrafx-16; the sound and graphics of this game are forever tattooed on my forebrain, and I know immediately if anything is off when playing it in an emulator. I'm thrilled to state that it played magnificently! Smooth, clean, just bloody perfect!!
All told I've spent at least three or four hours on this emu tonight, and I've got to admit I'm thrilled. I was grinning like an idiot through a lot of the play...
The only actual glitch I ran into involved a black screen when trying to launch gp2xengine immediately after exiting Temper. The system hung and I had to reboot, but I don't see this as an issue as I doubt I'll use the other PCE emus much after tonight...
So Exophase, let me be the first to ask: What's your Paypal address? You've earned a couple pints on me!
