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[reiboul]

Reesy please, click here
, I think you deserve it

[Godmil]

Ha! I clicked on my GP32x link today saying to myself "I wonder if there is anything new and exiting in the GP2X world?" And low and behold I see this - new fanastic emu for my favorite system.

Loading it up, at first I was thinking, oh this is slower than before Then I realised the clock speed was only set to 200
I always use Secret of Mana as my test - the menu's at the start seems scrambled for me - I dont think it's a problem with my rom so I'm not sure what's wrong with it. But once you get ingame - OMG working transparancies! This is the first time I've seen the waterfall from the intro looking proper since the late 90's
At 260Mhz I get ~14fps with transparncies on and ~24fps with it off. I'm leaving them on and thankfully it's still very playable with the frameskip. (Very excited!)

Oh and Crono Trigger is looking very playable too

Mario Kart seems to have taken a knock: at 270Mhz no transparencies I'm only getting ~6fps in GPmode.

Sooo cant wait to see where you take this Reesy! Thanks so much for your hard work.

Edited by Godmil, 24 January 2007 - 12:05 PM.

[Julius]

Sometimes the FPS counter seems to get stuck, othewise awesome release!

Oh and Vol+and- for menu is a good idea, but it really took some time to figure out A tiny readme would be nice

Edit: took me time to figure out because I didn't read the original post carefully enought

Edited by Julius, 24 January 2007 - 05:23 PM.

[GunPei2X]

Mario Kart seems to have taken a knock: at 270Mhz no transparencies I'm only getting ~6fps in GPmode.

Hm, that's strange. I'm getting 15FPS at the same oc, although it feels fullspeed anyway.

Try lowering your audio quality?

[rememberthe8bit]

Reesy - Menu system, that's right I handle the really complicated shit.

NICE. I really love your emulator, and you just made it better. Do you want me to fail my exams?

EDIT:
It seems that in "Chrono Trigger BS - Jet Bike Special (J).smc" the sound (not the emulation) runs too fast. (twice the speed?)

Edited by rememberthe8bit, 24 January 2007 - 01:37 PM.

[Nickmon]

What sort of improvement is this over previous emualtors?

[SunSpire]

Well I think the working transparencies are definitely an improvement, the only other emulator IIRC of being able to do this was NK's SNES emu!? and that one was significantly slower than PocketSNES. I love the fact that PocketSNES is using the same menu as DrMD!!

Things still needed are Fullscreen Scaling, 44.1 khz sound and more speed, the latter being the most difficult one I guess.

But nonetheless a fabulous release, it's nice to see Reesy doin' his gp2x stuff again!!

"SunSpire"

[daclassicgamingmaster]

I knoew I'd wake up to an update!

Thanks again Reesy!

@nickmon: it runs most games fullspeed WITH transparencies!! And it uses that fabulous reesy menu!

[imhotep]

I love the fact that PocketSNES is using the same menu as DrMD!!

Me too as it is such an attractive, intuitive and familiar interface.

One thing I want to say is: Smooth Donkey Kong Country guys!

And one more thing: Maybe we should suggest this volume up+down idea (menu access) to GP2X Standards. It's so much easier and nicer to use than L+R+Start. The latter method can interfere with gameplay which is significant at times if savestates are involced and it's more fiddly being a triple button press.

[White Demon]

Wow, thank you Sir Reesy.

Strange you write that select button and volume control does not work, but when I was playing Lemmings, pressing the Select button had the desired effect on the screens it works on, and I just tried the volume buttons, and lo and behold they work too (in any game).

Just thought you might like to know before you go altering any code.

[geise69]

This is really great! Such an amazing first month for the GP2X! The emu is running very nice...expecially since I can OC to 290. I don't really have to for most games though, unless they are high in mode 7 and transparencies (Axelay, Biometal, Super Turrican 2, Contra 3). I was wondering if a quick shortcut could be used to turn transparencies on and off like L+Select or something? Thanks for the update to snes emulation Reesy.

[DaveC]

Cool thanks for the update. Too bad I can only overclock to 240 MHz

At least alot of games are good at that speed.

[Tobriand]

Wow... very nice indeed, though Terranigma's borked again (black-screens, as compared to working fine with last Notaz Squidgesnes release)

Not quite perfection (frameskip's still pretty darn high on 200mhz - Super Metroid runs playably but as a slideshow once on Zebes with transparencies enabled), but for those as can overclock, this release is wonderful. Thanks

[Azalin]

This is awesomesauce! I can't wait till the superfx is figured out though Great job on getting transparencies working!

[naples39]

Very cool. Looks like it will my SNES emu of choice. Btw, is there command line support for gmenu on this? I tried it once and it just loads the menu and not the individual game.

I also wonder if it's possible this may go dual core in the future. If it does, I'd be ready to say SNES emulation on Gp2x is 'complete.'