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[shinra]

mmm castlevania and contra glitches from the last version are gone , also It seems that arcus oddisey's sound now works properly, also tried silpheed, it plays smooth but still crashes randomly well it's only one game.

Anyone had tried to finish popful mail?, I remember there was an issue that prevents the game from completion.

thank you for yor efforts notaz .

[notaz]

1) Puggsy (the original Mega Drive version) is not playable past the first boss on your emulator due to a rather obscure copy-protection mechanism that triggers depending on whether it detects SRAM upon startup (if it does, then attempting to start the first new level after Boss 1 will take you to a message suggesting you've played enough levels and that you should go play the real version instead of "this silly copy"

Interesting, I wasn't aware of that. This should be easy to work around, I guess.

2) You should probably improve the "Reset" function some more, like include Hard and Soft options perhaps. This would come in handy - for instance - for beating that level in X-Men (check 4 mins into the video) which required you to actually press the Reset button on your MD/Genesis at the very end (AFAIK, this is the only game that performs such a unique trick).

Well that reset function was meant to be "soft" reset, "hard" reset would be achieved be reloading the ROM. It worked at some point (reset would select different character in X-Men 2, for example), but I see it's broken now, will try to investigate.

also tried silpheed, it plays smooth but still crashes randomly well it's only one game.

And still have no luck reproducing it, you may want to try different rip/different region version/different BIOS..

Anyone had tried to finish popful mail?, I remember there was an issue that prevents the game from completion.

If that is still the case, I would need a savestate just before it happens..

Apart from that, I'm loving all the work Notaz is doing. Thank you so much, man!

Thanks for the kind words, everyone!

[DaveC]

I think I found a bug running a game.

In "the adventures of Batman and Robin" If you press start it locks up the game. The emu is still running as I can exit the game normally. Also if I let the game go to demo mode it goes to that psuedo 3D car chase section but runs at 1 FPS with the sound cutting out after every frame.

Other than that it is fantastic. Thanks again for the great work.

[shinra]

And still have no luck reproducing it, you may want to try different rip/different region version/different BIOS..

ok i'm currently using an US version of silpheed i'll try another rip and try to finish the game tnx.

[cd78]

What more can i add that hasnt been already! Top work - the best emu on the gp2x just gets better and better!

[BadAstronaut]

Fantastic. Keep going. We love you, etc

(but really, thanks for keeping up the great work on this excellent project)

[notaz]

In "the adventures of Batman and Robin" If you press start it locks up the game.

AFAIK it works, just needs "better sync" I think.

Also if I let the game go to demo mode it goes to that psuedo 3D car chase section but runs at 1 FPS with the sound cutting out after every frame.

This is because of it's heavy use of scale/rotate chip. There is another Batman game which does this too. This could probably improved, but I don't know if it's worth the effort.

[fusion_power]

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" ^^""

[halo9]

Fantastic release, keep it up!

[DaveC]

In "the adventures of Batman and Robin" If you press start it locks up the game.

AFAIK it works, just needs "better sync" I think.

Also if I let the game go to demo mode it goes to that psuedo 3D car chase section but runs at 1 FPS with the sound cutting out after every frame.

This is because of it's heavy use of scale/rotate chip. There is another Batman game which does this too. This could probably improved, but I don't know if it's worth the effort.

It is probably not worth the effort. I just thought if it was a simple bug it may be worthwhile. Since it is a emu optimisation/GP2X speed issue, I wouldn't bother with it.

[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.