Hi!
I have found some great news on Emuholic

and here is the link http://gp2x.co.uk/gp2x2006/gp2x2006comp.html

nice!!!


GP2X Coding Competition Results
GP2X News

Craig and myself have been busy judging all the entries and we came to the decision that the top 3 places go to the following:

1) Bubble Train - Fantastic port, shockingly addictive, just try it!
2) Vektar - Jeff Minter would be proud. Dreamy visuals and silky smooth blastem up gameplay.
3) GNUBoy - Best GBC emu on the GP2X now with all the options you could ask for, fast, great sound and wonderful compatibility.

I would also like to take the opportunity to thank everyone that participated in the competition. A 20 day deadline and 26 entries is a very good turnout especially with the GP2X being a fairly new console. You can check out the winners and the other entries via the compo results page here. Let us know what your favourite entries are on the forum!
Discuss the news on our forum, guest posting allowed.

very nice.
Can't wait to try all the entries, but Vektar looks espescially good.

I think efegea's should have won something, even though it isnt complete or w/e its what most people want

I also dont understand why a skin was accepted too since it isnt coding at all. Not bad ill be getting most of that stuff.

actually the results were mentioned in another thread but i'd say it deserves its own thread anyway.

congrats to the winners. so far i think my personal favorite is vektar. it has all those little finishing touches that make a great game. the new music and sound fx in ladykiller are great. and gnuboy2x is just perfect. i'm about to try out whacky.

regarding efegea's...i was intrigued but i wanted to make sure before i tried it that the program itself wasn't what bricked his gp2x! i'm sure it wasn't though. i'll be trying it shortly. also, i should say that sdl2x looks great. once i get more into c++ i'll be trying it out.

Indeed, congratulations and thanks to all who entered, the winners and the organisers.

wow, bubbletrain is 30 megs

GNUboy, last time i tried the sound compatability was not so great, littleSoundDj was not playable ... i talked to K-teto about it a little, he said maybe someday the sound core could be re-coded but the task is large

anyway, awesome !!!! ... we need a :gp2x: smilie !!!

Vektar is just awseome! Its made the 26 day wait worthwhile alone for me.
Big pat on the back for everyone else too. Gnuboy will be getting a good run out when I get home from work today.
Respect everyone

anyone tried gpgeneral? Whats it like?

I haven't played gpgeneral yet, but there are some problems with text.
It could be hardly noticeable, or it could be impossible to play.

Woo. Vektar is stunning for such a short amount of development time.

Chimpoid

wew. Vectar is really nice. I would have liked to see a more advanced version of Pulp Life. So far it is certainly a nice demo, lots of room for improvement here. Once the bugs are fixed I think it will be quite a nice game/engine.

In that case you REALLY need to check the new version out. This is one of several changes listed in the readme: "Perfect sound thanks to total elimination of SDL and use of the minilib for sound." And I agree - it sounds fantastic!

edit - I still haven't worked savestates out in it though.
edit edit - Ah! L+R to get to the menu, then Y to get to savestates, then A to save or B to load. A bit tricky, but it works.

Sweeeeeeeeeeeeet!

Most useful thing for me is SDL2X, as I can read through the source code, and it helps me see how stuff is done.

Hanz, whacky's source will be up in an hour or two.
Then you can see how not to code SDL

Chimpoid

Haha. I already know how not to code in SDL. hehe

That's odd. GnuBoy doesnt work for me. It gets to the rom selection screen, but nothing is there? I'm on oddbots firmware.

It worked fine for me on theoddbot's firmware. I was unable to actually save a game (this was before I heard about the save states). It would be nice if everything was nicely documented somewhere (like the readme) instead of in scrolling text. Oh well.

So in short: saving in game doesn't work for me, though save states should.

Do you have a rom folder in the Gnuboy directory?
Just checking.

just tried the top3 and they are really cool! Congratulation for all the programmers that have made something!

you can either put your roms in the roms folder beneath the gnuboy executable, or roms/gameboy below the sd card root. then in gnuboy you hit select to get the settings menu and pick one or the other. the default is the first one.

just been trying the GnuBoy Emulator and wow, this is a smooth runnign thing. Is there actually anything needed to improve on this baby?
edit: besides the savegame thing of course

Yes.

How do you actually save a state? I can only get to, what I'm presuming, is the the load state screen... and it won't let me load since I haven't saved...

But yeah very impressed with most of the other entries. There are certainly some creative minds in the GP2X community.

A port won? I should have finished my port instead of trying to start from scratch

Congratulations to the three winners, and I'll be grabbing everything that interests me

And miq01 continues to surprise me by continuously making amazing games.

Now, maybe I am the only one who does not get it. But what did squidge mean when he said that he wasn't entering squidgesnes in the competition for "reasons that will become obvious"?

I know it hasn't any importance at all but I am sure yuo all know what curiosity is...

Other stuff. I think he is building his own handheld.

Wow, this commentary has increased my moral

Yep, I don't really plan to use it in the way you probably expected but it will be really useful. I will read through your example, see which of your functions it used, and then look at your functions to see what SDL functions they used. The joystick code has already really helped out just by reading it.
If you wanna know what you should improve in it, I will tell you once I have read it more thoroughly (sp?).

Nice work to all the entrants. This stuff looks really good, im gonna try them all now.

damn! I can't get to the website Is it down?

Also down forme
'gbax isnt working for me'

Whack Penguin has been mirrored to try and help out on the load.

Whacky Penguin

The competition release is there along with the latest source code for the game. Please feel free to grab it and tweak it. Any feedback would be appreciated.

Chimpoid

Dcemu.co.uk seem to have mirror the entries.

as a temporary fix i have made a mirror of the official results page with the full details on each release, they are missing the screenshots at the moment as i wanted to get the page online asap so you can check out the winners and download the entries. i will try and get the screenshots online later today.

results page at http://emuholic.emuboards.com/modules.php?...howpage&pid=148

The site is working for me, I'm currently downloading your entry.

The TV-Out utility is one to look out for, enables fullscreen DrMDx.

Plenty of great entries, I've just been playing Vektar, I really like it. And so far that's all I've downloaded, so plenty more fun to come.

Thank you to everyone who entered the competition.

I was asking DuFace

Thanks everybody for your kind comments about Vektar. I have a clear idea about what version 1.0 will actually be and I'll be releasing it shortly, depending on how long it takes me to solve certain technical problems. Most likely another two weeks or so.

Note that there is a bug in the competition version where if you play a second game without exiting first, you won't get free ships right away; I forgot to reset the "next free ship score" variable. Sorry about that; you need to exit and restart the program between games.

I thought there were a number of impressive entries:

BubbleTrain is great and a deserving victor.

Beat2X is a lot of fun!

I haven't seen much mention of Extraterrestres but I think it's a very solid and fun game; the artwork is really nice and the variety of options makes it interesting to keep playing.

Ladykiller has pretty interesting gameplay and is coded very well with a nice look.

Vanguard Wars gets pretty absorbing once you get the hang of it.

Radek's demo is very impressive. If he builds a game that makes good use of his blitting routines it could be really great.

GP General looks very promising but with the text being unreadable it's not really playable yet. If MiSaTo keeps working on it this will be a very popular game!

Pulplife has some fairly nifty graphics and a nice cinematic feel to it, but I haven't really got the hang of it yet.

Those are the only ones I have gotten to so far, but I'm looking forward to trying Blockrage2x, Whacky, Yahtzee, PokeParadox, and of course Goitfights.

I don't have any games for other consoles so I'm not really into emulators myself but from the look of it, Gnuboy2x was an impressive and important release.

What fun!

I've just finished playing it for the first time and I was thinking exactly the same thing. To me it felt like the scrolling marioworld levels. Nice work deadlychicken22.

I like it.

@Dzz, I'm looking forward to the next release of Vektar I love the visual style.

Edit: just started up Radek's demo and I am impressed. Back to the Amiga days.

to the vektar go the spoils

sorry i had to

no--the problem is with the GNUboy sound code. kits and other high frequency stuff still don't work in LSDj. i agree the interface for the save states could be better, and some sort of visual map of the key-button-functions on each screen would be nice (rather than a slow ass ticker/scroller). but seriously, these are all niggles--the rom selector menu r0x and so many gb classix are fully playble! great work, much props!!!

on the other hand, marc just got a gp2x and has been working on porting littleGpTracker to it. *hyped*

and yeah, vektar is a very fun play with all the exploding eye candy. the only thing it's missing is a way to skip the easier levels (i.e. start with so many points) ... things progress a bit slowly before the insanity sets in

The gnuboy readme doesn't say that you need to press A to save or B to load a savestate. You have to wait for the (slow) scrolling message to tell you that.

What about SRAM saves? They don't seem to work for me. Should they?

edit - That sounds really negative - it's a great emulator, but I thought I remembered SRAM working in a previous version (may be a false memory though!)

I can't get Gnuboy to work. After I've chosen a rom, it simply kicks me back to the menu. I'm using theoddbot's firmware.

EDIT: Getting error:
cannot create //.gnuboy: Operation not permitted
Cocked up opening filenameCocked up opening filename

They don't work for me either, so I guess not.

Sram has been disabled for the moment, i don't want to have something that saves in the nand without control, but i'll add support for sram later, saving on the sd of course.
Nickspoon, theoddbot's firmware seems to have some problems with some apps, that may be beacuse the filesystem is read only or something like that, i can't use his firmware, but i'll look for a solution.

It created a directory called .gnuboy in the root of my SD card. Doesn't answer your problem, but maybe that answers the 'was it trying to write to the NAND?' question.

I hope you're not trying to write .gnuboy to NAND (you appear to be writing it to /)

barnesy: It is writing .gnuboy to NAND, and failing due to the read-only filesystem.

woooh, i missed that one, i'll fix that right now O_o
Writing on the nand is a NO NO for a gp2x app.

Read Only mounted Nand kicks ass