Not a huge release, just getting the ball rolling on these. Enjoy..

EDIT: I fixed the links to point to the real version instead of the one that plays a video of some kids destroying a GBA. April fools. lolz *_* (good job noticing the links, I was hoping someone would figure it out and tell everyone really soon, I was starting to feel pretty guilty)

Here's the GPE package.
And here's the source.

Wow! I never could imagine it going this fast!

Very exciting! Thank you! I haven't got my GP2X at the moment (it's with ED for the d-pad mod), so I'm really looking forward to the posts on this thread!

More info, zod!!

Downloading now. We <3 you exophase!

Thank you man

very awesome! there goes this month's bandwidth

I just went to launch a game, but pressed B. And got a video of some random dudes smashing up a GBA.... WTF

Edit: Is this a late april fools?

just noticed the file name: "alolz"

What the f...? It works really well for me. I think you've downloaded the wrong program or something(???)

If it is, edit your thread so that more people fall for it!

Wow, got Castlevania workin @ 120fps, smashin my gba over a brick wall
Nice answer for everyone everywhere askin a better menu !
Keep the good work !

Who says we need a second cpu core for video rendering!

Late? It's only mid-afternoon here in N. America.

You should add a _small_ post in your blog, too

=> C&P this Post to your Blog

Ouch.

Yeah and it delivers hidden FMV in FFVI gba, the psx ones !!!
Damn

rofl... this is hilarious.

Ouch, where is the source ?
Seems unavailable, I would have to know how did you slow down the menu... Did you undynarec it ?

My mistake, I gave the wrong link. But I fixed it now

Here it is!

It's all laughs today, but I'd love to see you try this as a Christmas release.

Unbelievable !!!
Now I can see the good lolz.S engine !!!

What I find funny is that the gpe still requires a BIOS!

lol there are still people not knowing that removing the lolz in the link will give them the real emu *g

Mario Vs Donkey kong no longer loads

I hope this can help you?! Most of the Games are the European edition... I think in this release everything is faster, but the compability is lower then in the previous version!



It's really usefull to see the "real" name in the menu now and that there the emu creates *.txts with this name, too (this was usefull for sonic)! The function showing the time, when the savestate was created is not needed, because the GP2Xs time is always reseted to 1.1.1970 The new button map (B to do something) is really nice and the new black background, too!

GO GO GO

Just one word. AMAZING! Thank you.

Of course, this was a bit to be expected what with the "public beta" side of things (and I only tested a few games myself), but I'll work on the compatability first thing. They're probably only a few minor issues.

I'll need some beta testers (just a few at most!) - are you in Elektranox?

Awesome, AutoFrameSkip works perfectly !

Wonderful Exophase, I'll try it more later on !

paxl13

Year I'm in By the way... Perhaps it would be nice to make the "Cheat menu" out of function instead of let it crashing the emu?

Would be best to make it actually work, I think.

well I thought You will do other things first. So you could just make the function out of use by returning the function and then later make it work

First of all the Bugs should be removed

Exophase, awesome work! MARIO KART!!

Wow, nice work! It really runs quite a bit faster.

Btw is the mmuhack.o still in use?

at least it is better than your other releases!


(j/k)

Main page?

You beat me to it asking about Mario Kart.

Anyone tested this yet? I'm at work so have to wait many hours before I get a chance to try this out.

Wondering how much faster it is?

Incredible, awesome, amazing, this version of the emu is running really faster.

-Castlevania COTM runs at fullspeed frameskip 0 at 275.
-Baldur´s Gate:Dark Alliance is running almost perfect
-Metroid Fusion (E) hangs when you are finishing of watching story intro.
-TMNT (2007) runs perfect i would say.
-Mortal Kombat Deadly Alliance runs really well, before it doesnt boot up.
-Tekken now does not works, it hangs before go into play.Mario Golf, Mario Tennis, Prehistorik Man and Yoshis´s Island have this problem as well.Bu t Yoshi´s Island is so smotth in title screen that is awesome O_o A pity not possible to goingame (previous version you can play it very well at FS3.I think tah now it will run almost perfect O_o
-There is a problem with AW1.
-I can´t make any AW2 rom to go ingame
-VRally 3 hangs.
-Winning Eleven is so smooth now that i would say it is running fullspeed.Incredible game and incredible performance now in a GP2X O_o Before it was slow, you needed to play it like frameskip4.
-Max Payne now boots up and is running pretty well
-R-Type III is running quite well
-Colin McRae 2 hangs.
-FFVI is running slightly better
-Zelda:ALink to the past auto resets when you are watching intro story.
-Virtua Tennis freezes at Sega logo.
-Mario Kart and F ZERO Legend are almost running fullspeed,is not fullspeed.Incredible again O_o
-Pokemon Pinball show you a white screen.
-Payback is like in a loop.You can´t get it to play.
-GTA Advance Pro 3 hangs when you try to play in quick race.I have not tried another mode.
-Banjo Pilot now it is working and it runs incredible well
-Broken Sword is running perfect.
-Sabrewulf hangs when you press start.
-The Legend of Zelda:The Minish Cap is running even at FS0 quite well Althought there is a problem with rolling, like BadWolf said.
-Kirby and The Amazing Mirror is runnig like perfect
-Kirby Nightmare in Dreamland is running like perfect
-Krazy Racers hangs.Before it runs, althought slow.
-Lego Star Wars II hangs the emulator.
-Lord of The Rings:Return of the King now it is working and running quite well.
-Klonoa 2 is running perfect

*I like to play games in unscaled mode, but now scaled mode looks slightly better with this last release, but it needs a filter to be playable for me in scaled mode.With no filters it looks too much blocky.

*Maybe it is time to VSync ON option Maybe it would not kill performance in some games.

Thank you Exophase, incredible release O_o
Awesome!!!

I noticed that rolling does not work anymore in Zelda- The Minish Cap.

Excelent work!! thank you Exophase, I copied the emu alongside with the bios and mmu hack on a fresh directory but it seems there is (at least for me) random freezes of the emu, also sword of mana (U) always freezes the emu. ¿Anyone have the same problem?

Who would have thought that a GBA emulator would run almost fullspeed @ ~250Mhz. Possibly the most technically advanced emulator on any handheld! Amazing.

Can't wait to try Mario Kart tonight.

@Exophase: I was hoping from some more techno-blog entry! but I guess you have been busy coding.

BTW everyone see Google's April Fool's?

Great work Exophase I have just tested a couple of games and near on all of them work fine but Im getting some that freeze up and stop or the emu just quits ie Breath of fire 1 and Metroid Fusion
but apart from that its Great and I know this is a public beta so when you have the finished product it will kick a$$

Ps Rivroner could you please tell me what settings you have got on for your Metroid Fusion to work because I have tryed 4 copys but still no luck and if you do post cheers m8

No random freezes for me, but Sword of Mana is killing the emu as well




Metroid Fusion (E) and it hangs while you are watching intro , before story intro finish.
In my previuos testing i don´t wait till intro finish
Before it works with no problems.( i mean with Zodttd last release.)

Thanks Exophase for this release.

It is running pretty fast and the sound is MUCH better now, It hardly stutters even on my slow 240 MHz machine.

Once the lock-ups are fixed this will be fantastic (had it lock on Castlevania after 5 minutes).
Pac-Man collection doesn't work. The beginning with the "rippling blue pac-background" doesn't animate and when you select something it locks up. This may be a good bug test game because it does it right away and consistantly.

Great work, again thanks

Yes, sound is cristal clear now

Well, i am gonna play Winning Eleven

Sorry about the lack of inclusion of mmuhack.o.

Do use it though (if you don't have it grab the previous version from zodttd).

I'm going to get these compatability issues worked out of course, then on to more fun. I think it's time I start getting serious with profiling, but with custom profilers (this is not normal code.. just like there has almost never been a good reason to use gdb but I've had to spend probably hundreds of hours in the CPU debugger >_>)

I'm actually kinda looking forward to it.

Funny thing, I thought that my fairly optimized C code would be producing good ASM. Turns out GCC for ARM sucks. I tried writing my own version of the expand_blend function and it ended up being a little over half the instructions in the GCC version (37 for GCC, 19 for me) - what's more, they used all the registers and were spilling like crazy, both with immediates and onto the stack. I still have two registers free! And I'm not an expert at ARM ASM (well, maybe it doesn't take a lot to be good enough. Or at least better than the compiler :|)

Now I understand why everyone touts hand-rolled ASM here, because the compiler is junk! At least the translated code + stubs are MY trusted machine code being ran. I just know that I won't be able to rewrite my video.c in ASM any time soon But those blend functions could be using a big chunk of time. Again, profiling. Should be fun :B

I guess I'm late to the party, but this is quite impressive! Compatibility seems to be much lower (as it seems you know), but the speed's outstanding! Everything I've thrown at it has been fullspeed at 200 so far.

Well the speed is great. I don't know what you did with the scaling but its a LOT better

Anyway heres the obligatory list of games which no longer work:

Wario Ware, Inc.
Wario Ware Twisted

Also the "Cheats and Misc. Options" makes it freeze.

I realize this is an alpha release, thus bugs are to be expected.

Pokemon Sapphire might be broken as well. I'll try another version. Ruby and Emerald work.

I think Warioware requires a motion sensor built in the cartridge, don't it?

I haven´t included mmuhack.It helps the performance Exo? Anyway the emulator is running almost fullspeed for every game i throught to it 275 OC

Twisted did, but theres a hacked version that uses L & R.

Both worked in Zod's release.