wraggster
July 10th, 2004, 08:19
Ive got a hold of the latest beta given to me by GPF, heres my findings:
Well after 3 trys i finally got it burned, realised my CDrs werent compatible in the Dreamcast. but anyway loaded up the cd and it seemed quite fast going into the splash screen part, now onto try some games, im mostly going to try homebrew but ill chuck a few commercial in just to let you know whats the crack ;)
First game just to help me make sure it was running i tryed Mario Kart for the GBA, it loaded but way too slow to be playble but has a tech achievement i did enjoy seeing mario again. :)
next game was another commercial game Super Mario World for the GBA, and while it loaded it was way too slow,ill move onto to the homebrew games.
gonna play with the settings too as i run through this:
Trying Dangerous Xmas with the sound off, oh and just so you know this version has Joypad support :)
Dangerous Xmas ran much faster than the last beta i tryed but still not playable with sound off, i will now try with sound on, hmm got to say on this game i noticed no real slowdown with sound on.
next game:
Wonkieguy was really slow, so slow its painful, not sure why such a massive difference in speed between this and dangerous Xmas.
Next up a games called 2origins which featured 4 games in it(an entry to GBAx 2004) this again loaded slow and played slow too, it worked fine but no luck as a playable game.
Now for a game called Carbie, this loaded fast, slow as hell to play and the noise called sound is killing me.
no more sound enabled for me :P
Tryed Dan Cotters Ebook with a great film i watched some time ago on it, obviously its a book but lets talk speed etc, hmm slow to load and not at all pleasent to read ahh well back to the real book.
Arkanoid Advance loaded at a slowish rate around 60% i think, and played too slow for my liking :(
Last game i played with was Jetpack and while it was slow it was just playable.
The Emu itself feels much better now with the great joypad support and with new splash screens it will be awesome but at this time i can say that only a very small amount of games and thats homebrew and certainly not commercial are going to be playable, of those that were playable it wasnt as fast as most of us would like. Now this beta is over a 10 days old but speed is the key area to be improved, im not sure how or if it can but it will need to be.
As a tech achievement its awesome to see GBA running on the Dreamcast.
Lets hope that GPF (Troy Davis ) can squeeze more speed :)
Thats all folks
Well after 3 trys i finally got it burned, realised my CDrs werent compatible in the Dreamcast. but anyway loaded up the cd and it seemed quite fast going into the splash screen part, now onto try some games, im mostly going to try homebrew but ill chuck a few commercial in just to let you know whats the crack ;)
First game just to help me make sure it was running i tryed Mario Kart for the GBA, it loaded but way too slow to be playble but has a tech achievement i did enjoy seeing mario again. :)
next game was another commercial game Super Mario World for the GBA, and while it loaded it was way too slow,ill move onto to the homebrew games.
gonna play with the settings too as i run through this:
Trying Dangerous Xmas with the sound off, oh and just so you know this version has Joypad support :)
Dangerous Xmas ran much faster than the last beta i tryed but still not playable with sound off, i will now try with sound on, hmm got to say on this game i noticed no real slowdown with sound on.
next game:
Wonkieguy was really slow, so slow its painful, not sure why such a massive difference in speed between this and dangerous Xmas.
Next up a games called 2origins which featured 4 games in it(an entry to GBAx 2004) this again loaded slow and played slow too, it worked fine but no luck as a playable game.
Now for a game called Carbie, this loaded fast, slow as hell to play and the noise called sound is killing me.
no more sound enabled for me :P
Tryed Dan Cotters Ebook with a great film i watched some time ago on it, obviously its a book but lets talk speed etc, hmm slow to load and not at all pleasent to read ahh well back to the real book.
Arkanoid Advance loaded at a slowish rate around 60% i think, and played too slow for my liking :(
Last game i played with was Jetpack and while it was slow it was just playable.
The Emu itself feels much better now with the great joypad support and with new splash screens it will be awesome but at this time i can say that only a very small amount of games and thats homebrew and certainly not commercial are going to be playable, of those that were playable it wasnt as fast as most of us would like. Now this beta is over a 10 days old but speed is the key area to be improved, im not sure how or if it can but it will need to be.
As a tech achievement its awesome to see GBA running on the Dreamcast.
Lets hope that GPF (Troy Davis ) can squeeze more speed :)
Thats all folks