Masterboy - Gameboy, Master System and Game Gear Emulator for PSP

[wraggster]

Brunni (http://www.neoflash.com/forum/index.php/topic,4588.0.html) has posted an entry in the Neoflash Coding contest:


It's a Game Boy emulator for PSP. It allows you to fully recolor your games, not only by selecting one palette for the whole screen, but by recoloring each object on the screen! Here are examples of what you could do:

http://hothmoon.free.fr/Super%20Mario%20Land%202%20-%206%20Golden%20Coins_01.png

And you don't need to be a programmer, there's no romhacking (you keep using the original ROM) and it works for nearly all existing games.

MasterBoy also emulates the Game Boy Color, Master System and Game Gear. The SMS/GG emulation is based on MMSPlus, and has been improved a lot since then.

The official page is: http://brunni.dev-fr.org/index.php?page=pspsoft_masterboy
Here you'll find the latest updates and documentation on how to colorize your games. Especially, the current method is quite complicated, you can wait for me to write a tutorial on how to do it with PSPLink.

Other features:
* Rich interface with discrete effects, redefinable shortcuts and buttons (with autofire feature). Also it's fully skinnable.


* Manage and sort your favorites folders and files to acces them easily.


* Integrated music player supporting GYM and VGM formats.


* Several display options like Gamma and Color Vibrance, which allows you to choose how colored you want your display to be.


* Z80 under/overclocker: allow you to correct games that are often slowing down or displaying glitchy / blinking sprites.

* Some improvements over MMSPlus in the SMS/GG part:
- Speed up. Now 16-bit render mode is enabled by default. You can revert to 8-bit if you want, and it will run even faster.
- Compatibility issues
- Better country detection (now nearly all games should detect the country correctly and not play too fast anymore).
- The bar at the left of the screen can be automatically hidden (depending whether the game is actually using it or not)

Here are some videos:
Super Mario Land:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8F3Zi0-UII
Astérix:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rWftXVbIcA
Super Mario Land 2 by Yodajr:
http://www.dailymotion.com/Yodajr/video/x2seyx_super-mario-land-2-colorise_videogames
Baloon Kid by Yodajr: http://www.dailymotion.com/Yodajr/jeux-vid%C3%A9o/video/x2ncla_ballon-kid-colorise_videogames

Don't hesitate to give your opinion here! Thanks in advance.

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[SpacemanSpiff]

That's really cool.

[xg917]

wow this is really cool :)

[Harshboy]

This is pretty sweet! Downloading.

[Gene]

How well does this emulate sms? Is it full speed with sound?

[Shiesty]

im lazy like everyone else i hope someone does all the work for me and i can play mario land 2 with color

[O-bake]

Awesome! Really a big thing that was missing in GB emulation on the PSP.
Great release :)

[usp8riot]

Awesome emulator. There is a bug in one game I've tried, Wizards & Warriors where if I paused it, it wouldn't unpause. But still, it's great. I used to play this game in my freetime at school. And the old gameboy isn't functioning like it used to. Memories, so easy to leave me.

[emuking]

crazy cool :)

[Apoklepz]

Sweet....Metroid 2 and Gargoyles Quest finally in colorful glory!!!

Great Emulator!

[usp8riot]

I didn't quite understand the colorizing tutorial in the pdf linked on the site but maybe there should be an option to load color config's that we can share or upload somewhere so when we want a game colorized, we just dl the config.

[wolfpack]

yay colored original gameboy games :D

[avva]

that's cool. Thanks for the great emu.

[Tesseract]

Sweetness, I'm a big fan already, and I've only been using it for a few hours. Very nice work on the GUI!

On bug I've run into, though, is that it seems that the Emulator is... well... losing contact with the MemStick after a short time. For example, I was playing Zelda DX, and saving state to slot 0. Then all of a sudden, I would try to save state, but it just wouldn't happen. No error message, but no confirmation. I could save to RAM, but that's no good when you want to shut down and go to bed. The SRAM did not update, either, and when I'd try to load another ROM, the directory listing would not come up.

So far, I can't see a common trigger between the few times I've had this happen, but it's a rather critical bug. If you have any suggestions on what to do to help troubleshoot, I'm all ears!

[DeVS]

Well on Super Mario Land 2 it is in color but some times it goes back to black and white, but with Super Mario Land 1 it seems to stay black and white. Any ideas?

[acn010]

full speed on all of the games???

[xg917]

if so then great emulator! :)

wifi support would be a nice tackle... :(

[usp8riot]

full speed on all of the games???

So far in my testing. Earthworm Jim for GBC, I had to up the CPU speed a bit from it's default 222.