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Baboon
January 16th, 2008, 08:33
I just checked ttymans site http://ttyman.free.fr/ to see if he's updated his mame emulator for psp and I see he's just released 'PSPUAE4aLLr1'? :eek:

This has nothing to to with the PSPUAE build that FOL, Chilly Willy etc are working on but I thought I'd post it here seeing as it is news.


Heres what the readme says:

PSP UAE4ALL r1 by TTYman, 16/01/2008
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Install directions:

- Copy in /PSP/GAME (user mode build) or /PSP/GAME150 (firmware 1.5 compatibility for 3.xx OE release);
There are two different builds in archive:
1) 1.50 Kernel mode (psp_uae4all_r1);
2) 2.00 User mode (psp_uae4all_r1-usermode);
Use psp_uae4all_r1 as installation base, then replace EBOOT.PBP if you have slim psp or would use user mode build;
- Copy kickstart file named kick.rom of version 1.3 in same folder;
- Copy desidered disks images as .adf or .adf.gz (.adz) compressed format into disks folder, for convenience;

Specific Features:

- Based on latest Chui’s Dreamcast UAE4ALL and notaz’s uae4all gp2x v0.7.2a optimized blitter routines;
- Maximum speedup hacks using single precision math hardware support;
- full screen hardware scaled support;
- Fixed Overclock to 333 MHz while emulating, 222 MHz in menu;
- Only 546KB kernel build version (1.7MB user mode build).

Same features as Dreamcast version:

- Frameskip between 0-1 without sound and 1-2 with sound.
- Fast FAME Motorola 68000 C core by Fox68k.
- Autoframeskip for real speed.
- Mouse support.
- Joystick support.
- Fast sound with 8 buffers synchronized.
- Filemanager with subdirectories access.
- Complete menu with load, throttle, frameskip, reset… options
- Save disks changes into Virtual memory files (testing).
- Superthrottle mode for speed up intros and loading time.
- ADZ support (ADF floppy image gzip compressed)
- 2 floopy drives emulated.

How work special features:

- SuperThrottle
Hold right trigger first and left trigger second for automatic sound off and frameskip to 10 for speed up. This try to avoid large time for intros and loading time.

- ADZ support
You can compress your ADF floppy images with GZIP compression utility in order to save CD space. GZIP is free and multiplatform: Windows, GNU/Linux, MacOS … better use short filenames to read correctly disks numbers.

- Save disks changes to VM
UAE4ALL can save to VM disk sectors changed using ZIP compression. For games as Dune2, now you can save your campaigns and continue at future. A new menu option called “Save Disks” has added for enable or disable this feature.

- 2 floppy drives emulted
You can choose on filemanager a new disk for DF0 with Cross(X) button and a new disk for DF1 with Square([]) button. Also, you can eject DF1 with ‘Eject DF1′ option or pressing Triangle button while in menu.

- Throttle
Amiga is a hard machine to emulate. So, a lot of games support drawing shortcuts and cpu timeslice ampler. These methods speed up emulation and improve playbility under PSP.

- Autoframeskip
Unfortunately, UAE4ALL needs frameskipping for real time emulation. Active auto-frameskip menu option for real speed.
If you want sound, it’s a very important thing, the sound needs to be synchronous

- Mouse
Some on loading game demo requires specific mouse buttons combo, so try both buttons and movements while in such menu’s or demo.

Specific Controls:

- Button SELECT: Main Menu.
- Button START: not used.
- Button HOME: not used (exit, as normal, in user mode build).
- Buttons L+R: Deactivate SuperThrottle mode.
- Buttons L+R while keep pressing: Activate SuperThrottle mode (10x emulation velocity).
- Button Cross(X): used to confirm menu options, to select 1st disk, DF0, in load menu and as 1st mouse button.
- Button Circle(O): used as 2nd mouse button, as secondary joystick button and as go back in menus.
- Button Square([]): used to open load disks menu while in main menu, used to select 2nd disk, DF1, in load disks menu.
- Button Triangle(/\): used to eject DF1 and as primary joystick button.
- Button L: in Main menu Run emulation, in load menu go top of list.
- Button R: in Main menu Reset and Run emulation, in load menu go to bottom of list.
- Directional Buttons: emulate mouse movements.
- Analog stick: emulate joystick movements.

Known Problems:

- Keyboard emulation unimplemented.

Download and Give Feedback Via Comments

brunobelo
January 16th, 2008, 15:58
What about speed? Is as bad as PSPUAE? I like Rodland and I'm tired of playing this game using Atari-ST emulator. I hate Atari-ST, btw. :)

No_one_in_particular
January 16th, 2008, 16:08
PSPUAE isn't 'bad', it's just not perfect. Have you tried this yet Baboon? I might give it a bash later.

Goemon4
January 16th, 2008, 17:45
This one is going on my psp ASAP!!! Weill definatly be a good tie in for the next PSPUAE release! :thumbup:

Wow, thats one big eboot icon. My first gripe, the menus arent alphabetized, which is a pain for me (with about 100 various discs) but its all good since the sound is ALOT better than PSPUAE but i dont see my character on screen, restarted it tho, and hes there, and damn this thing is running nice!! Thanks alot TTYMan!

Baboon
January 16th, 2008, 17:49
I like Rodland and I'm tired of playing this game using Atari-ST emulator. I hate Atari-ST, btw. :)

Well I've only tried one game and that was Rodland! :D I haven't changed the settings just booted it up and even at this r1 stage this game plays fantastic (with great sound).

I also just tried r-type but that crashed my machine. :(

I'll report back once ive tested some more, but. a great first release from ttyman! :thumbup:

Goemon4
January 16th, 2008, 18:07
Hmm, i just tested R-type2 on my slim, it was running fine until a certain point where it started to lag like crazy, but yeah im playing alot of games on this to (booting up another world as we speak)

Man ive been waiting for a new amiga emu for months!

kharaboudjan
January 16th, 2008, 18:38
fantastic! i have to try it out! hopefully it has better speed than pspuae =)

delta191
January 17th, 2008, 11:43
I use the 546kb eboot for the phat psp 3.80 m33-2 (1.5 kernel mode)

this is the install I used for PSP PHAT.

PSP\GAME150 \psp_uae4all_r1\disks\ (ADF game files)
”_________________________“\data
”_________________________ “\eboot
”_________________________ “\kick.rom (1.3kickrom)

this is the install I used for PSP SLIM.

I use the 1,723kb eboot for the slim psp 3.80 m33-2 (1.5 kernel mode)
PSP\GAME\psp_uae4all_r1\disks\ (ADF game files)
”_____________________ “\data
”_____________________ “\eboot
”_____________________ “\kick.rom (1.3kickrom)

The emulator appears to load ok on both systems, ADF games appear ok in the disks

browser, KICK.ROM is ok.
the problem is when I select a disk image and press the psp L button to load the game,

the screen with the two green disk activity icons appears 00 00. then it freezes and

powers off PSP.

I’m using .ADF disk images, do they need to be in zipped format or something? they work

fine with PSPUAE 63BE.

can’t think of anything else!

kharaboudjan
January 17th, 2008, 20:08
i cant get it to wor. it only says no kick.rom was found :/

bwlfp
January 17th, 2008, 20:14
i cant get it to wor. it only says no kick.rom was found :/

You have to find that file yourself, try google. It is essential for running Amiga emulators.

Baboon
January 18th, 2008, 00:42
This emu is already top stuff.

To play Xenon2 on the psp and have the music running nicely in the background is a joy. The Shadow of the beast 2 intro also looks and sounds ace... as does the music in Magic Pockets! :)

Although not perfect I was also able to watch the public domain demo '9 fingers' which was fantastic! :)

I tested a few of my favs and Rodland, Robocop 1, R-type, R-type 2, SWIV, Creatures and Pacmania all work great. They seemed to work best on throttle 20 or 40.

Speedball 2 seems to crash my psp (tried it on most of the emu's settings)... Lotus 2 kept sketching out ...but I guess these could just be bad adf dumps?

For a futrue build keyboard implementation would be ideal (my version of 'Battle Chess' requires keyboard button presses to start, 'North and South' requires key mapping and in 'Stunt Car Racer' you need to be able to enter your name etc before you can start a game).

Multi disk game support would be another cool feature with some of the larger games.

It would be great if TTyman could get together with the guys at PSPUAE as they are also near to releasing a new psp amiga emulator. Working as a team would be great putting all your coding skills together.

All in all this is a great first release.

Game on. :)

kharaboudjan
January 18th, 2008, 13:50
fantastic first release! its way much better and faster than pspuae! hopefully there will be more releases from this emu. its much better and faster than the same emu that is on the dreamcast =)

many thanx for this! it is not full speed (often we need to have 1-2 FS for full speed) but it is a GREAT start!

JOY all amiga lovers out there

ganagawo
January 20th, 2008, 15:12
it wont work on SLIM version i think! When i slect a game, it shut off my psp when i want to run a game. I have 3.71.m33-2

HymnsomniaK
January 20th, 2008, 21:51
The sound pitch is not accurate at all. Music sounds out of tune. Other than that it's a great emu!!!

Art
January 21st, 2008, 23:32
fantastic first release! its way much better and faster than pspuae! hopefully there will be more releases from this emu. its much better and faster than the same emu that is on the dreamcast =)

many thanx for this! it is not full speed (often we need to have 1-2 FS for full speed) but it is a GREAT start!

JOY all amiga lovers out there

I wouldn't say it's better because it's faster.
I'll bet the UAE based emu will play more than half of the games that crash on this one because UAE is
written for accuracy.

Baboon
January 22nd, 2008, 08:26
I wouldn't say it's better because it's faster.
I'll bet the UAE based emu will play more than half of the games that crash on this one because UAE is
written for accuracy.

The speed and sound is fantastic in this emulator though so the experience so far for me has been great. :thumbup:

There have only been a handfull of games that I've chucked at it that currently either don't work or crash (Super Cars 2, Alien breed 92, Moonstone, Lotus Es)... while every other game has been completly playable (Rodland, Turrican, Navy Seals, Bubble Bobble, Silk Worm, SpeedBall 2, Shadow of the Beast 2 etc - even most of the public domain music demos!). ...The speed was so good that I've finaly deleted Castaway off my psp! lol

I guess once the guys from PSPuae release their new build then I'l revert back to that emu but for now this is the best amiga emulator on the psp. It maybe missing many options (keyboard, decent GUI etc) but as it is it does a v good job.

I just think its great that we've just started 2008 and allready theres two amiga emulators being worked on for the PSP! :)

Art
January 23rd, 2008, 04:32
You convinced me to try it, but I get the same problem as below with both builds,
KICK.ROM in the program directory, adf images.
Dang :(



I use the 546kb eboot for the phat psp 3.80 m33-2 (1.5 kernel mode)

this is the install I used for PSP PHAT.

PSP\GAME150 \psp_uae4all_r1\disks\ (ADF game files)
”_________________________“\data
”_________________________ “\eboot
”_________________________ “\kick.rom (1.3kickrom)

this is the install I used for PSP SLIM.

I use the 1,723kb eboot for the slim psp 3.80 m33-2 (1.5 kernel mode)
PSP\GAME\psp_uae4all_r1\disks\ (ADF game files)
”_____________________ “\data
”_____________________ “\eboot
”_____________________ “\kick.rom (1.3kickrom)

The emulator appears to load ok on both systems, ADF games appear ok in the disks

browser, KICK.ROM is ok.
the problem is when I select a disk image and press the psp L button to load the game,

the screen with the two green disk activity icons appears 00 00. then it freezes and

powers off PSP.

I’m using .ADF disk images, do they need to be in zipped format or something? they work

fine with PSPUAE 63BE.

can’t think of anything else!

Art
February 1st, 2008, 23:21
I found out this problem is because there is more than one version of 1.3KICK.ROM,
and this emu only like one of them.

Google "KICK.ROM", and you'll find the correct one on the
right hand side of the first page in the Google results.

Still not my cup of tea though.
It crashed in the workbench screen of the first demo I tried,
and wouldn't run the first game I tried.
It also looks to wreck aspect ratio if you like it or not.
He might have the best PSP MAME, but I'll give this one a miss.

No_one_in_particular
February 2nd, 2008, 03:33
Yeh I've tried several games, and they all end up crashing. I was really excited too, given the comments, but I think I'll be sticking with PSPUAE.

Art
February 2nd, 2008, 07:16
Try TTYman's MAME though, if you haven't yet.

Baboon
February 2nd, 2008, 09:53
I found out this problem is because there is more than one version of 1.3KICK.ROM,
and this emu only like one of them.

Google "KICK.ROM", and you'll find the correct one on the
right hand side of the first page in the Google results.

Still not my cup of tea though.
It crashed in the workbench screen of the first demo I tried,
and wouldn't run the first game I tried.
It also looks to wreck aspect ratio if you like it or not.
He might have the best PSP MAME, but I'll give this one a miss.

There's been an unofficial update that now has key mapping, selection of screen ratio, a speed increase and improved stability if your interested:

http://www.psp-hacks.com/2008/02/01/minor-psp-uae4all-changes/

:D

(although the new user mode builds don't seem to be working for myself and a few other people for some reason?).

kharaboudjan
February 2nd, 2008, 10:52
well there is no speed increase what i have noticed. hopefully someone will make some speed increase one day though. i mean this is the first release and the games needs only 1-3 FS. so there has to be huge room for better performance!

if this emulator will contiune being worked on it will definatily be one fo the killer emus for the psp! (like gpsp, picodrive and ps1)

robbytherob
February 19th, 2008, 20:09
Never had a Amiga but a mate did and I remember playing Powermonger loads on it..I know I have to get the Kick start 1.3 thing but is it a big no no to download the games??You know what I mean.

radiac
January 24th, 2010, 14:05
http://www.psp-hacks.com/file/145

did the trick for me ;)