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by Published on July 1st, 2009 22:26
News/release from Strata8
I've worked for a few hours today, trying to let the user add levels directly from FAT, and I've finally done it! It's pretty much self-explanatory when you look through the folders, but I'll give a quick explaination.
When you convert a background with PAGfx, you get some .bin files as well. This is what we'll need, though, first, let's look at how a level folder is laid out:
Code:
Level folder structure
.../levels
->[levelname]
-> StageBG
-> CollisionMap
-> BackBG
-> MidBG
- config.iniStageBG: required.
CollisionMap: required:
BackBG: Optional, this goes at the very back of the level, so it should represent something in the distance
MidBG: About halfway between the stage and the back background. Can be used for clouds or something.
config.ini: This is the heart of the entire level, here, you specify the width, height, any modifiers, and you also place the objects/enemies in the stage. It should look a bit like this:
Code:
;Level configuration file
[Level]
width = 1424
height = 256
gravity = 1200 ;The gravity (max velocity) of the objects. Default is 1000.
music = jumper.mp3 ;Music, located in .../music/
;Width and height only apply to StageBG and CollisionMap
[Scrolling]
midscroll = -128 ;Scrolling of the middle background... eg, clouds moving
backscroll = 0 ;Scrolling of the back background
;Object classes:
; 1 = Player
; 2 = Generic ground enemy
[Object1]
x = 100
y = -64
class = 1
[Object2]
x = 164
y = -64
class = 2
flip = -1 ;The direction that the AI moves in (-1 or 1)
[Object3]
...
;You can have as many objects as you need....
Like I said before, when converting the backgrounds with PAGfx, you get some .bin files, named *_Tiles.bin and such. To use the backgrounds in your level, place the files in their respective folders, then rename them all to tiles.bin, info.bin, etc.
I'll document this much better later, but I'm tired and hungry
Download and Give feedback Via Comments ...by Published on July 1st, 2009 22:01
Pickle has updated the port of Gmenu2Xfor the Wiz:
GMenu2X is a very very good alternative frontend for the wiz. It supports overclocking, sound volume setting, touchscreen, etc. GMenu2X allows you to create direct links for your games & applications so that you can directly launch them without having to browse through all the filesystem manually, resulting in a better user experience.
Gmenu2x is no longer beta
I finished adding clock and battery support for the wiz version.
The clockspeed is capped at 900 Mhz. The default clock for applications is at 550 Mhz.
It is changeable in all situations by 10 mhz.
Im not confident that the battery monitoring is accurate. I added the wiz's battery device but left the battery levels the same as the gp2x. Im assuming GPH left it the same, which they usually do.
Download Here ...by Published on July 1st, 2009 21:45
New for the Wiz and for use by developers:
OpenGL ES 1.1 libraries "libopengles_lite.so" as found in the firmware 1.0.0 - 1.1.0
Needed for the Propis demo.
http://dl.openhandhelds.org/cgi-bin/...0,0,0,0,23,132 ...by Published on July 1st, 2009 21:43
Pickle has released a new version of his Gameboy Emulator for the Wiz:
Features a number of new scalers such as Notaz's gpsp interpolation scaler, scale2x filter modes.
Supports internal overlocking at wiz speeds.
Sound is still a bit rough (if anyone wants to take a look, feel free as im stumped)
Download Here ...by Published on July 1st, 2009 21:35
Tantric has released a new version of his Dos Emulator for the Wii:
Features
USB Keyboard and mouse support.
Wiimote pointer support.
SD/USB mounting.
Most DOS games are playable.
Instructions
You need a Wii Remote and a USB keyboard.
The C: drive will automatically be mounted to sd:/DOSBox/ if loaded from apps/dosbox-wii/. Otherwise, the directory the dol is loaded from will be mounted as C, and sd:/DOSBox as D (if present). The Z: driver is a virtual drive that is part of DOSBox.
Other drives can be mounted using the MOUNT command. Prefix sd: for an SD card, and usb: for a USB drive. The Wii's DVD drive and network folders can't be mounted at this time.
The configuration file is loaded from the directory the dol is located in (if present) and sd:/DOSBox/dosbox.conf otherwise. This file will be created automatically after you start DOSBox. Please edit it with a text editor to choose settings appropriate for each game.
Press the Home button, type "exit", press Ctrl+F9, or press Reset (on the console) to exit.
0.73.02 - July 1, 2009
Upgraded DOSBox engine to latest SVN
Fixed lockup when only using the Wiimote (no attachments connected)
Compiled with latest libogc and SDL Wii
Download and Give Feedback Via Comments ...by Published on July 1st, 2009 21:28
A belated May 2009 issue of Commodore Free has been released.
Contents:
* News
* RGCD Cartridge reviews
* The Kidal Legacy
* DOS65
* Interview with DOS65 creator
* Introduction to CPM
* CPM Operating system
* Worlds greatest menu
* CCC UK Forum post cbm 128
* Introduction to C programming
http://www.retroactionmagazine.com/f...c.php?f=4&t=61 ...by Published on July 1st, 2009 21:23
News from the ScummVM Team
If you want to be the envy of everyone in your neighborhood, be sure to be seen around in your beautiful new ScummVM T-shirt. Designed with the cooperation of the ScummVM team, this understated and elegant item will truly show off your adventure game leanings to the initiated. Plus, combobreaker.com are donating to the ScummVM project for each one sold!
While we're on the subject of helping ScummVM, please vote for your favorite point-and-click adventure game engine interpreter in the Sourceforge Community Choice Awards. Thanks to all the people that nominated us, we've made it through to the final round. If you click the link, ScummVM will be pre-selected in the Best Project for Gamers category, and you can go on and choose your favorite open-source projects in the other categories. ...by Published on July 1st, 2009 21:19
Runik has posted news concerning his Sega Saturn Emulator for Windows:
As I was converting different VDP2 modes to the new cache, I came across testing the game 3 Dirty Dwarves. This game got a strange problem since version 0.32, as main player characters weren't being diplayed on screen : you could move around, see bullets fired, or punch the villains, but that was it. You could only guess your position by the scrolling moves....
At first I thought it was related to the DSP, as some games use it to do some sprite calculations, but after a quick check that wasn't the case.
Some more tracing lead me to some unmapped memory access (which wasn't logged for some reason), and reading through the SH2 hardware manual gave me the aswers I was looking for : the SH2 has an internal cache (4KB of data, and 1KB of addresses), which can be configured to be used as a 4 ways cache (all the data cache is used as instructions / data cache), a 2 ways cache (the first half is used as a high speed RAM, and the other one as regular cache), or completely disabled (4KB used as high speed RAM).
After adding this 4KB area to the memory map of the emulator, bingo ! The sprites are displayed
by Published on July 1st, 2009 21:10
Slaanesh the coder who carried on the port of MAME to the GP32 posted this over at GP32X:
With all the recent Linux for Dingoo - Dingux - activity I've decided to initially port MAME4ALL for Linux....
So far so good, and I should have an initial version of MAME4ALL on the Dingoo soon.by Published on July 1st, 2009 21:04
Booboo posts this on the Dingux Website:
I got a little time to check out frontend menu systems for the A320. As always, the way to go is reuse existing open source software, and I came up with two candidates: gmenu2x and gp2xmb. If you know some other, please let me know.
You may recall that one of the first quick ports I did when I got linux running on the A320 was gmenu2x. I did that using the huge glibc and other stuff from the Ingenic toolchain, but this time I wanted to do it the right way: using an uclibc toolchain.
I quickly went over OpenEmbedded and settled with buildroot. It's the tool by the uclibc guys and has a nice kernel like configure menu to which I'm used. I succesfully built the toolchain, and I recommend using buildroot for compiling just the toolchain and some basic libraries. For bigger or specialized libraries (like SDL), I recommend configuring and building manually using the just built toolchain. I'll be testing this toolchain in the following days and release a new uclibc based rootfs.
These are the porting results:
gmenu2x: unable to get the latest stable version working in linux nor in the A320. The svn code compiled and sort of worked both in linux and in the A320 but despite the icons seems to be loaded they're not shown on screen. Didn't go any further because I do not intend to debug the gmenu2x code.
gp2xmb: got the svn code working almos right from the start, both in linux and in the A320. The sound is choppy in both cases, which leads me to believe it's not a problem of the kernel sound driver (reminder: still using the buggy and ugly OSS driver).
Personally I prefer gp2xmb. There's quite a lot of work to be done to adapt to the A320 (plus the sound problem), but the code seems quite clean and well structured. Check out the video:
Note: it should be only the second half, but for some reasong I could not edit it without breaking further the audio sync (in which you can notice it's choppy), sorry. You see how I reset dingux using POWER+START+SELECT, boot into the original firmware, power off, power on and get a bit too late to select dingux thus booting again into original firmware, etc. Notice that in the latest dual-boot release you can press SELECT to boot dingux anytime while the dingux splash screen is show, that is, you actually need not to power on while pressing SELECT.
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