Hi everyone,

Happy April Fool's Day!

To celebrate I'm releasing gp2xmess 0.12. There were a bunch of changes, most to speed up the enabled drivers. I also added support for the Emerson Arcadia 2001 (someone requested it a while back). No idea how to use it but it does seem to work well. I'd appreciate some feedback on how to play the games I have (alien invaders, baseball, etc). From what I can tell, no BIOS is needed for this system.

I ported the latest SDLMess to the gp2x but it just proved to be way too slow. I had also moved to xmess .106 but that also seems to have slowed down somewhat compared to .102 so I'm sticking with .102 and merging bug fixes to emulated systems. If it ain't broke..... lots of wasted time doing that but oh well, gotta try it to find out.

The README has updated info and the CHANGELOG has the details. Here's some benchmarks on the speedups, not mindblowing, but some decent increases. It's a lot more work doing this than porting or fixing bugs, esp since gprof doesn't work as well as it does on my x86 box and mess is built to be generic so it does some very suboptimal things at it's core that would be very hard to change.

Colecovision Burgertime (gameplay)

ver 0.11 FS 6 100% 19fps
ver 0.12 FS 2 100% 41fps

ver 0.11 FS 0 47% 28fps
ver 0.12 FS 0 84% 50fps

TI99/4A (boot screen)

ver 0.11 FS 8 93% 19fps
ver 0.12 FS 5 100% 32fps

ver 0.11 FS 0 47% 28fps
ver 0.12 FS 0 76% 46fps

Atari 7800 Asteroids (gameplay)

ver 0.11 FS 8 70% 14fps
ver 0.12 FS 8 79% 16fps

ver 0.11 FS 0 47% 28fps
ver 0.12 FS 0 51% 31fps

Apple ][ (boot screen)

ver 0.11 53% 11fps
ver 0.12 55% 11fps

Coco (boot screen)

ver 0.11 47% 9fps
ver 0.12 54% 11fps

You can download the updates at the usual place. Please let me know how it works for you etc. I will continue improving performance!

http://users.adelphia.net/~bsturk/gp2x.html

~telengard

G.o.D released v0.7 of his Puzzlegame.
The game itself is finished, he's just hoping for some guys who will build more levels so that he can release them together with the game as v1.0

The symbols on the screen represent a numeric value in the order as they are displayed on the right. As you move over a symbol, it is decrements to the next lower symbol or disappears.

Redid autoframeskip. Should work more reliably.

Rewrote dynamic recompiler from x86 source (arm_emit.h, arm_stub.S).
Has some more sophisticated behavior than the last version, more is
still to come... Should notice a slight speed improvement over the
last version.

Tweaked GUI to be a little more useable. Buttons are now mirroring the
PSP version's.

Code unification + cleanup amongst versions.

* Graphics update: deleted images, new arrow, deleted menusound
* Fixed bug in showing time
* possible to view free FLASH1 space
* added credits, added usb mode
* possibility to flash/recover impose.prx, possibility to rflash/ecover impose.rsc
* improved file check (security)
* entring a folder in file browser is back FAST
* in OK you see now the timer counting down
* RECOVERY MENU is really clear now
* RCO menu is really clear now
* POSSIBILITY to copy folders in file browser (files were already possible)
* possibility to delete folders in file browser (only possible with empty folders) (files were already possible)
* new xmb sound (remix of the previously one)
* fixed bug for flashing photo_plugin.rco (security)
* updated flash security

after some weeks being busy with other things , i finelly finished the last update of flash agent , with ,once again , improved security and usb mode and more things

fLASH AGENT uses as always a file browser and hes now back as fast as possible , i found the glitch why it was so slow previously versions , so just drop your filez somewhere and flashez!!!!!!, FOR 3.03OE AND 3.10OE USE AT OWN RISK

# Triple Triad PSP README #

Homepage : http://www.psp-ita.com/tt (yet to come)
Forum : http://www.psp-ita.com/tt
PSP Python Homepage: http://python-psp.net/trac/

This is a PSP version of the game "Triple Triad" found in Final Fantasy VIII
Triple Triad PSP is not licensed or endorsed by Sony Computer or Square Enix.
This game is ditributed under GPL license, read license.txt for details.

# Installation #

To install the homebrew copy the python directory in the root of your MS,
and the two game directories to x:/PSP/GAME or x:/PSP/GAME150 if under custom firmware.

# Controls #

Cross - Select
Circle - Cancel
Square - Show help (if any available)
L + R - Take a screenshot
L - back (decrease card level list/circle thru invites)
R - forward (increase card level list/circle thru invites)
Select - Player filter
Start - Accept
Arrows - Cursor movement

# HOW TO play Triple Triad PSP on a Windows PC #

Triple Triad PSP can be played also on Windows.

Controls are:
Q = L
W = R
A = Square
S = Triangle
Z = Cross
X = Cirlce
C = Select
V = Start

1.Download Python from http://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.4.4/python-2.4.4.msi
2.Install Python with default settings
3.Download PyGame from http://pygame.org/ftp/pygame-1.7.1re...in32-py2.4.exe
4.Install PyGame with default settings
5.Download the mockup from: http://sakya.altervista.org/new/inde...up.rar&mode=go
6.Copy the directory __SCE__TripleTriadPSP to your PC (rename it as you want).
7.Unrar the files inside the mockup.rar in the __SCE__TripleTriadPSP directory.
8.Double click on the file script.py

# Triple Triad ONLINE #


From version 0.4.20 you can access a full, persistent world online.
You can create your account and play with friends from any part of the globe.
For an exaustive overview of the infrastructure possibilities please refer to our forum topics.

# HOW TO CONTRIBUTE #

Those first releases of TTPSP needs a huge amount of work:
Any help is appreciated in order to deliver the best gaming experience we can.

-Providing a fixed IP server mirror for multiplayer infrastructure.
-Traslating the client language in your own language (see missing languages above for reference)
-Reporting a bug (see the post in our forums @ www.psp-ita.com/tt)

...or just suggesting features you'd like to see!

# Triple Triad PSP TEAM #

Client Coding : Sakya
Server coding : Zero-One
Graphics : Peoplechamp
Nedra
Leviadragon
Lacri255
Sephzero
Musics : Lemuriamu


For comments & suggestions please post in our forums!

# Triple Triad Team would like to thank #

Jerome for the Python porting and for help
PSP-Ita.com forum for support
SiberianStar for his usefull help
Crackiron, Hydra, Guigiz, Kej@ for translations
Chaosflare From hosting the North American server mirror.

Ciao
Triple Triad Team

NEW FEATURES
* (raf) TextUI: Msgbox now goes away after 3sec (not based on frames rendered anymore, but time).
* (raf) Core: (Supported by TextUI) Framerate configuration file is now set globally in PSPRadio.cfg (PLUGINSISPLAY_FPS)
* (raf) TextUI: Now uses GU more; which reduces flickering and improves framerate
* (raf) TextUI: Cleaned up the way stream time and info is displayed while on fullscreen visualization mode.

BUG FIXES

* (raf) Core: PSPRadio would crash on startup if the visualizer plugin was disabled.
* (raf) Core: PSPRadio would crash on startup if the SHOUTcast database (newdb.xml) file was empty.
* (raf) TextUI: Corrected problem where PSPRadio would crash when downloading the SHOUTcast database. (The problem was caused by lack of complete support for values -1 and -2 in the configuration files after the TextUI rendering changes.
* (raf) TextUI: Corrected problem that caused a crash when switching from TextUI3d to TextUI.
* (raf) Core: Corrected problem that caused a crash on restore from suspend mode when the wifi was enabled. Now it will also resume play.
* (raf) Core: Disabled UI rendering while shutting down; this makes sure the “shutting down” screen is not drawn over.

KNOWN BUGS

* (raf) TextUI: When switching skins all the text will disappear. This happens on occasion. Just move up or down for the text to re-render.

OE related Problems on this release

* (raf) Core: Static IP connections don’t work correctly. Seems the gateway is not used as it should. (Also, make sure CPU speed is 222 when establishing a WiFi connection). Possible solution, if you have a proxy server in your network, set it up in PSPRadio.cfg. A static IP may work then. (This is untested).

Here's the changelog:

Fixed a bug in EEPROM management.
Fixed a bug in RTC functions.
Fixed a bug in Extended Draw Mode management. Fixed a bug in Bitmap Sprites management.
Fixed transparent color backgrounds.
Fixed a bug in EXTKEYIN register.
Fixed a bug in DIVREM_RESULT register.
Fixed a bug in 3d stacks.
Fixed a bug in 3d coordinates trasformation.
Fixed a bug in texture management.
Fixed a bug in GXFIFO register.
Fixed a bug in load rom.
Fixed a bug in Display Capture Control Register.
Fixed a bug in plugins management.
Fixed a bug in SWI5 functions.
Added Background Mode 6.
Added 4x4-Texel Compressed Texture management.
Added Textures Coordinates Transformation Mode.
Added Alpha channel for 3d layer.
Added keys configuration dialog.
Added Increase CPU Speed options.
Added RLUnComp function.