PSPVBA-Suggestions-Anyone?

So if i try to summarize :

Mandatory items :
- speed
- better sound quality

Optional features :
- improve rombrowser (delete/bad rom size icons etc ..)
- Ability to delete save states
- multiple rom settings (every rom has its own settings)
- IR support to transfer roms via IR
- more rom compatibilty (see earlier version of the VBA source code)
- Cheatcode support
- >16+ MB roms
- Auto Frame Skipping
- Mono/stereo sound option
- Sound frequency managment
- AD Hoc
- Border selection for the smaller screen ratios.
- reduse the X of the screen


Already implemented features : :rolleyes:
- zip support
- the triangle and the square could both be used for the B button
- Ability to take screenshots.
- increase the native size of the screen
- saving games in-game
- .rar archive support

Features i will never do myself ;) :
- Auto-Installer (for the noobz)
- New User Interface (like snes)
- Thumbnail image support / screenshots for use with the ROM selector.
- Fun animated intro like what Snes9xTYL
- mp3 support.
- VBA movie player


So, see you in few months :D :D :D. I don't promise anything, it was just to sum up suggestions ...

thats awsome Zx, looking forward to it all. but uh..few months? where ya going?

Isn't there anyway you could work the emulator through the internet browser on the psp? Using a loading system, it sounds bizzare but may be possible, it makes the 2.7+ firmware useful.

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Originally Posted by Dementia7

thats awsome Zx, looking forward to it all. but uh..few months? where ya going?

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lol, i was joking :).

haha, ahhh, well you got me.:D :D

Support for tiff exploit in fw 2.0 would be great!!!

:)

I think he finished working on the 2.xx FM, either way, you should downgrade.

so far I've implemented a better rombrowser and multiple rom settings, just need to give it the final touch then I'm able to release it :)

Hey thats awsome, when do u think that will be? no rush i mean, just wondering.

Don't feel like downgrading at the moment, kinda like fw 2.0. And I don't have GTA.

And it wouldn't be any difficulties to program tiff support for zx since he is a great coder.

Pretty please with sugar on top... ;)

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Originally Posted by robe

Don't feel like downgrading at the moment, kinda like fw 2.0. And I don't have GTA.

And it wouldn't be any difficulties to program tiff support for zx since he is a great coder.

Pretty please with sugar on top... ;)

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Unfortunatelly, tommydanger has already debug it intensively to figure out why it crash on 2.0 ... the answer is simple : not enough / unstable memory, so sorry but there will be never any release of PSPVBA working on 2.0 with tiff exploit, even for small rom :(

BTW, i don't work anymore on 2.x for PSPVBA, since i'm using ME now ...

Ok. thanks for your reply zx. :)
So it's downgrade or no pspgba...
:(
excuse a newbie question: what is ME? :confused:

Anyway thank you for your contributions for the psp scene! :D

right..but the thing is, i dont think he will. but if he does then hey, good for you. but he downgraded himself wich is why i dont think he's gonna. but who knows.
edit- i didn't read the replies above, so i guese your out of luck on that. and ME stands for Media Engine..I THINK. i heard it somewhere.

correct me if im wrong.:)

Hey zx-81 you mentioned this in another thread:

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The Media engine seems to be completly busy with the sound emulation, so i don't think we can make it emulate anything more (such as gfx stuff) .

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Could you make it so that if you disable sound in the emulator menu, the emulation will go faster? Because if I play pokemon I don't care if it's crappy sound from the emulator of just some of my mp3's with irshell.

(sorry if my english is bad, I'm dutch)

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Originally Posted by Grannd

Hey zx-81 you mentioned this in another thread:



Could you make it so that if you disable sound in the emulator menu, the emulation will go faster? Because if I play pokemon I don't care if it's crappy sound from the emulator of just some of my mp3's with irshell.

(sorry if my english is bad, I'm dutch)

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Yes, we can imagine to use the media engine for GFX emulation instead of sound emulation.

So what is the biggest bottleneck now? CPU emulation?

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Originally Posted by zx-81

Yes, we can imagine to use the media engine for GFX emulation instead of sound emulation.

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OMG do that like, now lol. no im just kidding. But is that possible, like have 2 different versions? Cuz im itching to playing pokemon games again lol I gotta gba sp and all but I dont wanna look stupid carrying around a ds or gba sp.

yea...GBA SP..hella oldschool. haha j.k id still play mine if i had it. though..i dont have any games exept mario

Hey i downloaded pspvba from zx-81's webpage but i cant get it to work, it says the gamecannot be started, data is corrupt? how do you mak it work?

can anyone please tell me how to make the pspvba work? i downloaded it from zx's site but cant get it to work :(

what firmware do you have katarn

Ok in Mario and Luigi Super Star Saga there is a horrible flickering in the intro when the evil people are walking down the carpet to greet the princess and steal her voice. Anyway's I remembered this post by StrmnNrmn about Daedalus and Paper Mario. I wonder if this game is doing the same thing hence the horrible flicker

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Firstly, I managed to fix the horrible flickering that happened when running various roms (Paper Mario was a good example). It turned out that I was making an assumption that roms executed exactly one display list per frame. I assumed that each display list would clear the screen, render everything, and then wait for the screen to flip. As it turns out, some roms execute multiple display lists per frame. In the case of Paper Mario it executes 2 display lists per frame (one which clears the screen, then another which renders everything). By making sure that I only flip after the second display list executes, I avoid the flickering (the actual solution is a little more involved but this is the general idea).

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Hey ZX why dont you form a team to help you make this. I'm tired of seeing you working so hard without alot of help (Especially with a problem like this). If you work in a group you might even be able to make a dynamic recompiler:eek:

^ i agree with you in a way, but i also think he likes working on it on his own cuz..its his? I dunno, even I like to work on my own projects on my own, he may feel the same despite how much can be acomplished with others if you know what i mean.

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Originally Posted by Acidburn05

Right now the processing speed i think is the most important. Everything else is good but what good is it if you cant play a game at descent speed. I see people are asking for GB & GBC support but from what i know i think the CPU will take a good speed hit that way. Plus theres already a GB/GBC emu that works basically at full speed so why try to add something that we already have.

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Just like daedalus i really think performance is what should be optimised, follow the same pattern as Snes9x TYl its pretty much at full speed with most games and now their adding a wikid cool GUI with lots of cool features.

when version that supports rar will be released? I saw the you have already implented this freature.

I'm hoping for larger rom support. Kingdom Hearts is too big:(.... Other than that, full speed is most important to me, then sound

i think speed should definently come before sound. i can stand playing games without sound, while i speed is more important for the overall playing quality :)

ZX-81 what i would really like is a comfirmation when Saving/Loading/Deleting a save slot cause i deleted my game mistake and would like somthing tha say:

Are you shure you want to delete this save slot or
Are you shure you want to overwrite this save slot or Are you shure you want to load this save slot.

Thanks i would really apreciate Thanks.

P.S Nice job whit PSPVba Thanks

Cheers,
Bear_XI/Zereo_X(QJ's Name)

So: speed, large roms support, (3rd distant but still there) sound.
Wouldn't a dynamic recompiler solve the first two?

maybe, but i dont think he's gonna do that. he already said its too time consuming. but he might, in away i gotta feeling its gonna come down to that.

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Originally Posted by Bear_XI

ZX-81 what i would really like is a comfirmation when Saving/Loading/Deleting a save slot

Are you shure you want to delete this save slot or
Are you shure you want to overwrite this save slot or Are you shure you want to load this save slot.

Bear_XI/Zereo_X(QJ's Name)

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i would really like this option as well because i know eventually i will save over my slot when i really mean to load it


also, maybe when you load a game i would like it to stay at the menu instead of going to the game cause i have to go back to the menu anyway to load my saved game

not an important suggestion, just something that gets kinda annoying

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Originally Posted by Shiesty

i would really like this option as well because i know eventually i will save over my slot when i really mean to load it


also, maybe when you load a game i would like it to stay at the menu instead of going to the game cause i have to go back to the menu anyway to load my saved game

not an important suggestion, just something that gets kinda annoying

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It's simple to do it, so i will add this request in my to-do list :) :)

Maybe have a settings to chose if you want to load and going to the game or load and stay at the menu.

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Originally Posted by Bear_XI

Maybe have a settings to chose if you want to load and going to the game or load and stay at the menu.

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And another settings to choose if you want to have have an option setting to choose if you want to load ... :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

Great to know your still with us ZX

Hey ZX. Could you compile ME and no-ME versions for Fw1.5. Also could you enable and try the low pass filter feature to see if it stops some of the clicking and popping. Also disabling channel 3 and directsoundB might be good. ( hopefully, commenting out the function calls might be all you need to do)

I would do this myself and try it out but there are alot of compile problems and missing headers atm (which i will sort out later). Hope everything is going well.

Take care.

I love Fire Emblem its fun and the style of game I like to play, but I also want to get everything I can out of it so often I will use gamefaqs and tips. I can very easily get on my laptop and look up the faq and print it out or just look it up for that moment, but then the whole convienance of having a handheld is the ability to put a web browser/game/movie player in my pocket.

I could just exit out of pspvba load up dev hook get on the web browser connect take a long time to load up game faqs get to the faq read the walkthrough to the point I want which is annoying with the way that the browser loads text. and then reset reload pspvba and fire emblem load my save file then do what I intended on doing (mostly forgetting what i read in the process)

A very simple addition to this emu and all emus could be a little .txt file reader that would allow me to just exit to the pspvba menu load up my saved walkthrough text file read it and then simply switch back to the game.

I know that its not as easy as it seems, but man would that be an awesome addition. No need to make the txt editable just simply able to be read while the game is still in the background for easy switching back and forth.

hmm could u try using cache files like how NJ used on his cps2 emulator im not sure if it will make it run faster but it might i dunno i dont know much about coding lol