DanTheManMS: thanks.
Thanks for letting us know ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by bigleak2
DanTheManMS: thanks.
Thanks for letting us know ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by bigleak2
Ahahaha, "bigleak2" has no clue how long coding takes, and how much work it is.
I work with megadrive ASM code myself, and there is a hell of a lot of code for the megadrive to run.
Writing an emulator is going to be Even more work than what i do, and it's going to take a while between each update.
Also, if you've noticed, Lordus currently has WORKING sound, he's just getting it up to scratch rather than making a crappy release. A lot of the people here don't understand the work that goes into things like this =P [/RANT]
I find this emulator simply suburb and they only problems I can find is that Road Rash II is badly rendered and that F117 Night Storm is badly rendered and runs really slowly.
Though Night Storm is also 3D so I'm not surprised.
Excellent emulator.
I just want to thank Lordus for putting together this grade A Genesis emu. As someone who's just started teaching themselves C++, i can hardly imagine what it takes to make something this excellent on not just a PC but for a DS, kudos.
I'll be looking forward to any later releases eagerly.:thumbup:
I love this emu. Can't wait for the version with sound 2 b released! Keep up the good work. :thumbup:
just wondering when do you think the new updated version of this emu will be released but with sound this time thanks
When i think it is ready..Quote:
Originally Posted by kyleevans
Seriously, even if a number of games already has sound, its a LOT of work still to do, to make it work for every game. I hoped to release a new version till the end of the year, but i cant promise that at the moment.
I just got a new DS recently, because of a very generous donation, so there was a lot of time lost i couldnt work on it as i would have liked to.
Also want to say thanks again to everyone who donated. I decided to send a sound enabled beta to those who did, so check your mails ;)
I didn't think sound was going to be an option. I know you mentioned a few months back that you had some success with sound but I just assumed it'd be too much for the little DS.
If you can implement it in a future release, then that'll be great. I have patience. Keep up the good work on it. :)
Great to hear you got a replacement DS. Really looking forward to the next release.
i have an idéa. why not try to port a genesis emulator for the pc to a ds? thats what the guys that made snemulds did. just a tip, im not saying that your emu is bad, no no not at all. but the fact that there is no sound is...well...irritating, well well i hope you finish the emu soon so that we all can play (and hear:D) the sweet games for genesis.
Sigh..Quote:
Originally Posted by mr game porter
Interesting how perspectives can differ. For you, having no sound is irritating, for me, your post is..
There is just too much to say about it, but i try to make it short.
First, what makes you think, a ported emulator from PC would have any advantages? Do you think just because it has sound on the PC, it will automagically have sound on the DS?
Sound and graphics are usually the 2 things that need to be rewritten when porting something to a different platform.
And of course, a software/emulator specifically designed for a platform will run better than one that is simply ported.
Also, jEnesisDS started as a port of my own Java emulator, which has sound and countless features, the DS version doesn't have. By now, almost nothing of the original code is left, because the only way to make it run as fast as it does, is to adapt every piece of it to take advantage of the DS hardware.
I am sure the same is true for SNemulDS and not much in it will remind of the PC version. It uses another ARM assembler cpu core, and gladius' pocketspc sound core. If it would still use the code from the PC version it would probably be a slideshow.
Anyway, if you're not satisfied, there is already a ported PC Genesis emu for the DS, so just use that:
http://nintendo-ds.dcemu.co.uk/genesisplusnds.shtml
Well, I love the fact frankly that you're doing all this work without an active NDS - God bless you for that. I'm sort of new to the community in here - I'm from Canada, but it's exciting to see the things folks are doing, it's a lot of hard work - so cut him some slack guys. You don't like it - then do it yourself, I say.
Thanks so much for all the hard work, Lordus - keep going with it! I look forward to watching for updates.
I bought my brother an R4 for Christmas, just loading it up and sending him a little text file on the memory chip with the best links for NDS on the net - including this forum :D
Merry Christmas everyone!
Presca :)
*Girls like emu too*!
I think the emulator is absolutely amazing.
When i first got jEnesis i was expecting a slideshow like i get on Picodrive. The first time i loaded up Sonic & Knucles i was astounded by not only the framerate, but at how amazing the game looked on the DS screen.
All these people that are complaining about the lack of sound have obviously never tried coding something like that before. They expect it to just happen, and make it sound like you're deliberately not including it. Well those people are fools.
I eagerly await the next release if there is one, and if not, then i already have a brilliant Mega Drive emulator.
I wish there was a way to load up ROMs over 3Mb though (or rather, Sonic 3 & Knuckes ;)), but i know the DS just can't handle files that large and there's nothing that can be done about it (except using a slot 2 card, which i dont have).
Thanks for the brilliant emulator.
If I recall correctly it is possible, it is done on emulators like that Snes Emulator mentioned previously as long as it is not zipped.Quote:
Originally Posted by Spidery_Yoda
Of course I'd have to guess it would be hard to implement as the ROM would not be on the RAM but I just stating my 2 cents.
I do find this emulator spectacular by the way, the only things that I does lack (Apart from the obvious sound issue but thats understandable) is proper support for games like Road Rash and F-117 Night Storm. (They both have severe graphical errors).
awsome emulator!
good work and i cant wait for the sound :P
Holy crap. I just saw your email (Hotmail thought it was spam), and I've spent the last hour and a half or so playing various games. I must admit, I sent the first donation without ever having tried jEnesisDS. I just did it because I thought it was worthwhile. Boy was it.
The beta is amazing. Sure, plenty of games still don't have sound, but the games that do have blown me away. I wanted to play Phantasy Star IV with sound, and wow, now I can! In fact, of the four games I've tried, PSIV has the clearest sound.
Here are my results so far:
Sonic 1 - Sound is not perfect, but it's good enough that people who aren't so picky will find it adequate.
Decap Attack - Sound is somewhat distorted, but again, it's playable.
Phantasy Star IV - Wow. Just awesome. I've only played through the first boss so far, but everything was just about perfect.
Zero Wing - No sound. Good emulation otherwise though.
Edit: Lost Vikings - Doesn't seem to even start. :( Oh well, I have the GBA version.
Anyway, I sent another small donation your way, just because of how excellent this already is. I can't wait until you redo the sound core. :)
Edit: Oh, I would like to make one small suggestion. I'd like to skip the config screen and go right to file select. Also, being able to set a starting roms folder would be nice. How about either a cfg file or the ability to save options within the emulator?
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Originally Posted by Eyedunno
First, thanks for your donations, i really appreciate it.
Hm, mistaken for spam, maybe that's why i didn't get any feedback on the beta yet ;)
Anyway, i am glad you like it. It will be a lot of work to improve the sound and even more, to make it work for other games, too. But i am at it.
If a game doesn't start, try changing "fake z80", "HInt-emulation" or "Idle loop detection" options.
This particular game should work, if you turn fake z80 on.
This will not be necessary anymore, once i have a proper Z80 core implemented.
About the options, i was thinking of that before the last release, but i didn't like the idea to place a .cfg file in the root of the card, as there is no elegant way to determine the directory of a file.
Also, many games require different options, so a single saved configuration might not help that much.
I hope you understand, that those things are not that high on my priority list, but i will try to figure out something shortly before i am ready for the next release.
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Originally Posted by DanTheManMS
Owned..
+1 bonus points for the
"lol maek it have teh soundzorz".
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Well, SNEmulDS supports it through a cfg file. Not sure how though. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Lordus
Oh, and turning Fake Z80 on worked, but is there no "mode" button? I can't play past the second level of Lost Vikings without it. :(
Yes, that's what i meant. It puts the cfg file in the root of your flashcard, doesn't it? I guess that is not so bad, i will probably do that for the next release.Quote:
Originally Posted by Eyedunno
I was not aware that a game actually requires the mode button. I guess i will place it somewhere on the touch screen.
Yeah, me neither. Until I did a (very difficult, since most of the info on the web is for the SNES and GBA versions) web search for how to select items, I figured the mode button was strictly a controller function and not something that sends input to the Genesis. And yeah, a touchscreen-based button should be just fine.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lordus
Hey. I've just recently stumbled across this emulator and I just wanted to say...thanks...for everything. Every game I've tested on your emulator runs full speed, and my only wish is to someday play Shining Force with sound on my DS. I'm guessing that only a few elite people get to test the updated version of this emulator, but I want to tell you that I've never been as happy as I am today that I sold my PSP and kept my DS. Thanks for giving me hope, and maybe someday we'll all be able to enjoy what you're doing for the scene. jEnesis rocks!
Playing sonic 3 on my ds rocks, wish sega would make some sort of compilation for the ds like they did for psp. I wish there was some way to support this project, but I am broke and have no technical knowledge what so ever, so all I can do is cheer the creator of this program on. Thanks.
lordus, thanks.
The games are unhindered, graphically pristine, The UI doesn't suffer from 1337 coder syndrome when it looks like a unix shell. It's a bonafide, from-the-ground-up powerhouse.
How well does this emulator run?
It would be amazing to see fullspeed Genesis emulation on DS (they already have some SNES Games [Street Fighter II'] running at fullspeed)
It runs all the games i've played at 60fps.Quote:
Originally Posted by Eviltaco64
With sound?Quote:
Originally Posted by Spidery_Yoda
Just came across this emulator while googling with my flatmate for DS related funs and I'm very impressed with the smoothness of it's running. Blows Pico out of the water at Sonic 3 (which is largely all I care about atm) and I'm super excited to hear that sound is also in the works.
Keep up the awesome work!
Not yet, but if you read the previous page you'll see that it's on the way. He has a version working with sound, it's just not completed yet.Quote:
Originally Posted by Eviltaco64
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hey!
this emulator is awesome!
but....how do you get the sounds working on it? im all new to this kinda stuff and have spent the past 3 hours luking for an emulator like this and its amazin thanx :)
stiffler
There is a new version with sound.About 12 threads down.
but here is a link.
http://www.dcemu.co.uk/vbulletin/sho...d.php?t=106665