Monkey 64 v1.0 - First Release

Alright I apologise about the nintendo ds comment i did not think everyone was going to get so up tight about it. Any ways what i meant was I think it was a bad decision the fact my little brother traded in his PSP for a Nintendo DS one because with emulation and homebrew it gives the PSP in my opinion an infinite replay value. And just look at the price comparison to a PSP and a Nintendo DS after all he did tell me to get him a PSP for his birthday. And then he pulls a stunt like that. I just think its dumb. And in my opion (mine only) The PSP beats the Nintendo DS by miles. But hey other people may feel different. Even though soon enough the PSP will be able to emulate n64.

You are by far psmonkey, the best coder for the psp. Not only am I looking foward to your n64 emulator but im also looking foward to iris. Both of your projects look very promising for the future. Also, in the future do u think your n64 emulator will be able to play banjo kazooie or banjo tooie at playable speeds?

I think that trading a DS for PSP is a bad choice. And when PSmonkey gets monkey64 running good, I might favor the PSP a little more than the DS, but just a little :) (big Nintendo fan:):):):):)).

i dont know how to work the emu or put game on the n64 file!!!! please help!!

I tried on 2.6 w/ newest fanjita eloader, using a mortal combat rom, any roms you know of that work at a playable speed? BTW Excellent work, I am looking forward to Golden Eye :D

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If you can that would be wonderful. I partly gave up since the release is not far away but would love to have it for collecting. :D

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PM me where u want it shipped to and i would be happy to oblidge (especially if i can beta your new Iris ;) )

it helped debtor

Hey Monkey64 you say Mortal Kombat Trilogies is playable, as in you can start an actual fight? When I run the rom I get to the title screen with a bunch of squares on it, and the pink cursor which is highlighting the different game modes is moving to the right without me doing anything. If I press start then I get taken to the option menu and all of the options are moving to the right without me doing anything. So I figured that the emu was constantly registering up and right (because to access the options menu from the title screen you have to hold up and press start). So I went back to the title screen and held down and left and pressed start, which I think got me to the character select screen (although I couldnt tell what I was doing since everything was a bunch of squares), and from there I pressed start and the emu froze.

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Originally Posted by qaopjlll

Hey Monkey64 you say Mortal Kombat Trilogies is playable, as in you can start an actual fight? When I run the rom I get to the title screen with a bunch of squares on it, and the pink cursor which is highlighting the different game modes is moving to the right without me doing anything. If I press start then I get taken to the option menu and all of the options are moving to the right without me doing anything. So I figured that the emu was constantly registering up and right (because to access the options menu from the title screen you have to hold up and press start). So I went back to the title screen and held down and left and pressed start, which I think got me to the character select screen (although I couldnt tell what I was doing since everything was a bunch of squares), and from there I pressed start and the emu froze.

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You are onto something. I dont know why it registers up & left always (pd roms show that input is correct so it could be an emulation error). Anyways as soon as I get to the player screen I quickly hold left & start. Then after a while (takes a bit) you get what looks like the difficulty pillers. When you get here hold select to pick the first and when it starts scrolling down keep pressing start & A or b. It will cut out early and launch the fight. It's easy to notice ur in game when you see blue bars at the top (its health bars).

YAAA! I finally got it to where you can fight. Thanks PSmonkey. Your little button tricks worked :)

http://img160.imageshack.us/img160/6...v10b1z648q.png

hehe sweet,

anyways not much of an update over the weekend. I'm having trouble with tile loading. All the plugins seem to copy the same bit of code for byteswaping the data but its in pure x86 asm (my weakness, I can handle risc based asm). Anyways I have a friend who is gonna give me a rough c translation of the code which will help. At most so far I can get a garbled acclaim logo from bust-a-move 2.

Anyways since I got a little fed up last night I moved onto other things. I desided to get bust-a-move & mortal kombat mithologies progressing. I now have bust-a-move getting to the title screen (i think it stops from there but hard to tell) which is great. Mk mithologies progresses but still needs more opcodes. :/

So thats about it for now. I'll hopefuly get the byteswap code today from my friend to fix things.

Cool! This emu is getting better and better!

ya,it definitely is,and those are some of my favorite games soo....yay!

Ok well interesting things. I still having problems with tiles but today desided to quickly pop in TLUT = Texture Look Up Table / Palettes. Well there are sadly color & sync issues but its interesting that it's drawing some text characters.

Anyways I though I would post since alot where wanting to see some progress. First is from MK Mithologies, Second is from MK Trillogy. Ingamestuff is still not correct. :(

Conidering that as of three days ago those letters
were white boxes, I'd say this is some very good progress
keep it up.

Very nice work!
Is there anyway you can fit in a full screen mode in the future?
If so that would be great :D
Please keep up the good work we are counting on you!

Man im really looking foward to the next release more progress keeps getting made good work PSmonkey you have my full supports.:)

I'm sure he will get it full screen but first he of course needs to focus on the basics which he is doing extremely well, he's not throwing out a bunch of extra and useless features on to the table at this point. He is instead just giving us updates on how the basic stuff is going and not making promises, which I respect him for that.

Also I do not think I have read anywhere that this is open source or anything, so umm is it? And if so are you only selecting particular programmers to give it to? And if not, why not? Why must your code be a secret?

If any road blocks happen to try and cease the developement would it not be in the best interest to everyone including yourself to leave it open? Open Source is unstoppable.

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Originally Posted by glitch

I'm sure he will get it full screen but first he of course needs to focus on the basics which he is doing extremely well, he's not throwing out a bunch of extra and useless features on to the table at this point. He is instead just giving us updates on how the basic stuff is going and not making promises, which I respect him for that.

Also I do not think I have read anywhere that this is open source or anything, so umm is it? And if so are you only selecting particular programmers to give it to? And if not, why not? Why must your code be a secret?

If any road blocks happen to try and cease the developement would it not be in the best interest to everyone including yourself to leave it open? Open Source is unstoppable.

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Its supost to be opensource but I was not ready to post source for last build since i was in the middle of stuff (plus i need to rewrite some parts). I hope to post with v1.1 where it will be more useful.

Nice progress Monkey.

I've got to congratulate you for being so fast in your programming. How could you've built an emu so fast from scratch? I guess there's a lot of public technical information about emulating the n64 from earlier n64 emulators, right? Nonetheless it's incredible you've made such fast progress!!! Keep up the GREAT WORK!!!!

Excellent work PSMonkey, you're flying through this.

I might add, to keep credit towards yourself by not going full opensource, while you are working on one part of the emulator, why not release a small part of code on another part to see what others have come up with?

Anyway great work. I've never seen an emulator being written this fast by one person.

WOW!!!!!!!!! Its got letters!:) GREAT JOB PSmonkey.

Yeah, your making good progress here :)
And im glad it will be in full screen on release..
Its okay if you dont get the sound working until later, but as long as
the game is running fine, thats fine too...
Anyway keep up the good work! I am looking foroward to playing all my fav N64 games
Like Extreme G and Mairo Party on the PSP.. :D
Thanks again!

New improvment day after day. This is So great but once again don't push yourself too much. don't wanna lose the Monkey^^.

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New improvment day after day. This is So great but once again don't push yourself too much. don't wanna lose the Monkey^^.

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No we don't wana lose him! We need you PSmonkey! Without you my PSP would die!

PSMONKEY...I was just wondering how long you've been codeing and what made you get into the psp scene????

It won't be long before we can all play Super Mario 64 on our PSPs :)

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It won't be long before we can all play Super Mario 64 on our PSPs :)

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I hope so.. Along with MK64, MP, 007, Extreme G, and many others..
But take your time PSmonkey I know this is not the easiest emulator to get working...

shoot if i could just play mario 64 and a few other titles at decent speeds i would go crazy. Keep up the work Monkey! :D

Hey I was just playing my pj64 on my older 366 mhz computer and i was playing zelda 64 and it was kinda playable. so i was wondering since the psp only goes up to 333 mhz if the monkey 64 would work any faster.
By the way psmonkey you are my one and only HERO!!!

sroon,

out of all the n64 emulators you probably picked the most cpu intensive out of them all. Try UltraHLE or 1964 or even Corn on that same computer and see how much faster that game runs then ask about th 333mhz. And second of all your computer cpu is x86 architecture based, you don't think they used a simple x86 cpu in the n64 too do you? Crazy bast@rd they used a MIPS cpu which processes things a good bit different but lucky for us the PSP uses a similar(much newer and much faster MIPS) RISC cpu. Just means one less thing to emulate, considering your computer is having to emulate that.

I do wish some of the big n64 coders of the day would help PSMonkey further along this project but I am sure some of them may take a look once he releases the code.

I supose any plugins made for pj64 and 1964 will probably never work on the psp....

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Hey I was just playing my pj64 on my older 366 mhz computer and i was playing zelda 64 and it was kinda playable. so i was wondering since the psp only goes up to 333 mhz if the monkey 64 would work any faster.
By the way psmonkey you are my one and only HERO!!!

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also keep in mind that half of your resources are being used up by windows or whatever os you have. Since the psp does not have to run a very complicated os, an n64 emu would have access to a much larger amount of the cpu than your computer.

holy$hit your right, my old celeron w\xp isnt so bad after all! btw i only use that comp for my 2 psps & thair hacks. it wouldnt be good to ruin my new comp. and thanks glitch

i cant wait till this runs mario64 great job PSmonkey i really wish i could help out with it :confused: and i will if i can just let me know

yo, so far little progress.

1) Bust a Move 2 now gets into either the demo mode of the game playing or gets into the menus then hangs (not crash, just the cpu gets stuck).

2) Mortal Kombat Mythologies now gets in game. Yet for some reason all I get is the health bar, pause menu & sub menu with potions. No 3d is called for to be drawn still. :( I got to figure out why (maybe lack of microcode processing??).

Anyways thats about it. I am gonna hit up some pd demo src and try breaking that down to get 3d rendering. I also am going to take it easy on monkey64 this week so I can get Iris finished and out the door (my good, the new produkt map is amazing).

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PSMONKEY...I was just wondering how long you've been codeing and what made you get into the psp scene????

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May have your answer in PSMonkey's Interview right Here

Ah cool interview, will give me something to read while he keep updating the emulator, really impressive work PSmonkey.

PS: I'll invite you playing poker at home and take the beer is free when you want ;) (same city of course). Doing another game the 24th march =P

PS2: Hmm actually if you come play poker everyone will hate me because the progress will slow down, might be a bad idea !

That was a cool interview:)

TIMALE-KUN.........Thanks much appreciated!!!!

I hope its not too late for me then.....Im just starting and Im 25