SpiceBoy GB/GBC Emulator R0 Released!

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August 14th, 2006, 23:55
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SpiceBoy GB/GBC Emulator R0 Released!

News from Arguru/PSP3D

Arguru and PSP 3D have just released a new GameBoy/GameBoy Color homebrew emulator for PSP. Dubbed SpiceBoy, the emulator offers full speed FPS emulation of all GB/GBC ROMs. Though parts of the emulator were taken from InfoBOY, a Win32 GB/GBC emulator, most of the project has been handcoded/tweaked from the original project, and offers emulation as well as Homer's RIN (considering it's the first release, R0 (Release 0), coded in under a day).

A few things to note about SpiceBoy R0 are:
- There's no browser (user manually would have to replace: rom.gb).
- Sound is not synced with emulation properly.
- No savestates.

Other than that, SpiceBoy is a full-fledge, full speed GB/GBC emulator, and rest assured that a new version will be release shortly with a ROM browser, correctly synced sound, and possibly, savestates and multiplayer. Consider this a pre-mature, but working, release; it's a heck of a great job for one day's worth of work.

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August 14th, 2006, 23:56
Video_freak

Nice emulator. Can't wait for updates. :)
August 15th, 2006, 00:09
felonyr301

seems nice like the sound of the multiplayer good ol pokemon action with some friends oh yes the good ol days when trading and battling was the name of the game lol.
August 15th, 2006, 00:35
Psphreak

I agree, multi-player will be dope
August 15th, 2006, 00:44
LAMPRO

any chance of .gba support?
August 15th, 2006, 00:46
Zion

Under a day? Woah thats some achivement :D
August 15th, 2006, 00:57
skater9269

wow im trying to learn c I suck
August 15th, 2006, 01:03
JKKDARK

great news :)
August 15th, 2006, 01:24
Kramer

cool i cant wait for multiplayer
August 15th, 2006, 01:39
pspfan

Multiplayer sounds excellent, but I'd rather someone just add multiplayer to RIN.
August 15th, 2006, 01:48
Mr. Shizzy

This is great news. (I'm an emulator junkie). I'll be looking out for updates.
August 15th, 2006, 02:18
PSP3D

Thanks for all the support. We will continue to work on this tomorrow, but that's it for today, esp. since Turrican is our main focus! ;)

GBA ROM support is a possibility, but is not planned specifically as of yet. We found a glitch which applies only to GBC ROMs, where the painting of pixels on the screen is incorrect. That problem should be fixed and released in an update tomorrow. The sound should also be fully fixed soon. And since speed is 100% in all games, there's really no more optimizations we can do to speed, heh. Thanks again, and look out for the fixes/updates.
August 15th, 2006, 02:26
Mr. Shizzy

Quote:

Originally Posted by PSP3D

Thanks for all the support.
GBA ROM support is a possibility, but is not planned specifically as of yet.

:eek: Really? And I was hoping for something as simple as a screenshot function! :D I'll be keeping a close eye on this!;) Thanks again!!!!:)
August 15th, 2006, 02:49
siulmagic

great release and yea gbc roms dont display in coloer but hey 1 day code'd cant have mroe =p but great release looking foward to you guys next update keep up the good work i havent tried eny gbc emu up till now i dono i jus tlike suporting new stuff heh
August 15th, 2006, 03:02
felonyr301

if it makes you feel better my first crack at learning c I suck too but with practice you get better and like they say its better to have try than not try at all.
August 15th, 2006, 04:34
Basil Zero

nice, bet the next update will be even better
August 15th, 2006, 05:53
CalvinDu

Nice stuff dude. Keep up the great work!
August 15th, 2006, 07:05
pkmaximum

Ughhh to many game boy color emulators, only interested if multiplayer support is eventually added =[ Don't see why RIN, or NJ doesn't have feelings for some nice ad hoc =[
August 15th, 2006, 09:55
gelon

Ummm i tested it with Donkey Kong Land III and it hangs wen i go into the water ... (bad colors also)
August 15th, 2006, 10:12
sirhax0r

Wow! 100% emulation! I hope the menu will be ready in the next release... This will be good with ad-hoc... and maybe infrastructure? That'd be good! Add in cheats, and Pokemon will never be the same...
August 15th, 2006, 10:56
gelon

Quote:

Originally Posted by sirhax0r

Wow! 100% emulation! I hope the menu will be ready in the next release... This will be good with ad-hoc... and maybe infrastructure? That'd be good! Add in cheats, and Pokemon will never be the same...

RinUO have ad-hoc and it works perfec (222 mhz)
August 15th, 2006, 13:25
FarSight

Filters

Filters, Filters, Filters!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I would love to see above all in a PSP gameboy emulator some form of software filtering such as Scale2x or 2xsal. I know it drains mhz and would be unrealistic in a snes or MD emu, but the gb is less mhz intensive and needs it more, as the amount of pixels used was significantly less. When full screen in rin it looks very blocky. If we could combine a good software filter combined with the psps hardware scaling i thing it would look great.

Where as at the moment rin full screen looks crap!
August 15th, 2006, 13:41
Kramer

Quote:

Originally Posted by FarSight

Filters, Filters, Filters!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I would love to see above all in a PSP gameboy emulator some form of software filtering such as Scale2x or 2xsal. I know it drains mhz and would be unrealistic in a snes or MD emu, but the gb is less mhz intensive and needs it more, as the amount of pixels used was significantly less. When full screen in rin it looks very blocky. If we could combine a good software filter combined with the psps hardware scaling i thing it would look great.

Where as at the moment rin full screen looks crap!

SNES9xTYL uses smoothing and it runs fine so a gameboy emulator should be able to do it easily.
August 15th, 2006, 13:50
FarSight

Thought SNESTYL filters the graphics using hardware????
August 15th, 2006, 16:50
MaxSMoke

Name one 8-bit emulator, or less, that doesn't run at full speed on a PSP. After all, these systems used 1Mhz processors and the PSP does 222Mhz (or up to 333Mhz with some coaxing).

Let's see somebody do something REALLY interesting with one of these ancient emulators, like play two games at once, or project the game on the sides of a spinning cube. Do that at 30fps, and THEN I'll be impressed!

Or, for a more useful touch, why not just wirelessly send another PSP owner the ROM's they might be missing? That and a wireless multi-player function would be pretty cool.
August 15th, 2006, 18:13
jak66

Quote:

Originally Posted by pkmaximum

Ughhh to many game boy color emulators, only interested if multiplayer support is eventually added =[ Don't see why RIN, or NJ doesn't have feelings for some nice ad hoc =[

if you go to NJ's site you can download NesterJ 1.20 beta 2 which supports ad hoc (i have that version, but have noone to test the ad hoc out with)
August 15th, 2006, 19:56
Hungry Horace

now this -is- good news, since i discovered a few days ago that i cant get sound on any music-sequencing roms (little sound DJ / nanoloop) when loading them on Rin... which i had always thought was excellent.

bit wierd that i read this just moments after i have put my GameBoy back together, having given it a new blue LED. (which frankly needs to be brighter!)

p.s. i like the resolution without filters.... it's more accurate to the real thing!
August 15th, 2006, 20:12
pkmusicmaker

Nice to see gameboy still being worked on, although I really have no complaints with Rin.
August 15th, 2006, 20:15
Video_freak

Quote:

Originally Posted by pkmusicmaker

Nice to see gameboy still being worked on, although I really have no complaints with Rin.

Me neither. :D
This one could be better, who knows? :)
August 15th, 2006, 21:18
mastersho

I love Rin too but Ad-hoc would be great but i want to trade pokemon so bad that i tried to make a usb to GBC link cable.....didn't work to well. but this is a nice emulator. can't wait for the next release!
August 15th, 2006, 23:30
Hungry Horace

Quote:

Originally Posted by pkmusicmaker

Nice to see gameboy still being worked on, although I really have no complaints with Rin.

you obviously havent tried making music with it then! :cool:
August 15th, 2006, 23:36
SweetFA

Quote:

Originally Posted by gelon

RinUO have ad-hoc and it works perfec (222 mhz)

Does Mr Do! work though?