PsPectrum v0.1 (Spectrum Emulator for PSP)

[SmashinGit]

Some excellent news regarding this excellent emulator. HexDump has completed the renderer to allow fullscreen emulation, check the screenshots!

[Hungry Horace]

lol - dude! "completed" ?? i dont remember him confirming that

[SmashinGit]

Well maybe completed is the wrong word, but it does look very good.

[SmashinGit]

Here's another update from HexDump

Well, Well, Welll,

Nice, I´m happy today , I started to optimize emulator rendering ( I was getting 30 fps at 11:00, by now, at 16:30, emulator is running at 60 Fps, really good frame rate ).


I think something is limiting fr to 60 FPS, what is really strange because no vblank sincronization is being done.

This achivements make us have the following things -> Good Framerate, Nice Keyboard support, and most important, everything at 222 MGz .

C ya mates,
HexDump.

HexDump has put a lot of time, effort and money into this project. He actually had sold his psp and went out and bought another one so he could continue with this project.

Thanks for all your hard work m8

[jrsmaster411]

wow great work where can u download the "completed" version

[SmashinGit]

He hasn't released it yet, ryosaebaa is play testing it at the moment and has reported that it plays very well. Apparently there's 1 or 2 bugs that have crept in, home button not working, which HexDump is sorting out before he releases it.

Here's ryosaebaa first impressions,

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Well , i´m the luckiest men in the World!!! i´m testing new version of PSPectrum, and this is the first impressions :

- The emulator works so fine!!!! in 222Mhz works a litlle more quick than real Spectrum ( Hex ask to me that we can control the speed of the emu as well ) but... in my opinion... the speed is perfect because some Speccy games are so slown but in this emu seens perfect!!

- The key configurator is so easy to use, we select Custom in Fast config menu and we start to configure our keys we have 16 possibilities to configure. I´m playing in Back to school and i use the virtual keyboard for see the action of one key, when i see the action if i want to use it i go to Custom control and i configure it , so easy to use!!! i hope that in near future we can save our Custom key config in every game automatically ( autosave option of Custom keyboard for every game )

- The Full size screen in PSP screen is lovely to see Really this mode is great!!! Thanks Hex!!!

- I´m looking some bugs in this version, at first we can´t exit from the emulator with home button, because the psp freeze and we need to make hard reset to psp ( turning off 5 seconds ) I think that hex can solve this small problem so easy.

- Another great option is snapshot option when you´re playing a game and push L+R automatically the emulator save a snapshot to view when you´re selectin a game, you can see it in the next picture :



Well, i try to test more hard these hours but my wife is so angry with me , i can´t stop of playing PsPectrum!!!!
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[SmashinGit]

Well here's a news update i'm sure all Spectrum fans and fans of this emulator have been waiting for,

Hi all,


It's 2:30 and I´m really sleepy. Sound starts to work, although it is really bad, hope tomorrow I will fix it.

I think I´m realeasing new release next week... or I hope so .

Good night,
HexDump.

So fingers crossed we may see an update to this excellent emulator soon.

[SmashinGit]

Here's another update,

Well, zip support is added too. Yesterday sound worked almost perfectly, but it still has some flaws... I think I´m getting there.


HexDump.

As you probably can guess i'm getting so excited over this.

[SmashinGit]

This is the latest update from ryosaebaa, the person play testing the next release.

Hi to all!!

Today Hex give to me the RC of 0.2 version I want to ask all that is a wonderful version!!! but yet he have a little bugs... and Hex want to release new version almost perfect ;-)

I want to ask a little about this new version...

-48k sounds pretty good, but sometimes the sound make extrange things ( for example when you´re playing a game and enter to menu or use the virtual key, but this not happend always, then is difficult find the problem)

-The virtual Keyboard now is better!!! you can select the transparency % of the keyboard.

-For select keys in virtual keyboard you use a pointer, you can select the size of this pointer. Also if you push triangle button the pointer change is colour ;-)

-As you know now is possible configure every key of PSP with customice keyboard, also you can configure keystrokes ( L+Square,L+Cross, etc... )

-You can make snapshots pushing L+R at same time ( one screenshot per game ) and you can see it in the selector game page.

-One of the best options!!!!! now we can select 3 diferents screen size!!!! Thanks Hex for this option!!!!

The emulator works perfectly but the sound yet have small problems, i think that Hexdump can fix it in some days. I hope that we can release a new version in next days...

Seeyaa....

[SmashinGit]

HexDump has been kind enough to send the next version of this emulator to Hungry Horace who's been play testing this like mad, here's what Hungry Horace had to say.

wow - this emulator is fun fun fun!

i know everyone is gonna love this when its out, but all the "pre-release ironing out" muct be done of course.... so here's a few more findings for the list for HexDump.


1) "Ultimate Play the Game(s)" / Dan Dare / Zorro (including loop-bug) / others HighScore variable bug still occuring.

this is (for me) the most irritationg of all the bugs, and was one i had hoped might have been lost in the port of Hex's more generic code... alas not yet.... but given time i'm sure Hex will crack it.


2) If you last select "128k" mode, but then load a 48k snap, the OSK stays on 128k mode, (not a problem) - but use of the menus (for changing custom keys etc) will *always* reset speccy on the emulator.... also changing back doesnt restore the 48k keyboard picture! (but the buttons are lined up for 48k)


3) Ghosts n Goblins still goes freaky wierd on game-start!
Heartland still missing gfx and crashing occasionally.

4) Some (very minor) Sound glitches..


Bruce Lee - druing play, sometime a bit of currupted / static-like noise occurs. not a big problem.
Fairlight 2 music sounds a bit different - not really a problem it doesnt sound *wrong* which is the important thing

5) although i found the "exit" function - R on the main menu... it doesnt work. dunno if this has been disabled deliberatly?


i will add to this as i find more.


quite honestly, the new key-config setup is brilliant.... making pretty much every game (even Fairlight 2!!!) very playable. Even greater is the option to add "jump" to a 2nd button making the d-pad a bit easier on those tight platform games.

Full-screen Horace also rocks big time!!

the lack of analogue stick support to accompany the d-pad seems a shame (some games i flick between the two at different sections) but is far from essential. i've already forgotten if this was possible in 0.1...

Later on Hungry Horace had even some better news to report,

well Hex and I just finished a long MSN session, where i tested stuff out and he did lots of hard work modding code and recompiling!

as a result v0.2 now works on eLoader 0.97 ! (phew!!)

and *somehow* L-R-Start works on this version too!! (at least on 0.97)

(but then you cant get back into pspectrum - too many resources used??)