Reality Boy

[quzar]

Ok its way past my bedtime. I have an eboot, my best assumption at this point is that it will run, but no controls or video are hooked up yet so you wouldnt see anything anyway.


MikeDX@RWLAPTOP3 /c/devkitPro/mike/rboy_082_src/psp
$ ls
EBOOT.PBP fakealleg.o makefile.bak v810_cpu.o vb_set.o
PARAM.SFO inflate.o realityboy.elf vb_dsp.o vb_vbt.o
cp_io.o makefile unzip.o vb_io.o

you do realize that if you disregard the i/o, the emulator is portable without changes right? 99% of porting i/o changes.

[kando]

Good job bedtime boy. I'll pony up some $$$ too when a realease that has controls, visuals, and play a commmercial game is available.

mike u can make some dough over this if you can get it up and running ^_^

you would be up there w/ NJ and Dark_aleX!

=O

[MikeDX]

you do realize that if you disregard the i/o, the emulator is portable without changes right? 99% of porting i/o changes.

yes and no - of course I know its portable, I've just been working through the code, changing parts where necesarry to get a psp-gcc compatible source tree. You certainly would not compile it out of the box, a working knowledge of allegro, c++ and devkitpsp are essential to even begin to get this to work.

I had to fake certain allegro headers to get this to compile, and I still have a handful of warnings that I'm not happy with, even when a correct psp makefile was created. It's very portable on allegro platforms and has makefiles for win32 dos and linux but nothing on others.

Still loads to do though, wouldnt expect to see anything for a while.

[MikeDX]

So why won't anyone make one for the DS!?

If any dedicated C ore C++ coders here could port a PSP version...I would love you forever.

I'm not waiting for a PSP for this!

I suspect the DS is way too underpowered for this.

[quzar]

I suspect the DS is way too underpowered for this.

Im pretty sure the PSP is way too underpowered for this.

[psiko_scweek]

that may be, but it will be fun to say that almost every Nintendo Handheld is emulated on the PSP, much like it is fun to say that the Jaguar is emulated on the PSP. (though it is slow as dirt)

[MikeDX]

Im pretty sure the PSP is way too underpowered for this.

If you think what I'm doing with it is a waste of time you should just come out and say it.

[psiko_scweek]

i dont think thats what he is saying...

[MikeDX]

LOL!

Judging by what i currently have on the screen (a garbled mess) maybe that's my best option.

Still not sure it this is meant to be easy or not :|

[quzar]

The thing about it is that it uses a set of allegro functions for screen drawing that are really weird. (i'm speaking from experience, I got it running but not ported to the dreamcast as well ) It's really hard to rewrite those functions properly into a software rendering system. Of course it's possible, just a tricky mess. Then on top of that the processor used in the virtual boy is REALLY powerful. I'd say that it would take more time to run the processor emulation as it is now than the n64's processor with dynarec.

That and the renderer in virtualboy isn't really friendly to fast emulation on a 3d system. All that being said, it shouldn't be TOO big a horrible pain to just get running, but making it run with any speed...well...