gpSP0.8 kai 2.4 (GBA Emulator for PSP)

**hlide** · November 15th, 2006, 10:21

Originally Posted by The_Ultimate_Eggman

AHHhhh ok thats shed some light on that so no use unless your a coder shouldnt the full source be made availabe under the gpl agreement ?.

patches are convenient ways to avoid multiple source codes for developers. You can still retrieve the Exophase's source code then get patches, so this is okay for GPL : instead of having one source code to retrieve, you just need to get two source codes, but there are both available freely.

Why patches ? imagine there is three developers : each develops something different for the same application. Just take the main source code and apply the other two patches so you may benefit all their modifications instead of having 3*3 different source codes because of possible combinations.

Hope i'm understandable.

EDIT: here, you may choose to apply some modifications like just a sound fix and not having the new video mode because you want to apply yours. This is easier to do with separate patches.

**apfel** · November 15th, 2006, 11:04

Here the changelog:
-gpSP kai 2.4
Add video mode.
unscaled 3:2 (existing mode)
scaled 3:2(LINEAR) (existing mode)
fullscreen 16:9(LINEAR) (existing mode)
scaled 3:2(NEAREST) (no filter mode)
fullscreen 16:9(NEAREST) (no filter mode)
scaled 1.75(NEAREST) (scale 1.75 mode but top/buttom cut 4dot)

**Vega** · November 15th, 2006, 11:06

Sorry for the almighty repeated question - - but Im guessing Mario vs Donkey Kong and Zelda are still buggy ??

**Exophase** · November 15th, 2006, 11:36

Vega: No, of course not :P

Does anyone like these video modes? I always figured they don't look very good.

**Vega** · November 15th, 2006, 11:42

Originally Posted by Exophase

Vega: No, of course not :P

Argh.

Anyways.. I'll test it out now and check up on the video modes.

EDIT : The video modes seem fine... I've got no real bones to pick with them, except maybe they are a little... what would the word be.. pixely or blocky maybe?

**Exophase** · November 15th, 2006, 12:42

I guess it wouldn't hurt to add them, then at least people can stop asking for them.

**The_Ultimate_Eggman** · November 15th, 2006, 13:59

Originally Posted by hlide

patches are convenient ways to avoid multiple source codes for developers. You can still retrieve the Exophase's source code then get patches, so this is okay for GPL : instead of having one source code to retrieve, you just need to get two source codes, but there are both available freely.

Why patches ? imagine there is three developers : each develops something different for the same application. Just take the main source code and apply the other two patches so you may benefit all their modifications instead of having 3*3 different source codes because of possible combinations.

Hope i'm understandable.

EDIT: here, you may choose to apply some modifications like just a sound fix and not having the new video mode because you want to apply yours. This is easier to do with separate patches.

:thumbup:
Thanks for clearing that up dude i just didnt want the coder to be treading on anybody's toes.I think he may have peed exophase off a bit tho by not informing him he was working on his emu.

**mnuhaily22** · November 15th, 2006, 14:26

I can confirm that this is working under reverse devhook, and I can also confirm that it rocks.

**luthor_70** · November 15th, 2006, 15:29

What about a 2X video mode where the TOP or the BOTTOM would be cropped or even shrinked ??? I really find the linear modes too much blurry , that doesn't look like the real GBA.