gpSP0.8 kai 2.6 (GBA Emulator for PSP)

[The_It]

still can't save final fantasy V, if it actually can, please tell me how.

[Veskgar]

still can't save final fantasy V, if it actually can, please tell me how.

Are you referring to the in game saves or save states?

[The_It]

in game saves

[The_It]

sweet! i was trying to open continue, not load file

[xg917]

0.9 im waiting for, but dont worry i definatly have patience =] im already happy with 0.8. i gave kai a try and.. i didnt like it, there was something about it... it felt slower to me O.o

[SpacemanSpiff]

What was the point of that post?

His last release got flamed by a lot of posters, even though it improved some things over the official version. Personally I think its good to see some updates while waiting for the next official release, but I guess other people dont agree.

[kiariki]

... The turtle and the hare... The hare, faster, loses to the turtle. >_> Although I mean it in quality. I think I gave the first kai release a try but I didn't like it. Ever since, I've still been using Exophase's original emulator.

And to Exophase: Life is far more important. Do what thou must first!

[Veskgar]

His last release got flamed by a lot of posters, even though it improved some things over the official version. Personally I think its good to see some updates while waiting for the next official release, but I guess other people dont agree.

Well first off let me say that I too get very eager and anxious over new releases. Especially when it comes to something as huge as gpSP.

However, I still stand that unofficial releases of an ongoing work in progress still considered a BETA by its original creator are pointless and can create confusion. gpSP isn't some port. Its written from scratch and Exophase knows it best.

[Understandable]

I hope breath of fire 2 works on the next release

[Exophase]

I hope breath of fire 2 works on the next release

I'm pretty sure it works in 0.8 (of course you might need the legitimate BIOS)

But I can't figure out why anyone would want to play it, when the SNES version is superior.

Anyway, more about this release. The readme says something about mips_stub.S and branch delay slots so I thought he maybe did a critical modification to it, but alas, it wasn't changed. Nothing much changed here, a few things that probably don't affect any games, and something that fixes one very broken game that never should have had this in the first place (yay). Of course, again, this is something I already addressed weeks ago, but people are too impatient and can't respect the fact that I want the releases of gpSP to actually be significant. There's a debug mode which is all but useless to people playing the game, and he added a bunch of Japanese games to game_config.txt. Some that were already there..

He also commented out a bunch of variables I use for debugging, and some ++'s in very noncritcal places, maybe thinking he was optimizing the emulator somehow. And more aggrivating, he arbitrarily changed my bracket style in a few places, for instance:

if(dispstat & 0x10)
irq_raised |= IRQ_HBLANK;
}
else
{

...

if(update_input())
return execute_cycles;

In 0.8, now

if(dispstat & 0x10)
irq_raised |= IRQ_HBLANK;
} else {

...

if (update_input()) {
return execute_cycles;
}

And some other places. Which is of course makes the code style inconsistent and is actually really disrespectful. When you work on someone else's project you should use their coding style in the code YOU write, but arbitrarily changing the style of the code THEY write is a slap in the face. Of course, I don't expect the non-programmers here to understand this, especially SpacemanSpiff who will just call me a jerk and go back to praising a release where he doesn't even know what was changed. Whatever.

Of course, I released the source and that means I forfeit my right to complain about people doing whatever they please with it, I've heard it a billion times already. Then again, the people who praise the release are the ones who say "you should have made it closed source to begin with." I bet if I closed the source for next release they'd all be whining about that too.