UnOfficial gpSP kai-1 test svn rev 3.3 - GBA Emu for PSP

**bigdaddie** · February 10th, 2008, 11:00

although i understand the feelings Exophase has about someone using his source and energy to make some minor additions i don't think he has a fair point.

Because the same goes for the developers from Sony who have brought us and continuing to bring us the original firmwares :thumbup:. In spite of the fact that people are using and editing their work. If they would follow the path Exophase has taken they would have stopped developing (took a hiatus). Not to mention the developers from Nintendo who gave us the GBA.
And to compare an open source Handheld community to the PSP community; that ofcourse are 2 totally different worlds :rofl:
Btw Exophase's gba emu is the best out there and i still use it to play Britney's dance beat ... seriously that game has remarkable good sound quality, you should try it

Have Fun

**Tinnus** · February 10th, 2008, 13:13

*ahem*. They pay the Sony and Nintendo programmers

But it's alright anyway, if he made the code GPL anyone can modify it and do what they want as long as they let the modificed code available. Of course, the MORALS of Takka releasing a version that logs dummy data to a stick (which is of no practical use whatsoever outside development), and the MORALS of news sites posting that, KNOWING that it's no use, is another story.

edit: actually *we* pay the Sony developers for them to develop the firmware when we buy the freaking console. Whether they consider it legal or not for us to tamper with the firmware code, I don't know; but I believe we should be able to use our machine to its fullest == homebrew.

**downloaddownload** · March 3rd, 2008, 04:12

Exophase just needs to get Psychiatric help first before worrying about all the people that are "noobs" bugging him about all kinds of crazy stuff. Every programmer has to face the same things but only he is the one bitching about it. I've spoken to him before and tried to raise his spirits up a little and he ended up being a complete asshole. Im done feeling bad for the guy.

**kryst abegnalie** · March 3rd, 2008, 05:58

PSP scene now filed with noobs all i say, lets support the hardwork that done by these great coders and dont flame them because they dont release another update, just appreciate what you have today, and lets wait if they release another updates on their emulators..

But still, i support you and i admit i've been one of your crappy noob that i IM you, sorry for that if i'm disturb you, im still using your emulator up to this day..

**slik da relic** · March 9th, 2008, 11:59

im usually reserved for these kind of chats, but i just wanna say a few things...1st off, i applaud every coder for every thing theyve ever done on the psp front... ive never used the same handheld for more than 2 years, and here i am, STILL usin my original psp since the 1st day it came out...

2nd, bein the 1st to post the ps1 game "ONE" on the internet, when i looked for weeks to dl it, only to see it in many incarnations only AFTER i posted it makes me (albeit on a very microscopic level) kinda understand what Exo is feelin... but i am for progress, and if Exo has stopped workin on the emu, then why not someone else take a chance and see if they CAN "improve" on the original... maybe he'll discover something that wasnt discovered in previous versions... i dont think we should seperate ourselves if we're tryin to get the best overall emu... we all want the same thing... one emu for each system that runs everything perfect!!! i used pspgenesis for months b4 dgen became better... same thing with uosnes and tyl... i think this gets too personal in my opinion, and we, the non coders, that know little or nothing, are just excited to see something's even bein worked on... coders will never understand that, bcuz theyre coders...lol... i hope one day u'll come back and work hard on ur emu, i still use and its fine for me, but i do look from time to time to see if there is something better... thats just the american way i guess...lol... but you are still a great and well respected coder no doubt.

da relic

**wwboy** · March 9th, 2008, 12:24

are there more roms supported?

**AlphaDingDong** · March 17th, 2008, 00:14

Well, seeing this little spat I have to say that I could think wither way.

If what Exophase is saying turns out to be true then Takka is an idiot and is more likely to add bugs than features. The downside to this argument is that I can't seem to find out where the bloody hell to download the official version. If anything, Takka is a whole hell of a lot better at distribution than Exophase. I can't find the official 3.3 on the dev blog or even on exophase.com. So if he wants people to download his version then..... (I know he said he doesn't care, but still....)

On the other hand, if Takka is actually doing something worthwhile here and adding actual features then I think there needs to be a little perspective applied. If Takka is 'legit' then everyone needs to stop and follow a simple little line that goes:

Nintendo made the GBA
Exophase made an emulator based on their work
Takka modified Exo's work

Something about a pot and a kettle and the absence of color?

**No_one_in_particular** · March 17th, 2008, 00:49

I think Exophase has already justified his reasoning, it's there to be read.

As for having trouble finding it, when in doubt go to dl.qj.net and search for gpsp. You're actually looking for the v0.9 release.

**mogwaimon** · June 26th, 2008, 11:38

Exophase, I can sympathize with your FF6 soundtrack stuff, that game was my absolute favorite as a kid, and it looks and sounds crappy on the GBA....Still, I'd like to play the GBA version at some point if only to experience the new dungeon and see how the new translation panned out, and it saddens me that your last official release had those graphic errors and such.

Still, take your time with the next release, do what you want with it, and don't let Takka get you down. How'd he get ahold of your code, anyways? Did he reverse-engineer what you had, or did you release the source, what?

EDIT: Oh, and AlphaDingDong, you'll find that with many emulators, none of the code is actually used from the systems they're emulating, except maybe the BIOS.The actual code is written by the emulator's coders, and is written in such a way that the program makes the computer think it's a SNES or GBA or what have you. Exophase didn't actually base his code off anything, he just wrote a program that replicated the behavior of a GBA. It's like how Linux can run Windows programs with Wine, but Linux has nothing to do with Windows.

Takka, on the other hand, apparently stole Exophase's code, which was written by Exophase, and modified it without crediting Exo. That is plagiarism, not Exo emulating the GBA.