Pocket Heaven

Dwedit · Posted: Tue Jul 22, 2008 8:14 pm Post subject:

Fixed Back to the Future. James Rolfe would be proud.
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alucardbomb · Member Joined: 30 Apr 2008 Posts: 11

you guys are awesome. How do you even know how to do all this stuff?? Does computer science at a University teach you this?haha

danielgardino · Member Joined: 17 Mar 2008 Posts: 9

Is it just me or Ninja Gaiden 3 isn´t working on this new version at all?

Anyway, great work Dwedit! Amazing improvements!
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Dwedit · Posted: Wed Jul 23, 2008 4:42 am Post subject:

Dammit, it temporarily deletes all savegames when you select "Save State", then manages to get them back when you select Load State. I'm pulling the file until save issues are gone.

Edit: Save issues all cleaned up. Now it's safe to download again.
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garcimak · Member Joined: 20 May 2006 Posts: 57 Location: Belgium

Found a nasty bug on real hardware (tested on 22-07-08 but already in the previous versions), just let the display settings set to
Unscaled then lets scroll to the bottom (R trigger); when you're about to see the very first bottom line then "FIREWORKS !". I cannot reproduce that with VBA.

Most of the games doesn't behave that way but among those that crash are

Abadox
Castle quest
Kirby adventure
Rescue Rangers
Yume Penguin Monogatari
Adventure of LOLO
Last ninja

EDIT : Doesn't occur with a NDS, only on GBA

+ i request that the vsync setting could be restored between saves

Nuff said ! Amazing scaler, nice doin Dwedit

danielgardino · Member Joined: 17 Mar 2008 Posts: 9

Just tested the new beta. Scrolling bug mentioned above still present. Ninja Gaiden 3 also doesn´t work in this beta.

Anyway, nice job so far!

garcimak · Member Joined: 20 May 2006 Posts: 57 Location: Belgium

Dwedit · Posted: Sat Aug 02, 2008 5:17 am Post subject:

Fixed puzznic, also fixed an incredibly stupid bug that broke the cheatfinder. (had created a second instance of an int, modified that, then the second instance goes out of scope, subtracted the uninitalized first instance, long story short, it always thought there wasn't enough memory to use the cheatfinder)
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chantililace · Member Joined: 09 Aug 2008 Posts: 30

Dwedit,

Found a bug when you save state, sometimes your character (tested with Guardian Legend, Link) will move to the top of the screen or you will flickering and walking around in weird areas of the game after finishing the save state. The way I found around this is if you load state again.

Any plans on improving the sound?

Dwedit · Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2008 2:39 am Post subject:

I know about this, it's because I'm basically out of IWRAM, so the system stack overwrites the Y coordinate lookup table for sprites. Changing the scaling setting also gets the display back to normal.

I had tried to do something crazy with sound involving precise timed writes to the GBC sound channels, but it never got anywhere because no GBA emulator was accurate enough to support it.
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chantililace · Member Joined: 09 Aug 2008 Posts: 30

Hi Dwedit, are we talking about the same thing here - PocketNES sound? You mentioned GBC above. .. I remember back in the day playing LoopyNES on the PC and it had really accurate sound and speed. Heck, it even played FDs games flawlessly. An example of the difference in sound quality in LoopyNES and PocketNES would be the games Zelda II link and Metroid when you shoot your weapon. Why is the GBA lower in quality in this respect? Loopy would have brought the same code over to the PocketNES, right? Is it something to do with how the GBA differs in respect to the PC?

When are you releasing another version? Thanks for all your work.

dantheman · Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2008 4:07 am Post subject:

The GBA has the GBC sound core in it, which some commercial games use for audio effects. PocketNES takes advantage of this by using the GBC sound chip to playback NES audio, which is faster than rendering the audio in software and playing it with the GBA audio equipment (I assume at least, my info on this is rather fuzzy).

tepples · Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2008 4:17 am Post subject:

Dwedit · Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2008 4:42 am Post subject:

I'm sick of hearing "Nintendo customizes the emulator for the game" all the time... ACNES is just an inaccurate emulator which is accurate enough for the games it emulates, it can also run any other games with the same size and mapper number. For instance, you can swap Metroid for Rad Racer or Zelda and it runs fine, even though split screen scrolling effects are rounded to 4 scanline boundaries.

I just tried throwing the original Metroid rom into Zero Mission instead of their hacked version. It plays perfectly. The only difference is that Nintendo's hacking in conjunction with their customized emulator lets it save passwords. Injecting the original ROM in there makes it no longer save or restore passwords.
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tepples · Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2008 11:41 am Post subject:

Thank you for clarifying. But Nintendo does change roms on occasion for re-releases, such as Zelda II on Virtual Console. I'm just wondering how acNES manages to run soft sound and maintain full speed.
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