N64 emulator for PSP

Friday, August 25, 2006

Something for the weekend - R8

 

I got back from my trip yesterday and I've spent a few hours today putting together the final changes for Daedalus PSP R8.

 

Here's the changelist:

 

[^] Replaced all uses of sceCtrlReadBufferPositive with sceCtrlPeekBufferPositive.

[^] Various known value optimisations for the dynamic recompilation engine.

[^] Various texture cache optimisations and rendering optimisations.

[+] Implemented a new clipping method which is more efficient and gives better results.

[-] Removed 'tesselate large triangles' setting.

[+] Added option to reset emulator to the main menu.

[^] No longer use index buffers for rendering.

[^] Implement matrix multiplication using VFPU.

[^] Implement vertex transform and lighting code using VFPU.

[^] Implement clipping code using VFPU.

[^] Minor AddTri optimisations.

[^] Free background and font textures while emulator is running to free VRAM.

[!] Fixed bug in default controller config (c-down and dpad-down were broken)

 

It should be pretty obvious that most of the changes in R8 are optimisations. This build is significantly faster than R7, which is a significant achievement considering how much R7 had achieved in this area.

 

With the previous release, I also mentioned a list of things I had planned for R8. I decided to put them on hold while I pursued the various optimisations in R8, so I'll be looking at working on them for the next release.

 

Have fun - I'm going to wade through the past couple of weeks worth of emails that have built up while I've been putting this build together

>> Get it HERE

This is release 0.9.20 of Wine, a free implementation of Windows on Unix.

 

What's new in this release:

- XEmbed system tray support.

- Many improvements to NTLM support.

- Many messages made localizable instead of hardcoded to English.

- Improved support for various OpenGL platforms.

- More improvements to the IDL compiler.

- Lots of bug fixes.

>> Get it HERE.

TG16/PCE emulator

2006/08/25 0.62 released

 

- It came to be able to run "Flash Hiders".

 

- When "SPRIGGAN mark2" was played, the problem that ADPCM voice is not correctly played was solved.

 

- When "Varis III" or "Varis IV" was played, the problem that the screen of the start demonstration has collapsed was corrected.

 

- The stability of the "TurboButton(auto fire)" function was improved, and the speed has quickened.

 

- "TurboButton(auto fire)" can be set with the "1"-"6" key of the keyboard (one that is not ten keys).

 

- At full-screen, the magnification mark of the "Screen" menu was made the "resolution mark".

 

- "Hide Menu" was added to the "Setting" menu. When this check is removed, the menu is always displayed.

 

- The timing of the line scroll (raster interrupt) was modeled on a real machine further. (When "Pac Land",etc. was played, the problem with the scene to which the sprite character shifted was solved.)

 

- When the tune of the final track of CD-DA is played, the problem that the noise occasionally entered the end of the tune was corrected. (Opening of "Zero4 CHAMP II" etc.)

 

- Additionally, a detailed part has been improved and corrected.

>> Get it HERE.

Front End

25th August, 2006 - GameEx 6.63

 

* Fixes emulators not showing on start page when using flat start page

* Fixes emulator list corruption when less items in emu list than on start page

* Option to turn off start page zoom animation (Display Settings)

>> Get it HERE