Hacking TempGBA: NDSGBA revival

[ferret7463]

Undead Squirrel, you really should read through this thread, most of your questions have been answered in one form or another already.

 

[Firebug2009]

hey nebuleon just a heads up on something...on the page 1 of this your link to : http://github.com/Nebuleon/TempGBA actually directs to the snes github page lol



edit: bah copy and paste...i did it too lol

 

[Deleted member 319809]

Bah, damned rich text editor. Thanks for the heads-up.

 

[Rydian]

http://gbatemp.net/account/preferences
Uncheck the rich text editor. They always annoy me.

 

[Deleted member 319809]

TempGBA beta 7, the PokéGBA Edition, is released. It has the following improvements:
* Hotkeys for fast-forwarding (while held) and muting (toggle) during a game.
* Fixes a bug whereby a frame is rendered out-of-order when automatic frameskip increases or fast-forwarding starts or ends.

** This release modifies many files in the install. Please install it anew, including the TEMPGBA system directory. **

This version is an homage to Pokémon games, which tremendously helped the sales of the GBA. It was made lovingly in recongition of all of its fans worldwide.

Starting with this version, I will work hard on making Pokémon games work better, screw the other games!

 

[jimmyemunoz]

screw the other games!

LOL OTHER GAMES

 

[tofast4u]

TempGBA beta 7, the PokéGBA Edition, is released. It has the following improvements:
* Hotkeys for fast-forwarding (while held) and muting (toggle) during a game.
* Fixes a bug whereby a frame is rendered out-of-order when automatic frameskip increases or fast-forwarding starts or ends.

** This release modifies many files in the install. Please install it anew, including the TEMPGBA system directory. **

This version is an homage to Pokémon games, which tremendously helped the sales of the GBA. It was made lovingly in recongition of all of its fans worldwide.

Starting with this version, I will work hard on making Pokémon games work better, screw the other games!

Didn't all the Pokemon games work perfectly fine even on 1.21 of the emulator?

 

[Deleted member 319809]

Didn't all the Pokemon games work perfectly fine even on 1.21 of the emulator?

They appear to run fine, but in fact they run at 20 FPS, their sound isn't the same as on a GBA, they crackle a lot, and if you set the CPU clock to its lowest speed in order to try to save power, and then you enter a battle, the transition screen sounds like a badly buffering YouTube video.

I firmly believe that, by fixing these issues for Pokémon games, the core will be inherently better... and maybe it could run those other games better, but my main focus is now on Pokémon games. Screw the others! Pokémon is the best!

 

[justinwebb]

whenever I try to load this I get the message saying some icons are missing, I have the correct 3 files in the dstwo plugin folder and TEMPGBA in the root and the gba_bios in the tempgba folder

 

[Deleted member 319809]

whenever I try to load this I get the message saying some icons are missing, I have the correct 3 files in the dstwo plugin folder and TEMPGBA in the root and the gba_bios in the tempgba folder

That's a mistake of mine with some file references. As of this post, there were 14 downloads, and I've deleted and re-uploaded beta 7 to fix the bug instead of posting another version.

Edit: TempGBA has been featured in a new Chinese Forum thread: http://bbs.supercard.sc/thread-45511-1-1.html

 

[2ndApex]

Starting with this version, I will work hard on making Pokémon games work better, screw the other games!

Wouldn't that make the next version the PokeEdition?

 

[Deleted member 319809]

Wouldn't that make the next version the PokeEdition?

Beta 7 already is one, download it and you'll see

 

[nl255]

Yeah, that one, and I thought there was another unofficial mod of the DSTwo NDSGBA....?

Well it has full button remapping (so you can set y=b and b=a like many people prefer) as well as several bugfixes. Of course, the updates may have broken other things as it is in heavy development. There was NDSGBA 1.30 which fixed a couple of obscure Japanese games but broke game_config.txt which is required for some games to run correctly or at all.

 

[pasc]

Quick heads up:

- Rockman/Megaman Zero 2 still has the garbled up graphic (just play the game and start a new game.... you will see)
- Smashing Drive is till slow a$$ during actual gameplay.
- Payback: not working either

Except for those: I'm impressed !
Keep going

Till we arrive at the multiplayer support level ! (not sure if I'm kidding... I would want it if it was possible... also the DS Wireless is actually usable, even thought the RSA hasn't been hacked yet)

 

[ferret7463]

PASC, with the rockman Zero, just get the NDS collection.

 

[lpchaim]

Hey Nebuleon, I was wondering if immediate saving to sd could be implemented as a toggle. I ask this because I remember gpsp kai having either this or the current method as options, so I figured it would be at least partially on the codebase already.
I understand that may not be your priority but it would make me much more comfortable with the emulator, being the save paranoid that I am! Maybe even a manual save to sd button or mappable shortcut? Currently it saves to sd only when exiting or switching games, correct?

 

[justinwebb]

I can get it to work in the dstwo menu but with imenu it always says icons are missing. I have it set up the same as CATSFC and that works perfectly, any reason why it TEMPGBA wont work with imenu?

EDIT: with imenu its looking in the _dstwoplug directory instead of root

 

[Deleted member 319809]

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Till we arrive at the multiplayer support level ! (not sure if I'm kidding... I would want it if it was possible... also the DS Wireless is actually usable, even thought the RSA hasn't been hacked yet)

The SDK doesn't support WiFi or "NiFi" which is the proprietary protocol for near communication on an ad-hoc WiFi network on the DS.

Hey Nebuleon, I was wondering if immediate saving to sd could be implemented as a toggle. I ask this because I remember gpsp kai having either this or the current method as options, so I figured it would be at least partially on the codebase already.
I understand that may not be your priority but it would make me much more comfortable with the emulator, being the save paranoid that I am! Maybe even a manual save to sd button or mappable shortcut? Currently it saves to sd only when exiting or switching games, correct?

Currently it only saves when exiting? Are you sure you're not just saying that because NDSGBA 1.21 itself didn't save immediately? Check out the beta 7 if you haven't already.

Oh, it indeed doesn't save when I shut off the DS one second after saving in Pokémon Emerald. And here I thought that the code had some logic to save to storage after 10 frames (1/6 second) of no writes to the GBA's save area...

I can get it to work in the dstwo menu but with imenu it always says icons are missing. I have it set up the same as CATSFC and that works perfectly, any reason why it TEMPGBA wont work with imenu?

EDIT: with imenu its looking in the _dstwoplug directory instead of root

That's because you're putting the .plg in /_dstwoplug. If you use arguments to load the program (like with iMenu or BAGPlug), it looks for the system directory in the parent directory of tempgba.plg. So it expects /_dstwoplug/SYSTEM/GUI/boot.bmp, etc.

If you don't want that, the easiest solution is to dump the TEMPGBA directory into the root as is, or to make /_dstwoplug/TEMPGBA a directory containing the .plg, .bmp, .ini and the SYSTEM, GAMES, SAVES, CHEATS and PICS directories.

 

[Deleted member 319809]

Hey Nebuleon, I was wondering if immediate saving to sd could be implemented as a toggle. I ask this because I remember gpsp kai having either this or the current method as options, so I figured it would be at least partially on the codebase already.
I understand that may not be your priority but it would make me much more comfortable with the emulator, being the save paranoid that I am! Maybe even a manual save to sd button or mappable shortcut? Currently it saves to sd only when exiting or switching games, correct?

I'm also save-paranoid, and had I known about this earlier, I would have fixed it. In the alphas I was concentrating much harder on making saved states work.

Auto-saving will be in beta 8.

• commit 765afc3: Actually write a .sav to disk 10 frames after the last write to GBA flash.

Edit: After briefly testing this feature in Pokémon Emerald, there is a very visible delay (1/4 of a second?) when creating a file on the SD card for the first time during an emulator run. This will assure you that things are being written.

The exact delay may be card-speed–dependent.

 

[lpchaim]

I'm also save-paranoid, and had I known about this earlier, I would have fixed it. In the alphas I was concentrating much harder on making saved states work.

Auto-saving will be in beta 8.

• commit 765afc3: Actually write a .sav to disk 10 frames after the last write to GBA flash.

Edit: After briefly testing this feature in Pokémon Emerald, there is a very visible delay (1/4 of a second?) when creating a file on the SD card for the first time during an emulator run. This will assure you that things are being written.

The exact delay may be card-speed–dependent.

Yeah, I lost my almost 2 hour save on Castlevania AoS because of it hahaha
But I digress, thank you for comitting the change so fast.
Also, is it OK for you to have bugs reported in this thread like I did or it's better to create an issue on github?