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Post by t2000 on Jan 3, 2006 2:50:56 GMT 1
NeoGeo Cd based games checked with neocdpsp-0.5.3-fix with settings as default. ................................................................................ Adk World aero fighters 2 aero fighters 3 aggressors of dark kombat alpha mission 2 art of fighting art of fighting 2 art of fighting 3 blues journey breakers burning fight bust a move crossed swords crossed swords 2 cyber lip ghost pilots king of fighters collection king of monsters 2 magician lord metal slug nam 1975 rally chase robo army soccer brawl viewpoint ..................................................................... fully playable with full sound ------------------------------ aero fighters 2 aero fighters 3 aggressors of dark kombat alpha mission 2 art of fighting ( See weird one below ) art of fighting 2 art of fighting 3 ( this plays better when set to 266/333mhz ) blues journey bust a move crossed swords crossed swords 2 cyber lip ghost pilots king of fighters collection magician lord metal slug nam 1975 rally chase robo army soccer brawl viewpoint ------------------------------ Not playable -------------- king of monsters 2 ( plays mp3 but no graphics ) ------------------------------ fully playable but with no mp3 music ------------------------------------- burning fight ------------------------------------- Not working shuts down PSP ------------------------------------- Adk World ------------------------------------ Music carried on playing till the next game loaded up ( only sometimes ) ------------------------------------------------------ aggressors of dark kombat blues journey crossed swords ------------------------------------------------------- Weird one ----------- art of fighting works in story mode, but when in V's mode the MS light flashes 4 ever and black screen have to take out battery... not sure if it always done this  ? Results may vary from these as this is a rough guide, any problems try reseting/starting emu also if you change the region/language in the emu menu or some game menus this can cause music/sound effects to be missing.. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- My setup ............ PSP fw 1.5 Datel 4gb hd unzipped roms ............. |
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Post by airwolfx on Jan 3, 2006 4:20:26 GMT 1
Magician Lord still has problems. The 'stage clear' tune plays when you first get to the Magician Lord startup screen then loops until you get to the intro story (after you have started a game). There are issues with the sound after your game is over and then you start a new game too...it is like random tunes playing and such.
Also, there seems to be a problem after your game is done. The game gets stuck after you chose either 'yes' or 'no' in the memory card save screen.
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Post by zelurker on Jan 3, 2006 7:37:03 GMT 1
Thanks very much for these bugs report, especially the long list of games checked, it's very valuable and makes me to win a lot of time...
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Post by zelurker on Jan 3, 2006 7:41:22 GMT 1
After all, here is the bugs I found since 0.5.3-fix :
- bad music in puzzle bubble (bust a move) : if you play under 60 fps, the timers of the ym2610 clearly have a problem. If you insist on playing anyway, the music stops completely after a long time. This game should play at 60 fps anyway, but it's not going to be easy to fix.
- In karnov's revenge (Fighters History Dynamite), if you press X on the first screen, it crashes the psp. I fixed this one last night. If you press O instead of X, no problem.
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Post by t2000 on Jan 3, 2006 9:08:53 GMT 1
i noticed the bust a move music, sounds wobbly as if in a fish bowl....lol . doing the checklist i went to the point of loading and game starting then played for a min to make sure it worked, maybe not long enough to notice some bugs, but some bugs do seem random as to whether its the 1st game played or not, so if u play a game 1st it fine, but if after another its not, if u get me..
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Post by zelurker on Jan 3, 2006 11:10:23 GMT 1
Yes I know this is the horrible "memory corruption" bug : if you run something like 4 games in a row, you loose sound effects in the 4th one. This one makes me mad... ! And it can probably affect anything at random since it's clearly a memory corruption problem.
About your bugs : I can't make ADK World to crash, so if you could try again and tell me how you can do it...
About Magician lord : it's fixed now, this one was relying on a raster line counter not emulated by neocdpsp. Thanks to mame for the info... !!! I have also rewriten the execution loop for the cpus, now they are correctly interlaced, which should fix the bad musics bugs.
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Post by t2000 on Jan 3, 2006 11:31:34 GMT 1
After more testing. interesting, after formatting the datel HD and re-adding neocdpsp-0.5.3 and the 2 games giving me troubles Art of fighting in v's mode and ADK world crashing the psp i found them to work, until i used a renaming program to hide the corrupted icons in the MS view.. ive tried this about 4 times everytime the same thing happens.. before renaming games worked neocd neocd% after renaming games crash neocd _ neocd_~1% ........................................... The program i use is one thats called "renamer.exe" sits in the psp/game folder works a treat, or so i thought..... ok, so ill try another renaming proggy tried madmonkee's folder renamer.. reports game(emu) cannot be started, so i renamed them back, now work again.. ............................................. so it gets more frustrating... lol ill keep on at it, any ideas why renaming folders should make games not work |
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Post by t2000 on Jan 3, 2006 13:04:19 GMT 1
tried "PSickoPortable v0.2b.exe renamer" still causes game crashes, yet rename back to default , works again.. grrr
oh and Not playable no matter what i do..
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king of monsters 2 ( plays mp3 but no graphics )
this is same as reported b4..
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Post by zelurker on Jan 3, 2006 13:17:51 GMT 1
I don't use these renamers, I prefer to use FileAssistant++, and install all my homebrews in /PSP/homebrew, so I have nothing to hide there !
(and it can launch directly the elf too, which makes things easier when compiling programs).
Anyway, the crash might be because of a very long directory name.
Could you give the exact name of the neocd folder then (copy and paste) + the names of the directories with games giving problems ? (I have totally broken my windows, so it would be complicated for me to try one of these renamers, I run only linux currently).
For kom2, yes I confirm the bug, I didn't know about it, but it looks very weird. I'll investigate more about it later.
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Post by t2000 on Jan 3, 2006 13:37:36 GMT 1
games work with standard folder names neocd neocd% but have problems when renamed like neocd _ neocd_~1% you can just rename them manually saves time ......................................................... my diretories are standard psp/game/neocd/ADK world or art of fighting ........................................................... hope all this helps  |
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Post by zelurker on Jan 3, 2006 14:21:52 GMT 1
well with psp/game/neocd_/adk world/ it works flawlessly.
Too bad !
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Post by zelurker on Jan 3, 2006 22:57:40 GMT 1
Ok, status of these bugs :
- magician lord : fixed again, sorry to have missed these the 1st time ! In fact I removed all the upload thing, I don't know what it's used for, but certainly not for changing or reading the z80 memory ! It works fine now.
- ADK World : works for me
- Burning fight : fixed by the magician lord fix
- King of monsters 2 : fixed too (same fix applies here too)
Remaining very annoying bugs :
- loosing sound effects after 3 or 4 games played
- very bad sound in bust a move
- oddities in Art of fighting
These 3 should keep me busy until next week at least ! ;-)
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Post by airwolfx on Jan 4, 2006 0:39:04 GMT 1
Great. Glad to hear Magician Lord is good now. I dont see the download on your page for the new version yet. Cant wait to try it. Thanks...
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Post by t2000 on Jan 4, 2006 1:06:42 GMT 1
yep, should be a lot better...
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Post by raylokn21 on Jan 4, 2006 5:22:13 GMT 1
I have tried World Heroes Perfect. The game is fully playable without MP3 (I didn't tried MP3 for this game yet), but there is a button mis mapping when I try to remap the button in the game option menu.
Just reporting a very small bug. Thanks for attention.
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Post by fz78 on Jan 4, 2006 15:12:28 GMT 1
the red error message lost_sinchronyzation still appears while playing at kof 97 using any clock frequency ><
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Post by zelurker on Jan 4, 2006 18:05:39 GMT 1
Well I have just tried it (and I really advice to play it unzip, 80 Mb of files, it's really to much this time), but I couldn't get this mysterious red message... I reached stage 2 without problem. How did you do that |
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Post by airwolfx on Jan 4, 2006 19:58:45 GMT 1
Zelurker, where is the new version with the new Magician Lord fix? Magician Lord is my fav game for the Neo-GeoCD emu. Could we please get it from you? Thanks.
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Post by zelurker on Jan 4, 2006 21:00:07 GMT 1
The reason why I didn't release anything for now is that there were big changes to fix this, you don't get rid of all the upload part in the code without possible problems, and I also rewrote the main cpu frame, so it's also a possible source of problems. In short it's work in progress.
I think I'll be able to release this week-end, maybe before... !
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Post by airwolfx on Jan 4, 2006 21:14:36 GMT 1
Thanks for the info and all your hard work. Do you have a site for donations? Cant wait for the new version...
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Post by zelurker on Jan 5, 2006 14:57:49 GMT 1
No I don't have any paypal account or anything like that, I am still doing this for fun until now !
If one day I get jobless, maybe, but until then... !
The good news is that I finally found the bug which caused some graphics to disappear from art of fighting (just play the demo of the game for 1s, and then return to the main screen by pressing start, you'll see what I mean... !). In fact it was not because of something very complicated missed by the emulator, it was because of direct changes to the ram of the game which caused the game to be corrupted. And of course there were no comments near this...
In short : the code of this emulator is a mess.
The timer.c part which is supposed to handle the ym2610 timers is so stupid that it's almost funny !
So well I might forget my idea to fix everything possible before the next release because it might take way too much time in these conditions, and release something anyway... Maybe tonight, after I have checked there is no major bug as it is now...
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Post by blou on Jan 5, 2006 17:07:33 GMT 1
zelurker, great work.i have a question,It´s possible to improve the gba emu (PSPGBA) ?
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Post by talisma on Jan 5, 2006 20:51:48 GMT 1
I zelurker and congratulation for your job.
since the last version of neocdpsp my Kof 95 do not work any more after selectin the game mode the game crash.
just want to know if somebody else got the same problem thank
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Post by zelurker on Jan 6, 2006 2:41:08 GMT 1
Thanks for the report talisma, I'll check it later.
To sum up : no release before the week-end, at least.
I am in the middle of too many changes, and it's really to early to release anything, there would probably be too many problems.
At least it won't be a 0.5.x anymore, there are really many changes this time !!! ;-)
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Post by fz78 on Jan 6, 2006 21:56:45 GMT 1
Well I have just tried it (and I really advice to play it unzip, 80 Mb of files, it's really to much this time), but I couldn't get this mysterious red message... I reached stage 2 without problem. How did you do that i always play games unzipped with zoom 1 as default resolution:as soon as the music of a stage starts to begin i get that lost-synchronization red error message but when i press the menu top left button the message disappears as soon as i get back to the game but i have to run this entire procedure every thime i enter a new stage otherwise the message will appear again and again  |
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