neocdpsp 0.6.2 : zips are faaaast !!!

[zelurker]

Get it there

[fakk2]

Fantastic! I'll get right on it and see what bugs I can find.

Games do load faster now, great job.

Glitch found: in default mode, 1:1 mode (I didnt change anything) I can see at the top of the screen whats being loaded and it stays there forever during game playback. It goes away if I hit L then hit X to go back to the game. It does this on all the games.

Then when I press L to go to the config menu it states the wrong version info at the top of the screen.

otherwsie:

2020 Super Baseball - Works with soundfx and Music.

Aero Fighters 2 - Works with soundfx and Music.

Aero Fighters 3 - Works with soundfx and Music.

Aggressors of Dark Kombat - Works with soundfx and Music.

Alpha Mission II - Works with soundfx and Music.

Art of Fighting 2 - Still has fatal bug. Hit X while the characters are talking to each other (before the fight begins) and the game will crash.Works in 0.5u3

Art of Fighting 3 - Still has fatal bug. Simply wont load the game after you choose robert. Worked in 0.5u3

Baseball Stars 2 - Works with soundfx and Music.

Blue's Journey - Works with soundfx and Music.

Crossed Swords - Works with soundfx and Music.

Crossed Swords II - Works with soundfx and Music.

Fatal Fury Special - Works with soundfx and Music.

Fatal Fury 3 - Works with soundfx and Music.

Football Frenzy - Works with soundfx and Music.

Galaxy Fight - Works with soundfx and Music.

Gowcaizer - Works with soundfx and music.

Far East of Eden: Kabuki Klash - Works with soundfx and Music.

Karnov's Revenge - Works with soundfx and Music.

King of Fighters '94 - Works with soundfx and Music.

King of Fighters '95 - Works with soundfx and Music.

King of Fighters '96 - Works with soundfx and Music.

King of Fighters '97 - Works with soundfx and Music.

King of Fighters '98 - Works with soundfx and Music.

Last Blade - Works with soundfx and Music.

Last Resort - Works with soundfx and Music.

League Bowling - Works with soundfx and Music.

Mah-Jong Kyo Retsuden - Works with soundfx and Music. (but it saves to the MS after every single move, please let us disable the memory card support for certain games like this and league bowling etc...)

Master of Syougi - Works with soundfx and Music. (but at the title screen at the end of the intro has bad colors and graphics are messed up.)

Mutation Nation - Works with soundfx and Music.

Neo Turf Masters - Works with soundfx and Music.

Neo-Geo CD Special - Works with soundfx and Music.

Power Spikes 2 - Works with soundfx and Music.

Pulstar - Works with soundfx and Music.

Puzzle Bobble - Works with soundfx and Music. (sounding better finally!)

Puzzled Joy Joy Kid - Works with soundfx and Music!

Quiz King of Fighters - Works with soundfx and Music.

Ragnagard - Works with soundfx and Music.

Real Bout Fatal Fury - Works with soundfx and Music.

Real Bout Fatal Fury Specail - Works with soundfx and Music.

Real Bout Fatal Fury 2 - Works with soundfx and Music.

Samurai Shodown - Works with soundfx and Music.

Samurai Shodown 2 - Works with soundfx and Music.

Samurai Shodown 3 - Works with soundfx and Music.

Samurai Shodown 4 - Works with soundfx and Music.

Samurai Spirits R.P.G - Loads fast now to the title screen. and to the character select screen, sadly after I pick my char. (Ukyo, Tachibano) the loading gets pretty bad again, and the sound and music completely cut off for the rest of the game, (at least for the whole 30 minutes I tested it out). Hey at least the game works now. But wow, watch out for the loading, its just like the real system after you pick a character.

Savage Reign - Works with soundfx and Music.

Sengoku 2 - Works with soundfx and Music.

Soccer Brawl - Works with soundfx and Music.

Street Hoop - Works with soundfx and Music.

Super Sidekicks - Works with soundfx and Music.

Super Sidekicks 2 - Works with soundfx and Music. (but, there is no playing field displayed, raster effects missing)

Super Sidekicks 3 - Works with soundfx and Music. (but, like part 2 this game is also missing raster effects, so it has no playing field. Blus some of the colors are bad.

Top Hunter - Works with soundfx and Music.

Top Players Golf - Plays but with NO soundfx and NO music.

Viewpoint - Works with soundfx and Music. (the Sammy logo sounds a bit staticy)

World Heroes - Works with soundfx and Music.

World Heroes 2 - Works with soundfx and Music.

World Heroes Perfect - Works with soundfx and Music. (the words FIGHT, YOU LOSE and YOU WIN have bad colors.)

another glitch I noticed that seemed to start since 0.6 is twice now I have had the sound (all of it, not just sound fx or music but both) for no reason during the game, get real staticy and sound like its coming from a radio thats got bad reception, and there is no way to get rid of it except restarting the emulator. (for me anyways).
The 2 games its happened to me on was Blue's Journey and Fatal Fury Special (just now) and its like a freak bug, Ive played both games numerous amounts of times and it never happed again, so I guess its a bug somewhere in the code? (again just a guess, lol.)

another problem with the emulator: This is a bug im sure you'll get to near the completion of the emu. The colors in alot of games are different than they should be.
an example: Baseball Stars 2 (title logo) is flashing the wrong colors and Mai's Background of Fatal Fury Special, the water is an eyesore, many wrong colors. another example is the 1PL sign when choosing a character in Fatal Fury 3 is pure black until you actually select someone then it appears. It seems to use the color black in another colors place. So many of the colors inmany games are affected by this. You probably already know though. Also No floor in Galaxy Fight due to raster effects not implemented yet....?

and in games like Alpha Mission 2 if you pause the game and then unpause the game the music restarts from the beginning of the song instead of playing from where it was when it was paused. Games like Galaxy Fight, the music stops alltogether when you pause the game during a fight and unpause. It begins again when the match is over and you must continue or fight another person.

[dacura]

God excellent impressive work, if this emulator already from his first version were the best one now than the fastest load is incredible, we hope that you follow thus you are machines we hope in other versions that can be put in stand by without it is hung when igniting, greetings

[dacura]

thanks takk2 is perfect and now with this new version it loads flying, a question if the metal slug2 me to hung in the 2 phase and it him and put pach cannot be for that reason or a chance. a greeting

[fakk2]

I think I understand what he is saying, I myself never noticed that before either, you can actually put the game while playing into standby mode (by quickily turning off the power) and it resumes from where you left off when you turn the system back on from standby mode. I dont know if this worked before, but I notice it certainly works now.

Djacura , I'm glad your KOF99 works for you now. As for your problem with Metal Slug 2, the only patch for that game is the CDZ protection because that game does not have in-game protection. However many people have downloaded Metal Slug 2 ISO/MP3 from websites and claim to me that they didnt work correctly. Try a different ISO of that game or buy the real cd and copy over its contents yourself and make the zip file. That might fix your problem.

[dacura]

me a little costs to understand you but if you talk about to that at the moment the emulator does not have support for standby then oks, pardons me by my english

[fakk2]

I'm saying that it does have stand by support now.

Zelurker, please test out AOF2 and AOF3 and see if I am the only one having issues with it .

[dacura]

as I can know if my AOF3 is the USA or JAPAN without having to install it? watching some file?

[fakk2]

Unless you dumped the game yourself or unless it says in a readme file what version it is, then no, you can't tell what version iso/mp3 you have.

It does not matter if you own the JAPAN version or USA version, you can change the version language in the emulator while playing the game by hitting the L button, change settings to JAP, EURO, or USA and then reboot emulator.

All CDs carry the same information. (for the most part anyways)

NOTE: Some games are in JAPANESE language only, so setting those games to USA or EURO gets the same results. japanese language. examples of these games are: Many Mah-Jong games, Samurai Spirits R.P.G., ADK World, and Neo-Geo CD Special.

[dacura]

OK, I have a problem the AOF3 is hung after choosing personage can be that iso that I have this in badly been and must obtain another one, the patched e 2 times and it is continued hanging

[hidemix]

What a geat it is if I can play Samurai RPG to killing my time.

Zelurker, U can do it ;D

[fakk2]

Djacura, AOF3 is broken on this ver 0.6 , It works on ver 0.5u3

[dacura]

ok

[zelurker]

Wow, what a long post Fakk2 !
Ok, quick answer :
your graphical glitch in 1:1 is normal, I wanted to release this quickly, I didn't check it very much, it will be fixed in next version, thanks for mentioning it though.
Wrong version from the menu : released too fast again !
Art of fighting 2 fatal bug : I never had this crash actually ! I'll check again.
Art of Fighting 3 : Never checked it, I'll check it too.
Samurai Spirits R.P.G : well I didn't take much time to test it, I admit ! I'll have to check it correctly then...
But in japenese... oh well...
Pause music bug : didn't know it.
Bad colors : neither. I hope the colors are *REALLY* much different, so that I have a chance to fix it...

All in all there are less bugs in your impressive list, which is a good thing !
And thanks for all the time you spent in your tests !

[miemt]

never expect zip file can load so fast.

original coder Yoyof, hope you can include it, as your next release

[fakk2]

Glad to help, (Yawn, sleepy..) nap time.

[talisma]

thank's crazy coder i will test all that as soon as possible.
good job

[raylokn21]

Hi,

I have tested the following games:
World Hero Perfect - OK
Samurai Shodown 2 - OK
Crossed Swords 2 - OK

I encounter this error:
1. When I accidentially hit the R button, it takes a snap shot. After the MS flash light flashed, the PSP mechine automatically turn off. When I hit the R button in 0.6.1., it takes the snap shot and the game goes on afterwards. Do other people encounter the same problem?
I personally suggest not to put snap shot as the default function for R button, as I always hit is during I play the game.
2. When I play the World Hero Perfect, I can input the command perfectly and I can do most of the special moves. But apart from this game, non of the others can easily input the specail moves command. Do anyone know why?

Hope someone can help.

[talisma]

Can someone explain to me why all my zipped roms dont play music but only sound

Edit : Found why and resolve the problem

[t2000]

talisma said:

Can someone explain to me why all my zipped roms dont play music but only sound

Edit : Found why and resolve the problem

put your findings down here so other users with the same problem will see, and not have to ask again..

[zelurker]

raylokn21 said:

Hi,
1. When I accidentially hit the R button, it takes a snap shot. After the MS flash light flashed, the PSP mechine automatically turn off. When I hit the R button in 0.6.1., it takes the snap shot and the game goes on afterwards. Do other people encounter the same problem?
I personally suggest not to put snap shot as the default function for R button, as I always hit is during I play the game.

I don't know where this crash is coming from, but even when it works these snapshots are a nuisance, because most of the time you press accidentally the trigger. Someone suggested to have select + L trigger and select + R trigger instead of the trigger alone, I think it's a good idea...

[fakk2]

I think thats a good idea also Zelurker. ;D

START + R = SNAPSHOTS

START + L = MENU

The Select button is "Pause" on NeoGeo games, while Start mainly does nothing during a game. So please don't use Select.

;D it would be fantastic!

BTW my BIG post is updated.

[youaho]

I don't understand why my roms zip don't play music

[fakk2]

this is a NeoGeoCD emulator, so it does not play normal NeoGeo Zipped roms, it plays zipped NeoGeoCD files plus MP3 files.

If you have a NeoGeoCD zipped file plus the MP3 you simply take the zip and put it in a folder with the same name as the zip files name, then in that folder create another folder and cll it NEOCD.MP3 and then put the MP3 files in that folder. the MP3s names should be according to thier track. ie: Track02.mp3, Track03.mp3, Track04.mp3 etc.. etc..


Also Zelurker, I want to add these, though I got them as ISO/MP3s on the net so results might be different from the real cd.

3 Count Bout - Seems to work with soundfx and Music.

ADK World - Seems to work with soundfx and Music.

Art of Fighting - works with soundfx and usic (voices sound a bit buggy to me, like being spoken to fast)

Baseball Stars Professional - Plays fine with soundfx and Music.

Breakers - Broken lol on mine anyways, everytime I begin with SHO and about 10 seconds into fighting it makes a ding sound and the system locks up and the screen fades out to black and the system shuts off.

like I said, these are ISO/MP3s from the net so the real games might prove better results. Please test out Breakers and AOF for me please (anyone) and see if you get the same results.

[zelurker]

Art of fighting : yes I know. It's a strange bug and probably hard to fix.
For the iso/mp3 : almost all the games I use on the psp right now are from the net in iso/mp3, very fast to convert to psp, ideal for me. So don't worry about the quality of these, usually they work very well.
Breakers : didn't know.

I'll take probably more time for next version. I don't like the fact that the game files can get corrupted so easily so I'll take time to try to fix this...

About Start + trigger : select + trigger might be a better choice, because if you take start it becomes almost impossible to take a snapshot of a demo of a game ! On the other hand if the game goes to pause if you take a snapshot or go to the menu it isn't a big deal at all.

[youaho]

thanks for help me fakk2

Samourai Spirits RPG - Seems to work with soundfx and Music (unzipped)

[talisma]

t2000 said:

talisma said:

Can someone explain to me why all my zipped roms dont play music but only sound

Edit : Found why and resolve the problem

put your findings down here so other users with the same problem will see, and not have to ask again..

To have your music files work in zipped games the games data should be zipped, not the mp3.
an example of mine :

ms0:/neocd/gameX/gameX.zip
ms0:/neocd/gameX/neocd.mp3/gameX.mp3

an example with kof95

ms0:/neocd/king of fighter 95/king of fighter 95.zip
ms0:/neocd/king of fighter 95/neocd.mp3/king of fighter 95 track xx.mp3

Hope it would help some people


About the ID = 0003 is copy protection error it seems like the patch.prg don't work. You must patch your game. For that you have to read the tutorial written by fakk2.

[zelurker]

Update on the bugs :
I finally found the bug which made the sound effects to die after 3 or 4 games. It was a stupid mistake of the original author of streams.c (probably yoyo then ?). Anyway this file was full of good ideas, but this particular part was stupid ! So it's fixed now.

The crash in breakers was a very bad one : it's still a bug in the upload area handling.
This area gives tons of problems since the begining, it's because nobody understands clearly how it's used so far. So I can fix it, but the risk is to break other games by doing it !
I guess I'll have to take my time and try a few games before releasing yet another version then...

Also I fixed a last bug about memory card corruption if you quit the program with the home key. In 0.6.2 already there should be no way to corrupt an mp3 left. If you succeed to corrupt a mp3, tell me how you did it !
And in the next release it should be safe to use the home key to quit in almost all situations (avoid it when you are in the middle of loading a game though !).

We should be much more stable then !
I can't test with the eboot loader of firmware 2.0 because I prefer to work with firmware 1.50.

[youaho]

I can confirm that Art of Fighting work but voices sound a bit buggy .

[samuraix]

I was not able to play mp3's from SS4 on NeoCD 0.6.2 or 0.6.1. My files are not corrupted. However, it seems that NeoCD 0.6.2 does not like something within the ID3 tag. The Fix is to remove ID3 tags Version 1 and 2 from the mp3's. After that I was enjoying my SS4 mp3s again. There is a free program to edit ID3 tags called "ID3-TagIT-Setup.exe" Hope this helps anyone else that has had MP3 Problems.