Neocdpsp v0.8 !

[zelurker]

Ok for the bg picture, blou, it seems more appropriate than the current one !

[fakk2]

Zelurker, I have made some videos of Samurai Spirits RPG Intro and some ingame videos as well. Plus I have a few Intro Videos for you: Ninja Combat, Art of Fighting, 2020 Super Baseball (for timing purposes), Master of Syougi, and a Baseball Stars Professional HOME RUN! PLUS many more... Compare the video's with the emulator and it will be easier for you to fix.

[blou]

Zeluerker, and that icon?

[vvoltz]

Hi!!, first, awesome Job on the Emu!, you are the King!!

But I have a small bug to report, Big Tournament Golf/Neo Turf Masters has a huge glitch now, when you aim the shot the background starts to shake!!. It is unplayable now.

[fakk2]

LIST OF TESTED GAMES BY FAKK2

2020 Super Baseball - Works with soundfx and Music.

3 Count Bout - Works with soundfx and Music.

ADK World - Works with soundfx and Music.

Aero Fighters 2 - Works with soundfx and Music. (One small glitch, when you get to the last stage and restart level the music does not restart from the beginning.)

Aero Fighters 3 - Works with soundfx and Music. (One slight glitch, IL2 STORMOVI Bomb makes its own music, and stage music does not restart after the bomb music plays.

Aggressors of Dark Kombat - Works with soundfx and Music.

Alpha Mission II - Works with soundfx and Music.

Art of Fighting - Works with soundfx and Music. (the end of the intro AoF sign glitches.

Art of Fighting 2 - Still has the fatal bug for 85% Speed.. Game works at Speeds 100%, 115% or 130%.

Art of Fighting 3 - Works with soundfx and Music.

Baseball Stars Professional - Works with soundfx and Music. (Slight glitch, everytime you get a homerun, the words Homerun get stuck on the screen when its not supposed to be there anymore. glitch lasts 2 seconds or so.

Baseball Stars 2 - Works with soundfx and Music.

Blue's Journey - Works with soundfx and Music. (slight soundfx bug still, when you stay in one spot for too long the words GO!---> appear on the screen and make a sound. The sound on the emulator is garbled and not played back properly. Same with the sound of the clanging bells near the end of the first level. when they clang together each time your supposed to hear "Cliiiiiiiing!, Cliiiiiing!" instead you hear "Clii-" Clii-" and the rest of the soundfx cut out. and one other noticable thing is the set animations are now a smidgen too slow. barely noticable, but compared back to back with the real hardware the waterfall is going just a tad too slow now. But thats better than fast as a speeding bullet.

Breakers - Works with soundfx and Music. (Tiny, barely noticable glitch on one tiny part of the intro. When you get near the end of the intro (Demonstration) two guys are going to clash fists together (right after the picture of the girl). but before they do that they fly up from the background looking at each other. The guy on the right hand side has a very very tiny glitch appear under his leg during that scene in the intro, it happens for a split second everytime. very hard to notice but its there.

Burning Fight - Works with soundfx and Music. (one flaw found. When you hop onto the train in stage 2, the train has glitches, parts of it appear floating in the air. the rest of the game works fine)

Crossed Swords - Works with soundfx and Music. (one soundfx bug I found is when you choose the first stage and the guy runs up to you and asks for help, a rat comes from the side and slices him in the back. the soundfx that play for the slice sound are not correctly played back. Other soundfx in the game also sound off like when you get gold or magic or gain a level or when the score counts up etc...)

Crossed Swords II - Works with soundfx and Music. (same type of sound fx bugs as part one)

Cyber-Lip - Works with soundfx and Music. (Slight graphical glitches found, example: when the intro is over and the logo CYBER-IP is appearing lines are running through the words which is not normal.)

Double Dragon - Works with soundfx and Music.

Fatal Fury - Works with soundfx and Music.

Fatal Fury 2 - Works with soundfx and Music. (sound fx bugs after you win the very first fight and the tv screen shows the people cheering for you at the Pao Pao Cafe, it has a sound fx bug , you hear Thud!, final round , Fight, Double KO, Blam! etc.... when you arent supposed to hear anything but cheering and the sound of the tv screen, its kinda tough to explain.)

Fatal Fury Special - Works with soundfx and Music.

Fatal Fury 3 - Works with soundfx and Music.

Final Romance 2 - Works with soundfx and Music.

Football Frenzy - Works with soundfx and Music.

Galaxy Fight - Works with soundfx and Music. (BG's Shake out of control for some unknown reason. Still missing floor on some stages. If the game is Paused and then unpaused the music quits playing.)

Ghost Pilots - Works with soundfx and Music.

Gowcaizer - Works with soundfx and music.

Ironclad Brikinger - Works with soundfx and Music.

Kabuki Klash - Works with soundfx and Music.

Karnov's Revenge - Works with soundfx and Music. (has floor issues still) (black squares can be seen on each background, Right and Left hand side of each arena floor.)

King of Fighters '94 - Fatal Crash! Simply choose "How to Play" and the PSP system hangs and turns off. Intro looks buggy at the end when title logo appears.

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

King of Fighters '96 Collection - Works with soundfx and Music. (From the menu choose SOUND PLAY, then choose OPTION and hit X twice. It will take you to the ART Gallery, Strange lines appear while changing pictures in HARDWARE mode, but these lines do not appear under SOFTWARE mode. These lines are not supposed to be in there and this happens on alot of games.)

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.

King of Fighters '99 - Works with soundfx and Music.

King of the Monsters 2 - Works with soundfx and Music.

Last Blade - Works with soundfx and Music.

Last Blade 2 - Works with soundfx and Music. (Fatal Crash if you try to watch DEMO B under the options menu.)

Last Resort - Works with soundfx and Music.

League Bowling - Works with soundfx and Music.

Magician Lord - Works with soundfx and Music.

Magical Drop 2 - Works with soundfx and Music.

Mah-Jong Kyo Retsuden - Works with soundfx and Music.

Master of Syougi - Works with soundfx and Music. (but at the title screen at the end of the intro is not yet perfectly emulated. The BIG Japanese words of Shogi are supposed to be right underneath itself not off to the left side of the screen and its supposed to be moving around like a reflection in the water and the water itself is supposed to be moving around as well like wavey not just from side to side, but emulation is getting closer on this game.)

Metal Slug - Works with soundfx and Music.

Metal Slug 2 - Works with soundfx and Music.

Mutation Nation - Works with soundfx and Music.

Nam-1975 - Works with soundfx and Music.

Neo Drift Out: New Technology - Broken. Freezes up if you try to play the game or watch the full game demo.

Neo Turf Masters - Works with soundfx and Music. (But, the game graphics get jumpy just like in Galaxy Fight if you try to shoot the ball to the sides)

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

Ninja Combat - Works with soundfx and Music. (Still missing long sound effect in the intro when the symbol is coming towards the screen.)

Ninja Commando - Works with soundfx and Music. (slight bad sound fx, when selecting EASY-MVS you are supposed to hear the Neo-Geo jingle sound instead you hear brrrrrrerer... real fast and then nothing then it repeats every 7 seconds..and its a little off on some sounds like when picking up the coins..)

Ninja Masters - Works with soundfx and Music.

[zelurker]

blou : when I click on the picture, I arrive to the main page of the site, not to your image :
imageshack.us/

And the picture displayed in your message is cut in 2 by some kind of horizontal white line ?!!

[fakk2]

Zelurker, you now have quite a few different videos to watch and compare with the emulator. Once those bugs get fixed many less bugs will be in other games. Let me know what you think about the quality of the videos and such. I Hope it helps you out alot, as it took quite a while to find some of these bugs and to make the videos. What can I say, I love Neo-Geo.

[zelurker]

Yeah well you know this is not exactly the kind of bug easy to fix !
You'll have to be patient, because it will probably take way much more time to fix them than to find them and take the videos...
But thanks anyway, it's rather interesting, and I already have a few ideas to try... !

[fakk2]

sounds fantastic! Glad to be of some help.

I'm not trying to rush you at all, just thought this way would help make the emulator to be as close to perfect as we can get, in the end results.

[blou]

zerlurker send me by mp your email and i will send you the images.

[zelurker]

Why there won't be any new release today :

well Fakk2 sent to me some nice videos on friday, and on some of them you can hear that clearly some games are missing some sounds. This is the kind of thing which gets me quite frustrated. So I decided to start on Samurai spirits rpg, because the missing sounds were quite obvious and easy to test.

I started by the "easiest" possible cause : a bug in the sound emulation. I decided to try another ym2610 emulation from raine. Well it wasn't the cause, even with the other emulation I still get exactly the same problem. But at least I found that the sound didn't play because the program didn't find where the samples were located exactly (which doesn't make any sense).

Then 2nd possible cause : a bug in the Z80 emulation. Well Cz80 looks like a very good z80 emulator, but you never know... I decided to test with mz80 on the sdl version of neocd, and to take the one from raine instead of the standard one because this one was patched to work with hundreds of games.
After a few hours : I get exactly the same problem with mz80 !

At this point I was starting to get very puzzled. A last idea : if the program looses the precise location of the samples then maybe it's a problem in the way samples are loaded ? I decided to remove the patch in the bios (the one which is there since the neocd for dos which was released in 1998 !), and do things differently. After a few more hours and lots of bugs, I could load files directly without patching the bios, but I was geting exactly the same problem...

And then I noticed that I was geting the same problem but with a difference, the program was trying to access lots of upload areas it didn't try to access before ! I changed the handling of the upload area to allow it to change the memory of the z80... and miracle !!! It finally found its samples, and now samurai spirits rpg seems to have all its sounds !!!

Wow !
Now all this was done on the sdl version of neocd, I must back port all of this to the psp version.
And I don't know if I should take back the new ym2610 emulation or not ? I will probably give it a try at least, it's more complete, and we'll probably need it one day.

So it's already 10:45pm here, and I don't want to rush things at this point.
It's working, so I am going to quietly adapt all this to the psp version and it will be released later !

Well luckily the weather was not very good this week-end, so I was able to spend a LOT of time on neocd!

[fakk2]

wow, I am glad you figured out the problems with some sound fx. This is wonderfull news indeed.

List has been slightly updated with a few more games.

Galaxy Fight and KOF 94 has issues.

Hardware mode bug found using KOF96 Collection. Similar bug is in NAM75 , Baseball 2020, and other games that use the same type of picture unfolding technique.

[limbo]

I hate asking for stuff because this emulator is the best thing that ever happened to my psp in months and all the hard work you put on it, but if you have a little time spare, can you make an option on the menu to turn off that screenshot mode? I have really big fingers and I keep pressing that thing by accident all the time... It kind of freezes my game for almost ten seconds o__O

[fakk2]

That is the reason why there is a select lock option on the menu.

[zelurker]

Yep the concept of select lock is even pushed further in the current dev version, but sorry it also has new bugs so I need more time.
And I played with a wireless router yesterday (pspradio is really a wonderfull application, probably the most usefull hombrew ever made until now !).
But anyway, with time, it will come...

[jfc]

...hey guys,ive got neocdpsp v0.8 on my psp v2.60 and it worked well,but no sound,then ive tryied v0.9 and it didnt work,so i put v0.8 back on my psp and it didnt work aswell,can u hellp me plz,thx,if u can get my email,thx...