Uncharted Waters: New Horizons (Help requested)

[schneider21]

First of all, I'd like to thank Yoyofr and anyone else associated with developing snes9xTYL. It's an amazingly designed piece of software as far as I'm concerned, and having all these old classics with me on long trips will be a joy.

I'm pretty late to the game when it comes to modding my PSP and enjoying homebrew programs, and as such, please have patience with my lack of knowledge on the subject. I'm using a PSP3000 running ChickHEN R2 and 5.03 Gen A custom firmware. The version of snes9xTYL I'm using is 0.4.2 ME 3.xx, I believe.

On to business. My favorite all time SNES game is Uncharted Waters New Horizons, which for the most part runs beautifully on this emulator. There are a few problems I've run into, however, and I was hoping someone from the community here could help me address them.

1 - When saving a state, many times the game freezes up and a solid tone plays. I've read about the sound issue with games, but they don't mention it freezing up like mine does. I've tried the workaround using Super Pang, but it didn't seem to improve my situation any. It is possible, I should note, to go back to the menu by pressing the PS button, but the game itself is locked up and that save state is useless from that point.

2 - Using the game's save system doesn't seem to work, either. Any time I go to load a saved game from the starting menu, I get a message from the game saying the data is damaged and I'll need to start over. Any settings from the emulator that might be causing this?

3 - Cheat codes don't work. Game Genie and etc. I'd heard something about Ruku's version having this enabled, but I was confused enough just trying to find Yoyofr's latest version of the software, and now looking at different guys' builds of the same software has me all kinds of confused.

It doesn't seem like these boards are too active, and I've no doubt it's because I'm so behind in the times, but if anyone's around and could offer some help, I'd really appreciate it! Thanks in advance!

[exenteth]

I'm surprised you got Yoyofr's to run on a psp3000 - I was under the impression that none of the cfw on the psp3000 could incoroporate the 1.5 kernel (like the slim) and so none of yoyofr's builds could on it - only chillywilly's versions...

For the rest I will have to investigate... the save state issue certainly doesn't sound like the sound problem we were having originally.. cheat codes simply won't work, I don't think chillywilly fixed them in his version but I could be wrong - Ruka's build did fix them and it's the one I'm running

[schneider21]

Hmm. Well, like I said, I'm still pretty new to the scene, so I don't know for a fact I'm running Yoyofr's build. All I know for sure is that it's 0.4.2 ME.

I wonder if the savestate issue I'm having is because the program isn't optimized to work on the PSP 3000, possibly due to this 1.5 kernel issue that I ashamedly admit I know nothing about.

From what I understand, Ruka had his build taken down from mod sites or whatnot. Does that mean it would be frowned upon to ask where to get a copy of that version here?

[exenteth]

I honestly don't know where you'd get a copy, it's been years since I last got mine

Do you know where you got the one you're running now? An easy way to know if you have the 1.5 kernel or not is simply this: did you install a "1.5 addon" for your custom firmware? if not then it's very likely you're running chillywilly's build, but I'm not sure where to download that one either.. Ruka's wouldn't work without the 1.5 kernel (i.e. it wouldn't even start up) so it's not really an option unless you go through the trouble of getting the time machine running on your system... it's not THAT complicated but it does take a pandora battery I think (been a while since I did that too)

[schneider21]

I THINK I got it from psp300hacks.com, but that might have been a different version which led me to Google the most recent version. It IS chilly willy's version, I found, and it's designed for Slims, which as far as I know aren't TOO different from 3000s, so it works but maybe with a few kinks (such as the savestate issue I seem to be having).

As far as the 1.5 kernel stuff goes, I definitely don't have any such thing running. I've read bits about time machines and pandora batteries, but since I got CFW to work without using any of that stuff, I really haven't looked into it much.

Thanks for your help clearing this up for me, exententh. I was expecting months to go by before I saw a response on here for how slow these boards seem to be! Haha

[exenteth]

I think I'm the only one that bothers to check this board daily.. and even there I'm not entirely sure why lol

Yeah unfortunately I don't know much about chillywilly's version... or the psp 3000 for that matter... could be that the save state locking up is a result of running those together... I haven't heard of the problem from anyone else using chillywilly's build anyways

Your best bet would be to set up the time machine but as I said it requires a pandora battery (you can actually make your own now that you're running custom firmware... but I'm not sure of the psp 3000's capabilities in this regard)