2 Questions: Mario Paint + Comix Zone

[andddlay]

Hello all, I'm having a few issues.

1.) I have a Mario Paint rom that is on my Palm TX, and I can't move the curser (because the game was originally made for a joystick on Super Nintendo). Is there a way to play this game on my TX? or should I just delete the rom?

2.) I have a Comix Zone rom on Genesis section in LJP. When I load it with the "C" engine, it loads fine, but it's insanely slow even when I change the "Frameskip." And when I change it to "ASM", the game goes pretty fast, but it often displays half a screen and becomes pretty glitchy. Or, when I jump into another comic section, I disappear. Also, the sound on all of my roms on Genisis don't have sound anymore. What can I do to fix these problems?

Could anyone please help? Thank you very much!

[Tinnus]

2) Use the C core. The ASM one is faster at the cost of compatibility.

[andddlay]

But how can I make it go faster? When I use "C," it goes really really slow. Is there a way to do # 1? Thank for the reply!

[_Em]

To make it go faster, overclock your device. The TX can comfortably overclock to 520MHz (some can go as high as 624MHz).

[andddlay]

Do you suggest an application to overclock? I think I used to have PXAClocker or something like that, but didn't use it.

[_Em]

PXAClocker and WarpSpeed are the standard; I've heard that LightSpeed now works for the TX too.

[andddlay]

Sweet, I'll try it as soon as I can. What about Mario Paint? Can I do anything?

[andddlay]

Also, I heard that clockers can ruin the device. Is this true?

[Tinnus]

No. The only occurrence we have of that is Dmitry Grinberg destroying his TX because he tried to force something crazy like 700MHz. All overclockers have some real limits, and you should use your common sense as well (ie: don't overclock a stock 126Mhz to 1GHz). In general, no current chip can go higher than 624 MHz, but most programs will not allow anyway.

If a chip isn't stable in a certain speed, most likely your device will just soft reset. If it's not an NTFS (the TX is), some times the excessive overclock can cause RAM data corruption and the device is hard resetted. In any case, nothing unrecoverable.

Hardware-wise, word is that clocking anything higher generates more heat and decreases the life of the electronic parts; that's valid in any direction though, and is a fairly useless point as well. You could say people should underclock to 50MHz to make their devices last until 2050, but who will need that anyway? You'll get rid of it before it breaks, just like your kitchen oven and laundry machine. My old Zire (no number, 4 shades of black) used to be overclocked like 5 years ago and is still working. My old T|E (about 3 years old) went through all kinds of crazy stuff like overclocking very high and bet-testing UDMH and other hacks, and is also perfectly fine.

Geez, that's quite the speech. Anyone wants to make into an article?

[metaview]

Well, I don't change my kitchen oven or my laundry machine before they break. Well, the laundry machines had always some years duty in my parents home before they moved into my flat :-)

[andddlay]

Great, thank you metaview, Tinnus. amd _Em

[andddlay]

Say I overclock it to 400, will my TX be safe?

[Tinnus]

I said above. Try it, if it doesn't start to reset itself or any other odd behavior, you're OK. The chance of actually breaking your device are ridiculously minimal.

[andddlay]

Ok, thank you very much.

[biraneto2]

For Mario Paint to work the SNES mouse should be emulated. Some emulators like ZSNES do this. I consider it to be a nice idea as some other games also use the mouse (like Civilization)