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Post by ditsydaizy on Apr 9, 2008 19:30:03 GMT 1
Ugh... believe me... it's no trick. I really can't figure it out.  ( But I'm still trying. I wouldn't know how to put it back onto the hard drive if I wanted to... lol, so can't do that. I am going to try a different game. Will let you know how it turns out. |
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Post by ditsydaizy on Apr 9, 2008 19:41:43 GMT 1
Okay.... question... Way back on yesterday's posts... _Em wrote: "Step 1: download the ljp.zip file from Metaview's weblog (not the one on little-john.net) to your PC."
This may be where I went wrong... I downloaded whatever it was on the little-john website that said "download". How do I get to the Metaview's weblog to download the other one?
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Post by countbuggula on Apr 9, 2008 19:53:04 GMT 1
Ah, well it's actually possible you're running out of space on your SD card. 4 MB is actually really tiny (unless you meant to write 4GB instead of MB). LJP alone takes up almost 2MB, and NES games can be close to 1MB each. Forget trying to put SNES games on that card, they won't fit. At best, even with nothing else on the card, you might be able to fit one or two NES or GameBoy games on it.
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Post by ditsydaizy on Apr 9, 2008 20:05:24 GMT 1
Oops... my bad... it is 4GB (not MB). After downloading the emulator on it yesterday, I still have 3754.9MB out of 3755.6MB... so plenty of extra space for games.
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Post by ditsydaizy on Apr 9, 2008 20:10:39 GMT 1
Okay... let me try to explain what I've got here... I think something is wrong. I download the game and saved it to my desktop... then I copied the game to Palm/Programs/LJP... and that's where the game sits now. After I get to the LJP folder, I don't have any /NES/Roms, so I can't put the game in whatever that is... Do you get what I'm saying? Or should I just delete everything from my SD card and start over?
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Post by ditsydaizy on Apr 9, 2008 20:19:47 GMT 1
Okay seriously... please don't laugh at me... how do I "unzip" the LJP-1.0rc8.zip file???
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Post by countbuggula on Apr 9, 2008 20:23:23 GMT 1
If you think you may have messed anything up, it never hurts to delete everything and start over. If you're using Windows XP, you don't even need WinZip or anything to unzip a file. Just double click on it and it'll open like any other folder. Create a new folder on your desktop and call it "temp" or "LJP" or whatever you want. Then just drag the files from the ljp.zip to the new folder and it's unzipped! Oh, and there's a newer version than RC8 (the website just hasn't been updated yet). Grab it here and use that one instead, as it has several new features and bugfixes. |
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Post by ditsydaizy on Apr 9, 2008 21:49:06 GMT 1
Oh my heck... you guys will NEVER believe what just happened....
I just got my very first game to work!!!!! SWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEET!!!
Now... if anyone can *quietly whisper in my ear* where I can find more games... such as the Marios, SNES games such as Marios and Mario Karts..., Sega games such as Sonic... etc. etc. etc... *I won't tell anyone... it will be our little secret* I would be really really really happy!!!
Anyone?!?!?!?!? Pretty please with cherries on top??? And whip cream and chocolate sprinkles???
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Post by countbuggula on Apr 9, 2008 22:32:00 GMT 1
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Post by _Em on Apr 9, 2008 22:44:48 GMT 1
Of course, without having the actual games to load to your device, getting the emulator installed will be next to useless. I think the first step is for you to learn about how emulation works on your desktop computer -- this will make working with a Palm emulator MUCH easier for you. Of course, I could be wrong... he might be happy with playing "Sack of Flour, Heart of Gold" via NES emulation... but then why not just download and play one of the many free games available for PalmOS?I guess these posts make more sense to you now  |
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Post by ditsydaizy on Apr 9, 2008 22:59:17 GMT 1
Gotcha.... *zzzziiiiippppppppp my mouth shut*  won't say another word about it. *sorry*  Well thank you very much to everyone who helped me get the emulator up and running! You were all a great help... even if you did laugh at me quite a bit...  I think I will change my name to "SmartyDaizy" now.  Thanks again... ya'll rock! |
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Post by icefire on Apr 9, 2008 23:06:15 GMT 1
Hey, it took me a few WEEKS to get LJP running the first time -- and I was using RC2 because all i knew of was yoyo's old site :-)
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Post by _Em on Apr 10, 2008 0:25:59 GMT 1
...of course we laughed at icefire too We all have a good sense of humour around here |
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Post by icefire on Apr 10, 2008 0:47:59 GMT 1
But i do have to say thanks because if it wasn't for LJP, i wouldn't have a Zodiac. You see, i found out about ljp and was playing it with the UDMH trial on the Zire72 for a while. But my trial ran out, so i was borrowing my friends Zodiac to use. Eventually i was borrowing it so much (he didn't use it) that he offered to "trade" it for my Zire. Of course i accepted :-)
BTW: _Em: your post on how to install should go somewhere...
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Post by countbuggula on Apr 10, 2008 2:51:26 GMT 1
BTW: _Em: your post on how to install should go somewhere... That is what the Wiki is for. Just as easily done by you as anyone else! |
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Post by _Em on Apr 10, 2008 16:11:50 GMT 1
Should be able to link to that on the Wiki too  Anyone know the URL? |
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Post by Tinnus on Apr 11, 2008 13:18:29 GMT 1
Now... if anyone can *quietly whisper in my ear* where I can find more games... such as the Marios, SNES games such as Marios and Mario Karts..., Sega games such as Sonic... etc. etc. etc... *I won't tell anyone... it will be our little secret* I would be really really really happy!!! You know, like they said it's illegal (not that the companies REALLY care nowadays, but it still is) and minly it's not allowed here, so you should really use your good sense for that. BTW I call mine Google. |
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Post by countbuggula on Apr 11, 2008 15:35:51 GMT 1
That and plenty of them have been re-released for GBA and DS. They're still trying to milk money out of the oldies-but-goodies.
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Post by Tinnus on Apr 12, 2008 1:39:30 GMT 1
I really can't see someone in their right mind re-paying for 15-year-old games. I mean, it's Ok for new folks to buy SNES games for 3.99 or something, but most people that do it actually already played them before, and are effectively re-buying the stuff, just like the entire PSP-PS1 idea. At least the Wii and PSP can have homebrew/hacks to emulate games you already own |
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Post by samphex on Apr 12, 2008 4:27:57 GMT 1
I really can't see someone in their right mind re-paying for 15-year-old games. I mean, it's Ok for new folks to buy SNES games for 3.99 or something, but most people that do it actually already played them before, and are effectively re-buying the stuff, just like the entire PSP-PS1 idea. At least the Wii and PSP can have homebrew/hacks to emulate games you already own But the problem with the psp is the fact you must downgrade to 1.5 so one loses SO MANY features like remote play. |
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Post by Tinnus on Apr 12, 2008 14:06:39 GMT 1
Um, no. That was like 2 years ago  Nowadays you have the thing called a "custom firmware" which is basically the latest official version by Sony but hacked to enable homebrew and more stuff. |
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Post by Tinnus on Apr 12, 2008 15:19:54 GMT 1
Um, no. That was like 1 year ago Nowadays you have the thing called a "pandora battery" which is basically a regular PSP battery that was soft-modified by an unlocked PSP and you can use in any one other PSP (Slims included) to install any firmware onto it. |
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Post by samphex on Apr 12, 2008 17:41:09 GMT 1
oh.
Me did not know that.
Me is dumb about psps.
Is there a good tutorial anywhere on that?
I'm sure my friend would love to play mario on his psp.
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Post by Tinnus on Apr 13, 2008 0:58:46 GMT 1
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Post by samphex on Apr 13, 2008 4:24:27 GMT 1
neato! Just one last question. With all the things set up and there's maybe 2 or three roms(snes or gba...perhaps even ps1), how any megabytes will it take up? My friend refuses to buy a memory card other than the one that came with the PSP |
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Post by Tinnus on Apr 13, 2008 16:09:11 GMT 1
You know the sizes of the games... SNES anre tipically 2-4MB, GBA are 4-32MB and PS1 are CDs of anything from 50 to 700MB.
Your friend won't be able to do anything with a stock 32MB card other than saving data and web browsing, really.
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Post by samphex on Apr 13, 2008 16:31:25 GMT 1
You know the sizes of the games... SNES anre tipically 2-4MB, GBA are 4-32MB and PS1 are CDs of anything from 50 to 700MB. Your friend won't be able to do anything with a stock 32MB card other than saving data and web browsing, really. Once I tell my friend that I'm pretty sure he'll rush out to get a 4 gig memory card. |
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Post by c4jamz on Apr 13, 2008 21:07:02 GMT 1
when i install the program i dont get the folder to put the nes roms
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Post by icefire on Apr 13, 2008 23:16:46 GMT 1
I would make the folder...
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Post by Tinnus on Apr 13, 2008 23:35:41 GMT 1
Yeah, that's not exactly hard, although I thought LJP created the directories? At least I'm pretty sure it creates the NES, SNES, etc ones.
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( But I'm still trying. I wouldn't know how to put it back onto the hard drive if I wanted to... lol, so can't do that. I am going to try a different game. Will let you know how it turns out.
won't say another word about it. *sorry* 
I think I will change my name to "SmartyDaizy" now. 
Anyone know the URL?
