Homebrew GBARunner2

[Pomegrenade]

I do. You can do that on a Mac With devkitpro for Mac.....

ok

 

[GBAFail]

Windows 10 is not free if you don't update from 7/8.1

Of course it's always "free" if that is what you mean.

Why do you need a virtual machine? There is a working Mac version of devkitpro. I had to edit a script to get it to work on 10.10+ though, but I forgot how. I think it was replacing the "if uname Darwin" line with if true.

Actually it lets you use the trial period forever. It's like WinRAR.

 

[Pomegrenade]

Actually it lets you use the trial period forever.

Yeah that's what i meant, thanks

 

[Deleted User]

Hello @Gericom.

How is development going? Do you have an approximate release date for the next Update?

 

[Gericom]

Hello @Gericom.

How is development going? Do you have an approximate release date for the next Update?

I'm sorry that I didn't make much progress in the past weeks, but I've been busy with a couple of other projects and my study. I'll work on this soon again.

 

[Deleted User]

No Problem. I´m glad you are still working on it.

 

[Pomegrenade]

No Problem. I´m glad you are still working on it.

Of course he's still working on it, he's a legend!

 

[froggestspirit]

if this ends up being a reliable replacement to slot 2, I'll have to do some modifications to my GameBoy Macro. not having a GBA slot would free up a lot of space

 

[Pomegrenade]

if this ends up being a reliable replacement to slot 2, I'll have to do some modifications to my GameBoy Macro. not having a GBA slot would free up a lot of space

As of now it's a pretty good slot-2 replacement and one of the best nds homebrews i've seen in a while TBH!

 

[metroid maniac]

As of now it's a pretty good slot-2 replacement and one of the best nds homebrews i've seen in a while TBH!

Really? Unless compatibility and speed spiked suddenly while I wasn't looking I don't think so.

 

[Gericom]

Really? Unless compatibility and speed spiked suddenly while I wasn't looking I don't think so.

It really depends on the game indeed. Games like mario kart super circuit play mostly like they would play in gba mode (except that saving still has to be implemented, sorry about that) but there are other games that have slowdowns. I hope to improve on that, but there will be some point after which optimization won't be possible anymore.

 

[Pomegrenade]

It really depends on the game indeed. Games like mario kart super circuit play mostly like they would play in gba mode (except that saving still has to be implemented, sorry about that) but there are other games that have slowdowns. I hope to improve on that, but there will be some point after which optimization won't be possible anymore.

Yeah, like Gericom said, and also Zelda and stuff need a gba .bios file

 

[Gericom]

Yeah, like Gericom said, and also Zelda and stuff need a gba .bios file

Correction, all games need a bios file, cause gbarunner2 boots the bios first.

 

[Pomegrenade]

Correction, all games need a bios file, cause gbarunner2 boots the bios first.

Oh ok, sorry didnt know that, cuz I play mostly Zelda on GBARunner2

 

[SLiV3R]

Really cool to see NDS hb! Hope this will get improved. Good luck with further development!

 

[Deleted User]

Gericom updated the Master and File Explorer Branch of GBARunner2 today. You find the compiled Versions below.
After adding file creation functionality, the File Explorer Branch is 3 commits ahead of the master. Should I add this one as an Update to the wiki @Gericom?

 

[Gericom]

Gericom updated the Master and File Explorer Branch of GBARunner2 today. You find the compiled Versions below.
After adding file creation functionality, the File Explorer Branch is 3 commits ahead of the master. Should I add this one as an Update to the wiki @Gericom?

I'm still working on something. It says file creation, but the save creation is disabled atm. I have the code on my pc to read save files (no write yet), I'll commit that later. So you don't have to put this update on the wiki.

 

[Deleted User]

I'm still working on something. It says file creation, but the save creation is disabled atm. I have the code on my pc to read save files (no write yet), I'll commit that later. So you don't have to put this update on the wiki.

Okay. Thanks for your reply.

 

[Gericom]

Okay, so I noticed that the freezing in Wario Land 4 and Mario and Luigi Superstar Saga seem to origine from the same issue. It seems to be a dma related problem as I am able to advance frames by setting the dma3 enable bit from within the IS-NITRO-DEBUGGER software. I was even able to advance enough frames in Superstar Saga to make the game continue on it's own. I really wonder what's the thing with this.

Edit: It becomes stranger, even by simply reloading registers or break/continue I can make it continue. How weird?

Edit2: It is definitly a timing problem. If I slow down execution by adding about 70.000 clock cycles to the interrupt handler, mario and luigi does not freeze

Edit3: I managed to lower the number of idle clockcycles needed per irq to about 8.192 by doing it before checking if it's a gbarunner arm7 sound irq (which means it is done more frequently). Both mario and luigi and wario land 4 are fixed by that. I'm gonna look if I can bring the number down some more

Look here for more information: https://github.com/Gericom/GBARunner2/issues/16

 

[Deleted User]

Another update for the File explorer branch. Writing has not been implemented yet, but you can at least load your
save files. They should have the same name as the gba file but instead of .gba they should be .sav