Homebrew Genplus GX 1.7.0

[TheWon]

If you want to hear the music in the game then you have to go with bin and cue, for example I was playing Sega Arcade using an ISO file and all I could hear was the sound of the punches when playing Streets of Rage then I got a bin and cue version of the game and I could hear the music as well.

So your saying for the Sega CD if I just have the ISO. It will play just not with sound. Ok I will try again.

Nevermind after looking an PC Emulator I figured it out, and got it running. Finally Silpheed on my Wii! YES YES YES YES YES YES YES!!!!!!!!!

That's right, unfortunately Iso/MP3 are not supported now, but it will be in the near future.

Like I said thanks for the help! I got it working and lucky for me Slipheed has sound in the ISO. So when I play it it's Sega CD prefect. It's the only game I want to play so I'm just fine.

 

[lovewiibrew]

Haven't had a chance to check out the sega cd stuff yet but does it let you browse by covers by chance?

 

[somechris]

I'm using the wiimote with motion plus inside and a classic controller pro. For some reason, after updating to the latest version of genplus gx when I try to turn on cheats for genesis games, (+) deletes cheats and (-) enables them. Before, it was the opposite behavior and the menu's suggest (+) to enable, etc. I dunno if anyone else tried this, but it's weird...

 

[lovewiibrew]

Anyone notice that Sonic CD lags? Maybe it's just been too long since I played it on the real thing but I feel like it lags more than it should.

 

[Jacobeian]

Sonic CD always lagged much more than the Genesis versions, especially when you go hit or when there are many enemies on screen. No idea why but i remember this from the first time i played it on a Sega CD. The 3d stages were also slow as hell, they seem a little faster on emulator .

 

[OriginalHamster]

The problem I have with Sonic CD is there´s not music during gameplay :\

 

[Jacobeian]

Considering CD audio tracks are not emulated, that's normal lol...
The only sounds that are playing for me are sound effects and some music in future/past levels, because those levels probably use genesis sound hardware instead (to make it like playing original sonic games maybe ?)

 

[Sheimi]

The past music in Sonic CD is playing from the PCM chip and the rest is redbook audio. I never got some future music to play in Sonic CD.

 

[lovewiibrew]

Well I tried a different dump/bios and it runs much faster now. However it always freezes when beating zone 3 of the first world so back to the drawing board.

Edit: Tried 2.21 and 1.10 bios, 2 different dumps od Sonic CD NTSC-U and game still blackscreens after beating 3rd zone of first world.

 

[Jacobeian]

You are right, it's only the past levels that use sound chips, not sure why i remembered both had it.

@lovewiibrew: PAL versions are notoriously running slower, that could explain why it seemed so slow i think

About the freezing, i think it has been fixed in svn builds, check the googlecode page. I didn't tried it yet but saw some discussions about it in the issue page. Also, it seems that the game still saves despites it froze so you can reset and choose the continue option from the title screen and play next area.

 

[OriginalHamster]

Considering CD audio tracks are not emulated, that's normal lol...
The only sounds that are playing for me are sound effects and some music in future/past levels, because those levels probably use genesis sound hardware instead (to make it like playing original sonic games maybe ?)

lol, yep, only sound fx, even the intro song plays fine =P

 

[Jate]

The emulator locked up when I made a save state on a Genesis/Megadrive game.

It doesn´t happen to me, but I can not load save state from version 1.6. Is it normal?

 

[the_randomizer]

Yep. Savestates are never compatible from version to version due to changes in the code. Use in-game saves as well.

 

[HylianLink]

=O

Can someone test Snatcher Please ??

Works.. until the part that you enter the car to go to the factory.

 

[Clarky]

understandable there, the game tries to play a certain audio track there to progress the game, if cdda etc isnt supported yet no wonder the game cannot progress

 

[Jacobeian]

It goes past the turbocycle sequence actually, but you have to wait a few minutes (not sure what the length of the audio track originally was).
There seem to be a bunch of fixes related to Snatcher in SVN though...

 

[Centrix]

ok what gives I got the bios renamed it like I was suppose to but it keeps telling me Error "unable to open bios_CD_U.bin" I have it renamed to that and its in my bios folder any ideas please thanks

 

[ploggy]

Now with CDDA track emulation 1.7.1 released.

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Genesis Plus GX 1.7.1 (13/10/2012) (Eke-Eke)
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[Core/SCD]
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* added support for CUE files
* added CD-DA tracks emulation (needs CUE+BIN or ISO+WAV images)
* added CD fader emulation
* added CDD "Fast FW" & "Fast RW" commands emulation
* improved CDD TOC emulation (random freezes in Sonic CD, Switch/Panic, Final Fight CD and probably many others)
* improved PCM chip synchronization with SUB-CPU (missing speeches in Willy Beamish)
* fixed PCM chip emulation (random hangs in Snatcher, missing sound effects in Switch/Panic, Final Fight CD, Wonderdog...)
* fixed Word-RAM memory mode on soft-reset (missing logo gfx effects)
* fixed SUB-CPU access to unused areas when using PC-relative instructions (Final Fight CD first boss random crash)
* fixed CPU idle loop detection on memory mode register access (Pugsy CD first boss slowdown)
* fixed Mode 1 emulation (cartridge boot mode)

[Core/Sound]
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* replaced FIR resampler by Blip Buffer for FM resampling
* modified SN76489 core for use of Blip Buffer
* improved PSG & FM chips synchronization using Blip Buffer
* added Game Gear PSG stereo support
* fixed SG-1000 specific PSG noise
* fixed YM2612 LFO AM waveform (California Games surfing event)
* fixed YM2612 phase precision
* minor optimizations to YM2612 core

[Core/Game Gear]
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* added support for CJ Elephant Fugitive (recently released by SMS Power)
* added Game Gear extended screen option

[Core/Genesis]
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* added support for a few recently dumped (but unreleased) games

[Core/General]
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* improved ROM & CD image file loading
* various code cleanup

[Gamecube/Wii]
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* added automatic disc swap feature
* removed automatic frameskipping (no use)
* improved general audio/video sync
* various code cleanup & bugfixes

http://code.google.c...7.1.7z&can=2&q=

 

[corey89]

Nice! From the sound of it, it doesn't support OGG yet though, right?

 

[lovewiibrew]

Yay! Thanks to eke-eke for the update!