Either. I may not a God of Programming, but I know a very good amount and I could possibly help.Also, most people either want everything handed to them, are just too shy/unsure of themselves to help (I've experienced that), or don't want to screw anything up and be exiled for trying to help. Some people just cannot provide help, such as not having a DSTWO to test or don't know any programming.
I'm very attentive and, as my professor put it, "notice the things that 99.99...[said "9" a bunch of times]...% of people never will. Hell, even the programmers don't care about it!"
P.S. Just give me the things that you are waiting until the very end to do so that there won't be any interference. That, and you won't notice your work being changed "behind your back". (Not to mention wasting your time doing so...)
Either. I may not a God of Programming, but I know a very good amount and I could possibly help.Also, most people either want everything handed to them, are just too shy/unsure of themselves to help (I've experienced that), or don't want to screw anything up and be exiled for trying to help. Some people just cannot provide help, such as not having a DSTWO to test or don't know any programming.
I'm very attentive and, as my professor put it, "notice the things that 99.99...[said "9" a bunch of times]...% of people never will. Hell, even the programmers don't care about it!"
P.S. Just give me the things that you are waiting until the very end to do so that there won't be any interference. That, and you won't notice your work being changed "behind your back". (Not to mention wasting your time doing so...)
Well then, here's my late TODO list:
* Sleep during emulation if KEY_LID is pressed (input.c).
* Transplant the quick sort method from CATSFC into TempGBA (gui.c).
* Look into removing unneeded MIPS NOPs in recompiled GBA code (mips_emit.h).
* Look into removing unneeded instructions in mips_stub.S.
You could also try hooking fast-forward as a hotkey: make a new variable called temporary_fast_forward, check for it in addition to game_fast_forward where game_fast_forward is checked, and hook it like the rewinding hotkey. The fast-forward hotkey is in my early TODO list, though.
BAG and Normmatt helped me with the initial porting effort, hooking things that were completely broken -- like figuring out how to send audio to the DS, showing the image on the upper screen, loading ROMs, loading zips, the directory structure, ARG() support, and drawing the menu. Now it's mostly my project, but Normmatt still reviews my code as I commit it to GitHub.
CALL FOR TESTING: Please report any trouble writing or reading save files, saved states, emulator configuration and game configuration, as well as trouble reading unzipped ROMs and zipped ROMs.
To-do list, importing improvements from CATSFC
* Remove unneeded files.
* Transplant touch screen support from CATSFC.
Start from CATSFC commit e0e53e874b8943461acc8289200c38adc4e02b11. [Current touch screen support may incorrectly handle some menus.]
* Use cppcheck to look for buffer overflows and uninitialised memory access.
* Transplant localised text from CATSFC. Also add CATSFC commit 100c3bd9e9f9e7fc809434706ddcc2fde96143af.
* Reimplement Quicksort for the file selectors. Start from CATSFC commit cfa1c811c65f1b8a10d9034a5974d617cda92ec6.
* Sleep on lid close.
Start from CATSFC commits 7c2a30c5b54e000106e466ba44fcc040746a0c90
and 362b28e9372d124ac6602bfc49e9775e510ba929. [Current sleep support is just in the menu.]
* Add hotkeys. Start from CATSFC commit 71a57cc449a42721eb0cd90cab07c57bbd9c9512. [A rewind hotkey is available, but the rest are missing.]
* Improve cheat support (cannot be transplanted from CATSFC).
* Add a full screen (expanded) aspect ratio.
Bugs or issues:
* In some games, underwater mode audio is constant, such as the two Golden Suns.
* The date of a saved state is missing in the load state display. * Can't load a .zip ROM in the recently played games list. * Doesn't load the latest saved state for a ROM in the recently played games list. * Core issue with the sound needing a saved-state format change.
For beta 1:
* New subdirectory structure for the system directory.
Issues reported by Rydian in post #223:
* (UI) Back icon in the default skin needs to be more visibly selected. Also applies to CATSFC. * Fast-forward sound is bubbly.
* (UI) Path scroller flashes away and back too often when moving between files.
Suggestions made by Boriar in post #237:
* (UI) [Submenu name] instead of Submenu name... in a list of options containing a submenu.
* (UI) Using <None> in unassigned hotkeys and button mappings.
Issues and suggestions by Rydian in post #241:
* (UI) Back button behavior inconsistency, may also apply to CATSFC.
* (UI) FPS counter.
If you're interested in doing one of those things, make yourself a fork of TempGBA on GitHub, look at the CATSFC commit and edit the files, then make a commit to your fork of TempGBA and push it to GitHub before making a pull request, which BassAceGold, Normmatt and I can handle to include your code into the main version. Help is available on GitHub if you want to get started quickly with editing files and making commits.
i was curious because i was wondering if it would be possible to have an option that does the same thing but with 0 frameskip and an fps limit so you could get native speeds at the expense of audio
i was curious because i was wondering if it would be possible to have an option that does the same thing but with 0 frameskip and an fps limit so you could get native speeds at the expense of audio
Is the transition from Alpha->Beta going to coincide with feature implementation being done and moving into bugfixes and compatibility, or is it just going to signify the core being considered stable enough that it's safe to use, and Beta will still see core feature additions?
TempGBA beta version 1 is now released on the categorised Filetrip listings.
Those who used the alphas, please take note of the directory structure change.
* Please put your games in TEMPGBA/GAMES (formerly gamepak), cheat files in TEMPGBA/CHEATS (formerly gamecht), and move your saves from gamerts to TEMPGBA/SAVES. Pictures will go to TEMPGBA/PICS.
* Menus now have the first item selected by default instead of the back button.
* The back button is more visibly selected when it is.
* The saved state UI has been revamped. The delete menu now starts with the row of single state deletion cells. The screenshot of the currently selected saved state is shown upon entering the saved state menu, or when changing states in any row (create, load and delete) for convenience, or after saving a state. The time at which a saved state was created is shown with its screenshot.
The entire changelog is now in the beta 1 listing on Filetrip, including changes from NDSGBA 1.30. It's also in the opening post for everyone's convenience.
Is the transition from Alpha->Beta going to coincide with feature implementation being done and moving into bugfixes and compatibility, or is it just going to signify the core being considered stable enough that it's safe to use, and Beta will still see core feature additions?
Alphas meant that the emulator could probably lose your stuff if you breathed on it funny. Betas should be better about that, because in the alphas I made sure it wouldn't lose your stuff. In the betas I'll make sure the UI is hooked right and I'll add features from CATSFC. Then I'll concentrate on features and the emulator core, as far as my knowledge will get me.
I've released beta 2, which fixes a problem with the directory structure introduced by beta 1. I forgot to change them in the emulator itself, so it wasn't looking there.
E: If you have recently played games from an alpha, please reset settings by going into Options then touching "Restore default settings".
I've released beta 2, which fixes a problem with the directory structure introduced by beta 1. I forgot to change them in the emulator itself, so it wasn't looking there.
E: If you have recently played games from an alpha, please reset settings by going into Options then touching "Restore default settings".
I've found an issue with the GUI in beta 2. When deleting a single saved state from the menu, a message asking whether you want to delete ALL SAVED STATES appears. That message is accurate.
I'll fix this tomorrow along with some more things, but in the meantime there's a workaround:
* If you want to delete one saved state, select it in the row of deletion cells, then go to "Delete all saved states". It will ask you if you want to delete the single selected state.
* If you want to delete all saved states, attempt to delete just one.
I've got a question or maybe feature request. I'm nearly sure EU Games have different languages in it since i played them in a different language as english.
All Emulators i know only show the EN Language. As i know GBA's use the Bios to determine the country.
This means the Emulator must have a Bios included and its seems to be a US or some english default one. I positivly noticed that I can change the GUI language but it doesn't affect the games.
Am I right so far? If so - wouldn't it be possible to include all BIOS Versions and switch them if the user sets a different language?
I think this must be easy because its just a different file to access?
I've got a question or maybe feature request. I'm nearly sure EU Games have different languages in it since i played them in a different language as english.
All Emulators i know only show the EN Language. As i know GBA's use the Bios to determine the country.
This means the Emulator must have a Bios included and its seems to be a US or some english default one. I positivly noticed that I can change the GUI language but it doesn't affect the games.
Am I right so far? If so - wouldn't it be possible to include all BIOS Versions and switch them if the user sets a different language?
I think this must be easy because its just a different file to access?
I am not aware of how GBA multi-language cartridges work, nor am I aware of multiple BIOSes existing, nor do I know how the BIOS is implemented in NDSGBA. The original gpSP readme file mentions the user needing to dump the BIOS or download it and bear legal responsibility for that; maybe NDSGBA bakes it in or implements the BIOS functions... in either case, I don't know how one would go about multi-language BIOSes.
You are correct that the language option in the GUI only changes the GUI.
I've got a question or maybe feature request. I'm nearly sure EU Games have different languages in it since i played them in a different language as english.
All Emulators i know only show the EN Language. As i know GBA's use the Bios to determine the country.
This means the Emulator must have a Bios included and its seems to be a US or some english default one. I positivly noticed that I can change the GUI language but it doesn't affect the games.
Am I right so far? If so - wouldn't it be possible to include all BIOS Versions and switch them if the user sets a different language?
I think this must be easy because its just a different file to access?
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One thing that just occurred to me.... The sound on the 2600 sucked less back then the harsh sound we hear now is from infinitely better speakers we have now, back when the 2600 was new speakers produced a almost muffled sound, like CRTs made old graphics look slightly better.
I think a few of the early systems could benefit from that, at least up to the 8 bit generation, by the 16 bit generation I think TVs had gotten a lot better in almost every way