EverSD – How to Run More Games from Stock UI

[Martin_Cardona]

strange, for me the Amiga speed is 100%. But I adjust the CPU cycle and the blitter setting under Sutup. The optimization of esmith13 brings most of the improvement for all cores. The sound no longer crackles, I'm really happy. regards

Can you give me your settings please

 

[MiCv2]

RetroArch Settings by esmith13
https://gbatemp.net/threads/eversd-how-to-run-more-games-from-stock-ui.590953/

Amiga (P-UAE)
System>CPU Compatibilty ---- More compatible
Video>immedate/Waiting Bits ---- Immedate Bliter
Video>Collisions Level ---- Sprites and Playfields
Video>Frameskip ---- 1

 

[Martin_Cardona]

RetroArch Settings by esmith13
https://gbatemp.net/threads/eversd-how-to-run-more-games-from-stock-ui.590953/

Amiga (P-UAE)
System>CPU Compatibilty ---- More compatible
Video>immedate/Waiting Bits ---- Immedate Bliter
Video>Collisions Level ---- Sprites and Playfields
Video>Frameskip ---- 1

Thanks for the settings. They wrked fine.

 

[Martin_Cardona]

Thanks for the settings. They wrked fine.

I would like to know what if CBM 64 libreto work on Evercade. Tested but didn`t run.

 

[esmith13]

I would like to know what if CBM 64 libreto work on Evercade. Tested but didn`t run.

I did have C64 working on Evercade but I forget which of the many available cores I was using. I'll check tomorrow and let you know.

 

[MiCv2]

Works fine too, take Vice 64 (fast). In the options select SIDfast. regards

vice_x64_libretro.so.zip

https://buildbot.libretro.com/nightly/linux/armv7-neon-hf/latest/

 

[Martin_Cardona]

Works fine too, take Vice 64 (fast). In the options select SIDfast. regards

vice_x64_libretro.so.zip

https://buildbot.libretro.com/nightly/linux/armv7-neon-hf/latest/

I tried to run a game with this libreto ut when loading contents it goes to blank screen then reset to main logo of retroarch. When loaded the core and ran it displayed the main screen of the cbm64.. Shall I run games from the core itself and can you explain how to run please

 

[MiCv2]

Every c64 game has to be a .zip file. try to start this file .. no idea why it doesn't work for you,
works exactly the same as with amiga core ..

 

[Martin_Cardona]

Thanks it worked, my problem was that I was running games not as zip file. My Last question ( .......hopefully as i know I am annoying) is there any menu to set settings or how to run games with keypad. Thanks for the help giving me.

 

[esmith13]

for C64 toggle the retroarch menu and go to OPTIONS then look for the option "Toggle On Screen Keyboard" and set it to an input on the controller. If you had a physical keyboard connected then in this same option screen there is a setting for "Physical Keyboard Passthru" you can enable.

for Amiga I think the settings are also in OPTIONS but by default Amiga has the "select" button on the controller set to toggle virtual keyboard.

Oh, and you're not annoying.

 

[MiCv2]

Ok, then I'm annoying again ... @ esmith13, the RetroArch settings globally set the sound sampling rate to 48000 Hz. I think it's too much for Evercade (small speakers). To save performance, 22050 Hz would be enough. If I change the value, RetroArch automatically resets it to 48000 Hz, why? regards

 

[esmith13]

Ok, then I'm annoying again ... @ esmith13, the RetroArch settings globally set the sound sampling rate to 48000 Hz. I think it's too much for Evercade (small speakers). To save performance, 22050 Hz would be enough. If I change the value, RetroArch automatically resets it to 48000 Hz, why? regards

If you are using my configuration file then changes are not saved to the global config file unless you navigate to MAIN MENU -> CONFIGURATION -> SAVE CONFIGURATION.
This was done as a safeguard for people not experienced with retroarch. If retroarch auto-saved every change you made and you chose to experiment with something you could effectively lock yourself out of retroarch with no way to fix things aside from wiping your config file (or knowing how to hand edit it on a PC). For example let's say you trying to switch the video driver and then you had nothing but a black screen in retroarch - you're screwed, since the change saved immediately as you made it. With setting changes needing to be manually saved, you can experiment and if it goes well - you just have to save the config. If it goes poorly, you quit and relaunch or even reset the device completely, you're up and running again on the settings that last worked.

Hope that makes sense.
I was basically going for "Beginner Friendly" since most well versed in retroarch wouldn't bother to use my config anyway...

 

[MiCv2]

Hi esmith13, it has nothing to do with your settings, they work very well. Generally, if I set from 48000 Hz to 22050 Hz, this setting is not allowed. I also edited the config on the PC, it is always immediately set back to 48000 Hz as the "default" in the Evercade.

I know it from the DOSBox on an "old" PC. You can gain a little more speed by reducing the output frequency from 48000 Hz in the DOSBox -config. With 22050 Hz you still have a good sound quality, but more CPU speed left over. I wanted to try it out to see if the Evercade would behave like that .. regards

 

[esmith13]

Sorry about that. Didn't have my evercade to check with at the time but I see what you mean now. You can't even change it at all. I thought you meant it changed back when you launched a different game, not the moment you clicked on it.
Based on what I see, I would guess the alsa driver being used on the evercade only supports 48kHz.

 

[MiCv2]

No problem, everything is fine. I just wanted to say that 48000 Hz is too much, it's not a high-tech recording studio Regards

 

[esmith13]

Hi all.
So it seems that Blaze will be releasing FW 2.0 for the Evercade Handheld in the next month or so to bring this little device on par with it's new brother, the VS. Anticipating that the new UI on the VS will be fully intact on a handheld running 2.0, I have already begun light work on getting some customization scripts running that support the new VS UI. I've started exclusively with Arcade games since that's the newest officially supported rom type on the system and I want to play a bunch of them in style.

Here's a few spoilers of how it's going so far:

Spoiler: Proof of concept that you can customize the UI (custom art and text all done by hand)

Spoiler: Default artwork on main screen (automated by script)

Spoiler: Default artwork & metadata on game details screen (automated by script)

See it in action here (65MB .mp4)

Can't wait to see how far we can go with this!

 

[esmith13]

"Unlocked" Namco Collection 1&2 Retail Carts on VS (33MB .mp4)

 

[Valenhir]

So the eversd works as it is on the Evercade VS?

 

[esmith13]

Yes and no.
Retail carts are actually just the SMD chip equivalent to an SD card with its 8 pins arranged on a GB/GBA cartridge's first 8 pins.
The caveat is that the Evercade and VS expect them to be a particular configuration. If you happen to have access to a 512MB SD card, you can simply format it fat32, pop it in the EverSD and go to town on a completely stock Evercade or VS.

Everpatcher for the Evercade completely removes the restrictions. To my knowledge, nothing equivalent yet exists for the VS.

 

[Valenhir]

Firmware update 2.0 is out.

I'm assuming eversd will stop working until they come out with a new everpatcher.