Homebrew Emulation GameYob, a gameboy emulator for DS

[Kouen Hasuki]

Does it only list some sort of known roms?

I Tried to play the Beta Unreleased Resident Evil for GBC but it doesn't even show up

 

[Drenn]

Really loving this so far. The B/Y option and the GBC bios suppport really make a difference from lameboy. Just a couple of nitpicks regarding this last feature: is it normal that the bios only functions if you boot first a gbc title? I mean, in order to get coloured palettes in Metroid II, for example, I need to boot first a gbc title like Donkey Kong Country.

And now a question: will it be possible to support lameboy save states? They are unique in the way that use a rare file type, so I dunno if they use something special.

Congratulations for the nice work. Reading through the thread, I see you've been bombarded with questions and bug reports which only demonstrate the attention this proyect has gathered, and if in the future we'll see stuff like auto-saving, scaling, and better compatibility... I can only say that this will be awesome.

The bios always seems to work for me, I tried loading Metroid first and it worked just fine. (By the way I fixed the "bloop" in the bios which didn't always work.) As for save states, as far as I know every emulator uses its own format. Even different versions of emulators sometimes break compatibility with old savestates. There's really no way I could determine the format lameboy uses without documentation or source code. Even if available, it's far more trouble than it's worth.

Does it only list some sort of known roms?

I Tried to play the Beta Unreleased Resident Evil for GBC but it doesn't even show up

It should list all .gbc, .gb, .sgb, and .cgb files in the directory. Anything I missed? And speaking of resident evil, the text in Resident Evil Gaiden works now.

EDIT: It's capitalized, that's why it doesn't see it! I'll need to fix that.

EDIT: Done.

 

[shoyrumaster11]

Hey Drenn, will this new emulator support my old LameBoy save files?

I'm trying to make some progress on mostly Pokemon games and haven't given LoZ Links Awakening DX a chance yet so I think it would be pretty convenient!

 

[Foxhounder]

Hey Drenn, will this new emulator support my old LameBoy save files?

I'm trying to make some progress on mostly Pokemon games and haven't given LoZ Links Awakening DX a chance yet so I think it would be pretty convenient!

They do.

 

[Kouen Hasuki]

It should list all .gbc, .gb, .sgb, and .cgb files in the directory. Anything I missed? And speaking of resident evil, the text in Resident Evil Gaiden works now.

EDIT: It's capitalized, that's why it doesn't see it! I'll need to fix that.

EDIT: Done.

Oh in this case its not Resi Evil Gaiden its A Beta of an abandoned port of resi evil 1 to GBC by capcom

 

[Drenn]

There were previously some issues with sleep mode causing random crashes. I couldn't find a very elegant way to deal with it, so when it's about to sleep arm7 signals arm9 to disable sound emulation and open the console. When exiting sleep sound is re-enabled and the console closed again. It seems to have stopped the crashes. Please let me know if sleep-mode crashes still aren't fixed as of v0.1.2-18.

 

[Foxhounder]

It would be awesome to include a time clock like nesds does just to keep tabs on the time.

 

[Janthran]

It would be awesome to include a time clock like nesds does just to keep tabs on the time.

It's open-source. You can do it if you want

 

[Kouen Hasuki]

It would be awesome to include a time clock like nesds does just to keep tabs on the time.

and maybe a battery / CPU and RAM load indicator? or at least battery like

Time: 12:07 CPU: 87% Ram: 3.7MB Free Battery: 49%

 

[nl255]

and maybe a battery / CPU and RAM load indicator? or at least battery like

Time: 12:07 CPU: 87% Ram: 3.7MB Free Battery: 49%

Battery is not possible on most DSes as the only info you can get is "low" and "not low".

 

[Kouen Hasuki]

Battery is not possible on most DSes as the only info you can get is "low" and "not low".

Point taken sorry I'm more used to PSP Emulation

 

[nl255]

Point taken sorry I'm more used to PSP Emulation

Well, then just think of the DS/DSi/3ds (in DS mode) like a PSP Go in that regard.

 

[Kouen Hasuki]

Well, then just think of the DS/DSi/3ds (in DS mode) like a PSP Go in that regard.

You mean Vita?

 

[nl255]

You mean Vita?

No, PSP Go which does not give accurate battery information.

 

[Kouen Hasuki]

No, PSP Go which does not give accurate battery information.

Never used a Go so I dunno then again most avoid the go

 

[nl255]

Never used a Go so I dunno then again most avoid the go

Well I got one because they were going cheap ($80 USD) and the 6.60 hack/downgrade just came out so I have it on 6.20 Pro-C.

 

[Foxhounder]

Well I got one because they were going cheap ($80 USD) and the 6.60 hack/downgrade just came out so I have it on 6.20 Pro-C.

Saw an ad on craigslist for a Go, don't see why people prefer those. I'm getting two psp 3000s for my wii soon because I miss playing all those rpgs I had on there lol

 

[nl255]

Saw an ad on craigslist for a Go, don't see why people prefer those. I'm getting two psp 3000s for my wii soon because I miss playing all those rpgs I had on there lol

Well it is more portable and comes with 16GB built in. The lack of a UMD drive doesn't really matter if you fly the jolly roger either (and yes, Crisis Core and Birth By Sleep work perfectly). Not to mention it's the only PSP that has official save state support for native PSP games (there is an option to prevent the suspend save from being deleted in CFW).

 

[BLsquared]

Ok, something that Lameboy CAN'T do that Gameyob can:
Play Faceball 2000. (An early FPS)
Just get the 16-player link-battles working over wifi, and that would be awesome.

 

[Kouen Hasuki]

Well it is more portable and comes with 16GB built in. The lack of a UMD drive doesn't really matter if you fly the jolly roger either (and yes, Crisis Core and Birth By Sleep work perfectly). Not to mention it's the only PSP that has official save state support for native PSP games (there is an option to prevent the suspend save from being deleted in CFW).

I'm not always on the ol' Jolly Roger so the UMD Drive does matter to me

also because I cannot resist it