Homebrew GBARunner2

[Gericom]

I finally implemented proper centering and masking. It's currently on the capture_center_mask branch. I'm gonna merge it later.

I attached a build of this new version below. Normally use the arm9dldi version. If it doesn't work, try the arm7dldi version.

 

[Deleted User]

Wow, out of nowhere. Thanks a a lot Gericom.

 

[Gericom]

Oh @Dodain47 I noticed that some games that run slow run at full speed with the music turned off in the ingame options. For example donkey kong country 3.

 

[Deleted User]

Oh @Dodain47 I noticed that some games that run slow run at full speed with the music turned off in the ingame options. For example donkey kong country 3.

Interesting. Maybe this could work with other Games.

 

[Gericom]

Interesting. Maybe this could work with other Games.

Yeah, that's what I thought. The reason it works is that the gba does software mixing of sound channels which is quite cpu heavy.

 

[Deleted User]

Ha! That reminds me of the old times with my first PC (133 Mhrz). I had to massively reduce Audio/Image quality to get Snes9x to perform Super Metroid at a playable speed.

 

[metroid maniac]

I'm glad the arm7dldi build exists now, I can finally use GBARunner2 on my AK2i. It's nice to see how far the project has come.

 

[Gericom]

I'm glad the arm7dldi build exists now, I can finally use GBARunner2 on my AK2i. It's nice to see how far the project has come.

Nice! However the question remains why this is an issue in the first place.

 

[Roboman]

Yeah, that's what I thought. The reason it works is that the gba does software mixing of sound channels which is quite cpu heavy.

Would it be at all feasible to detect software channel mixing and replace it with utilising the extra sound hardware available on the ds?

 

[Gericom]

Would it be at all feasible to detect software channel mixing and replace it with utilising the extra sound hardware available on the ds?

Well, I have been thinking about that. But lots of games use different engines. So that would mean a lot of patches for a lot of different games

 

[Billy Acuña]

Arm7dldi working great from 3DS SD card, hope so on DSi SD

 

[Gericom]

Arm7dldi working great from 3DS SD card, hope so on DSi SD

It has been confirmed to work on dsi with rocketlauncher.

 

[lonewolf08]

does anybody know which version of gba runner im supposed to use with an ace3ds plus? I tried the latest posted on the wiki as well as the ones on page 32 and 30 but they all go to a red screen on top and a white screen on the bottom with the message BINFS> - revolution for DS (v2) aB aB aB aB. My sd card is fat32 16GB and i have the right gba bios checked the md5 and it is the the folder GBA on root. I'm going to assume my flashcart is not compatible?

 

[RocketRobz]

does anybody know which version of gba runner im supposed to use with an ace3ds plus? I tried the latest posted on the wiki as well as the ones on page 32 and 30 but they all go to a red screen on top and a white screen on the bottom with the message BINFS> - revolution for DS (v2) aB aB aB aB. My sd card is fat32 16GB and i have the right gba bios checked the md5 and it is the the folder GBA on root. I'm going to assume my flashcart is not compatible?

Try this.

 

[lonewolf08]

Try this.

Still the same thing, sometime tomorrow I will reformat the sdcard just in case and test it and try again. Thanks though.

 

[RocketRobz]

Still the same thing, sometime tomorrow I will reformat the sdcard just in case and test it and try again. Thanks though.

Cluster size should be 4096 bytes.

 

[Gericom]

Cluster size should be 4096 bytes.

That doesn't really matter anymore. 32k works just as fast now

 

[lonewolf08]

Cluster size should be 4096 bytes.

So with the ace3ds plus tried both cluster sizes and same thing, so I decided to try with a WiFi r4i rts 3ds and I get the same screens but with a different message, it says BINFS IO library. this one is a 32gb fat32 32k cluster and I tried all the latest gbarunner arm 9, arm 7 and no dldi. So any idea or just not compatible?

Edit: I also tried the .nds you said to try.

 

[RocketRobz]

So with the ace3ds plus tried both cluster sizes and same thing, so I decided to try with a WiFi r4i rts 3ds and I get the same screens but with a different message, it says BINFS IO library. this one is a 32gb fat32 32k cluster and I tried all the latest gbarunner arm 9, arm 7 and no dldi. So any idea or just not compatible?

Edit: I also tried the .nds you said to try.

Probably not compatible.

 

[lonewolf08]

Probably not compatible.

Damn oh well at least it can run gbaemu4ds, something is better than nothing. Thank you for the confirmation that it's not compatible have a nice day.