Re: Emulators for the N900
 

I've never tried uploading for Diablo. It's just never really occurred to me that it might work. You seem happy with Xmame but i'll try it with my other ports next time, ok?

It's a tribute to the extreme economy of programming back then (assembler and lots of hackish tricks). I'm just fine with gcc and bloated libraries thankyouverymuch.

xmame stopped being maintained a while back at around that version. Originally, the plan was to restructure it. In the end, it was abandoned and sdlmame became the official replacement MAME port for non-windows systems.

Interesting. That's quite a collection you got there. :D I get better performance with SDLMAME using just -O3, but -O3 with those fancy arch-specific flags gives a pretty consistent 1.5% increase in performance with my test ROM. Heh.

Being a complete noob, i am still discovering standard options to SDLMAME that improve performance much more drastically than optimizing routines or messing with compiler flags. I had completely overlooked the YUV overlay option that uses hardware acceleration to do scaling...d'oh. That wasn't a trivial improvement: it's about a 2.5x acceleration with the undemanding old test ROM. It took gng from ~35% to ~90% performance, so with frame dropping it's pretty well emulated now.

I also fixed the autosave in the new version--i think. It's still a dev release and will probably brick everyone's phone. You shouldn't install it. Don't come crying to me, or more importantly, to T.M.O. when you do anyway, and it does. :P

Re: Emulators for the N900
 

Wow, that's an awesome performance increase, I tried Wonder Boy a couple of days ago and it struggled a bit (but it was playable). I can't wait to try it again with the new version

Re: Emulators for the N900
 

Good work, I was hoping to get >100% with GNG, though. Maybe there is some parts still to optimize

Re: Emulators for the N900
 

Good work indeed!

Tried Wonder Boy again and the game runs *much* faster, at least twice than before, and graphics look smoother and filtered. Keep up the good work Flandry!!!

Re: Emulators for the N900
 

Flandry, I go try sdlmame on N810... but on my PC it is very slow if compares with xmame on PC...

I think cold be that params you told! :(

Re: Emulators for the N900
 

If you mean running in the SDK then it could be. I haven't tried running the x86 binary since i got it compiled for armel. All the parameters are in the start script so it's easy to change them if you want for testing.

If i completely misunderstood you then i'm sorry. My portugues isn't nearly as good as your english. :)

Re: Emulators for the N900
 

I tried sdlmame on Ubuntu and Gentoo Linux, out of scratchbox, and I see it so slow if compares with xMame... on N900 this can be good to use sdlmame, but on N8x0 ... I don't try!

Flandry, I dont have a N900 for tests, but I go give a chance for sdlmame on N8x0 ... can you send me you Makefile ou ./configure options and you loader script for N900 ?

I got some sources for a SDLPSX emulator, from a old project .... if I have some success on it... I put for public ...

Re: Nintendo / Megadrive / Gameboy emulators
 

You have to dump the contents of your original cartridge onto your N900/computer. Look on the official emulator sites to see how to do this.

Re: Emulators for the N900
 

Flandry, a few questions for your great efforts with SDLMAME:

1. Is .135u3-0maemo1 the newest version? That is what I have.
2. Any way to add framerate adjustment option and sound disable to the UI to go along with the current input options on the main screen?
3. Can the config file be accessed to adjust the framerate globally? I am thinking just 1 frame skipped (2 for some) will work wonders. I you can, how do we access this file and edit it?
4. Any chance of a screen rotate option?

I have tried MANY games and almost all work. Even the Metal Slugs and Golden Tee Golfs load up :) Great job!!!!!

Framerate option should help the performance of those games out big time.

Re: Emulators for the N900
 

I'm not really taking feature requests until i get it working well enough to bother with features. ;) Please wait until it has a thread of its own.

All of the configuration files are in .sdlmame/ in your home directory. There's also a script called sdlmame-start.sh in the app directory that has most of the flags. Currently it sets -autoframeskip, which will skip to keep at 100% speed as needed. Newest version is 0maemo3 i think. That's what the package page or app manager is for. :P