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I did not mean it like to that Destroid would be no good, maybe just a bad choice of words by me, but in my opinion if you put them to the same line, psx emulator is more interesting, im sure they both are piece of an art what it comes to developing and stuff.

I am very sorry destroid, i did not mean it like that... :(

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i have voted for you

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i just voted :)

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A vote from me too

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What happens when smoku wins? Will it help the project?

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Personally, I dont think this app is even qualified to be a "game" for it to be in the game coding competition. It may be qualified as an "Application" or a "Utility" but not a game. So should Sony and other game developers be receiving the bounty then? THEY made the code for FFVII (Square) and other "games" we guys are playing on the PSX4M/ALL.

Besides, all the core code for Pandora which this app is from, is made by ZoTtD isn't it? smoku basically ported, optimized and coded a frontend/frontend generator for it right? (i may be wrong though)

(smoku, I'm not downing your knowledge and reputation for being a developer. I am starting out myself and I'm looking up to you, wanting to be as experienced as you in the future. You are one member who contributes TONS of useful things for the community and you're a great and a genius of a developer in my opinion)

This is a great emulator though, smoku, and I'm using it a lot, but I don't even think this is qualified as a "game".

I voted for SkidStone. *hides and cowers*

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You use the emulator to play games therefore it is in the games category. It is not a utility since you don't "utilize" it for anything, you play games with it.
Doing the port and optimizing it is not easy work, btw.

Also, yeah I'm wondering about what the contest winner gets. I'm guessing money?

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psx4m vote 2 days ago ;)

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I know porting is not an easy task because you must know how the n900's OS(Maemo) calls and runs this app and how this app uses the n900's hardware (like the OMAP CPU) to produce the 3D graphics, sounds and I/O processes. Making it stable is another case. Instruction sets is another case. Hell, even the frontend alone can take a good amount of hours for an experienced developer to finish. NOT TO MENTION : IT'S NOT PAID FOR BY EVERY SINGLE PERSON THAT USES IT, WHICH MAKES SMOKU AND OTHER OPEN SOURCE DEVS VERY VERY IMPORTANT PEOPLE. (software dev't student here)

Since the Pandora (which PSX4ALL came from) uses "basically" the same CPU and OS as the N900, it's not toooooooooooooooo hard.
It's hard though.

it's just my opinion that it is not a game itself but a "platform" to play games that developers like SquareSoft coded/developed.

Try comparing it with Destroid and SkidStone and you'll see that these two magnificent (though not perfect) games are made from scratch (maybe).

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Voted for SMUKU PSXM

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Hi, sorry to be a massive noob. But I'm having serious trouble understanding how to get psx4m to work. I'm probably jsut being stupid tbh. but could someone put some instructions on here please. I unistalled psx4all and then installed psx4m but don't don't know what to do from there. =(

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twiny,

open a xterm window.
type
then keep doing
until you're in your desired ISO/BIN/IMG file

then type
do that everytime until smoku releases a GUI for psx4m

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after i type the first command that begins with sudo , xterm asks for a password but wont let me enter anything?? help

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I will try my best write some sort of instructions on a blog very soon hopefully before 24hr now I have to sleep and go to the university ;)
till now stick with psx4all and dont forget to download psx bios download from anywhere google it it have the file name similar to scph1001 put in N900 folder should be all small letter and start off.

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also you can find insructions in this thread and instead of sudo
1 download rootsh
2 in terminal write "sudo gainroot" then hit enter or return
3 follow the steps without writing sudo

to help you can write "ls" then hit enter to see all the files under where you are now the cd to any

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Smoku, OpenGl 4.1 has been released..check it out..it will help ;-)

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I had the same concerns and asked the organizer of the contest. And "Games" was the answer.

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Forget that sudo/root stuff.

Just get the PS BIOS - scph1001.bin and put it in MyDocs (root of the USB drive you see after connecting N900 to PC). Then put ISO of your game in the same place.

Then open 'X Terminal' app and type:
/usr/games/psx4m -runcd /home/user/MyDocs/your_game.iso

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The psx4m installation guide will be available soon!

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http://q8phantom.webs.com/apps/blog/...-on-n900-maemo

Here is the link to the Guide, Please if someone can check it, I hope I did not write anything wrong! I just wanted to help the guys who don't know how to use it!

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@Smuko you could link to my Guide in the Original Post if you like to so maybe people will ask less questions! I remember, I was one who didn't know anything on how to use it! :D

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It's cool! Thanks.

I have some notes:
- It's usually called CLI (Command-Line Interface) not CUI.
- There really is no need to do anything using root acount
- You can download and install just by taping http://maemo.org/packages/view/psx4m/ -> Latest Version -> File: psx4m_0.4.1_armel.deb
- The reason I chose MyDocs location for BIOS it is that FAT filesystem is not case-sensitive, so the filename could be cased anyway

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Any idea how do I make a desktop command line execution widget to boot up psx4m with an iso?

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should be enough :)

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All Right, I'll do edit now! :)

Edit : It should be fine now :cool:

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Sure thing. Done.

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thx for the guide, but i can't find the password for unzipping the scph1001.bin.zip file.

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Easily - simply put the command in you wish to launch

Eg: /usr/games/psx4m -runcdbios -frameskip 5 /path/to/my/rom/R4 - Ridge Race.img

Then select update when clicked and choose disabled etc for everything else

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I forget it,

q8phantom

this is the password!

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Guys. We don't distribute 'questionable license' content here.
Please keep the BIOS related discussion off the TMO.

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Hi again...

smoku, I see you released another emulator, and it runs pretty well! Thanks! I've read some 10 pages back and couldn't find answers to some questions I have. I hope I can dare to ask them, even though some may have been answered somewhere already. It wouldn't be a bad idea to put this info in the first post.

So the psx4m is a whole different application from psx4all? How's it looking with 3D acceleration for this one?

Is there a list of the keys mapping to buttons? I figured most by trial and error, but the list would be handy. Also, the way it is is not how I want it. I guess some option to load the config of the old psx4all wouldn't be trivial to implement? I suppose you're working on a different way, smoku, you mentioned some unified GUI frontend for your emulators. How's it looking with that? I know there's a feature freeze till the competition end, so maybe you got something ready that will make psx4m pretty usable? :D (the buttons config is the only dealbreaker for me)

Once again, thanks for the effort.

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ah thanks so much for th instructions guys. i was at a massive loss with what to do! =P lol! awsome work though. cant wait to see what else is in the pipeline!!

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hope you win competition mate

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Add to the Guide : Controls, Someone can check if I'm not mistaken :)

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Thanks, wasn't working before when I tried it. Must have typo'd.

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Thanks. would look better in the first post, but this is a temporary solution till the gui is ready I take it.

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@lukash

There is a link of the Guide already in the first post!

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q8phantom thanks for the help i managed to get brave fencer mushashi running GREAT! and its with sound! wow! :)
i was also placing the bios and rom files in documents instead of Data which caused most of my headache

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btw are we going to get saving soon?
i got pretty far into a game thinking i pxsm saved only to realize it gave me an error when trying to continue