wow Ralph, that is quite the changelog, nice work mate. The benchmarking tool is quite unexpected.
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The benchmark is only primitive at the moment but it does give a good indication of how well your CPU can emulate systems. I will extend it over the next few versions to do multicore tests and things of this nature which will be cool. A new way to "real world" stress test your CPU in a 3D environment. Goodbye Prime95 
Nice work
Going to try this out now
Going to try this out now
EPIC
It vaguely reminds me of what Sch3rz0 did with NesterDC SE, having a boxart based browser, but this is simply brilliant.
It vaguely reminds me of what Sch3rz0 did with NesterDC SE, having a boxart based browser, but this is simply brilliant.
Thanks for the kind words guys!
I think there have been quite a few well designed emulators over the last decade (though most around the DOS era were the best as they all had to be custom). I like your work too.
It was just a playful look at things!
I think there have been quite a few well designed emulators over the last decade (though most around the DOS era were the best as they all had to be custom). I like your work too.
Are you using Vista or Win7 with UAC on by any chance? I've tested converting 1000 roms at once and it went fine, but all those files didn't have things like "Read only" flags or anything else weird. One tester found an early bug that if something was read only it couldn't delete it and that led to issues that I thought I fixed.
Depending upon the ROMs you have they may be "dirty" as in have a 512 byte header. RetroCopy eventually will support all dirty ROMs and clean them up itself but you may have to use another tool (SMSChecker is a good one). A clean version of Astro Warrior and PITPOT is in the database.
A feature coming for 0.500B is allowing the auto converting of unknown .SMS/.NES games and show them as such in the interface. At the moment it can be a bit clunky when it finds games it isn't aware of and keeps telling you about them.
I'll also be releasing my database editor sometime so that people can create new ones for their own homebrew games so that no conversion is needed. Until a few versions away the GAME format may change a little bit if things are found. I thought it was good for instance until someone suggested also including foreign names along with a converted english name, such that you could see real japanese/korean/etc names for games instead of the englishized version. I can't really see what else can change in the main part of the GAME format though, so it should be fine. There are system specific headers though and the NES currently doesn't have it's own new one and uses the old INES format. I want to change this but need help from any NES interested guys due to the amount of games.
Also what do you mean by "input" it should be working except for the light phaser. Due to the switch to 3D I had to remove the old light phaser code. I was thinking of adding a "Call of Duty" type feel such that you have a virtual light gun in your hand and had to aim it at the screen. I think controlling a simple mouse cursor is too easy for these games and it kind of kills the fun when it isn't a challenge.
Depending upon the ROMs you have they may be "dirty" as in have a 512 byte header. RetroCopy eventually will support all dirty ROMs and clean them up itself but you may have to use another tool (SMSChecker is a good one). A clean version of Astro Warrior and PITPOT is in the database.
A feature coming for 0.500B is allowing the auto converting of unknown .SMS/.NES games and show them as such in the interface. At the moment it can be a bit clunky when it finds games it isn't aware of and keeps telling you about them.
I'll also be releasing my database editor sometime so that people can create new ones for their own homebrew games so that no conversion is needed. Until a few versions away the GAME format may change a little bit if things are found. I thought it was good for instance until someone suggested also including foreign names along with a converted english name, such that you could see real japanese/korean/etc names for games instead of the englishized version. I can't really see what else can change in the main part of the GAME format though, so it should be fine. There are system specific headers though and the NES currently doesn't have it's own new one and uses the old INES format. I want to change this but need help from any NES interested guys due to the amount of games.
Also what do you mean by "input" it should be working except for the light phaser. Due to the switch to 3D I had to remove the old light phaser code. I was thinking of adding a "Call of Duty" type feel such that you have a virtual light gun in your hand and had to aim it at the screen. I think controlling a simple mouse cursor is too easy for these games and it kind of kills the fun when it isn't a challenge.
Well you might want to try doing "groups" of ROMs and finding the one or the few that are causing issues, it would help me to know what is causing it! I'm betting there is one in there that might be a bit weird or something.
SMSChecker might be a bit old but it cleans/fixes ROMs. I'm not sure that the tool you used for TOSEC renaming fixes the header, I know GoodSMS doesn't by default. They just seem to "skip" the header. There isn't much released for SMS/GG in the last few years anyhow.
I'm betting there is one in there that might be a bit weird or something.SMSChecker might be a bit old but it cleans/fixes ROMs. I'm not sure that the tool you used for TOSEC renaming fixes the header, I know GoodSMS doesn't by default. They just seem to "skip" the header. There isn't much released for SMS/GG in the last few years anyhow.
i agree with most part of that
eventhough i know its a bad habit from C/C++ coders and the reason is quite obvious C/C++ is a pain even to create a simple GUI as it requires you to write a "Small Bible" so to say in order to have a crappy GUI at least. i can understand that as am a C/C++ coder myself.anyways i think sometimes is laziness or just lack of GUI design knowledge to create something acceptable. in my case GUI design is more than that... its a passion to say the least as i love to create my own controls and even the logic behind and don´t limit myself with the Windows/coding tools ones :thumb:
anyways you have a nice point there but many other people see that different and nowdays you believe it or not graphics/GUI design is turning into a very important area as its required everywhere. to me a great coded Emulator with a crappy GUI can be viewed that way:
The Emulator(powerfull ferrai-enzo engine):
The GUI(a Fiat-Panda shape):
to my eyes it simple doesn´t match toguether but it depends on people views :evil: :evil: :evil:
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