Smartgear works great on Touch Pro 2! NES! Genesis! - Page 10

roofus3000 · #91 (**permalink**) 03-09-2010, 01:05 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bitbank

Finally some great news for SmartGear fans! I worked exclusively on sound issues this weekend and fixed many things. We finally have decent GENESIS playback with full audio!!! I also cleaned up the NES and TG16 sound and seem to have solved that ever present clicked on different handsets. I was playing lots of Genesis games on my TP2 this weekend and they worked extremely well. Here's a rundown of what's changed:

1) Genesis sound fix!!!
2) NES sound fix
3) GameBoy system fixes (more games run now - e.g. Boarder Patrol).
4) Turbogfx-16 sound fixes
5) Sound timing fix - games should play on all handsets without any "clicking" sounds
6) Better battery life - re-enabled sleep for the extra time each frame.
7) Added Graphics and network benchmark tests.

Fixed GUI to set game settings to currently displayed "previously played game".
9) Added "head2head" play for GBC + GG. Now 2 players can play linked games on a single device.
10) Changed video settings to 3 choices: Best Performance, Fit-2-window, and fullscreen. Let me know if that doesn't cover all.

IMPORTANT: SAVE STATES WILL NOT WORK PROPERLY IN GG/SMS and GBC. I will fix this on the next round.

Many things are still incomplete, but it's come a long way. Please send all feedback including GBC game compatibility issues.

WM5/6 EXE, no installer:
http://www.bitbanksoftware.com/sg.zip

Im still having problems playing Michael Jackson's Moonwalker on the Genesis. When you said the sound problem was fixed i figured the sound would work right on this game as well.. but it seems there is a horrible sound distortion on this game. Could it be just the rom because its the only game that sounds this bad while playing it. It doesn't do it all of the time but enough to really be a pain. Any suggestions?? Maybe you can try the game to see if you can fix this.
Thx

bitbank · #92 (**permalink**) 03-09-2010, 03:43 AM

I'm able to recreate the sound problems and am currently working on a fix. There are several problems, but they're all solvable. I should have something ready later this week. Thanks for letting me know.
L.B.

roofus3000 · #93 (**permalink**) 03-09-2010, 09:43 AM

Thanks for the quick reply....i will be looking forward to a fix for this

bitbank · #94 (**permalink**) 03-12-2010, 05:03 AM

New code is up. The sound in most Genesis games is now quite good (including Might and Magic 2). Still can't get Michael Jackson's game to sound correct. Try other Genesis games and let me know what you find. I'll keep working on the MJ game.

www.bitbanksoftware.com/sg.zip

L.B.

FP5241 · #95 (**permalink**) 03-12-2010, 06:31 AM

Just installed and purchased this.. it is great!

(don't mind me, i'm brand new :P)

bitbank · #96 (**permalink**) 03-15-2010, 02:55 AM

Today I worked on display performance. Specifically to improve the fullscreen performance on VGA and WVGA devices (my current device = Touch Pro 2). The challenge with the TP2 is that when the keyboard is open, the display is oriented 90 degrees away from its "natural" direction. This means when writing to video memory, you're writing against the natural memory order and it thrashes the cache. Either you will be reading from your source bitmap slowly or writing to the display slowly. I rewrote my stretchblt code to do a compromise between these 2 and came up with some fast code. Now you can run all of the emulators fullscreen with no frames dropped on most VGA/WVGA devices. I still need to optimized the 270 degree case (for devices with keyboards which open in the opposite direction). I also have partially implemented the networking code for PAN/Wifi support (all devices).

www.bitbanksoftware.com/sg.zip

L.B.

salvamag · #97 (**permalink**) 03-15-2010, 03:03 AM

Good job, bitbank. I really love your emulator

csciguy · #98 (**permalink**) 03-15-2010, 04:44 PM

Thanks for all the fixes you have been working on just for devices like these. Well I'm currently having an issue as I use any of the keyboard keys to move in a game, the game slows down and practically freezes until I stop pressing the key down. Is there a setting I'm not doing right? I was using the version before 1.1.6 with the clicking sound but the buttons have no problems. Are there some old config files that I should remove somewhere?

bitbank · #99 (**permalink**) 03-15-2010, 05:05 PM

The only thing that changed from 1.1.6 to the 2.0.x beta which may be related is that I added the "sleep" back in the throttle loop to save battery life. Otherwise, the keyboard handling is the same. Has anyone else experienced this problem? I've never seen it occur on any of my devices.
L.B.

roofus3000 · #**100** (**permalink**) 03-15-2010, 10:52 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bitbank

The only thing that changed from 1.1.6 to the 2.0.x beta which may be related is that I added the "sleep" back in the throttle loop to save battery life. Otherwise, the keyboard handling is the same. Has anyone else experienced this problem? I've never seen it occur on any of my devices.
L.B.

This has never happened to me and I use smartgear all the time.