Gp2x Psone Emulator Running Realy Fast

[zodttd]

Heh. ZPSX is imho too slow to run most games. There's a few that comes to mind that can be run. I really want to find International Karate Plus for the PSX. I use to love that game and I bet it will run pretty smoothly on ZPSX, if not now, soon.

I sort of dropped out of the GP2X world for a while due to the bug in GP2PSX, but now that it's fixed, I'll get a release going for it.

How are things progressing so far Uriel? Sounds good so far!

Any idea if running ZPSX outside of X11 will speed things up? I'm not quite sure how to read the keys of the Z outside of SDL. Help with this will be greatly appreciated.

Anyone try out ZPSX yet?

[TJBK_TJB]

I've been having a problem with the new version that I did not have before. On the file select screen,  I cannot move between folders.

EDIT: Also, it will not boot when I use HLE.

[stuffman]

well, in one of my previous posts I mentioned that when I ran zarpsxlow it ran fullscreen for me- that's because I always run the program out of the window manager. I tried running it in the wm, and I had the small, centered screen like you described, and it seemed to take a bit of a performance hit as well. Running outside of the wm will give you plenty more free ram, and very little overhead. I'd recommend it over running within the wm for this reason. I'm moving to v0.03 at the moment, and I'll let you know how it works. Thanks again, you are awesome!

[zodttd]

Oops, I know why it's not moving between folder. Dumb bug on my part. I'll fix that asap.

Which game won't work with HLE now? I'll try to get the game to test with. Was it working with HLE before by any chance?

I'm not able to run zarpsx/zpsx from pdaxrom outside of X11. How did you get it working outside a wm? I had a feeling it would run faster!

[stuffman]

Nothing seems to work with HLE for me, and the folder thing kinda messes stuff up too. All the textures and whatnot are working right in Final Fantasy Tactics, but it's running dog-ass slow without HLE (slower than its usual slow speed). Even so, it's great that you are getting so much work done so quickly!

All I do is drop out of the wm and go to my zpsx dir and type ./zpsx_xscale_low and hit enter... works perfect for me. I don't know if it has anything to do with me running a C860 vs. the Cxxxx series, but it was pretty trivial to get going. Do you get any errors when you try to run it?

One quick quesiton: I don't compress my isos because I have a 5gb microdrive and space is not an issue (at least not until I get some more games ripped). Does compression affect speed for either better or worse? I can imagine that decompressing eats up some cycles, but it's also possible that it's quicker to read a highly-compressed chunk of data from the card and decompress it to RAM than it is to copy the same uncompressed from the card to RAM (for example, if a compressed block is 1k vs. 50k uncompressed, then it's entirely possible that it's quicker to read the 1k block and decompress it than to read the entire 50k block. Of course, this is exaggerated, but I'm just curious)?

Thanks again for everything!

[zodttd]

Yup, I seem to have made a mistake with HLE implementation. I'll fix it asap. The fix for directory browsing will be in the next release as well, which will be soon.

I'll test zpsx without running startx to see if I can get it working.

Compressed ISOs don't seem to affect speed very much. If so, I imagine it would be just a frame or so slower.

[xdivider]

Yup, I seem to have made a mistake with HLE implementation. I'll fix it asap. The fix for directory browsing will be in the next release as well, which will be soon.

I'll test zpsx without running startx to see if I can get it working.

Compressed ISOs don't seem to affect speed very much. If so, I imagine it would be just a frame or so slower.
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I tried doing a init 2;chvt 1 to drop down to console to run it. I get the screen drawn in vertical orientation and fuzzed out. It does run correctly in xqt and chrooted pdaxrom but for me, daikoukai gaiden hangs after the opening sequence and pressing P or backspace doesnt terminates it, leaving me with no choice but to do the zaurus version of the 3 fingers salute. Good job though, never thought Ill ever see that classic game running on my Zaurus.

[anunakin]

Try this, works for me in past... with PC emulator, but I go try this night this Z port...
http://www.megagames.com/psx/psx_copy_patch_linux.shtml

Hello,
can someone of you explain how to get a iso or bin file from a PSX cd?
The Problem is that i only can use Mac OS X 10.4 or debian Linux.
With Roxio Toast i cannot make a .bin file

Please help    i can´t wait to show my friends my "Mini PSX"

Thank you,

Denis
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[madpilot]

Hi All,

I've run Zpsx on my 760  and a homebrew ( now i'm at office, i don't have any proper iso  )  it's working well, but too slow ( i don't run it with HLE cause HLE crash with that homebrew )  
However, it's fantastic yet ...
could it be larger fast on a 1000 or a 3100 ? in that case, i'll change my Zaurus  

ps : sorry for my poor english ...i'm french

[anunakin]

rtype delta, rockman 6 and samurai shodown 3 dont runs for me! and I cant leave zpsx after try loads thats...

[stuffman]

R-Type Delta doesn't work at all for me with HLE, but works with the BIOS. The problem is, none of the menus show up and there is no way of knowing what on earth I'm doing.

Also, a quick question about video acceration. The Cxxx series have the ATI Imageon W100 chip which I believe was dropped in the Cxxxx series. Would it be beneficial to us Cxxx owners to have a version tailored to the w100 while the Cxxxx people use bvdd or whatever (i.e., do you think there may be a significant increase in speed for Cxxx owners?)? If anyone wanted to be brave and adventureous (I really wish I were better at this stuff, as I'd do it myself), there's some maybe helpful documentation on the w100 here. Back when I was still using the Cacko rom, there was a "special" libsdl that had w100 support and dramatically improved the performance of the Super Nintendo emu I was playing at the time. Anything like that for pdaXrom?

[zodttd]

anunakin: Were you using HLE when running those three games? This build of ZPSX has a bug that doesn't let games with HLE load. I'm working on fixing it.

[anunakin]

anunakin: Were you using HLE when running those three games? This build of ZPSX has a bug that doesn't let games with HLE load. I'm working on fixing it.
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I try with and without HLE, run zpsx and select the .bin file then ENTER button, its right?

[zodttd]

ZPSX 0.04
PSX Emu on the GP2X

Grab this release at:
http://www.friggingames.com/zpsx004.zip

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UPDATED January 25th, 2006
Grab ZPSX v0.04 at:
http://www.friggingames.com/zpsx004.zip
New in this release:
- HLE now works. Remember though, HLE will just not work with some games yet. Try it out though, as it may give a speed boost.
- The file menu now traverses directorys properly
- Minor changes to code such as the removal of debug statements.
- Also, the PSX bootscreen no longer is displayed on loading of a game.
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Yup, I think I fixed the bug that caused HLE to not work. It might also allow games previously not working with or without HLE to now work. The bug came from my testing of a ripped ISO that wasn't properly ripped. The ISO was Tactics Ogre, so if someone has the time to rip Tactics Ogre to a full BIN file and test it out on this version, please do! I'm hoping I didn't break other games with this release.

I removed the PSX boot splash from loading, as it was tedious to watch. I also removed some debug text about CDROM labels and such.

The file menu now works again. HLE works as it should. And I also have been contacted by a GP2X user who knows ARM assembly who would like to help improve performance of my ports. So all in all, good stuff.

Oh yeah, I didn't test compressed ISO's in this release, so if someone tests a .Z/.bz/.ZNX compressed game, let me know if it works.

Thanks,
ZodTTD

[urielka]

foward this guy to me also,maybe he can help me with the dyna-rec.


Uriel