Author Topic: (zpsx) Psx4zaurus Public Beta 4 Released (Read 44079 times)

Antikx · « **Reply #45 on:** October 10, 2006, 10:27:56 am »

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Is there any site that I can get a simple game - I do not want the lattest hot game, just a simple game as small as possible, in order to test the emulator.

I have some PS1 games. Can I convert them? How can I do this?

Tnx...
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Are you using Linux? Windows?
If using Linux pease read previous pages in this thread
If using Windows please read previous pages in this thread and the other one.
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Hey m8...

That 's not much of help from you... If you have something helpful to say, go ahead...

I tried on line to find home-brew psx on google but without luck. I will try to rip off one of my PS1 CDs as iso...

Can I run a PS1 CD if I connect a CD ROM to my Z? I guess not cause I have to put all my roms under the correct folder...
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Sorry.. I recalled that the answers you were looking for were in previous threads but I didn't have time to re-read them for you so I thought I would just recommend you read them.
Forums aren't the best at displaying information in an organized way. Maybe we can get zodttd to set up a wiki.

Are you going to use Windows or Linux to rip the psx cd's?

neo_com_3 · « **Reply #46 on:** October 10, 2006, 10:34:41 am »

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Is there any site that I can get a simple game - I do not want the lattest hot game, just a simple game as small as possible, in order to test the emulator.

I have some PS1 games. Can I convert them? How can I do this?

Tnx...
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Are you using Linux? Windows?
If using Linux pease read previous pages in this thread
If using Windows please read previous pages in this thread and the other one.
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Hey m8...

That 's not much of help from you... If you have something helpful to say, go ahead...

I tried on line to find home-brew psx on google but without luck. I will try to rip off one of my PS1 CDs as iso...

Can I run a PS1 CD if I connect a CD ROM to my Z? I guess not cause I have to put all my roms under the correct folder...
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Sorry.. I recalled that the answers you were looking for were in previous threads but I didn't have time to re-read them for you so I thought I would just recommend you read them.
Forums aren't the best at displaying information in an organized way. Maybe we can get zodttd to set up a wiki.

Are you going to use Windows or Linux to rip the psx cd's?
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I do not have any Linux machine, only my Z. I guess that I have to use XP for this procedure. Can I use nero for this, right?

After I have the iso file, I just place usder the correct folder on my Z?

By the way, tnx for your concern...

zodttd · « **Reply #47 on:** October 10, 2006, 12:41:09 pm »

Nero probably won't work, as I believe the NRG file it makes isn't a "RAW" format BIN/ISO.

For Windows, I'd use a free program called cdrdao. By going to the "XDuplicator" site you'll find a nice Windows frontend for cdrdao plus cdrdao itself.

Btw, a new psx4zaurus build is almost ready. It's faster and I'd say more compatible, though compatibility has changed on various games. Valkyrie Profile, for instance, works now.

danboid · « **Reply #48 on:** October 10, 2006, 12:58:08 pm »

Go ZodTTD!

Good to see continued rapid progress on zpsx!

Did you find the cacko toolchain? Are you still going to do a cacko build? You'd get a lot more testers that way but I'm not sure the cacko kernel or its version of SDL (or both) can do QVGA- I've certainly not seen it.

Thanks!

dan

bolbit · « **Reply #49 on:** October 10, 2006, 01:25:10 pm »

Which PdaXrom is needed to run psx4zaurus ? (Beta1, 3, 4, ... )
thanks.

Antikx · « **Reply #50 on:** October 10, 2006, 01:42:56 pm »

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Which PdaXrom is needed to run psx4zaurus ? (Beta1, 3, 4, ... )
thanks.
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From what I've read Beta 1, 2 and 3 should work. Beta 4+ (with 2.6 kernel) may not work. Correct me if I'm wrong.
I'm using Beta3 and it works great.

Antikx · « **Reply #51 on:** October 10, 2006, 01:56:45 pm »

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Nero probably won't work, as I believe the NRG file it makes isn't a "RAW" format BIN/ISO.

For Windows, I'd use a free program called cdrdao. By going to the "XDuplicator" site you'll find a nice Windows frontend for cdrdao plus cdrdao itself.

Btw, a new psx4zaurus build is almost ready. It's faster and I'd say more compatible, though compatibility has changed on various games. Valkyrie Profile, for instance, works now.
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Cool. So you can use cdrdao for Win and Lin. Nice.
Zodtdd... is there much overhead (during decompression) when using the compressed (PocketISO .Z) iso format you mentioned in previous posts? If not, is there a way to do it under Linux?
nm... I just googled PocketISO and it seems to just compress video, so it would add any extra overhead and might actually help with games like Lunar:SSS where the sound in the video gets out of sink after a couple seconds. correct me if I'm wrong.

Keep up the great work! Looking forward to more speed.

zodttd · « **Reply #52 on:** October 10, 2006, 02:18:46 pm »

Here's an attached updated build for pdaXrom Beta 1/2/3 users.

New in psx4zaurus Beta 4 Build 3:
- Faster.
- Compatibility has improved, especially in 3D games. Though some working games might not work now, if so let me know.
- Included is a recommended SDL library to use with psx4zaurus on pdaXrom. Using this SDL over others can improve performance and enable QVGA in console mode. It is recommended for performance reasons that psx4zaurus be played in console mode.

Let me know how this build compares to the last.

zodttd · « **Reply #53 on:** October 10, 2006, 03:10:54 pm »

PocketISO 2.0 will compress a raw BIN rip of a psx game to .Z (don't use .ZNX or .BZ for now as its not well supported yet). Keep in mind if you check mark any videos or sound, it will try to rip them out of the compressed file, which is a bit tricky and can make a compatible game become incompatible.

Also, sometimes there's an error with .Z compression/decompression that is causing games on the Zaurus to not load. It seems rare though, but keep that in mind for compatibility lists.

Best way to compress games with PocketISO 2:
- Use the FF8 search method as it will not find anything to rip for most games, which in our case is a good thing.
- Use Normal Compression.
- Process ISO
- Copy the .Z *and* .Z.table file for use with psx4all.

zodttd · « **Reply #54 on:** October 10, 2006, 04:43:27 pm »

danboid: I'd like to do a Cacko build of psx4zaurus today. I have Cacko 1.23 set up and have the BVDD SDL 1.2.5. I need a recent toolchain for Cacko though. I only have the 2.95.3 (old) toolchain for compiling the Cacko kernel. If you can find the most recent Cacko toolchain, that would be great! I will have a build for it ready today if so.

pgas · « **Reply #55 on:** October 11, 2006, 02:03:49 am »

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I only have the 2.95.3 (old) toolchain for compiling the Cacko kernel.

AFAIK there is no such thing as a new toolchain for cacko. Cacko is a collection of tweaks added on the sharp rom and everything is built with the same toolchain used for the first zauruses.

I think Meanie has compiled a newer gcc/glibc and there is also a gcc compiled without softfloat here: http://mail.pdaxrom.org/download/1.1.0beta1/XQt/ but if you compile with this, you will probably need to install a newer glibc together with the older one (again I think Meanie does something like this).

Another option might be to compile psx4zaurus with all the libs statically linked.

merli · « **Reply #56 on:** October 11, 2006, 02:25:03 am »

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Which PdaXrom is needed to run psx4zaurus ? (Beta1, 3, 4, ... )
thanks.
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I am using Beta1 and it works great.

bolbit · « **Reply #57 on:** October 11, 2006, 05:54:08 am »

Thanks. I was a bit lost with all these PdaXrom releases. But as zodttd is working on a cacko build, may be i will wait a little bit before trying PdaXrom.

Jon_J · « **Reply #58 on:** October 11, 2006, 08:59:36 am »

First post in this thread. I'd like to try this in Cacko.
I'm currently using Cresho's neogeo-turbogrfx-genesis-nes-snes emulator and I think it's great.
I've never owned a PS or PS2. Are there a lot of good RPGs for this platform?

desertrat · « **Reply #59 on:** October 11, 2006, 10:20:58 am »

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Someone with a cxxxx running zpsx needs to make some vids of it in action

OK, here's a video of raiden running on c3100, pdaxrom beta 3, psx4zaurus beta 4 build 3:
http://rapidshare.de/files/36345546/psx4za...-intro.mp4.html

It's about 37 secs playing time and filesize is about 2.4MB. Sorry about the quality - I'm using a camera phone

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Author Topic: (zpsx) Psx4zaurus Public Beta 4 Released (Read 44079 times)