Running a SWEET Nintendo emulator for CX00

[Ling]

Thanks for this info. There are some fun games. I guess that the site is down, but I can't get to the self-core.org site.

[Ling]

1) The screen is tiny...How do I make it full screen like the C700 picture on the web page of FRODO?

2) I copied FRODOGUI settings and I can load games, but how do I get them to RUN ? (RUN doesn't WORK).

3) How do you Exit FRODO gracefully?

1) The key for me was to turn off magnification for frodogui, but leave it on for frodo. Then I get a full screen that looks just like my good old c64.

2) Ok, go to http://www.uni-mainz.de/~bauec002/FRMain.html and following the link to download the c64 manual. Use that in combination with your post above. If you use frodogui to select your game and then run frodo, you just press shift-tab-o and off you go.

3) You answered your own question in your previous post, press 'Menu'. You can use shift-tab-o (Run/Stop) to end an individual game and a game program to return to the cursor. Then you can use the load command to run a new game if you want to.

[pelrun]

Is there anything that is different in your key mapping from the vanilla configuration?

No, but then again my setup is vanilla vanilla. Original sharp rom (awaiting SD card so I can reflash), with the japanese IME intact. I've got a sneaking suspicion it might be the IME that's filtering the keystrokes.

So on the one hand it looks like I'm in luck and it's not a hardware limitation, but on the other hand I might have to sacrifice my J input to get around it. And on the gripping hand, the keyboard would probably be way too awkward to play Umihara Kawase on it even if I could get it working

[ev1l]

self-core is down, anyone feel like hosting/emailing the ipk's for zemu?
edit: stupkid has them mirrored, thanks a lot

Is anyone else getting reversed screen output and input on a C-860 with ZEmuFEEx? help  
starting znester (or zemufe) from the CLI, i get:
"could not open translation file /home/QtPalmtop//i18n/en/libsl.qmid"

[ev1l]

Damnit!
trying out snes9x with Bomberman2, i get:
QLibrary open failed!: /home/QtPalmtop/lib/libqsfepj.so, libkke.so.1: cannot load shared object file: No such file or directory

edit: I get the same error when trying to start another emulator (infones) from the CLI. What are those libs?

[stupkid]

evi1,

Weird I do not have either of those libs on my Z. I do not get complaints about them missing either when I run snes9x.  Where did you get your bin of snes9x?

[ev1l]

Weird I do not have either of those libs on my Z. I do not get complaints about them missing either when I run snes9x.  Where did you get your bin of snes9x?

http://www.suhami.net/zaurus/index.cgi?Emulator%2fsnes9x
I'll check whether you host this package and try your feed.
When I try your version, i get sound, but no video (black screen), and the same error message. Do you use any particular switches? (i just did snes9x /filedir/romname).
I've wated to try cacko for a while, so I'm going to flash my Z and try again.

[make7upyours]

is the snes emulator very good
this might be too much to ask for but is it full speed with sound on most games

if it was that would convince me to get a zaurus

[dz]

make7upyours:

Mine handles most game pretty damn well.  The only problem I have had is the awkwardness of the keys, but that was gotten over rather quickly.  It runs very smooth and I get sound.  Don't expect every single game to work, but most of them do.

[stupkid]

ev1|,

The package on my feed is from suhami.net as well.  The way that I run snes9x is by creating a small shell script containing something like /home/QtPalmtop/bin/earthworm_jim.sh:

#!/bin/sh
/home/QtPalmtop/bin/snes9x -xs 320 -ys 240 "/home/zaurus/snes-roms/Earthworm_Jim_US.zip"

Then I create a link under games link like earthworm_jim.desktop:

[Desktop Entry]
Comment = snes9x
Exec = earthworm_jim.sh
Icon = earthworm_jim
Name = Earthworm Jim

Then click on the icon under games and it runs great with sound and all on my c860.  

I also created a shell script that uploads my game configurations as they are created:

#!/bin/bash
#
# This script will update all the SNES game shell scripts and icons
SHDIR=/home/QtPalmtop/bin/
ICONDIR=/home/QtPalmtop/pics/
DESKTOPDIR=/home/QtPalmtop/apps/Games/

# Shell script update

for sh in *.sh; do
  cp $sh $SHDIR/
  chmod 755 ${SHDIR}/${sh}
done

# Icon image update

for icon in *.png; do
  cp $icon $ICONDIR/
  chmod 644 ${ICONDIR}/${icon}
done

# Desktop update

for desktop in *.desktop; do
  cp $desktop $DESKTOPDIR/
  chmod 644 ${DESKTOPDIR}/${desktop}
done

This seems like a pain, but it has consistently worked on my Z.  

YMMV!

[uczmeg]

is the snes emulator very good
this might be too much to ask for but is it full speed with sound on most games

if it was that would convince me to get a zaurus

I haven't tried it on the Zaurus yet, but as with most Zaurus stuff it seems to require a fair deal of knowledge to get things going and on the gaming side, in general, it seems the development community isn't really there on the Zaurus the way it is with other applications.

There is no real technical reason the Zaurus can't handle SNES emulation well as other similar spec hand helds do a good job but you will always have control issues. But then you have them with the pocket pc too!

If you really want to play emulated games on the move, in my opinion, the device you need is a Tapwave Zodiac. A Palm based PDA. Get one of those and the free app Little John Z and you have emulated Genesis/Megadrive, Super Nintendo, NES, Gameboy and a few more. LJZ is being actively developed and already the standard of emulation is really superb. The Zodiac supports full screen scaling and smoothing so there is no performance loss running games full screen on it's lovely big screen.

The Zodiac is designed as a gaming PDA so it actually has gaming controls and is a delight to use.

I've just moved from a Zodiac to a Zaurus as there were things for the Zaurus that I really needed and cannot justify 2 PDAs right now. I do miss it and for emulation gaming in a PDA device nothing beats it right now.

Cheers
Marc

[ev1l]

#!/bin/sh
/home/QtPalmtop/bin/snes9x -xs 320 -ys 240 "/home/zaurus/snes-roms/Earthworm_Jim_US.zip"

Well I didn't have the X/Y switches, but even with them I get the same results.
Could you maybe post a list of the libs you have installed?
I really can't see where it's going wrong, and snes9x doesn't write a log, so  

[stupkid]

Here is the output of ldd:

# ldd -v /home/QtPalmtop/bin/snes9x
        libSDL-1.2.so.0 => /home/QtPalmtop/lib/libSDL-1.2.so.0 (0x40022000)
        libqpe.so.1 => /home/QtPalmtop/lib/libqpe.so.1 (0x40078000)
        libqte.so.2 => /home/QtPalmtop/lib/libqte.so.2 (0x40201000)
        libpthread.so.0 => /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0x40635000)
        libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x40653000)
        libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x4076e000)
        libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x4079c000)
        libcrypt.so.1 => /lib/libcrypt.so.1 (0x407a7000)
        libjpeg.so.62 => /home/QtPalmtop/lib/libjpeg.so.62 (0x407dc000)
        /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x40000000)

        Version information:
        /home/QtPalmtop/bin/snes9x:
                libpthread.so.0 (GLIBC_2.1) => /lib/libpthread.so.0
                libpthread.so.0 (GLIBC_2.0) => /lib/libpthread.so.0
                libm.so.6 (GLIBC_2.0) => /lib/libm.so.6
                libc.so.6 (GLIBC_2.1) => /lib/libc.so.6
                libc.so.6 (GLIBC_2.1.3) => /lib/libc.so.6
                libc.so.6 (GLIBC_2.0) => /lib/libc.so.6
        /home/QtPalmtop/lib/libSDL-1.2.so.0:
                libm.so.6 (GLIBC_2.0) => /lib/libm.so.6
                libdl.so.2 (GLIBC_2.1) => /lib/libdl.so.2
                libdl.so.2 (GLIBC_2.0) => /lib/libdl.so.2
                libc.so.6 (GLIBC_2.0) => /lib/libc.so.6
                libc.so.6 (GLIBC_2.1) => /lib/libc.so.6
        /home/QtPalmtop/lib/libqpe.so.1:
                libcrypt.so.1 (GLIBC_2.0) => /lib/libcrypt.so.1
                libdl.so.2 (GLIBC_2.1) => /lib/libdl.so.2
                libdl.so.2 (GLIBC_2.0) => /lib/libdl.so.2
                libm.so.6 (GLIBC_2.0) => /lib/libm.so.6
                libc.so.6 (GLIBC_2.1) => /lib/libc.so.6
                libc.so.6 (GLIBC_2.0) => /lib/libc.so.6
        /home/QtPalmtop/lib/libqte.so.2:
                libm.so.6 (GLIBC_2.0) => /lib/libm.so.6
                libc.so.6 (GLIBC_2.2) => /lib/libc.so.6
                libc.so.6 (GLIBC_2.1) => /lib/libc.so.6
                libc.so.6 (GLIBC_2.0) => /lib/libc.so.6
        /lib/libpthread.so.0:
                libc.so.6 (GLIBC_2.1.3) => /lib/libc.so.6
                libc.so.6 (GLIBC_2.1) => /lib/libc.so.6
                libc.so.6 (GLIBC_2.2) => /lib/libc.so.6
                libc.so.6 (GLIBC_2.1.2) => /lib/libc.so.6
                libc.so.6 (GLIBC_2.0) => /lib/libc.so.6
                libc.so.6 (GLIBC_2.1.1) => /lib/libc.so.6
        /lib/libc.so.6:
                ld-linux.so.2 (GLIBC_2.1.1) => /lib/ld-linux.so.2
                ld-linux.so.2 (GLIBC_2.1) => /lib/ld-linux.so.2
                ld-linux.so.2 (GLIBC_2.2) => /lib/ld-linux.so.2
                ld-linux.so.2 (GLIBC_2.0) => /lib/ld-linux.so.2
        /lib/libm.so.6:
                libc.so.6 (GLIBC_2.0) => /lib/libc.so.6
        /lib/libdl.so.2:
                libc.so.6 (GLIBC_2.1) => /lib/libc.so.6
                libc.so.6 (GLIBC_2.2) => /lib/libc.so.6
                libc.so.6 (GLIBC_2.0) => /lib/libc.so.6
        /lib/libcrypt.so.1:
                libc.so.6 (GLIBC_2.0) => /lib/libc.so.6
        /home/QtPalmtop/lib/libjpeg.so.62:
                libc.so.6 (GLIBC_2.0) => /lib/libc.so.6

If you have development image (dev_img-1.5) on your Z or some other copy of ldd you can run 'ldd -v' against snes9x and find out pretty quickly what is different.

[coolass]

Does anyone how to rotate the emulator so that it can work for  the SL-6000 or at least how to reassign keys to make it work properly in landscape ?  

ANYONE??

[ev1l]

stupkid, i don't have ldd (joy  ), where can i find a decent gnu toolchain for the Z? Do you have that anywhere?
Also, the kPIM suite has been upgraded to 1.9.6