Gens4All with Z80 Emulation

[CrashMidnick]

Hi there !
Thanks for your hard work TapamN !

Is there a pre build version ? I suck at compiling stuff... Thx

There is a prebuilt ELF file in the 7z that you can use to run over dcload or convert to BIN to make a CDI. There's no prebuilt image with ROMs on it.

Thanks. I will try to convert the elf into bin, I do not use dcload.

EDIT : why not providing the .bin in the archive ?

[Lan-Di]

is there a complete file ready to burn to cd? Ive looked at bits and pieces of this thread and can't seem to find it! Or is this still being worked on 'till completion?

[WedgeStratos]

I am currently going through a TOSEC full-set to apply only the games that work with this emulator. A number of issues exist, particularly with raster graphics, so there are NO racing games that work, and it causes graphical issues in a number of games like Ecco or Comix Zone. With that said?

Gens4SSP: The Sega Smash Pack Stand-In. Download here.

This uses a rebuilt ELF provided by Ian Michael (thanks m8) and contains 22 games collected from the 5 separate Sega Smash Pack releases across PC, Dreamcast and GBA, plus stand-ins for the games that don't work.

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• Altered Beast, from PC Pack 1, DC
• Body Count, stand-in for Virtua Cop, from DC
• Columns, from PC Pack 1, DC
• Columns III, from PC Pack 2
• Comix Zone, from PC Pack 3
• Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine, from PC Pack 2
• ECCO The Dolphin, from GBA
• Flicky, from PC Pack 3
• Golden Axe, from PC Pack 1, DC, GBA
• Kawasaki Superbike Challenge, stand-in for Super Hang-On from PC Pack 3
• Kid Chameleon, from PC Pack 3
• Phantasy Star II, from PC Pack 1, DC
• Revenge of Shinobi, from PC Pack 1, DC
• Rock n' Roll Racing, stand-in for Super Hang-On from PC Pack 3
• Shining Force, from PC Pack 3, DC
• Sonic Spinball, from PC Pack 1, GBA
• Sonic The Hedgehog, from DC
• Sonic The Hedgehog 2, from PC Pack 3
• Streets of Rage 2, from DC
• Vectorman, from PC Pack 1, DC
• Vectorman 2, from PC Pack 3
• WWF Royal Rumble, stand-in for Wrestle War

This has only been tested via Demul and Redream in emulation, and via GDemu on retail hardware, so I cannot be held liable for excess coasters.

Again, I am testing the TOSEC for valid games. It will be a few days, but I have already completed everything from A-E in the games offered in the US NTSC catalog. A game has to be playable with no major graphical defects that hinder the experience, as well as not having sound issues.

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[Ian Micheal]

I just noticed a bug in the in-game menu. If you try to save from it, it softlocks on the save screen. I made a last minute change to how the menu works and didn't test it fully. The attached file has the bug fixed.

TapamN could you help with GLDC There is bottle neck

I'm sure your SQ's way would really help

https://gitlab.com/simulant/GLdc

I can try looking into it at some point. Is there a benchmark program that can be tested? Is it polymark/quadmark from the samples directory?

I had this error when i built the new 3.1 with saving that i dont get with 3.0

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fs_romdisk: mounting image at 0x8c0de370 at /rd
maple: attached devices:
  A0: Dreamcast Controller          (01000000: Controller)
  A1: Visual Memory                 (0e000000: Clock, LCD, MemoryCard)
MAIN !!!!
Init genesis bios
InitFont
An error occured while loading the font.arch: shutting down kernel
maple: final stats -- device count = 2, vbl_cntr = 10, dma_cntr = 10
vid_set_mode: 640x480 VGA
fs_romdisk: unmounting image at 0x8c0de370 from /rd

[TapamN]

I've used Vectorman to test tilemap shadow/highlight, and it runs for me. Wrestle War isn't a good choice for that version of Gens4All since it uses a window map on the right edge of the screen, and I only implemented window maps for the top and bottom. Altered Beast requires some tilemap rasters to show both the score and life bar; the that version of Gens4All can only show one at a time, depending on what the render point is.

I haven't made enough progress to bother releasing anything yet, but here's an update:

I've partially created a game list menu. At the moment, it's just a replacement for the directory listing and doesn't read per game settings, but it loads the list much faster than trying to get a directory listing over dcload.

I've also been working on redoing the rendering code to have limited raster support, and better window support. It's currently more glitchy overall and is missing some of the line scroll handling that the last release had, but handles somethings better. It gets Sonic 2's split screen mode working correctly, and handles things like Altered Beast's HUD and Landstalker's dialog boxes better (first screenshot is old renderer, second shot is the raster supporting renderer). Toejam & Earl split screen still doesn't work correctly. Stuff like Super Hang-On, Panorama Cotton, and Sonic 3D Blast's special stages are kind of playable, but they don't look that good and don't quite run at full speed (about 55 FPS) without reducing the sample rate. It's really only good for having a couple rasters rather than stretching or squashing the entire screen.

Supporting accurate full screen rasters (like Vectorman, Contra title screens or racing games or Panorama Cotton) is not feasible. You end up drawing 8x1 slivers which is way too much work for the CPU and PVR. It comes out to 41x224x2 quads drawn, or 36,736 triangles (and that's not counting sprites).

I have an idea for a renderer that might work better for heavy rasters using render-to-texture, but it's not possible on the KOS PVR driver, and I'm not totally sure it can hit 60 FPS.

I had this error when i built the new 3.1 with saving that i dont get with 3.0

That error is from loading the original, now unused, Gens4All SDL menu. The only (intentional) change in 3.1 over 3.0 is in gamemenu.c, it sounds like there was a problem building the romdisk, or I made a mistake with the 7z file. You could just copy the gamemenu file from 3.1 into your 3.0 build, or copy the 3.0 romdisk to 3.1, or delete the code that loads the font.

[Ian Micheal]

Thank you TapamN i will give that a try You made great progress it's really impressive .. Personal thank you Yes i was just trying to build saving working as i think i remember you added that back?..

Whats with the sega cd and 32x defines they seem to build not tried to get them to work..

[aldair]

It's great!

[Ian Micheal]

It's great!

Yeah much better then that POS smashpack the sound on that makes you want be deaf


Real 60fps and no frameskip crap

[WedgeStratos]

I've completed it, and it's here.
GENS4GOOD
TapamN's enhanced Gens4All V3 with 494 PLAYABLE AND TESTED games powered by the Goodset! GET IT HERE!

Over a week of testing, double-checking and documentation, and understanding Bootdreams somewhat, we have almost 500 games that are confirmed working and should be playable from beginning to end, all with great sound accuracy and little to no visual defects, thanks to the excellent work of TapamN fixing VDP rendering and audio.

Also included here are these lists of the games included or removed.
THE GOODS
THE BADS

There are a lot of heavy hitters here I wanna point out in another post, it's impressive what this emulator can do right now. I'm also updating the Smash Pack release from earlier, as I confirmed an issue with some of my ROMs, and made a few positive changes.

I also wanna thank Ian Michael for compiling the V3 binary, I could not muster the courage to get a Kallisti env going, not on Linux. This wouldn't have happened without his help.

[Ian Micheal]

I've completed it, and it's here.
GENS4GOOD
TapamN's enhanced Gens4All V3 with 498 PLAYABLE AND TESTED games powered by the Goodset! GET IT HERE!

Over a week of testing, double-checking and documentation, and understanding Bootdreams somewhat, we have almost 500 games that are confirmed working and should be playable from beginning to end, all with great sound accuracy and little to no visual defects, thanks to the excellent work of TapamN fixing VDP rendering and audio.

Also included here are these lists of the games included or removed.
THE GOODS
THE BADS

There are a lot of heavy hitters here I wanna point out in another post, it's impressive what this emulator can do right now. I'm also updating the Smash Pack release from earlier, as I confirmed an issue with some of my ROMs, and made a few positive changes.

I also wanna thank Ian Michael for compiling the V3 binary, I could not muster the courage to get a Kallisti env going, not on Linux. This wouldn't have happened without his help.

Thanks for this and all your work testing Downloading now

Thanks TapmN
Thanks Fox ,Ron,Chui

for porting this in the first place and releasing the src for the future

Here is another link on my paid mega.nz Copy https://mega.nz/file/TqgijaQT#RAlGEXm0EvmYPZ9EieEo4NN3Jb_FsmT7GLO68MrjcCI