News on my emulator

[olaf]

Just in case no one notices because I posted in the "Introductions" sections, there's been a lot of work done on my emulator: vbsms+.

shinobiman.proboards15.com/index.cgi?board=intro&action=display&thread=6406

That means there's now...

- Save states
- Movie states
- AVI recording
- Region detection/switching
- Frame-by-frame advancing
- Full Game Gear support
- Screenshot saving
- Layer disabling (for sprite ripping in combination with screenshot saving)
- Sound with sample rate selection
- Rapid Fire Unit emulation
- Pro Action Replay
- Memory editor with bookmarks/value searching

Phew! ;D

You can visit my web site for the older versions... olaf.arc-nova.org/

[SMSCollect]

That's quite some stuff, when do you expect to upload it? Want to try it out.

[olaf]

It will probably be in the next couple days. Since I posted that yesterday, I've also added fast forwarding.

[SMSCollect]

Superb man, thanks for the info.

[Stan]

Damn, yeah, that certainly beats my el cheap grande Dega I've been using. We could make some badass shots or game samples for the database. That would be a pretty cool idea I think, using those movie states.

[olaf]

well, it's released, use it however you like -- tried to make videos/pictures/sprite ripping/cheating as easy as possible

[rainmun]

Thanks heaps man, keep the updates coming.

[olafc]

Apr 21, 2009 10:23:16 GMT rainmun said:

Thanks heaps man, keep the updates coming.

I updated it to version 3.1...

- added various fixes to the vdp, including horizontal sprite zooming [benryves]
- added 3d disabling for games that are supposed to use the segascope 3d glasses [olaf]
- added dx7vb.dll to the source's zip for compiling on windows 7 [olaf]
- added the load rom shortcut key in full screen mode [olaf]
- added a compatibility hack for '[bios] alex kidd in miracle world (korea)' [olaf]
- added slow motion throttles (50%, 25%, 12%, 6%, and 3%) [olaf]
- added rewinding (works with movie states and saves at an interval of 1 second) [olaf]
- added 'reset and record' option for movie states [olaf]
- added a play time pop up window to the end of movie playback [olaf]
- added resuming recording from a save state [olaf]
- removed a bug in handling of game gear rom filenames [olaf]
- removed the disabling of gg's border [olaf]
- removed the gg's start button in sms mode and removed sms's pause button in gg mode [olaf]
- removed the sms's second input in gg mode [olaf]
- removed a bug with rapid fire in gg mode [olaf]
- removed a bug that did not allow pc gamepad input during movie recording [olaf]
- removed the sms's region code in gg mode [olaf]
- removed the bugs in the z80 core which now allow vbsms+ to pass the zexall test [brom]
- removed a bug when you tried to play a movie while already recording [olaf]
- removed a bug where movie states were using the save state slot number [olaf]
- removed avi recording (there was no sound and i never planned on working on it) [olaf]
- changed some sound code around and now it sounds better [brom]
- changed default window size to 2x and default full screen size to 640x480 [olaf]
- changed the region submenu around (now with proper pal/ntsc modes too) [olaf]
- changed the gg to its proper speed (always ntsc mode) [olaf]
- changed some other menus/submenus around [olaf]
- changed "fast forwarding" to 'no throttle' [olaf]
- changed sprite limiting to enabled by default for the sake of accuracy [olaf]
- changed 'rapid fire unit' to 'rapid fire' since there was no rfu for gg [olaf]
- changed movie states to overwrite if there's already a movie state on the slot [olaf]

Download it here: olaf.arc-nova.org/. This version is geared more towards tool assisted speed-runs.

[Stan]

Cool, thanks man, when I get around to updating the Emu section of the site in a month or so I'll add yours to the mix (as well as Dega)!