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Offline Romhack

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Re: What I've been working on (iq_132's work in progress)
« Reply #1170 on: November 16, 2016, 10:34:34 AM »
Thanks a lot! The SSV hardware has got some very nice games! :)

Out of curiosity: does the ES5506 core require an implementation or is it already supported?
AFAIK yes.

By the way, i was wondering, if you added multi-thread in fba (if i understood well, you'll need that for sh-3 ?), it would impact all existing cpus, or a rewrite would be needed ? (I've speed issues in "spectral vs generation" and "the killing blade plus" on raspberry, which is kinda sad because 3 cores are unused, so i was wondering if it could be the solution, since i lack the skills to port cyclone to fba)
IMHO dynamic recompiler would be better option, but recompilers are not portable :P

so, who wants to make a sh3 cpu for fba?:)
MAME SH3/4 depends on mame timers and scheduler.

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Re: What I've been working on (iq_132's work in progress)
« Reply #1171 on: November 16, 2016, 11:04:24 AM »
IMHO dynamic recompiler would be better option, but recompilers are not portable :P
Yes, there was a fork of fba 0.2.96.71 named pifba, which used cyclone (=> arm m68k dynarec), i tried to port it to current fbalpha-libretro one year ago, i was even able to start some games, but they would reboot after a second or so, and i was unable to figure out why, perhaps i should try again.

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Re: What I've been working on (iq_132's work in progress)
« Reply #1172 on: November 16, 2016, 02:38:16 PM »
AFAIK yes.

Thanks for the reply! :)

I had a doubt because there are no games emulated by FBA (obviously SSV games aside) that use the Ensoniq ES5506 chip... in addition to SSV hardware, (IIRC) the only other arcade hardware that uses this audio chip it's the Incredible Technologies 32-bit board (currently not emulated by FBA).

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Re: What I've been working on (iq_132's work in progress)
« Reply #1173 on: November 16, 2016, 04:05:27 PM »
Thanks for the reply! :)

I had a doubt because there are no games emulated by FBA (obviously SSV games aside) that use the Ensoniq ES5506 chip... in addition to SSV hardware, (IIRC) the only other arcade hardware that uses this audio chip it's the Incredible Technologies 32-bit board (currently not emulated by FBA).

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Re: What I've been working on (iq_132's work in progress)
« Reply #1174 on: November 16, 2016, 05:16:45 PM »
Amazing! ;)

PS: maybe I missed some steps! But is the NEC V60/70 core already ported by Romhack?
interestingly enough Romhack and I both were porting it at the same time. I am using my port, but I did borrow some ideas from him. :)


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Re: What I've been working on (iq_132's work in progress)
« Reply #1175 on: November 16, 2016, 05:18:48 PM »
Added some of the best games to the driver. Still a lot to go.


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Re: What I've been working on (iq_132's work in progress)
« Reply #1176 on: November 16, 2016, 05:49:13 PM »
Amazing iq_132 *_*

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Re: What I've been working on (iq_132's work in progress)
« Reply #1177 on: November 16, 2016, 08:28:53 PM »
simply awesome

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Re: What I've been working on (iq_132's work in progress)
« Reply #1178 on: November 17, 2016, 01:01:24 AM »
interestingly enough Romhack and I both were porting it at the same time. I am using my port, but I did borrow some ideas from him. :)

In short, almost an "unaware" teamwork! :P Thanks you both, so much! :)

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Re: What I've been working on (iq_132's work in progress)
« Reply #1179 on: November 17, 2016, 07:29:50 AM »
pure awesome! :D

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Re: What I've been working on (iq_132's work in progress)
« Reply #1180 on: November 17, 2016, 02:50:10 PM »
Totally awesome !!! I love those games :smilie:


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Re: What I've been working on (iq_132's work in progress)
« Reply #1181 on: November 18, 2016, 01:03:06 AM »
Only a few left ^^


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Re: What I've been working on (iq_132's work in progress)
« Reply #1182 on: November 18, 2016, 01:36:47 AM »
I can't believe my eyes, if I'm not wrong, just some Mahjong games and Eagle Shot Golf are still lacking from the list! Thanks, so much! :)

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Re: What I've been working on (iq_132's work in progress)
« Reply #1183 on: November 18, 2016, 03:28:14 PM »

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Re: What I've been working on (iq_132's work in progress)
« Reply #1184 on: November 18, 2016, 04:37:58 PM »
So many awesome games! Thanks again, iq_132! :)