Topic: Is some one porting the Final burn for embedded platform?

[Twinaphex]

anywhere I could get a binary (apk) of this? to try it out

Some private APKs have exchanged hands already although I don't think there are any download sources yet. And that's probably a good thing - because it's not released yet for a reason.

Anyway, I'm very hard at work at getting something ready to release by the end of this week. I think it will have been worth the wait personally.

[niabi]

Thats cool I was just wondering, I can still wait for an official release Thanks

[trickytree]

Still very much looking forward to this, but 'ready when it's ready' is the right approach.

[Twinaphex]

Still very much looking forward to this, but 'ready when it's ready' is the right approach.

The delays were unfortunate - and in hindsight I shouldn't have done the 'set in stone' release date thing - I underestimated how much work it would be to finally arrive at something I would be satisfied in pushing out. That and it didn't help that I also wanted to sort out a lot of the issues that people were still having on the console front - which also required at least a good one/two weeks of refactoring.

Anyway, this week, guaranteed. As far as I know this will be the first time that FBA will be available on the Android App Store for free with no strings atttached. It also comes with 14 other cores including a PS1 emu that was previously only available on Pandora (and is rather good), so there's plenty to do here.

[Twinaphex]

Released now. See my Twitter for the download link. As soon as it gets uploaded on the Android App Store I'll publish the link on my Twitter as well.

EDIT: Play Store link here:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.retroarch

[trickytree]

Nice one.

I assume it's 4.0+ only? It's coming up as incompatible with the Xperia Play.

[Twinaphex]

Nice one.

I assume it's 4.0+ only? It's coming up as incompatible with the Xperia Play.

Right now it's 4.0 and up, yes.

Only the menu frontend really requires this - there might be a way to make a 'degradable' menu frontend that could work on lower Android versions as well - although I am a bit shocked that Xperia Play is so outdated.

I even added autodetection of the 'Zeus' gamepad and was looking forward to seeing somebody try it on the damn thing - and now it appears it doesn't even have an official 4.0 OS? Yet more lovely Android fragmentation there.

[trickytree]

Sony did make an ICS ROM but it failed beta testing due to performance issues:
http://gadgets.ndtv.com/mobiles/news/no-ics-for-xperia-play-other-sony-devices-to-get-the-update-next-week-223153

It would be great if you could make it Gingerbread-compatible, but of course all in your own time, thanks.

[Twinaphex]

Sony did make an ICS ROM but it failed beta testing due to performance issues:
http://gadgets.ndtv.com/mobiles/news/no-ics-for-xperia-play-other-sony-devices-to-get-the-update-next-week-223153

It would be great if you could make it Gingerbread-compatible, but of course all in your own time, thanks.

Android itself is one big performance issue. It's the worst 'abortion of an operating system' that has ever existed, and in a sane world Google would have been laughed out of the door with this junk. Unfortunately, it's the most popular mobile OS there is right now, so we're stuck with it for a while.

So while I can still see where Sony is coming from, Gingerbread if anything would be even worse right now than ICS/Jelly Bean and up unless they miraculously managed to  iron out all the chinks in Android 2.3's armor (unlikely). RAM requirements have gone up drastically since 2.3 though - 4.0 seems to 'require' 1GB of RAM if you don't want to get a lot of 'onLowMemory' invocations.

[trickytree]

Not a huge fan of Android then? 
I must say I've not really noticed anything worthwhile in 4.0 over 2.3 to justify the higher memory requirements - it's the new Vista of OS upgrades.

Is it a lot of work to downgrade your 4.0 menus to 2.3? If you do get chance to work on them then I'm happy to help you test.

[fosamax]

Hi Twinaphex.

Thanks for for that release ! I'm really looking forward to try it on a decent android device with physical controls.

Do you think that you could port retroarch over the following system :

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/gcw/gcw-zero-open-source-gaming-handheld



Specifications

CPU: Ingenic JZ4770 1 GHz MIPS processor

GPU: Vivante GC860, capable of OpenGL ES 2.0

Display: 3.5 inch LCD with 320x240 pixels; 4:3 aspect ratio is ideal for retro gaming

Memory: 512 MB DDR2

Internal storage: 16 GB, most of which is available for applications and data

External storage: micro SDHC up to 32 GB or micro SDXC up to 64 GB (SDXC cards must be reformatted before use)

Mini USB 2.0 OTG

Mini HDMI 1.3 out

3.5 mm (mini jack) A/V port for earphone and analog TV-out

Stereo speakers, mono microphone

Accelerometer (g-sensor) and vibration motors

Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n 2.4 GHz, can connect to access point or direct device-to-device

Dimensions: 143 * 70 * 18 mm

Weight: 8 oz / 225 g

Battery: 2800 mAh

Currently the OpenGL driver is not implemented so there should be some performance issues.

Anyway, it's a great open source project in the same way of retroarch !

As a previous dingoo a320 owner, i myself backed the project since it seems to be able to handle emulation without some of the flaws android show like poor audio sync...

[niabi]

wow, very Cool!! I just downloaded this on my galaxy S and my A500 Tablet, hopefully they will run smooth, I will be testing it ASAP and report back

Thanks Twinaphex!

BTW, have you considered opening a thread in the XDA forum ?

http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=530

[Twinaphex]

wow, very Cool!! I just downloaded this on my galaxy S and my A500 Tablet, hopefully they will run smooth, I will be testing it ASAP and report back

Thanks Twinaphex!

BTW, have you considered opening a thread in the XDA forum ?

http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=530

I made a thread for it - unfortunately I will need to get my post count up over at least 10 before i can begin posting links and sceenshots there

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2116468

A download link has been posted by a user so far.

[Aquashark]

great work!

can we hope for a version compatible with older Android (Ginger Bread)?

[Twinaphex]

great work!

can we hope for a version compatible with older Android (Ginger Bread)?

Yes, this is being worked on.