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I've run into an issue with gpsp which is a little annoying... it seems that there's a lag on the audio, but it doesn't affect all games. A few I've tried work fine but (naturally) my very favorite GBA game suffers from this slight amount of audio lag.

The sounds seem to trail the action by about 1/2 second. It gets 'dangerous' in that you sometimes don't know the bad guys have shot at you until it's too late!

I've tried playing around with the settings but the only audio setting is the buffer, and it doesn't seem to help, whatever I set it to.

The game by the way is "Tank Commander", a homebrew available from here:
http://www.freewebs.com/drussell/Download.htm#GameBoyAdvance

If anyone has any suggestions, they'd be most appreciated.

Thanks!

Yes this emulator needs some love.

when i try to enter graphics and sound settings, emulator freezes. Anyone with same problem ?

Last night I came across something that seems to have fixed the sound lag, at least in some games.

In the graphics & sound options(*) there's a setting for Audio Buffer. It was set to the maximum , 16384 bytes. I've played with this in the past and found it had no effect, so I gave up on it. Well last night I had been playing again, and happened to leave it at 2048 bytes, then I quite gpsp.

When I went back in later, I found the sound was no longer lagging! It seems that the settings are not put into effect until you quit then restart. So all the testing etc I had done int he past was no good as I'd never quit & restarted, just saved the settings and returned to the game.

I tested it a bit more and confirmed that this was the case - audio buffer of 2048 bytes, quit then restart, and the sound is no longer lagging.

* Graphics and Sound options crashed for me for a long time then magically started working. I don't know what the deal is with that... I think there's a file that it looks for and if it doesn't already exist, you get a crash. Try some of the other options, like configuring the inputs or cheats & misc options. Somewhere along the way, the missing file appears and then you can get into the graphics and sound menu.

Nice work! Now we just need a volume control in the emulator! 

My gpSP crashes my dingoo even when I tried to quit. Is it the "START" button to confirm entering to a menu? If so, I've tried the "Graphics and Sound options" and "Exit gpSP" and crashes. I even can't load a new game.

I've got another problem. The menu just shows all the files in the directory without the extension. Should I choose the wrong file then I get crashed. Could anyone please suggest a way to avoid that?

Very nice! =D

I think i will check the source, lets see if i can do something =P

That would be great if you could spruce up gpsp a bit. In addition to having a volume control in there, I'd love to see it run games at the correct 'speed' regardless of what speed the dingoo's CPU is running. I.e. play a game at 336MHz then overclock to 400MHz and play the same game. Suddenly it seems faster (and more difficult!).

I downloaded the sources for it a while back but haven't found the time to have a look at it.

Cheers!

Yes, but you can filter out just the .gba and .GBA files.