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Quote from: Kouen Hasuki on June 26, 2016, 03:05:05 pm

I should expect so, Its a full 3D emulator and id imagine the hardest emulator the Zero has right now to drive

It doesn't utilize GCW Zero's GPU though, so there should be no extra battery drain.

@care16la20
Maybe it's something else draining the battery, like the wi-fi being on?

Nope, wifi is off and as a said, its weird because psx4all had the same behavior with hours of battery as the other emulators

Quote from: care16la20 on June 26, 2016, 05:02:46 pm

Quote from: zear on June 26, 2016, 03:20:21 pm

Maybe it's something else draining the battery, like the wi-fi being on?

Nope, wifi is off and as a said, its weird because psx4all had the same behavior with hours of battery as the other emulators

With psx4all, did you have sound enabled, along with XA and CDDA audio? If a game is streaming music from CD, as most do, it will read a lot of data from SD, which contributes to power drain. Depending on the game, one might read a lot more from 'CD' than another. However, once the data has been read once and, let's say, the music loops, it will be reading it from disk cache.

One thing I'm going to be working on that might help is adding a volume-setting to the frontend. The new SPU plugin we use has an overall volume setting that's set at 75% volume by default (PCSX Rearmed's default setting), but allowing it to be set to 100% would allow a lower volume setting on the GCW Zero's master mixer (what you control with power slider up/down).

Hi,

Humm, makes sense but its still strange because with psx4all the battery used to last much longer... I played FF7 and Breath of fire on it and the power lasted the same as playin an Genesis title for ex.... In PCSX4ALL m playin RoadRash that doesnt stream audio during the races.....

Thank you so much for this release! This has revitalised my interest in the GCW Zero. I thought we would not see Playstation emulation on GCW but now it has become real.

WARNING ABOUT SAVESTATES:

Save state compatibility might be broken in the next release because of large changes in GPU-plugin system. There is no guarantee I can make old savestates compatible with new changes, so I am giving everyone fair warning before any upcoming releases. Use memcards to save! I know there's only support for just two memcards, and hopefully that will improve in the future. But you should really only use savestates to get past a tough boss or to provide debug info to devs. Compatibility could break at any time.

The good news is the GPU plugin changes should fix quite a few games.

Hope the next release we see Jackie Chan Stunt Master work would be awesome 

Hope the next release we see Jackie Chan Stunt Master work would be awesome 

I'll keep trying, but I actually haven't had any luck yet with fixing that game. Maybe Dmitry will have some time to look at it if I can't figure anything out. I was able to fix main menu of THPS1, however.

@Senor Quack  when you say that the save states will be broken in the next release, do you mean just previously made save states?? Or do you mean save states are no longer A thing whatsoever in the new release?

I meant old savestates might not work with a new release.. Savestates will still be a feature. I think it will be possible to not break compatibility. I just wanted to post a warning that people shouldn't rely on savestates too much in general.  And, yes, Xenogears seems to be fixed but it has lingering issues with corruption of dialog-box borders. I'll have to look into that further.

I was able to fix main menu of THPS1

That's awesome news

Jackie Chan Stunt Master works on PCSX ReARMed 

Keep up the good work peeps

 OK so I can't get crash team racing to work, but I'm trying to find a bin +cue file not just bin.? Oddly enough though I will say happily that  "007 the world is not enough" DOES work as just a bin file without a cue file! Weird.
 One glitch I noticed though, is that the audio clips of information throughout the game so far  Cut off right before the last word being said: example. ? "The names bond? James ( cuts off )"

  Everything else about it though looked awesome and it worked perfect

EDIT:

-007  The world is not enough : WORKS with slight audio bugs listed above
-007  tomorrow never dies : works.. until first mission, then game graphically bugs out like crazy. First person view of your feet running
-crash team racing :  couldn't get it to run past the "all rights reserved" screen.

 I hope someone can get crash team racing to work! Such a fun game!
   
 

@Senor Quack   First of all, thank you for the response! Secondly, I'm glad the game works, it's awesome!
Ok, so I tried many different ROMs/files. None seemed to go past that same screen I just described. Have you updated the OPK a few times recently?  Honestly, it might just be that. I'll revamp the emu and see what happens. Also, I always aim to use the United States/NTSC versions before anything else. So I have a feeling that it really is just the OPK since I have not re-updated. I'll try again tomorrow, but again thank you for your help/replies. I was honestly trying to report helpful information! Haha, fail. Sorry.

Tried a few games, all with BIOs:

JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (USA) - Loading screens don't appear, but otherwise works perfectly.
Vib-Ribon (European) - Game works, but there is no music when using included songs. Haven't tried custom music
Dragon Ball Z Ultimate Battle 22 (USA) - Works, but lighting in the stages seem to be a bit off.