Post by: jmorneno114 on May 24, 2019, 07:18:30 am
Post by: jimmybonsaville on May 24, 2019, 09:49:07 am
I am getting pretty bad performance on games like super metroid and xmen, any way to improve performance? is stock better? I heard there are other FW we can put too?
I am on a RS-07 with Useless Firmware. SNES performance overall is pretty poor considering nearly every other system is full speed or very close. I think this is an Emulation issue rather than a firmware. Its probably not been touched in a long time!
Post by: wen_nug on May 24, 2019, 09:53:36 am
I am getting pretty bad performance on games like super metroid and xmen, any way to improve performance? is stock better? I heard there are other FW we can put too?
have you tried to set frameskip to auto? for me it helps almost perfectly. i haven't tried those games tho
Post by: HercTNT on May 24, 2019, 10:06:16 am
Post by: exorio on May 24, 2019, 08:02:58 pm
I have seen others suggest retrofw is slower than useless. I don't have that issue myself and as you just posted i truly think for some it's just a setting issue. Auto framerate skip as you mentioned is a must.
Blah. I confirmed this.
That frikin frameskip setting will make a huge difference on RetroFW's PocketSNES
It shuld be set on "auto" by default, but the default settings on RetroFW is 0.
Setting the frameskip to 0 will even make the Useless Firmware PocketSNES runs awfully as well.
Oh well, with games like ROTT, Jazz and Falling Down, I cannot move on from Useless yet.
Post by: HercTNT on May 24, 2019, 08:23:28 pm
Post by: zztfox on May 25, 2019, 06:14:26 pm
Post by: davidgilmour on May 25, 2019, 06:24:29 pm
I.e.you are not playing the game it was meant to be played.
Post by: exorio on May 25, 2019, 06:37:59 pm
If you set frameskipping at ?auto? it will skip frames.
I.e.you are not playing the game it was meant to be played.
If you set it to 0 then the games will run very slow with significant frame drops. You're not playing the game it was meant to be played as well. Yes, it is a workaround, not a real solution. But it doesn't feel like it's skipping any frames.
This device is (relatively) cheap. It got outdated and underpowered processor. And all the goodies are provided for free. As long as I can enjoy the games and didn't feel any framedrops/skips, good enough for me.
Post by: HercTNT on May 25, 2019, 08:07:02 pm
Amen. I feel as if there are some that expect to much from these machines. the fact that they are able to do what they do now thanks to the hard work of the community is amazing. Expecially, as you pointed out, how cheap they are. I'm waiting for gameblabla to make good on porting a ps2 emulator over for those who keep asking ;)If you set frameskipping at ?auto? it will skip frames.
I.e.you are not playing the game it was meant to be played.
If you set it to 0 then the games will run very slow with significant frame drops. You're not playing the game it was meant to be played as well. Yes, it is a workaround, not a real solution. But it doesn't feel like it's skipping any frames.
This device is (relatively) cheap. It got outdated and underpowered processor. And all the goodies are provided for free. As long as I can enjoy the games and didn't feel any framedrops/skips, good enough for me.
Post by: TheReaperUK on May 27, 2019, 02:27:39 am
Post by: exorio on May 27, 2019, 01:53:33 pm
I overclock to 702 (press select when on SNES icon then edit and set clock speed) and i've not set frameskip (might try this later), so far the few games i've tested have work ok (Final Fight 2, Captain Commander, Undercover Cop, Mario Kart).
I never been a fan of overclocking in any form. They only gain marginal performance on softwares, while decreasing the processor's life or drains your battery faster. In desktop/laptops, it can produce very significant heat aswell, which might damage the whole mainboard. My previous laptop and phone got damaged from overclocking so those are lessons learned in hard way.
Nowadays I set my laptop (primary computer) processor to 99% and disable the so called "turbo" thingy.
LDK might not that powerful to produce significant heat that could damage nearby components, but most likely it will drain the battery faster.
Post by: TheReaperUK on May 27, 2019, 04:07:11 pm
P.S. (Mods) For some reason the English Pound sign has changed to a Question mark, While editing it is a pound sign but as soon as i post/save if changes to a question mark?
Post by: bopbopbop on May 28, 2019, 03:08:22 pm
P.S. (Mods) For some reason the English Pound sign has changed to a Question mark, While editing it is a pound sign but as soon as i post/save if changes to a question mark?
Post by: galaxyknight on July 24, 2019, 07:14:42 am
With FS to 1 it has 20FPS, but not funny to play.
At the moment i see now way to play SNES on it. Overlocking no.. No chance..
Well.
All the others GBA, NeoGeo and FBA, Amiga working great so far.
Post by: jimmybonsaville on July 24, 2019, 09:33:25 am
Also the Frameskip to Auto/0/1... will not help.
With FS to 1 it has 20FPS, but not funny to play.
At the moment i see now way to play SNES on it. Overlocking no.. No chance..
Well.
All the others GBA, NeoGeo and FBA, Amiga working great so far.
It seems most of these Ingenic Devices struggle with SNES performance. Its strange because ive had older lower specced handhelds run games much better like the GP32 and 2x. There probably was a more active coding community back then.
Post by: exorio on July 24, 2019, 11:50:13 am
Also the Frameskip to Auto/0/1... will not help.
With FS to 1 it has 20FPS, but not funny to play.
At the moment i see now way to play SNES on it. Overlocking no.. No chance..
Well.
All the others GBA, NeoGeo and FBA, Amiga working great so far.
My last ditch effort was back to useless firmare
After my finding about setting frameskip to auto it does feel better on RetroFW
But I keep on using Useless since there're still some games that I really like on it which are not available on RetroFW
Now some of those games are ported to RetroFW, yesterday I give it another try, and yeah I feel huge difference of FPS between Useless and RetroFW, that is becoming very apparent after awhile playing SNES on Useless.