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Monkey action, indeed! It works just fine. I honestly wasn?t expecting this. Are the fixes going upstream? It would be cool to see other Gnuboy ports for niche devices get glitch-free monkey action.

Quote from: Cralex on May 08, 2019, 05:50:25 am

Monkey action, indeed! It works just fine. I honestly wasn?t expecting this. Are the fixes going upstream? It would be cool to see other Gnuboy ports for niche devices get glitch-free monkey action.

Upstream is dead. Even Gambatte is not actively supported anymore.
Tthe thing is the RS-97 & Bittboy are powerful enough to run something like Gambatte, which is obviously better.
Maybe i could make a build for the Dingoo A320 though. I'm not sure what other handled this could be merged to.

Understood. Even potatoes these days are too powerful to need the likes of Gnuboy... But one that isn?t is the PocketSprite. It is able to run most games with Gnuboy really well, but DKC notably suffers from the graphical glitches you just fixed. The (admittedly dead-looking) repo is here: https://github.com/PocketSprite/8bkc-gnuboy

The (mostly one-man) developer scene is pretty much hibernating, so I?m not expecting much, but I figure it?s worth a shot since the system literally has no other GBC option due to low power.

The (mostly one-man) developer scene is pretty much hibernating, so I?m not expecting much, but I figure it?s worth a shot since the system literally has no other GBC option due to low power.

I made a pull request  there. However, someone else had made one 1 year ago and he got no comments.
I'm sorry but if you want to have your DKC fix, then someone else will have to compile it with the fix in place.
(That or you can try to resurrect him)

@gameblabla so you won't try to port Gambatte/OhBoy?

I mean Gambatte is much more CPU intensive and our RS-90 is miserable, specs wise.
Also, Ohboy is actually based on Gnuboy 1.0.4 just saying. (and of course, it can't play DKC properly either. Easy fix still but then i would need to adapt it for the RS-90)

Given that i've fixed Gnuboy to the point that most games are playable, i won't bother.

Oh ok! What else could be ported efficiently knowing the limitations of the hardware?

I don't know, Chip-8 games, Megadrive via Picodrive (and that's a stretch), Neo geo pocket via Race or Neopop, Vecx (Vectrex) and maybe Temper.
No idea, the specs are pretty bad and it's hard to tell without the console what is doable and what is not at fullspeed.

Stock FW actually had pretty decent MD/GEN emulation and ok SNES emulation, so a quality port should be able to produce playable results. There are already people on discord clamoring for 16-bit systems to achieve parity with stock...

I've released a port of Temper for the RS-90. No idea how well it runs on the RS-90 but seems to be okay on most games according to my tests.
Obviously, don't play Supergrafx games, especially Ghouls'n Ghost, as they will run pretty slow. But if you wanna try, then you can do it.
Let me know how it runs.

Stock FW actually had pretty decent MD/GEN emulation and ok SNES emulation, so a quality port should be able to produce playable results. There are already people on discord clamoring for 16-bit systems to achieve parity with stock...

Whatever they had was far from decent in my opinion. I'll touch picodrive at some point but i'm too afraid to touch PocketSNES... It won't run that well. (it already doesn't on the RS-97, at least Snes9x 1.43)

Would it help if you had one? If so, then hey people, lets either throw some money at the guy (a new RetroMini is about $28 on ebay) or find someone close to his location who would be willing to send him a working unit.
If we go with the first option, I've got my ten bucks ready to go (paypal).

Sadly i can't accept paypal donations as they have been dicks to me and refused to open my account even though i did nothing with it.
Simply put, they behaved like assholes.
So if someone wants to send me a RetroMini, he/she will have to send me his/her to me. I live in France.

I live close enough, and despite money being pretty tight lately, I think I could spare my secondary unit and send it over to you (haven't tried to flash it yet, so no idea what version it is though).

If I end up sending it, I would very much appreciate a few forum members throwing at least a handful of dollars my way (bought the handheld for $27, shipping to gameblabla will cost about $8 - would be great if I could get about 15-20 dollars back from this deal).

So, anyone wiling to contribute?

I live close enough, and despite money being pretty tight lately, I think I could spare my secondary unit and send it over to you (haven't tried to flash it yet, so no idea what version it is though).

If I end up sending it, I would very much appreciate a few forum members throwing at least a handful of dollars my way (bought the handheld for $27, shipping to gameblabla will cost about $8 - would be great if I could get about 15-20 dollars back from this deal).

So, anyone wiling to contribute?

I'd make sure your spare can be hacked before shipping. That said, if you can get him a hacked unit in hand, I can definitely spare a few bucks to help cover the loss you take.

temper_rs90.opk    2019-05-09 15:42    788K

BUG no fixed. d - pad is always pressed "left"

You need to remove the .temper directory too or manually set the 6-buttons mode to No.

I can definitely spare a few bucks to help cover the loss you take.

Ok, I'll see if I can load the new firmware this weekend, and if successful, will send the unit to gameblabla this Monday and let everyone know.

Hopefully some more people will chip in in the meantime.