Looks like the PS3 will finally be getting a much-needed price cut (not to mention a slimmer model) very soon. Will I finally have an alternative to my 360? We’ll see…
While I don’t plan on porting anything new anytime soon (although release of VICE PSP has flooded me with requests for an Atari ST emulator 
), I do plan to release sporadic updates for the emulators I currently have out. Software development as a hobby is a double-edged sword – not being compelled to program tends to be a good motivator to program anyway, but when the learning ends, so does the desire to program for a particular platform/purpose. Go figure…
fMSX PSP is probably next in line for a revamp – some of you may be aware that it is my personal favorite emulator (as is the system itself). The usual update to psplib is planned, but two things I feel have been long overdue are improved MegaROM autoselection, and even more importantly, a better saved state format. Because of the unpredictability of save states, I lost my SD Snatcher progress mid-way. Grrr…
At some point, Caprice32 will be updated, but no idea when – the emulator hasn’t been updated for years, and my port doesn’t seem to be popular enough to warrant a rewrite.
Since the release of RACE! PSP, I consider NeoPop dead, so it will not receive rewrites unless something magical happens.
This is a little late, but a fellow named Daniele Fiorentini posted an interview with me on maxconsole.net. It’s from 2007, but most of what it contains is still relevant. I came across it again while I was digging through my list of emails.
Tags: atari st, interview, mapper, psplib, state saving
How possible would it be to make an Uber Emulator or shell that would allow one to just select a ROM and it would auto-boot with the proper emulator or core?
Something like this might help to reduce my XMB clutter.
Somewhere between “possible” and “probably too much of a headache to try and find out”
See ewgf’s suggestion below – might work for you
What about a new fresh port of MAME ?
Thanks…
I.G
>Looks like the PS3 will finally be getting a much-needed price cut (not to mention a slimmer model) very soon. Will I finally have an alternative to my 360? We’ll see…
I don’t yet have a current gen. console, partly as I’ve still got so many games to play on the consoles I do have (there’s never even vaguely enough time, nowadays!), but also since the only console I do want to buy is the 360, which has such an appalling failure rate (and with my luck I’d get stuck with one that dies (as would the replacements). Instead, I play the few 360 games that I really want to play on my mates’ 360s (I know a fair few people with 360s, and I don’t think I know one who isn’t on less than his third 360 by now, and at least one is on his fifth, though to be fair he doesn’t work and spends most of his time on XBox Live!).
The failure rate is far better than it was, but it’s still not good.
Anyway, I was going to buy a 360 when Perfect Dark (N64), the best game ever, IMHO, was released for the 360 at the end of the year (assuming the port was enhanced, if it’s just the same as the N64 version then I’d probably just keep playing the N64 version). But then I read that those well know altruists Microsoft are once again showing how much they care for our little island of Great Britain:
“Retailers have told Eurogamer that Microsoft will increase the price of the Arcade Xbox 360 bundle to GBP 159.99 (from GBP 129.99) starting September 1. The five XBLA games will no longer be included in the bundle, either.
ShopTo boss Igor Cipolletta received confirmation from Microsoft this morning, as did a corroborating independent retail chain source.
Eurogamer was also told that Microsoft will increase the price of individual Xbox 360 accessories by one or two pounds. An independent retail source said this was being done to counteract the poor pound-to-Euro currency exchange rate. ”
http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/microsoft-to-increase-360-arcade-price
It’s always Blighty that cops these things. We get bad, late, overpriced PAL conversions, our hardware is overpriced and often inferior, and we very often don’t even get conversions of some of the best games.
And regarding the PS3:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8207472.stm
New one to be £50 cheaper
Quote “It will cost $299 in the US, 299 euros in Europe and 29980 yen in Japan.” Unquote. Now, I don’t know about Yen, but according to:
http://www.xe.com/ucc/convert.cgi
299 Euros is £255.123, which in dollars is $422.28 (according to http://www.dollars2pounds.com/), which means that, as usual, we Brits get ripped off. No change there, then.
And of course, newly made PS3′s have no backwards compatibility (and PAL ones never did…), so they won’t run PSX or PS2 games.
Still, with $ony reducing the price of the PS3, it’s surely a bad marketing move for Micro$oft to raise the 360′s price, thereby reducing the price difference between the two even further?
>While I don’t plan on porting anything new anytime soon (although release of VICE PSP has flooded me with requests for an Atari ST emulator
),
Your fans have spoken! Maybe we should have sent pleas, not requests ;o)
>I do plan to release sporadic updates for the emulators I currently have out. Software development as a hobby is a double-edged sword – not being compelled to program tends to be a good motivator to program anyway, but when the learning ends, so does the desire to program for a particular platform/purpose. Go figure…
I can understand that. The joy is in the learning, not the knowing or the doing.
>fMSX PSP is probably next in line for a revamp – some of you may be aware that it is my personal favorite emulator (as is the system itself). The usual update to psplib is planned, but two things I feel have been long overdue are improved MegaROM autoselection, and even more importantly, a better saved state format. Because of the unpredictability of save states, I lost my SD Snatcher progress mid-way. Grrr…
I’m not a fan of the MSX (I never used a real one, as it never really made it over to England, like so many other good things, like the PC Engine, or the N64 games Sin and Punishment), but I’ve discovered some good games on it via your emulator.
>At some point, Caprice32 will be updated, but no idea when – the emulator hasn’t been updated for years, and my port doesn’t seem to be popular enough to warrant a rewrite.
I’d like to see it updated, particularly with a toggleable keyboard, and an autoload disc function (ZX81′s CPC emulator uses a text file (which is user editable via any text editor) to tell the emulator which filename to load).
>This is a little late, but a fellow named Daniele Fiorentini posted an interview with me on maxconsole.net. It’s from 2007, but most of what it contains is still relevant. I came across it again while I was digging through my list of emails.
It’s an interesting (though short) read, but where is Cal State (California, USA?). And what is a Sony HB-F1XD? I thought that the Playstation was Sony’s first entry into the computer games industry. And yes, I really, really agree that the PSP should be open to all programs.
>How possible would it be to make an Uber Emulator or shell that would allow one to just select a ROM and it would auto-boot with the proper emulator or core?
>Something like this might help to reduce my XMB clutter.
The trouble is, XMB is not designed to cope with large numbers of programs. I have installed iRSHell, and it’s fantastic. It does lots of different things, and does them very well, and is invaluable as a front end for launching programs, and for much else.
I don’t know what firmware it needs, but it runs fine on my PSP in both 1.5 and 3.91 (in fact, it’s iRSHell that lets me switch between them both, for the programs that only work on one firmware version).
Hi. Thanks for your update emulator
Atari St is next ? Great Console (I hope soon with your great interface)
And When Game & Watch Emulator ?
I have Parachute Psp Emulator download here:
http://www.psp-ita.com/?module=fileview&file_id=1196
Great site for Game & Watch
http://www.madrigaldesign.it/sim/
>Atari St is next ? Great Console (I hope soon with your great interface)
The pressure just keeps on mounting, Uberjack!
Maybe we should start a petition!
Amiga emulator would make my days!!!