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Things ssllowwinng down

Wednesday, January 28th, 2009

Just a short note to let you folks know that things are likely to be a bit slow in the foreseeable future. I haven’t had much time to work on PSP development lately, and this trend doesn’t seem to be improving much. Until further notice, and unless things drastically change, I consider SMS Plus AdHoc more or less abandoned – if anyone is interested in continuing it, go for it – if you’re particularly successful, I’ll even add it to the main development branch.

For a while, if there are changes, they are likely to be smaller in nature and scattered – smaller upgrades and bug fixes, mostly. I also want to note that the forum is likely to be removed soon; any existing suggestions and bug reports will be retained; new suggestions will not be accepted for a while, though bug reports are always welcome. If you’d like to retain any posts, please do so before they’re removed.

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SMS Plus PSP version 1.2.55 released

Sunday, January 18th, 2009

SMS Plus PSP now includes the Time Rewind feature I mentioned earlier. To enable it, map any button to ‘Special: Rewind’. The feature alone takes up 85% of PSP’s available memory, and I’m unsure what ramifications this might have for certain configurations, but if you come across problems, let me know.

Approximately 20 seconds of recent gameplay are saved; saving is done once every five frames.

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SMS Plus PSP to go back in time

Friday, January 9th, 2009

If you’re a fan of classic console emulators on PSP, you have no doubt heard of DaveX — he’s well-known for his nifty mods for emulators like NesterJ, and most recently, PicoDrive. These mods are the time rewind and mirror features, which rewind emulation (similar to Braid), and flip the screen horizontally.

Dave  is responsible for the popular mod of SMS Plus PSP,  and he recently agreed to let me use the time rewind code in the official distribution of the emulator, as well as any other emulators. Look forward to the next version of SMS Plus with this feature included.

Special thanks to Dave for the clever feature, and for agreeing to let me use it elsewhere.

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Fuse PSP update, SMSPlus PSP question

Thursday, December 11th, 2008

I’m not sure how many of you are curious/impatient enough to snoop around the svn repository occasionally, but if you are, you’ve probably noticed that work on Fuse PSP 0.10.0 has already started. The upgrade is complete, what’s remaining now are fixes for old bugs, and new ones, that are a result of the upgrade.

As anticipated, the change in the code is considerable – Fuse 0.10 no longer uses lib765 by John Elliott; instead, it uses its own 765 driver.

On the SMS Plus adhoc/wifi front – if any of you have access to Chris Swindle’s version of SMSPlus PSP, and can run some quick adhoc performance tests, please see if you can respond to this post I left in the emulation forum.

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SMS Plus PSP version 1.2.5 released

Monday, December 8th, 2008

It took over a year, but SMS Plus PSP finally sees an update today. To answer the obvious question, no, this version does not include wi-fi/adhoc support – work on the wi-fi version is still ongoing.

New features in this version:

  • When switching games, latest save state will be automatically highlighted
  • Rapid fire support – map any button to A or B autofire (‘Controls’ tab). Change the rate of autofire in the ‘Options’ tab
  • Snapshots are now saved to PSP’s PHOTO directory (/PSP/PHOTO), and can be viewed in PSP’s image viewer
  • File selector snapshots – while browsing for games with the file selector, pause momentarily to display the first snapshot for the game

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SMS Plus PSP adhoc work-in-progress demo

Saturday, August 9th, 2008

Here’s a preview of the SMS Plus emulator, with adhoc wi-fi gameplay support (ignore the idiotic clicking – it’s caused by the camera’s zoom lens):

As you can see, a large part of the work is done. There are still some things that need polishing, however:

  • Keeping connection alive when a player exits to the menu, and allowing some basic tasks while in menu
  • State sync feature, similar to SNES9X TYL
  • Timing issues

Cheers,

Akop

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PSP “Slim” binaries added

Monday, October 22nd, 2007

PSP “Slim”-compatible binaries have been added for all my emulator ports. Visit the specific emulator’s site and click the ‘Firmware version 1.00 and 2.00+’ binary link to download EBOOT’s compatible with older 1.00 firmware as well as the newer custom firmware.

Many thanks to the administrator of pspslimhacks.com for his help in testing.

Also, please note that I don’t have access to the “Slim” PSP model for testing. If any of the binaries don’t work, let me know.

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SMS Plus version 1.2.4 released

Wednesday, September 12th, 2007

A new version of SMS Plus is now available. Here’s what’s changed:

  • Various bug fixes
  • Added animations to the menu UI
  • Fixed buffer overflow error affecting units without a battery

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