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[ressurectionx]

Hey madmab.   If you say that the same problems sprung up for NES that did with TG16, there were a few more I mentioned that you didn't cover here.

1)  BGM Volume likes to reset itself when you start emu. Doesn't happen every time.  (But it is a real shock when you start the emu and have the volume of the TV up expecting the volume to stay at the lower setting you had it at)

2) Videos for CD's display when you have the folder highlighted. However, artwork only shows up when you have the actual CUE file highlighted. Sometimes, Videos stop showing up altogether.  (Guess this doesn't matter on the NES lol)

3) Skin and Skin Config Previews Don't Display in the artwork preview box.  (EDIT:  I see above that they did work, but slowly, for the NES.  They plain don't work for the TG16.)

(I guess I really haven't used the NES one too much yet since I was wrapping up the TG16 yesterday with pCe's new videos, so these may or may not be happening with the NES.  I just posted them here since you said in PM that the same issues crept into the most recent NES build).

Well.... now I need to think about adding a few new Japanese games after looking at Gilles synopsis for the TG16.   Hey Gilles, you don't know off hand the games I'm missing based off your synopsis, do you?


Oh..... and to answer your question about what I'm doing when the videos stop working (on the TG16), it seems to happen after I've been scrolling around checking artwork and videos for games.  All of the sudden I go from one game to the next and the video previews are gone.  Resetting the emu fixes this until it happens again.  Leaving the game select and returning doesn't fix it.  I'm not sure if they start up again if you play a game and exit (I didn't test that).





Yes, I will be uploading the converter program once I've used it and figure out if it works.  It's based off of .ini files, so I will have to make sure they are working too before I put it up here.

Although, I wouldn't recommend using them with old sets, since I've added images to practically every set since posting them on the main thread.  

I'm going to make a real attempt to get the new NES set up before I go to bed tonight.

Later,
~Rx

[ressurectionx]

I'll be getting new boxart up there for the TG16 when me and pCe have everything sorted out.  I thought that would be this weekend, but some things I read about games in Gilles synopsis has me thinking there may be more additions first (like the Japan Bonk games are noted as being different enough from their US counterparts to warrant some curiosity).

FDS games didn't run so slow they were not playable, or even that noticable to me.  Some people have mentioned that before, but it didn't bother me.  I'll have to try one out with the new build and see if there are any signifigant slowdown problems from when I originally tested them.

My movies are on my Box F:\Media\NES\Movies\

They stop working from the drive itself, so it doesn't surprise me if they did networked either way at this point.

EDIT:

I've just verified that the videos stop displaying from the drive on the NES as well.

I just went into the US games and scrolled down to the "E" games slow enough for the video to start on each one before I went on.  By the time I hit Excitebike they were gone.  (Entering the game and leaving doesn't work either.  The only way to get them back seems to be to leave the emu and come back).

~Rx

EDIT 2:

Okay.   I see the text help screen now.  Funny thing is, when you try to adjust the width of the text display it says "Do you want to use these settings globaly?   Selecting Yes will overwrite all existing Game Screen Size/Positions for all games".  Is this really linked to game screen size now, or is that a copy-paste mistake?

Also with the text.  Is there a way to get the word-wrap feature working?  I've never had any luck displaying a text document in XPORT's emulators without manually putting in line breaks myself.  They always go off the right side of the page no matter how much I fool with the settings.

[madmab]

I tried and tried to get the movies to stop, but they just don't wanna for me.  Maybe you guys are using ultra-hi-res boxscans that I'm not, who knows.  I just know I have the older set that RessX released.

Other than that, everything else should be fine and dandy now!

[ressurectionx]

I haven't transfered any of the HD images over.   There may be one here or there that is larger than what you have, but nothing new on the image front that should be causing this.  This problem was not occuring several releases ago towards the end of May.

Are you testing it in debug mode, or in the actual working emu?

[ressurectionx]

When I scrolled through and it happens, I am pausing long enough to see the video play.  You said above you stayed long enough to see the boxart.  (Maybe if you put the emu to show screenshots while scrolling it will happen to you too).

~Rx

EDIT:  Just tested it out in the new beta and it did it again to me.  This time I just went straight to the US games and scrolled slowly down to Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and then there were no more videos until I exited the emu and came back.

I'd try it with the screenshots "ON" during scrolling and see if it happens to you too.  Remember to wait until the video has started playing.

[ressurectionx]

Cool man.

How'd you finally get it to happen?




EDIT:  Hey Gilles.  I'm also done editing the TG16 synopsis for now.  I'm going to upload it later today and put it in the hotpotato thread.

Also, I changed my ~FULL TILT Skin configuration.  I think it looks awesome now.   I'm going to upload that to you too.  In the future when making skin previews, could you use the new config for the shots?  

Thanks!
~Rx

[gilles9999]

QUOTE(ressurectionx @ Jun 9 2009, 03:17 PM)

Cool man.

How'd you finally get it to happen?
EDIT:  Hey Gilles.  I'm also done editing the TG16 synopsis for now.  I'm going to upload it later today and put it in the hotpotato thread.

Also, I changed my ~FULL TILT Skin configuration.  I think it looks awesome now.   I'm going to upload that to you too.  In the future when making skin previews, could you use the new config for the shots?  

Thanks!
~Rx

1) Yeah, that tg16/pce synopsis was a bitch to complete (there's not many website with good reviews/synopsis for all the obscure games on this system. It worked well for you ressX? I mean, it showed synopsis for a lot of your roms, or you have to add a lot of crc's into the synopsis.txt?

2) For the full tilt, send it to me tomorrow, i will give you all the link to the 2 updated tg16 and pce dynamic skins (with pre made previews; and all the 4/3 settings updated for the tg16 skin (tg16 boxarts aren't exactly the same size as the pce boxarts))

3) About the "movies suddenly stop working bug", it hadn't appened to me with the new beta yet; but perheaps i'm lucky (it happened to me with the previous one). I'm running the beta in both sdtv and in my hdtv (720p), i always set "show screenshot while scrolling to "no" since years! (more fluid, more fast to scroll through your roms), i always use personnal HQ boxarts for all the systems (HQ boxarts i dl on the xbox emulation repository years ago), my boxarts are 300kb max in general wich means (400~500 pixels max IT LOOKS FANTASTIC on a hdtv!)

later~Gilou9999

[ressurectionx]

1)  Yeah... it worked great.  I re-arranged them to be in the order by category that my spreadsheets are, just like I've got all the other synopsis'.  I also did a little light editing here and there.  And I added about 15 CRC's.  Overall it had most of my stuff.

2)  Cool.

3)  Madmab hasn't gotten back to me yet, but I suspect it's because I have so many games in one folder.  It wasn't a problem before, but it may be a problem now.  I think Madmab splits up games by letter so he wouldn't have seen it.  I don't know how you set yours up, but I suspect you have many less roms than I do and prefer to just put the "best" on your system.  This would explain why you aren't seeing the problem and why madmab wasn't seeing it before, if that's true.

~Rx

[ressurectionx]

Haha!  That's what I figured.

I'm betting that's where the problem lies.  Just waiting to see what madmab had to do to get the problem to surface.



I plan on making it very easy to get to the best stuff when all is said and done.  All of the rest of the stuff will be there waiting for the more adventurous types to discover  

[ressurectionx]

Another bug pummled to submission  

[ressurectionx]

QUOTE

The screenshot directory and the enhanced media folder are defaulting to NES in the PCE emulator.

My guess is Madmab just imported the changes from Mednafenx_NES to Mendafenx_PCE and forgot to change some things.

Aside from that it works pretty awesome! My crash bug is gone!

Huh.... I didn't notice that myself, but I also wasn't using a fresh emu since I've just been dropping the new default.xbe over the old one every time.  

Perhaps this is the result of a fresh perspective that none of us would have seen had we not ever bothered to start the emu from scratch with the newest build?

QUOTE

when launching the games the screen is zoomed in so far that is only displays the upper left hand corner of the screen and the color is all jacked up and the colors are inverted with green LCD like pixels all over the place.

and this is without touchin any setting... started from scratch with no ini settings.

doesnt help if i try and adjust the screen size or change the resolution.

Now I didn't see this problem at all either, and thought at first that maybe he was doing something wrong, but the more I think about it this could be due to a new setup without our personal configs at work.

I'll test that theory in a few days if nobody else looks at it.  I never thought to start from scratch and make sure everything works until now.

Later,
~Rx

[pCeSlAyEr]

QUOTE(madmab @ Jun 12 2009, 10:02 AM)

1) The screenshot directory and the enhanced media folder are defaulting to NES in the PCE emulator.

Gilles mentioned this but I have no clue what is going on.  I just tried loading my latest compile after deleting the default .ini file from "e:\settings\mednafen_pce\" and it defaulted screenshots to "e:\screenshots" and media to "e:\media".
yes it defaults to those directories, but it creates "e:\screenshots\NES" and "e:\media\NES" instead of "e:\screenshots\PCE" and "e:\media\PCE".

I even redownloaded the last one I sent you (dated 6/9/09) and still no issues.

2) when launching the games the screen is zoomed in so far that is only displays the upper left hand corner of the screen and the color is all jacked up and the colors are inverted with green LCD like pixels all over the place.

I've only tried two roms.... both were US games and I didn't see anything odd.  Even after deleting the .ini like above and trying with both versions.

So I guess the only questions are..

Does he have the right version (6/6/09)?
Yes thats the version i'm running.
What resolution is he running at?  I typically use 720p.
Ive tried 720p and 480p and the same result on both
What game is he trying to play that is doing this.
It happens on every game I try. Its almost as if it was trying to output VGA over Component or something. I'll take a pic of it when I get home.

Other than that they only thing I can think of is to delete the configuration file.  Also keep in mind that if he is using your save settings (which I think you provided) it's gonna use whatever screen settings you had that game set for on your TV.  Although I would typically think that would not cause anything he described (except for the zoomed in part).
Originally I had just replaced the .XBE and kept all of my previous settings. It looked all scrambled so I cleared the .ini's and its still happening.

I will test it out on my other xbox after I get home from work tonight.

I have 2 boxes both running @720p... a 64MB and a 128MB.

*EDIT*
If you need to me to test anything let me know.

<=== I just realized how long ive been on this forum... D:

[pCeSlAyEr]

actually the build I recieved was marked 06/09/09...

[pCeSlAyEr]

QUOTE(gilles9999 @ Jun 12 2009, 04:14 PM)

Ok i understand, pceslayer you have received the bad version (i had the same bugs you mentioned: nes directories, no game screen, etc...)
i'll send you the right version (with dual boxart/videos, previews, correct directories,etc...)tomorrow with updated dynamic skins and updated synopsis (the rest of the team too tough)

Can't wait!

[ressurectionx]

He's got the one that I got!  lol

I didn't notice any problems.