Post by: Xbox-Scene on March 02, 2010, 10:47:00 PM
| LoveMHz from Team XeLove released the first official release of XeBoyAdvance, a GBA Emulator, for homebrew Xbox360 consoles: Quote
Official Site: http://lovemhz.blogspot.com Download: n/a (built with XDK) |
Post by: Neptune on March 02, 2010, 10:48:00 PM
=)
Post by: Odb718 on March 02, 2010, 10:53:00 PM
Post by: naizarak on March 02, 2010, 11:36:00 PM
is the 360 fast enough to begin with?
Post by: althena on March 03, 2010, 12:02:00 AM
Post by: Neptune on March 03, 2010, 12:20:00 AM
QUOTE(Odb718 @ Mar 2 2010, 09:53 PM) 
lol donations lol
Yes donation, in a way most didn't, wasn't monetary
Post by: dokworm on March 03, 2010, 12:45:00 AM
Post by: dstruktiv on March 03, 2010, 12:52:00 AM
QUOTE(dokworm @ Mar 3 2010, 08:45 PM)
Quick question, why does working on a retail console slow down development?
No debugging. So you code something and then cross your fingers and hope it doesn't crash the box, if it does then it's a matter of going back and putting a printf after each and every line of code, manually writing out variables etc., then checking your debuglog on the PC, then making changes and then repeating the process over again until you figure out what's wrong. Then you rinse and repeat on the next bit of code you write.
There's also the things that don't crash the box but don't give you the output/results you expect which are even more frustrating and difficult to figure out normally.
With a devkit you can do extremely indepth debugging in real time from the comfort of your computer.
Post by: numlockhome on March 03, 2010, 01:25:00 AM
Btw, anyone got the metroid games to work without the sound messing up?
This post has been edited by numlockhome: Mar 3 2010, 09:26 AM
Post by: LoveMHz on March 03, 2010, 01:43:00 AM
QUOTE(dstruktiv @ Mar 3 2010, 02:52 AM)
No debugging. So you code something and then cross your fingers and hope it doesn't crash the box, if it does then it's a matter of going back and putting a printf after each and every line of code, manually writing out variables etc., then checking your debuglog on the PC, then making changes and then repeating the process over again until you figure out what's wrong. Then you rinse and repeat on the next bit of code you write.
There's also the things that don't crash the box but don't give you the output/results you expect which are even more frustrating and difficult to figure out normally.
With a devkit you can do extremely indepth debugging in real time from the comfort of your computer.
Thanks for clearing this up dstruktiv. Simply put a developer kit allows for a much more steady development process..
For the people that plan to be using XeBoyAdvance a lot, please tell me know which features/tweaks you would like to see in the next version.
QUOTE(numlockhome @ Mar 3 2010, 03:25 AM)
Is this really full speed? seems a bit choppy at times. Will def. donate anyway, this is great work!
Btw, anyone got the metroid games to work without the sound messing up?
Thanks
Which games are running choppy? Please let me know so I can sort this out.
Post by: numlockhome on March 03, 2010, 01:59:00 AM
And some graphic bugs (a colored bar running vertically across the screen).
I thought about it and the "choppynes" might just be me being used to playing theese games on a GBA, i guess the framerate doesnt look as good on a big screen tv than it does on a small LCD?
Post by: lenselijertje on March 03, 2010, 02:48:00 AM
Post by: ploggy on March 03, 2010, 05:52:00 AM
QUOTE(LoveMHz @ Mar 3 2010, 08:43 AM)
Thanks for clearing this up dstruktiv. Simply put a developer kit allows for a much more steady development process..
For the people that plan to be using XeBoyAdvance a lot, please tell me know which features/tweaks you would like to see in the next version.
Thanks
Which games are running choppy? Please let me know so I can sort this out.First of all thanks for the great Emu, as for features maybe a turbo button to skip past boring parts ingame and control mapped to analogue stick as well as d-pad
As for choppy games i've noticed Sonic Advance 3 and Dragonball Advance Adventure.
There maybe more but i've only tried a few.
Post by: dufc1983 on March 03, 2010, 05:54:00 AM
QUOTE(lenselijertje @ Mar 3 2010, 11:48 AM)
how can i save a state?
mid game press both thumbsticks as you do on snes360,genesis etc this will bring up submenu and u can save state/load state
thanks for adding more features in terms of menu etc all i want now is n64 emulator
Post by: Filthytx on March 03, 2010, 06:27:00 AM
Post by: althena on March 03, 2010, 07:10:00 AM
QUOTE(Filthytx @ Mar 3 2010, 02:27 PM) 
thanks for your effort on this guys.....pm me with donation info and i will throw something your way may not be much but enough to show that i support peoples hard work......also as far as what you do next i would love to see an nes emulator for 360.....and of course n64 or dreamcast would be nice
There is a Paypal donate button on their blog, see link in the first post. However if I am not missing anything they only accept 20 USD donations, I can't change the value at least.
Post by: dufc1983 on March 03, 2010, 07:29:00 AM
Post by: LoveMHz on March 03, 2010, 08:17:00 AM
QUOTE(dufc1983 @ Mar 3 2010, 09:29 AM)
just to report the display settings option doesn't work which is a shame hope they fix that in a future release
Yeah, I just disabled it since I noticed a bug with software filters right before releasing. Will be in the next release.
QUOTE(althena @ Mar 3 2010, 09:10 AM)
There is a Paypal donate button on their blog, see link in the first post. However if I am not missing anything they only accept 20 USD donations, I can't change the value at least.
Should be fixed. If for some reason not then on the donate page it should show my email.
Thanks for the support everyone. I'm looking into the audio bug right now. Keep the bugs rolling in so we can make this emulator as stable as possible.
Post by: Porta360 on March 03, 2010, 09:37:00 AM
Post by: metalguitarist112 on March 03, 2010, 10:45:00 AM
Post by: balde237 on March 03, 2010, 11:09:00 AM
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Post by: LufianGuy on March 03, 2010, 11:19:00 AM
Seeing some video of this emulator in action would be nice.
This post has been edited by LufianGuy: Mar 3 2010, 07:21 PM
Post by: Jbonzo on March 03, 2010, 12:06:00 PM
Post by: Vejita on March 03, 2010, 01:28:00 PM
I'm personally looking forward to emulators that the original Xbox struggled to run at full speed and a GBA emulator is one of them, N64 and PSX are the others (hopefully with 720p rendering)
Post by: jayboy86 on March 03, 2010, 01:47:00 PM
the emulator is great for a first release but i have found clicking return to main menu causes it to crash or completly exit the emulator. anyone else have this problem
Post by: barnhilltrckn on March 03, 2010, 01:56:00 PM
jayboy86 Posted Today, 03:47 PM
ill be donating when im paid tomorrow but i would love to see a port for NES and N64.
the emulator is great for a first release but i have found clicking return to main menu causes it to crash or completly exit the emulator. anyone else have this problem
I aint had that problem yet. Maybe something got corrupted downloading the emu or putting it on the hdd. Try re-downloading it and see if that helps any.
Post by: akijikan on March 03, 2010, 03:05:00 PM
Post by: LoveMHz on March 03, 2010, 03:20:00 PM
QUOTE(Vejita @ Mar 3 2010, 03:28 PM)
Thanks for the release LoveMHz!
I'm personally looking forward to emulators that the original Xbox struggled to run at full speed and a GBA emulator is one of them, N64 and PSX are the others (hopefully with 720p rendering)
No problem, it's I'm here to do.
QUOTE(jayboy86 @ Mar 3 2010, 03:47 PM)
ill be donating when im paid tomorrow but i would love to see a port for NES and N64.
the emulator is great for a first release but i have found clicking return to main menu causes it to crash or completly exit the emulator. anyone else have this problem
Awesome and thanks. Make sure you grab the copy off of Xbins and not the other places (Leaked version).
QUOTE(barnhilltrckn @ Mar 3 2010, 03:56 PM)
Nice work LoveMHz and the rest of the team.
jayboy86 Posted Today, 03:47 PM
ill be donating when im paid tomorrow but i would love to see a port for NES and N64.
the emulator is great for a first release but i have found clicking return to main menu causes it to crash or completly exit the emulator. anyone else have this problem
I aint had that problem yet. Maybe something got corrupted downloading the emu or putting it on the hdd. Try re-downloading it and see if that helps any.
Thanks for the support bro.
QUOTE(akijikan @ Mar 3 2010, 05:05 PM)
Looking forward to a PSX emulator, will donate when there's at least an alpha
Hopefully soon
Also anyone that has already donated please contact me via PM. Thanks
Post by: pirichios on March 03, 2010, 05:18:00 PM
Post by: LoveMHz on March 03, 2010, 05:37:00 PM
QUOTE(pirichios @ Mar 3 2010, 07:18 PM)
LoveMHz this is not so much a feature request as it is just a curious question. Is it technically possible to add a manual video scaling feature? i have seen some overscan issues with a couple of hdtv's at the moment. I can also confirm issues with sound with the metroid games. This is some awesome work specially for someone who did not have a devkit handy and programmed things the hardcore way. Nice work!
Thanks =)
Screen calebration will hopefully come in the next release. Thanks for the info. Also I've been able to recreate the Metroid audio issue and hopefully will be able to fix, not quite sure exactly what's wrong. So if anyone knows of any other games that has audio issues then please let me know.
Post by: AmyGrrl on March 03, 2010, 06:29:00 PM
Anyways... thanks for the emulator and keep up the good work...
This post has been edited by AmyGrrl: Mar 4 2010, 02:32 AM
Post by: metalguitarist112 on March 03, 2010, 06:46:00 PM
Post by: LoveMHz on March 03, 2010, 07:30:00 PM
QUOTE(AmyGrrl @ Mar 3 2010, 08:29 PM)
I was wonder if this was based on the original VisualBoyAdvance or the much better VisualBoyAdvance-M. I find games run so much better with the newer VisualBoyAdvance-M. I have a dualcore 3.0Ghz and the original VBA ran bad, the games were choppy, sound was bad. When I made the switch to VBA-M all my problems went away. Also I was wondering what filters this emulators this uses, because I find alot of the console emulators only use ones like Simple2x or hq2x. Those are fine for Standard Def TV's, but when you run them on larger screens the games tend to look blurry. I would like to have an option to go all the way upto Simple5x or Simple6x (depends on the max you can go before the image starts to outside the screen area) and then stretch the image to fullscreen. The games look really clear this way. Also I don't think the readme said this emulator had achievements. If you do add achievements in the future can you have an option to turn then on or off and have that feature set to disabled as default.
Anyways... thanks for the emulator and keep up the good work...
Yes XeBoyAdvance is based off of VBA-M, as stated in the read-me.
Currently XeBoyAdvance runs at Simple2x and I'll be adding the options for the other filters. Filters are simple ways of scaling the images and 4x is about the best that can be done (At least in real time and not overly complex).
This post has been edited by LoveMHz: Mar 4 2010, 03:56 AM
Post by: bigmacattack on March 03, 2010, 07:35:00 PM
Post by: Porta360 on March 03, 2010, 07:42:00 PM
Post by: dufc1983 on March 03, 2010, 07:45:00 PM
QUOTE(Porta360 @ Mar 4 2010, 04:42 AM)
Ok, got it running in freestyle w/ artwork. Nice EMU. This is gonna led to something special i can feel it. Home360Brew, tasting real good. Keep Brewing!!!
custom artwork? care to share (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)
Post by: Porta360 on March 03, 2010, 07:50:00 PM
Post by: dimitrij on March 04, 2010, 02:44:00 AM
I can´t waiting to play with a nice filter, because it looks a little bit choppy ^^by the way, it runs almost 100%, but sometime the framerate chrashes... but its runs great, for a 0.1 release! The best is, snes360 have a input lag - your´s not ^^ played already 1-2 hours :-D but for a donation it is to early ;-) make it final and you will be a rich men 
Post by: althena on March 04, 2010, 04:01:00 AM
Feature request from my side would be:
- Like in most XPort projects on the Xbox 1 or the new Genesis 360 emulator it would be useful if the first screenshot you take is automatically used as a preview picture for the game it was taken from.
- Also nice in the future it would be if you could configure the path to the Roms, Previews and settings, I'd like to point then to HDD1:\Emus\XeBoy\. As I also have Genesis 360 using the HDD1:\Emus\ as the default folder that would be useful to have all Roms in a central place, maybe all future Xbox 360 emulators can use this place as the default one.
Post by: Icekiller2k6 on March 04, 2010, 09:06:00 AM
QUOTE(dimitrij @ Mar 4 2010, 10:44 AM)
Nice Work LoveMHz
I can´t waiting to play with a nice filter, because it looks a little bit choppy ^^by the way, it runs almost 100%, but sometime the framerate chrashes... but its runs great, for a 0.1 release! The best is, snes360 have a input lag - your´s not ^^ played already 1-2 hours :-D but for a donation it is to early ;-) make it final and you will be a rich men emu's are hardly ever "final"...
Post by: lantus on March 04, 2010, 09:26:00 AM
QUOTE(LoveMHz @ Mar 4 2010, 02:30 AM)
Yes XeBoyAdvance is based off of VBA-M, as stated in the read-me.
Currently XeBoyAdvance runs at Simple2x and I'll be adding the options for the other filters. Filters are simple ways of scaling the images and 4x is about the best that can be done (At least in real time and not overly complex).
Be careful with anything greater than 2x. Simple4x is fine but something like Admame4x or HQ4x you will to get slowdowns. 4x you need to define a destination surface/texture 4x the size of the original framebuffer and the bits routine can slow down performance, even on the Xbox360. Of course you can get around this by sending the render code to another cpu or using HLSL but they have their own issues.
Post by: Bender_Unit_1 on March 04, 2010, 09:35:00 AM
- Bender
Post by: modslave on March 04, 2010, 04:56:00 PM
QUOTE(Porta360 @ Mar 4 2010, 02:42 AM)
Ok, got it running in freestyle w/ artwork. Nice EMU. This is gonna led to something special i can feel it. Home360Brew, tasting real good. Keep Brewing!!!
I hear ya!
Any chance you could PM me that artwork or maybe a link?