Post by: XPort on July 07, 2003, 01:08:00 PM
This is a completely new UI which I plan on incorporating into most of my other
releases. I tried to include as much customization and as many features as
possible, but I'm sure there will still be changes and additions that people
will want to see. Please provide feedback on the xbox-scene.com emulation
forums so that this UI can be refined and then placed into the other ports.
What's New :
- Customizable skins
- Backgrounds
- Sounds
- Background Music
- Sprites
- Text position (right/left/center, top/bottom/center)
- Text color, select bar color
- Font
- Fading speed
- Screenshot position
- If you want to change the way something looks in this new UI,
chances are that you can change it via the Configuration menu.
- Default Castlevania:SOTN skin gives example of what you can do.
- Netplay (2 players)
- Samba/NetBIOS support (read CD images from your PC)
- Every single in-game command is fully customizable on any of the
four joypad controllers.
- Map any emulator or UI command to a single button or a combination of
two buttons. (e.g. RTrigger+LTrigger = Save State)
- Autofire capabilities for any emulator button on any controller
- One-button combos (define a series of emulator commands to be played
back when you press a user-definable XBox controller combination.)
(E.g. Press RTrigger+LTrigger to run the series of commands that
will cast Soul Steal in Castlevania)
- Traverse any directory on any drive ( Continue selecting the parent
directory entry on the file selection list to get the drive selection
list. Selectable drives are C, D, E, F, R, X, Y, Z, and SMB.
R is the CDROM drive. SMB is the samba share you have defined in your
pcsx.ini file.)
- 10 save state slots
- Take in-game screenshots which can later be browsed and can also
be viewed on the game-selection list.
- All UI commands (save state, load state, screenshot, etc) can be
invoked from the Options/Pause menu as well as in-game via your
customized joypad mappings.
- New graphics filters :
- 2xSai
- Super 2xSai
- Eagle
- Super Eagle
- SuperScale
- AdvanceMame 2x
- Simple 2x
- Can be invoked from a command-line to directly run a game from a front-end
or dashboard and bypass the user-selection screens. (Only if the frontend
or dashboard supports this feature.)
- Can return to the launching program *if* the launching program supports this
feature. For example, if the custom-launch routines are incorporated into
a new frontend, that frontend could launch PCSXBox and when you exit
PCSXBox, that frontend can be automatically reloaded.
- Support for M3U playlists of MP3 files. (Currently only supports MP3 files)
(Can also read MP3/M3U from across Samba shares.)
- Favorites list
- Save Game management - delete save game files
- CD-Changing should hopefully be fixed
- Schmoke and a pancake
What's Not New:
- Compatibility - this version does not fix or break any games from v2/v3.
Read rest of NFO for further details.
Stella, Gnuboy, SMSPlus, FCEUltra, HUGO, NeoPop, DGen, Bochs, HUGO-CD, FMSXBox,
Bliss, WinSTon, Gens, Z26, StepmaniaX, PCSXBox....what's next?
Enjoy!
Post by: chilin_dude on July 07, 2003, 01:10:00 PM
Getting this now!
Post by: phantazma1 on July 07, 2003, 01:13:00 PM
xport's the greatest
Post by: leef on July 07, 2003, 01:21:00 PM
Post by: Ubergeek on July 07, 2003, 12:48:00 PM
Post by: boo_se on July 07, 2003, 01:33:00 PM
The gui is wonderful... you can practically change everything.
This post has been edited by boo_se: Jul 7 2003, 09:08 PM
Post by: Jse on July 07, 2003, 01:46:00 PM
keep it up
Post by: staticFLINT on July 07, 2003, 01:46:00 PM
Post by: ianmalcm on July 07, 2003, 01:47:00 PM
Ive see somewhat of a difference in those filters you have used. Just for explanation sake, can someone describe what each of the filters do, and their strengths/weaknesses/overhead
Post by: PindaKaaz on July 07, 2003, 01:17:00 PM
Post by: Squirrel_ESS_GEN on July 07, 2003, 01:55:00 PM
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Post by: kvajnto on July 07, 2003, 02:17:00 PM
Post by: Heet on July 07, 2003, 01:43:00 PM
Post by: ukplum on July 07, 2003, 01:52:00 PM
This looks cool, i had no luck with a previous release. Keep it going mate. ANybody know of any Dreamcast Ports on the way?
Post by: Mars10 on July 07, 2003, 01:53:00 PM
Post by: Ces2k3 on July 07, 2003, 02:00:00 PM
Post by: Dahak on July 07, 2003, 02:00:00 PM
Post by: noodle1009 on July 07, 2003, 02:18:00 PM
Nice work xport! I love your ports!
Post by: thetruth on July 07, 2003, 02:23:00 PM
Post by: Bender_Unit_1 on July 07, 2003, 02:35:00 PM
It's excellent xport.
-Bender
Post by: XDAWG on July 07, 2003, 02:45:00 PM
XDAWG
Post by: Koitsu on July 07, 2003, 04:37:00 PM
Post by: dmb062082 on July 07, 2003, 05:18:00 PM
Really tho good work.
Post by: wreckk on July 07, 2003, 06:38:00 PM
AWSOME Emu btw...
SOTN never looked so good.
Post by: Corn-O-lio on July 07, 2003, 07:59:00 PM
Post by: Tex8503 on July 07, 2003, 08:18:00 PM
Now for the rant... What you've added is cool and all and I hate to sound ungrateful... but would you PLEASE add multitap support ?!?! The xbox is a great multiplayer gaming system and could really benifit from the ability to use the multitap... //end rant//
That being said.... Thanks again for all the time put it ! Its really paid off !
Post by: Cabrill on July 07, 2003, 08:39:00 PM
Post by: Beelzebud on July 07, 2003, 09:16:00 PM
Kudos to you, Xport. You help keep the xbox scene fun.
Post by: dmb062082 on July 07, 2003, 10:02:00 PM
| QUOTE (XPort @ Jul 7 2003, 09:32 PM) |
| - Can be invoked from a command-line to directly run a game from a front-end or dashboard and bypass the user-selection screens. (Only if the frontend or dashboard supports this feature.) |
This is still the best feature of his emulator, god i hope this feature goes into all of his soon 2 be revamped guis.
Post by: jizzlobber on July 07, 2003, 10:04:00 PM
The version I have doesn't support analogue controls, I just feel this is important for a lot of games (especially wipeout). Does this latest version support analogue controls?
Has compatability improved since the first 2 releases?
thanks
Post by: dazdastardly on July 08, 2003, 02:22:00 AM
Post by: XPort on July 08, 2003, 02:57:00 AM
I already did optimize the software plugin before releasing v1. Obviously, a hardware plugin would work much better, but I have no control over that. Writing one from scratch would take months and months and it's certainly not something I have much of an interest in doing.
The users already do have a way of switching between 320x240 and 640x480 mode....it's called turning off the graphics filters. W/o a graphics filter, you are technically running in 1x mode. The game screen fills the whole television screen because the 320x240 image is hardware scaled to 640x480 (or whatever size you have specified in the configuration.) Hardware scaling has negligible impact (possibly even no impact) on the speed. All of the graphics filters essentially quadruple each pixel - so you end up with a 640x480 screen. (They perform smoothing/blending/etc algorithms to the pixels also, obviously)
re:multitap - As I've stated before in other threads, if you know of an open-source psx pad plugin that supports multitap, I'll add it.
cabrill - I also read your Suikoden post in the compatibility thread and it just does not make any sense to me. The *only* change made to the core was a minor change to the sound plugin that fixes a reverb effect. There is no way that change could result in Suikoden being fixed. Are you sure you are running the *exact* same settings in both v3 and v4?
jizzlobber - No, there is no analog support yet. No, compatibility has not changed since v2.
If anyone has tried out netplay, I'd be interested to hear how it fared for them across the Internet.
Post by: T_K on July 08, 2003, 05:44:00 AM
Cheers, and thank you!
Post by: FuzeoN on July 08, 2003, 05:53:00 AM
the support for sharing only seems to be Samba which i thought was a linux only type share (not sure).. is there any way for windows based shares to be used? or samba in windows.
as you can see my Linux knowledge is pathetic, but it'd be nice to be able read over the network if its possible on a windows machine atm, as its definetely fast enough.
Post by: boo_se on July 08, 2003, 05:53:00 AM
| QUOTE (T_K @ Jul 8 2003, 02:44 PM) |
| Xport. Thanks for the new version of the emu, it rules! I'm not gonna whine about this, but you still can't swap disc's in Chrono Cross (Just for the information, no whining) Cheers, and thank you! |
I've told you before... just send me the memcard file and i will fix it.
Post by: XPort on July 08, 2003, 06:08:00 AM
T_K - Get me your memory card save (set it up on an http or ftp somewhere - no email/irc, etc and then PM me the information). I'll see if I can fix multi-cd stuff. I have multi-cd games, but in all honesty I never really tested the multi-cd support in a real-life situation (because that would mean I'd have to play the game until I got to the 2nd cd....which takes too long.) Anyway find a way to get me your save and I'll have something with which to work.
fuzeon - samba for linux was actually an addition to make linux compatible with Windows shares. So samba is more or less the same as Windows shares - meaning it should work with your windows shares. There is another thread in this forum dealing with pcsxbox and network shares - read that.
Post by: T_K on July 08, 2003, 06:08:00 AM
I have the files now! what files do you need? only the the memcard*.mcd?
(*for 0-1)
Post by: XPort on July 09, 2003, 04:37:00 AM
Post by: irajames1176 on July 10, 2003, 01:27:00 AM
| QUOTE (XPort @ Jul 8 2003, 08:36 AM) |
| irajames - Configuration -> Configure Controllers -> Joypad Mappings -> UI Mappings -> Fast Forward/Throttle |
Thanks NFS Hot Pursuit doesn't get all choppy on me when i assign the throttle to the R Trigger anymore
Post by: anti-pop on July 10, 2003, 02:10:00 AM
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Post by: dazdastardly on July 10, 2003, 03:51:00 AM
, if anyone wants the idea, take it on cause it's not getting done by me unfortuantly 