[Announce] gpSP
 

gpSP is a widely known GameBoyAdvance emulator around the world. Initialy gpSP was made for psp by Exophase, and this port is based on his GP2X/Caanoo port with some little changes that do not intend to waste his original, great work, for a better run under fremantle environment.

Installation
How to run
Options
Notaz homepage with sources
Game compatibility list

screenshots:
http://img805.imageshack.us/img805/9...1120103221.png
video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phlhQhybl1Y

big thanks for luiscesjr, Notaz, Exophase, [vs] (n800 scin)

notaz donate, bonapart donate

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Big thanks to every members who Continued this project after almost one Year of development.
At least we have a descent emulator which is running fine, and which runs almost all games.
Special thanks to:

luiscesjr, Figa, Javispedro, Bonapart, Acidspunk and Addison,

and all members who were here since the beginning!
I still Love My N900. ;)

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Please, don't forget Exophase, Notaz and all the ones that helped
create this emulator on all other plataforms, without them, we wouldn't have it =)

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Yeah so thanks to Exophase and Notaz too. I'm so Happy this emulator is Up now. You all have done a real good work on it.
Now it's time to perfect it and test games... :D

Little think: who can review this thread?: http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?p=898068 :cool:

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Well Boemien a GC emulator is pretty much impossible on the n900. It would be cool to port other possible system emus like turbographx or maybe update picodrive to the latest version to support more mega cd and 32x games. There are some cool emulators on other devices like cannoo, gp2x and pandora that still haven't been ported and those would be a lot more useful (not to mention actually playable) in my opinion.

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Boemien: game cube? impossible =) i have a mind to port gpfce to maemo-fremantle,gpsp to maemo-diablo, pcsx-rearmed to meego-harmattan in free time
do not forgot about appending it to compatible list( link in first post)

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Slight confusion on my behalf

i have vgba maemo 3.6 installed even though it is okay this fresh one sounds better, when i search with app manager i find:-

GBA emulator-gpSP

and

gpspgui

Do i uninstall the old vgba then install the new ones?

or

Do i install any of the ones i have found in app manager over the top off vgba?

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The first option, gpspgui is a slight confusion.
Ah, also vgba and gpsp are different builds,
won't conflict if this is what you are worried about,
you can keep both, won't harm your device...

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Because an image worth every words... :D

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Thanks everyone i will give it a go.

EDIT

Worked a treat.

Seriously impressed this is now a very good emulator.

AND six axis controller worked straight away without the need to configure it.......... QUALITY!!!:cool:

thanks must go to:-

luiscesjr, Notaz, Exophase and Bonapart and anyone else i have missed.

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What a great release :)

I thought first "What a crap" when I started the app the first time and games were barely running at 1FPS. But I noticed afterwards that the default settings are simply wrong set (Would be nice if someone can post good settings) and after a few modifications games run perfectly now :)

The only real issue which I noticed is that subtitles in games like Rayman have no text, you see only the background of the text and sadly can't read the story that way. It works fine in Crash Bandicoot though. And "GTA Advance" doesn't starts at all, all other games run smooth without probs.

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just nice, finaly a gui :)
but i´ve some problems with the buttons, they go crazy, no matter how i configure them ...

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When can us Diablo users join in the party?

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I tried Mario Power Tennis. At the beginning it was so slow, but i could find the correct settings. But it has the same problem that the last version, it gets rebooted.

Anyways thank you all for your hard work and i hope that someday Mario Power tennis will work :)

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Screen options - fullscreen

Frameskipping - auto and Random

Audio Buffering - 4096 bytes (also used 8192 bytes and got good results on roms that i tried)

games tested with six axis

games tested ok:-

super ghouls n ghosts

international karate advanced

super mario advance

the revenge of shinobi

international superstar soccer advance

namco museum

rtype 3

tyger woods pga tour golf

gradius generations

games tested not so smooth:-

sega arcade gallery (jittery)

driver 2 advance (sluggish)

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Congrats Diablo users, gpspm and gpspmgui successfully compiled for Maemo-Diablo
apt-get install gpspmgui

i don't know why but maemo repository delete gpspm and gpspmgui after day(or less) with "Old version cleaned by repository management", even when it's only version in repository(and latest one)

Bazza i hope it's not to complicated to edit http://wiki.maemo.org/GpSP/Game_Compatibility ?

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Okay. Here are the scan codes for the N800.

Up 111
Down 116
Left 113
Right 114
- 74
Fullscreen 72
+ 73
Center Dpad 36
Escape 9
Menu 70
Task switcher 71

For the file /opt/gpspm/conf.gpsp here is the order for the 18 keys that need to be assigned.

Up
Left
Down
Right
L
R
A
B
FF
Start
Select
up+left
up+right
down+left
down+right
Load
Save
Quit

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FYI: Jut noticed the version 0.0.5 this Morning. :D

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Makes me want to play Pokemon blue again and abuse the Mew glitch LOL, Good app, thanked.

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No, i will update it when i get the time to do it .:)

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Any new brain ideas for us still using Diablo?

The -screen option doesn't seem to take.

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Also, I just now checked and I'm not able to get any keys working inside of a game. :(

This is my conf.gpsp file:
111
113
116
114
74
73
71
9
0
36
72
0
0
0
0
0
0
70

This looks right to me.

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I seem to have a problem installing gpSP.

Here's what I've done:

1. I first tried to install gpSP using the apt-get install gpspmgui through x-term, but it appears that the package cannot be found (I have extras, extras-devel, and extras-testing enabled, so no problems with that)

2. Browsed through app manager and FAM also and installed the package named "gpspgui" (I noticed that package is missing the "m" but i installed it anyway).

*I saw an user finding the GBA emulator-gpSP package but my app manager/FAM is unable to find it. (even after apt-get update)

3. Rebooted device and copied my gba_bios.bin to MyDocs.

4. Started gpSP and tried to configure keys, with the app returning a message saying something that realates to permissions, and thus, I'm unable to configure keys.

5. Tapped the MainMenu config bar but is not displaying any options.

That's what I did in 5 mins of trying to install this and get it to work but I dont know in which step I'm wrong.

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I think that gba_bios.bin goes to /opt/gpspm/

At least that's where it needs to go on my end.

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@AlekMx please download and install this package .:

Edit.: Also uninstall this old gui, before doing this installation.

repository.maemo.org/extras-devel/pool/fremantle/free/g/gpspmgui/gpspmgui_0.0.5_armel.deb
This link is bonapart's gui with all those options =)

The package manager is going a bit mad lately, and is deleting
the builds from the repos.
Also, I must find a way to delete this old and unusable gui, sorry for
the inconvenience.

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yep i got the update notification last night and tried to update took about 30 miunutes then just said there was no packages to update,
i was kinda confused so checked the package page here and i had tried to install it 2 mins before it got deleted, so i purged the whole ting and install from deb to be on the safe side lol

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Astro Boy Omega Factor works fine. Btw it is a great game, you should try it :)

Does the save option work from the keyboard? because it doesn't work for me.

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It (savestate) does not work for me too. :(
And also, default settings are not saved each time I close the application. Once opened, I have to re-adjust them in order to play games.

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alot of games are working only game that doesn't work that i've tried is kingdom hearts chain of memories it's a very good game... and setting does always resets when closing and opening the gui. Many thanks to bonapart and luicesjr doing a really great job on this emulator =)

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For those who have problems with storing their settings: in my case, it was a permission problem.

You could try from the x-terminal:
And see if settings get stored afterward.

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I have noticed that you need to save settings for each game.

so save settings for a game then starting a previously un-played rom will mean you will need to alter then save the settings again.

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@luiscesjr

Thanks for that .deb file, installed it with no problems. It was not even an inconvenience so don't worry. I really appreciate the work you're doing, keep it up!

Oh, and for anyone trying to install gpSP for the first time via luiscesjr reply to me, you need to install gpspm first.(That's mostly if you can't find the package on app manager/FAM)

*EDIT*

I don't know if this issue is affiliated to the version I downloaded from that .deb file, but I noticed that since PSX4M and gpSP uses kinda the same gui, the Rom Directory option changes the directory for both emus to the one selected.

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Good observation.
Indeed both PSX4M and gpspmgui store there directory config in /home/user/.config/Unknown Organization.conf and therefore conflict.

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@JSTAR, a workaround is detailed on main wiki =) You guys should
all take a look on compability list, when a game does not work
or it works with an workaround, or only works until a certain
point, etc, it will all be detailed there.

About this rom dir bug, I am not aware of it, but I am sure bonapart
will correct it when he finds time, what makes me want to say again,
this last version is all his work, all I did was find the icon =)
So thanks to him!

If you guys wish to support it, hit his donate button and let's keep
our developers alive! =)

Good night everyone.

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The battery drains quite fast....!!! I can't underclock under 550Mhz. And I'm afraid to activate smartreflex.... :rolleyes::o

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How does this compare to VGBA? Is it worth switching?

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they use same gui =) to fixed in today release of gui

can't approve or reject this bug, will test it soon
btw. can you open ssh to phone, install htop and check it while gpspm is runned ? sort by cpu first(mem second) and check which process use cpu\mem(i guess pulse should be near 20% of cpu,gpspm near 50% )

bocephus: install and check by youself, different games-different speed and compatible; you can install vgba and gpspm together(right now gpsp have only incompatible bug with psx4m )

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Yes definitely. :)

and you can run them side by side anyway with no conflicts.

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" bonapart
they use same gui =) to fixed in today release of gui"
Hope this and the keyboard function to save the progress of the game can be fixed!!
Thanks

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luiscesjr@JSTAR, a workaround is detailed on main wiki =) You guys should
all take a look on compability list, when a game does not work
or it works with an workaround, or only works until a certain
point, etc, it will all be detailed there.

thanks but i tried the quick save and it isn't working