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14:28 May 4th, 2006

Progress report

Posted By: MikeDX

I thought I'd take 2 minutes from my lunchbreak to let you know what the progress is.

Last night I started recoding the internal engine of mame-psp along with the memory handling. Sadly this broke everything so I propose the following.

I'm going to make a release based on the 30 or so games that work "satisfactory" and then continue my work on the psp specific parts of the port. TMK has done a great job with MAME and I can only hope to improve things.

The 68000 core now compiles and runs correctly, and I successfully ran a neogeo title "League Bowling". Sadly it was less than 40% of the full speed, but it was playable. Maybe once the graphics/memory rewrite has taken place this could improve to 70 or 80% which would then become more realistic for a release title.

Watch this space. MAME-PSP with 30 near perfect games coming soon!

9 comments - Last Comment By XEvilBladesX

00:35 May 11th, 2006

Mame4all

Posted By: MikeDX

I've not spent much time on MAME-PSP recently, and it seems it has shown! MAME4ALL has been ported to the PSP; something I probably should have looked into myself.

So what are your thoughts on this, my fellow arcade fans!

I will keep my promise. I will release a BETA of MAME-PSP that runs 30 games near flawlessly very soon, just give me a day or so to clean up a little. It's worth the wait I promise

18 comments - Last Comment By Dare Devil Denis

01:32 May 15th, 2006

HERE IT IS! MAMEPSP Beta 0.01!

Posted By: MikeDX

It's been a hard slog and I've lost a lot of sleep over it, but here it is. I hope you all enjoy it and give me LOTS of feedback!

The readme:

README FOR MAMEPSP
------------------

This is BETA software. I make or offer no warranties with this software
USE AT YOUR OWN RISK! It has been thoroughly tested and has known problems.

If you feel like donating via paypal please send to:
mikedx@retrowarez.com

Alternatively (and maybe also ) please visit http://www.typingwand.com
and use the search engine to find yerself some ebay bargains. Each person who
bids using my site will put a few pence my way and that will help me out
(and will not cost you anything!

Official forums at: http://dxdev.dcemu.co.uk PLEASE POST YOUR RESULTS HERE

Compatibility:

The following games are known to run near perfecty on MAMEPSP:
(hint, try romnation )

Ping Pong - pingpong
Kung-Fu Master - kungfum
Vulgus (Set 1) - vulgus
Pirate Ship Higemaru - higemaru
Son Son - sonson
Tetris (set 1) - atetris
Commando (world) - commando
Ghosts'n Goblins (World? set 1) - gng
1942 (set 1) - 1942
Jr. Pac-Man - jrpacman
Pengo (aset 1 rev c) - pengo
Crazy Climber (US) - cclimber
Jail Break - jailbrek
Green Beret - gberet
Mat Mania - matmania
Ms. Pac-Man - mspacman
Scramble - scramble
Amidar - amidar
PuckMan (Japan set 1) - puckman
Galaxian (Namco set 1) - galaxian
Track & Field - trackfld
Flicky (128k Ver.) - flicky
Wonderboy (set 1) - wboy
Arkanoid (World) - arkanoid
Frogger - frogger
Mario Bros (US) - mario
Bagman - bagman
Space Invaders - invaders
Bomb Jack (set 1) - bombjack
Lady Bug - ladybug
Mr Do! - mrdo
Mikie - mikie
Kicker - kicker
Defender (Red label) - defender
Robotron (Solid Blue label) - robotron
Joust (White/Green label) - joust

PUT ROMS (zipped preferably) to

X:\PSP\GAME\MAMEPSP (where X is your PSP)

KEYS:

select - credit
start - 1p start
X,O etc - player buttons
L - in game menu (and menu in frontend)
R - pause/unause
D-PAD - joystick controls
L+R (ingame) - QUIT to menu

This version of mame has issues where the ram may not be freed correctly but
this will be fixed in future versions.

Source code avaiable on request and will be uploaded as a seperate archive
to the forums at http://dxdev.dcemu.co.uk

Happy gaming!

MikeDX

Thanks to:

Wraggster, Martin64 for hosting
Eggman for testing
Suze, my beautiful girlfriend for putting up with my nerdiness for hours on end
And you, for downloading and using this program!

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96 comments - Last Comment By ODCViper

11:29 May 16th, 2006

MAMEPSP 0.01 dat file

Posted By: MikeDX

LogiqX has kindly created a dat file for use with rom managers (clrmamepro/romcenter), which I have upload to the forum, so if that kind of thing is useful to you, enjoy

Massive thanks to everybody for the feedback so far. Keep using my site to search for ebay goodies (and digg it where possible) and tell everybody!

I'm looking for people to help me translate into french, spanish, italian and other languages. Also I'm looking for a nice logo and possibly a website (this one) design. Anybody out there interested?

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10 comments - Last Comment By scotty16

20:20 May 22nd, 2006

Just a quick update

Posted By: MikeDX

Hey folks

Just a little update to let you know what I'm up to. I've been bitten by the "NEW" super mario bros bug on the DS, so that has been taking a lot of time lately (ooops) and of course working hard at my normal day job has left me feeling a bit worn out in the evenings.

I've read al of your feedback on the forums, and it looks like I've made at least a few of you happy! Can't guarantee to add all of the features/games that you want, but I'll try dammit!

Next release is going to add at least 10 new games. Donkey Kong will be one of them..

Thanks to everybody who helped me with my typingwand site so far! Sadly not one person has donated to the MAMEPSP fund yet via paypal - which I'd like to use to put to wards another PSP solely for devving.

Look out for a new release this weekend!

Mike

12 comments - Last Comment By kevo175

19:37 May 30th, 2006

Modchips.. Bricked PSPs.. let me help :)

Posted By: MikeDX

With the upcoming modchip for the PSP i am going to offer a fitting service for those in the UK (overseas people sadly the shipping will cost too much).

Also As far as I can tell I will be able to fix bricked psps.

So, can I have a list of eople who would like to make use of my services? The chips are £50 (aparently), I will only charge a nomial fee for fitting and return delivery - about £25 or so.

For the bricked PSPs, the plan is to restore 1.5firmware, the cost of this will depend on how succesful I am.

Please let me know if you would like to make use of this service! First come first serve. I do expect there to be quite a few people not brave enough to tackle the psp with a soldering iron by themselves!

47 comments - Last Comment By mesosade

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