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Didn't notice this topic until now, so my comment is a little late, but:
I noticed a major difference in the GC 007 game screenshot, in the more compressed jpeg the overall clarity is down a lot, and I can hardly see the crosshair, it was almost blended away entirely in the compression.
I could not see any such major problems with the other screenshots, but I did notice an overall blurring in all of them, some less than others.
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hegyak wrote:
Warepire wrote:
r8568, grabbed from EmuCR.
Kingsley's Adventure (USA Disc), SLUS_008.01
checksum as reported by a movie (md5?): 1D669C5525046F3DADFF2D714CD4495A
BIOS: scph1001.bin (sha1:10155D8D6E6E832D6EA66DB9BC098321FB5E8EBF)
Kingsley cannot be controlled by with the analog sticks, this works on a real playstation when an analog controller is plugged in and is quite mandatory to be able to TAS this game.
I TRIED to test this in mednafen, but I was unable to figure out how to use the analog controller. I googled / read the docs for about 2 hours without getting any wiser. If someone can explain how to do it, I will test in mednafen.
If more info is needed, let me know and I will try my best to produce!
You need to push the Mode button when you start (get control of the main character) it seems for it to know about Analog sticks.
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r8568, grabbed from EmuCR.
Kingsley's Adventure (USA Disc), SLUS_008.01
checksum as reported by a movie (md5?): 1D669C5525046F3DADFF2D714CD4495A
BIOS: scph1001.bin (sha1:10155D8D6E6E832D6EA66DB9BC098321FB5E8EBF)
Kingsley cannot be controlled by with the analog sticks, this works on a real playstation when an analog controller is plugged in and is quite mandatory to be able to TAS this game.
I TRIED to test this in mednafen, but I was unable to figure out how to use the analog controller. I googled / read the docs for about 2 hours without getting any wiser. If someone can explain how to do it, I will test in mednafen.
If more info is needed, let me know and I will try my best to produce!
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A suggestion to save checksumming times during movie-game matching: Use the game-id, there's a file on the disc named after the game's release id, if this doesn't match it will be like trying to play a (U) movie with a (E) ROM. So if this file does not match, skip checksumming and error immediately.
(Checking the name is enough, in the Kingsley example, the US disc has SLUS_008.01 as that file)
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This core is gonna be awesome! It's pretty close to Xebra in emulation as far as I can visually tell.
And for the LOLs: my computer is awesome enough to run this PSX core at 5 fps.
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I also wish you good luck on this project.
A tip: Do head over to byuu.org as he has also tried working on a GBA emulator, perhaps you 2 can share progress and ideas in order to get the emulator even better!
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zeromus wrote:
I don't know for a fact, but I would assume their hashes are over the entire disc, and we dont want hashes over the entire disc, as it would take too long to run and be annoying. Exactly what hash we should use is an open question, but I don't think it should be that hash.
What we can do though is, once we've decided on a policy, run a hashing tool against that database and a pile of redump discs, in order to produce hashes of our type. I feel like this might be what we end up doing eventually.
Their hashes are for the entire disc yes, and while slow I do think we want it, a bad disc dump can (like any bad dump rom) have the read error anywhere, just testing some sectors / files on the disc is not enough. At least leave it as an option to run a full hash check, that people can do when they report bugs, as they might be using a "false positive" good dump otherwise.
