vSNES

Post by **Nach** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 10:46 pm

Edge might, it already hosts NSRT and Snes Central.

Post by **pagefault** » Tue Feb 21, 2006 3:11 am

creaothceann wrote: pagefault:
I hope you don't use a compression that's hard to implement. What does PSR stand for?

We will be using zlib so it will be easy to decompress. PSR is short for parser. You can open up ZGUIDATW.DAT if you want to see what the format looks like uncompressed.

tukuyomi · Post by **tukuyomi** » Tue Feb 21, 2006 7:00 am

http://snesemu.black-ship.net/index.php?page=tools

creaothceann · Post by **creaothceann** » Tue Feb 21, 2006 11:05 am

Nach wrote:Edge might, it already hosts NSRT and Snes Central.

Jipcy wrote:You've exceeded the bandwidth limit for Geocities.

Any possibility of getting a better host? Seems like there are a few out there that would give you free hosting or something...

Like ROMhacking.net? Except that server's down too....

It should only be temporary... Geocities blocks requests for one hour, dunno if that's true. RomHacking.net is already back.

I've been sticking with Geocities because it's a huge site that has been around for a few years, and doesn't seem to remove inactive pages. I have no experience with other hosters.

pagefault wrote:
creaothceann wrote: pagefault:
I hope you don't use a compression that's hard to implement. What does PSR stand for?
We will be using zlib so it will be easy to decompress. PSR is short for parser. You can open up ZGUIDATW.DAT if you want to see what the format looks like uncompressed.

Alright, I'll check it out.

creaothceann · Post by **creaothceann** » Tue Feb 21, 2006 1:49 pm

Tukuyomi:
Sorry, no links to ROM sites allowed.

pagefault: Some questions.

- will you be using the current set of variable names?
- VRAM and the other arrays are stored as strings, too?
- will SRAM be included as well?
- what'll be the name of the Preview variable?

tukuyomi · Post by **tukuyomi** » Tue Feb 21, 2006 3:24 pm

Done, sorry for that

creaothceann · Post by **creaothceann** » Tue Feb 21, 2006 5:52 pm

Beta version with partial support for SNESGT savestates. Only arrays are loaded (CGRAM, OAM, SRAM, VRAM, WRAM), no saving.
SV? files seem to contain an entire SPC file...

EDIT: ... which now gets loaded in this beta.

creaothceann · Post by **creaothceann** » Thu Feb 23, 2006 4:14 pm

Offset-per-tile effects!

Beta can be downloaded here.

EDIT: Thanks to AEP for the webspace!

creaothceann · Post by **creaothceann** » Tue Feb 28, 2006 8:29 pm

v2.8
- new mirrors at AEP and SNES Emulation
- GUI: better support for non-standard font sizes and colors (thanks to Nightcrawler for testing)
- SRC: added offset-per-tile effects to rendering (Mode4 and Mode6 are not tested)
- SRC: improved the SPC code, added ability to save; no adding/removing of the extended tags yet
- SRC: partial support for SNESGT savestates (only arrays)
- SRC: adjusted start and end of the visible area in the Screen rendering
- SRC: fixed error message that appears when SNES.txt is not present

Downloads:
http://vsnes.aep-emu.de/
http://www.geocities.com/illegal_eagle_2003/

creaothceann · Post by **creaothceann** » Wed Mar 01, 2006 6:42 pm

bugfix

You only need this file if you want to see the text in the right part of the HexEditor correctly.

EDIT: Fixed the bugfix.

xamenus · Post by **xamenus** » Thu Mar 02, 2006 6:48 pm

Silly question that's been nagging me for a while: Why are the files on your site given double extensions, like *.rar.zip ?

creaothceann · Post by **creaothceann** » Thu Mar 02, 2006 6:55 pm

Geocities doesn't allow uploading of files with the extension ".RAR", so I'm just adding ".ZIP".
Someone might assume that the archive is broken when WinZip reports an error.

Of course other hosts don't need to follow that naming style, but it's always a bit of work to rename the files and adjust the links.

adventure_of_link · Post by **adventure_of_link** » Fri Mar 03, 2006 5:52 am

Why not just compress it in ZIP and be done with it ?

creaothceann · Post by **creaothceann** » Fri Mar 03, 2006 8:12 am

It saves 642 KB.

Yeah, it's not that much - I think I'll use the ZIP extension only for Geocities then.

adventure_of_link · Post by **adventure_of_link** » Fri Mar 03, 2006 8:21 am

Meh, just giving a suggesstion, that way no one will complain the file is corrupted, and they need to change the extenstion to only RAR.

creaothceann · Post by **creaothceann** » Sun Mar 05, 2006 4:11 pm

Just a note - if the controls in v2.8 look too small or too large, it's because I used the wrong info for scaling them (and didn't test it enough). I'll upload a new build tomorrow that fixes that issue.

creaothceann · Post by **creaothceann** » Mon Mar 06, 2006 9:44 am

v2.85

Code: Select all

SRC: added support for IPS files
SRC: fixed a bug in the main window's display of shifted values (eg. CGAddB)
GUI: fixed code and GUI to scale better according to the current DPI setting
GUI: fixed some issues with HexViewer's rendering
GUI: added checkbox to control updating of the main lists
GUI: added button for using DirectColor on regular and Mode7 BGs
GUI: removed black outline on blurred screens by copying the adjacent pixels
GUI: adjusted updating the 8-bit and 16-bit images so that switching appears seamless
GUI: set checking of ZST headers to enabled by default
GUI: separated memo component for cartridge extensions into its own groupbox

Nightcrawler · Post by **Nightcrawler** » Mon Mar 06, 2006 3:46 pm

I agree, the .rar.zip thing is annoying. I also don't think it's really spelled out for people who don't pick up on that immediately. I'd probably rather download an extra 600K then deal with that.

Ok, not really. I lied. 600K is alot, but it's still annoying.

creaothceann · Post by **creaothceann** » Fri Mar 17, 2006 6:56 pm

v2.86 beta
- new fields in the Cartridge window due to new information
- uses a new, stream-based library for handling compressed files
- new (unfinished) tool: SMVEditor
- some source code preparation for the new ZST format

Link1 / Link2 for the executable
Link1 / Link2 for the source

This might be one of the last versions for quite a while. Feel free to use the source for anything you want.

creaothceann · Post by **creaothceann** » Tue Mar 28, 2006 11:01 am

Beta03: Link

Can load and display SMV files.

creaothceann · Post by **creaothceann** » Tue Mar 28, 2006 8:45 pm

Beta04: Link

Can load, display and edit SMV files. Next target: Saving SMV files.

creaothceann · Post by **creaothceann** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 2:54 pm

Beta05: Link
Can load, display, edit and save SMV files.

Note that there are two major SNES9x builds: the official one (link) and the one from nesvideos (link).
Movies created with one build might be incompatible with the other one.

creaothceann · Post by **creaothceann** » Tue Apr 11, 2006 2:02 pm

Beta08: executable, source

Code: Select all

SRC: added code for rendering 256-color BGs in DirectColor mode
SRC: fixed sprite rendering (ypos. was off by one pixel)

This fixes the SoM map screen mentioned here.

creaothceann · Post by **creaothceann** » Fri Apr 21, 2006 10:33 am

Beta09: various smaller bugfixes, eg. IPS patches that expand the ROM should work now.
Screen rendering also outputs 5 bits per color channel, not 8 as before - caused slight differences to emulators when color math is used.

standard build
build with debug info
source

creaothceann · Post by **creaothceann** » Tue May 02, 2006 7:37 am

Beta10: executable / source

Fixes sprite tile wrapping in test_oam_[!].smc and incorporates DMV27's info about when a sprite is visible on the current scanline.