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  2. Posted

    I would suggest downgrading your PSP to 1.50, then upgrading it to Dark Alex's Custom Firmware 3.03c Open Edition.

     

    Then you can play all the emulators, homebrew games, and backups of your own games without having to lug all those stupid fragile UMD discs around with you.

     

    get all that stuff here:

     

    http://dax.lan.st/

     

    then you can use all the Atari Emulators.

     

    From Here:

     

    http://zx81.zx81.free.fr/serendipity/

  3. Posted · Edited by Danno

    You also have permission to not read my posts, or to put me on ignore. I'm not so full of pride that I insist that you read every word of every post I ever make. I'm certainly not holding a gun to your head.

     

    I love the guys that engage me in debate and then eventually bitch that I write too much.

     

    I can't help it a type fast. I love essay assignments. If the instructor asks for 2 pages, I try to give them 4. If they ask for 4, I give them 8. I always walk away with an "A". The idea that you shouldn't exceed the number of pages your instructor asks for in a paper is generally a myth. Most students struggle to meet the minimum requirements, and end up using line and a half spacing and moving up to a bigger font to try to fill the paper. I drop down a font size to try and make sure I'm under double the number of pages required.

     

    Most people who act in real life like you write in this forum spend their days unemployed and wallowing in self pity, because of their inefficiency. No one likes dealing with a Know-it-all, especially one who's knowledge is gleaned from their own personal opinion. There is a huge difference between being thorough, and being continually negative and tediously and ponderously detailed to the point of a reader's utter exhaustion.

     

    This is an Atari Fan Website, not a political or social Debate Forum. No where in the description of this message board is there an encouragement for debate or argument, let along the long winded "I talk to hear myself talk, because no one else will listen to me" trolling screeds you've put forth here.

     

    Also see below. You may be entitled to your opinions, but if you opinions are of a negative sort, and are continually reiterated negatively for the purpose of arguments or trolling, then they generally aren't welcome here.

     

    AtariAge Forum Guidelines and Rules

     

    The goal of the AtariAge Forums is to promote intelligent discussion about video games of all types, as well as allow for off-topic discussion in the forums designated as such. To help promote friendly discussion, we have put some guidelines and rules into place to make it clear to members what behavior is and is not acceptable when posting to the forums.

     

    When creating new topics or responding to an existing thread, please try to be positive, constructive, polite, and on topic. We do not censor opinions or ideas on our forums but we do take action against posts and/or topics that could cause unrest in the community beyond a civil and polite disagreement.

     

    We reserve the right to remove any topics we deem inappropriate or disruptive to our community. Please note that, from time to time, topics may be removed for being inappropriate even though your individual post in that topic may have been perfectly fine. Please do not feel this reflects badly on you.

     

    Remember, the whole purpose of this forum is to have fun and to share your love and knowledge of video game with other members!

     

    Me personally - I'm not a big fan of Nintendo systems., and never have been. I have my own reasons for that. But I don't ever go trolling around Nintendo forums looking for an argument. That's like walking into a restaurant, and sitting down at a table full of people you don't know, and telling them that they're idiots for liking the food they are eating, and the food, and the restaurant itself - sucks.

     

    If that kind of foolish behavior isn't tolerated in real life, what makes you think it should be automatically welcomed on the internet? Especially in a message board that wasn't designed for debate or arguments?

  4. Posted

    Really, you hadn't made that clear yet. Thanks for the much needed reiteration.

     

    I suppose if you were limited for space you might choose the 7800 version, as not only does the system double for a 2600, saving you much needed storage room, but you don't need to add garage doors to whatever bedroom you would need to move the 5200 into. I suppose also a lot of people wouldn't prefer a game that doesn't match the gameplay of the original, but I guess that's up to you. Funny how you knock 7800 DK for having sound that's off, but then praise the 5200 version because the gameplay is off. But I guess it makes sense to prefer butchered gameplay to butchered sound. I mean, sound is much more important to gameplay than, I don't know, something like gameplay is to gameplay. Also, you make fun of graphical glitches in the 7800 version, like Mario being fat, but then excuse HUGE graphical differences in the 5200 version as a "different interpretation". Right, that makes sense.

     

    Ah, Atarifever... I can see that you're painfully missing the point. The garage door crack was funny, though.

     

    The thing is, the 7800 version doesn't match the gameplay, but the gameplay that is there in its place *sucks*. And the sound makes your ears bleed. But it does LOOK more like the original, for the most part. The 5200 doesn't match the gameplay either, but it gives you an entertaining and enjoyable alternative instead. THAT is a big difference.

     

    We've had this poll before... the 5200/8 bit version consistently kicks the 7800 version's ass on public opinion around here. It is because it is actually a FUN game to play. All the elements *work*. The 7800 version, should by all rights destroy the 5200 version. But it doesn't. It isn't just me alone that holds this opinion. around here.

     

    As far as the reiteration... you asked. We could just as easily be having this thread in the 5200 forum, titled, "So what is so much better about 8 Bit Donkey Kong". Doesn't matter where we have the post. I'm not coming in here to bash the 7800. I've got one. Wait... I've got two. 4 if you count my Xbox Xports. And like I pointed out, there are some titles that are clearly superior, no question about it. Donkey Kong isn't one of them.

     

    As far as I'm concerned, if you prefer the 7800 version, that is OK with me. I don't enjoy it as much (or much at all). I think the 5200 version is far superior. I'm ok with you having a different opinion on the issue. It doesn't make me unsure of myself or question my good taste in classic video games. So, if that is what you're looking for, there you go. You have my blessing. You may have your own opinion. I have decreed it so.

     

    I don't think it's your opinion that bothers people so much, as the fact that you ramble on like Charlie Babbitt for so many paragraphs.

  5. Posted

    play it in an emulator on your pc, like MESS, with the Monitor rotated 90 degrees. It looks EXACTLY like the arcade. Actually - lots of 7800 titles benefit visually from being play rotated 90 degrees on PC emulators.

     

    Well... that is kind of interesting. So they just ported the graphics of the original, and stretched it to the aspect ratio of a TV?

     

    Seems they would have been better off to leave it compressed in the original ratio with black bands on the left and right.

     

    But in any case, seems sort of silly to go to all that trouble, when you can just play it on MAME if you're going to go that far.

     

    I mean, basically, what you're saying boils down to...

     

    "The 7800 version, if played via emulation, on a PC, with the screen rotated 90 degrees, *looks* like the actual arcade game, only with HORRIBLE sound and (subjectively speaking) less exciting actual gameplay".

     

    Whereas MAME feels, looks and sounds almost like the real thing on the same PC. :)

     

    Oddly enough, the only 7800 emulator I run is the Xport version. Otherwise, I mean, the only reason I'm interested in the REAL hardware is generally to run 2600 titles via the CC2. So I've just never felt compelled to put a 7800 emulator on the PC.

     

    I've got lots of other emulators... Coleco, Amiga, C-64, INTV... just no 7800. :)

     

    So if you hate it so much, why post in the 7800 forum? by all means, move on with your misery....

  6. Posted

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    But sounds like shit.

     

     

    I think the opinion on which one looks "better" is subjective, too.

     

    7800 is more *faithful* to the look of the arcade. But what looks good on the arcade console looks *wrong* on the home television set. Mario has a fat ass, everything is scrunched and stretched and looks distorted. The 5200 looks a little more primitive, but it works VERY well. There is no doubt you're playing Donkey Kong, it is just a different interpretation of the arcade version presentation. It is still very graphically attractive.

     

    In the end, the graphic advantage of the 7800 is more than offset by the lackluster gameplay and ear-drum bursting horrible sound.

    play it in an emulator on your pc, like MESS, with the Monitor rotated 90 degrees. It looks EXACTLY like the arcade. Actually - lots of 7800 titles benefit visually from being play rotated 90 degrees on PC emulators.

  8. Posted · Edited by Danno

    Again... that is what the CC2 is.

     

    I think the part everyone is forgeting to add is "economical". That takes away the CC2 rebuttle. :P

    Only if you still live in your mom's basement and work at Kinkos.

     

    I have to ask - why is $200 "too much" for what amounts to being able to play EVERY 2600 & 7800 game ever made, in one cart?

     

    I don't understand how any true red-blooded Atari fan would pass that up, yet most are considering dropping $600 for a PS3.

  9. Posted

     

     

    It plays similar to the arcade game. Your original patterns etc will not work on this version (its not an emulation or straight port like the upcomming CV version).

    That shit has bee "upcomming" for like 4 years now.

     

    Vaporware.

  10. Posted

    Only even consider the mod if you're having trouble with any games.

     

    Supposedly some of the following games have trouble with compatibility:

     

    Space Shuttle 2600

    Robot Tank 2600

    The Activision Decathlon 2600

    Starpath Supercharger

    Cuttle Carts 1 & 2.

    Dark Chambers 2600

     

    Supposedly they added a c64 resistor because the 2600 port of Dark Chambers wouldn't run properly on the 7800. However, in adding this, they made the above games possibly incompatible with the 7800.

     

    But it's a vastly overstated problem, very rare in actual occurances, and most people regardless of the year their 7800 was made don't have any problems at all with any games. As I said, it's a bashing tactic that people who don't like the 7800 tend to reiterate. Some people are just petty children, especially on the internet.

     

    Unless you have any specific problems with the games above, don't give it a second thought.

  11. Posted

    I wouldn't worry much about it. I never knew there even were any incompatibilities until reading it on the web a few years ago. Most people seem to report the same experience as myself - everything works.

    My first 7800 was from 1987, the one I have now is from about 1989 I believe. I haven't had any issues with either of them, other than the physical tight fit for Activision and IMagic carts. Admittedly, I also haven't gone out of my way to find carts that don't work, all I know is everything I've ever tried to play works fine. The incompatibility issues are overstated in my opinion, and new 7800 buyers end up worrying about it too much.

     

    Exactly. I had an '84 when they came out, and got an '88 with the shoddily covered expansion hole. Didn't really seem to make a difference, all the games taht are supposed to have problems worked fine on both. It's definitely an overstated issue, mostly brought up on the web by 7800 bashers.

  13. Posted

    I dunno that I have any real influence with him. I asked on the pspupdates forum if he would be interested in doing a port of Prosystem, the 7800 emu, after Greg released the sources on Christmas. After a week of getting scolded by the idiot mods over there for making a request (they get really touchy about that shit) He actually answered and said he'd take a look at it. 3 days later, he had it up and running. and a few days after that it was pretty much complete. I did most of the beta testing for him, since he wasn't very familiar with the 7800 itself, and I know pretty much every game like the back of my hand.

     

    But then during his betas for that someone asked him to update the StellaPSP port that Aenea did that hadn't been touched in about a year, and he started working on that too. I had a conversation with him last night, trying to get some pointers on getting my own PSPsdk/compile environment set up properly, so I can tinker around with the code myself and teach myself how to update things. I used to help out on MESS a while back, but that thing is a giant unwieldy beast and I couldn't keep up with the updates.

  16. Posted · Edited by Danno

    Yeah it sux that no one seems to care for the older systems. Nice that ZX81 is actually making an effort. I actually kinda like his interface. FWIW the 7800 emu for the GP2X runs with perfect sound and perfect speed at about 280 mhz. It's based off of the MESS emu.

     

    So perfect sound is possible.

     

    Hopefully he will address these issues. I'm not much one to pester an emu author if you know what I mean. So I can only hope he notices and gets around to fixing these things.

     

    I do know the author that ported the atari800/5200 emu to the GP2X had sound issues as well, but he managed to work around them.

     

    So for now the GP2X still has the leg up, but the PSP is getting close. :)

     

    On a side note x-port has been slowly updating his xbox emu's so I've been hopeing for a sound fix on the xbox atari800 emu as well. So far he has managed to do pretty well. Fixed the 2600 emu real nice (it had different issues), released a 7800 emu (based off of MESS), etc.

     

    Sound might be decent in MESS, but last time I checked the 7800 still only has about 75% compatibility. Lots of games either don't run, or run with completely unplayable graphics glitches in MESS. Prosystem is 100% compatible with all 7800 Roms.

     

    It was a trade off.

  17. Posted · Edited by Danno

    ok the version I downloaded was the incorrect one. So I downloaded the new one (for some reason the prev version just hung up when I selected "load rom").

     

    The sound seems to be fine. I set render mode to 1.25x, and flicker mode to simple (I think) and that seemed to be the best setting to be able to see the missiles in such games as space invaders and megamania. In fact it seems easier to see than the activision classics. I'll have to double check that.

     

    The only fluke I seemed to run into was the "swap analog/cursor" does not seem to work. So for those twitch games the nub may interfere. No chance to check paddle simulation, although chances are like any paddle emulation it won't be like the real thing.

     

    Checked out the 7800 emu. Seems to run fine although the sound seems off (a little scratchy?). It is almost similar to the problems with the atari 5200/800 emu except I thought the 7800 uses TIA and 5200 uses pokey? Anyways MsPacman is an example of the sound similarities it has with the 5200/800 emu. Listen to the ghosts returning after being eaten. It's similar to the artifacts in the Pacman intro music. Overclocking did not seem to help the sound.

     

    I also tried the colecovision emulator and it seemed ok, but the sound is off (seems to be a common problem with these things). The pitch is too high.

     

    The Colecovision one seems to have the same problem as the 2600 one.

     

    The PSP does it's sound at 44.1khz, but those systems were only 32khz originally, so there's a pitch shift happening. He fixed that in the 2600 emu, maybe he can apply it to the others.

     

    As for the 7800, the sound for the original 7800 is just plain bad, but yeah, ibut it appears that the PSP's still not clocked up enough to make it less scratchy. the Palm port of this had the same problem. If I remember correctly, I even had sound artifacts on 7800 emulation in an old 500MHz Win 98 PC I had, and the PSP only runs at 333mhz, so if this is as good as it's going to get, I can deal with it. At least they run full speed.

     

    The problem is, nobody else seems to care about making emulators for these older systems. Everybody's wrapped up in trying to get SNES and N64 emus working on the PSP.

  18. Posted · Edited by Danno

    Just to bring this unweildly beast back on topic:

     

    http://zx81.zx81.free.fr/serendipity/

     

    Version 1.0.2 is released.

     

    Pretty much every issue or problem that was posted here has been fixed. Sound is mint. Set the graphics mode to "phosphor" and there isn't any flicker at all, Asteroids and Yar's Revenge never looked so good. No more "Too many Roms" freeze ups. Paddle support added. merged in Stella 2.2 sources so compatibility is near perfect.

     

    The onyl game it won't run full speed - Pitfall II. It runs, but really slow. Just not enough horsepower I guess (although it's playable in the Activision Classics PSP game, but the music is awful in that version).

  20. Posted

    Listen... posting something related but not directly on topic to derail is one thing...

     

    Offering an alternative is another.

     

    If you want a good Atari portable device, there are other options beyond a PSP, that can probably be had for a lot less money than a PSP, and that probably lend themselves to loading and running "unofficial, unsupported" applications better than a PSP.

     

    None of this is dogging the PSP. It is simply trying to cover all the bases.

     

    The only reason I chimed in is that people were wondering what was the better way to go, the Ben Heck portable or a PSP running emulation... As if those were the only two choices. They're not.

     

    Which is different than a

     

    PSP sUx0rZ and DS rU1eZ, 1a|\/|3Rz!

     

    post.

     

    I agree.

     

    The GP2x is a fantastic machine for this sort of thing. Specifically because, that's what it is. A Homebrew device, with the development tools readily available. The PSP's emulation has been cobbled together by hackers.

     

    There's nothing wrong with discussing alternatives and comparisons if they are well formed, sure.

     

    At any rate, Zx is planning on releasing a new version of this any minute now, with paddle support, better/more rendering modes, adjusted sound, and more.

  21. Posted

    Yep it did have ridges. I had one. Mostly because it came with Donkey Kong & Mouse Trap. Atari came with that God awful Pac-Man and Combat.

     

    I remember Spider Fighter was playable, but the letters and numbers were all messed up. Adn the soldering joints on the controller jacks on the motherboard were very cheap, and cracked easily, so you had to jam cardboard into the sides of it to get it to work right.

  22. Posted · Edited by Danno

     

    Again I'm glad the emulation on your PDA is awesome. But again we're talking the PSP here. Going along the same line of thought, the 2600 emulation is nearly flawless on the PC, the Xbox, and the GP32 as well, but that aint enlightening anybody :P

     

    Really.

     

    I don't mind the odd PDA comment, as they aren't that regular, but seriously, why is it taht when someone makes an "emulator on PSP" thread on ANY forum, the Nintendo fanboys come out of the woodwork to ask when it's going to be posted to the DS?

     

    You bought your DS because you constantly claim that it's "so much better than the PSP" remember? So stop bitching that the PSP gets better emulators and homebrew, and go enjoy your little cutesy mushroom pokemon games for 5 year olds already.

    Is it just me, or does that NE146 quote paired with Danno's comment make no damn sense whatsoever?

     

    And after reading plenty of your previous posts I have to say that your particular brand of anti-Nintendo fanboyism is just as annoying as regular old pro-Nintendo fanboyism. :P :evil:

     

    Just a general agreement with him that anyone who comes into a thread about an emu for a certain platform(in this case PSP), and starts immediately asking for, or comparing it to another, thus derailing the original intent of the thread, is really quite annoying.

     

    But the Nintendo fanboys take it to another level. They cross post their thread killing fanboyishness in multiple sections of the board. Like I said, I'm glad for you that you love your DS. Now please, go talk about it in a DS thread. This is a thread about a PSP emulator. If you want one for the DS, by all means, go learn C++ and the DS SDK.

  23. Posted

    What's the emulation speed actually like, esp on handheld's...do you get a full 100 p/c emulation and does it do all the popular games...or would it be better in getting a B.Heckendorn Potted 2600 m/c

    The Ben Heck protable will always be more accurate for 2600 portability, but the PSP's emulation capabilities are pretty much as good as any PC out there, for the classic systems. The Colecovision, Intellivision, 5200 & 7800 Emulators now available are flawless, and the 2600 one will be as well, when it's done.

     

    Plus the PSP accurately emulates pretty much EVERY classic system right up to the PSX itself.

     

    The DS can't and won't do that, ever.

  24. Posted

     

    Again I'm glad the emulation on your PDA is awesome. But again we're talking the PSP here. Going along the same line of thought, the 2600 emulation is nearly flawless on the PC, the Xbox, and the GP32 as well, but that aint enlightening anybody :P

     

    Really.

     

    I don't mind the odd PDA comment, as they aren't that regular, but seriously, why is it taht when someone makes an "emulator on PSP" thread on ANY forum, the Nintendo fanboys come out of the woodwork to ask when it's going to be posted to the DS?

     

    You bought your DS because you constantly claim that it's "so much better than the PSP" remember? So stop bitching that the PSP gets better emulators and homebrew, and go enjoy your little cutesy mushroom pokemon games for 5 year olds already.

  25. Posted

    So are we saying this one is just as much poo as the previous PSP port?

     

    A shame..

     

    Not even close.

     

    It's great. But NE146 is complaining about things that are all configurable in the menu, so obviously he installed it, played one game of Space invaders without looking at the settings menu, and decided "This sucks".

     

    I wouldn't exactly use that as a gauge.

     

    It's also a work in progress. we're developing and beta testing every aspect of it. This is just a first beta.

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