rachit85us2004
02-18-2007, 10:42 AM
Hello, and welcome to my List of all the top emulators. These include, but are not limited to: N64, SNES, NES, GBA, GB/GBC, and Genesis. In each "pack" I have included the top Roms for each system. Such titles such as Starfox for SNES, to Link to the Past. Enjoy
.:N64:.
http://img257.imageshack.us/img257/2694/psppq3ew3.png
Emulator: Daedalus R8
Works on: 1.5, 3.03OE, 3.10 OE
Extras: Custom Icon and Pic1
Games Included: Super Mario 64
.:DOWNLOAD:. (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=6NMZ88QD)
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.:SNES:.
Emulator: Snes9xTYL 0.4
Works on: 1.5, 3.03OE, 3.10 OE
Extras: Custom Icon and Pic1
Games Included: Earthbound, Gradius III, FF II, LoZ: A Link to the Past, Star Fox, Super Bonk, Super Mario Kart, Super Mario RPG: LotSS, Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's island, Super Punch Out, Chrono Trigger
.:DOWNLOAD:.
(http://www.megaupload.com/?d=7H45L5PX)
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Emulator: NesterJ 1.11
Works on: 1.0, 1.5, 3.03OE, 3.10 OE
Extras: None
Games Included: Legend of Zelda, Mario & Yoshi, Mario Bros Classic, Earthbound
.:DOWNLOAD:. (http://www.darkstarinc.110mb.com/Files/NES.zip)
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http://img241.imageshack.us/img241/397/psppq3yc0.png
.:GBA:.
-----FASTEST GBA EMULATOR-----
NEWEST VERSION!!!(New version 0.9 )
GPSP 0.9!!(Only uploaded 1.5 firmware version)(RELEASED 15/12/06) :
Zip Archive :
http://www.sendspace.com/file/dhpaee
Rar Archive :
http://www.sendspace.com/file/8mhaa4
----------Old Versions----------
GPSP 0.8 FOR 1.5 AND 1.0 FIRMWARE :
http://www.sendspace.com/file/km95hm
gpSP v0.7 Updated for 2.71 via Homebrew Enabler C:
http://www.sendspace.com/file/jjbhm2
ALL GBSP VERSIONS : http://www.sendspace.com/file/mb67b3
Emulator: gpsp Kai 2.2
Works on: 1.5, 3.03OE, 3.10 OE
Extras: Custom Icon and Pic1
Games Included: LoZ: Misnish Cap, Mario Party Advance, Pokemon Fire Red, Pokemon Shiny Gold, Battle Bots Design and Destroy, Classic NES: Excitebike, Crash Nitro Kart, Digimon Battle Spirit 2, Doom II, Dragon Ball GT Transformation, Dragon Ball Z: The Legacy of Goku, Golden Sun, Golden Sun 2: The lost age, Gunstar Super Heroes, Kirby and the Amazing Mirror, Kirby: Nightmare in Dreamland, Mario Tennis Power Tour, Megaman Battle Network 5: Team Protoman, Metal Slug Advance, Monster Rancher Advance, Naruto Ninja Council 2, Pokemon Chaos Black, Pokemon Emerald, Pokemon Mystery Dungeon Red, Serious Sam Advance, Sonic Advance 3, Sword of Mana, Wai Wai Racing
.:DOWNLOAD:. (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=R79EI0YY)
-----FAQ-----
Some FAQ from the readme file if you need some help check here.
Q) My favorite game won't run.
A) There probably isn't anything you can do about this, although a
change to game_config.txt might help. gpSP is still an emulator in
its infancy so the compatability is not superb. I don't have time
to test too many games so I'm releasing it as a public beta to get
a feel for some things that don't work. The next version could
perhaps fix it, or it might never run. There are always other
emulators of course, please try one.
Q) My favorite game is very slow.
A) Emulating GBA takes a number of resources and getting it done well
on PSP is no simple task by any means. Some games are just going to
overwhelm the emulator completely. Of course, there is one special
case of game (a lot of early generation games fall under this
category) that can be made much faster by a simple addition to the
game_config.txt file. Wait for a new version of this file or the
next version of the emulator and the game may be improved.
That aside, there are still numerous optimizations that can be done,
and I sure you future versions will be faster (I just can't tell you
how much)
Q) Some games run fullspeed but the sound is messed up. Why?
A) At least 9 out of 10 times it means the game isn't really running
full speed, but just that you can't notice the difference. Increasing
frameskip will almost always improve sound quality in these
situations, to a certain point (after around frameskip 3 you
probably won't be seeing many more returns if it isn't already
fullspeed). The rest of the time it means there's a bug somewhere else
in the emulator, probably in the CPU core. Chances are that all you
can do is wait for it to be fixed in a later release.
Q) The emulator crashed!
A) Most games that don't run will probably take the emulator down with
it, or it could be an emulator bug completely unrelated to the game
(but unlikely). Press home and wait for the next version.
Q) How do I change sound quality?
A) Right now, you can't. Wait for a later version. For those wondering,
sound is locked at 44.1KHz (sounds a bit high? It is, but it's
currently necessary to play everything correctly)
Q) What is this emulator's name?
A) Um.. what? It's gameplaySP, isn't it? You call it gpSP for short.
Somehow the name can't have the acronyms gbSP, gbapSP, or really
just about anything else you feel like giving it. Oh, and if you
really want to make me happy get the capitalization right too.
That's gpSP, not gPSP, GPsp.. you get the idea.
Q) Does gpSP run Gameboy/Gameboy Color games? Will it later?
A) No. Even though GBA can run these games it uses separate hardware
that proper GBA games have no access to (save for the audio chip),
and thus there's no point including it in a GBA emulator (it
doesn't help run GBA games). I recommend using a GB/GBC emulator
like Rin for playing these games. It'll probably give you a lot
more options anyway. gpSP will never actually emulate GB/GBC
games. You'd may as well be waiting for it to emulate PS2 games...
(that was an analogy. gpSP won't ever emulate PS2 games. >_>)
Q) Other emulators use the PSP's graphical hardware to accelerate the
video emulation. Is this possible for gpSP?
A) I'm honestly not too sure at this point. It's definitely a rather
complicated procedure, and I don't think it'll be possible to
accurately accelerate alpha blending. On the other hand, affine
transformations could perhaps receive a speed boost this way. Any
solution would have to be hybrid hardware/software, which might be
possible due to the nature of the PSP's VRAM. Maybe someone will
be willing to help me think of possibilities here?
But don't bother of you're just going to tell me to render a list
of quads...
Q) Other emulators use the PSP's second CPU to offload the sound
emulation. Is this possible for gpSP?
A) Yes, but it wouldn't improve it nearly as much as say, SNES9x TYL.
This is because most of the processing that goes into sound on a GBA
game is done in the CPU, not in dedicated audio hardware. It could
help a little, but probably not a lot. Maybe enough to be worthwhile.
It might also be possible to split the video rendering to the main
CPU and the main emulation to the secondary one, but there are a lot
of coherency issues involved.
Q) I heard gpSP can only load games 16MB or smaller in size. Is this
true? What about zipped games?
A) As of version 0.8 gpSP can play 32MB ROMs. However, they must be
unzipped. The reason for this is that parts of the ROM are constantly
loaded to memory as needed, and for this to be as fast as possible the
ROM has to be present on the memory stick in raw format.
You might be wondering, why not just have gpSP unzip the ROM to a file
then delete the file when it is done? The reason why is because this
would impose a "hidden" requirement of 32MB on the user that very
likely may not be there. Furthermore, there are only a few 32MB games
that anyone actually wants to play. If you only have one 32MB game on
your memstick then it'd actually require signifnicantly more free space
to hold both the ROM and the 32MB raw file. With 2 32MB ROMs you only
gain a around 10-25MB of free space, depending on how effective the
compression is.
Q) Savestates? From other emulators??
A) See the savestates option in main menu. gpSP will probably never
support savestates from other emulators, there's just too much in the
way of emulator specific data in them.
Savestates are currently 506,943 bytes. They would be a little smaller
without the snapshot, but I find that very useful and it wouldn't help
size immensely. Compression would help, but I wanted the size to be
constant so you knew exactly how much you could hold and to improve
save/load speed.
Q) What's with the zip support?
A) I hear stories that some games work unzipped and not zipped, so you
might want to try unzipping them if it gives you problems. You also
might want to try making fresh zips with WinRAR - users have
reported some higher success rates doing this.
Q) What's with the config file? Should I make it read only?
A) There was a bug in version 0.6 that caused the config file to not
get updated or get corrupted sometimes. Hopefully this is fixed now,
but if it DOES get corrupted making it read only can prevent this
from happening in the future.
Q) So when WILL the next version be released?
A) Sorry, but I almost never announce release dates. Furthermore, I'll
probably be pretty hush hush on internal development, just to keep
people from nagging me about it and building too much suspense.
Q) I don't like this emulator. Are there other alternatives?
A) Yes. Try PSPVBA by Zx-81 (http://zx81.dcemu.co.uk/). It probably
has vastly superior compatability across the board.
Q) I heard there was a version of gpSP for PCs. Is that true?
A) I developed this emulator internally on PC. It might have a speed
advantage over other PC GBA emulators, although the PSP version has
more sophisticated optimizations. Most people have fast enough
computers to run better GBA emulators for PC and gpSP lacks some
important features (screen resizing) that the PSP version kinda
hides. Even though gpSP spent a majority of its development
gestation as a PC app it was always developed with the PSP in mind,
so the PC version will probably not see the light of the day unless
I get overwhelming demand for it. It is, however, possible to
build it from the source. But I request that you don't distribute
such builds. If you happen to find one, bear in mind that I don't
offer any support for it, and as far as I'm concerned it won't
exist.
Q) I want to modify gpSP. How can I do this, and am I at liberty to do
so?
A) Yes, you are, under the terms of the GPL (see the included
COPYING.DOC). You can download the sourcecode from whereever you
downloaded this; if you can't find it please e-mail me and I'll give
you a link to it. I would vastly appreciate it if you contacted me first
before forking my project, especially if you're just looking to gain
recognition without adding much to it. It's better to keep all changes
tidy in one branch of development.
I would like to stress this a little more seriously (hopefully those
interested are reading this). Although you are legally entitled to
release your own forks of gpSP it would be much more benficial to me,
to you, and to the users of this program if you instead tried working
with me to get your changes incorporated into the next version. I
really don't feel like competing with other builds of my source
anymore, so please do me a big favor and send me an e-mail if you want
to work with gpSP.
Q) How do I build gpSP?
A) make will build it. You need to have SDL for PSP installed, as well
as the standard PSP toolchain/PSPSDK and zlib. gpSP isn't much of a
"build it yourself" program so please don't bother me much about how to
build it unless you have a good reason for wanting to do so.
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.:GB/GBC:.
Emulator: Homer's RIN 3.3 FINAL
Works on: 1.5, 3.03OE, 3.10 OE
Extras: Custom Icon and Pic1
Games Included: Donkey Kong, Donkey Kong Land, Kirby's Dream LAnd, Mario and Yoshi, Dragon Warrior Monsters, Dragon Warrior Monsters 2: Tara's Adventure, Dragon Warrior Monsters 2: Cobi's Journey, Pokemon Blue, Pokemon Crystal, Super Mario 4, Super Mario Bros. Deluxe, Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins, Super Mario Land, Wario Land 3, Wario Land: Super Mario Land 3, Wario Land II
.:DOWNLOAD:. (http://www.darkstarinc.110mb.com/Files/GB.zip)
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Emulator: DGen 1.7
Works on: 1.0, 1.5, 3.03OE, 3.10 OE
Extras: None
Games Included: Battle Toads and Double Dragon, Castlevania: Bloodlines, Dungeons and Dragons: Warriors of the Eternal Sun, Double Dragon V: The Shadow Falls, Dragon Ball Z, Buu Yuu Retsuden, Golden Axe, Pitfall: The Mayan Adventure, Romance of the 3 kingdoms, Sonic the Hedgehog, Sonic the Hedgehog 2, Sonic the Hegehog 3, Streets of Rage 3, Taz-Mania, Virtua Fighter II
.:DOWNLOAD:. (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=3QQIT3XB)
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.:Neo Geo Pocket Color:.
Emulator: NeoPop
Works on: 1.5, 3.03OE, 3.10 OE
Extras: None
Games Included: Pacman
.:DOWNLOAD:. (http://www.darkstarinc.110mb.com/Files/NEOGEO.rar)
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http://img76.imageshack.us/img76/2662/psppq3fx8.png
.:MAME:.
Emulator: Mame 4 All (1.5)
Works on: 1.5, 3.03OE, 3.10 OE
Extras: None
Games Included: None
DOWNLOAD (http://www.darkstarinc.110mb.com/Files/MAME.rar)
+++ More to come in the next day or so, including more roms +++
+++ Thanks for Downloading +++
GAMES
.::FULL NES Romset::. (1608 Roms)
http://rapidshare.com/files/16136782/FullNES.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/16139755/FullNES.part2.rar
PassworD: NintendoEntertainmentSystem
MIGHTY FINAL FIGHT
http://rapidshare.com/files/17394378/Mighty_Final_Fight__U_.zip.html
IF DERE IS A PASS ITZ rachit85us2004
.::N64 ROMS::.
MARIO 64
hxxp://files.filefront.com/mamamiazip/;5175362;;/fileinfo.html
MARIO GOLF
hxxp://files.filefront.com/mariogolfvidmp4/;5175217;;/fileinfo.html
MARO PARTY
hxxp://files.filefront.com/mariopartyzip/;5175281;;/fileinfo.html
SUPER SMASH BROTHERS
hxxp://files.filefront.com/filernazip/;5175310;;/fileinfo.html
TETRIS 64
hxxp://files.filefront.com/tetris64zip/;5175377;;/fileinfo.html
THE LEGEND OF ZELDA - OCARINA OF TIME
hxxp://files.filefront.com/zelda64zip/;5175425;;/fileinfo.html
POLE POSITION
hxxp://files.filefront.com/raceracezip/;5177608;;/fileinfo.html
DONKEY KONG 64 KIOSK
hxxp://files.filefront.com/donkeykong64kioskzip/;5179451;;/fileinfo.html
KIRBY 64
hxxp://files.filefront.com/kirbyloopyzip/;5228761;;/fileinfo.html
BATMAN BEYOND 64
hxxp://files.filefront.com/14255zip/;5228784;;/fileinfo.html
GOLDEN EYE
hxxp://files.filefront.com/goldeneyezip/;5175188;;/fileinfo.html
SOUTH PARK
hxxp://files.filefront.com/southparkiscoozip/;5175338;;/fileinfo.html
MARIO KART
hxxp://files.filefront.com/mariokart64zip/;5175231;;/fileinfo.html
EXCITE BIKE 64 (origanilly for super nintendo but i got it up on 64)
hxxp://files.filefront.com/excitebike64zip/;5179476;;/fileinfo.html
LODE RUNNER (origanilly for super nintendo but i got it up on 64)
hxxp://files.filefront.com/runnerzip/;5225130;;/fileinfo.html
YOSHI'S STORY 64
hxxp://www.megaupload.com/?d=ZJIBQ46Q
CONKER'S BAD FUR DAY
hxxp://www.megaupload.com/?d=7X6QPYGO
.::SNES ROMS::.
TO PLAY NES ROMS YOU NEED A SNES EMULATOR
PSP FIRMWARE 1.5 - http://www.megaupload.com/?d=48L3WO87
PSP FIRMWARE 2.0+ - http://www.megaupload.com/?d=DVX0QU2Y
FINAL FANTASY 4 (U.S)
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=30IB3E0Y
FINAL FANTASY 5 (JAP)
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=V8UZQJMM
MADDEN '96 (U.S)
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=7F3Z97XU
KILLER INSTINCT (U.S)
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=BVGKCQ12
TETRIS & DR. MARIO
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=ZBR44QWE
XMEN: MUTANT APOCALYPSE
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=WUW955DG
-----GBA ROMS-----
*HOT NEW ROMS*
Breath Of Fire :
http://www.sendspace.com/file/17gv7y
Breath Of Fire 2 :
http: //www.sendspace.com/file/px7oun
DBZ Legacy Of Goku :
http://www.sendspace.com/file/dff0v0
DBZ Legacy Of Goku 2 :
http://www.sendspace.com/file/pbwff3
Donkey Kong Country :
http://www.sendspace.com/file/zo2cz0
Donkey Kong Country2 :
http://www.sendspace.com/file/j3asbl
Donkey Kong Country3 :
http://www.sendspace.com/file/oyup4q
Final Fantasy 1+2 :
http://www.sendspace.com/file/ib1yb8
Final Fantasy 4 :
http://www.sendspace.com/file/5hwdrq
Final Fantasy Tactics :
http://www.sendspace.com/file/xzmf2g
Fire Emblem : http://www.sendspace.com/file/7ow80y
Fire Emblem 2 : http://www.sendspace.com/file/rc4j8u
Golden Sun : http://www.sendspace.com/file/amcjqk
GoldenSun2 : http://www.sendspace.com/file/g9dscm
M&LSuperStarSaga : http://www.sendspace.com/file/htl12i
MarioVs.DonkeyKong : http://www.sendspace.com/file/z4fm3j
MetroidFusion : http://www.sendspace.com/file/17482k
MetroidZeroMission : http://www.sendspace.com/file/k2v1r0
Naruto Ninja Council : http://www.sendspace.com/file/u9z80x
Naruto Ninja Council 2 : http://www.sendspace.com/file/k4mmmh
Pokemon Mystery Dungeon Red Rescue!!!BRAND NEW :
http://www.sendspace.com/file/jlu4ra
SonicAdvance+Battle 2 in 1 : http://www.sendspace.com/file/ah128b
Sonic Advance 2 : http://www.sendspace.com/file/c1ifn4
Sonic Advance 3*NEW WORKING LINK+MIRROR* : http://www.sendspace.com/file/bap52bl
Sonic Advance 3 Mirror : http://www.sendspace.com/file/fpotc6
Zelda - A Link To The Past : http://www.sendspace.com/file/8spumd
Zelda - The Minish Cap : http://www.sendspace.com/file/56q8kn
*Latest*
TH AMERICAN SK8LAND : http://www.sendspace.com/file/4k0yiy
TH UNDERGROUND : http://www.sendspace.com/file/0ut0qk
TH UNDERGROUND 2 : http://www.sendspace.com/file/xlc2jc
Greg Hastings Paintball Max : http://www.sendspace.com/file/ojnks9
Mario Kart Super Circuit : http://www.sendspace.com/file/a4lr7y
Dynasty Warriors Advance : http://www.sendspace.com/file/bbl2ol
*Old*
Castlevania-Aria of Sorrow : http://www.sendspace.com/file/mrcvkb
Castlevania-Circle of The moon : http://www.sendspace.com/file/w6pxys
Castlevania-Harmony of Dissonance : http://www.sendspace.com/file/wh7c6l
MegaMan Battle Network 6 Cybeast Falzar : http://www.sendspace.com/file/waorxs
Mother1 + 2 (Japan) : http://www.sendspace.com/file/uwbc94
Mother 3(Japan) : http://www.sendspace.com/file/tt0xn4
Yoshi's Topsy-Turvy : http://www.sendspace.com/file/yx1hxc
Yoshi's Island : Super mario bros 3 : http://www.sendspace.com/file/sfafsm (Mirror to this file) : http://www.sendspace.com/file/u3z3u4
Yosh'is Universal Gravitation : http://www.sendspace.com/file/xzseng
.:N64:.
http://img257.imageshack.us/img257/2694/psppq3ew3.png
Emulator: Daedalus R8
Works on: 1.5, 3.03OE, 3.10 OE
Extras: Custom Icon and Pic1
Games Included: Super Mario 64
.:DOWNLOAD:. (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=6NMZ88QD)
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.:SNES:.
Emulator: Snes9xTYL 0.4
Works on: 1.5, 3.03OE, 3.10 OE
Extras: Custom Icon and Pic1
Games Included: Earthbound, Gradius III, FF II, LoZ: A Link to the Past, Star Fox, Super Bonk, Super Mario Kart, Super Mario RPG: LotSS, Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's island, Super Punch Out, Chrono Trigger
.:DOWNLOAD:.
(http://www.megaupload.com/?d=7H45L5PX)
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Emulator: NesterJ 1.11
Works on: 1.0, 1.5, 3.03OE, 3.10 OE
Extras: None
Games Included: Legend of Zelda, Mario & Yoshi, Mario Bros Classic, Earthbound
.:DOWNLOAD:. (http://www.darkstarinc.110mb.com/Files/NES.zip)
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http://img241.imageshack.us/img241/397/psppq3yc0.png
.:GBA:.
-----FASTEST GBA EMULATOR-----
NEWEST VERSION!!!(New version 0.9 )
GPSP 0.9!!(Only uploaded 1.5 firmware version)(RELEASED 15/12/06) :
Zip Archive :
http://www.sendspace.com/file/dhpaee
Rar Archive :
http://www.sendspace.com/file/8mhaa4
----------Old Versions----------
GPSP 0.8 FOR 1.5 AND 1.0 FIRMWARE :
http://www.sendspace.com/file/km95hm
gpSP v0.7 Updated for 2.71 via Homebrew Enabler C:
http://www.sendspace.com/file/jjbhm2
ALL GBSP VERSIONS : http://www.sendspace.com/file/mb67b3
Emulator: gpsp Kai 2.2
Works on: 1.5, 3.03OE, 3.10 OE
Extras: Custom Icon and Pic1
Games Included: LoZ: Misnish Cap, Mario Party Advance, Pokemon Fire Red, Pokemon Shiny Gold, Battle Bots Design and Destroy, Classic NES: Excitebike, Crash Nitro Kart, Digimon Battle Spirit 2, Doom II, Dragon Ball GT Transformation, Dragon Ball Z: The Legacy of Goku, Golden Sun, Golden Sun 2: The lost age, Gunstar Super Heroes, Kirby and the Amazing Mirror, Kirby: Nightmare in Dreamland, Mario Tennis Power Tour, Megaman Battle Network 5: Team Protoman, Metal Slug Advance, Monster Rancher Advance, Naruto Ninja Council 2, Pokemon Chaos Black, Pokemon Emerald, Pokemon Mystery Dungeon Red, Serious Sam Advance, Sonic Advance 3, Sword of Mana, Wai Wai Racing
.:DOWNLOAD:. (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=R79EI0YY)
-----FAQ-----
Some FAQ from the readme file if you need some help check here.
Q) My favorite game won't run.
A) There probably isn't anything you can do about this, although a
change to game_config.txt might help. gpSP is still an emulator in
its infancy so the compatability is not superb. I don't have time
to test too many games so I'm releasing it as a public beta to get
a feel for some things that don't work. The next version could
perhaps fix it, or it might never run. There are always other
emulators of course, please try one.
Q) My favorite game is very slow.
A) Emulating GBA takes a number of resources and getting it done well
on PSP is no simple task by any means. Some games are just going to
overwhelm the emulator completely. Of course, there is one special
case of game (a lot of early generation games fall under this
category) that can be made much faster by a simple addition to the
game_config.txt file. Wait for a new version of this file or the
next version of the emulator and the game may be improved.
That aside, there are still numerous optimizations that can be done,
and I sure you future versions will be faster (I just can't tell you
how much)
Q) Some games run fullspeed but the sound is messed up. Why?
A) At least 9 out of 10 times it means the game isn't really running
full speed, but just that you can't notice the difference. Increasing
frameskip will almost always improve sound quality in these
situations, to a certain point (after around frameskip 3 you
probably won't be seeing many more returns if it isn't already
fullspeed). The rest of the time it means there's a bug somewhere else
in the emulator, probably in the CPU core. Chances are that all you
can do is wait for it to be fixed in a later release.
Q) The emulator crashed!
A) Most games that don't run will probably take the emulator down with
it, or it could be an emulator bug completely unrelated to the game
(but unlikely). Press home and wait for the next version.
Q) How do I change sound quality?
A) Right now, you can't. Wait for a later version. For those wondering,
sound is locked at 44.1KHz (sounds a bit high? It is, but it's
currently necessary to play everything correctly)
Q) What is this emulator's name?
A) Um.. what? It's gameplaySP, isn't it? You call it gpSP for short.
Somehow the name can't have the acronyms gbSP, gbapSP, or really
just about anything else you feel like giving it. Oh, and if you
really want to make me happy get the capitalization right too.
That's gpSP, not gPSP, GPsp.. you get the idea.
Q) Does gpSP run Gameboy/Gameboy Color games? Will it later?
A) No. Even though GBA can run these games it uses separate hardware
that proper GBA games have no access to (save for the audio chip),
and thus there's no point including it in a GBA emulator (it
doesn't help run GBA games). I recommend using a GB/GBC emulator
like Rin for playing these games. It'll probably give you a lot
more options anyway. gpSP will never actually emulate GB/GBC
games. You'd may as well be waiting for it to emulate PS2 games...
(that was an analogy. gpSP won't ever emulate PS2 games. >_>)
Q) Other emulators use the PSP's graphical hardware to accelerate the
video emulation. Is this possible for gpSP?
A) I'm honestly not too sure at this point. It's definitely a rather
complicated procedure, and I don't think it'll be possible to
accurately accelerate alpha blending. On the other hand, affine
transformations could perhaps receive a speed boost this way. Any
solution would have to be hybrid hardware/software, which might be
possible due to the nature of the PSP's VRAM. Maybe someone will
be willing to help me think of possibilities here?
But don't bother of you're just going to tell me to render a list
of quads...
Q) Other emulators use the PSP's second CPU to offload the sound
emulation. Is this possible for gpSP?
A) Yes, but it wouldn't improve it nearly as much as say, SNES9x TYL.
This is because most of the processing that goes into sound on a GBA
game is done in the CPU, not in dedicated audio hardware. It could
help a little, but probably not a lot. Maybe enough to be worthwhile.
It might also be possible to split the video rendering to the main
CPU and the main emulation to the secondary one, but there are a lot
of coherency issues involved.
Q) I heard gpSP can only load games 16MB or smaller in size. Is this
true? What about zipped games?
A) As of version 0.8 gpSP can play 32MB ROMs. However, they must be
unzipped. The reason for this is that parts of the ROM are constantly
loaded to memory as needed, and for this to be as fast as possible the
ROM has to be present on the memory stick in raw format.
You might be wondering, why not just have gpSP unzip the ROM to a file
then delete the file when it is done? The reason why is because this
would impose a "hidden" requirement of 32MB on the user that very
likely may not be there. Furthermore, there are only a few 32MB games
that anyone actually wants to play. If you only have one 32MB game on
your memstick then it'd actually require signifnicantly more free space
to hold both the ROM and the 32MB raw file. With 2 32MB ROMs you only
gain a around 10-25MB of free space, depending on how effective the
compression is.
Q) Savestates? From other emulators??
A) See the savestates option in main menu. gpSP will probably never
support savestates from other emulators, there's just too much in the
way of emulator specific data in them.
Savestates are currently 506,943 bytes. They would be a little smaller
without the snapshot, but I find that very useful and it wouldn't help
size immensely. Compression would help, but I wanted the size to be
constant so you knew exactly how much you could hold and to improve
save/load speed.
Q) What's with the zip support?
A) I hear stories that some games work unzipped and not zipped, so you
might want to try unzipping them if it gives you problems. You also
might want to try making fresh zips with WinRAR - users have
reported some higher success rates doing this.
Q) What's with the config file? Should I make it read only?
A) There was a bug in version 0.6 that caused the config file to not
get updated or get corrupted sometimes. Hopefully this is fixed now,
but if it DOES get corrupted making it read only can prevent this
from happening in the future.
Q) So when WILL the next version be released?
A) Sorry, but I almost never announce release dates. Furthermore, I'll
probably be pretty hush hush on internal development, just to keep
people from nagging me about it and building too much suspense.
Q) I don't like this emulator. Are there other alternatives?
A) Yes. Try PSPVBA by Zx-81 (http://zx81.dcemu.co.uk/). It probably
has vastly superior compatability across the board.
Q) I heard there was a version of gpSP for PCs. Is that true?
A) I developed this emulator internally on PC. It might have a speed
advantage over other PC GBA emulators, although the PSP version has
more sophisticated optimizations. Most people have fast enough
computers to run better GBA emulators for PC and gpSP lacks some
important features (screen resizing) that the PSP version kinda
hides. Even though gpSP spent a majority of its development
gestation as a PC app it was always developed with the PSP in mind,
so the PC version will probably not see the light of the day unless
I get overwhelming demand for it. It is, however, possible to
build it from the source. But I request that you don't distribute
such builds. If you happen to find one, bear in mind that I don't
offer any support for it, and as far as I'm concerned it won't
exist.
Q) I want to modify gpSP. How can I do this, and am I at liberty to do
so?
A) Yes, you are, under the terms of the GPL (see the included
COPYING.DOC). You can download the sourcecode from whereever you
downloaded this; if you can't find it please e-mail me and I'll give
you a link to it. I would vastly appreciate it if you contacted me first
before forking my project, especially if you're just looking to gain
recognition without adding much to it. It's better to keep all changes
tidy in one branch of development.
I would like to stress this a little more seriously (hopefully those
interested are reading this). Although you are legally entitled to
release your own forks of gpSP it would be much more benficial to me,
to you, and to the users of this program if you instead tried working
with me to get your changes incorporated into the next version. I
really don't feel like competing with other builds of my source
anymore, so please do me a big favor and send me an e-mail if you want
to work with gpSP.
Q) How do I build gpSP?
A) make will build it. You need to have SDL for PSP installed, as well
as the standard PSP toolchain/PSPSDK and zlib. gpSP isn't much of a
"build it yourself" program so please don't bother me much about how to
build it unless you have a good reason for wanting to do so.
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.:GB/GBC:.
Emulator: Homer's RIN 3.3 FINAL
Works on: 1.5, 3.03OE, 3.10 OE
Extras: Custom Icon and Pic1
Games Included: Donkey Kong, Donkey Kong Land, Kirby's Dream LAnd, Mario and Yoshi, Dragon Warrior Monsters, Dragon Warrior Monsters 2: Tara's Adventure, Dragon Warrior Monsters 2: Cobi's Journey, Pokemon Blue, Pokemon Crystal, Super Mario 4, Super Mario Bros. Deluxe, Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins, Super Mario Land, Wario Land 3, Wario Land: Super Mario Land 3, Wario Land II
.:DOWNLOAD:. (http://www.darkstarinc.110mb.com/Files/GB.zip)
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Emulator: DGen 1.7
Works on: 1.0, 1.5, 3.03OE, 3.10 OE
Extras: None
Games Included: Battle Toads and Double Dragon, Castlevania: Bloodlines, Dungeons and Dragons: Warriors of the Eternal Sun, Double Dragon V: The Shadow Falls, Dragon Ball Z, Buu Yuu Retsuden, Golden Axe, Pitfall: The Mayan Adventure, Romance of the 3 kingdoms, Sonic the Hedgehog, Sonic the Hedgehog 2, Sonic the Hegehog 3, Streets of Rage 3, Taz-Mania, Virtua Fighter II
.:DOWNLOAD:. (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=3QQIT3XB)
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.:Neo Geo Pocket Color:.
Emulator: NeoPop
Works on: 1.5, 3.03OE, 3.10 OE
Extras: None
Games Included: Pacman
.:DOWNLOAD:. (http://www.darkstarinc.110mb.com/Files/NEOGEO.rar)
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http://img76.imageshack.us/img76/2662/psppq3fx8.png
.:MAME:.
Emulator: Mame 4 All (1.5)
Works on: 1.5, 3.03OE, 3.10 OE
Extras: None
Games Included: None
DOWNLOAD (http://www.darkstarinc.110mb.com/Files/MAME.rar)
+++ More to come in the next day or so, including more roms +++
+++ Thanks for Downloading +++
GAMES
.::FULL NES Romset::. (1608 Roms)
http://rapidshare.com/files/16136782/FullNES.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/16139755/FullNES.part2.rar
PassworD: NintendoEntertainmentSystem
MIGHTY FINAL FIGHT
http://rapidshare.com/files/17394378/Mighty_Final_Fight__U_.zip.html
IF DERE IS A PASS ITZ rachit85us2004
.::N64 ROMS::.
MARIO 64
hxxp://files.filefront.com/mamamiazip/;5175362;;/fileinfo.html
MARIO GOLF
hxxp://files.filefront.com/mariogolfvidmp4/;5175217;;/fileinfo.html
MARO PARTY
hxxp://files.filefront.com/mariopartyzip/;5175281;;/fileinfo.html
SUPER SMASH BROTHERS
hxxp://files.filefront.com/filernazip/;5175310;;/fileinfo.html
TETRIS 64
hxxp://files.filefront.com/tetris64zip/;5175377;;/fileinfo.html
THE LEGEND OF ZELDA - OCARINA OF TIME
hxxp://files.filefront.com/zelda64zip/;5175425;;/fileinfo.html
POLE POSITION
hxxp://files.filefront.com/raceracezip/;5177608;;/fileinfo.html
DONKEY KONG 64 KIOSK
hxxp://files.filefront.com/donkeykong64kioskzip/;5179451;;/fileinfo.html
KIRBY 64
hxxp://files.filefront.com/kirbyloopyzip/;5228761;;/fileinfo.html
BATMAN BEYOND 64
hxxp://files.filefront.com/14255zip/;5228784;;/fileinfo.html
GOLDEN EYE
hxxp://files.filefront.com/goldeneyezip/;5175188;;/fileinfo.html
SOUTH PARK
hxxp://files.filefront.com/southparkiscoozip/;5175338;;/fileinfo.html
MARIO KART
hxxp://files.filefront.com/mariokart64zip/;5175231;;/fileinfo.html
EXCITE BIKE 64 (origanilly for super nintendo but i got it up on 64)
hxxp://files.filefront.com/excitebike64zip/;5179476;;/fileinfo.html
LODE RUNNER (origanilly for super nintendo but i got it up on 64)
hxxp://files.filefront.com/runnerzip/;5225130;;/fileinfo.html
YOSHI'S STORY 64
hxxp://www.megaupload.com/?d=ZJIBQ46Q
CONKER'S BAD FUR DAY
hxxp://www.megaupload.com/?d=7X6QPYGO
.::SNES ROMS::.
TO PLAY NES ROMS YOU NEED A SNES EMULATOR
PSP FIRMWARE 1.5 - http://www.megaupload.com/?d=48L3WO87
PSP FIRMWARE 2.0+ - http://www.megaupload.com/?d=DVX0QU2Y
FINAL FANTASY 4 (U.S)
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=30IB3E0Y
FINAL FANTASY 5 (JAP)
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=V8UZQJMM
MADDEN '96 (U.S)
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=7F3Z97XU
KILLER INSTINCT (U.S)
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=BVGKCQ12
TETRIS & DR. MARIO
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=ZBR44QWE
XMEN: MUTANT APOCALYPSE
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=WUW955DG
-----GBA ROMS-----
*HOT NEW ROMS*
Breath Of Fire :
http://www.sendspace.com/file/17gv7y
Breath Of Fire 2 :
http: //www.sendspace.com/file/px7oun
DBZ Legacy Of Goku :
http://www.sendspace.com/file/dff0v0
DBZ Legacy Of Goku 2 :
http://www.sendspace.com/file/pbwff3
Donkey Kong Country :
http://www.sendspace.com/file/zo2cz0
Donkey Kong Country2 :
http://www.sendspace.com/file/j3asbl
Donkey Kong Country3 :
http://www.sendspace.com/file/oyup4q
Final Fantasy 1+2 :
http://www.sendspace.com/file/ib1yb8
Final Fantasy 4 :
http://www.sendspace.com/file/5hwdrq
Final Fantasy Tactics :
http://www.sendspace.com/file/xzmf2g
Fire Emblem : http://www.sendspace.com/file/7ow80y
Fire Emblem 2 : http://www.sendspace.com/file/rc4j8u
Golden Sun : http://www.sendspace.com/file/amcjqk
GoldenSun2 : http://www.sendspace.com/file/g9dscm
M&LSuperStarSaga : http://www.sendspace.com/file/htl12i
MarioVs.DonkeyKong : http://www.sendspace.com/file/z4fm3j
MetroidFusion : http://www.sendspace.com/file/17482k
MetroidZeroMission : http://www.sendspace.com/file/k2v1r0
Naruto Ninja Council : http://www.sendspace.com/file/u9z80x
Naruto Ninja Council 2 : http://www.sendspace.com/file/k4mmmh
Pokemon Mystery Dungeon Red Rescue!!!BRAND NEW :
http://www.sendspace.com/file/jlu4ra
SonicAdvance+Battle 2 in 1 : http://www.sendspace.com/file/ah128b
Sonic Advance 2 : http://www.sendspace.com/file/c1ifn4
Sonic Advance 3*NEW WORKING LINK+MIRROR* : http://www.sendspace.com/file/bap52bl
Sonic Advance 3 Mirror : http://www.sendspace.com/file/fpotc6
Zelda - A Link To The Past : http://www.sendspace.com/file/8spumd
Zelda - The Minish Cap : http://www.sendspace.com/file/56q8kn
*Latest*
TH AMERICAN SK8LAND : http://www.sendspace.com/file/4k0yiy
TH UNDERGROUND : http://www.sendspace.com/file/0ut0qk
TH UNDERGROUND 2 : http://www.sendspace.com/file/xlc2jc
Greg Hastings Paintball Max : http://www.sendspace.com/file/ojnks9
Mario Kart Super Circuit : http://www.sendspace.com/file/a4lr7y
Dynasty Warriors Advance : http://www.sendspace.com/file/bbl2ol
*Old*
Castlevania-Aria of Sorrow : http://www.sendspace.com/file/mrcvkb
Castlevania-Circle of The moon : http://www.sendspace.com/file/w6pxys
Castlevania-Harmony of Dissonance : http://www.sendspace.com/file/wh7c6l
MegaMan Battle Network 6 Cybeast Falzar : http://www.sendspace.com/file/waorxs
Mother1 + 2 (Japan) : http://www.sendspace.com/file/uwbc94
Mother 3(Japan) : http://www.sendspace.com/file/tt0xn4
Yoshi's Topsy-Turvy : http://www.sendspace.com/file/yx1hxc
Yoshi's Island : Super mario bros 3 : http://www.sendspace.com/file/sfafsm (Mirror to this file) : http://www.sendspace.com/file/u3z3u4
Yosh'is Universal Gravitation : http://www.sendspace.com/file/xzseng