Hello Adrian, Wednesday, July 31, 2002, 10:09:04 PM, you wrote: AB> But there are a few things that would come even if this was true AB> 1. It wouldnt stop...
... Hash: SHA1 Thankfully a lot of us live in the free world, so this wont affect us all. Reminds me of when US Customs banned the import on the bung...
they would more than likely try to make that illegal because most everything downloaded has some bandwidth attached to the us internet lines. it's really dumb...
You should be able to get gcc to create 4K "overlay objects" BUT you will not be able to link directly to the other code by doing this : compile your file,...
Mike Wynn
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Aug 1, 2002 4:04 pm
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There is support in Jeff's linkscript for overlays. Segments .iwram0 through .iwram9 form overlays in IWRAM. Segments .ewram0 through .ewram9 form overlays in...
... Then how does a newbie to GBA development dump Mario Kart to get a valid rom file? You can't dump it using MBV2 because you need to put logo data in the...
... Hash: SHA1 hello list iam looking for some in game routines to print some game info on the screen. while using mode7 gfx , i think i have to use sprites to...
there's no way around it really. either someone is gonna have to use a header repairing utility to validate the rom or go against this bill and risk a civil...
Sorry if this has been asked before, but I didn't see it in the archives... I've downloaded and installed DevkitAdvance for Linux (the one from ...
Mike Harris
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Aug 1, 2002 11:57 pm
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... Thats completly different. Your not allowed to distribute them. Your still allowed to create your own roms / cds with the authentication hacked into it. ...
... before ... I wrote fugbar with the reasoning that everyone can quite easily find the logo data from the multitude of public domain demo/game roms available...
I went ahead and did email my state reps...2 of which were co-sponsors of this bill (as I mentioned before). If (and probably when) this bill passes we would...
I, for one, hope this bill passes!!! Actually, I love and support all of these corrupt laws that give way to totalitarianism. The american public, in all its...
... From what I understand, this bill had strong support originally. Recently he modified the bill to a broader level (probably hoping to sneak it by, by last...
... Hash: SHA1 ... This is a current problem i am having making it play nice with GCC 3.1. Currently you need to compile it with your own (not the built in)...
really sprites are the only way to go.. either that or you have to dedicate enough chars in vram to your font and leave a whole layer free to display them...
because I was sugesting that you would also keep the clocks on the devices sync'd and you would want to keep the latency down. My though train went along the...
Mike Wynn
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Aug 2, 2002 11:22 am
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I've just bought my self a new toy ...a PSX->USB adapter, a great little gadget, makes my PSX analog joypad appear as a PC usb joystick, 4 analog and 16...
Mike Wynn
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Aug 2, 2002 11:22 am
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I've got a couple of those. Great for mame. I've not used them for gba emulation though but I will give it a go when I get home tonight. Have you tried...
Hi, As I know, the modulo (x%y) and division (x/y) instructions are fairly slow on GBA. Are there any other instructions or program sequences to avoid on GBA...
... Square root. I think on devrs.com there's a link to page with tricks for fast sqrt. Frankly saying for the present I'm using the BIOS one, but now I wonder...
... slow on GBA. Modulo and division are relatively slow on the AGB as it has no hardware divide unit, however they are not so slow they are going to screw up ...
James Boulton
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Aug 2, 2002 12:37 pm
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Hi, We are experiencing problems with the latest carts of Flash Advance carts. Our savegames use 4 KBits EEPROM. If we burn our game on the latest carts (with...
On 2 Aug 2002 at 13:15, James Boulton wrote: [snip] ... That's a very good advice. After all, as we all know, "premature optimization is the root of all evil"...
... if you use GCC, here something else to be aware of: another major slowdown/bloat thing is using u8/s8/u16/s16 when don't HAVE to use them... if you don't...
Is this the 512mb carts? I would just write up some test code to write to SRAM directly, and then read from it to see if it's there (just to make sure the...
it is exactly the same for parameters in functions: void f(u32) {} is better than f(u16) {} for the same reasons. Christian VOTAVA Responsable du...
Christian Votava
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Aug 2, 2002 2:54 pm
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... I've noticed that both my copy of Tetris Worlds and my neighbor's copy of F-Zero MV use sprites to draw their text, one glyph per sprite. ... 64...
... [...] ... I'm in a similar situation: I use an Adaptoid brand N64 to USB adapter, and by default, it maps the Control Pad to buttons 10-13. ... ...