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Re: GBA emulator?
« Reply #15 on: July 15, 2012, 05:15:09 pm »
annoyingcalc, has he implemented states into the alpha yet?
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« Reply #16 on: July 15, 2012, 05:16:55 pm »
yes
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Re: GBA emulator?
« Reply #17 on: July 15, 2012, 05:21:14 pm »
Even the equivalent of TiBoy for 84 would be awesome.

Are there any (potential) resolution issues? For me, that was the only thing that made tiboy hard to use to actually play games.
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« Reply #18 on: July 15, 2012, 05:29:01 pm »
agreed with the resulution but no, there arent any resulution problems :D
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Re: GBA emulator?
« Reply #19 on: July 15, 2012, 08:20:55 pm »
The only resolution problems are that the fullscreen resolution of 320x240 isn't an exact multiple of the original resolution, but the option is included to run at the original 240x160 resolution instead.

As for a release, I still need to fix some issues with save states and make sure that cheats work, and there might be some other things to work out as well. I'd rather not have annoyingcalc's build distributed because it does have some glitches that can crash/reset the calculator.
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« Reply #20 on: July 15, 2012, 08:26:28 pm »
^^ I crash a lot, mainly when im in a game then I switch to another game.
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Re: GBA emulator?
« Reply #21 on: July 15, 2012, 08:27:09 pm »
Wait really? I need to look into that :P
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Re: GBA emulator?
« Reply #22 on: July 15, 2012, 08:31:16 pm »
x.x

I wonder what good homebrew games I can find

And also Im waiting for an omni emblem ips patch >.>
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Re: GBA emulator?
« Reply #23 on: July 16, 2012, 12:06:24 am »
Yeah if it's unstable it would be best to not distribute the build now, because on a TI-Nspire, an unstable program can actually damage a calculator permanently.
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Re: GBA emulator?
« Reply #24 on: July 16, 2012, 03:44:34 am »
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because on a TI-Nspire, an unstable program can actually damage a calculator permanently.
Normally, less so than on a TI-Z80 or TI-68k :)

On the one side, the Nspire has a "reformat entire memory" option in the maintenance menu, unlike the members of the TI-Z80 and TI-68k series. And even if both the boot2 and the diags were erased / invalid on a given Nspire, the serial port support of the boot1 enables transferring proper boot2 and diags, through a fairly common piece of hardware that costs $15-$20. Sure, without a valid boot1, the calculator is toast - but in commercial (production) models, the boot1 is not writable in the first place, without hardware modifications :)

On the other side, several members of the community have TI-Z80 and/or TI-68k calculators that won't boot, and either no known software method can rescue them, or it is known that they cannot be rescued through software. Unless in-place reprogramming of the Flash chip is possible without damaging the calculator's electrical system and the Flash memory, de-soldering and re-soldering the chip is necessary... but then the chip probably won't survive the heat.
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Re: GBA emulator?
« Reply #25 on: July 16, 2012, 09:19:31 am »
wait so the emu comes next week? Great! :D
Gotta get my AW2 ready ;D
« Last Edit: July 16, 2012, 09:24:35 am by yeongJIN_COOL »
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Re: GBA emulator?
« Reply #26 on: July 18, 2012, 01:06:51 pm »
just a question 2 calc84: by cheat, you mean memory editor or like gameshark and stuff?
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Re: GBA emulator?
« Reply #27 on: July 18, 2012, 01:27:16 pm »
I'm pretty sure they're Action Replay codes.
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Re: GBA emulator?
« Reply #28 on: July 19, 2012, 10:24:14 am »
ah, AR codes. :)
Can't wait to have it on my calc ;D
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Re: GBA emulator?
« Reply #29 on: July 19, 2012, 02:13:03 pm »
Quote from: Lionel Debroux on July 16, 2012, 03:44:34 am
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because on a TI-Nspire, an unstable program can actually damage a calculator permanently.
Normally, less so than on a TI-Z80 or TI-68k :)

On the one side, the Nspire has a "reformat entire memory" option in the maintenance menu, unlike the members of the TI-Z80 and TI-68k series. And even if both the boot2 and the diags were erased / invalid on a given Nspire, the serial port support of the boot1 enables transferring proper boot2 and diags, through a fairly common piece of hardware that costs $15-$20. Sure, without a valid boot1, the calculator is toast - but in commercial (production) models, the boot1 is not writable in the first place, without hardware modifications :)

On the other side, several members of the community have TI-Z80 and/or TI-68k calculators that won't boot, and either no known software method can rescue them, or it is known that they cannot be rescued through software. Unless in-place reprogramming of the Flash chip is possible without damaging the calculator's electrical system and the Flash memory, de-soldering and re-soldering the chip is necessary... but then the chip probably won't survive the heat.
Weird, because often I saw more cases of people with crashed Nspires that didn't seem to want to recover lately than with 83+. Maybe just a coincidence then.

Also annoyingcalc or calc84maniac do you think you could post a screenshot of how the emulator looks like so far?
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