ace wrote:So, thanks!

You're welcome.

There's no multitexture on the PVR, so you'd have to do multiple rendering passes. That's what Quake 3 did on cards that didn't support multitexture, and for surfaces that needed more than two passes (some of the surfaces can have two or three layers, plus the lightmap). It's also what Quake 1 and 2...

Zealous zerotype wrote:If he post again I'll release the sex tape.

Go on then.

GyroVorbis wrote:Please god, tell me he isn't gone!

I still exist, if that's what you mean. I've just not been around here recently.

That is not true; we are currently using it on a linux-based chinese handheld console, and it works great. (Whoops... Long post. Summary - too hard, no benefit. There are much more effective ways to do this on a console like the Dreamcast, games don't really benefit from things like zRAM anyway, an...

Are you sure it's not just slow? The PCX loader reads the file one byte at a time, with no buffering. KOS's filesystem is fairly simplistic, and doesn't really do any caching or buffering of it's own. Each byte that's read requires the Dreamcast to send a request to the dcload host, and then wait fo...

Basically, it's for embedding files inside your program, so you don't have to read them off a CD. You have a bunch of files, and the build process generates a romdisk image out of them, and embeds it in the program. KOS picks that up, and makes the files accessible from /rd. You can then read them t...

Ooookay....I thought you said transparency wouldn't work on emulators? Transparency works. Automatic depth sorting doesn't. The Dreamcast's 3D hardware will automatically depth sort transparent polygons, and draw them in order from back to front. Emulators just draw all the transparent polygons in ...

A few possibilities. First, The z value probably doesn't do what you think it does. It's doesn't represent the distance from the viewpoint. It's actually 1 / z (because the DC does perspective correct texture mapping, so it needs 1 / z instead of z). So, smaller values are actually further away than...

One other thing to be aware of with colour keying - you'll get colour fringing if you distort the image in any way. For example, your images use magenta as transparent. So, you set all the magenta pixels to transparent (alpha is 0). If you draw the sprite at 2x it's normal size, you'll have this mag...

The VQ format is basically: 1 - A 256-entry dictionary, with each entry containing a 4 pixels (a 2x2 pixel square) in RGB565 format. 2 - A Set of 8-bit indexes into the directory. Since you're getting a recognizable image, you've probably got the dictionary and data in the right place. If you'd miss...

Essentially, that looks about right. Two comments though: uint32 * png_dec_buffer __attribute__ ((aligned (32))); png_dec_buffer = memalign( 32, PVR_TEX_WIDTH * PVR_TEX_HEIGHT * 2 ); That first line probably doesn't do what you think. That's actually aligning the pointer itself to a 32 byte boundary...

Once the Sony lawsuit thing is over and people are done releasing the big guns for PS3, hopefully they'll move to PSP. I have a PSP-3000 which means I have to keep my PSP in sleep mode in order for it to stay modded, which is a pain in the ass. I know some form of CFW came out soon after the keys w...

I don't know if anyone else noticed this already (I only noticed it a couple of hours ago), but the PSP's keys have been released as well. Currently, it looks like you can sign your own executables and run anything you like on there. On any firmware version, and any hardware revision including the P...

I liked bits of FF10. The core gameplay mechanics were pretty decent. I really liked the battle system - it was functionally equivalent to that used in previous games, but completely cut out the boring bits where you're waiting for something to happen, so it was actually much quicker. No mad rushing...

Square Enix are having money troubles at the moment, and it really suprises me that they'd greenlight a sequel to a poorly recieved FF game Think of it this way - they spent five years making Final Fantasy XIII, and they had an enormous team working on it. It must have cost an absolute fortune to m...

I haven't found a suitable SVN for it and subversion won't compile. You don't need a MinGW-specific version of Subversion. Any of the normal Windows binaries will do the trick. http://subversion.apache.org/packages.html#windows It would be useful if they had some kind of package manager though. At ...

PH3NOM - As far as I remember, the snd_sfx stuff in KOS is pretty basic. The .wav loader is primitive, and it's quite possible that it'd break on a perfectly valid .wav file. Specifically, it doesn't use a proper RIFF parser, so it only works if the chunks in the file happen to be in the right place...

The ffmpeg wiki has a somewhat more readable description:

http://wiki.multimedia.cx/index.php?title=CRI_ADX_ADPCM
http://wiki.multimedia.cx/index.php?title=CRI_ADX_file

KOS doesn't have any libraries to decode ADX. It's certainly possible. Pretty much all homebrew just uses MP3 or Ogg Vorbis though.

Triptych apparently already finished it (or bits of it, but not assembled them into an actual game yet), and Gearbox are helping them finish it off, and are handling the console ports. Gearbox (unlike Triptych, which is all ex-3D Realms guys who didn't want to let the game die) actually have a histo...

Work: Firefox on Windows XP. Too many useful extensions, particularly development tools. Laptop: Firefox on Mac OS X. Given that Flash tends to heat the machine up a lot, when it's not crashing, it's unusable without AdBlock Plus / FlashBlock. Running Flash in a separate process, as Chrome and Safar...