Does vmu_draw_lcd block? How fast can you call it?

[kazade]

I'm adding VMU support to my game engine, and I just have a few questions about vmu_draw_lcd.

- Does vmu_draw_lcd wait until the submitted frame can be displayed, or does it return immediately in the case that the VMU is not ready?
- What's the refresh time of the VMU display? How many frames can I submit per second?

I'm thinking that I should move VMU screen updates into a thread so that there's no risk of blocking the main loop, but I don't want to do that if it's not necessary.

[BlueCrab]

Basically, because of how the maple code is set up (and how it uses DMA), you can only do a maximum of one frame per vblank. The function does indeed block until the VMU accepts the frame, so you probably do want to use a thread for it if you don't want it blocking your main thread.

It used to be possible in KOS to call the VMU LCD drawing code fast enough to emulate grayscale images on the screen, however this is no longer the case (nor has it been for a while).