"Proof of Life" Release

Strapping Scherzo · Post by **Strapping Scherzo** » Wed Jan 07, 2004 9:38 pm

Here's something to make your mouth water a little. I give you a version of Super Famicast that loads a cute little public domain ROM called Frognes. It's a clone of Frogger. Controllers are working so you can try to play it. But At 5 fps, it's a little frustrating. I'm providing a zip for each kind of loading method possible: ELF for serial upload, RAW binary for boot disks, and a scrambled binary for self booting.

http://www.sch3rz0.com/superfamicast/elf.zip
http://www.sch3rz0.com/superfamicast/raw.zip
http://www.sch3rz0.com/superfamicast/scrambled.zip

Enjoy.

impetus · Post by **impetus** » Wed Jan 07, 2004 9:45 pm

eh? a SNES emu? this I must see!

mastakilla · Post by **mastakilla** » Thu Jan 08, 2004 12:06 am

a beta!

cheatachu72 · Post by **cheatachu72** » Thu Jan 08, 2004 1:11 am

thank you

Danatka · Post by **Danatka** » Thu Jan 08, 2004 4:26 am

I'll Test it in a short time. Let me the time to find my coder cable...

Is it able to lauch other roms than the one provided? Where should they be on the CD?

In that case, does it support disc changing?

Great Thanks to you, Scherzo, for launching this emu. If I wasn't such a bad programmer (I'm only able to program correctly Casio and TI calculators, and not in ASM

), I would probably try to make it!

Keep up the good work

Storminator16 · Post by **Storminator16** » Thu Jan 08, 2004 7:19 am

No one has said how it is yet. I tried burning this to a disk, but the bin won't load. It just hangs at the Sega screen.

You have serial output running from the binary, scherzo. It's not burnable at the moment.

Strapping Scherzo · Post by **Strapping Scherzo** » Thu Jan 08, 2004 7:43 am

Danatka wrote: Is it able to lauch other roms than the one provided? Where should they be on the CD?

In that case, does it support disc changing?

Sorry Danatka but it only loads that one rom in it's romdisk. This is release is only to show I'm not BSing about the whole project.

WillSams wrote: No one has said how it is yet. I tried burning this to a disk, but the bin won't load. It just hangs at the Sega screen.

You have serial output running from the binary, scherzo. It's not burnable at the moment.

I'll admit that I didn't try burning it to CD yet. I need to pick up some CDRs first. I'll do what I have to do to get this test booting from CD.

qatmix · Post by **qatmix** » Thu Jan 08, 2004 8:22 am

more an pre-alpha than abeta, but great stuff and keep up the work.

CyberMick · Post by **CyberMick** » Thu Jan 08, 2004 8:46 am

Thanks for posting a taste of what is to come of this emulator i look forward to the completed version.

Keep up the great work.

BlackAura · Post by **BlackAura** » Thu Jan 08, 2004 9:09 am

WillSams wrote:You have serial output running from the binary, scherzo. It's not burnable at the moment.

As far as I was aware, that was no longer an issue. Quake, for example, if littered with printf calls, but still works fine when burnt to a CD.

Strapping Scherzo · Post by **Strapping Scherzo** » Thu Jan 08, 2004 9:30 am

Damn, I just wasted 4 CDs trying to get this to work. It hangs at the SEGA screen just like WillSams said. I tried calling dbgio_disable()... didn't work. I tried setting passing NULL to ps_set_printk but the ps_set_printk symbol is not in any of the libs. Anyone know what the problem is?

Storminator16 · Post by **Storminator16** » Thu Jan 08, 2004 3:28 pm

Which version of KOS are you using? Damn, it's been since September since I've looked at any DC code. I can't recall what caused this problem for me using 1.19...

Strapping Scherzo · Post by **Strapping Scherzo** » Thu Jan 08, 2004 4:05 pm

I solved the problem. It was the fact that startup.o wasn't the first object being linked. All is well.

I'm using KOS 1.20

ZacMc · Post by **ZacMc** » Thu Jan 08, 2004 6:22 pm

thx for the demo. Quite impressive

Damn, I just wasted 4 CDs trying to get this to work.

You should use a boot discso that you don't waste CDs.

Strapping Scherzo · Post by **Strapping Scherzo** » Thu Jan 08, 2004 7:48 pm

ZacMc wrote:You should use a boot discso that you don't waste CDs.

I wanted to test self booting though.

Ian Micheal · Post by **Ian Micheal** » Fri Jan 09, 2004 11:28 am

Just use demo menu. If it boots as a scrambled bin throught that program it will selfboot you never need to test this. You could also use the bootdisk app i have on my site but demo menu is much better.

Storminator16 · Post by **Storminator16** » Fri Jan 09, 2004 11:33 am

scherzo wrote:
ZacMc wrote:You should use a boot discso that you don't waste CDs.
I wanted to test self booting though.

He was testing self booting. Earlier versions weren't booting.

SSJKarma · Post by **SSJKarma** » Sun Jan 11, 2004 12:19 am

why are you all talking about the SEGA SCREEN ?
are you emaning the DREAMCAST BIOS SCREEN ?
i take it as yes, since this is an SNES emulator...
don,t you find it strange, playing an SNES on a SEGA machine !

Post by **Quzar** » Sun Jan 11, 2004 1:15 am

...DSNES...?

Lavalord · Post by **Lavalord** » Sun Jan 11, 2004 1:21 am

n00bs are so cocky. The sega screen is the screen that says licensed by sega...ect ect. No Emulation isn't strange to me. I love it. Lets me not have to goto the basement find my SNES box hook it up, buy batteries for my super scope and clean my carts. With Emu's I pop in a cd to my DC (current console) and plug in a light gun. AND BAM its done.