VMU emu - screenshots

speud · Post by **speud** » Sun May 23, 2004 1:35 am

thought it worthed a post in the emulation's forum as well.

VMU Tool is now having a fully working VMU emulator to play your games directly from the filemanger.
this is actually dirtysanchez' port of marcus comstedt's emu VMoo that has been included in the current version.

the game is displayed on both the TV and the VMU screen in real time without major slowdown.

the games are running as well as when you run them on the PC emu, which means without sound and with a decent framerate but not too accurate.

once youve finished playing with your game the file is saved to the VM so the changes will be there next time you load the game from VMU Tool, just like when you quit the game with the VMU's "game" mode.

here are a few screenshots of VMU Football and Chao Adventure by sega:

Ian Micheal · Post by **Ian Micheal** » Sun May 23, 2004 1:56 am

Wow this is super cool! NEATO Cant wait for this version..

Wozza · Post by **Wozza** » Sun May 23, 2004 3:49 am

Thats just freakin cool dude!

WRAGGSTER · Post by **WRAGGSTER** » Sun May 23, 2004 4:18 am

Very nice ive posted the news at http://www.dcemu.co.uk too

Mikey242 · Post by **Mikey242** » Sun May 23, 2004 5:30 am

Really really nice speud

speud · Post by **speud** » Sun May 23, 2004 9:04 am

thanks guys, sadly its always the same people.
i thought maybe by posting this in the emu's forum i would get more people interested but it looks like i failed.
oh whatever...

shark812 · Post by **shark812** » Sun May 23, 2004 9:56 am

lol, i look at both forums anyways
damn that looks really awesome, cant wait

Styrofoam · Post by **Styrofoam** » Sun May 23, 2004 10:59 am

What can I say ?? Next time you're near a pub, get a beer on me for a job well done

Also like to show my admiration for the gfxs. A pleasure to look at .... Who did those ?? Wacko ??

chrisfbt1 · Post by **chrisfbt1** » Sun May 23, 2004 11:36 am

it looks like i failed.

I hope your joking

It looks great

i cant wait to try it out

Excalibur007 · Post by **Excalibur007** » Sun May 23, 2004 12:00 pm

All our other issues asside, I give you props for this speud. Good job! It's a great program and the things you've implemented since your last release look incredible. I can hardly wait to try out the VMU emulator.

-Ex

Lunchbox · Post by **Lunchbox** » Sun May 23, 2004 12:30 pm

That looks pretty sweet, i'll give it a shot when its released

Goshikyu · Post by **Goshikyu** » Sun May 23, 2004 1:54 pm

SWEET!
now i dont need to get batteries for my vmu anymore

speud · Post by **speud** » Sun May 23, 2004 5:56 pm

thanks for your comments

so far only 2 games are not playable: powerstone mini (the plane game) and alien fighter.
for powerstone some sprites are not displayed when they are in a certain region of the screen, so you cant avoid bombs and all.
and for alien fighter the game simply exits after the title screen.

im now trying to get the emu run like softVMS v1.8 compiled by alessandro sanassi from marcus comstedt's source, so it runs more games with less bugs.
ill also see if i can apply the patch for alien fighter i found on soeren gust's site.

ill post more screenshots soon.

jiloup · Post by **jiloup** » Mon May 24, 2004 1:27 am

Many guys are interested of your VMU tools
it's just we talk about on another forum
(for me it's in a french forum)

On est tous avec toi Speud ! la communaut? francophone suis ton parcours exemplaire !

aisupikku · Post by **aisupikku** » Mon May 24, 2004 2:30 am

Wow! That is very neat, speud!~ I thought that I was seeing the whole picture, and then, I noticed that I could click on the screenshots... and, I was highly impressed. Well done!

I would love to be able to have Chao Adventure playing on the television in the background while I'm working; I could level-up my Chao to higher than the first one that I ever brought with me out of the house with ease! I will definitely be keeping an eye on further developments...

Segata Sanshiro · Post by **Segata Sanshiro** » Mon May 24, 2004 3:08 am

aisupikku wrote:Wow! That is very neat, speud!~ I thought that I was seeing the whole picture, and then, I noticed that I could click on the screenshots... and, I was highly impressed. Well done!

I would love to be able to have Chao Adventure playing on the television in the background while I'm working; I could level-up my Chao to higher than the first one that I ever brought with me out of the house with ease! I will definitely be keeping an eye on further developments...

WOW man, you stole my thoughts!
I cant wait to do exactly the same thing, i'm tired of buying expensive batteries for my VMUs.

Speud dont be depressed, we're here anxiously awaiting your tool!!
An excellent job so far!

law56ker · Post by **law56ker** » Mon May 24, 2004 4:49 am

Looks cool.

BaldMonk · Post by **BaldMonk** » Mon May 24, 2004 5:46 am

AWESOME!!!!! I can't beleive I missed this. I've never owned an official VMU, and this will save me having to hunt one down... awesome.

WaCk0 · Post by **WaCk0** » Mon May 24, 2004 8:25 am

BaldMonk wrote:I've never owned an official VMU, and this will save me having to hunt one down... awesome.

Me too

speud · Post by **speud** » Mon May 24, 2004 10:26 am

nice to see your interest

and Styrofoam yes its WaCk0's BG image on the screenshots, sorry i forgot to mention it

oh and a small update:
i fixed alien fighter with soeren gust's patch, but it makes other games run slowly.
so ill have to implement something to detect if the game is alien fighter, and apply the patch only if it is.

i contacted alessandro sanassi about his softVMS version, as it seems he definitely modified v1.8 source to improve it and i couldnt find his mod's source anywhere.
i hope he'll answer soon, thats the only hope for a working powerstone for now.

omar cornut's games glucky laby, paper attack and fat rain are very buggy but this was predictable.