Chanka Released

rmbell · Post by **rmbell** » Sun Jun 06, 2004 12:36 pm

yes i am, but im still not sure why it worked before...

rmbell · Post by **rmbell** » Sun Jun 06, 2004 7:25 pm

*bump**

rmbell · Post by **rmbell** » Wed Jun 09, 2004 9:00 pm

cant anyone help me?

OminaeYu · Post by **OminaeYu** » Thu Jun 10, 2004 3:49 pm

Did you download the dlls from the internet?

q_006 · Post by **q_006** » Thu Jun 10, 2004 3:53 pm

do they have an official site?
i was wondering if they made ANY update to it yet.

Hawq · Post by **Hawq** » Thu Jun 10, 2004 4:01 pm

Chanka site update comin this weekend as my news post on the front says, if its actually showin up yet

q_006 · Post by **q_006** » Thu Jun 10, 2004 4:47 pm

nope.
no news about an update.
but thanks!

rmbell · Post by **rmbell** » Thu Jun 10, 2004 6:39 pm

i just want my chanka to work, i got VB6 runtime, direct x, the dll's, all windows updates, it just wont work

emptythought · Post by **emptythought** » Thu Jun 10, 2004 8:27 pm

Don't feel too bad - it doesn't work my my PC either. Wait for 0.2, which should be out this weekend (random crashing error reported to be a fix, so maybe that helps).

WaCk0 · Post by **WaCk0** » Thu Jun 10, 2004 9:13 pm

rmbell wrote:i just want my chanka to work, i got VB6 runtime, direct x, the dll's, all windows updates, it just wont work

PC Specs?

Skynet · Post by **Skynet** » Fri Jun 11, 2004 8:21 am

PC Specs?

Yeah, you gotta take that into consideration.

I can pull off some decent stuff on my Athlon XP2000+ 512DDR RAM, 128mb gf4 ti4200. But I get slow down. Maybe your specs arent up to speed

GPF · Post by **GPF** » Fri Jun 11, 2004 10:31 am

rmbell wrote:ok i had this running a few days ago.......my windows got reinstalled and now it wont run... i keep getting a bunch of DLL errors. anyone know whats up? i just got all the windows updates and .net frame work. anyone know what i should get next to make this run again?

So its not a probably with his specs, sounds like either a problem with your video driver and or DirectX installation. Might try to remove and reinstall them with the latest versions. Or something messed up with Windows when you reinstalled, and without your machine here its hard to troubleshoot much more. Google is your friend

Troy

nakamichi · Post by **nakamichi** » Fri Jun 11, 2004 1:57 pm

The bad thing is,if you have only 256 MB of RAM as I have now,no matter what CPU power you have,you're likely to have a 30% decrease in FPS and skipping at times.This emu EATS YOUR RAM like Godzilla!

Just to boot up without a game eats over 160 MB.Add another 160-200 MB when you boot a game,and that's over 350 MB! That's 100 MB of virtual RAM,which will torture your HDD,and decrease overall performance.
Not to mention the other bad thing - the CD reading plugin - it's horrible right now.
When I start REZ loading from a CDROM drive,i get only 5 fps!,compared to the amazing 50fps I get when using the Alcohol 120% virtual drive.

And,the saddest thing of all is that almost no homebrew CDs work

Utopia doesn't work.It boots up,but doesn't boot non-selfboot CDs.
Also,no web browsers work (DreamPassport 3,PlanetWeb 2.6,Psilocybin Dreams...)

The team at Chanka should work on 3 things:
1. Better CD reading plugin.
2. Full homebrew support
3. Make it less RAM-intensive

and include a sound ripper to rip the music from ADX format to WAV and the MIDI-sample based music to a DSF format (like PSF or USF),and to extract the wavetable instrument samples to WAV format,so we can use them to create homebrew music

speud · Post by **speud** » Fri Jun 11, 2004 2:11 pm

Better CD reading plugin

what would be better is no cd reading plugin anymore imo. but i think the next release will force you to use burned discs as well

az_bont · Post by **az_bont** » Fri Jun 11, 2004 2:31 pm

speud wrote:
Better CD reading plugin
what would be better is no cd reading plugin anymore imo. but i think the next release will force you to use burned discs as well

I fail to see how playing them from a virtual drive or image file would be any better from a legal or moral standpoint.

nakamichi · Post by **nakamichi** » Fri Jun 11, 2004 2:37 pm

For example:I have burnt homebrew CDs and I want to use my CDROM to run them,not with a virtual drive.

nakamichi · Post by **nakamichi** » Fri Jun 11, 2004 2:39 pm

If they could make a GDROM-reading,plugin which uses your DVD drive,then there will be no need to make backups anymore,but run your original GD discs with your PC DVD drive.

nakamichi · Post by **nakamichi** » Fri Jun 11, 2004 2:43 pm

I want to play Street Fighter III badly on a PC,cause my DC is dead

,and I want to just insert the GD-ROM into my DVD drive and run it just like a real DC.
No BBA rips,backups and crap.I hate that.But I LOVE to rip only the music,so I can listen to it on my PC with Winamp

...and the samples...

az_bont · Post by **az_bont** » Fri Jun 11, 2004 2:49 pm

There are a couple of CD drives that can read GD-ROMs with updated firmware. Perhaps this emulator will spark interest in extending development into it for other drives.

speud · Post by **speud** » Fri Jun 11, 2004 2:50 pm

az_bont wrote:
speud wrote:
Better CD reading plugin
what would be better is no cd reading plugin anymore imo. but i think the next release will force you to use burned discs as well
I fail to see how playing them from a virtual drive or image file would be any better from a legal or moral standpoint.

actually im against virtual drive too. the best would be a way to read gd rom directly, and elf/bin for homebrews. this way it wouldnt have this negative image of a warez emu anymore.