Genesis GX Plus 1.4.0... and it's initial quirks November 02, 2010 12:15PM | Registered: 14 years ago Posts: 173 |
Re: Genesis GX Plus 1.4.0... and it's initial quirks November 02, 2010 12:52PM | Registered: 13 years ago Posts: 14 |
Re: Genesis GX Plus 1.4.0... and it's initial quirks November 02, 2010 02:03PM | Registered: 15 years ago Posts: 276 |
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But as soon as I fired it up, some weird little hanging instances ocurred. Among the first things I noticed that after pressing A on the Wiimote at the disclaimer, the Wiimote would not work with the emulator's menu.
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The first hanging came from trying to see my current configuration, and then attempting to exit. It hanged, and required manually powering off the Wii. I tried turning it off with my Wiimote, and it surprised me that, unlike other apps the utterly failed to shutdown the Wii and instead only made the Wiimote turn off, this time the Wiimote itself didn't even bother turning off. Weird.
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I decided to reset the Wii in hopes of it kicking me to HBC, but instead THE GAME ITSELF RESET. Nice feature, but most certainly not something I was expecting to see at a moment I wished to go back and try loading the emulator again.
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After I did this, everything seemed to work alot better now. I loaded Toejam & Earl from my device instead of my Recently Played list, and played for a few minutes. But I noticed that upon pressing some buttons, the game thought I had two controllers connected, and I accidentally summoned Player 2, which mimicked my every move. Thinking it was a simple bad setting, I exited to the emulator's menu... and it hanged again.
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+ Old Settings and (possibly) History files from previous Genesis Plus versions conflict with this new version
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+ Numerous random hangs
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It's mainly the hanging for me, and a few issues that lead me to also suspect a conflict between past data held from the earlier version and this revised one.
Re: Genesis GX Plus 1.4.0... and it's initial quirks November 03, 2010 09:34AM | Registered: 15 years ago Posts: 276 |
Re: Genesis GX Plus 1.4.0... and it's initial quirks November 03, 2010 02:13PM | Registered: 14 years ago Posts: 173 |
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But as soon as I fired it up, some weird little hanging instances ocurred. Among the first things I noticed that after pressing A on the Wiimote at the disclaimer, the Wiimote would not work with the emulator's menu.
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The first hanging came from trying to see my current configuration, and then attempting to exit. It hanged, and required manually powering off the Wii. I tried turning it off with my Wiimote, and it surprised me that, unlike other apps the utterly failed to shutdown the Wii and instead only made the Wiimote turn off, this time the Wiimote itself didn't even bother turning off. Weird.
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After I did this, everything seemed to work alot better now. I loaded Toejam & Earl from my device instead of my Recently Played list, and played for a few minutes. But I noticed that upon pressing some buttons, the game thought I had two controllers connected, and I accidentally summoned Player 2, which mimicked my every move. Thinking it was a simple bad setting, I exited to the emulator's menu... and it hanged again.
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+ Old Settings and (possibly) History files from previous Genesis Plus versions conflict with this new version
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+ Numerous random hangs
Re: Genesis GX Plus 1.4.0... and it's initial quirks November 03, 2010 03:48PM | Registered: 15 years ago Posts: 276 |
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Even while disabling Player 2 and leaving it with no physical control installed, somehow I could keep summoning Player 2 in Toejam & Earl (I'm not entirely sure about this right now... mind is kinda fuzzy 'cuz I need to sleep).
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I also noticed that if you change the controller settings while a game is loaded, the controller would stop responding in game.
the emulator interface was completely changed so the old manual does not really apply anymore. You should definitively first read the Manual before attempting to play with options like you did.Quote
For the record, I did read the one included in the previous version... if that counts for anything.
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before I used the revised version you mentioned that fixed the settings file not being saved, it wouldn't even create one.
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A "config.ini" file was created this time, but all it contains is a single line that says "GENPLUS-GX 1.4.0", and nothing else. I'd expect to see some strings with a yes/no activation kind of thing, or the gibberish kind of settings file, but nope.
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These I cannot determine exactly. They just happen all of a sudden and without warning, and they seem to only happen when trying to load a ROM, or when trying to go back one screen in any given menu (such as going back from Settings menu to the Main Menu). Also seems to hang when trying to load another ROM after already having loaded one.
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Thanks again man, and keep the work comin'.
Re: Genesis GX Plus 1.4.0... and it's initial quirks November 03, 2010 10:19PM | Registered: 15 years ago Posts: 276 |
Re: Genesis GX Plus 1.4.0... and it's initial quirks November 03, 2010 10:40PM | Moderator Registered: 15 years ago Posts: 441 |
Re: Genesis GX Plus 1.4.0... and it's initial quirks November 04, 2010 01:56AM | Registered: 15 years ago Posts: 276 |
int retry = 0; int fatMounted = fatInitDefault(); while (!fatMounted && (retry < 12)) { usleep(250000); fatMounted = fatInitDefault(); retry++; }
Re: Genesis GX Plus 1.4.0... and it's initial quirks November 04, 2010 03:10AM | Registered: 14 years ago Posts: 173 |
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It hangs just like that ? No exception screen with a lot of number, no reboot, just you can't control the menu anymore ?
that's really weird because it doesn't happen to me at all and I would have received many issues report if it was happening to others. I'm wondering, do you have Wifi on when you boot the HBC ?
Re: Genesis GX Plus 1.4.0... and it's initial quirks November 04, 2010 10:58AM | Registered: 15 years ago Posts: 276 |
Re: Genesis GX Plus 1.4.0... and it's initial quirks November 04, 2010 04:38PM | Moderator Registered: 15 years ago Posts: 441 |
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ekeeke
Any insight about the freezes and DSI exception that occurs when Wifi router is switched off ? Again, this does not happen when no_ios_reload is trashed.
I think I somehow fixed it by removing the redundant call to _ES_Init in _ahb_check_aprot (di.c) when DI_Init is called at the start of the application but I'm not sure, it seems it's still quite unstable and subject to crash sometime but not as often as before (it usually crashed after less than one minute)
Re: Genesis GX Plus 1.4.0... and it's initial quirks November 04, 2010 06:10PM | Registered: 15 years ago Posts: 276 |
Re: Genesis GX Plus 1.4.0... and it's initial quirks November 04, 2010 06:32PM | Moderator Registered: 15 years ago Posts: 441 |
for(i=0; i < MAX_HANDLE; i++) IOS_Close(i);
Re: Genesis GX Plus 1.4.0... and it's initial quirks November 04, 2010 06:48PM | Moderator Registered: 15 years ago Posts: 441 |
Re: Genesis GX Plus 1.4.0... and it's initial quirks November 04, 2010 07:14PM | Registered: 15 years ago Posts: 276 |
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and then a stray IPC response from IOS arrives to *your* app, initiated by HBC. Your app calls the callback, which points to a PPC address from HBC, and *CRASH*
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An alternate possibility is that IOS panics because HBC doesn't leave it in a sane state.
Re: Genesis GX Plus 1.4.0... and it's initial quirks November 05, 2010 08:03AM | Registered: 15 years ago Posts: 276 |
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Also having a look at __ES_Init(), I don't see a reason why calling it multiple times would hurt anything.
Re: Genesis GX Plus 1.4.0... and it's initial quirks November 07, 2010 03:49PM | Registered: 14 years ago Posts: 12 |
Re: Genesis GX Plus 1.4.0... and it's initial quirks November 07, 2010 09:58PM | Registered: 15 years ago Posts: 276 |
Re: Genesis GX Plus 1.4.0... and it's initial quirks November 09, 2010 02:48AM | Registered: 14 years ago Posts: 61 |