Anyways, where was I? Oh yeah!
Phoenix Wright: Justice for All
Unlike the recent generic driver rips, this is running using its own code as it is using something very similar to the original PW's driver. Awesome!
Note that this rip, much like the GSF rip, does not contain the older tracks from PW/GS1. Now if you'll excuse me, back to work.
Having no homework kicks ass.
edited 7:01 PM EST January 16, 2008
1. Download zlib1.dll from the Web. (dll-files.com has it.)
2. Extract it to your Winamp directory.
Done.
edited 8:01 PM EST January 16, 2008
And I'm going to ahead and second Lunar's request for The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass.
For now you're going to need the DLL.
Yes, I'm making that an excuse to anyone asks why things play slowly in Winamp.
Forgive me for being an asshole though, as I come with treats.
Zelda Phantom Hourglass
The sound bank returned only 1 meg or so of data so I suspect incompletion. So you guys get to test it out. Hoorah!
edited 10:18 PM EST January 16, 2008
What happens is it'll play fine for a while, then at 0:28 and 0:52 (and then every time the music reaches these two points again), it'll go incredibly slow for about 5 seconds, then pick back up to normal speed. It doesn't seem time-related because, as I said, it happens every time those two points are reached in the song itself, every loop. Any ideas?
Correction: Only 001a seems to do this anymore. Still, why is it happening?
edited 11:28 PM EST January 16, 2008
Penguin, your request has been noted.
I plan on implementing playback time settings in lib2sf and Highly Whatever next build. Stay tuned.
I wonder if the stuttering + slow response is just due to high CPU use rather than an emulation problem. nsmb-001a.mini2sf for instance is hitting 99% CPU when it slows down, so it's no wonder really.
Also Final Fantasy Tactics A2 and Archaic Sealed Heat would warrant a look (what with them being done by Hitoshi Sakimoto and all).
Here's the new version. There is a small performance boost at the end of the play thread (sleep for 10 ms), and the 8% CPU I was having before is floating between 1-2%. That isn't to say that the slowdown problems in NSMB are fixed, but stuff is running better now.
I also added Knurek's suggested XMplay-friendly code in, and suffice to say that it doesn't really work all that much. Ah well.
PLUGIN
edited 6:00 PM EST January 17, 2008
Edit: Never mind. They are not the problem.
BTW, the plugin is fine in Vista. It's that after finally getting a file to play, if I try to do something like play another file or press pause or stop, Winamp gets an error.
edited 7:37 PM EST January 17, 2008
Source code for the latest library
but I'm also getting the jittering problem.
New SMB doesn't fare any better than before, though.
EDIT: Using Vista 32 bit, by the way (if it matters).
edited 11:36 AM EST January 18, 2008
And also, I'm trying to compile the plugin with Dev-C++ and suffice to say that it's a terrible IDE. It really, really, really, really, really sucks.
I still have yet to figure out that memory leak though... Everything seems to be freed up from RAM when the emulator is destroyed according to what I see going on in the background.
Library revisions, new sets, and possibly a fb2k port will be made on the weekend since I don't have any studying to do.
First set of the weekend. Somewhat shitty music, but there are some good tracks in there.
Densetsu no Stafy 4
I also have the following on the request list. Bolded ones are additions of my own.
-Wario: Master of Disguise
-Megaman ZX Advent
-Final Fantasy IV DS
-Kirby Squeak Squad
-Super Princess Peach (if I can figure out the driver)
edited 2:19 PM EST January 18, 2008
edited 5:49 PM EST January 18, 2008
Super Princess Peach is now going through the cleaner and should be up in a few hours. The sequence player does not permit swi 4, so it might run slowly on certain computers.
Animal Crossing WW
Game and Watch Collection (japan only but I have it coming in the mail and can't be found on DGEmu)
Picross DS
Glad that I could be a help.
This set is more than likely to run slow on older computers, so you have been warned.
Thanks for the rip.
-Wario: Master of Disguise
-Megaman ZX Advent
-Final Fantasy IV DS
-Kirby Squeak Squad
-Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow
-Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin
-Lunar Knights
-Animal Crossing: Wild World
-Game and Watch Collection
-Picross DS
Note that the command prompt that pops up - this is just debug crap generated by the core. Close it, and Winamp closes with it, so just minimize it.
(disregard that, this build sucks cocks)
If you still don't get anything, try playing track 015a.
Now for some nostalgia. This week's been a pretty epic one on this slow-as-molasses forums with this whole development with 2sf (if I do say so myself), as well as Wii sound formats. I mean, that's fucking awesome and you can't say anything against that.
This new build breaks Phoenix Wright. Hold on...
Never mind about it for now. I'm going to go back to ripping stuff but before I do, I just need to inform everyone that Wario Master of Disguise uses streamed music at points. Time to figure this stuff out.
Streamed sound support has been forwarded to the in_cube department. Now back to ripping the sequenced portion of this.
Wario Master of Disguise (sequenced stuff only)
edited 2:05 AM EST January 19, 2008
Shining bright, Wario The Seven...
Final Fantasy 4 is going through the cleaner. Here's what I offer to keep you interested:
(And the percentage is a bit wrong)
edited 11:32 AM EST January 19, 2008
But.. does the cmd window has to show everytime I load up Winamp?
In the meantime, here's a familiar game that Square has released a gajillion times, but at least they didn't fuck it all up like Final Fantasy 7 which was never a good game in the first place.
Final Fantasy 4
This set's a bit big (13 MB) so I hope that the server doesn't go splat because of this.
OK, here's a new version of the plugin. In addition to crashing a lot less, it should run faster. I don't know exactly what it is I did, but it's running at 1% CPU on some sets and 8% on Super Princess Peach. Oh, and the command prompt is still there.
Dongs
Also, virt.
Contra 4
edited 3:57 PM EST January 19, 2008
And thanks for the Contra 4 rip. I guess that 2SF is now officially manly. </gamefaqs>
edited 4:21 PM EST January 19, 2008
The choppiness is kinda strange, as it's not maxing the CPU while doing that. Maybe the emulated DS CPU isn't getting enough cycles?
edited 5:07 PM EST January 19, 2008
Another funny thing. When things start to get choppy, pausing the song helps for a few seconds (and if it gets choppy again, another pause helps). WTF?
edited 5:14 PM EST January 19, 2008
Or it might just be XMplay-specific. Winamp runs everything OK, and I haven't really tested XMplay all that much.
problem, I'll report it on it's board.
Yupp, XMPlay only. Winamp skips only at the very beginning of the file.
edited 5:53 PM EST January 19, 2008
while(InMod.outMod->IsPlaying()) Sleep(1);
Excluding it causes the system to eat up 99% CPU, and keeping it in keeps the CPU down but increases the jitter.
I say it's time to implement some options.
___
Actually, options suck. Here's what happens now when the program is run:
Welcome to Highly Whatever!
Got 111 for processor type.
Core 2 processor detected, auto-enabling accuracy over performance.
Core 2 processors pretty much always come in dual and quad flavors, so this will assign one core to do all the processing. Slow downs are less frequent as a result, but the CPU usage is usually 100% on that specific core.
edited 12:42 PM EST January 20, 2008
"This seems to be related to the "IsPlaying" function - the plugin won't write any more data until that returns 0. According to the Winamp API, it should return "non0 if output is still going or if data in buffers waiting to be written". I guess that isn't really the case."
There's a special bugfix version of exe for now, but I'm not sure if it isn't something you should fix as well. :)
This is where the newest version of the plugin comes in.
This fixes some skippage, but not all (000b of NSMB comes to mind). And yes, I am aware this is the gajillionth build without tag support.
Memory errors are stupid
Enjoy your 100% CPU usage.
edited 5:39 PM EST January 20, 2008
Two things that I would like to point out are:
1. When switching between tracks, the newly-loaded track pops immediately before the music starts. It is almost like the data from the previous track is not flushed before the next one starts.
2. As for SPP and nsmb-001a, it seems that there is a single instrument that just eats resources until it's done playing. This would explain why pausing the track causes it to stop.
edited 9:52 PM EST January 20, 2008
2) I suck at coding.
Also, no slowdowns on New Super Mario Bros. at this shitty computer.
oops, disregard that
There's plenty of stuff running that isn't even remotely related to what I want going here (graphical processing comes to mind) but that isn't going to really help with speed. A recompiler comes to mind...
Also, I think it's time to finish implementing tag support.
edited 10:07 AM EST January 21, 2008
Moreover,the CPU load stays at 100% all the time during playback.
While the sound quality is decent,the severe chopping spoils the fun.
edited 11:15 AM EST January 21, 2008
"There's plenty of stuff running that isn't even remotely related to what I want going here (graphical processing comes to mind) but that isn't going to really help with speed."
Hmm, see, I would have thought that that was precisely why the CPU is high - unnecessary threads still running or whatever, so killing them off would help speed. That's what my intuition tells me. I remember there being unoptimised USF sets with graphics threads still running (Kirby 64 comes to mind, I believe.)
Hi...
What's ripped and what was requested (so we know where we are)
RIPPED 15 sets
Phoenix Wright
Yoshi Touch and Go
Mario Kart DS
Kirby Canvas Curse
New Super Mario Bros
Super Mario 64 DS
Metroid Prime Hunters
Megaman ZX
Phoenix Wright: Justice for All
Zelda Phantom Hourglass
Densetsu no Stafy 4
Super Princess Peach
Wario Master of Disguise (sequenced) (streams)
Final Fantasy 4
Contra 4
Requested (yeah, I added mine)
Etrian Odyssey (Seikaiju no MeiQ)
Advance Wars (them all)
Nanostray
Front Mission
Ridge Racer DS
Viewtiful Joe
Mega Man ZX Advent
Sonic Rush Adventure
Kirby Squeak Squad
Sonic Rush
Lunar Knights
Final Fantasy III
Phoenix Wright 3
Kirby Squeak Squad
Hotel Dusk - Room 215
Diddy Kong Racing
Wario ware touched
Castlevania (them all)
Final Fantasy Tactics A2
Archaic Sealed Heat
Wario: Master of Disguise
Animal Crossing: Wild World
Game and Watch Collection
Picross DS
edited 10:45 AM EST January 23, 2008
Just add Yoshi's Island DS (U), Visual C++ 2005 and a SDAT, and stir.
Some have obsessive amounts of speech samples present... Would be pretty bad to have a 30 MB rip that uses only 1 MB for music...
Visual C++ 2005 Express will do, right?
But my advice is:
DO WHAT YOU WANT CAUSE A PIRATE IS FREE, YOU ARE A PIRATE
offtopic
@9th Sage|marioman
Nah, not really. I just listed what was *already* (multiple times, even) requested on previous msgs of this thread. Also, so that unknownfile, if so he desires (or not), has an already built list to copy-paste without having to browse up to five-seven pages like I did.
Enyoj?
edited 7:34 PM EST January 23, 2008
New features:
- GPU emulation cleanup. (somewhat insignificant performance boost)
- Tag support. (very limited but working)
9% cpu in Super Princess Peach here rather than 14%.
I forgot there was another Yoshi game for DS. Awesome-cool.
BUILD
Now get tagging!
Here's the list of composer tags:
Contra 4: Jake 'virt' Kaufman
Final Fantasy 4: Nobuo Uematsu, arranged by Junya Nakano
Kirby Canvas Curse: Jun Ishikawa, Tadashi Ikegami
Mario Kart DS: Shinobu Tanaka
Mega Man ZX: Ippo Yamada, Masaki Suzuki, Ryo Kawakami
Metroid Prime Hunters: Lawrence Schwedler, James Phillipsen
New Super Mario Bros.: Asuka Ota, Hajime Wakai, Koji Kondo
Phoenix Wright 1: Akemi Kimura, Masakazu Sugimori, Atsushi Mori
Phoenix Wright 2 - Justice for All: Akemi Kimura
Super Mario 64 DS: Koji Kondo, arranged by Kenta Nagata
The Legend of Zelda - Phantom Hourglass: Kenta Nagata, Toru Minegishi
Yoshi Touch & Go: Asuka Ohta, Toru Minegishi, Kazumi Totaka
Wario Master of Disguise: Kenji Hikita
//Edit
You've mentioned something about there being two versions of SSEQ format (one used by Phoenix Wright games). Any way to determine which format a game is using (like some byte at some offset in the file or something)?
edited 11:24 AM EST January 24, 2008
ah whatever
>Open up the Desmume source package, and look at >armcpu.c. Uncomment the lines:
Those lines below are uncommented by default. There are 5 lines commented out, but changing them doesn't do anything.
Anyway, I compile the Desmume, load generated modcrap.nds (it plays different music, so I guess it's generated properly), and press Enter at the intro sequence.
Nothing out of the ordinary happens, the game proceeds to the title screen. Pressing Enter there doesn't do anything special as well.
My YI rom info: NTR-AYWE-USA, CRC32: C9964EE1
What you are looking for is:
Yoshi's Island DS (E)
NTR-AYWP-EUR
CRC32: C97C2AE8
Also note that this driver will only play sequences, and not streams. I will work on a generic stream driver rip later.
edited 1:10 PM EST January 24, 2008
Another problem:
>Replace bottom_trace_value with the lowest
>possible sequence in the sequence bank,
>and top_trace_value with the highest possible
>sequence.
Okay, this is a sample SMAP:
# label number fileID bnk vol cpr ppr ply hsize size name
OPENING 0 0 27 127 64 64 1 121032 1076 Seq\OPENING.sseq
TOWN_DAY 1 1 1 127 64 64 1 169352 2512 Seq\TOWN_DAY.sseq
..
JINGLE2 27 27 26 127 64 64 1 65704 180 Seq\JINGLE2.sseq
So, which number should I choose? Number, fileID or bnk?
//Edit
Another thing... Some of the values produce mini2sf files that don't play nothing.
I did a quick 0x00-0x03 run and only 0x00 and 0x03 play.
OPENING 0 0 27 127 64 64 1 121032 1076 Seq\OPENING.sseq
TOWN_DAY 1 1 1 127 64 64 1 169352 2512 Seq\TOWN_DAY.sseq
TOWN_DAY2 2 2 1 127 64 64 1 168772 1932 Seq\TOWN_DAY2.sseq
TOWN_NIGHT 3 3 2 127 64 64 1 142716 3088 Seq\TOWN_NIGHT.sseq
Might this be caused by the fact, that TOWN_DAY and TOWN_DAY2 share BNK number? VGMTrans plays them both without problems though...
// Edit 2
This is weird, I just did a full run of all files available in SDAT (0x00 to 0x55), and still the only ones that play are 0x00 and 0x03... Both of which were played before the savestate was made (0x00 is intro song, 0x03 menu theme).
// Edit 3
Also, looking at the generated clean.nds, it contains only 3 instances of SSEQ chunk. No wonder it doesn't play any other tunes, they get zeroed out during the cleaning part... I just don't understand why...
// Edit 4
Sorry for the Edit from Hell, but I've did a quick check with another game (FF12 RW, this one has the SDAT larger than Yoshi's Island was, the former game had a smaller one) and exactly the same thing happens here as well.
edited 6:17 PM EST January 24, 2008
Once again: get on IRC if you have trouble getting stuff to work.
edited 6:17 PM EST January 24, 2008
There is only one way that I can get the new plugin to work. Beware that this explanation will be a little lengthy:
If I load a 2SF file and then try to play it immediately after loading it, Winamp will crash. It will continue to crash every time I restart Winamp and play a 2SF file. (Even if I load the 2SF, leave it in the playlist, close Winamp and restart.)
The only way that I have found to fix this is to roll back to an older version of HW and play a 2SF. I leave the 2SF in the playlist, close Winamp, and switch to the new HW. When I start up Winamp with the newer HW, the CPU is initialized at startup. The 2SF file plays fine, and since the CPU init will be skipped for all subsequent files that I play, all other files play fine until I close Winamp.
Once I get things going, I notice CPU init is skipped twice every time a file is loaded. Could the CPU init also be run twice when the first track is loaded? Just a thought.
Just to let you know, there is still a click at the beginning of tracks as if the data from the previously played track has not been flushed. CPU usage is still 100% for anything I play, but I gave a listen to some of the troublesome 2SFs. nsmb-001a does not skip at all, nor does SPP. Great job on fixing that!
edited 11:23 AM EST January 25, 2008
Start the player.
Add a large number of mini2sf files to the playlist.
Immediately start playing something (once in_2sf starts trying to read tags it'll crash at playing).
Don't alt-tab or anything else during track loading.
After that it should work fine.
In main.c:
Replace
NDS_ARM9.R[0] = cur_trace_value;
with
NDS_ARM9.R[trace_register] = cur_trace_value;
There are two instances.
Big thanks to unknownfile for having the patience for all my (mostly) inane questions.
Without further ado:
Etrian Odyssey aka Sekaiju no MeiQ
http://www.sendspace.com/file/y9oc08
@UF: I will test your change to HW after you get it up and see if it helps with the crashing that I am experiencing. Knurek and I seem to be having a similar problem, so maybe it fixed both issues.
well enough of that...
As only 1 of you know, I have been needlessly converting optimal C code into suboptimal assembly code to help with speeds with common ARM opcodes. If you notice shit speeds, please let me know so I can undo my mistakes.
Seeking implemented in the newest plugin version. Seeking backwards is not supported. Seeking backwards then forwards crashes the thing.
edited 1:28 AM EST January 26, 2008
Tales of the Tempest
http://www.sendspace.com/file/a8nk1u
Seing as both my rips got an OST release if anyone wants to contribute tagging, I'd be most grateful (times can be automatically generated, so don't bother with that).
And another one:
Rune Factory: A Fantasy Harvest Moon
http://www.sendspace.com/file/09s8iq
And, uhh, 4 more:
Castlevania - Dawn of Sorrow (2005)(Konami)
Children of Mana (2006)(Next, Square Enix)
Deep Labyrinth (2006)(Interactive Brains, Atlus) (single nonstreamed very short track)
Heroes of Mana (2007)(Brownie Brown, Square Enix)
http://www.sendspace.com/file/ja4700
edited 2:39 PM EST January 26, 2008
Thanks, man. After reading MX and hcs comment on Deep Labyrinth's music I can only download and check myself.
@Knurek: Wow! Nice job there. It is nice to see another 2SF ripper here.
edited 3:30 PM EST January 26, 2008
The ripper works pretty fine with completely free MS VC++ 2005 Express.
edited 3:49 PM EST January 26, 2008