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Cadmium Lemon

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Cadmium Lemon

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On my GP32, obviously.

Over Christmas, this was released - OpenSNES9xGP.

http://perso.wanadoo.fr/yoyosan/os9xgp/html/downloads.html

It's a SNES emulator, for the GP32. And unlike previous GeePee SNES efforts, it's pretty damn good. Good enough to handle a playable version of Sensible Soccer (International Edition), certainly. (With a bit of overclocking and frameskip 1. And no sound).

This is a good thing, as the lure of portable Sensi was the main reason I bought the damn thing in the first place. Me so happy...

It also does a pretty mean Super Mario World, which is great. I've not got round to testing it on other stuff yet but there's the beginnings of a compatibility list here - 4 Mbit maximum*, and no Super FX support, but I'm not complaining about that.

Anyway, thought those of you with GP32s gathering dust on the shelves might like to know. I'm off to play Sensi in the bath.

*Not sure about this - that's what it says in the readme, but people on the forum are claiming things like Civilization works fine (not on my machine it doesn't). I'm a bit simple when it comes to these things...

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Cadmium Lemon

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How does it work with the SNES emulator that the GP32 has only 2 buttons?

Well, it's got six, in truth - A+B, L+R shoulders, and start+select. The emu lets you configure any of these how you want, so you could have the GP's start and select buttons set as SNES shoulder buttons if needed, and then cut back into the emu's menu (accessed by holding the GP's select button for a bit) if you need to do proper start/select type stuff.

Fiddly, but not unmanagable. And certainly not a problem with Sensible Soccer.

As for SWOS - I understand that the Amiga will never be emulated on the GP, because it's too damn tuff. (Unlike the weedy Atari ST, obviously, which is damn near perfectly emulated already). This is a shame. However, would it be possible for someone to do a DOS emulator? Cos then the PC version would be playable... *swoons*

Another thing - it's pretty difficult playing Sensi on a handheld screen. Those little guys - they're so little! And hard to tell apart. Still, I don't care - it's Sensi in my pocket. In. My. Pocket.

Other games that work well - Super Punch Out, Uniracers, and Flashback, kinda. Everything else I've tried has been rubbish, so far, sadly.

*edit* Another compatibility list here - http://thaworx.co.uk/genemu/index.php?emu=4&l=all

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The Master System version of Sensible Soccer has been playable at full speed and sound etc on GP32 for ages though.

No doubt there is a reason why the SMS version is rubbish compared to all the others though. I'm just not au fait with the differences between versions of Sensible Soccer to the level that many people are.

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The Master System version of Sensible Soccer has been playable at full speed and sound etc on GP32 for ages though.

No doubt there is a reason why the SMS version is rubbish compared to all the others though. I'm just not au fait with the differences between versions of Sensible Soccer to the level that many people are.

Well, I played the Master System version once, and then promptly wiped it from my memory, so I can't quite remember the specifics either.

Other than the fact that it was absolute toss, obviously.

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Sensible Soccer (either MD version) doesn't boot on my Nomad. it's PAL and security chipped.

:rolleyes:

I was gonna say you could play handheld on a Nomad. Saying that you say it dont work.

Have you tried it through a pass-thru converter? I think it would work, but you would have two carts sticking out the back..

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Sensible Soccer (either MD version) doesn't boot on my Nomad. it's PAL and security chipped.

:rolleyes:

I was gonna say you could play handheld on a Nomad. Saying that you say it dont work.

Have you tried it through a pass-thru converter? I think it would work, but you would have two carts sticking out the back..

I don't have one of those for the MD, nor do I recall ever seeing one. I'm sure they exist...?

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the Amiga versions are easily definitive, then the MD version of Sensi and the PC version of SWOS are ok, and SNES Sensi is kind-of-acceptable. anything else and you could barely call it Sensi (certainly not the MS version :blink: )

Never played Amiga version but Megadrive is my choice. I played it endlessly. I had PC SWOS aswell and the management was fun but I still found the MD version better. Edging it due to multi-player probably. Snes version seemed weird to me, worse than MD by some way, but I'm not sure why (?)

Anyone know how Amiga Emulation works on Xbox? I remember searching a while back but when I found SWOS rom it was as Disc1 and 2, that confused me so I left it :rolleyes:

Wouldn't mind playing SWOS again. Would it be possible to update teams (on a rom)? Sad but it'd make it all the more enjoyable :ph34r:

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Sensible Soccer (either MD version) doesn't boot on my Nomad. it's PAL and security chipped.

:rolleyes:

I was gonna say you could play handheld on a Nomad. Saying that you say it dont work.

Have you tried it through a pass-thru converter? I think it would work, but you would have two carts sticking out the back..

I don't have one of those for the MD, nor do I recall ever seeing one. I'm sure they exist...?

Like an action replay cart, but just for different regions (ie to play a UK coded cart on a NTSC nomad). Im sure i played one game that apparently didnt work on the nomad like this.

As well as this, what about the region mod? It pretty much does the same as the action replay cart.

My is 50/60hz moded so it might play it with that, shame i dont have a SS cart to try with.

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Never played Amiga version but Megadrive is my choice. I played it endlessly. I had PC SWOS aswell and the management was fun but I still found the MD version better. Edging it due to multi-player probably. Snes version seemed weird to me, worse than MD by some way, but I'm not sure why (?)

Anyone know how Amiga Emulation works on Xbox? I remember searching a while back but when I found SWOS rom it was as Disc1 and 2, that confused me so I left it  :rolleyes:

Wouldn't mind playing SWOS again. Would it be possible to update teams (on a rom)? Sad but it'd make it all the more enjoyable  :blink:

Amiga Sensi is much better than the MD version. higher res (read: more pitch area on screen), editor which doesn't max out at 20 teams, and much better sound.

SNES version was (much) jerkier and lower-res than either of these and had no team editor. it also had noticeably messed-up keeper AI.

using Pablo Fridlender's SWOS Editor you can still update it yes. and some people still do. I stopped this season because the editor refuses to work on my PC right now, for some reason.

you CAN use an adf program to inject edited PC SWOS data files into an Amiga disk image, in case you were wondering - look for adf utilities; the one I use is built into the shell extensions, so it treats an adf as a normal folder :ph34r: can't remember its name.

redsquirrel, you can buy one of my copies of MD sensi if you want.

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