ZSNES board

What's ugly about it? "Premature optimization is the root of all evil." If the function is called once a second on an array that never has more than 10 elements, I'd be surprised if it consumed more than 0.001% CPU time. I was not speaking of speed but rather of conceptual elegancy To ela...

Verdauga Greeneyes, nifty. You can write the backwards loop a tad more compactly (and avoid events.end() - 1, which requires that it be a random access iterator, which it wasn't in mine which actually used a list): int temp = last; for(p = events.end(); time < temp; temp -= *--p); time -= temp; Here...

lscharen, excellent point about only having to adjust the next delta, not all of them, when inserting before the end. sinamas, if you keep track of the absolute time of the last event, inserting an event past all the others can done in constant time. I wrote a simple delta queue class and exercise p...

Just skimming here, but any new patch format should allow avoidance of any of the original file's data appearing in the patch, so that patches of copyrighted works can avoid being legally considered derivitive works. As an example, the patch format could XOR the patch data with that from the origina...

byuu, I found this helpful illustration of array-based heap operations. I had never studied this structure before. Array-based heap lecture notes.pdf Ecst's point is that if you ensure that all your times fall within 0 to UINT_MAX/2 of each other, you can entirely eliminate periodic adjustments of a...

My playing log for the year (no emulation): 2008.03 God of War 2008.05 Metroid Prime (3 times) 2008.07 Zelda: Wind Waker 2008.08 Metroid Prime 2: Echoes 2008.08 Zelda: Twilight Princess 2008.09 Zelda: A Link to the Past 2008.09 Donkey Kong Country 2008.09 Donkey Kong Country 2 2008.09 Donkey Kong Co...

To any developers here: raise your hand if you have any released program which you think is near-perfect and couldn't use any improvement. Anyone? Anyone? I thought so. To users: us developers already know our software needs work. But if there's something specific which you think is subtle and we mi...

You mean to tell me that the core in spc plugins is a castrated version? What the heck for? The original Game_Music_Emu SPC core is the equivalent of the fast core. Snes_spc defaults to the accurate core, including the fast core as an option. The fast core predates the accurate core, so it would ma...

See multi-homing and load-balancing. I think OpenWRT, DD-WRT, etc. support it.

Hires doesn't use 2 frames to achieve double horizontal res. Standard hires is 512x224@30 (or 25) FPS, progressive using the same vertical anti-interlace trick. You mean 60 FPS, right? Analog stretch then crushes the 512 changes into whatever it can, blurring things together (usually intended by th...

Hmmm, that track requires the accurate DSP, and fails on the fast one (just tested). I'll have to examine the DSP writes it makes and see if I can make the fast one work with it too.

franpa wrote:don't you have monthly fees for Ipods?

No, you pay it all up front.

Seriously, are these the kind of lies that anti-Apple people are spreading these days?!?

sweener2001 wrote:i thought gcn came out later, therefore it's the one with the maps reversed

Link is left-handed. Most players are right-handed, so the Wii version swapped things to keep the on-screen image matching what most players would be doing with the Wii-mote.

I'm also debating whether or not I should dabble in politics / religion a bit on the site. I thought you already had a software licenses section. :) I'll sum up my thoughts: [...] 4. Verdauga Greeneyes, your tone sounds a bit condescending against those with strong religious views. I'd image you ma...

adventure_of_link wrote:since when did this turn from a discussion about the NTSC filter to hair colors and beauty?

Since it became hip to discuss whatever the hell you want in a thread, no matter how much it derails the original discussion. </rant>

Joe Camacho wrote:Man, if Obama gets elected to office, it's going to be epic.

Don't worry, they've put enough of those ultra-reliable electronic voting machines. They know who their master is.

Some suggestions / feature requests for the next version: [...] - Not necessary,but cool to have: DMG (mono) speaker simulation: Downmixed mono output + very limited audio bandwidth (can be done even now by setting the sample rate to 12kHz or below) + a little reverb + hum + distortion = real GB so...

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You can't get anything but composite(RF doesn't exist!) out of an NES without a GPU swap from a sacrificial PlayChoice or VS board, and that introduces other issues. Tragic, really. yep, it's a big sore spot over on the nestopia boards. People don't seem to get it when they are told that the NES di...

The S-Video output of a SNES is a big step above composite, and I doubt you'll see any difference between it and RGB. Have you tried a SNES connected to a CRT television via S-Video?

Get the speed booster.

Yeah, the Wii is basically 2X the GC due to clockspeeds, much more RAM and some sort of minor enhancement ot the graphics chip(it's been measured, and as it turns out it's a little too big to just be a straight shrink of the GC's graphics chip. No one knows WTF they did to it.). They added Blast Pr...

You forgot that the DSi is a "third platform" and is not going to replace the DSLite. Just like the DS was a "third pillar" and was not going to replace the GameBoy Advance. You stole my joke. :) To this day I am still confused by that marketing BS from when the DS was released....

In my regular DKC marathon I was unable to get Bazuka (in Mekanos) the "ammunition" and whatever that unlocks, thus preventing the found-all-items ending. I found online that there's a rare glitch earlier in the game when Blue (in Cotton-Top Cove) gives you the bowling ball, which prevents...

I'm betting that this SPC renamer is copying characters out of the SPC header into a string, assuming it's null-terminated in the SPC header, then concatenating ".spc" on the end. Since strings in the SPC header are NOT necessarily null-terminated, the previous string's contents are used p...