Sweet, joystick support. Thank you for the new 0.2.0 release

Thanks for the joystick support.

The only problem is the lack of joystick POV hat support.

I was about the request the same thing, seeing as I have both a joystick and DPad on the same gamepad. I think that the initial joystick support which is written in the changelog is there for a reason.

As I didn't know what values to expect from a POV hat, I left that out. It's trivial to add, I just need to know how to meaningfully convert it's output to boolean values.

This is how DirectInput handles POV hat values. I imagine it will be the same or very similar for SDL Input.



You could obviously replace ? 0x80 : 0x00 with ? true : false, as well.

It appears to be well documented too. It would have taken a ridiculously tiny amount of effort to support this in the first place. Oh well.

"POV hat? Wth is that? Bleh, let's just leave it out and see if it generates any whining."

sweet, well any bug I ran into in the last version has vanished so great work! Do you currently have any known bugs with any games or has no one bugtested the emu yet?

either way it works for everything I use, you're really on the ball and updated quite quickly. Good luck in the future!

Here's another vote for adding POV-hat support.
That's the biggest shortcoming of this impressive emulator for now.

POV hat = D-PAD on all modern joypads,if you didn't know that.The POV hat originally appeared in (older) flight-sim joysticks and was used for a different purpose (for changing views).It was shaped like a hat,hence its name.But in all modern gamepads the POV hat is something completely different - its the equivalent of the digital pad in PSX/XBOX etc. controllers.It's strange how the name of this controller wasn't changed for gamepads to reflect its new purpose.

Imagine being forced to play all your 2D games with the analog stick of your PlayStation gamepad.It's worse than using an Atari2600 joystick to play Quake 4

Some quality PC gamepads have a switch to remap the analog stick to the POV hat,but most of them do not. Even when remapped it doesn't work as it should in all cases.

So almost all quality emulators now have support for the POV hat.

POV hat support has my vote as well, 'grats on adding the joystick support though

Same here. No emulator these days should be without POV hat support. And kick is right about the Mode button that switches the function of the POV hat and the left analog stick.

I know that Logitech pads have it, but most gamepads do not.

My old Saitek P880 has one

in that case joypad PO-hat (aka d-pad) support would be appriciated, but it's not a priority for me. If you have other work in the emu I'd do that first.

Also, I'm done comparing, but just so you're aware KiGB just released a new version today

here

you definately have them trumped on hardware accuracy but I'd love to see your compatibility list, so far everything works but I haven't exactly been testing roms or anything.

I much prefer Gambatte to KiGB's "DOS" style gui. I couldn't even exit the app via the "x" on KiGB.

Keep up the good work, Sinamas.

Sinamas: I'm trying to figure out the purpose of syncFunc, but I'm having a hard time following what it's doing. Could you enlighten me?

It's waiting until a frame's worth of time has passed since the last time it was called. More equal display time of each frame -> smoother video.

where is the syncFunc function located?

There's a copy of syncFunc.cpp with the sdl front end.



Okey dokey - that makes things easier.

hmm I am a windows user and can't seem to locate the front end.
If at all possible it would be neat to access these features in windows also.

if my statements are misguided or ignorant, please enlighten me.

Is it possible to add a power on/off or "reset" function to the emulator?

"Power on/off" would be more appropriate since there's no actual hardware "reset" button on the Gameboy...Just mentionning it because on consoles like the Snes, those two things are actual separate entities (i.e: some Snes games use the reset switch to a limited extend)

Just saying might as well get the proper name if Sinamas adds the feature.

besides, what's wrong with pressing Start+Select+A+B anyway to reset the GB? it works in any emulator/ROM..

I knew that, that's why I put "reset" in quotes, as in that is what it is doing, but there is no reset function.



I had forgotten about this feature, or didn't know it existed, I have only ever experienced this with sega gaming machines. Thanks.

Because then you get the inevitable problem reports like "My teh emulator won't reset when I prass those 4 buttonz!@!!!!1" due to keyboard limitations on simultaneous keys pressed.

also do gameboy games differentiate between a hard reset and a soft reset? i'd imagine some games would, and that would make it a legitimate addition.

Agree. Then again, I suppose one could always re-load the rom and it would act as a power on/off, but it would be easier to have this feature.