Shahzad Sahaib's Articles

fNES32 WIP (NES emulator for GP32)
Text taken fromGP32emu.com:Ryleh sent Atrkid a beta of his WIP NES emulator fNES32 for the GP32. Its looking great so far running at around 100% speed with sound on Frame Skip 1 on Mario 1 for example, the sound isnt quite perfect in some games just yet but its definately playable. Most of the games he tested worked great, just some issues with some games such as Megaman 3 in the stage selection screen, Zelda when changing screens and GFX glitches in Kirby 3.Ryleh is planning to add multiplayer, snapshots and savestates later today and will probably fix some other bugs like the sound and game errors mentioned above.Screenshots can be viewed over at GP32emu.http://www.gp32emu.com
Vecx GP v1 (Vectrex emulator for GP32)
Text taken fromGP32emu.com:Not long after the first release of this Vectrex emulator for the GP32 comes the second. This version has input and improvements to the CPU core. There is also a frameskip which should speed things up.http://www.gp32emu.com
Tony-Targets (GP32 game)
Text taken fromGP32x.com:Take control of Tony Blairs' dismembered head and fire lazer beams out of his cold, dead eyes. The full game will see you targeting all of Tone's enemies in a challenging battle against freedom and democracy. The game will also feature bonus stages where you must see off troublesome back-benchers and Robin Cook.http://www.wubfur.com/
Castaway GP Alpha 2 (Atari ST emulator for GP32)
Text taken from it's official page:Still not very usable, but this time we're talking *fast*. You can watch the ST boot and run to desktop in just a couple seconds. Heck, faster than a normal ST! The mouse is still broken, and a few other oddities.. but it looks good, and it runs good. So we're getting there!http://www.codejedi.com/shadowplan/gp32.html
MODPlay v0.30b (GP32 application)
MODPlay is a player of Amiga music files in the Pro/Soundtracker format for the GP32. I've updated the player with the following enhancements:Completely rewritten and user friendly file requesterLoading the modules from a ZIP archive (but you can still load them directly from the SMC)A playlistBug fix of the arpeggio effect in the play routineFurthermore, the sources of the play routine are available for the GP32, Sega Dreamcast and the PC (SDL and Allegro). The play routine has also been optimized a bit and should be slightly faster now. An updated precompiled binary is of course available for the GP32.http://chn.roarvgm.com/
New Sponsor – Play-Asia.com!
Most of you noticed that GameGizmo went out of bussiness two days ago. Now I was able to get a new sponsor. In fact the new sponsor's name is"Play-Asia.com"and they are going to support us for a while.I placed an order at Play-Asia.com a while back before they were our sponsor, and I can recommend them highly. I got my EMS parcel with the GP32 and Sonic 2 Gold Edition (for Dreamcast) in less than 5 days. Play-Asia.com offers a lot of different stuff so you might just have a look there. They have a bank account in .de .au and .hk so if you are ordering from Germany you don't have to pay expensive transfer fees etc... Paypal and Creditcard payment is supported too. But as said... just have a look there and leave feedback about Play-Asia.com in the PDroms webboard. - KojotePlay-Asia.com
Makebook v4.5 (GBA application)
GameBoy Book Reader allows you to make a text file into a book which you can read on the GameBoy or GameBoy Advance. You need to program the .GB or .GBA file produced onto a suitable FLASH memory cartridge.Makebook V4.5 has been a long time in the making. Adding a MIDI file-playing capability has involved a steep learning curve. This first release with MIDIs will simply allow a MIDI to be played on clicking a link. Further releases will allow MIDIs to be specified as background music to chosen sections of the book.The player uses wave table synthesis and includes a preset selection of sampled instruments to provide an authentic sound.The 'Exit to Shell' function provides a better experience with shell programs such as Pogoshell.Hebrew support mainly involved a right to left text ability. This was quite quick to add (about 2 hours). V4.5 also includes new 'combining characters' necessary for hebrew 'pointing'.A further new feature is to automatically select a display font in the Windows application based on the language of the text file being processed. If your computer has the font for that language installed you will see the text in the correct form.http://www.bookreader.co.uk/
Connect 4 (GP32 game)
Clem released a really neat"Connect 4"game. It supports 3D graphics including different angles to view the board.About the gameConnect-4 was first marketed by MB in the late 70s. MB later became a part of Hasbro. There is no reference to Connect-4 on www.hasbro.com, so I assume it's out-of-production in the US now. In Europe however it is still being sold (it's present on www.hasbro.at for example)Goal of the gameThe goal of Connect-4 is to have 4 tokens of your color in a row; either horizonatally, vertically or diagonally.InstallationPut the connect-4 executable in gp:gpmm or gp:game (if you can launch it from there). Create a connect4 subdirectory for the save file (this is optional, else the save file is placed in gp:gpmm)SavingConnect-4 saves the number of games won, lost and ending with draw to SMC, along with the highest unlocked difficulty level.http://www.unet.univie.ac.at/~a0200586/videogames/connect4.html