Near Full Speed Snes Emulation!


andrewe1

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Whoa just saw these new SNES9x videos running mario world and donkey kong country on the dingoo at near full speed or full speed, much better than
the original stock emulator anyways!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NB5OTDgrmpw&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fdingoo-scene.blogspot.com%2F&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Msr2V2gclk&feature=related

Can't wait till I get my miniSD card so I put linux on my dingoo...

The Devs are doing GREAT work and so fast too!


Cheers!
 
This makes it a very attractive impulse buy. Even more so than another handheld. :)
 
I was always quite happy with how well the Snes was emulated on the GP2X. I remember people complaining about it not being full-speed – I used to just think “meh – a little slow down and some frame-skip is hardly that noticeable”.

However, after taking ownership of a Dingoo and putting on Snes9x via Linux – I can safely say that it’s a really noticeable improvement. I was playing Final Fight 3 on it yesterday and could really appreciate how much smoother all the sprite animation is compared to the GP2X.

Considering this emulator is a straight port with no optimizations (yet) it’s quite exciting to think what this little handheld is capable of (I’d go so far as to say PSX is not impossible).

If you’re a Snes enthusiast you need this gadget!
 
cyclone5uk said:
However, after taking ownership of a Dingoo and putting on Snes9x via Linux – I can safely say that it’s a really noticeable improvement. I was playing Final Fight 3 on it yesterday and could really appreciate how much smoother all the sprite animation is compared to the GP2X.

FF3 is full speed and very smooth on the GP2X. Even with frameskip 0 it gives a fps 50. You should test a more demanding game like F-Zero.
 
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cyclone5uk said:
F-Zero's really smooth too.
Can you also see the fps somewhere? I also think F-Zero plays smooth on the GP2X, but it's not 50 (37 overclocked to 270) so it is certainly skipping some frames.
 
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(Lucky you - My GP2X would never overclock above 250mhz!)

Right now Snes9x on Dingux has no menus, so can't enable frame counter. Hopefully Snes9x will get updated shortly to inlcude menus, save states, volume control and fullscreen.
 
For a version of snes9x with fps display go here:
http://a320.freeforums.org/snes-emulator-select-button-problem-t843-10.html
 
cyclone5uk said:
F-Zero's really smooth too.

did anyone test the new version with select key enabled (see new files section) ? it veeeery slow... f-zero shows 5 fps here :(
 
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pongplaya said:
cyclone5uk said:
F-Zero's really smooth too.

did anyone test the new version with select key enabled (see new files section) ? it veeeery slow... f-zero shows 5 fps here :(

I tried it - and I don't think the counter knows how to measure fps. I tried Fzero 2 - and the counter kept telling me I was only getting 15fps, but the game played fast and smooth. So I'm not going to worry about the counter.

I just wonder if the "newer" version of SNES9x is actually newer or more outdated than the original? The file is about a third the size of the original SNES9X file. Was the first version released also 1.39?
 
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