Demul v0.58

[joe35car]

[07 july 2013] DEmul 0.58 WIP

http://demul.emulation64.com/

Changelist:

- GAELCO: new system added with two games supported: Smashing Drive and ATV Track

- HIKARU: new system support added, a lot more of work needed

- AWAVE: Sega Bass Fishing Challenge romset added

- AWAVE: use MAME's NGBC rom, enable BBA

- CORE: FPU opcodes timing fix ("Dead Or Alive 2" slowdown fix)

- CORE: MMU sh4 fix

- CORE: addc, subc opcodes for SH2/SH3/SH4 fix

- CORE: dreamcast various fixes

- CORE: fcmpeq NAND case fix

- CORE: ftrc NaNd round fix

- CORE: ftrc int/rec opcode fix

- CORE: heap corruption fix

- CORE: internal DMAC support

- CORE: invalidate code SH4 fix

- CORE: trapa SH2 fix

- DC: a lot of game-specific fixes, now more games are playable or glitch-free

- DX11: bump mapping added

- DX11: order independent transparency added

- DX11: render to texture full rewrite

- DX11: scaling added

- DX11: shadow volume full refactor

- DX11: translucent modifier inplemented

- DX11: two volume modifier implemented

- GDROM: gdrom threading disabled

- GPU: DX10/DX11 support for Hardware and Software renders (can be played virtually on any GPU card, but obviously very slow)

- GPU: much correct volumes support

- GPU: workaround for ATI bugs

- NAOMI2: new model cache system

- NAOMI2: reflect fix

- NAOMI2: render to texture fix

- NAOMI2: various improvements

- NAOMI: Crackin DJ controls fix

- NAOMI: Gun Spike auto-coin fix

- NAOMI: Ninja Assault Export (NJA4verA) added

- NAOMI: Ninja Assault light gun fix

- NAOMI: add 2 new USA bioses

- NAOMI: new romsets added: initdv3j with key, Star Horse, Shakatto Tambourine 2001 Spring, Ninja Assault new rev, crackndj2, gunsur2 alt rev, marstv, Radirgy new rev, etc...

- NET: BBA network support (TAP driver / OpenVPN needed, modem isn't supported yet)

- NET: sync flash/eeprom/etc

- PAD: dead zones, dc triggers fix

- PAD: full xinput support

- VMS: fixed parsing crash on some VMS files

- VMS: various fixes

[Trnzaddict]

I don't believe it I was thinking about this yesterday thinking it would never release and now bam.

I wonder if they added in dual lightgun support....but I look more forward to the dx11 gpu fixes.

Either way I'm glad they released it. Now hopefully our Naomi emulation can improve even more!

P.S-I caught that Gunspike coin bug:) Glad they fixed it.

[djvj]

I only care to know if I can get rid of the 56 and 57 modules for just a 58 module. I need you guys to do testing on existing games to see if its as good as 56 or better since 57 was worse than 56 in stability, but added support for a few new games.

[Circo]

I guess on top of everything else its time to redo the demul vids again

[AshuraX]

Yes Great News! Now we can go working! ^^

[mesk]

Well one good thing is that you can see the mouse cursor when playing gun games.i.e. House of the Dead

[loppydog]

I only care to know if I can get rid of the 56 and 57 modules for just a 58 module

I was thinking the same thing . I have been holding off setting up demul for this reason!

[joe35car]

I'm hearing some good feedback on this version. I only tested a few games and so far so good. I hope they add a module for it.

[Trnzaddict]

Yea they definitely fixed a lot of visual corruption on Naomi games/Sammy Games.

But correct aspect ratio is still broken...play any of the vertical games and they are still stretched out.

Plus this version is kicking the shit out of my video card. Might need to upgrade.

[joe35car]

I only care to know if I can get rid of the 56 and 57 modules for just a 58 module. I need you guys to do testing on existing games to see if its as good as 56 or better since 57 was worse than 56 in stability, but added support for a few new games.

Here are some people's thoughts on the new Demul 0.58. Looks promising for a new module. Dreamcast games in my opinion should use nullDC and arcade games should use demul for games that MAME cant play.

http://www.mameworld.info/ubbthreads/showflat.php?Number=311211

[brolly]

It won't work on XP, so it will have to wait until I buy a new PC for me.

[joe35car]

Oh yes Brolly that is a dinosaur OS Get at least 64bit win7 or win8. Plays MAME so much better and other systems I'm sure.

[brolly]

By the time I'm ready to buy a new machine (ie when I have my HS setup almost the way I want it) I'm sure Win7 and Win8 will be obsolete already

Everything plays fine in XP, so unless developers start using DX11 only like the Demul guys did there's no major reason to change for me.

[joe35car]

moved post.

[jcm9800]

i have now the complette new romset and when i have the time i will try it out and report my experience with the new demul

[jcm9800]

hello guys now i have the first test phase with the new demul build and i must say that it blows me away the picture quality is a great step in the ride side now you can chance your internal resolution up for 6 times this is really great even when you set up the resolution 2 times the picture is most sharper really great for now i tried capcom vs snk millenium fight the only one that had issues in dx 11 and i set it to dx 10 and there it works great the rest toy fighter, dead or alive 2,18 wheeler bad that you can not drive .-) and death crimson on naomi board runs great the only issue that i see sometimes at the start you have to enable the first hack in game you can turn it off i have also tried demolish fist and dolphin blue from atomiswave the are running really much better from naomi 2 i have tried out virta fighter 4 thats looks much better and is a lot better playable then at demul 0.57 okay that was my first impression when i have tried out more i will report it to if anyone wants that try it out its really a big step forward and there are also more revisions of some games

[somail]

Oh yes Brolly that is a dinosaur OS Get at least 64bit win7 or win8. Plays MAME so much better and other systems I'm sure.

Unless you are using a CRT and you have to contend with Win7's interlace problem. Hopefully Goovymame's creater comes up with a fix in the next year or so. After that there will be no reason to stay with XP.

[Trnzaddict]

hello guys now i have the first test phase with the new demul build and i must say that it blows me away the picture quality is a great step in the ride side now you can chance your internal resolution up for 6 times this is really great even when you set up the resolution 2 times the picture is most sharper really great for now i tried capcom vs snk millenium fight the only one that had issues in dx 11 and i set it to dx 10 and there it works great the rest toy fighter, dead or alive 2,18 wheeler bad that you can not drive .-) and death crimson on naomi board runs great the only issue that i see sometimes at the start you have to enable the first hack in game you can turn it off i have also tried demolish fist and dolphin blue from atomiswave the are running really much better from naomi 2 i have tried out virta fighter 4 thats looks much better and is a lot better playable then at demul 0.57 okay that was my first impression when i have tried out more i will report it to if anyone wants that try it out its really a big step forward and there are also more revisions of some games

Can I ask what video card you are running please?

On 0.58 for me, my cpu is getting used a lousy 12-20% usage yet games are stuttering bad, on 0.57 they are smooth as butter. I'm convinced my video card is bottlenecking this because they have seemed to add alot of new gpu emulation which, as they say the more accurate the emulation gets the slower it will become.

I'm on a ATI 6570 btw.

It seems this emu is very dependent on powerful gpu hardware and not so much processor power.

[jcm9800]

i have a oc jetstream gtx 680 4 gb trnzaddict and on my pc all runs near fullspeed in some games i can set the resolution to 6x but when you have so much problems it looks like that you are right and it needs a powerful gpu

[AshuraX]

Lot of games runs perfectly on the 5.7 module, like vitua tennis 1&2, fist of the north star, gunspike, virtua NBA etc.... Great results!

Maybe need i little update of the module to add new features.

[jcm9800]

yes it running great on the demul 5.7 module yes this would be great a update from one of the gurus here please ;-) were great ashurax your controls with x box 360 joypads also dont works good like in zombie revenge? and i think the have somthing chanched in the controller inis the driving lightgun usw configs from demul 5.7 module dont work to

[AshuraX]

Sorry buddy, i'm not using 360xbox controller on my cabinet!

[jcm9800]

how have you configured the driving games in demul then?

[AshuraX]

I don't use it for now, maybe later!

[Drkdweller]

So do the pros out way the cons on updating from .57 to .58?