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Most games do not suffer from this problem (it's probably a few percent) - known culprits are games by Camelot, Doom/2, Driver 2, and some others. The "translation gates" are there to try to minimize this but it doesn't do enough for some games (and they're a real pain to find).
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This is because they thrash code in IWRAM forcing constant recompilations. Oh, and some games are going to be abnormally slow for other reasons, to varying degrees.
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Maybe I should release a modified version of the PC gpSP to aid in this. But these aren't things that you can really find out in VBA or any other disassembler that I know of. Of course, if the game spends a huge percentage of the frame time in that loop (especially for an obscene number of cycles that wouldn't be feasible on a real GBA) then it's probably an idle loop. But if you don't really understand the ARM disassembly then you're liable to crush code that isn't an idle loop at all, potentially wrecking the game (if you've improved FPS substantially but the game runs as bad or worse then you might have just skewered the game's timing resulting in "internal lag"). If nothing's changing overall in registers then it's probably an idle loop. The thing is, to really know if something is an idle loop you need to carefully inspect the entire loop to see what it's doing it's somewhat of a fixed point problem. The SDL/debug version has a good debugger (especially the version on the CVS) but lacks the benefits of having a GUI.
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The debugging utilities for the Windows version are almost nonexistent. Finding them isn't that hard, I can get a rough idea in the PC version of gpSP then fine tune it in an emulator with a disassembler.īTW, I recommend using something like Boycott Advance, Mappy VM, or Advance Debugger instead of VBA. If anyone wants me to find if a game has an idle loop and what it is I can do is within a few minutes - if the game is trying to run ~280,000 or more instructions per cycle with every instruction timed to take one cycle then it's probably using idle loops (a real GBA could never run this many), so that's easy to check for. For some games that do idle loop it'll barely make a difference to have them eliminated (like later MMBN games). Most popular games that do have idle loops have already had them detected. When I say a majority I mean more than half. both Mojipittan and Warioware froze up on me only a couple of times but when playing 16 MB ROMs like Advance Wars 1+2 or Rhythm Tengoku lockups seemed to appear more frequently.ītw, I'm running FW 2.1.1, using gmenu2x.įortunately (or not, depending on your perspective) a majority of games do the right thing and use the BIOS routines to wait for interrupts rather than using idle loops. However, it seemed to me as though "smaller" ROMs (=8 MB) ran more stable. Now I don't know if this information is of any use, it could just be nothing more than random observations. Maybe it's got something to do with gmenu2x as well, since I only put the gpsp2x files and some ROMs on the smaller card. I then used a 64 MB card I had lying around to give it another shot: I was able to play FF4j (8 MB) for about an hour, before I quit and loaded up Rhythm Tengoku (16 MB), played for maybe 15 minutes without any problems, then went to sleep (as it was already past 2 a.m. Also, I couldn't get any ROMs larger than 8 MB file size to load from NAND though admittedly I only tried two ROMs with 16 MB file size. and Mojipittan worked like a charm, but Gyakuten Saiban 3 froze after about 10 minutes in the game. it's just a wild guess, but is it possible that the random freezes might be related to SD cards and/or size of the ROMs? I've got quite a mess of data on my main 2GB card, so I tried loading a couple of ROMs from the NAND Warioware Inc. Slashank, how long did it take you to find these new loops? Did you stop "Automatic Update" every now and then to check the addresses? Maybe we should start a separate thread, or use the wiki to keep track of our findings. guess there's no way around the Windows version for now. I also tried to fiddle around a bit with the linux version of VBA yesterday, but unfortunately it doesn't come with a disassembler. Anyway, glad I could be of help I'll keep my eyes open if there's anything new on the Japanese site, but it seems like there hasn't been much activity lately. worst thing is, they don't have any cold beer in purgatory.
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