Beta Testing Has Begun!

[crualfoxhound]

@Xperia64

What do u mean by collision detection.

[crualfoxhound]

@paul.

With killer instincts gold
I got huge problem with both plugins.
First plugin there is huge flickering from starting logos plus backround gfx is black.
Second plugin the flickering is fixed still black backrounds. And ingame players are surrounded with black squares.
Any fix for this.

[scorpio16v]

What do u mean by collision detection.

As I remember, N64oid has the same problem on DK64. Donkeykong goes through walls,so the game is unplayable. That's a problem with the dynarec, cause in interpreter mode, detection works.

[Paul]

With killer instincts gold
I got huge problem with both plugins.
First plugin there is huge flickering from starting logos plus backround gfx is black.
Second plugin the flickering is fixed still black backrounds. And ingame players are surrounded with black squares.
Any fix for this.

Not at the moment, sorry.  It seems to do better with glide64mk2 (still a tad bit of flickering of the characters themselves in-game, though).

[Paul]

Published 2.2.1.  Relatively minor update (doesn't include the big SDL2 upgrade or Glide64 yet)

[ofm05]

Hey Paul it's been a while since I've been here. I got the GS4 US version and the FPS are very bad somewhere around 13-16. I was wondering if this is a snap dragon issue?

[Paul]

I don't think it is snapdragon specifically (there are a wide range of snapdragons, and not all of them have this problem).  From what I've seen, it seems to be specifically the combination of Krait CPU and two versions of Adreno GPU.  The phones I know of that have this problem:

Galaxy S3, US variant (Krait, Adreno 225)
Galaxy S4, US variant (Krait, Adreno 320)
HTC One (Krait, Adreno 320)
Sony Xperia Z (Krait, Adreno 320)

That's not to say other combinations of Adreno/ Snapdragon aren't also affected, but those are the names that keep coming up in rating comments, github issues, and support emails over and over again.

[littleguy]

Maybe we need a kickstarter campaign to buy Paul a GS4 and get the problem solved 

Seriously, we desperately need a developer on board who owns one of these problem models.  They don't need to know a lot about emulators or anything... just someone who can build the source, run it on their device, and pull in changes from github so that we can speed up the debug cycle.  The problem is probably something simple to fix, but we need to use a shotgun approach on this.

[Paul]

LOL, I'm planning to get a GS3 soon.  Budget has been a little tight with tax season, but we're starting to get back on track now.

@ofm05, would you mind running the latest GS3 Test?  Presumably the GS4 is running Jellybean, so should be easy to get us the logcat by clicking the crash report test (hopefully the useful section of the log makes it through).  Instructions in this thread.

[ofm05]

Paul I sent you the test report, I hope it helps.

[Paul]

Thanks, it made it through, but didn't get the useful piece.  Those logs tend to fill up very quickly, so it is hard to capture the useful bit (maybe there is a setting in Acra to increase the log size?)

Anyway, could you try that test again.  Do the following steps as quickly as possible (the output we are trying to get prints out right after you start a game):

1) Start Mario 64
2) Select "Exit" from in-game menu
3) Press Back -> Settings -> Advanced -> Test

Hopefully if you do it quickly enough, the useful section will still be visible.  Sorry for the hassle!

[ofm05]

Okay I sent you two more. Hope that helps this time lol

[Paul]

Actually, doesn't look like we can get the useful log info that way.  Even when the log isn't maxed out at 300 lines, Acra only grabs past this like:

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D/ACRA (17010): ACRA is enabled for paulscode.android.mupen64plusae, intializing...
I'm not sure where that happens in the process, but it seems to be after the game has shut down, because I see nothing logged related to the emulator itself.  We'll have to think of another way to get the desired information into the crash report (maybe with a custom field or something)

[ofm05]

When I start the game you want me to exit at the main menu or during gameplay?

Or just start and leave ?

Maybe I been doing it wrong.

[Paul]

The game should start.  Make sure it is finished initializing (don't exit until you see some game graphics show up on the screen, not just the touchscreen controls).  Then exit the game, Back to the main menu, then Settings -> Advanced -> Test