Playguy New GBC Emulator for Win!

[emuxhaven]

<font color='#000000'>Hi all

Well On behalf of the author (JC) of this great new GBC emulator PlayGuy (http://playguyemu.tripod.com/) I am posting this topic for all who would like to help the author in deciding what features you'd like in this emulator !
Lets start with whats present now :
Requirements
Requires Win95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP (untested in some OSes, require feedback on 95,NT,XP)
CPU speed requirements unknown - require user feedback. Pentium class?

Features

Color and Classic GameBoy support - auto-detection of GBC functions.
16, 32(24) bpp color support.
Three pre-defined windowed sizes - Small (1x), Medium (approx. half screen height), Large (largest possible integer multiple).
Fullscreen at 640x480 - 3x.
Superior sound support - All four sound channels fully emulated in stereo. Selectable sound channels and sampling rate.
Save States.
Fully customizable button inputs - keyboard and joystick support.
MBC1/MBC2/MBC3/MBC5 support. Real-time clock support for MBC3 is untested and may not work yet.
Drag & Drop Support.
Auto Frame Skip.
Full CPU core emulation, accurate timings, interrupts, DMA, etc.

Planned Features in Future Releases

GameLink support - support of the serial link over an internet connection.
Super GameBoy functions.
Additional video display options.
Obscure mapper support, debug MBC3 real-time clock.
Rumble Pak support.


Now your wish list : Post what you'd like or wish to be added in this great new emulator!

Btw all Get the latest first release of this emulator from the main PlayGuy site : http://playguyemu.tripod.com/</font>

[brightman]

<font color='#000080'>Video filters/blitters!</font>

[Rodney Jason]

<font color='RED-GREEN'>I ran the emu on my comp (specs are in my sig) it ran all the games i tried at full speed. I think this emu is very nice, one thing i would like to see in it is some graphic filters.</font>

[emuxhaven]

<font color='#000000'>Well so far this emulator is doing great : I have tried DragonWarrior Masters and it runs great. Speed is great and graphics are fine.

PIII 500 mhz
256 mb ram
ATI Rage 128
Win98 SE

I'll probably put some screenshots later. Nice work on this emulator JC .</font>

[playguy]

<font color='#000000'>Various Wish-List Requests from Email
not listed in "Planned Features"
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1. Zipped File Support (ZZipLib probably)
2. VSync support (Added in next release)
3. Game ASCII Title in Titlebar
4. MRU (Most Recently Used) Rom List
5. Pausing (Menu item & when out of focus)
6. "Close Rom" menu item.
7. Menu item accelerator keys
8. Record MRU Window size in configuration</font>

[emuxhaven]

<font color='#000000'>Here are some screenshots of PlayGuy running DragonWarrior Masters :

http://www.emuxhaven.net/daily/playguy/dwmasters_1.gif</img>

http://www.emuxhaven.net/daily/playguy/dwmasters_2.gif</img>

http://www.emuxhaven.net/daily/playguy/dwmasters_3.gif</img>

http://www.emuxhaven.net/daily/playguy/dwmasters_4.gif</img></font>

[InFiniTy]

<font color='#8D38C9'>i waz jus wonderin, does anyone else use vba to play gbc roms?.....i only use a gbc emu if the rom is not compatible</font>

[playguy]

<font color='#000000'>Ok,

The PlayGuy Homepage has officially moved to Emu X Haven.

PlayGuy Homepage (http://www.emuxhaven.net/~playguy/)

Regards,
JC</font>

[emuxhaven]

<font color='#000000'>Please allow me to be the first to welcome you to the Emu X Haven Community! I am very happy to have a great project and a good author on Emu X Haven! It is projects like this that makes us stronger and with this new progressing nicely emulator I know we will be! Keep up the great work !

Come on people, lets here those Emu X Haven welcomes ! http://www.emuxhaven.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif</font>

[Edea]

<font color='#000000'>Hey I'm supposed to be the first! &nbsp;http://www.emuxhaven.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif &nbsp;http://www.emuxhaven.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif
Anyways, Playguy welcome to the wonderful family known as emuxhaven. The emu looks great. Hope to see you on irc! &nbsp;http://www.emuxhaven.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif</font>

[Angel316]

<font color='#000000'>Welcome and enjoy ur stay! i'll get out of ur way!</font>

[Rodney Jason]

<font color='RED-GREEN'><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td>Quote (playguy @ July 02 2002,20:07)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Various Wish-List Requests from Email
not listed in "Planned Features"
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1. Zipped File Support (ZZipLib probably)[/b][/quote]

I like the idea of .zip support, but i would also like to see .rar support because rar has better compression than zip

Welcome to EmuXHaven PlayGuy</font>



Last edited by Rodney Jason at 1025714880

[Cero]

<font color='#736AFF'>Welcome man http://www.emuxhaven.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif

Well, I only tried 2 roms with this emu, Pokemon Crystal and Megaman Extreme. Pkmn generated and error and it closed. And Megaman is dead on perfect.

1.2 Ghz Athlon Tbird
GF2 TI
256 Mb Ram
WinXP Pro + 2000 Server</font>

[playguy]

<font color='#000000'>What kind of error did you get on Pokemon Crystal? I was able to run it on my PC (English version). Different version? Corrupt headers, etc? Does it run in other emulators? Corrupted ROM? Also it is an MBC3 cartridge and there could have been an error related to the RTC, which I'm pretty sure doesn't work right now.

Thanks for the input,
JC</font>

[Nelio_is_cool]

<font color='#000000'>Maybe Support To Annother system also?
oh and Great Emu!</font>

[Reina]

<font color='#26937A'>1.Default GBA support... to fool The legend of Zelda OOA and OOS into thinking its running on a GBA and allows yah to get into the advance shop...

2.Singal Computer linking (2 windows for two different people) w/ ability to load 2 different games yet have em recognize eacg other...

3.Have that strange green color (or atleast in an option) a normal GB puts off on normal Gameboy games (not gameboy color)... games just don't look right w/o it IMO...

That about the some of it...

And welcome to EmuXhaven</font>

[matt1freek]

<font color='#000000'>ay bro. happy birhday to playguy! http://www.emuxhaven.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/birthday.gif &nbsp;la de friggin da! http://www.emuxhaven.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/rotflmao.gif</font>

[Cero]

<table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td>Quote (playguy @ July 03 2002,01:15)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"><font color='#000000'>What kind of error did you get on Pokemon Crystal? I was able to run it on my PC (English version). Different version? Corrupt headers, etc? Does it run in other emulators? Corrupted ROM? Also it is an MBC3 cartridge and there could have been an error related to the RTC, which I'm pretty sure doesn't work right now.

Thanks for the input,
JC</font>[/b][/quote]
<font color='#736AFF'>Ahh Sorry for the late reply, but as it turns out, the rom is bad, very very bad, Cowering tools doesnt even recognize it. So thats my fault, sorry.</font>

[playguy]

<font color='#000000'>Yeah, I've seen many roms that some fool used an ASCII transfer mode. I once took a look at a handful of corrupted roms in a hex editor and started to wonder why every occurence of CR was immediately followed by LF. doh!</font>

[Phantom Phreak]

<font color='#000000'>ok add game genie or gameshark ability to it</font>

[Cero]

<table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td>Quote (Phantom Phreak @ July 07 2002,10:31)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"><font color='#000000'>ok add game genie or gameshark ability to it</font>[/b][/quote]
<font color='#736AFF'>Yea, that'd be nice. I'm sure doom thinks the same. http://www.emuxhaven.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif BUT FOR THE LOVE OF GOD! MAKE SURE YOU PUT AN EDIT BUTTON!!! Rite Doom? http://www.emuxhaven.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif http://www.emuxhaven.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif</font>