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Ultimate Amiga Emulation => PSPUAE => News and Announcements => Topic started by: FOL on May 26, 2008, 01:40:00 PM
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I have been rewriting this over the past few months. I had it mostly intergrated into the site, I wasnt happy with this, so now I have it fully intergrated, working off site data, sessions, etc etc.
Basically, im after people to maintain it, as the original reviewer vanished. They would need to add reviews for games and pspuae settings for games. You can see what is required, by selecting SpeedBall 2. It also has to be your own reviews, not reviews taken from other sites (as this causes problems).
Please post if your interested.
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lol, take it no one is interested, :(.
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i want help but you know main problem.. :-\
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i'll add some if / when i have time
whdload development is still my priority atm i'm afraid.
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Probably the biggest job known to man FOL! maybe thats why everyones being a tad shy, it certainly shouldn't be taken lightly, that's probably why the previous database game reviewer disappeard - maybe he died from fatigue :-X
Everyone has different opinions on different games - I couldn't take it on, mainly because I'm to biased towards games I like. Remaining impartial would be to difficult a task for this old retro nut!
I still reckon you would be better served letting individuals review each game that they knew and loved, that way you'd get more reviews and more people intrested, not to mention - different reviewers!
imagine reviewing 50 games you didn't really like, the interest levels would surely start to deteriorate rather abruptly, a shame but inevitibly true.
Still think you should have a link to the http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=pspuae
site under GALLERY or PSPUAE VIDEOS, then let people leave a review/reviews and comments, ratings, opinions, best pspuaue configs ect. plus the bonus of seeing the game actually running on your emulator :)
Obviously I'll keep updating the amount of games videos running on the emulator but maybe people could add reviews to accompany there favorite titles and maybe the best configs for running it best on PSPUAE latest version.
Your my boss though! :-*
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www.youtube.com/pspuae is a nicer loooking link ;)
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Not very good on links and stuff, I'll concur with the previous gentlemen's statement :)
got a few days off work, so got a little more time to hang out.
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Probably the biggest job known to man FOL! maybe thats why everyones being a tad shy, it certainly shouldn't be taken lightly, that's probably why the previous database game reviewer disappeard - maybe he died from fatigue :-X
Everyone has different opinions on different games - I couldn't take it on, mainly because I'm to biased towards games I like. Remaining impartial would be to difficult a task for this old retro nut!
I still reckon you would be better served letting individuals review each game that they knew and loved, that way you'd get more reviews and more people intrested, not to mention - different reviewers!
imagine reviewing 50 games you didn't really like, the interest levels would surely start to deteriorate rather abruptly, a shame but inevitibly true.
Still think you should have a link to the http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=pspuae
site under GALLERY or PSPUAE VIDEOS, then let people leave a review/reviews and comments, ratings, opinions, best pspuaue configs ect. plus the bonus of seeing the game actually running on your emulator :)
Obviously I'll keep updating the amount of games videos running on the emulator but maybe people could add reviews to accompany there favorite titles and maybe the best configs for running it best on PSPUAE latest version.
Your my boss though! :-*
Indeed it is, but reviews are not needed to fill in the Compatability part (could just add the configs for games). Granted not everyones config will be the same, but thats the point we need configs that work. So people can check to see if a game works with pspuae and with what settings.
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wont the configs be out of date on the next release though, then they will all need re-doing?
I guess I could list the configs I have used to get the game running as shown on U-tube videos. Not sure they are best though, like you said, everyone will have there own way and preference.
An example is using auto for frame skipping or setting it to very high levels to gain speed, this often leads to a rather nasty side effect of rubbish, jerky gameplay and awful sound.
I always set frameskip to 25 fps and CPU = chipset 45% and adjust from their, but not at the expense of bad sound or impossible gameplay. I like things as smooth as possible with decent sound, even if that means not the fastest running setting.
I do play and see if the CPU = Chipset 45% causes graphic glitches, occassionally it does, usually the higher % rating.
It raises that debate again, speed over everything else!
Still settle for decent sound and playability over speed myself, let the speed freaks carry on moaning about there infinite quest of the perfect 0 fps! :o
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wont the configs be out of date on the next release though, then they will all need re-doing?
I guess I could list the configs I have used to get the game running as shown on U-tube videos. Not sure they are best though, like you said, everyone will have there own way and preference.
An example is using auto for frame skipping or setting it to very high levels to gain speed, this often leads to a rather nasty side effect of rubbish, jerky gameplay and awful sound.
I always set frameskip to 25 fps and CPU = chipset 45% and adjust from their, but not at the expense of bad sound or impossible gameplay. I like things as smooth as possible with decent sound, even if that means not the fastest running setting.
I do play and see if the CPU = Chipset 45% causes graphic glitches, occassionally it does, usually the higher % rating.
It raises that debate again, speed over everything else!
Still settle for decent sound and playability over speed myself, let the speed freaks carry on moaning about there infinite quest of the perfect 0 fps! :o
lol, :). GCDB is exactly what is says it is. Its just settings used to get a game working. Not our concern to get the perfect config, thats down to users to sort. Plus that what R.I.S.S.'s are for, ;). I havent updated the settings yet to include the new features. Dont see the point if no one is going to add settings used to get game x working.
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I will help, but don't expect me to do everything. I am sorry if I was un-reliable last time, I should be a bit more stable now that the laptop is in a half working state. If we miss each other in the chat then just PM anything I need to know on adding stuff to the database.
I need to ask you a question about my laptop since your good with that kind of thing, but I shall wait until I see you in the chat room.
Grey still isn't my colour... ;)
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I will help, but don't expect me to do everything. I am sorry if I was un-reliable last time, I should be a bit more stable now that the laptop is in a half working state. If we miss each other in the chat then just PM anything I need to know on adding stuff to the database.
I need to ask you a question about my laptop since your good with that kind of thing, but I shall wait until I see you in the chat room.
Grey still isn't my colour... ;)
Aye, ok, :).
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I've started a review of Flashback, I just need to talk about the gameplay and sum up my review. I should have it finished in a bit, but feel free to let me know what you guys think of it so far.
We need someone to help with screenshots, I will do it as I go, but I would rather have someone else do it so I can concentrate on the reviews, any help would be appreciated.
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I've started a review of Flashback, I just need to talk about the gameplay and sum up my review. I should have it finished in a bit, but feel free to let me know what you guys think of it so far.
We need someone to help with screenshots, I will do it as I go, but I would rather have someone else do it so I can concentrate on the reviews, any help would be appreciated.
So the admin control is working fine, :).
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Yes boss, all is well.
When I look at a game's details, publisher is mis-spelt.
When I edit a game with a reviews already in I have to re-enter all the reviews into the input frames otherwise they get cut off. This means that if someone else edits any of the details, the person who originally wrote the review has to re-enter the whole review! Try it with flashback if you like, I've saved the review on my computer so I can fix it later.
Also, when editing an entry, I have to select its 'alphabet category' every time otherwise it will default to cd32 when I save.
Everything else seems to load correctly and save correctly, but I really need these issues sorted before I continue with the rest of the reviews.
Good job though on the whole GCDB, its very useful, very easy to use and is relatively easy to add/edit entries. HOORAY FOR FOL!
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Yes boss, all is well.
When I look at a game's details, publisher is mis-spelt.
When I edit a game with a reviews already in I have to re-enter all the reviews into the input frames otherwise they get cut off. This means that if someone else edits any of the details, the person who originally wrote the review has to re-enter the whole review! Try it with flashback if you like, I've saved the review on my computer so I can fix it later.
Also, when editing an entry, I have to select its 'alphabet category' every time otherwise it will default to cd32 when I save.
Everything else seems to load correctly and save correctly, but I really need these issues sorted before I continue with the rest of the reviews.
Good job though on the whole GCDB, its very useful, very easy to use and is relatively easy to add/edit entries. HOORAY FOR FOL!
Spelling, didnt notice, thanks for that, I will correct.
Yeh, I had a problem, upped the characters in the DB, but it still cut off, so I made 3 paragraphs. Simply enter each paragraph into each of the 3 text input fields and its cool. Will have to look into retifying this.
EDIT:- Oh my, I never had this problem. I did just test with IE7, you using IE7? As at home I use FireFox. In work we are forced to use IE as all the manufacturers dont support FireFox, :(. Shame on SONY.
Alphabetical cat, this should be easy to solve.
Its harder testing stuff yourself. Glad you found these issues., :).
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I'm using firefox. What are you saving the data in?
php+database? Let me know and ill ask my coding friend or ill search for an answer via google.
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skateblind I uploaed a new Another world (RISS) video today, it shows that you need to load the riss twice on pspuae 0.70b, this can be seen at start of video, the red guru screen appears at the copyright screen.
I'll add videos as you do each review, seems to make sense, maybe include a link underneath review.
its here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2wt0ThytcU
:)
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I shall do that if FOL is cool with it, which I am sure he will be. Hopefully FOL won't mind using the actual video on the page, but still have it hosted by Youtube. What do you say FOL?
Good job with the video, maybe a few flash cards could improve it or some text edited in, like horaces SWOS RISS video, that way people know what the video is about no matter where they see it.
Keep 'em coming! :)
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I was going to hold a piece of paper, saying "Now it has Crashed.....Bummer....Blame FOL :o
"Now try loading it Again....It works!.....Thank Horace :D
but then I'd get shot off FOL! lol
And I certainly havn't got the front to start telling people what to do, I'm just havn't got Richard Burtons voice!
LOL ;)
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you'd be better off using on-screen text like my Horace videos
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmghKMqolBI
rather than flashcards.