Pre-Release Screenshots - Page 2

**caustik** · July 1st, 2003

X-Marbles is now completely playable. High scores are even saved correctly in %CxbxDir%\TDATA\[GameId]\.

Thanks go to TerrorShocked for

a) Setting up the official Cxbx forum for me.
b) Downloading tons of homebrew demos to test, finding X-Marbles was *very* close to playable.

Also, thanks to kingofc for his progress. As you can see from the screenshots he's posted, he has made alot of progress with meshes and renderstates. Very impressive stuff

I will do a release tonight, i'm sure some other people would like to see this in action. If you are interested in beta testing, we'll do this unofficially for now. Just send me an email with KrnlDebug.txt logs that you think are valuable. As retail games make progress, I will set up a system for beta testers.

:guitar:

caustik

July 1st, 2003

Where can we get some homebrows and demos (if they are legal of course) to test CXBX with ?

Phoenix Flame · July 1st, 2003

I can't believe how much ground the emu scene has covered over the past few hours. First PCSX2 emulating the BIOS near perfectly and now this ...

**caustik** · July 1st, 2003

You can get demos from #xbins on efnet. You basically walk in the channel, request a password, then ftp to distribution.xbins.org.

The pcsx2 progress is very impressive, it is really great to see the next-gen emu scene thriving.

caustik

July 1st, 2003

A release tonight you say caustik ? Very nice to hear

ill download it and start (unofficly) betatesting it at once ^^

(P.S. - a new cxbx on my bday .. nice present !)

ShinAli · July 1st, 2003

Would any kernal logs of retail games seem of value?

EDIT: Just figured, "not much." Considering not alot of things are implemented yet. . . Crazy Taxi 3 requires 'KeSetTimer'?

beefsack · July 1st, 2003

i love how enthusiastic you are and how quickly the emu is progressing, you dont usually see this in the emulation world. great work

TerrorShocked · July 1st, 2003

Quake2x also said it needed KSetTimer... I would assume it uses a version of the XDK which is not yet supported by CXBX.

July 1st, 2003

I think everything would help the CXBX team .. after all , its information about what still needs to be implanted or bugs .

**kingofc** · July 5th, 2003

Here you can find some more nice pre-release screenshots: http://www.caustik.com/kingofc/

July 5th, 2003

NICE ! Look at the pretty robot

Thx for those Kingofc

Galway no Sora · July 5th, 2003

/me beg a beta to TerrorShocked

I want to see some other screenshots, I mean from other game, do you have more TerrorShocked? It's awesome to see it emulates hardly coded XBOX games.

Exophase · July 5th, 2003

I think I speak for everyone (okay, I at least speak for myself) in asking if anyone knows the approximate speeds these demos run at on a real XBox... also, it'd be nice to know the specs of the computer(s) running the demos, as well.

- Exo

**kingofc** · July 6th, 2003

On the xbox demos run really fast. The benchmark demo (a demo which creates much vertex data and shows it in rendering, then tellling how much it was) runs on the xbox with ca. 100fps and on a machnine with a 1.4G AMD Athlon with a GF2 card it runs in HAL mode with ca. 16 fps and in REF mode with ca. 4 fps. Some demos like the PointSprite demo run in REF mode faster.

Other demos which use quad rendering and linear textures (so xbox extensions have to be emulated) run too slow, but at the moment there is no other possibility to speed them up except to use a better machine with a GF4 card.

TerrorShocked · July 6th, 2003

I had to format, and I lost the beta I had on my mahine.

However, emulators actually loaded up and showed text without crashing (They hung up, but I guess this is an advancement) Some emulators that did this without crashing were Bochs, DGEN, FCEUltra, and a few others..... From the demos I have tested it seems that the better video card you have, the better the speed. I tried some on my old Athlon 600mhz with Radeon 7500 an got around 20 FPS.... I then tried it on my Athlin 1.6ghz w/ Radeon 9600 Pro and gor around 140FPS (Go Figure)

Exophase · July 6th, 2003

Quote:

Originally Posted by kingofc

On the xbox demos run really fast. The benchmark demo (a demo which creates much vertex data and shows it in rendering, then tellling how much it was) runs on the xbox with ca. 100fps and on a machnine with a 1.4G AMD Athlon with a GF2 card it runs in HAL mode with ca. 16 fps and in REF mode with ca. 4 fps. Some demos like the PointSprite demo run in REF mode faster.

Other demos which use quad rendering and linear textures (so xbox extensions have to be emulated) run too slow, but at the moment there is no other possibility to speed them up except to use a better machine with a GF4 card.

Hm... thanks. Right now I'm kinda interested to see how little CPU you can get away with having while having the requisite video card in place (GF4 Ti or better, of course.. something that fulfills XGPU class requirements). Of course it'd make sense that the XBox's GPU could beat a GF2 pretty badly, I'm just curious as to how much of a bite in performance the wrapper overhead is taking right now

I imagine in the future you WILL need at least a GF3 level card to really emulate the XBox in any detail. Are you interested in getting one? Maybe we can start a donation or something ^^

- Exo

ShinAli · July 6th, 2003

If I ever get to getting my Radeon 9800 Pro, I would be glad to make a donation of my 9500 Pro(with hacked flashed firmware and all, AKA you can overclock it to 9700 Pro speeds

).

kcar181 · August 3rd, 2003

Quote:

Originally Posted by kingofc

again

Were these demos released? I've never seen them. Anyone know if they are in xbins?

August 4th, 2003

These arent demos i think . its either hardware tests apps or something similer , but its built with Microsoft's XDK .. AFAIK meaning only developers are allowed to keep `em around .

kcar181 · August 4th, 2003

Oh to bad they look cool

July 1st, 2003	#22 (permalink)
chaosblade Guest Posts: n/a	Re: Pre-Release Screenshots Where can we get some homebrows and demos (if they are legal of course) to test CXBX with ?

July 1st, 2003	#23 (permalink)
Phoenix Flame Flood Yourself Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: Adelaide, Australia Posts: 1,342	Re: Pre-Release Screenshots I can't believe how much ground the emu scene has covered over the past few hours. First PCSX2 emulating the BIOS near perfectly and now this ...

July 1st, 2003	#25 (permalink)
chaosblade Guest Posts: n/a	Re: Pre-Release Screenshots A release tonight you say caustik ? Very nice to hear ill download it and start (unofficly) betatesting it at once ^^ (P.S. - a new cxbx on my bday .. nice present !)

July 1st, 2003	#26 (permalink)
ShinAli Registered User Join Date: Jul 2003 Posts: 10	Would any kernal logs of retail games seem of value? EDIT: Just figured, "not much." Considering not alot of things are implemented yet. . . Crazy Taxi 3 requires 'KeSetTimer'? Last edited by ShinAli; July 1st, 2003 at 05:03.

July 1st, 2003	#27 (permalink)
beefsack Shake hands with beef Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Australia Posts: 12	Re: Pre-Release Screenshots i love how enthusiastic you are and how quickly the emu is progressing, you dont usually see this in the emulation world. great work

July 1st, 2003	#21 (permalink)
caustik Emu author Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: San Diego Posts: 172	X-Marbles is now completely playable. High scores are even saved correctly in %CxbxDir%\TDATA\[GameId]\. Thanks go to TerrorShocked for a) Setting up the official Cxbx forum for me. b) Downloading tons of homebrew demos to test, finding X-Marbles was very close to playable. Also, thanks to kingofc for his progress. As you can see from the screenshots he's posted, he has made alot of progress with meshes and renderstates. Very impressive stuff I will do a release tonight, i'm sure some other people would like to see this in action. If you are interested in beta testing, we'll do this unofficially for now. Just send me an email with KrnlDebug.txt logs that you think are valuable. As retail games make progress, I will set up a system for beta testers. :guitar: caustik

July 1st, 2003	#24 (permalink)
caustik Emu author Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: San Diego Posts: 172	You can get demos from #xbins on efnet. You basically walk in the channel, request a password, then ftp to distribution.xbins.org. The pcsx2 progress is very impressive, it is really great to see the next-gen emu scene thriving. caustik

July 1st, 2003	#28 (permalink)
TerrorShocked Registered Join Date: Jun 2003 Posts: 839	Re: Pre-Release Screenshots Quake2x also said it needed KSetTimer... I would assume it uses a version of the XDK which is not yet supported by CXBX. Last edited by TerrorShocked; July 6th, 2003 at 18:26.

July 1st, 2003	#29 (permalink)
chaosblade Guest Posts: n/a	Re: Pre-Release Screenshots I think everything would help the CXBX team .. after all , its information about what still needs to be implanted or bugs .

July 5th, 2003	#30 (permalink)
kingofc Emu author Join Date: Jun 2003 Posts: 53	screenshots Here you can find some more nice pre-release screenshots: http://www.caustik.com/kingofc/

July 5th, 2003	#31 (permalink)
chaosblade Guest Posts: n/a	Re: Pre-Release Screenshots NICE ! Look at the pretty robot Thx for those Kingofc

July 5th, 2003	#32 (permalink)
Galway no Sora ~¤ PanZeR ¤~ idRO Thor Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Valhalla, in Odin's throne Posts: 3,145	Re: Pre-Release Screenshots /me beg a beta to TerrorShocked I want to see some other screenshots, I mean from other game, do you have more TerrorShocked? It's awesome to see it emulates hardly coded XBOX games. __________________ Core 2 Duo 1.6 GHz «» 2048MB DDR2 RAM «» 256MB onboard Graphic Onboard Realtek High Definition Soundcard «» 160 + 40 GB SATA HDD Pioneer DVD±RW «» 15.4" Widescreen LCD «» Windows Vista Ultimate Sucks ha? Yeah, that's a laptop for sure.

July 5th, 2003	#33 (permalink)
Exophase Emu author Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: Bloomington IN, USA Posts: 1,061	I think I speak for everyone (okay, I at least speak for myself) in asking if anyone knows the approximate speeds these demos run at on a real XBox... also, it'd be nice to know the specs of the computer(s) running the demos, as well. - Exo

July 6th, 2003	#34 (permalink)
kingofc Emu author Join Date: Jun 2003 Posts: 53	Re: Pre-Release Screenshots On the xbox demos run really fast. The benchmark demo (a demo which creates much vertex data and shows it in rendering, then tellling how much it was) runs on the xbox with ca. 100fps and on a machnine with a 1.4G AMD Athlon with a GF2 card it runs in HAL mode with ca. 16 fps and in REF mode with ca. 4 fps. Some demos like the PointSprite demo run in REF mode faster. Other demos which use quad rendering and linear textures (so xbox extensions have to be emulated) run too slow, but at the moment there is no other possibility to speed them up except to use a better machine with a GF4 card.

July 6th, 2003	#35 (permalink)
TerrorShocked Registered Join Date: Jun 2003 Posts: 839	Re: Pre-Release Screenshots I had to format, and I lost the beta I had on my mahine. However, emulators actually loaded up and showed text without crashing (They hung up, but I guess this is an advancement) Some emulators that did this without crashing were Bochs, DGEN, FCEUltra, and a few others..... From the demos I have tested it seems that the better video card you have, the better the speed. I tried some on my old Athlon 600mhz with Radeon 7500 an got around 20 FPS.... I then tried it on my Athlin 1.6ghz w/ Radeon 9600 Pro and gor around 140FPS (Go Figure) Last edited by TerrorShocked; July 6th, 2003 at 18:31.

August 4th, 2003	#40 (permalink)
kcar181 Huh? Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: . Posts: 130	Re: Pre-Release Screenshots Oh to bad they look cool __________________ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- \|AMD 1.3ghz, 1024mb RAM, Sound Blaster Audigy XGamer, NVidia GeForce4 TI4800SE \| -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------

July 6th, 2003	#37 (permalink)
ShinAli Registered User Join Date: Jul 2003 Posts: 10	If I ever get to getting my Radeon 9800 Pro, I would be glad to make a donation of my 9500 Pro(with hacked flashed firmware and all, AKA you can overclock it to 9700 Pro speeds ).

August 4th, 2003	#39 (permalink)
chaosblade Guest Posts: n/a	Re: Pre-Release Screenshots These arent demos i think . its either hardware tests apps or something similer , but its built with Microsoft's XDK .. AFAIK meaning only developers are allowed to keep `em around .

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