Demul v0.5.6 out!

[Stranno]

Changes:
* AWAVE: many fixes for controls, rail-shooters playable;
* AWAVE: xtrmhunt romset typo;
* CHD: reading problems fix;
* CHD: updated to 138u4 version;
* CORE: ROMs overreading protection;
* CORE: SB_SFRES "softreset" emulation (imperfectfor dynarec);
* CORE: arcade roms loading by CRC only, now can load renamed/old/custom romsets with the same files;
* CORE: command line support, run selected game/system, list supported games, generate xml dat file (clrmame) for supported romsets with parent/clones info;
* CORE: dynarec instruction fix;
* CORE: emulation reset fix;
* CORE: enable SSE compilator optimization;
* CORE: full unicode support;
* CORE: interpreter memory translation optimization, MMU speedup;
* CORE: invalidation optimized, "Triggerheart Exelica", etc. speedup;
* CORE: logging and default output path fixed;
* CORE: macw, macl opcodes fix;
* CORE: round mode fix;
* CORE: savestates fix;
* CORE: savestates for VMU;
* CORE: timers bugfixes;
* CORE: various crashes fix;
* CORE: various maple fixes;
* CORE: various romset fixes;
* CORE: internal time with windows time auto synchronization;
* GDI: offset support (may be glitchy);
* GDI: sector cache (test only);
* GDI: various bugfixes;
* GPU: "Transform Z" options added (w-buffer to z-buffer transform enable), enabled by default (need restart for ogl if changed);
* GPU: VRAM overreading protection;
* GPU: correct vertex intensity alpha;
* GPU: correct vertex intensity color clamping;
* GPU: ogl disable SSE compilator optimisation due to VC10 compiler bug;
* GPU: dx correct window size change;
* GPU: render and framebuffer fixes (still imperfect);
* GPU: fullscreen frequency fix;
* GPU: polygons blending fix;
* GPU: sprites fix;
* GPU: stride untwiddled texture fix;
* GPU: yuv textures in vq mode supported ("Head Hunter" fix);
* GUI: "15Khz/31Khz" modes selection, "31Khz" default option;
* GUI: "LLE MIE"/"HLE MIE" selection option, if "LLE MIE" is unavailable (no "NAOBD.BIN"), "HLE MIE" mode enabled automatically;
* GUI: "Time Hack" option, automatic Dreamcast flash time record correction for current time;
* GUI: GameBrowser "load decrypted" fix;
* GUI: GameBrowser forvard/backward sorting for game year, romset name, full name, developer/publisher and game system;
* GUI: GameBrowser keyboard input handling fix;
* GUI: GameBrowser gridlines workaround for WinXP;
* GUI: PAL/NTSC mode selection;
* GUI: custom savestate keys definitions;
* GUI: full game name/title display on windows title;
* GUI: mahjong controller setup;
* GUI: more video cable mode selection;
* NAOMI: MAME Naomi CHD-files supported (but not listed in dat), need CHD plugin in plugins directory;
* NAOMI: BIOS auto selection;
* NAOMI: board malfunction for A-C rev. BIOSes fix;
* NAOMI: cart encryption for direct and buffered protection modes supported, most encryption keys added;
* NAOMI: cart encryption key automatic detection for NO_KEY games (if any), may take a couple of minutes for complete process;
* NAOMI: default system configuration added if no nvram files found, auto selection cabinet orientation and player number for games depending on it;
* NAOMI: coin fix;
* NAOMI: gunsur2 encryption key added, playable with sound;
* NAOMI: club cart protection data;
* NAOMI: doa2 crash fix;
* NAOMI: ggx crash fix;
* NAOMI: hmgeo SHA1 fix;
* NAOMI: wldrider crash fix;
* NAOMI: initdv2j DES key added, doesn't boot anyway;
* NAOMI: full HLE MIE (315-6146 Maple-JVS bridge MCU) support;
* NAOMI: full LLE MIE (315-6146 Maple-JVS bridge MCU) support, "NAOBD.BIN" file with MCU fake firmware needed;
* NAOMI: JVS interface and IO board(s) emulation;
* NAOMI: automatic analog controls mapping;
* NAOMI: VMS and Dreamcast gamepads handling for arcade games (if supported);
* NAOMI: keyboard support, select "Keyboard" for "port B" and/or "port C" in "Plugins" configuration dialog;
* NAOMI: dybbnao, dygolf, alpilot, sstrkfgt, gunsur2, samba, crzytaxi, zombrvn, wldrider controls support;
* NAOMI: mahjong panel support;
* NAOMI: nvram load/save fix;
* NAOMI: proper 15/31Khz DIP switch handling;
* NAOMI: romset updated with MAME 139u2 ROMs;
* NET: added netplay support for DC, NAOMI1/2, ATOMISWAVE, only NULL plugin provided (see thrid party plugins);
* PAD: various bugs fix;
* PAD: first time configuration crash fix;
* PAD: support for xbox360 gamepad (without analogs);
* SPU: ARM7 core fixes;
* SPU: better synchronization;
* SPU: close fix, thread close fix;
* SPU: lp reset fix;
* VMU: beeper emulated.

Source

VIDEO-TEST

NAOMI (CART BASED)

18 Wheeler : American Pro Trucker ( Sega , 2001 )

NOTE: Steering wheel is emuated (check service mode) but truck doesnt turn ingame, so its unplayable. Also it has some GFX errors and music/SFX stop randomly (sound multi-threading used)

Airline Pilots ( SEGA , 1999 )

NOTE: You need to select '31Khz' on 'Config' > 'Naomi', otherwise it will give you the corresponding error. It runs slow on my system, this is not standar Naomi cart, it runs on 4 Naomi boards hardware

Airline Pilots Deluxe ( SEGA , 1999 )

NOTE: You need to select '31Khz' on 'Config' > 'Naomi', otherwise it will give you the corresponding error. It runs slow on my system, this is not standar Naomi cart, it runs on 4 Naomi boards hardware

Crazy Taxi ( SEGA , 1999 )

Guilty Gear XX #Reload ( Sammy , 2003 )

Gun Survivor 2 : Biohazard Code Veronica ( Capcom , 2001 )

Jambo! Safari ( SEGA , 1999 )

NOTE: Most of actions are mapped in PLAYER 1 controls BUT 'rope lever' is mapped on PLAYER 2 'Digital' UP/DOWN, otherwise it will not work

NAOMI (GD-ROM BASED)

Dynamite Deka EX ( Sega , 2006 )

NOTE: As 'demul official compat guide' says, this game is unplayable. Well, you can reach ingame, controls are ok and there's sound but ... most of graphics are totally messed up and characters looks like Sillent Hill monsters. Use 'TransformZ' option to show more hud. Intro crash and most of fighting are black screen, the main character (blue-jacked man) show more fights than the other women

Mamoru-kun wa Norowarete Shimatta ( G.rev / Gulti / 2008 )

NOTE: In machine BIOS (System Assignments) change player number to 1P and screen orientation to vertical, otherwise it will give you both errors

Radilgy ( Milestone , 2005 )

ATOMISWAVE

Demolish Fist ( Dimps , 2003 )

Dolphin Blue ( Sammy , 2003 )

NOTE: Sound seems to get off after first BOSS, it could be an 'audio-multi-threading' related problem (maybe)

Extreme Hunting ( Sammy , 2005 )

NOTE: Follow exactly the same steps as 'Sports Shooting US'. When you reach the 'calibration screen' you have to center mouse (no squares this time) and shoot. Then press 'Service' button twice. Easier . Graphics could not be as accurate as non-graphic/sound-plugin-multithreading options

Extreme Hunting 2 ( Sega , 2006 )

NOTE: Same thing as 'Extreme Hunting'

Fist of the North Star ( Arc System Works , 2005 )

Guilty Gear Isuka ( Sammy , 2004 )

Knights Of Valour : The Seven Spirits ( IGS , 2004 )

Net Select Keiba Victory Furlong ( Sammy , 2005 )

NOTE: It doesnt work, i mean, it doesnt pass-throught the title screen. This game had been focused on online mode so is not playable on Demul (Demul netplay and this-game netplay are not the same thing)

Ranger Mission ( Sammy , 2004 )

NOTE: Follow exactly the same steps as 'Sports Shooting US'. When you reach the 'calibration screen' you have to center mouse (no squares this time) and shoot. Then press 'Service' button twice. Easier

Salary Man Kintaro ( Yuki Enterprise , 2000 )

NOTE: I havent played this game in real arcade so i'm not sure but it seems that most of graphics are corrupt. I belive that the background is a video, but doesnt displayed ingame, and many other things. I only show you 1 of 3 mini-games bcoz i dont know how to play them (there's an automatic mode anyway)

Sports Shooting USA ( Sammy , 2003 )

NOTE: In order to use the lightgun you need to calibrate the gun. In order to do this go to 'Game Pad' options and map 'Service' and 'Test'. In Atomiswave 'Joy 1' configure controls and in Atomiswave 'Joy 4' (yeah, 4) you need to configure controls also. Start the game, let it begin and press 'Test' button. Using 'Test' button (again) navigate to 'I/O Test', then press 'Service' button. Press 'Left' button with mouse on the screen and press again in all 3 squares to calibrate. When it ask for '2P Gun' just press 4 times in 'Joy 4 "SHOOT 1"' button. Navigate (with test button) to exit and you got it (you can change dispswitches also). Anyway is quite hard to select options with lightgun. Ingame: With 'Left' button on mouse you shoot and pressing 'Left' and 'Right' button at the same time you reload

The Rumble Fish ( Sammy , 2004 )

The King of Fighters NeoWave ( SNK , 2004 )

NOTE: DONT use 'graphic multi-threading', otherwise game will be sometimes corrupt and framerate will speed up A LOT, it will be unplayable. In 'no-multithreading' graphics seems to be OK (minnor glitches) but some sounds doesnt ear and other does (wthout 'sound-multi-threading')

DOWNLOADS

* Demul 0.5.6 32bit (64-bit isnt ready YET) + NetBlade 0.42 (Kaillera Plugin) + SSE2 Graphic Plugins

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[@ruantec]

Awesome release!!!

it seems like a lot of things were changed since the last build specially in the inis and the way it works but the thing that got my attention is the fact that audio is working a lot better now. also videos finally show up!!! in fact i had to do a couple of changes to my app in order to make it work again due to the heavy changes.

One thing bothers me tho.. and that's the ugly commandline window that show up with the Emulator but other than that.... Good job to the team

here few screenies:

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[OminaeYu]

And the download is where?

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[sergitox29]

this realise its just great!
unfortunately, the stages of shun vanessa and aoi are still slow, but the naomi emulation overall improved a lot!
here are some of my tests

virtua fighter 4, evo and final tuned: works great but as in the 0.5.5 realise, some stages dont go over the 20 fps like shun vanessa and aoi, aniway you can play and win the game
virtua striker 3: the 2nd player textures in the first match are missing, some slowdowns, but you can play and win the game
beach spikers: now the camera movement works properly(great update!) some slowdowns, everything ok
virtua striker 2k2: this game its the onlyone from naomi that crashes in the intro, or after the first or second match, some teams cant be selected (some devs say its a badump i really dont know what is missing)
jambo safari: strange slowdowns in the character screen, random crashes but you can play the game
18 wheeler: you cant turn left or right but you can play
cannon spike/gun spike: works great, and dont crash!
house of the dead 2: works great! check transform z to load correctly the textures
giant gram: works great! (wolf and jeffry from the virtua fighter series are playable in this game)
sega tetris: works great! this game has great backgrounds and music
crazy taxi: works perfect!
initial d arcade stage: works great! but afther the first race the game crashes :/

all the games from above run at a constantly 60 fps despite some of them that suffers from slowdowns in specifiques situations like in some stages from the virtua fighter 4 series


well thats some of my tests, please ask me if you want me to test another game
btw i would want to know why that stages of virtua fighter 4 are so slow and if it will be corrected in a future realise

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[dr emu (madmax)]

here ya go demul 0.5.6

A small update - a set of graphical plugins compiled with SSE2 optimization.
demul-gpu-sse2.rar

direct from emu russia

enjoy

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alternatively if you don't know what your processor is try cpu-z
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[Mr. Fabulous]

Originally Posted by sergitox29

btw i would want to know why that stages of virtua fighter 4 are so slow and if it will be corrected in a future realise

I get the slowdowns in vf4 final tuned only on levels making use of water graphics, like the one with the boats. The other levels are solid 60 fps. Naomi 2 is getting closer to fully playable games, and naomi is fully playable. Great release!

[sergitox29]

Originally Posted by Mr. Fabulous

I get the slowdowns in vf4 final tuned only on levels making use of water graphics, like the one with the boats. The other levels are solid 60 fps. Naomi 2 is getting closer to fully playable games, and naomi is fully playable. Great release!

yip thats right, i have asked CaH4e3 for this and he answered this

"some stages of vf4 are using render to texture feature to
render water reflections,
this is apparently doubles data flow and number of render to the one
frame, so they significatnly slow.
maybe some day we well optimize or just fix it somehow..."

btw do soemone has more than 30 fps with spawn? all the naomi games go to fullspeed but this one its lock at that framerate. and naomi 2 in virtua fighter 4 its working abit slower than the o.5.5 realise (5 fps less)

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[twister71]

I've noticed that F8 key does not work to enter on fullscreen mode, only the ALT+ENTER combination, at the same time to exit from fullscreen modality I can use only ALT+F4 to force it, is this right?

[Neville007]

I can't download it... can anyone upload the emulator and the updated SSE2 plugins to some public server?

Oh, and we are going to need updated DATs for ClrMAMEPro and RomCenter.

[dr emu (madmax)]

Originally Posted by Neville007

I can't download it... can anyone upload the emulator and the updated SSE2 plugins to some public server?

Oh, and we are going to need updated DATs for ClrMAMEPro and RomCenter.

err wtf, it's the 5th post down direct from the source

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don't know what graphics card you have, it's memory bandwidth, it's temperature, fan speed, what pixel shader it has
try TechPowerUp's GPU-Z_v0.6.9 (Mar 19,
th, 2013)

alternatively if you don't know what your processor is try cpu-z
(hint click on the highlighted links)

[Neville007]

I was so anxious I didn't notice them...

Just found these elsewhere, just in case:

Downloads:

demul-0.5.6.rar (1.2 MB)
Multiupload.com - upload your files to multiple file hosting sites!

demul-0.5.6-gpu-sse2.rar (1.21 MB)
Multiupload.com - upload your files to multiple file hosting sites!

Shader_effects.zip (19.8 KB)
Multiupload.com - upload your files to multiple file hosting sites!

Demul v0.5.6 (cm).zip (44.25 KB)
Multiupload.com - upload your files to multiple file hosting sites!

[Stranno]

Updated with new videos, new hints for games and 3 'oficial' downloads that have been uploaded to 'oficial' thread

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[legend100]

Can't wait for Scud Race to be playable!!! Screw trying to use Mame for that. Now, Mame does play the game well currently (just really slow) so hopefully its not too long before demul gets to that point.

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[kidaware]

another alt download link:

Download - Emulators for PC - Dreamcast

@dr emu (madmax) - you can't see any post or download if you're not registered to the russian forum.

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[sergitox29]

this may be off topic, but so many memories go in my mind playing the arcade version of house of the dead 2,
so many thanks i would want to give to the demul team :

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[Mr. Fabulous]

Originally Posted by sergitox29

this may be off topic, but so many memories go in my mind playing the arcade version of house of the dead 2,
so many thanks i would want to give to the demul team :

I know it. Just played some a little while ago. I also recommend lupin the shooting. Fun game.

[chris-007]

No matter what I try I'm always getting an "Unable to load" error.
Isn't 1GB RAM enough (WinXP)?

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[NGboo]

Does anybody else have sound problems?
I tried several games and they work in full speed, but the sound is all scratchy.

[twister71]

Virtua Tennis seems to have some missing background music, otherwise the graphic is almost perfect and works better using gpuDXv3 video plugin, is this the same for anyone?

[dr emu (madmax)]

Originally Posted by chris-007

No matter what I try I'm always getting an "Unable to load" error.
Isn't 1GB RAM enough (WinXP)?

i kept getting that until i entered the demul.ini and entered netPlay.dll next to net =

so it looks like this net = netPlay.dll
hope that helps
also the romset has changed

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don't know what graphics card you have, it's memory bandwidth, it's temperature, fan speed, what pixel shader it has
try TechPowerUp's GPU-Z_v0.6.9 (Mar 19,
th, 2013)

alternatively if you don't know what your processor is try cpu-z
(hint click on the highlighted links)