Why no impact support ?

Eddy · August 26th, 2001, 21:43

Ok i have a question, ive heard that the impact hardware, runs very much like the playstation hardware, so isnt it possible to implement it in ePSXe, from what i heard it inst that hard

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**Pete Bernert** · August 27th, 2001, 08:23

I doubt that any of the currently available psx emus would be as fast as impact in emulating ZN games.

Eddy · August 27th, 2001, 18:59

Ok, but wouldnt it be nice just to have support for it ? i think it would go fast at 1.1 ghz, and above. Someone told me in the impact forums that the coding could be done in a day, and besides alot of things impact emu has left uncovered, since the audio is near perfect in psx emulation, impact sound would be too, and gfx, are perfect in psx emulation, so it all depends on the machine you got. I think it could still be implemeted. BTW very good plugins you do :-)

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gerbilcannon · August 27th, 2001, 19:01

The audio is near perfect? Mmmmkay...

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**Pete Bernert** · August 27th, 2001, 19:15

Quote:

Someone told me in the impact forums that the coding could be
done in a day, and besides alot of things impact emu has left uncovered, since the
audio is near perfect in psx emulation, impact sound would be too, and gfx, are
perfect in psx emulation, so it all depends on the machine you got.

Someone told **** then... you not only have to handle a bigger ram size with a ZN emu, you also have to figure out the rom banking... not likely done in one day...

for the gfx and spu:

the impact games are needing more gpu vram as well and the dma chains can be located in higher psx ram adresses, so you have to change a lot of funcs in a current psx gpu plugins... not to mention to adjust the texture caching to handle the double amount of textures...

and NO psx spu plugin has ever needed to decode QSound data (which needs an extra Z80 emu inside of the plugin to work anyway)

Well, it can be done (look at impact), but it's not like "hey, gimme a psx emu source, and I will make a ZN emu in a week or two..."

Eddy · August 27th, 2001, 20:33

well i guess its harder than i thought, guess r.belmont was lying. Well, **** happens, so i guess ill have to wait for mame impact. Thanks pete :-)

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**Pete Bernert** · August 28th, 2001, 07:14

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guess r.belmont was lying

Ehehe, good ole RB wasn't exactly lying... he

a) just wanted to get rid off the annoying kids who are demanding new impact releases, and

b) wanted to motivate some psx emu teams to look after ZN games, so he gets more time for modeler

But, as I've said, it's not a "hey, what do I want to code today?" job.
So you should better wait for Zinc and WinZinc.

August 26th, 2001, 21:43	#1
Eddy Registered User Join Date: Aug 2001 Posts: 48	Why no impact support ? Ok i have a question, ive heard that the impact hardware, runs very much like the playstation hardware, so isnt it possible to implement it in ePSXe, from what i heard it inst that hard __________________ I Run This

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Eddy Registered User Join Date: Aug 2001 Posts: 48	Ok Ok, but wouldnt it be nice just to have support for it ? i think it would go fast at 1.1 ghz, and above. Someone told me in the impact forums that the coding could be done in a day, and besides alot of things impact emu has left uncovered, since the audio is near perfect in psx emulation, impact sound would be too, and gfx, are perfect in psx emulation, so it all depends on the machine you got. I think it could still be implemeted. BTW very good plugins you do :-) __________________ I Run This

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Eddy Registered User Join Date: Aug 2001 Posts: 48	ok got you well i guess its harder than i thought, guess r.belmont was lying. Well, **** happens, so i guess ill have to wait for mame impact. Thanks pete :-) __________________ I Run This

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August 27th, 2001, 08:23	#2
Pete Bernert Emu author Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: Germany Posts: 874	I doubt that any of the currently available psx emus would be as fast as impact in emulating ZN games.

August 27th, 2001, 19:01	#4
gerbilcannon The Pretty One Join Date: May 2001 Location: Collegedale, TN Posts: 1,247	The audio is near perfect? Mmmmkay... __________________ "Me? I'm a pop idol." "And you will shed tears of scarlet!"