iDeaS 1.0.0.8 WIP Screenshots!!

[Low Lines]

Evrain has posted some cool screenshots showing Castlevania going further than before.
http://www.gbarl.it/UP/varie/cv16jm.gif
http://www.gbarl.it/UP/varie/cv31eg.jpg
http://www.gbarl.it/UP/varie/cv20gj.jpg
http://www.gbarl.it/UP/varie/cv44mz.jpg



This was from an Italian site, and I had a crappy Google translator, but it seems that Lino has been making some progress with the touchscreen, though some games still will not work (touchscreen I mean) and also that 3D emulation has improved as well.

Hopefully Evrain will explain this a little better...
Impressive work Lino!!

[Kenji X]

Nice! Can't wait for 1.0.0.8!

[Evrain]

Since Low Lines asked, I'm going to graciously provide more explanations
Good news guys, touchscreen is finally up and running, although the malfunctioning in some games (damn bloody Tendo Dokuta!!) is due to the fact that it looks for calibration data straight into the firmware, and therefore we are gonna fiddle some more with the syscalls in order to get even that small fraction of fiendish titles to work as we want them to.

Yes, Castlevania is "playable", that's it if your eye works at 14fps and can see the quasi-transparent sprites. We're even beginning to see some result on Trauma Center (wow! Now there is even a blinking circle! Joy...) and Metroid, with half a menu barely visible, but the still crude 3D emulation has broken quite a few games, so we are gonna look into it and at least get everything back in place before moving on.
And that's it, for now. Now, where were Soma and I?
Evrain

[RockmanForte]

Wow, congratulation to you, Evrain and iDeaS team...keep up the good work. I praise you!!!

[Evrain]

Little update... after looking into it, both me and Lino finally managed to get even those games refusing to read data from the USA firmware to recognise touchscreen input, although there are still issues with certain titles (Age of Empires and Tendo Dokuta, to name two, although the first one is shaping up pretty nicely) which will need more bug hunting. Looks like there are two different ways to get inputs out of the SPI bus.

We cleaned the graphic compartment a little bit, and now everything is fixed, plus the benefits of the new 3D core update - still no Trauma Center, though, but everything else in that game now works just fine, until you come to the actual surgery, that's it - and along the way I hunted a nasty layer-stretching bug which showed pretty much in Polarium and fixed Devilish, just because I felt like it. Still some errors in the main screen, damn...

And one final mystery note: there is now a nice feature in 1.0.0.8, but what am I referring to? Hint hint, I can now play Polarium as it was meant to be on MY Nintendo DS...
Evrain

[Musiolik]

umm....save game working? or something ??

[ninja1]

a leaked emulator, ensata had a saving system , so taht wouldnt be much news =X, now if it would get implemented with working games, i wouldnt complain than

[Evrain]

It's a bit too soon to talk about save emulation (but it will be implemented neverthless). No, it's something else.
Evrain

[ninja1]

wifi/sound?

[RockmanForte]

It is not good to bother them about saving or sound or something. Just enjoy this screenshots because it is not worth to bother them about too many questions, ok ?