Proud to announce the launch of the new ChankastEx Website

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We put koralith onto this one almost immediatly since its vital to our plans for netplay. We just didnt expect him to do it so quickly!!:king:

It was gong to be included in the 1.5 release but we felt it pointless to make you wait to play games like MvC at a decent frame rate.

This also makes stable netplay a real possiblity although it will require two beefy machines. ie. both capable of at least 70 fps constant!

Why 70 fps and not 60fps? Because the frame limiter has a juicy little impact of approx. 10 fps all of its own!
We are slowly banging that down on the impact and improvements have already been made in that area but if your MvC was running at 220 fps then im guessing your not too bothered by that right now!

Its an ongoing process that can only improve.
Post your specs and how well it works for you (or not!) on the shoutbox.
It helps,Honest!

Catch you at 1.5 .......

PS Over a thousand visitors to the webpage! :blink: Wow!

 

[Shadow0000]

Great work !

Aside from the fact that a lot of games are booting now without the need of any modification, I wanted to point that Power Stone 2 is not crashing anymore at random after round start in v1.4.5, it was crashing in v1.4.

Does anybody else notice this ?, I even get to the final boss in adventure mode.

 

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Great work !

Aside from the fact that a lot of games are booting now without the need of any modification.

:alien2: eh? News to us..... Is that with fps limiting on? May just be a nice side effect on sensible timing...

I wanted to point that Power Stone 2 is not crashing anymore at random after round start in v1.4.5, it was crashing in v1.4.
Does anybody else notice this ?, I even get to the final boss in adventure mode.

:borg:That game wasnt targeted for repair.......erm,meh?
Its possible it was a bug repaired in a code cleanup by the other members.
Working in a group has good points and bad.

 

[Shadow0000]

eh? News to us..... Is that with fps limiting on? May just be a nice side effect on sensible timing...

I am actually refering to the I/O bugfix, though the plugin also works in the official chankast, any daemon-tools or image mounting software will work now.

That game wasnt targeted for repair.......erm,meh?
Its possible it was a bug repaired in a code cleanup by the other members.
Working in a group has good points and bad.

It's still crashing, it seems to be just luck, even though I used the option Continue various times and I used to play like for more than an hour without crashing.

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I don't know how but I got 3 times to the Final Boss in Power Stone 2, but the fact that the emu crashes randomly in the start of most rounds makes me think there must be something failing in either timing, sync or loading.

 

[Danny]

wow, thanks so much for working on this

 

[jessman(reborn)]

Sigh...I just wish that someone else out there has experienced my full-screen sound issues. My only workaround was taken out of this mod...

 

[squeakypants]

This is getting better by the day I just thought of another feature that would be nice, though: iso reading! Having daemon-tools isn't a problem for me (I use it all the time), but for people who don't already have it, it's just another hassle.

Also, you should set up a forum on your site. If you need some help with that, I'll gladly put one up for you.

 

[Shadow0000]

While it would be useful, it's good to point that most DC GD-ROM images are either in or made with DiscJuggler's CDI format, due to the Mil-CD structure, not in ISO format.

 

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This is getting better by the day I just thought of another feature that would be nice, though: iso reading! Having daemon-tools isn't a problem for me (I use it all the time), but for people who don't already have it, it's just another hassle.

Agreed! But our dance card is kinda full at the moment!
Maybe in a later release, but no promises....

Also, you should set up a forum on your site. If you need some help with that, I'll gladly put one up for you.

We chose the shoutbox over the forum idea simply because we didnt have the time to moderate it! I you wanna set it up an act as a mod then we would be more than happy to link to it on the site. Also im starting to feel slightly cheeky monopolising the emutalk board.....

 

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Sigh...I just wish that someone else out there has experienced my full-screen sound issues. My only workaround was taken out of this mod...

PhatC (The web page maker) had the same problem when he had a slower pc. Its caused by the dreamcast being unable to render sound in the time it takes to go full screen cause de-sync and well general srew ups. When you hold the alt key you are actually pausing the emultor! When i suggested a hotkey i meant a kinda 'Start Full screen' option to kick straight in to fullscreen -then- start the game...should be easy enough...

 

[holymoz]

I tried both 30 and 60 fps autolimit but games are slow, better if I use the chankast auto feature

 

[Dark Ruler]

I can't play ikaruga! it only opens the menu, in the change the date option. Then when I selecet "accept" i select "play" and the game restarts! I tried the same game in the older version of chankast and it works! what do I do?

 

[mtsaint]

dark ruler that is a bios bug it happens from tome to time i think because of region you need to delete the bios file and replace it i always keep a backup of my bios and when that happens(game reset to dash) i just overite the bbios with backup.
i must say your work and progression is amazing i noticed smoother overall gameplay with mvc2 but there are still glaring soung issues. im glad to hear netplay ia happening and i can run at 70fps in window mode with most 2d sometimes more. i think. if any of you out there have ati cards and wabt to know how to play capcom 2d games in window mode without graphics corruption let me know. cause if where to netplay at 70 fps its probably going to be windowed. you guys rock i will be your personal slave if you get netplay working!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[diablo2121]

Do you think you guys could fix the sound bug in Skies of Arcadia?

 

[Dark Ruler]

thanx mtsaint! it works! now I can play ikaruga level 2 with no problems! the bad thing is that some things doesn't look properly.

 

[vicious1988]

I love this new release, it runs faster than .25 did for me. However, I have one question, is there anyway to keep the speed boost activated while you are pressing other keys, because I was playing DOA2 and noticed that everytime I did anything other than move the speed boost would turn back to 5.

 

[Danny]

Agreed! But our dance card is kinda full at the moment!
Maybe in a later release, but no promises....

We chose the shoutbox over the forum idea simply because we didnt have the time to moderate it! I you wanna set it up an act as a mod then we would be more than happy to link to it on the site. Also im starting to feel slightly cheeky monopolising the emutalk board.....

If you want my site www.zionmx.com will be proud to host this project, with an official forum..

let me know either here or via pm

 

[squeakypants]

I can host it on my site, but if you give me your site's info I can put it on yours (in your domain and on your server).

Either way, do hit me up on AIM or MSN (angry fishtank and [email protected], respectively).

Also on your list should be gameshark/cheating, since chankastcheater doesn't work with it

 

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Web offer dudes ill contact you via pm in the next few days when ive spoken to all other group members. TIA LOADS.

I love this new release, it runs faster than .25 did for me. However, I have one question, is there anyway to keep the speed boost activated while you are pressing other keys, because I was playing DOA2 and noticed that everytime I did anything other than move the speed boost would turn back to 5.

Thats was the point! It came about through an accident of coding. But when we finally set it to the 'Hold Buttons' syle I thought it was lame having to hold the button to skip through intro movies so we put it in an option.

permanent turbo? meh..yeah sure, be warned though this totally screws up the 'fps limiter' and quite frankly breaks more than a few games.
Most of them become totally unplayable in menu screen then vary in speed massively 'in-game'.
Its something we've messed around with quite a bit as you can guess.

Thinking aloud: Turbo off key?

Btw: It also sounds like you are using the older version get 1.4.5. The newer version doesnt report speed info. That was accidental debug info left switch on!
(Unreleased:1.5 reports only when speed is modified. In normal play it doesnt report anything...so its fixed proper now!)

 

[diablo2121]

Do you think you guys could fix the sound bug in Skies of Arcadia?

Or I guess the more fitting question is:

Is zenith also trying to address the sound bugs in SoA on Chankast?