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gameplaySP v0.8 Released

greg | October 9, 2006

Exophase with another great release of gameplaySP, or gpSP for short. gpSP is a Gameboy Advance emulator for the PSP and its quickly maturing with every version — v0.8 features:

  • # Fixed bug in dead flag elimination, “alt” version no longer needed.
  • # Fixed EEPROM saves being saved as 32kb instead of 512bytes/8kb
  • + 32MB ROM support has been added. ROMS are “demand loaded” as necessary and page swapped out; there might be a small loading lag, but I have yet to ever really notice anything. NOTE: 32MB ROM support only works for unzipped ROMs.
  • + Save states have been added. See the save state menu for save/load options.
  • + Support for the real-time clock (RTC) chip in Pokemon cartridges and other games. The implementation is based off of VBA’s, whatever notes on gbadev I could find, and some of my own reverse engineering of what the games do… it might not be totally correct. Also, setting the time does not work.
  • + Per-game configuration. Currently this only saves frameskip and frameskip variation options.
  • + Removed the flash type option from the menu and instead added it to game_config.txt. Hopefully got everything - let me know if you find something that isn’t there. It’s pretty easy to add them if you have to.
  • + Added a display in the upper left-hand corner to indicate when fast-forward is on.
  • + Added button bindings for save/load state.
  • @ Found a fix of StrmnNrmn proportion: far too much unnecessary mutex synchronization was going on. Removing the two offending lines of code gave a massive speed boost for free. Enjoy.

Changelog legend: # bug fix, + feature addition, @ optimization.

Download:
gameplaySP v0.8 (includes EBOOTs for FW 1.0 and 1.50)
gameplaySP source code

- source: Exophase

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74 Comments »

Comment by Nigga in Wyoming
2006-10-09 03:50:20

I’ve been waiting for this for ages.

CHICKEN AND GRAPE DRINK FOR ALL!!!!!
Thank you for your great contributions, I’m gonna go try this out nao, plaucks.

 
Comment by nick
2006-10-09 03:54:36

Excellent release, this will make nick happy for a while.

And done you mean Turkey and cranberry?

 
Comment by Nigga in Wyoming
2006-10-09 04:02:02

Golden Sun works ^_^

 
Comment by HarryHigh
2006-10-09 04:06:42

Hell yeah!

Keep the fucking awesome work up guys!

 
Comment by Coasterfreak212
2006-10-09 04:34:59

Cool, gonna try it right now. Hope it’ll speed up mario sports games.

 
Comment by UnKnown
2006-10-09 05:10:58

Woot Good Job

 
Comment by PSP BOY
2006-10-09 05:42:24

This is cool best emu on psp thx man your the best in emulator scene specially for psp.

 
Comment by Coasterfreak212
2006-10-09 05:51:36

!!!he failed to mention that a new game is supported,KINGDOM HEARTS CHAIN OF MEMORIES!!!(you have to mess with the intro movie a bit. press a & b alot when you see it. if it freezes restart and try again. it will work, cause im playing it now.)

 
Comment by hai
2006-10-09 05:55:17

Golden Sun 1 is almost there!

 
Comment by hai
2006-10-09 05:58:37

BTW, F-Zero Maximum Velocity runs GREAT wth 0 frameskip. I wonder why mode7 works better with GBA emulator than Snes9xTYL.

 
Comment by SephiRon
2006-10-09 06:04:27

Kirby and the Amazingt mirror seems to have gotten broken in this release (i ran it on 0.7), it causes a crash right after you are off the screen with the star when you are about to go to first stage. BTW, awesome work guys!!! no frameskip for most games, such as mario vs. donkey kong (i love that game), and the frameskip for ff4 “cutscenes” is now down to around 2 :D I can live with that just great! I will agree, best PSP Emu!!!!

 
Comment by stewart!
2006-10-09 06:33:17

absolutely amazing addition of the RTC, can’t wait to play pokemon the way they should be played (not that I’m sure if the RTC is essential, but it’ll make the experience that bit more genuine).

I don’t suppose anyone knows if the bad jump errors have been fixed in Legacy Of Goku?

 
Comment by Bob
2006-10-09 07:46:10

How do I install over 0.5 version?
Should I delete from the memory card first?

 
Comment by hehaw
2006-10-09 07:59:22

Yes, rip out the old version before you install the new one, that way you wont have any conficts

Party on

 
Comment by Uhau
2006-10-09 08:03:31

where do i find the gameboy advance image bios??? can some1 help me thx!

 
Comment by kewl
2006-10-09 08:37:41

It doesn’t work with eloader thought.

 
Comment by Nigga in Wyoming
2006-10-09 09:43:29

@ #15: Don’t ask for illegal items, plaucks.

 
Comment by taco
2006-10-09 10:01:44

Do all GBA ROMs under 32mb will they are compressed (.zip)?

 
Comment by danny
2006-10-09 10:23:32

Tested last night….it’s true…it’s even FASTER now.

Wow.

 
Comment by GM710
2006-10-09 10:23:36

#18 don’t compress them

 
Comment by bubu
2006-10-09 11:20:00

well done,

the RTC feature is awesome (i didn’t tested it yet, but i guess pokemon has some time based events, just think of the stats-guru and stuff!)

i’m going to test this now (:

thx for the release and your hard work…

gz. bubu

 
Comment by GM710
2006-10-09 11:59:07

this is the shit to bad kingdom hearts still frezzes

 
Comment by Neverwinter
2006-10-09 12:18:17

Too bad Zelda (Minish) still crashes in this version. It happens the moment you fire the Flame Lantern when fighting the boss for the 3rd element.

Anyone else experiencing the same problem?

 
Comment by Kill-Joy
2006-10-09 13:05:43

Does anyone know what the gba bios are called? i tryed doing a google search but cant find em.

 
Comment by relentless
2006-10-09 13:17:03

Wow, just wow. 11 got it right, its the best psp emu ever. Keep up the awesome work man, Ill be rooting for
version 0.9! Savestates, 32mb rom support, and ANOTHER speed boost. Unbelievable..

 
Comment by .Gogeta§§J4BR.
2006-10-09 13:48:05

LOL @ “Found a fix of StrmnNrmn proportion” XD

 
Comment by Vandel
2006-10-09 14:41:34

Great work, thanks a lot.

 
Comment by Voulcient
2006-10-09 15:13:49

Damn it i tried and tried i can’t get passed the intro of Kingdom hearts chian of Memories!

 
Comment by shin-Mario
2006-10-09 15:15:06

@23, ya, mine crashes toO at the very same part (zelda/minish). it’s a good game but it sux that it does that. FUCK!

 
Comment by LupinTheThird
2006-10-09 15:21:34

Um….when did this go from being called “gb”SP to “gP” SP….in any case, this is another fine release of the BEST emu on the PSP!!! You can really see the overall speed increase on Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo…and just about ANY 2D scroller…but Sega Arcade Gallery still chugs. In any case, we’re about %90 to perfection with this one…and I’m STILL tempted to put my GBA on ebay in the meantime!!!

 
Comment by _kD
2006-10-09 15:21:41

uhhh, where do i put the fuckin rom?

 
Comment by relentless
2006-10-09 15:54:40

in a directory in the same place you put the emulator.

 
Comment by pspfreak
2006-10-09 15:58:11

cool… this one little bit faster than previous version

 
Comment by _kD
2006-10-09 16:02:05

well do i have to name it something special?
p.s. i read the readme, i still need help

 
Comment by poop
2006-10-09 16:07:53

When one guy does a good job, you praise him… When one guy puts a lot of effort into making an emu that isnt as great as the other guy’s, you put him down…

 
Comment by Nigga in Wyoming
2006-10-09 16:46:14

Hey poop, it’s because idiots on the internet are mostly still in grade school. Let them be. I’m gonna go get a few of them to make me a burger :D

 
Comment by anon
2006-10-09 17:17:49

“Um….when did this go from being called “gb”SP to “gP” SP…”

It’s always been called the gpSP since the very beginning. GamePlaySP.

 
Comment by Coasterfreak212
2006-10-09 18:16:52

For the people wih the minish cap problem, I emailed exophase and he told me to do this “After using the lantern quickly switch your weapon and repeat the process. You’ll hopefully beat the boss without it crashing.” I tried it (back in gpsp 0.6) and it works. Try it, it’s kinda a similar crash on the Kingdom Hearts. But I’d suggest that , with the new savestate options, you go on an emulator on the pc and finish the crashing parts and save it then load it back up to gpsp. Good luck to you all, and I’m going to go back the khcom.

 
Comment by mike
2006-10-09 19:03:33

to #23

the zelda minish works fine on mine already past that level

 
Comment by no one ?
2006-10-09 20:09:53

Name some good gba roms;D

 
Comment by no one ?
2006-10-09 20:32:49

kingdom harts FIX at the intro set the frame skip realy high like 64 or somthing it worked for me

 
Comment by DarkPacMan77
2006-10-09 21:45:48

I like how he is releasing this emulator with good updates too. All too often we see emulators being updated too quickly with only small changes or changes that are beneficial, but with no hope of speeding up things or adding other options. This emulator came to us at 80% (in my opinion) and is now progressing even further, which is unbelievable considering the other emulators on the scene like the SNES because this emulator achieves better (sometimes not stable, but better) speeds and is just so damn useful.

I love it, and words can’t describe. Can’t wait for future updates

-DarkPacMan77-

 
Comment by atcram
2006-10-09 22:44:51

does anyone knows if riviera works?

 
Comment by sporxs
2006-10-09 23:02:56

2 words…. god like!
i love this!!!

 
Comment by no one ?
2006-10-09 23:20:54

@44 That’s 4

 
Comment by Mike
2006-10-09 23:24:23

great update.. but it has been available for like a week or so on other sites.

 
Comment by sporxs
2006-10-09 23:32:08

sorry if this isnt alloud, but just google gba bios rar and the first link shuold be it!

 
Comment by sporxs
2006-10-09 23:37:02

just an idea, could someone upload a savestate for kingdom hearts thats past the point where it freezes?

 
Comment by pspfox
2006-10-09 23:47:13

SAVE STATES!!! YES!!!!

 
Comment by sporxs
2006-10-09 23:55:33

thnk it will work?

 
Comment by Dan
2006-10-10 00:25:46

i have the gba bios but the emulator shows up as corrupt file on my 2.71 SE-A psp what am i doing wrong?

Comment by Andrew
2007-01-09 12:24:33

Can I have the GBA Bios you got please, I have had enough looking for it

 
 
Comment by nllx
2006-10-10 00:57:14

Golden Sun now crashes after the intro. Can someone send their working folders to sfidare@gmail.com?
It used to work with the previous version :( :(

 
Comment by LupinTheThird
2006-10-10 02:27:25

Well, I’ll be darned, I guess it always WAS called gpsp…what a mildly dyslexic couple of months I’ve been having…then again it would have made more sense to call it GB SP as in GameBoy.

 
Comment by Bob
2006-10-10 07:35:48

How do I install this?
I try to use seipsptool and when I choose the pbp file in the gpsp folder my pc crashes, do i have to choose “whole folder” to install?

 
Comment by jewbilee
2006-10-10 15:03:49

Awesome update! Metriod fusion works perfectly so far with frameskip on 0. And both castlevanias work great! woo freakin hoo!

 
Comment by taco
2006-10-10 16:11:13

There is a gpSP 0.8 HEN C version.
You can getit here: http://www.dcemu.co.uk/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=38449&highlight=gpsp
but for some reason, if you press the triangle button, the ROM freezes.

 
Comment by xxsupersajinxx
2006-10-10 19:25:20

i have tried loding up yugioh ultimate masters 2006 with this emulator but it just sticks at a white screen. Its a 32 meg and its still zipped cause the readme said 32 meg games had to be zipped to work but all i get is a white screen. any help would be appriciated thank u

 
Comment by Kenny
2006-10-10 22:18:46

I’m new to the emulator scene…can sum1 explain how to use this…or link me to where I can learn?….yea I know I’m a newb :P and I have read the read me xD

 
Comment by LupinTheThird
2006-10-10 22:53:58

#57, I’m not sure what the README says, but the info posted HERE clearly shows that the 32 meg roms need to be UN-ZIPPED to work properly.

 
Comment by Coasterfreak212
2006-10-11 00:18:20

Dang it! Kingdom Hearts ends up in a BSOD crash at the first boss it Traverse Town! Must be the same problem with minish cap. Really hope you figure it out Exophase!

 
Comment by Neverwinter
2006-10-11 03:24:00

Workaround for Minish crash works! Thanks 38.

Btw, I noticed that when using 0.8, the saved game(s) in Zelda keeps on getting corrupted and deleted. Good thing I have backup.

 
Comment by PK1
2006-10-11 11:16:17

Another excellent update !
Just a pity that Yoshi`s Island still doesn`t work :(

 
Comment by Samaran
2006-10-11 15:09:23

Riviera the promised land doesnt work people, or sword of mana two games i really wanted to play :( but other than that this thing kills, keep up the good work, one day it will be 100% perfect.

 
Comment by xxsupersajinxx
2006-10-11 16:00:44

+ 32MB ROM support has been added. ROMS are “demand loaded” as necessary and page swapped out; there might be a small loading lag, but I have yet to ever really notice anything. NOTE: 32MB ROM support only works for unzipped ROMs.

 
Comment by sporxs
2006-10-11 20:11:13

so anyone have a savestate for kingdom hearts?

 
Comment by Samaran
2006-10-12 05:08:26

Does anyone know of riviera and sword of mana working properly? All i get is “bad jump” right at the start. Banjo kazooie does that too. and Onimusha tactics. Anyone got any good advice? No my ROMS arent zipped.

 
Comment by Vadi
2006-10-12 10:22:43

Reversed stereo is not fixed!

:(

 
Comment by chaka
2006-10-12 17:40:30

it crushes in zelda minish cap in the third element dungeon against the boss

 
Comment by Coasterfreak212
2006-10-12 21:39:54

have you read the previous post on thw workaround on the minish cap problems chaka?

 
Comment by xxsupersajinxx
2006-10-13 16:46:35

i just thought i should repost this but i have tried playing yugioh ultimate masters 2006 on the emulator, but all i get is a white screen. and its still zipped when i tried it and even unziped it to make sure but still recieved white blank screen. As you can see in post 64 32 meg games have to be ziped to be played but mines dont work but it works for visual boy on the pc

 
Comment by hi
2006-10-14 09:38:11

i’m having trouble making this work. i have fw 2.5 and am using the tiff eloader. I got the gta bios off the internet and renamed it to gta_bios.bin and put in the the same folder as the eboot, but gpsp still crashes when i initiate it.

 
Comment by hola
2006-10-15 12:46:58

When will support be added (since the gameboy advance was backwards compatible) for original gameboy & gameboy color roms?!?!

 
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