And there was also an instance where performing an OR operation behaved like I was doing an = operation instead: // To avoid confusion, these are from homebrew libs of my own that follow Sony's syntax typedef struct { unsigned int tag; unsigned int code[1]; } DR_TPAGE; DR_TPAGE *tpri = (DR_TPAGE*)n...

I'm not the best C coder, but isn't do while(1); an infinite loop? I think he means that the compiler discards the dummy multiplication/addition operations followed by the two calls to somefunc(), rather than doing a 1:1 assembly translation... It's hard to guess since he didn't post the code for s...

I know, I was wondering if he declared the hardware register he was talking about as volatile and the compiler still optimized it away, or if he declared it as a "normal" variable and had to resort to the kludge he mentioned... in the latter case I wouldn't call it a compiler-related bug, ...

Well, the only compiler related bug I've encountered was having a while() statement that waits for a specific hardware register to change with no code in it would sometimes produce an indefinite loop (branch instruction jumping to itself) but that was fixed by putting some dummy logic into said whi...

Aside from putting function definitions inside another .c file rather than inside headers, you should also put include guards in your header files to avoid problems such as the one mentioned by Xavi. It's no hassle at all, e.g. in DRW.H you should put something like this at the beginning of the file...

For Yagotzirck, I just propose to do a full tutorial BECAUSE I can't find it on the internet (this is too specific). And it's not "for me", but for beginners, because if they learn with the tutorial, they will want to try themselves to make a game with what they learn. You think I'm just ...

You didn't ask for help; asking for help would have been along the lines of "I tried everything I could to achieve X but I couldn't find a way around it, what can I do?" What you did instead was asking for someone else to do all the heavylifting for you without giving any hint about what y...

You can't rip it as a sound since it's sequenced music(think of MIDI with a custom soundfont), and you won't find any tool that automatically extracts it; the process to extract PSFs is a bit complicated . The good news though is that RE3's OST has been ripped already: link You'll need one of those ...

I don't think anyone was being 'discouraging' here, just giving real advice . It's not 1998, PC/mobile/web development is a lot easier now, even embedded development is 'child friendly'. And C, even in embedded development its regarded as old. Android developer, generally means java, which is what ...

I don't mean to discourage you or anything but if you have a hard time making games for android, making them for the psx is probably going to be an even bigger challenge since unlike android, abstraction is pretty much nonexistent and you're forced to interact with the hardware at a low level even f...

That's some commitment over there - well done

Yes and no...

-No as in: http://www.psxdev.net/forum/viewtopic.php?p=3229#p3229, and
-Yes as in you should be able to launch them with ps2psxe; keep in mind that it's an emulator and it's not using ps2's hardware backward compatibility though.

Like someone mentioned in the qhimm forum final fantasy 8 creates sounds effects on the fly at runtime so I think there's no point in trying to capture sound effects there. Can you elaborate on this/do you have anything to backup these claims? It seems highly unlikely to me, since synthesizing soun...

uops... I did a search before opening this thread, but evidently I didn't do so thoroughly enough . Thanks

Hi there, I recently got an Xploder and I'm planning to build a setup to do some psx programming in real hardware; I was looking at the caetla's toolset and PSEXE.COM seems to be pretty neat since it allows to upload files to the psx without having to embed them in the exe... the issue is that from ...

Yeah, I came to the conclusion the modes 1-3 are just exotic simple arithmetic blending modes and it's impossible to have an exact conversion to ARGB... though I've used an approximation method as follows: -Convert each 16-bit CLUT pixel to ARGB32, left-shifting each color component by 3 values if S...

Hello, i'm trying to convert sprites from a PSX game(Disruptor) to a PC-friendlier ARGB TGA format. No big issues, except for the way the PSX handles semitransparency. The library reference describes these 4 methods in GetTPage(): Semitransparency rate 0: 0.5 x Back + 0.5 x Forward 1: 1.0 x Back + 1...

I've counted a total of 6 colours and lots of subsequent identical pixels, so with something as simple as a 4 bit CLUT(theoretically even 3 would be enough but I don't think the psx supports that) and RLE encoding it might be way smaller than one might think and fit in ROM perfectly... then again th...

I use an APC e10 SurgeArrest since quite some years to protect my PC from that kind of stuff: http://zive.v.mfstatic.cz/files/obrazky/art/comp/APC2.jpg Definitely a life saver :) Not quite sure if that's still on the market, but googling "powerstrip with surge protector" might help you fin...

I don't understand the need to go through all that hassle, since TVs are able to strip sync from composite signal on their own
Besides, the rgb scart standard itself uses composite for synchronization so I don't really get what that retrorgb article is all about