Here's a tiny little teaser for Adelvach fans, and to put to rest any questions about whether there's a connection between Dragon Force I and Dragon Force II. (Guess that means a spoiler is afoot!)

Time's not been kind to that connection.

Ready to test on real hardware, hope it helps !  :thumbsup:

Yeah, the game uses a file format for FMVs that's incredibly unstable in SSF -- nothing we can do about that for now, unfortunately. It even causes Yabause to bug out, but Yabause is nice enough to just skip over them when this happens. Yabause, on the other hand, can't load the battles at all.  :banghead:

The reason why the game kept hanging for you is probably the quick Teiris cutscene it tries to load when a monarch is selected. You gotta hammer hard on the Start button so you skip over it before the game loads it. What's really annoying are cutscenes that play during the game, because those are less predictable. Documenting when this happens in earch scenario would be a great goal during the testing phase. Then we can shoop it into the readme so people have some forewarning.

In addition to the folks testing on real hardware, we'll need eight volunteers to use SSF (one for each scenario). I'll open up a signup and instructions thread at Verve Fanworks when we're ready to go.

EDIT: Okay, folks testing on real hardware get first dibs. Let me know what the file size of your image is in this thread at Verve Fanworks.

I think that'd be worth a try. Seeing as the author's already translated a bunch of technical terms into English for purposes of the emulator's interface, I'll shoot an email over provided I can find some contact info. I'm not holding my breath for a bunch of tweaks specifically dedicated to Dragon Force II, but maybe the author will have some recommendations.

EDIT: Dude, check out Konsolkongen's test on real hardware!

Handles beautifully right up until it hits one of my ASM changes.  :laugh:  I can't make any promises, but I'm going to see if there's another way of accomplishing the same thing that the hardware won't choke on.  \  The function Konsolkongen was trying to execute there works fine for me in SSF and Yabause, but it would be a shame if people can't play it on the real deal.

Ooh, we can do Twitter. 


Phew, I don't want to jinx it, but now it looks like it's fully working on real hardware. Here's what was happening before: I had NOP'd the instruction to write a screen coordinate to a register, but what I neglected was the fact that a huge-ass pointer value was sitting in the register at the time it was supposed to be filled with that screen coordinate value. When the game engine looked for the screen coordinate later, it had to pull that huge pointer value. In other words:

What FW thought he was saying: Hey, game engine, I don't want you to write this thingie to the screen because it just ain't gonna fit in English. So I'm gonna tell you not to figure out the coordinate. Mm'kay?

What FW was really saying, because he wasn't paying close attention to register values: Hey, game engine, I want you to write that onscreen element about two miles to the left. Mm'kay?

SSF's response: Sure, I'll do that for you, buddy!  :beer:

Real hardware's response: Aww, hell no.


So I had to figure out another way of doing what I wanted, and now the hardware doesn't seem to have a hangup about it. Check out Konsolkongen's latest hardware test here!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjHyy2QCbLY

I'm so down.


Saturn emulation is known to be imperfect, though.

Shame we can't burn this to a disc and play it on the actual Saturn.
(Uh...can we?)