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gpSP v0.9 for the PSP

Posted Dec 15, 2006 at 07:34AM by Remi M. Listed in: Homebrew Emulators, Gameboy Advance Tags: Zelda, GBA, Exophase, gpSP, Brunni, homebrew community

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The great Exophase popped into our forums recently to tell us that he just released version 0.9 of his GBA emulator, gpSP. This has been called by many appreciative people as the best GBA emulator for the PSP because of its great compatibility and consistent performance.

In his post, the dev said that he isn't "terribly impressed with the unofficial builds of gpSP that exist without my consent." You could read his complete and exact statements on the forum release thread or on the readme file that comes with the download. He mentioned that in spite of all the challenges brought about by some unappreciative people, he still plans on working on the gpSP for the benefit of the homebrew community.

He also mentioned that he intended to release the emulator by midnight, but they encountered some problems during beta testing, and of course he needed to fix them. Anyhow, this version is still in its beta phase. He says that version 1.0 won't be a beta...that is if he releases a version 1.0. Here's an excerpt of the long changelog for version gpSP v0.9. Be sure to check out Exophase's insights on the forum thread; and the complete changelog on the readme file.

Changelog:

Fixed stereo output being reversed.
Fixed a bug causing misaligned errors on 8bit writes to the gbc audio channel 3 wave data (fixes various Super Robot Wars games)
Fixed DMA with garbage in their upper 4 bits (fixes a crash in Zelda: Minish Cap)
Added double buffering to the rendering, removes line artifacts.

Big thanks to Brunni for the idea.

Fixed a bug preventing some SRAM based games from saving (fixes MMBN4-6)
Fixed a bug causing part of EWRAM to potentially get corrupted if code segments loaded in EWRAM cross 32KB boundaries (fixes Phantasy Star 2)
Fixed a bug causing games using movs pc in user mode (very bad behavior) to crash. Fixes Colin McRae Rally 2.0.
Improved timing a bit more. Fixes GTA Advance.
Fixed a sprite clipping bug (fixes crash in third boss of Zelda: Minish cap)
Increased translation buffer size significantly (fixes Donkey Kong: King of Swing)
Fixed a dynarec bug causing add pc, reg to not work in Thumb code (fixes crash in DBZ:LoZ, seems to fix crashes in battle in Golden Sun, probably fixes other games)
Made sprites using tiles < 512 not display in modes 3-5 (fixes a couple minor graphical bugs)
Removed abort on instruction 0x00000000 hack, was breaking a certain bugged up game (Scurge)

Download: [gpSP v0.9 1.0 EBOOT]
Download: [gpSP v0.9 1.5 EBOOT]
Download: [gpSP v0.9 source]
Discuss: [Forum Release Thread]

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by Nice! (Unregistered) - 2006-12-15

» Nice!

Nice!

Re: eruditejok3r - 2006-12-15

» :)

Now all you guys need to do is go here:

http://torrentspy.com/torrent/832251/GameBoy_Advanced_908_English_Games

Re: ffs (Unregistered) - 2006-12-16

» ha

lol its kinda retarded that you have to search for "gameboy advanced" to find that and "gameboy advance" doesn't work :P

Re: erekiddo (Unregistered) - 2006-12-16

» you need the bios dumbass

that emu is so great ! you need the bios file named gba_bios.bin in order to use this emu...

by bute (Unregistered) - 2006-12-15

» haha

1st!

Re: eruditejok3r - 2006-12-15

» hahahahaha

You *****ing *****got... you though you were first but a none ***** won.

About time!

Re: NovaMan XP (Unregistered) - 2006-12-15

» Uh..

What's the big freakin' deal with being first? You're not gonna win a million dollars for it. This is about gpSP for PSP, not a "who can post first contest". >_>

Anyway...
Can this update play GBC games by any chance? From what I've read... it said something about fixing the sound for GBC... so I'll download it and see...

Re: jb (Unregistered) - 2006-12-16

» Lock up

gpSP 9 causes lock ups in certain games now, especially bad is Final Fantasy IV

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by Shadowwarrior (Unregistered) - 2006-12-15

» YES!

Hell yea!

PS bute you are not 1st haha

Re: eruditejok3r - 2006-12-15

» :P

Double HAHA

by bongoben (Unregistered) - 2006-12-15

» re:

now, the real test (when I get home from work). Does Mario vs. Donkey Kong work? Past emus I've used wouldn't let the mini-Marios jump on the spring in the mm level in world 2. We shall see.

Re: !st (Unregistered) - 2006-12-15

» yep!

Mario and Luigi superstar saga works and Mario vs Donkey Kong works as well. They don't work with trainers though.

Re: bongoben (Unregistered) - 2006-12-15

» re:

Brilliant! That means I will have to spend less time playing MLB '06 for PSP so I can get back into these games. Of, if only work were shorter today.

Re: Hal Jordan (Unregistered) - 2006-12-15

» awesome

Great I can finally be able to play Mario vs Donkey Kong + GTAA! I had that problem with M VS DK on level mm in world 2 as well. I thought it was just a bug in the game, hopefully no more bugs as I will try to finish them as well.

by InuyashaX (Unregistered) - 2006-12-15

» Hmmm....

I wonder....Is this from gpsp 0.8 kai 2.6 or the original gpsp 0.8? I wonder which version is the best now...

Re: GOF007 - 2006-12-15

» ...

This 0.9 is seem to be a lot better than 0.8 kai 2.6

Full speed emulation(while 08kai26 still need some fames skip)
Faster save/load state
Better menu organizing
~~~ and more ^^

by Lucky_Bastard - 2006-12-15

» It's time..

It's time to update my previous gpsp... ; )

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by bute (Unregistered) - 2006-12-15

» hehhe

ok u w0n..heheh.. cheers.. good release eh?

by 1st post (Unregistered) - 2006-12-15

» 1st post

1st post!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111111
owned!11111111111omg!!

Re: . (Unregistered) - 2006-12-15

» .

You are Pwnd, idiot.

Re: hahahahaha (Unregistered) - 2006-12-15

» haahhahahaha

hahahahahaha

Re: oh man (Unregistered) - 2006-12-15

» OH MAN THAT NEVER GETS OLD

I LAUGH AT THAT EverytIME LOL! OMFG! ROFL!

by hehe (Unregistered) - 2006-12-15

» hmm

Kingdom Hearts now crash, and Golden Sun

Re: Loaded (Unregistered) - 2006-12-15

» Actually....

Set frameskip to 99, manual, random when KH intro loads. It'll skip through it glitchy-ly, however you can then reset the frameskip back to 0 and play the game normally.

by thankyou!!! (Unregistered) - 2006-12-15

» THXTHXTHXTHXTHCTHCTHC

thx!

by thanks exophase!!!! (Unregistered) - 2006-12-15

» thanks exophase!!!!

the best emulator on psp just got better!!! thanks so much exophase, you have improved my quality of life!!!

by hmmm (Unregistered) - 2006-12-15

» hmmm

everytime i update i hope that annoying choppy sound in mario circuit gos away (in the menus)

never does :-(

nice i release i guess, i dont really know of any good GBA roms so i only play mario circuit

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Re: poop (Unregistered) - 2006-12-15

» head

fire emblem, advance wars 1 + 2, sonic advanced series, doom I + II, wolfinstine, final fantasy Dawn of souls, final fantasy VI, final fantasy IV, fire emblem the sacred stones, mana sword, tales of phantasia, sim city 2k, phantasy star collection, double dragon advanced... and there is about a million more just open your eyes

by not (Unregistered) - 2006-12-15

» Finally!!!

Puzzle Fighter Turbo finally works. Whoohooo!!!!

Re: daes (Unregistered) - 2006-12-15

» better on CPS emu

runs hella better on CPS emualtor!

Re: not (Unregistered) - 2006-12-15

» yeah, I know

but using CPS caused me to break my umd drive when I put coins in it to play.... :P

by poop head (Unregistered) - 2006-12-15

» poop

final fantasy V, kingdom hearts, super Mario series, mortal kombat series, street fighter series,

by GBA-fan (Unregistered) - 2006-12-15

» Another Thanks Exophase

What else can someone like me who couldn't even begin to think about maknig this say but thank you. Without you taking time to create this beast of a gba emu for the psp, we'd be stuck trying to play our fav gba game at 1 frame per second on whatever older gba emus there were. Great job.

by awesome o (Unregistered) - 2006-12-15

» hey

this release is pretty amazing so it will be able to run as well as the snes emulation maybe better :-p

by bman (Unregistered) - 2006-12-15

» help!

could someone be genirus and send me a copy of the gba image bios.if so send it to marcelbrob@yahoo.com thank you!

Re: grr... (Unregistered) - 2006-12-15

» Tough Luck, Eh?

Sorry to hear that you're too stupid to use google... You know it's the world's best search engine. Give it a shot! Sometimes it helps!

Re: jo (Unregistered) - 2006-12-16

by Anto (Unregistered) - 2006-12-15

» GTA still doesnt work

ALthough it says its fixed, its not, All i get is : Bad jump and some numbers

by djlenny51 (Unregistered) - 2006-12-15

» nice

pretty cool, works way better than the kai releases, good job Exophase your emulator is getting to the point of perfection. thanx

by Sr_Moska - 2006-12-15

» coool

you rock exophase! keep it like that =)

It totally blew me away (thumbs up)

by Mannich (Unregistered) - 2006-12-15

» great!!! but GTA.. :(

GTA isn't fixed... snif..

by databoy2k - 2006-12-15

» Well Done!

Another great release, great work, keep it up!
@QJ - That changelog is just the minor revisions, that's not even the added features!
--Databoy2k

by nyght (Unregistered) - 2006-12-15

» ITS ABOUE TIME

-Finally!
exophase complaining that 'inferior' ppl are building off of HIS emulator?... then how about working on it a bit?

Re: GaveUpTomorrow - 2006-12-15

» Some people...

actually have lives, and he may only be able to get some actual work done from time to time, who knows. Quit crying about it and be grateful that he is still coming out with releases. Thanks Exophase :)

Re: o (Unregistered) - 2006-12-16

» ffs

ya i hate it when *****s complain about freeware

by stewart! (Unregistered) - 2006-12-15

» fd

can anybody tell me if this fixes the problems with legacy of goku 1 and/or 2? I know it says DBZ:LOZ but I'm not sure if that's a typo or a different game.

I'd try it myself but my PSP is like three floors up ;/

by Nice (Unregistered) - 2006-12-15

» Job

Exophase do you need the bios_gba.bin in this?

by bob ur mum lol (Unregistered) - 2006-12-15

» When will we havea fully working cheat system

I know a cheat system was put in a previous gpSP bu twhen will we have a fully understandable cheat system for a gpSP for eloader

by psp fw 2.80 user (Unregistered) - 2006-12-15

» hey

ok im a 2.80 psp user any way's i have used that taki or what ever his name is any way i used is bootleg gpsp emulator and it work's perfectly on my psp with Eloader but this new realse does not work on my psp with the eloder for some reason can u make this Eloder compatible exophase i mean that will help me out a lot ohh this does work with X loader though perfectly but i like the eloder than the x loader cuz the x loader when i exit i have to resart me psp and that sucks :(

by psp fw 2.80 user (Unregistered) - 2006-12-15

by Pal (Unregistered) - 2006-12-15