[Montellese]

Some feedback from testing with your retroplayer-17alpha1 branch:

Starting a SNES game with Beetle bSNES fails with the following log message:

Code:

Debug Print: RetroPlayer: Opening: E:\Media\Games\ROMs\snes\Super Mario World.smc
Debug Print: AddOnLog: SNES (Beetle bSNES): [Mednafen bSNES]: Samples / Frame: -nan(ind)
Debug Print: AddOnLog: SNES (Beetle bSNES): [Mednafen bSNES]: Estimated FPS: -nan(ind)
'Kodi.exe' (Win32): Unloaded 'E:\Coding\Cpp\xbmc.montellese\addons\game.libretro.beetle-bsnes\game.libretro.beetle-bsnes.dll'
Debug Print: ADDON: Dll Destroyed - SNES (Beetle bSNES)
Debug Print: ADDON: Dll Initializing - SNES (Beetle bSNES)
'Kodi.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'E:\Coding\Cpp\xbmc.montellese\addons\game.libretro.beetle-bsnes\game.libretro.beetle-bsnes.dll'. Module was built without symbols.
Debug Print: GAME: ------------------------------------
Debug Print: GAME: Loaded DLL for game.libretro.beetle-bsnes
Debug Print: GAME: Client: SNES (Beetle bSNES) at version 0.9.26
Debug Print: GAME: Valid extensions: .bs .fig .sfc .smc .st
Debug Print: GAME: Supports VFS:                  no
Debug Print: GAME: Supports game loop:            yes
Debug Print: GAME: Supports standalone execution: no
Debug Print: GAME: Supports keyboard:             no
Debug Print: GAME: ------------------------------------
Debug Print: DXVA::CProcessorHD::IsFormatSupported - Unsupported format 104 for 1.
Debug Print: DXVA::CProcessorHD::IsFormatSupported - Unsupported format 105 for 1.
Debug Print: GameClient: Loading E:\Media\Games\ROMs\snes\Super Mario World.smc
Debug Print: AddOnLog: SNES (Beetle bSNES): Loading E:\Media\Games\ROMs\snes\Super Mario World.smc...
Debug Print: AddOnLog: SNES (Beetle bSNES):  Using module: snes(Super Nintendo Entertainment System/Super Famicom)
Debug Print: AddOnLog: SNES (Beetle bSNES): MDFN_MakeFName: E:\Coding\Cpp\xbmc.montellese\portable_data\userdata\addon_data\game.libretro.beetle-bsnes\save\Super Mario World.srm
Debug Print: AddOnLog: SNES (Beetle bSNES): MDFN_MakeFName: E:\Coding\Cpp\xbmc.montellese\portable_data\userdata\addon_data\game.libretro.beetle-bsnes\save\Super Mario World.rtc
Debug Print: AddOnLog: SNES (Beetle bSNES): MDFN_MakeFName:
Debug Print: AddOnLog: SNES (Beetle bSNES):   Loading custom palette from ""...
Debug Print: AddOnLog: SNES (Beetle bSNES):    Error opening file: Invalid argument
Debug Print: GAME - LoadGame() - addon 'game.libretro.beetle-bsnes' returned an error: the command failed

IIRC I've looked into this problem before and the implementation of MDFN_MakeFName in libretro is missing the functionality to handle creating a filename for palettes (and other stuff).

NES games work but sometimes the Mario sprite vanished for a few seconds and then re-appeared. Never had this before.

Next problem is that after having played a game for platform A input only ever works for that platform (but independent of the actual emulator). So when first playing a NES game and then switching to an SNES game input isn't handled and the following error appears:

Code:

Debug Print: Button [ 0 ] on Xbox 360-compatible controller released
Debug Print: Feature [ b ] on game.controller.snes released
Debug Print: AddOnLog: NES (FCEUmm): Can't find <controller> tag for controller "game.controller.snes"
Debug Print: Feature [ a ] on game.controller.default released

I first played Super Mario Bros. in FCEUmm, then in Nestopia and then I wanted to play Super Mario World on SNES but it looks like FCEUmm (the first emulator used) still tries to handle input. The same problem exists if I do it the other way around see the log from trying to play something in FCEUmm after having played in Snes9x:

Code:

Debug Print: Button [ 7 ] on Xbox 360-compatible controller released
Debug Print: Feature [ start ] on game.controller.nes released
Debug Print: AddOnLog: SNES (Snes9x): Can't find <controller> tag for controller "game.controller.nes"
Debug Print: Feature [ start ] on game.controller.default released
Debug Print: Button [ 7 ] on Xbox 360-compatible controller pressed

In general it feels like there's a noticeable delay between me pressing the button on the controller and the action actually happening in the game emulator which often leads to jumping over blocks instead of onto them in Super Mario games.