[Chilly Willy]

Chilly Willy's been busy this last week, programming with his new acquaintance CaptShoe, and here's the result. This is Snes9xTYL 0.4.2 with MediaEngine support... for the Slim! There were also a few bug fixes as well. Although this is targeted at Slim owners, it works just fine on the phat as well. On the slim, it goes in GAME, GAME360, or GAME371. On the phat, it goes in GAME3xx or GAME if you have the kernel mode set to 3.xx.

One major limitation on this version - you cannot change the speed. It's hardcoded for 333 MHz. This is because you cannot change the CPU speed while the MediaEngine is running or the Slim hangs. In a related issue, sleep mode has been disabled since sleep would have done nothing at all. As such, this will drain your battery rapidly. Once I figure out how to change the speed after the ME has been initialized, I can change this aspect pretty easily. For now, full speed, and pressing the power button does nothing.

EDIT: Since MediaFire is up and down all the time, I've also put the files on my google page.

EDIT: It has been noted that trying to put more than about 250 roms in a directory crashes the emu. So DON'T! Make subdirectories.

Snes9xTYL 0.4.2 ME for Slim
Snes9xTYL 0.4.2 ME for Slim - source code

Snes9xTYL 0.4.2 ME for Slim
Snes9xTYL 0.4.2 ME for Slim - source code

[x3sphere]

Wow, awesome release Chilly Trying it out right now.

edit: This has definitely fixed some of the sound issues, great work. Lufia II runs without a hitch.

[RJC4LIFE]

Is there any way to change the fonts that SNESTYL uses?Some games are to hard to read, like Treasure of the Rudras.

[Chilly Willy]

Originally Posted by RJC4LIFE

Is there any way to change the fonts that SNESTYL uses?Some games are to hard to read, like Treasure of the Rudras.

The emu has one built in font, fontNaga10.c, and you'd have to convert whatever font you wanted into C and recompile. I don't really have any plans to change the font handling in this. I'm working on a new conversion of SNES9x 1.51, and I'll probably use freetype2 for printing text, so you'll be able to simply choose a TTF from the menu for that. It'll be awhile before that conversion is done.

If you mean inside the game itself, that's hardcoded in the game. You'd have to hack the rom to change the font the game uses. That's well beyond the scope of this thread.

[x3sphere]

Originally Posted by RJC4LIFE

Is there any way to change the fonts that SNESTYL uses?Some games are to hard to read, like Treasure of the Rudras.

Question: have you tried going into the Hack / Debug menu and turning Fix HiRes hidden details to on?

This used to be a problem with Seiken Densetsu 3... but yoyofr fixed it by adding this option in.

[neutrOpik]

Tanks for your great work Chilly Willy!

Keep up!

[Acerthief]

Nice Job CW!
a chinese web did a review on this release, and they gave you quite some credit.
Now they're looking for people that can contact you. >_>
I recommend to be hidden from them.

[Chilly Willy]

I don't know what the big fuss is. I didn't write the thing, just made it work with the ME on the Slim. It wasn't THAT hard. Me and CaptShoe spent less than a week on it, and much of that was fixing little fixes to things that irritated us.

[jonn]

i downloaded both of the files and did what i was told but it wont work. it keeps saying that the game cannot start or whatever. [80020148]. what should i do?

[Chilly Willy]

Originally Posted by jonn

i downloaded both of the files and did what i was told but it wont work. it keeps saying that the game cannot start or whatever. [80020148]. what should i do?

It's for 3.xx firmware. Make sure to put the directory in GAME3xx or GAME with the kernel mode set to 3xx. In case this needs saying, it's for CUSTOM firmware, not official firmware.