[Chilly Willy]

Okay, not getting much exposure over at dcemu, so I'll make a post here as well.

This is my update to Deniska's Rise of the Triad for the PSP. I rewrote the video to support SDL and used my new SDL with TV support, so now you can play this on the TV. Since it uses my new SDL, it also has the proper pitch on sounds effects. I changed two controls to make them useful (one wasn't useful at all, and the other did nothing). Be sure to read the readme for all the controls.

This comes with the shareware files and mini-instruments I used with Duke3D. Note that the shareware and registered versions are DIFFERENT EBOOTs! One executable doesn't handle both like with many other games (Doom or Duke3D for instance).

Many thanks to Deniska for his work in getting it converted.

EDIT: You need to replace the sawwave.pat file in the mini directory with the one in the archive. Although they are the same size, the one in the game archive slows the system down when playing. The replacement instrument does not.

[RJC4LIFE]

Downloading this now,thanks alot Chilly! Question,is there anything you can't do on the psp? Ever thought of taking a stab at Daedalus?

[Chilly Willy]

The N64 emu? Isn't strmmnekjshiwriutgwihgf (whatever his username is ) still working on that?

Got a lot to work on, so I work on things as I feel the urge. Right now, I'm working on OpenAL. OpenAL is one of those things needed for Quake3 and EDuke32.

[midnitdragoon]

this game skips alot on my psp slim. is this because the port is still being worked on or did i do something wrong?? O_O im using the full version because i have the game.

[Chilly Willy]

You'll notice it only skips on one section of the music - it think that's where the music repeats, so timidity is reloading the music. I'm not sure what to do about that, but I'll look into it. In the meantime, give it a second or two to get past that part of the music, or don't use the music.

[Darkchild]

chilly willy, I do not know how to use timidity nor if this is possible, but!

can't you do something like:

if (music.length == music.cur_position) {music.setposition = 0;}

??
Probably cheating, but it will probably make timidity NOT load the midi again thus not slowing the game down :3

[Chilly Willy]

Haven't looked at how they handle looped music, but it's probably fairly dumb. After all, it's only MIDI and we're on a 3GHz Quad Core system with 8 GB of DDR2-1066 memory, right? That's half the battle on porting stuff to the PSP - making sure that code meant for 2 GHz or better works decently on a 300 MHz system.

[Darkchild]

300 or less :P

at 300 it'll consume lots of battery

But, now back to the subject in matter, if you cannot loop it, try to at least make like I did above, I know its stupid, but hey, if it works, who cares?

[Chilly Willy]

It's definitely the instruments - if you substitute the TINY instruments in v1.00 in place of the MINI instruments, it doesn't have that issue (it just sounds really crappy ). I'd hate to see it with the BIG instrument package.

From looking at SDL_mixer, it looks like when you play looping music, mixer keeps mixing until the music is flagged as inactive (done), then if you have it set for looping, it manually restarts the music back at position 0.0. Looking at the timidity music start code, the first thing it does is the load_missing_instruments() function. That goes through the general instruments bank and the percussion bank loading instruments. So it's clearly something to do with loading the instruments. I think that last instrument before the music loops might be so big it's forcing other instruments to be flushed, which then have to reload on the next loop. I'll look into that.

[B2K24]

<p>Thank you Chilly, I wasn't sure what I was gonna be playing tonight until I found this post </p>