Emulators and Emulator News for the Blackberry Playbook

**dosboxwasthestuff** · 04-25-2012, 05:17 PM

hey u guys i really appreciate evrything ur doing on crackberry especially with emulators im not sure what happened to froggy face but it seems hes gone silent(nazi zombies) but i havent honestly played fceuxpb (nes) on playbook for awhile and i saw someone else posted on the fceux thread that after upgrading to 2.01 i booted the emulator and now random times during applications i see the splash screen for fceux switiching through tabs for browser playing nova 2 on specific screens any fix? deleted app + fceux folder from misc doesnt seem to do the trick about to restart pb

**jtokarchuk** · 04-25-2012, 05:38 PM

Restarting will work. Investigating

**brad1986** · 04-25-2012, 05:51 PM

A kawaks like emulator for cps1/2 & Neo-Geo would be fantastic

**dosboxwasthestuff** · 04-25-2012, 05:53 PM

yea so far seems it has umm got a backup of metal gear solid and its in 2 parts,individually they r not loading if u cant come up with something first then Google is my friend

**dosboxwasthestuff** · 04-25-2012, 06:00 PM

i take that back i think imgburn might work but anyone have any suggestions on how i can play it i guess i have to merge them into 1?

**jtokarchuk** · 04-25-2012, 11:51 PM

Alright, vbam is giving me some issues, froggyface is going to look into it at some point.

Next emulator for overhaul is FCEUXpb.

Tentative todo list:
- Possibly remove splash screen (to avoid ghosting .... do you guys see this lots?)
- update ROM selector to include the visual dialog (like snes and psx)
- create the nes folder on first run.
- update control gfx

Any requests thus far?

**RDilux** · 04-26-2012, 01:04 AM

Originally Posted by jtokarchuk

Alright, vbam is giving me some issues, froggyface is going to look into it at some point.

Next emulator for overhaul is FCEUXpb.

Tentative todo list:
- Possibly remove splash screen (to avoid ghosting .... do you guys see this lots?)
- update ROM selector to include the visual dialog (like snes and psx)
- create the nes folder on first run.
- update control gfx

Any requests thus far?

i got a request for a other emulator
i would love to see a sega saturn or dreamcast emu
i would also love to see this preenv on playbook

**xsacha** · 04-26-2012, 05:45 AM

Guys, check out that emumaster I mentioned before.
My port has progress and I made a thread about it here: Project Emumaster

**brad1986** · 04-26-2012, 07:54 AM

Is dreamcast even possible on the playbook

**jtokarchuk** · 04-26-2012, 08:19 AM

NEWS: I have started work on standardizing all of the current emulators (froggyface's + A7omic/I's)

Efforts will be tracked here: The Emulator Refresh Project

**RDilux** · 04-26-2012, 04:47 PM

Originally Posted by brad1986

Is dreamcast even possible on the playbook

dreamcast was running on psp...and on android so why not give it a try?

**dosboxwasthestuff** · 04-26-2012, 07:10 PM

Originally Posted by jtokarchuk

Alright, vbam is giving me some issues, froggyface is going to look into it at some point.

Next emulator for overhaul is FCEUXpb.

Tentative todo list:
- Possibly remove splash screen (to avoid ghosting .... do you guys see this lots?)
- update ROM selector to include the visual dialog (like snes and psx)
- create the nes folder on first run.
- update control gfx

Any requests thus far?

yes i saw ghosting i told u about earlier but it has something to do with 2.01 didnt happen b4 and by gfx do u mean the pics cuz i think there fine just rewrite the button in the top left corner (for switiching roms) to acess rom list

**jtokarchuk** · 04-27-2012, 08:53 AM

News: FCEUXpb has been updated.

Changes:

Visual Rom Selector
Instruction dialog if you have no Roms
misc/roms/nes is created for you now

FCEUX port for playbook. (NES Emulator)

**dosboxwasthestuff** · 04-27-2012, 09:02 AM

Originally Posted by jtokarchuk

News: FCEUXpb has been updated.

Changes:

Visual Rom Selector
Instruction dialog if you have no Roms
misc/roms/nes is created for you now

FCEUX port for playbook. (NES Emulator)

tnx no problems to report yet just wondering is it possible to anonymously pick up logs from playbooks and have them automatically sent to you when there is an error? so that u can figure whats wrong and affecting alot of ppl without them even reporting it u could already be fixing the problem

**jacobmathias** · 04-27-2012, 11:26 AM

the refresh project is a good idea! I'd love to feature your work on my site too!

**jtokarchuk** · 04-27-2012, 01:30 PM

I would be completely OK with that.

**CptArm3D** · 04-27-2012, 01:51 PM

hELLO THERE JUST WONDERING WHATS GOING ON WITH THE VBAMpb emulator like is it ok or what plz tell me?
P.s add these notes to what you should do make emulators run full screen no i mean wide screen so it could look nice and sexy when i show off my multi-gaming system!

**jtokarchuk** · 04-27-2012, 02:01 PM

Originally Posted by CptArm3D

hELLO THERE JUST WONDERING WHATS GOING ON WITH THE VBAMpb emulator like is it ok or what plz tell me?
P.s add these notes to what you should do make emulators run full screen no i mean wide screen so it could look nice and sexy when i show off my multi-gaming system!

Froggy and I are looking into VBAM.. be patient.

**memyselfandblackberry** · 04-27-2012, 02:23 PM

After playing games like MetalGear Solid, MDK and Shadowman on the playstation emu for the Playbook...it seems that the graphics are not smoothed out enough.

I know these games are dated and maybe I am used to the PS3 and Xbox 360 graphics..but just wanted to make sure if its just the game being dated or does the emu need to be configured to take advantage of the playbooks hardware in some way. Not sure just an observation. I am so happy that I can play these classics on a 7in table.

This is great for 2d fighting games like street fighter and darkstalkers.

**jtokarchuk** · 04-27-2012, 02:24 PM

The PSX looks excellent on the playbook. Try playing it via SCART on your TV on a regular PSX. Looks kinda ugly

**zethaaron** · 04-27-2012, 02:37 PM

Originally Posted by CptArm3D

hELLO THERE JUST WONDERING WHATS GOING ON WITH THE VBAMpb emulator like is it ok or what plz tell me?
P.s add these notes to what you should do make emulators run full screen no i mean wide screen so it could look nice and sexy when i show off my multi-gaming system!

If you're asking how well it works, it's alright for GBA, but there are a lot of things that need to be addressed. It runs alright in terms of speed and everything, but there are some glitches with button configuration, and GB/GBC games are not connected to the rom cycler, so if you want to play GB/GBC you can only use one rom at a time, which it will open on default. Anyway, like I said, it's not bad if you just want GBA

**dosboxwasthestuff** · 04-28-2012, 04:16 PM

okay okay u guys big news just found this article on rim updating some game framework type stuff i didnt understand and if u scroll to the bottom it says future updates and list somethings they want to update including WIIMOTE,XBOX 360, AND PS3 CONTROLLERS + BLUETOOTH HID DEVICES Introducing gameplay v1.2 for 3D Indie Game Developers «BlackBerry Developer Blog WE MAY HAVE SUPPORT AFTER BB JAM 10

**brettmyster** · 04-28-2012, 11:59 PM

I love my playbook even more now.

**bobmarley321** · 04-29-2012, 07:01 PM

I appreciate all the work that's being done on the various emulators, but I think that most of us would prefer a working n64 emulator. Thanks for all you've done so far though!

**brad1986** · 04-29-2012, 07:22 PM

Originally Posted by bobmarley321

I appreciate all the work that's being done on the various emulators, but I think that most of us would prefer a working n64 emulator. Thanks for all you've done so far though!

I would of agreed a few days ago but now we have a working ps1 emulator

. N64 can wait a while.... for me anyway. Plus a lot of N64 games used the analog stick. They don't work too well on a touchscreen. The amount of buttons that controller had

the screen will be a bit of a cluttered mess. If we can get pad support for playbook then I'm gonna be happy. Til then though, N64 is not that high on the list