NeoGeo on the Blackberry Playbook

**travisredpath** · 11-03-2012, 08:39 PM

GnGeo-pb

A NeoGeo emulator for the Blackberry Playbook.

The startup UI works just like it would on a PC. Drag the mouse to the game that you want to play and press once to select it and double click it to open it. If you don't see an image to the left of the game list then you don't have a game selected. The UI is made for desktop computers so doesn't work perfectly but you shouldn't be spending too much time here so hopefully it will suffice.

Besides the dpad and the coin, start, A (red), B (yellow), C (green), and D (blue) buttons there are also 4 buttons in the top right that are not visible during gameplay. Clockwise from the top left they are:
- switch between 1st and 2nd player controllers,
- open the ROM select screen,
- load a saved state,
- and save the state.
The load and save state buttons will require you to pull out the keyboard by swiping towards the centre of the screen from the bottom left.

A NeoGeo bios is needed to play games and will be composed of several files all which should be stored in shared/misc/gngeo/bios. BIOS - gxgeo - Details about the BIOS Files has a nice table that shows all of the bios files. Make sure the files are named as they are on the left hand side of the table and the uni-bios is not supported.

ROMs need to be zip files and should be placed into shared/misc/gngeo/ROMS. You also need an rc file for each ROM. They should have the extension rc and be placed in shared/misc/gngeo/ROMS/romrc.d. If you open them with a text editor you should be able to find the name of each file in the zip file somewhere in this file. If you get a message saying that a driver could not be found for your game then you are missing the appropriate rc file or the file names in the rc file aren't correct.

Download:
https://github.com/downloads/tredpat...pb-1_0_0_2.bar
Source:
https://github.com/tredpath/GnGeo-pb

Just search the forum if you don't know how to sideload bar files onto your playbook.

GnGeo

GnGeo is a portable NeoGeo emulator for Linux. See its homepage at:

gngeo - Unix NeoGeo Emulator

Screenshots

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**captainronald** · 11-04-2012, 10:54 AM

This is fantastic man! Thanks

**bugmeyes** · 11-04-2012, 06:31 PM

Thank you soooooo much for this great contribution, you sir are a great man

**jimmy2x2x** · 11-04-2012, 10:35 PM

Cant seem to get it working here

I have the following structure and files

Code:

 Directory of Y:\misc\gngeo

05/11/2012  04:32    <DIR>          .
05/11/2012  04:28    <DIR>          ..
05/11/2012  04:27    <DIR>          ROMS
05/11/2012  04:27    <DIR>          bios
05/11/2012  04:15    <DIR>          save
05/11/2012  04:33                65 test.txt
               1 File(s)             65 bytes

 Directory of Y:\misc\gngeo\ROMS

05/11/2012  04:27    <DIR>          .
05/11/2012  04:32    <DIR>          ..
05/11/2012  04:27    <DIR>          romrc.d
05/11/2012  04:15    <DIR>          shots
10/12/2011  09:34        13,165,412 mslug.zip
               1 File(s)     13,165,412 bytes

 Directory of Y:\misc\gngeo\ROMS\romrc.d

05/11/2012  04:27    <DIR>          .
05/11/2012  04:27    <DIR>          ..
05/11/2012  04:24                99 mslug.rc
               1 File(s)             99 bytes

 Directory of Y:\misc\gngeo\ROMS\shots

05/11/2012  04:15    <DIR>          .
05/11/2012  04:27    <DIR>          ..
               0 File(s)              0 bytes

 Directory of Y:\misc\gngeo\bios

05/11/2012  04:27    <DIR>          .
05/11/2012  04:32    <DIR>          ..
24/12/1996  23:32           131,072 000-lo.lo
24/12/1996  23:32           131,072 asia-s3.rom
24/12/1996  23:32           131,072 japan-j3.bin
24/12/1996  23:32           131,072 sfix.sfix
24/12/1996  23:32           131,072 sm1.sm1
24/12/1996  23:32           131,072 sp1.jipan.1024
24/12/1996  23:32           131,072 sp-1v1_3db8c.bin
24/12/1996  23:32           524,288 sp-45.sp1
24/12/1996  23:32           131,072 sp-e.sp1
24/12/1996  23:32           131,072 sp-j2.sp1
24/12/1996  23:32           131,072 sp-s.sp1
24/12/1996  23:32           131,072 sp-s2.sp1
24/12/1996  23:32           131,072 usa_2slt.bin
24/12/1996  23:32           131,072 vs-bios.rom
              14 File(s)      2,228,224 bytes

mslug.rc contains the following, which is a list of all files in mslug.zip:

Code:

201-c1.c1
201-c2.c2
201-c3.c3
201-c4.c4
201-m1.m1
201-p1.p1
201-s1.s1
201-v1.v1
201-v2.v2

Any tips?

Thanks

**travisredpath** · 11-04-2012, 10:47 PM

Originally Posted by jimmy2x2x

Code:

 Directory of Y:\misc\gngeo\bios

05/11/2012  04:27    <DIR>          .
05/11/2012  04:32    <DIR>          ..
24/12/1996  23:32           131,072 000-lo.lo
24/12/1996  23:32           131,072 asia-s3.rom
24/12/1996  23:32           131,072 japan-j3.bin
24/12/1996  23:32           131,072 sfix.sfix
24/12/1996  23:32           131,072 sm1.sm1
24/12/1996  23:32           131,072 sp1.jipan.1024
24/12/1996  23:32           131,072 sp-1v1_3db8c.bin
24/12/1996  23:32           524,288 sp-45.sp1
24/12/1996  23:32           131,072 sp-e.sp1
24/12/1996  23:32           131,072 sp-j2.sp1
24/12/1996  23:32           131,072 sp-s.sp1
24/12/1996  23:32           131,072 sp-s2.sp1
24/12/1996  23:32           131,072 usa_2slt.bin
24/12/1996  23:32           131,072 vs-bios.rom
              14 File(s)      2,228,224 bytes

It should be sfix.sfx not sfix.sfix.

Originally Posted by jimmy2x2x

Code:

201-c1.c1
201-c2.c2
201-c3.c3
201-c4.c4
201-m1.m1
201-p1.p1
201-s1.s1
201-v1.v1
201-v2.v2

That's not an rc file, it's just a list of the files. The rc file needs to tell the system how to load the game. As an example the one that I have for Metal Slug 2 looks like this:

Code:

longname Metal Slug 2 - Super Vehicle-001/II
game mslug2 MVS "Metal Slug 2 - Super Vehicle-001/II"
CPU 0x300000
241-p1.rom 0x0 0x100000 NORM
241-p2.rom 0x100000 0x200000 NORM
END
SFIX 0x20000
241-s1.rom 0x0 0x20000 NORM
END
SM1 0x20000
241-m1.rom 0x0 0x20000 NORM
END
SOUND1 0x800000
241-v1.rom 0x0 0x400000 NORM
241-v2.rom 0x400000 0x400000 NORM
END
GFX 0x2000000
241-c1.rom 0x0 0x800000 ALTERNATE
241-c2.rom 0x1 0x800000 ALTERNATE
241-c3.rom 0x1000000 0x800000 ALTERNATE
241-c4.rom 0x1000001 0x800000 ALTERNATE
END
END

**jimmy2x2x** · 11-04-2012, 11:23 PM

Thanks for the help, can you explain a little more about rc files - I'm not really following how you create them.

**travisredpath** · 11-04-2012, 11:41 PM

Originally Posted by jimmy2x2x

Thanks for the help, can you explain a little more about rc files - I'm not really following how you create them.

Don't create them. Search for them on Google.

**joz292** · 11-24-2012, 01:41 PM

The app tries starting and immediately quits, and never made it past the splash screen. Tried uninstalling and reinstalling but no luck. Any ideas?

**travisredpath** · 11-24-2012, 05:02 PM

Originally Posted by joz292

The app tries starting and immediately quits, and never made it past the splash screen. Tried uninstalling and reinstalling but no luck. Any ideas?

Do you have any ROMS on your Playbook? What about the bios?

**damianiw** · 11-24-2012, 05:41 PM

Thanks for this have gngeo on my gp2xwiz :-)

Regards

Damian

**joz292** · 12-08-2012, 08:36 AM

Originally Posted by travisredpath

Do you have any ROMS on your Playbook? What about the bios?

Sorry for late reply.

Yes I have several ROMS under gngeo\ROMS and put the bios files under gngeo\bios. The program seems to just immediately crash...

**damianiw** · 12-10-2012, 02:45 PM

Not all games work for me, puzzle bobble worked, samurai showdown crashes - in fact puzzle bobble is about all I've got to work.

Regards

Damian

**travisredpath** · 12-10-2012, 05:11 PM

Originally Posted by joz292

The program seems to just immediately crash...

I'll recommend the usual reinstall and reboot but I'm still trying to decide why it's crashing on you. It runs for me without the directories and even if I don't allow the application access to files. I put a test version of GnGeo on github that outputs some information during startup that might help me try to figure this problem out. If you run it it should output some information to some text files in the folder shared/misc/gngeo.

https://github.com/downloads/tredpat...o-pb_DEBUG.bar

Originally Posted by damianiw

samurai showdown crashes

Works for me, make sure your rc file is correct.

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**omega supreme** · 12-11-2012, 02:34 AM

this is excellent; this will have to be a project for the new year but i'm glad it's ready to go. Along with the snes and genesis emulators i really won't need to buy a portable gaming system like i've been thinking about..

...although; at this rate i may need to buy a new playbook since i only have a 16g....here is a thought; can those files be saved on a cloud storage??