Oh, that makes sense that it would be somewhere protected from what the PS4 can let scummvm browse. It's looking at the root of disc0 when browsing, but never picks up the .ini like the PS2 does.
That should be easy to change it to just look at disk0 instead by changing the line i mentioned before, i can compile it with that change if you haven't got the environment set up yet. it should work fine if thats where its looking already if you just change the ini to load from there.
Merry Christmas to you too, i hope you have a great time.
Valid questions
Ah yeah i probably screwed up the disk/disc word.... i will check that in a moment and try again, thanksValid questions
I chose the PSP version due to that the emulator starts directly from the xmb (and hopefully with some tweaks also have the game presented in the list for easy of use). I've yet to find a Retroarch rom launcher for the PS4 that could start the game directly.
Regarding the PS2 version, the only version I could boot (1.4 if I remember correctly) froze right after the helix spiral animation.
Oh, just to make sure, you did try disc0 and not disk0?
The default path for browsing in scumm on the ps4 gives me: disc0:/PSP_GAME/SYSDIR.
EDIT: on a side note, I'm looking into to setting up an environment, is this all I need https://sourceforge.net/projects/minpspw/?
and you can set everything else in the .ini file for each game (just do it in ppsspp and then use that ini for the disc0 version)
Ah yeah i probably screwed up the disk/disc word.... i will check that in a moment and try again, thanks
Odd the PS2 version crashes like that but i guess the emulation isn't perfect and this is also homebrew.
And yes if you are building 1.1.1 you need the pspsdk 0.9.5 (its on that page under files) the later ones gave me PNG errors (probably newer libpng in newer builds) but feel free to experiment, i also used mingw+msys1.0 as a shell so that it found the correct paths but thats just me, you can probably just use it as is without those if you know what you are doing (which you appear too)
EDIT:- OK that fixed it, yep it was totally my screw up of disk instead of disc, now it works, here is a test that worked.
OK here is a version with the .ini path as
disc0:/PSP_GAME/SCUMMVM.INI
it appears to work fine
https://drive.google.com/file/d/15BVOXmB8uL5NG7JZk5C_Ee4tzMuj80ui/view?usp=sharing
EDIT2:- This build was also run with extra flags when compiling to try and optimize it more (chatGPT's sugestions of -funroll-loops -fomit-frame-pointer -finline-functions)
Hey, yeah i use the old 32bit version of mingw (v3.0) and the very old msys 1, they are much easier to work with then the new ones, but i can try doing it with cygwin if you need a hand with that,@Devildwarf hi there.
I have a question about the build tools. I've been trying to setup something on my own again, but this using cygwin64 + pspsdk 0.9.5.
EDIT2: My bad, Saw that you are using mingw + msys 1, thank you!
wow nice work guys, and congrats on getting it working how you want, yeah its odd it broke support aafter 1.1.1, hopefully a DIFF of the source for the PSP parts will be able to tell you what changed and hopefully allow you to fix it. If there is anything else i can do to help let me know, i do wonder if the PS3 has the same problem, i gotta try and set my ps3 up again (i put it away for christmas for space) and test that sometime.
Lol i was just tester but thanks! On ps3 Scumm have native pkg and you can download it from scummvm.org!
yeah i ment purely for testing this problem since i don't have a ps4 modded PS4 (its stock with latest firmware), if i really wanted to run scummvm i would just run the native version,
i would like dreamcast emu also lol
Interesting, then yeah it does sound like a output problem, i would first do a DIFF on the files and look for the output related parts (in the backends psp folder) and maybe try reverting a few bits and seeing what happens (hopefully without fully breaking it), or you could try and find the github revisions for between 1.1.1 and 1.2.0 and see if they made the changes gradually or all in 1 go, because there might be a build in there somewhere that could be useful,@Devildwarf I hope you had some really good relaxing new years holidays!
I still have the urge to find out why 1.2.0 black screens on the PSPonPS4 emu and 1.1.1 does not.
When reading the the release notes for 1.2.0 (also by checking the diff) it says:
PSP port:
I'm thinking it could be some difference in how the video is initialized somewhere in the code in which the PSPonPS4 emu no longer understand.
- New backend design: fixed minor graphical issues and enabled 16-bit support.
- Enabled playback of MP3 files using the Media Engine. This means that the port is optimized for MP3 files (as opposed to OGG).
- Many optimizations. Everything should run faster.
The reason I'm thinking this is because I successfully made the autoboot mod to 1.2.0 for testing and I can actually hear sound from the games (which in theory would mean the emu is working but doesn't output the correct video mode?).
If you have any idea I'm all ears
