<![CDATA[VBA-M Forums - All Forums]]> http://vba-m.com/forum/ Fri, 18 May 2012 10:09:29 +0000 MyBB <![CDATA[Object Handling or ROM errors in Mega Man BN Games?]]> http://vba-m.com/forum/Thread-object-handling-or-rom-errors-in-mega-man-bn-games Fri, 18 May 2012 03:52:02 +0000 http://vba-m.com/forum/Thread-object-handling-or-rom-errors-in-mega-man-bn-games
This was something I encountered on the original VBA, but I wonder if maybe it will happen on VBA-M as well (I haven't played far enough using VBA-M to check).

Anyway. In the Battle Network games, the are many virus enemies running around. Some of them launch projectiles in parabolic arcs to their target: You. I've confirmed this happens in BN2, 3, 5, and 6 so far.

Basically: All the enemies who launch in-game objects seem to have some kind of error or bug that causes weird things to happen.

For the Beetank / Bugtanks in BN2 and 5 (They behave in exactly the same way) The Beetanks will move up and down their column, and play the firing animation as normal. However. Sometimes the Viruses will seem to misfire and not fire any projectile at all. Making them sometimes unable to attack in a pseudorandom manner.

The Beetle Viruses of BN3 have a similar problem, except they behave differently, by moving keeping a distances of two panels between you and it, and staying off the row you're on. Sometimes when they fire, nothing happens.

The Killerplant Viruses in BN2 add more specifics to this problem. If a Killerplant family virus is on the top row in the enemy area, unless you happen to be on the same row, they will be unable to launch their TreeBombs at all. This has shown to be the case as well if you are on the top row while the Killerplant is on the bottom one.

Then so far, with BN6. The Puffy Virus launches a trio of needles at you into your area...The problem is, the projectiles are completely invisible, despite the attack succeeding to execute.

A notable symptom of this inherent error is that for some of the virues, the projectile can sometimes be seen somewhere on the screen (usually near the top, or very bottom of the emulator screen) for about 1-2 frames before disappearing without a trace.

I have the original BN6 for Gregar, and I have owned at least one of every game in the series at some point in time, and on top of that, I have an acute long-term memory, and I don't remember any of the things mentioned above ever happening on the original carts.

Incidently, none of the BattleChip attacks in the game that launch objects in an arc have this kind of problem at all.

Due to my current understanding of programming (not all that good, but I can do some basic C++), I have come to the conclusion the cause is either the emulator (how it is handling on-screen objects and stuff) or the ROM itself, and I simply find it hard to believe that a series of ROMs could possibly experience the same exact kind of problem across all six games.]]>
This was something I encountered on the original VBA, but I wonder if maybe it will happen on VBA-M as well (I haven't played far enough using VBA-M to check).

Anyway. In the Battle Network games, the are many virus enemies running around. Some of them launch projectiles in parabolic arcs to their target: You. I've confirmed this happens in BN2, 3, 5, and 6 so far.

Basically: All the enemies who launch in-game objects seem to have some kind of error or bug that causes weird things to happen.

For the Beetank / Bugtanks in BN2 and 5 (They behave in exactly the same way) The Beetanks will move up and down their column, and play the firing animation as normal. However. Sometimes the Viruses will seem to misfire and not fire any projectile at all. Making them sometimes unable to attack in a pseudorandom manner.

The Beetle Viruses of BN3 have a similar problem, except they behave differently, by moving keeping a distances of two panels between you and it, and staying off the row you're on. Sometimes when they fire, nothing happens.

The Killerplant Viruses in BN2 add more specifics to this problem. If a Killerplant family virus is on the top row in the enemy area, unless you happen to be on the same row, they will be unable to launch their TreeBombs at all. This has shown to be the case as well if you are on the top row while the Killerplant is on the bottom one.

Then so far, with BN6. The Puffy Virus launches a trio of needles at you into your area...The problem is, the projectiles are completely invisible, despite the attack succeeding to execute.

A notable symptom of this inherent error is that for some of the virues, the projectile can sometimes be seen somewhere on the screen (usually near the top, or very bottom of the emulator screen) for about 1-2 frames before disappearing without a trace.

I have the original BN6 for Gregar, and I have owned at least one of every game in the series at some point in time, and on top of that, I have an acute long-term memory, and I don't remember any of the things mentioned above ever happening on the original carts.

Incidently, none of the BattleChip attacks in the game that launch objects in an arc have this kind of problem at all.

Due to my current understanding of programming (not all that good, but I can do some basic C++), I have come to the conclusion the cause is either the emulator (how it is handling on-screen objects and stuff) or the ROM itself, and I simply find it hard to believe that a series of ROMs could possibly experience the same exact kind of problem across all six games.]]> <![CDATA[Battery saves (.sav) type and transferring between different emulators]]> http://vba-m.com/forum/Thread-battery-saves-sav-type-and-transferring-between-different-emulators Sat, 12 May 2012 22:35:26 +0000 http://vba-m.com/forum/Thread-battery-saves-sav-type-and-transferring-between-different-emulators
As such, I turn to you guys for support and help on this issue. Tongue

Gameboid gives savegame options of SRAM, Flash, Flash 128K, and EEPROM. FE6 is detected as SRAM, and selecting SRAM in Gameboid saves the file as 32K in size (if a new game is started from Gameboid and there is no .sav file already present in the directory). This is not compatible with the VBA-M saves that are 64K in size.

In VBA-M, if I select SRAM + Flash (128K), it still saves as 64K. These 64K size saves can be *read* properly by Gameboid, but they cannot be saved to. Any attempts to save will simply not work; the game will not crash or anything, but the save will just not be overwritten.

Attempting to load the game with the 32K savefile in the same directory via VBA-M results in VBA-M overwriting the save, even though it can load from it properly.

Is this something that can be resolved relatively easily? Any help would be greatly appreciated.]]>
As such, I turn to you guys for support and help on this issue. Tongue

Gameboid gives savegame options of SRAM, Flash, Flash 128K, and EEPROM. FE6 is detected as SRAM, and selecting SRAM in Gameboid saves the file as 32K in size (if a new game is started from Gameboid and there is no .sav file already present in the directory). This is not compatible with the VBA-M saves that are 64K in size.

In VBA-M, if I select SRAM + Flash (128K), it still saves as 64K. These 64K size saves can be *read* properly by Gameboid, but they cannot be saved to. Any attempts to save will simply not work; the game will not crash or anything, but the save will just not be overwritten.

Attempting to load the game with the 32K savefile in the same directory via VBA-M results in VBA-M overwriting the save, even though it can load from it properly.

Is this something that can be resolved relatively easily? Any help would be greatly appreciated.]]> <![CDATA[Add bass back into the tracks.]]> http://vba-m.com/forum/Thread-add-bass-back-into-the-tracks Fri, 11 May 2012 02:21:09 +0000 http://vba-m.com/forum/Thread-add-bass-back-into-the-tracks <![CDATA[Possible to allow guide button to act as a button?]]> http://vba-m.com/forum/Thread-possible-to-allow-guide-button-to-act-as-a-button Mon, 07 May 2012 00:15:10 +0000 http://vba-m.com/forum/Thread-possible-to-allow-guide-button-to-act-as-a-button <![CDATA[madcatz mc2]]> http://vba-m.com/forum/Thread-madcatz-mc2 Fri, 04 May 2012 16:16:11 +0000 http://vba-m.com/forum/Thread-madcatz-mc2
Hardware Ids:
USB\VID_1BAD&PID_F030&REV_0490
USB\VID_1BAD&PID_F030

(...this couldn't be because the microsoft driver is installed, right?, tried to uninstall that but didn't work)
Some help would be really nice!

edit: Sorry didn't provide full name: MadCatz MircoCon Racing Wheel. Support would be awesome]]>
Hardware Ids:
USB\VID_1BAD&PID_F030&REV_0490
USB\VID_1BAD&PID_F030

(...this couldn't be because the microsoft driver is installed, right?, tried to uninstall that but didn't work)
Some help would be really nice!

edit: Sorry didn't provide full name: MadCatz MircoCon Racing Wheel. Support would be awesome]]> <![CDATA[XBCD doenst appear in drivers menu (I have an unoficial receiver)]]> http://vba-m.com/forum/Thread-xbcd-doenst-appear-in-drivers-menu-i-have-an-unoficial-receiver Fri, 04 May 2012 13:58:35 +0000 http://vba-m.com/forum/Thread-xbcd-doenst-appear-in-drivers-menu-i-have-an-unoficial-receiver
http://www.amazon.com/Xbox-360-Wireless-...vg_title_0

It is not a micorsoft one, and I cant get it to work with XBCD. I install drivers, but It doesnt appear in the list when I have to choose it. I mean this step:

[Image: attachment.php?aid=215]
In this part, it only shows "PC Wireless gaming receiver", the one that comes in the CD.

I use Windows XP. Any solution? Obviously, when I do the test with XBCD utility, it doesnt recognice any controller


My second question is If I can get vibration with Oficial Microsoft Steering Wheel with this drivers. I mean just vibration, not Force feedback


THANK YOU A LOT! Smile
Ok I have just seen wireless controlers are not supported yet for XBCD....Sad Sorry I didnt see it, I though It would work, I will read more next time

Well I will wait for compatibility. Greetings]]>
http://www.amazon.com/Xbox-360-Wireless-...vg_title_0

It is not a micorsoft one, and I cant get it to work with XBCD. I install drivers, but It doesnt appear in the list when I have to choose it. I mean this step:

[Image: attachment.php?aid=215]
In this part, it only shows "PC Wireless gaming receiver", the one that comes in the CD.

I use Windows XP. Any solution? Obviously, when I do the test with XBCD utility, it doesnt recognice any controller


My second question is If I can get vibration with Oficial Microsoft Steering Wheel with this drivers. I mean just vibration, not Force feedback


THANK YOU A LOT! Smile
Ok I have just seen wireless controlers are not supported yet for XBCD....Sad Sorry I didnt see it, I though It would work, I will read more next time

Well I will wait for compatibility. Greetings]]> <![CDATA[OSX Port]]> http://vba-m.com/forum/Thread-osx-port Wed, 25 Apr 2012 18:40:46 +0000 http://vba-m.com/forum/Thread-osx-port
Question 2: If it is, do you need help with it, or is there just no interest?

Question 3: If it's not could somebody please point my blind ass in the right direction?



Badger badger badger badger..... Badger

MUSHROOM MUSHROOM Cookie

No wait, thats a cookie...


SNAKEEEEE oooooooh ITS A SNAKEEEEEE Msn_turtle

Shit, that's not a snake, that's a turtle.

Fuck it I give up.]]>
Question 2: If it is, do you need help with it, or is there just no interest?

Question 3: If it's not could somebody please point my blind ass in the right direction?



Badger badger badger badger..... Badger

MUSHROOM MUSHROOM Cookie

No wait, thats a cookie...


SNAKEEEEE oooooooh ITS A SNAKEEEEEE Msn_turtle

Shit, that's not a snake, that's a turtle.

Fuck it I give up.]]> <![CDATA[Language adding]]> http://vba-m.com/forum/Thread-language-adding Wed, 25 Apr 2012 15:13:52 +0000 http://vba-m.com/forum/Thread-language-adding I want to ask you

Does your latest VBA-M r1086 was compressed?
It's really so bad, that i can't get the resources i need (Menu, Dialog, String)
as your latest release has another improvements and a few differents to r926, so, in my opinion you guys, must uncompress them in the next release as there must a lot of user who wants the emulator to fit with them.
besides, i already localized the Indonesia language, for VBA-M r926, but it is really so bad that i forgot to move it into my flashdrive.

Another suggestions perhaps.
May the language sections will be added in the future for the download sections.

Regards,

Khairul Agasta]]> I want to ask you

Does your latest VBA-M r1086 was compressed?
It's really so bad, that i can't get the resources i need (Menu, Dialog, String)
as your latest release has another improvements and a few differents to r926, so, in my opinion you guys, must uncompress them in the next release as there must a lot of user who wants the emulator to fit with them.
besides, i already localized the Indonesia language, for VBA-M r926, but it is really so bad that i forgot to move it into my flashdrive.

Another suggestions perhaps.
May the language sections will be added in the future for the download sections.

Regards,

Khairul Agasta]]> <![CDATA[Issues with Wireless Xbox 360 Controller]]> http://vba-m.com/forum/Thread-issues-with-wireless-xbox-360-controller Sat, 21 Apr 2012 01:43:37 +0000 http://vba-m.com/forum/Thread-issues-with-wireless-xbox-360-controller
I'm using Windows 7 x64 SP1 Professional.

I've followed the instructions provided to the letter, however I can't seem to get the Config util to recognise that I have the controller installed.

Few issues with the instructions: The controller for Wireless X360's does not appear under the 'Common Controller Class' in Win7, it appears under Human Interface Devices. I've located the controller and installed the driver through there.

The Configuration Utility refuses to recognise that I have the device installed.

I'm using an Official Xbox controller.

Please advise any steps you need me to take to try get this solved.

Thanks heaps! Smile]]>
I'm using Windows 7 x64 SP1 Professional.

I've followed the instructions provided to the letter, however I can't seem to get the Config util to recognise that I have the controller installed.

Few issues with the instructions: The controller for Wireless X360's does not appear under the 'Common Controller Class' in Win7, it appears under Human Interface Devices. I've located the controller and installed the driver through there.

The Configuration Utility refuses to recognise that I have the device installed.

I'm using an Official Xbox controller.

Please advise any steps you need me to take to try get this solved.

Thanks heaps! Smile]]> <![CDATA[n64input source code]]> http://vba-m.com/forum/Thread-n64input-source-code Mon, 16 Apr 2012 13:33:24 +0000 http://vba-m.com/forum/Thread-n64input-source-code
https://github.com/mudlord/n64input]]>
https://github.com/mudlord/n64input]]> <![CDATA[Linux Debian compile error]]> http://vba-m.com/forum/Thread-linux-debian-compile-error Sat, 14 Apr 2012 12:32:02 +0000 http://vba-m.com/forum/Thread-linux-debian-compile-error
PHP Code:
[ 25%] Built target fex
[ 70%] Built target vbamcore
[ 72%] Built target translations
[ 73%] Building CXX object CMakeFiles/gvbam.dir/src/gtk/main.cpp.o
~/vbam-1.8.0.1001/src/gtk/main.cpp: In function ‘int main(int, char**)’:
~/vbam-1.8.0.1001/src/gtk/main.cpp:93: error: no matching function for call to ‘Gtk::Builder::add_from_file(std::string&, const char [12])’
/usr/include/gtkmm-2.4/gtkmm/builder.h:193: note: candidates are: bool Gtk::Builder::add_from_file(const std::string&)
~/vbam-1.8.0.1001/src/gtk/main.cpp:94: error: no matching function for call to ‘Gtk::Builder::add_from_file(std::string&, const char [11])’
/usr/include/gtkmm-2.4/gtkmm/builder.h:193: note: candidates are: bool Gtk::Builder::add_from_file(const std::string&)
make[2]: *** [CMakeFiles/gvbam.dir/src/gtk/main.cpp.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [CMakeFiles/gvbam.dir/all] Error 2
make: *** [all] Error 2 

I have all the gkt required packages installed, since Cmake has found them, so what can i do for fix this?]]>
PHP Code:
[ 25%] Built target fex
[ 70%] Built target vbamcore
[ 72%] Built target translations
[ 73%] Building CXX object CMakeFiles/gvbam.dir/src/gtk/main.cpp.o
~/vbam-1.8.0.1001/src/gtk/main.cpp: In function ‘int main(int, char**)’:
~/vbam-1.8.0.1001/src/gtk/main.cpp:93: error: no matching function for call to ‘Gtk::Builder::add_from_file(std::string&, const char [12])’
/usr/include/gtkmm-2.4/gtkmm/builder.h:193: note: candidates are: bool Gtk::Builder::add_from_file(const std::string&)
~/vbam-1.8.0.1001/src/gtk/main.cpp:94: error: no matching function for call to ‘Gtk::Builder::add_from_file(std::string&, const char [11])’
/usr/include/gtkmm-2.4/gtkmm/builder.h:193: note: candidates are: bool Gtk::Builder::add_from_file(const std::string&)
make[2]: *** [CMakeFiles/gvbam.dir/src/gtk/main.cpp.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [CMakeFiles/gvbam.dir/all] Error 2
make: *** [all] Error 2 

I have all the gkt required packages installed, since Cmake has found them, so what can i do for fix this?]]> <![CDATA[New controller]]> http://vba-m.com/forum/Thread-new-controller Sat, 14 Apr 2012 05:02:42 +0000 http://vba-m.com/forum/Thread-new-controller
USB\VID_10C6&PID_8015

Thanks!]]>
USB\VID_10C6&PID_8015

Thanks!]]> <![CDATA[LoZ: Oracle of Ages/Seasons]]> http://vba-m.com/forum/Thread-loz-oracle-of-ages-seasons Fri, 13 Apr 2012 05:30:39 +0000 http://vba-m.com/forum/Thread-loz-oracle-of-ages-seasons http://vba-m.com/forum/Thread-player-2-disconnected
The issue is that when the rom is loaded, it will endlessly output the error message "LINK: Player 2 disconnected|OK" and a new one will open when you click ok.
I am not trying to do linked play, just play the game. I feel like changing the timeout in link settings might help, but I have no idea what to try, I tried 0 and 50000 with no success.

edit:
I am running it through wine 1.3 on Ubuntu 11.10]]> http://vba-m.com/forum/Thread-player-2-disconnected
The issue is that when the rom is loaded, it will endlessly output the error message "LINK: Player 2 disconnected|OK" and a new one will open when you click ok.
I am not trying to do linked play, just play the game. I feel like changing the timeout in link settings might help, but I have no idea what to try, I tried 0 and 50000 with no success.

edit:
I am running it through wine 1.3 on Ubuntu 11.10]]> <![CDATA[Audio quality]]> http://vba-m.com/forum/Thread-audio-quality Thu, 12 Apr 2012 17:55:52 +0000 http://vba-m.com/forum/Thread-audio-quality
First of all I'd like to apologize if this is the wrong section to post this in. I've considered posting this in the bug section first at but it's not really a bug. It possibly belongs in the feature section although I am not certain if this is already possible and it's just me not knowing how.

Here is my problem:

I am trying to extract the music from a specific game boy color demo. This demo can be downloaded here (note: It's not anything commercial or anything, it's legal):
Pouet page.
Youtube video of the demo.

At first I wanted to use visual boy advance to do this but I quickly found out visual boy advance was not capable of correctly rendering the linked demo. (aside from video glitches it slows down the playback (including the music) significantly. This issue occurs at the "skull part")

After trying multiple emulators (some rendered correctly, but either slowed down too much when capturing or didn't have a capture option at all) I found out about VBA-M and fortunately this did render the demo correctly.

The problem I'm having is that the audio quality is less than the original visual boy advance and I'm not sure how to improve it. I run with a 44kHz sample rate on both emulators (with both I mean VBA and VBA-M) and I disabled sound enhancement in VBA-M. I also used all 3 different output API's but they all deliver the same result. The sound in VBA-M sounds "muffy" compared to VBA.

What is causing this exactly and is this changable? I thought it might be a low pass filter as VBA sounds similar to VBA-M once I turn that on there but VBA-M doesn't seem to have options for that. I tried copying those sections of the config file to VBA-M's config file but that didn't do anything.

Any advice is welcome.

Rcube.]]>
First of all I'd like to apologize if this is the wrong section to post this in. I've considered posting this in the bug section first at but it's not really a bug. It possibly belongs in the feature section although I am not certain if this is already possible and it's just me not knowing how.

Here is my problem:

I am trying to extract the music from a specific game boy color demo. This demo can be downloaded here (note: It's not anything commercial or anything, it's legal):
Pouet page.
Youtube video of the demo.

At first I wanted to use visual boy advance to do this but I quickly found out visual boy advance was not capable of correctly rendering the linked demo. (aside from video glitches it slows down the playback (including the music) significantly. This issue occurs at the "skull part")

After trying multiple emulators (some rendered correctly, but either slowed down too much when capturing or didn't have a capture option at all) I found out about VBA-M and fortunately this did render the demo correctly.

The problem I'm having is that the audio quality is less than the original visual boy advance and I'm not sure how to improve it. I run with a 44kHz sample rate on both emulators (with both I mean VBA and VBA-M) and I disabled sound enhancement in VBA-M. I also used all 3 different output API's but they all deliver the same result. The sound in VBA-M sounds "muffy" compared to VBA.

What is causing this exactly and is this changable? I thought it might be a low pass filter as VBA sounds similar to VBA-M once I turn that on there but VBA-M doesn't seem to have options for that. I tried copying those sections of the config file to VBA-M's config file but that didn't do anything.

Any advice is welcome.

Rcube.]]> <![CDATA[Modifying cheat codes & values]]> http://vba-m.com/forum/Thread-modifying-cheat-codes-values Wed, 11 Apr 2012 17:03:29 +0000 http://vba-m.com/forum/Thread-modifying-cheat-codes-values
I posted this under the VisualBoyAdvance discussion section on the ngemu forums, and was referred to this site since VBA isn't being developed any more. So, I am posting this here in the hopes that you will be able to help out with this. Here is a copy:

I have a question regarding using cheat codes in VisualBoyAdvance:

Is there a way to modify cheat codes after you put them in? Or, is it possible to change the value that you initially put in when entering the code for the first time?

If this cannot be done in the program itself, is there some other way of doing it?

Thank you for any help you can provide

My next response:

I understand that you can put in any value you like when creating the code. I was interested in changing that value portion of the code after you initially create the code.

Most emulators do allow you to do this. Snes9x, Fceux, NESten, DeSmuMe-the list goes on and on. In any of these emulators, you can 'Modify' the code after creating it. I was hoping there was a way to do this in VisualBoyAdvance as well. Or, if there was at least a way to open the saved cheat file in WordPad or Notepad to edit the code there, although that is quite inconvenient.

Maybe there isn't a way of doing this. But, if not, then this is definitely a suggestion for the future.

Thanks again for your help.]]>
I posted this under the VisualBoyAdvance discussion section on the ngemu forums, and was referred to this site since VBA isn't being developed any more. So, I am posting this here in the hopes that you will be able to help out with this. Here is a copy:

I have a question regarding using cheat codes in VisualBoyAdvance:

Is there a way to modify cheat codes after you put them in? Or, is it possible to change the value that you initially put in when entering the code for the first time?

If this cannot be done in the program itself, is there some other way of doing it?

Thank you for any help you can provide

My next response:

I understand that you can put in any value you like when creating the code. I was interested in changing that value portion of the code after you initially create the code.

Most emulators do allow you to do this. Snes9x, Fceux, NESten, DeSmuMe-the list goes on and on. In any of these emulators, you can 'Modify' the code after creating it. I was hoping there was a way to do this in VisualBoyAdvance as well. Or, if there was at least a way to open the saved cheat file in WordPad or Notepad to edit the code there, although that is quite inconvenient.

Maybe there isn't a way of doing this. But, if not, then this is definitely a suggestion for the future.

Thanks again for your help.]]> <![CDATA[Sound Problems]]> http://vba-m.com/forum/Thread-sound-problems Thu, 05 Apr 2012 21:08:19 +0000 http://vba-m.com/forum/Thread-sound-problems <![CDATA[Version 1030b on Mac]]> http://vba-m.com/forum/Thread-version-1030b-on-mac Thu, 05 Apr 2012 06:04:18 +0000 http://vba-m.com/forum/Thread-version-1030b-on-mac <![CDATA[Going completely insane trying to get DDR pad to work]]> http://vba-m.com/forum/Thread-going-completely-insane-trying-to-get-ddr-pad-to-work Mon, 02 Apr 2012 04:03:44 +0000 http://vba-m.com/forum/Thread-going-completely-insane-trying-to-get-ddr-pad-to-work <![CDATA[XBOX 1 Madcatz Microcon Wireless Work on XP But NOT ON 7. HELP!!!]]> http://vba-m.com/forum/Thread-xbox-1-madcatz-microcon-wireless-work-on-xp-but-not-on-7-help Fri, 30 Mar 2012 16:28:58 +0000 http://vba-m.com/forum/Thread-xbox-1-madcatz-microcon-wireless-work-on-xp-but-not-on-7-help
Well this is the situation..

I am a Windows 7 32 bit user...

I saw that the...

%XBCD.DeviceDesc% =Install, USB\VID_0738&PID_4586 ; MadCatz MicroCon Wireless Controller

My windows recognize my controller like madcatz foot pad... Help me please!!!

...

Today i did it work on my windows xp partition. it works perfect!!! but. in windows 7 i have the same issue that allready commented... can you help me squall???

On my manager device said (windows xp): Madcatz 4506 2.4GHz wireless gamepad

ID:USB\VID_0738&PID_4506\6&32BE113A&0&1

Hardware identificators: USB\Vid_0738&Pid_4506&Rev_0102
USB\Vid_0738&Pid_4506

What can we do???

Thanks in advance!!!]]>
Well this is the situation..

I am a Windows 7 32 bit user...

I saw that the...

%XBCD.DeviceDesc% =Install, USB\VID_0738&PID_4586 ; MadCatz MicroCon Wireless Controller

My windows recognize my controller like madcatz foot pad... Help me please!!!

...

Today i did it work on my windows xp partition. it works perfect!!! but. in windows 7 i have the same issue that allready commented... can you help me squall???

On my manager device said (windows xp): Madcatz 4506 2.4GHz wireless gamepad

ID:USB\VID_0738&PID_4506\6&32BE113A&0&1

Hardware identificators: USB\Vid_0738&Pid_4506&Rev_0102
USB\Vid_0738&Pid_4506

What can we do???

Thanks in advance!!!]]> <![CDATA[[Patch included] OpenGL - Missing blue channel on Mac OS X]]> http://vba-m.com/forum/Thread-patch-included-opengl-missing-blue-channel-on-mac-os-x Thu, 29 Mar 2012 18:41:46 +0000 http://vba-m.com/forum/Thread-patch-included-opengl-missing-blue-channel-on-mac-os-x
I took a shot at compiling VBA-M on OS X 10.7.3 and noticed that the blue color channel seemed to be completely absent:

[Image: Screen%20Shot%202012-03-29%20at%208.20.20%20PM.png]

After some digging, I found out that the systemRed/Green/BlueShift were incorrect in that they didn't match what OpenGL expects when drawing GL_BGRA data. The miscalculation of the shifts is apparently caused by an oddity in SDL on OS X which seems to interpret the in the wrong endianess (maybe for backwards compatibility for software written for PowerPC??).

I wrote a fix for the issue that can be found here (excuse the wrong indentation, in case you want to apply this to your codebase I will of course supply a clean patch Smile ).
What my change does is an additional byte order check (I took the code from "test/testgl.c" in the SDL sources) if OpenGL is enabled. The resulting shifts have to be shifted an additional byte so that they properly align with OpenGL's BGRA.
I also changed GL_UNSIGNED_BYTE to GL_UNSIGNED_INT_8_8_8_8 as suggested here in order to prevent further endianess issues.

I tested the change on Ubuntu and OS X, but haven't tried it on Windows yet. I'm looking forward to some feedback and suggestions to improve the fix =)

PS: I built VBA-M from the latest revision available in the SVN repo]]>
I took a shot at compiling VBA-M on OS X 10.7.3 and noticed that the blue color channel seemed to be completely absent:

[Image: Screen%20Shot%202012-03-29%20at%208.20.20%20PM.png]

After some digging, I found out that the systemRed/Green/BlueShift were incorrect in that they didn't match what OpenGL expects when drawing GL_BGRA data. The miscalculation of the shifts is apparently caused by an oddity in SDL on OS X which seems to interpret the in the wrong endianess (maybe for backwards compatibility for software written for PowerPC??).

I wrote a fix for the issue that can be found here (excuse the wrong indentation, in case you want to apply this to your codebase I will of course supply a clean patch Smile ).
What my change does is an additional byte order check (I took the code from "test/testgl.c" in the SDL sources) if OpenGL is enabled. The resulting shifts have to be shifted an additional byte so that they properly align with OpenGL's BGRA.
I also changed GL_UNSIGNED_BYTE to GL_UNSIGNED_INT_8_8_8_8 as suggested here in order to prevent further endianess issues.

I tested the change on Ubuntu and OS X, but haven't tried it on Windows yet. I'm looking forward to some feedback and suggestions to improve the fix =)

PS: I built VBA-M from the latest revision available in the SVN repo]]>