#52905 - falcon!!! - Sun Sep 04, 2005 3:12 pm
Will it be possible?
And if it will be possible, can we run heretic through gbamp? or it's too big?
#52906 - El Hobito - Sun Sep 04, 2005 3:21 pm
Mighty max says hes working on ds.gba loader for gbamp. Heretic will never work on the gbamp v2/v1 for reasons i've already explained to you. Heretic is simply too big to fit into 4megs of memory. It could be possible to load in the necessary files when loading each level but that would require a lot of effort i would imagine
#52908 - falcon!!! - Sun Sep 04, 2005 3:41 pm
OK.
Thank you for your comprehension :)
So files ds.gba and .nds files will be always limited in size (on gbamp)?
But why u can put 700 MB films?O.o
#52924 - tepples - Sun Sep 04, 2005 7:04 pm
GBA Movie Player can play 700 MB movie files because it loads a few kilobytes at a time from the CF.
And how much RAM did the original PC that ran Doom, Heretic, and Doom II have?
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#52935 - El Hobito - Sun Sep 04, 2005 8:20 pm
Apparently the minimum for doom was 8 megs of ram so i guess heretic would never be feasible on the gbamp v2/1
#52940 - tepples - Sun Sep 04, 2005 9:32 pm
| El Hobito wrote: |
| Apparently the minimum for doom was 8 megs of ram so i guess heretic would never be feasible on the gbamp v2/1 |
Doom 1 on the Super NES ran in 256 KB of RAM and 2 MB of ROM. Did the Super FX2 chip have its own RAM?
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#52945 - Sebbo - Sun Sep 04, 2005 10:07 pm
Doom 1 is also available on the GBA
#52950 - tepples - Sun Sep 04, 2005 10:35 pm
True, but Doom for GBA runs in 384 KB of RAM and 8 MB of ROM. Because the Nintendo DS doesn't have that much RAM, any Doom engine port along similar lines to the GBA version must run either from a cart in GBA ROM space (flash or SuperCard) or have the ability to read assets from CF on the GBA Movie Player.
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#52994 - Mr Snowflake - Mon Sep 05, 2005 11:30 am
While I'm interested in buying a gbamp and playing hexen or heretic I found this: http://www.idsoftware.com/games/hexen/heretic/index.php?game_section=sysreq
Heretic only needs 4MB of ram min. Still this would need us to only load the needed parts of the wad, we would be possible to get it run eventually.
Doesn't the GBA doom has its own wad's, instead of the pc wad?
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#53086 - El Hobito - Mon Sep 05, 2005 11:15 pm
Doom for gba was considerably simplified over the original with less varing sounds/textures/animations/resolution/level complexity. Also i dont think you can really compare the transfer rate of cartridges over cf cards. It might end up being possible but not without making some kind of sacrifice
#53273 - Lynx - Wed Sep 07, 2005 4:47 am
The overall answer is: Anything can be run from the GBA MP if it is DESIGNED to do so. Would it be easy to port games that aren't designed, dunno. But, there is no file size limit, you just have to swap RAM.
#53377 - deltro - Thu Sep 08, 2005 1:39 am
| Lynx wrote: |
| The overall answer is: Anything can be run from the GBA MP if it is DESIGNED to do so. Would it be easy to port games that aren't designed, dunno. But, there is no file size limit, you just have to swap RAM. |
OHHHH! Is that all? (lol)
PS: Seems like that would seriously hurt the program's performance with all the ram swapping, that's gotta kill some processor time)
#53384 - Lynx - Thu Sep 08, 2005 2:14 am
Uhhh.. ok? I guess it might depend on how fast you need the data.. 8meg mp3's play fine.