#14589 - doudou - Fri Jan 09, 2004 1:07 am
I want to save a struct in the Cart RAM, I thought this would work :
#define GAMEPAK_RAM ((u8*)0x0E000000)
u8* pSaveMem = GAMEPAK_RAM;
for (i = 0 ; i < sizeof(my_struct) ; i++)
pSaveMem[i] = *((u8*) (&my_struct + i));
but it does not. Why ?
#14591 - LOst? - Fri Jan 09, 2004 1:17 am
Oh, does this work, just by writing to a memory location?
#14592 - ampz - Fri Jan 09, 2004 1:30 am
How about this?
pSaveMem[i] = *((u8*)my_struct + i);
#14594 - dagamer34 - Fri Jan 09, 2004 2:07 am
I posted about this earlier and have a nice, simple solution to it. Just follow this link. (you really should search for stuff before you post)
http://forum.gbadev.org/viewtopic.php?t=2550
Pretty simple to use. Just make sure you don't overwrite your own stuff, might create a big problem. It's kinda slow (SRAM has a 5 wait-state period, so don't do it every frame) but no one complains.
Your welcome!!
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#14597 - doudou - Fri Jan 09, 2004 2:43 am
thank you dagamer. By the way, i searched (maybe not that much) before my post. By another way, i think your code is right and a memcpy could not be used since SRAM is only accessible 8 bits at a time.
#14602 - Miked0801 - Fri Jan 09, 2004 3:34 am
What? You guys don't like working with EEPROM memory? :P
#14607 - sajiimori - Fri Jan 09, 2004 7:07 am
Yeah, I made a boo-boo in that thread. Please disregard.
#14622 - dagamer34 - Fri Jan 09, 2004 11:49 pm
Boo-boo?? lol. That's funny!!
Now, I'm working on sound and multiplayer. I think I can get sound to work, but multiplayer is *insert curse word here*!!!!
Maybe that's why there are few multiplayer games and even fewer that use 4-players. Why is that?
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#14631 - tepples - Sat Jan 10, 2004 1:10 am
Few commercial games have multiplayer because few families have $400 to spend on GBA SP systems and $120 to spend on a game.
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#14648 - dagamer34 - Sat Jan 10, 2004 4:18 am
Well, not really the family in general, more like your friends. I mean, I do have 4 friends who have GBA/GBA-SPs but I haven't met them all at the same time.
Besides, I was going to focus more on 2-player gameplay.
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#14665 - ampz - Sat Jan 10, 2004 12:37 pm
I'd like to see more 4-player multiboot titles.
dagamer34: For 2-player gameplay you should use the UART mode for communications. Check out my keyboard software, it might help you get started.
http://www.brolinembedded.se/projects/index5.html
#14683 - dagamer34 - Sun Jan 11, 2004 3:38 am
Why should I use UART mode? Why not multiplayer?
Anyway, I finally found a decent demo that shows something to do with multiplayer. Its a step in the right direction!
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#14709 - Miked0801 - Sun Jan 11, 2004 10:09 pm
I'm not sure, but I believe that the UART communications doesn't use the standard cable that Nintendo sells. Feel free to correct me though...
#14716 - dagamer34 - Sun Jan 11, 2004 11:37 pm
Well, I want to use the standard Nintendo cable.
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#14727 - yaustar - Mon Jan 12, 2004 1:12 am
Can you show the source of he demo? The only one I found was from Down to You...
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