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Hi Sour, several people working with HD packs find it useful to have one of these: set loop points in the music track in the hires.txt file set two music files as a single track with one as introduction and one as looping use specific tags in the ogg file as loop points info like https://rpgmaker.ne...

Thanks i'll test it out, the tool is a life saver, with version 106 of the hdpack already available in dev builds of mesen, its features are increasing and more than capable of doing a 16bit style graphic pack so anything to speed it up and optimising the packs is a blessing. I did find a minor bug...

not sure where to post this, but mkwong98, finally making a pack with the latest hdpackeditor and theres an error with framerange saving incorrectly (as hex) and crashing when more than 9 frames Thanks, I updated the editor to use dec when pack version is 103 or above. Please see if this fixes that...

By imkrut:

Ice Climber
http://www.romhacking.net/forum/index.php?topic=30581.0

Donkey Kong JR
http://www.romhacking.net/forum/index.php?topic=30538.0

Having some graphic glitches due to dirty pin connection is part of my childhood memory, so I think it would be fun to have an option to emulate this. How would you implement this? How dirty or which pin can get dirty and yet the game is still playable? And what other HW defects can you think of?

Hi Sour, if I have a LUA script which I want to run with a HD pack, is it possible to set a game specific script to run automatically as soon as the game starts? Thanks.

I have a problem with <background> tag and it would be nice if you can change the behavior of this tag. Currently if the background image contains transparent area, then the emulator shows solid white in that area. Is it possible to change this behavior so that if an area in the background image is ...

Hi Sour, I'm looking up HD pack tags in the online documentation using Chrome and some of them are too long to display in one line but they don't warp and there is no horizontal scroll bar. This one for example: https://www.mesen.ca/docs/hdpacks.html#lt-background-gt-tag Can you fix that when you ha...

I hear there's one guy who's even considering hires texture replacement packs for SNES tiles! :p To be honest, I'm still not convinced there's much point to it - the SNES has much less restrictions than the NES to start off, giving it more colors isn't that useful, and increasing the resolution ten...

Thanks, I'll try that.

Hi Sour, I'm using Nametable viewer and there are problems with 2 games: "Captain Tsubasa Vol. II - Super Striker" and "Dragon Ball Z II - Gekishin Freeza!!". Can that be fixed? Thanks.

You might not have complete information needed for another emulator, but some things can be extrapolated. For example, if you have the current CPU or PPU memory map, you can fill in what the values for mapper latches should be. If you know the PPU raster position that the save state would happen at...

tepples wrote:How are you going to define a representation for the internal state of hundreds of mappers? That'd be a lot of work.

Yes, that is definitely a lot of work. But as all authors of emulators with save state functionality have done it already, why not spare newcomers from reinventing the wheel?

The NES doesn't keep track of the total number of cycles, no, but emulating it properly requires knowing if the current cycle is "odd" or "even" for DMA/etc, so keeping track of the cycle count solves that requirement. Also, like supercat said, some mappers (and various other things) rely on the cy...

I'm not too sure what distinction you're making between the "emulation" and "emulator" state? From my point of view, 99% of the content of save states is vital "emulation" state. For example, the real NES hardware does not keep track of how many CPU cycles have passed since running the game so the ...