play! progress report (30/11/2024)
As promised, much more time was dedicated to compensate for the lack of results I had last month, and the results show: 20 new playable games verified and an even bigger list of games improved that I'll get to the next month. Some of the results came from timming accuracy improvements that affected games that had erratic performance (while the emulator showed us 60 fps, the actual frames and logic of the game were running much slower and in some cases the game runs too fast with a ton of frameskipping). So let's check our loot for the month:
Judge Dredd - Dredd vs. Death
Crabby Adventure
The Mummy - Tomb of The Dragon Emperor
Naruto: Narutimate Hero 3
Turbo Trucks
Pia Carrot e Youkoso!! 3: Round Summer
Pia Carrot e Youkoso!! G.P. Gakuen Princess
Duel Savior Destiny
Ayakashi-bito: Gen'you Ibunroku
Sengoku Anthology
Dragon Ball Z - Budokai 2
Action Girlz Racing
TimeSplitters
Scared Rider Xechs: Stardust Lovers
Palais de Reine
Yoake Mae yori Ruriiro na: Brighter than Dawning Blue
Chanter: Kimi no Uta ga Todoitara#
LoveDrops
Naraku no Shiro: Ichiyanagi Nagomu, 2-dome no Junan
Pia Carrot e Youkoso!! G.O. Summer Fair
The TLDR for the results: most of the visual novels that became playable were due to the implementation of a missing instruction, with that work done we got 4 new playables. The other half of the visual novels had "performance issues", that were actually timming issues that caused the games to run much slower than they should. Dragon Ball Z - Bodokai 2 I just had to actually finish the game given the extra time I had, same for Action Girlz Racing, Naruto: Narutimate Hero 3 and TimeSplitters.
Yoake Mae yori Ruriiro na: Brighter than Dawning Blue had a rendering issue, which was a special kind of joke since the name of the game has "Brighter than Dawning Blue" and the game itself was just too bright to even understand what was on the screen, the fix for that can be found here if anyone is interested https://github.com/jpd002/Play-/commit/8837c103d29e4e38d8b2e30eb3dd7d26e1e974c3 .
Judge Dredd - Dredd vs. Death had an issue with how the memory card was handled, with that fixed the game is finally fully playable... and talking about that we also had another improvement related to that for the game Delta Force Black Hawk Down, but this game also needs more testing to confirm everything else works properly.
For this next month I'll focus on everything else that got affected by the changes mentioned above + a small list of games that are really long. Related to the Game of the Month: we had yet another case of not enough people voting, so there was really not much I could pick from to even test, so if you really, really want a game to be tested and potentially improved in December, please make your voice be heard using this link https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1xUgKBmfXA7poYF6zLRVQNeMU5Af0B5PZscR6J1GEUrw .
That's all for now, thx for all the support and see you all next month with more good news <3
Useful Links
play! site: https://purei.org/
play! NAMCO System 246/256 compatibility list: List
play! repository: https://github.com/jpd002/Play-
play! patreon: https://www.patreon.com/jpd002
