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#1 2005-11-09 3:38:42 pm
Fun with SMS speedhacking
For no real reason at all, I've been working on a program that attempts to locate the idle loops in Sega Master System/Gamegear games, and can apply a speedhack to idle loops, which would speed up the game a lot in certain emulators. It would work by adding a HALT to the idle loop if the branch is taken.
Right now, it has no user interface, or anything like that at all.
But I'll still show you a screenshot anyway:
For anyone out there who understands Z80, it's a dump of all the small backwards loops in Sonic 1, after filtering a few cases that obviously aren't idle loops. The top one is the real idle loop, it polls iy+0 until the value changes.
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#3 2005-11-10 7:08:05 am
Re: Fun with SMS speedhacking
um... Gens is a Genesis emulator, this program concers the Sega Master System and Game Gear.
And PC emulators generally emulate the CPU far faster than they can redraw the screen. This was made for use with GBA based emulators, where video emulation is free, but CPU emulation is expensive. And framerates more than double after speedhacking games, as long as there isn't much action on the screen.
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#4 2005-11-10 11:49:25 am
Re: Fun with SMS speedhacking
oops, sorry, I guess I misread that as "Master System/Genesis", I've been slightly less than sane this whole week anyway. :P Gens goes really slow on my computer for some reason. I use Freeze or something like that for MS/Gamegear, and it seems to run really nicely...
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