@ToAll I went ahead and released the game, as is. If JUD6MENT or anyone else finds any new bugs, just post them here. I locked the other Parodius topic (considered closed as far as patch and PCM developments are concerned). Happy Gaming!

Cover art for the game. I have it posted also in the msu art section and it is in my drive as well. I also have a old school pin up one as well in my drive. Again all rights go to there respected parties. I just found this on google :-) my bad, I forgot that I had sent you the link. To find my cover art click on the word link. :-)

@Polar Lol, I already posted your cover link. No need to make it known everywhere. I keep my word and post your covers (and everyone else's) as soon as my stuff goes up. Sometimes you amuse me with your trigger happy cover posting.


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@ToAll I found another bug when the game restarts after the game ending credits roll. It has to do with the fade routine. The game most likely calls the fade routine trigger going back to stage 1 (music fades out at the start of stage). I’ll have to see how to set a security flag to prevent this after beating the game.

@Relikk Noticed that my hard mute removed some FX for the end cutscene. Where the bomb kid gets rescued. The fuse and final explosion are missing. Might have to mix them in.

I have not checked the game intro yet to see what else is missing.

I'm out of action now until Wednesday. It'll have to wait until then, if that's OK?

@Relikk It’s no rush. It’s purely cosmetic stuff to me. Do as you wish at your leisure.

pepillopev wrote:@Polar Lol, I already posted your cover link. No need to make it known everywhere. I keep my word and post your covers (and everyone else's) as soon as my stuff goes up. Sometimes you amuse me with your trigger happy cover posting.

lol, Yeah, I am sorry on that, I am just very greatful for all of the work you and everyone else has done with all of the games, That is my way of saying thank you. But you are right I am trying to break the habbit. O I knew you would keep your word, that was never an issue, You,Conn, and everyone else here on the site have been awesome on that, So your good. lol at least I can make you laugh.

@ToAll Fixed the bug (Stage1 Fade Out after staff credit roll ending). Make sure you apply the fix on a fresh rom and delete the SRM file! You will not be able to use old save states (may reintroduce version 1.0 code).

The reason the fade out occurred is because the transition from game ending to the stage 1 repeat was too fast. The fade out routine did not get enough time to finish the countdown. This, in turn, bled over to Stage 1 (resumed the fade sequence until it could clear), leaving us with low or no volume at all.

To counteract this, I just set a security flag to just do a quick mute (STZ $2007) instead of the fade sequence. This is just a quick fix (as oppose to making another fade routine that ends sooner to beat the ending to stage1 transition). The later, will require additional coding (not in the mood, so went with the quick fix instead). Again, purely cosmetic.

Hi,
On SD2SNES music don't work, the game run only with the sound
but all work fine on bsnes.
I play with SD2SNES + Super NT
Thanks

iDaw wrote:Hi,
On SD2SNES music don't work, the game run only with the sound
but all work fine on bsnes.
I play with SD2SNES + Super NT
Thanks

Parodius is an SA-1 special chip game and MSU1 code hasn't been added to the SA-1 beta, yet. Redguy speculated that it might not fit, but it's up to him to add it if it does. It's a waiting game now.

So, there's no problem with the hack, it's just not supported at the moment. Hopefully it will be in the near future.

Relikk wrote:

iDaw wrote:Hi,
On SD2SNES music don't work, the game run only with the sound
but all work fine on bsnes.
I play with SD2SNES + Super NT
Thanks

Parodius is an SA-1 special chip game and MSU1 code hasn't been added to the SA-1 beta, yet. Redguy speculated that it might not fit, but it's up to him to add it if it does. It's a waiting game now.

So, there's no problem with the hack, it's just not supported at the moment. Hopefully it will be in the near future.

ok, i m waiting for the update ...
Thanks for your answer

@ToAll Here is a Reddit post link regarding sd2snes SA-1 and MSU-1 fiasco.

pepillopev wrote:@ToAll Here is a Reddit post link regarding sd2snes SA-1 and MSU-1 fiasco.

Would this also apply to Kirby dream land 3 also? Just woundering?

@Polar If Kirby3 is hard mute (don’t remember), then yes, all you will get is sound FX but no music.

Kirby has spc fallback... means it will have spc music then?

@Conn Yes, if spc fallback is present in your code, then the sd2snes SA1 version will not detect MSU1 and fallback to spc (as you planned). So you are good to go with Kirby in that respect.

Me, on the other hand, had to use apu hard mute method for Parodius (could not find a good traditional mute for this game).

Hopefully, RedGuy can squeeze SA1 and MSU1 together. He has stated the both together are pretty big and currently, in their state, cannot fit into a single core (like in FX/MSU1 core). I hope he will work his magic soon.

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pepillopev wrote:@Conn Yes, if spc fallback is present in your code, then the sd2snes SA1 version will not detect MSU1 and fallback to spc (as you planned). So you are good to go with Kirby in that respect.

Me, on the other hand, had to use apu hard mute method for Parodius (could not find a good traditional mute for this game).

Hopefully, RedGuy can squeeze SA1 and MSU1 together. He has stated the both together are pretty big and currently, in their state, cannot fit into a single core (like in FX/MSU1 core). I hope he will work his magic soon.

Ok thats cool, I did not know. Now as you said the cores are huge, Could that mean a new reworked hardware version of sd2snes might have to be made to fit both of them? I had also copyed your warrning message to kirby, but I did change it to you will only get SPC fallback and not MSU-1 Audio. I hope that is ok with you. Was just trying to help.

@Polar Perhaps. Is it worth it? Who knows but I am not willing to give up on RedGuy just yet. He has surprised us on numerous occasions. Most likely, smokemonster will probably the first to get the latest sd2snes updates (so I would suggest you follow him to get the latest news regarding sd2snes development).

I am primarily an emulation person. I really do not care too much for hardware nor the nonsense debates regarding latency, accuracy, blah blah blah crap. I just want to play the games.

Humans were made to adapt and not always expect the same experience. So if there is latency, we adapt to get to the game ending. But that is just my opinion, you or anyone else is welcomed to disagree. It is a democracy after all.

The only reason I support sd2snes is because of Conn's insistence that we try to appease everyone. I have great respect for him so I do my best to follow in his footsteps. Otherwise, I would not, I would be happy that my patches run fine with bSnes and Snes9x.

With regard to hardware revisions, ikari is on record saying that a revision with a larger FPGA is very unlikely.

One (stupid) question, do non-sa1 msu games (the majority) still run with the new sa1 code on sd2snes?

Lol, I also don't own a sd2snes, it's just not much work to make it compatible (usually). And since we more or less stopped supporting higan, this is something we should continue. But msu/sa1 compatibility is really not our problem

Conn wrote:One (stupid) question, do non-sa1 msu games (the majority) still run with the new sa1 code on sd2snes?

Yes. Cores are separate and have their own MSU code. So the new SA-1 core doesn't affect another core, such as the SuperFX core for example.

@Relikk Yup, I like your explanation better. I had a hard time explaining this to Kurrono (seeing that the topic with Super Mario RPG came up during our conversations).

@ToAll Updated PCM links (both Primary, Secondary) to include Relikk's latest PCM fix (ending missing sound effect for fuse guy and then blowing up).