Emulator

Ok, now it's worse. With r1640 compile, the game shows the Nintendo logo, then
returns a PANIC message:
PANIC
WriteNormalOp - a1 cannot be imm

If I press 'Si', it does nothing. If I press 'No', the emulator crashes.

Image here:
http://i41.tinypic.com/281e87r.jpg

For the issue with r1640, could you try out r1643 or later? Hopefully that should fix it...

As for the speed regression, do you have a build environment set up? If so, would you mind tracking
down exactly which revision caused the performance regression?

I don't know how to compile the revisions, so I wait till Daco's site is updated.

The last revision that worked fine with Pokemon Colosseum was r1590. Once I started
using r1607, the game run slow. Just like r1623. I dunno, could be since r1592,
r1593, r1596, or perhaps r1605, just check what changes has been made and those ones
could be the revisions that made the game so slow.

Ok, I've downloaded the r1643 compile from omegadox. It's still not fixed.

All right... I can't easily track down the crash issue because I don't have the game in question. A
backtrace would probably be sufficient to come up with a fix, though.

The crash was solved, but I mean the game is still slow.

in r1593 no problems ... r1597 major slowdown.So it will be r1594-r1597

I've downloaded the version r1648. Slowdown issue still not fixed.

1697 Slowdown issue still not fixed.

could you test r1594 please?
It's probably the one which caused these slowdowns

here's a link (i don't have the game) : http://rapidshare.com/files/177895184/Win32.rar

tested and runs fine an r1594 so r1595-r1597 is the cause of slowdown

Tried r1713. Slowdown still not fixed. Guess I'm gonna keep with r1590 forever.

ok, so let's get this fixed, try r1596 :

http://rapidshare.com/files/178593073/Win32.rar

so we can exactly know which rev between these two, caused the slowndowns :)

tested and r1596 runs slow so r1595-r1596 is the cause of slowdown

Tried r1596. The game gets stuck in the Pokemon Company logo.

put hle bios allthetime on .... then it wont get stuck

•           jo.enableBlocklink = true;  // Speed boost, but not 100% safe
  

•           jo.enableBlocklink = false;  // Speed boost, but not 100% safe
  

This change seems like the most likely suspect... I somehow doubt it's making such a big difference,
though...

it is about 30% slower after r1594 including ongame+menu+video on my AMD X2 6000+ &
radeon hd2600pro,2gig/ XP sp3&Vista SP1

so r1596 is to blame i guess, as it's probably not r1595

per haps try to revert the line hinted by magumagu9 in the latest revs to this if it
effectively boost the framerate ?

Tried r1727. Nope, the slowdown is not fixed yet, and worse, again the emulator
doesn't seem to generate or save my config options.

Tried r1804. Slowdown still not fixed.

Tried r1813, but slowdown is not fixed yet. You guys should try if the problem is
the HLE audio plugin.

Tried r1826 slowdown is not fixed ... cant you really fix that annoying BUG ???

hrydgard check your chances in r1595 - r1596 the bug is there.

Tried r1842. Nope, not fixed. It's official: The bug will stay forever, just like
the panic message in the Animaniacs game.

...yep if they mess code they dont bother fix it.

montecrudo, MMMikkola: did either of you two try the change that magumagu9 described above?

•           jo.enableBlocklink = true;  // Speed boost, but not 100% safe
  

•           jo.enableBlocklink = false;  // Speed boost, but not 100% safe
  

You never gave any feedback about this, how about trying it and seeing if it makes a
difference. If you're not willing to try that and give feedback, I'd just give it time; This
issue isn't disappearing from the issue list any time soon, so it's not going to be ignored.
It might be a case that the devs don't own this game, or maybe it's not even that high of a
priority as it's an issue with a specific game. I haven't seen any "official" notice about
this bug not being fixed either.

cant compile it myself ...but make u changes and compile.i gladly download it

OK. I've made the change to the latest revision, r1844. Lets see if magumagu9 is
right...
http://www.armedpineapple.co.uk/r1844-Win32.rar
http://www.armedpineapple.co.uk/r1844-x64.rar

tested your compile and now it runs as fast as pre r1596 :) thanks

...and smash bros melee runs lot faster too with these...

Nice :)
btw, i totally forgot to upload the fixed binaries, i'm sorry that took one week to
solve :p

which are the cases known to cause problems ?
bear in mind that we're talking about +50% speed, it's important enough to care about :/

OMG! At last! I'm gonna test this right away!

OMG! OMG! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! It's faster than ever! I couldn't enjoy
Super Smash Bros Melee since r1062 (last revision till weird slowdown)!! And
finally, Pokemon Colosseum runs sooo smooth and stable it nearly matches a real
Gamecube's speed (well, to me it is)!!

i think that every game benefits these. paper mario is too 20% faster at me with
these compile

Is possible to put this 'fix' to the options, so i can can put it on if i like ???

r1854 ... still slow

I don't think 'fixed' is the correct status for this issue. Yes, the problem has been
located, but no attempt at solving the problem has been made. I'm not quite sure what
it's meant to do either and I don't know why this unsafe optimization is enabled when
it seems to have such a negative effect on this many games. It certainly doesn't seem
to provide the 'speed boost' stated in the comment. Maybe a way to enable/disable
without having to recompile it?

The problem derives from the fact that the emulator used to be fast, but it was due
to an unsafe optimization being disabled by default. A checkbox for this optimization
(and probably many others you don't know about) should be added, but that's an
entirely different issue which I'm going to add.

Issue 458 has been merged into this issue.

Yes, please, someone from the staff add that checkbox in next releases. It should be
useful for those games which run slow without that speed hack.

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Tried r1882 from Xtremedamax compile. It's running slow again. I've checked the
speedhack (or block linking algorithm, as you guys call it) is still deactivated,
which causes this issue.

Look, the only thing that I've noticed this speedhack is 'unstable' for the games,
ie. in Pokemon Colosseum, after a while, there is an error message that pops up from
nowhere, and pauses the game, but if I press the 'Escape' button from the keyboard,
the error message is gone and the game continues and the emulator won't crash.
Posting image soon.

Here, this is the only 'issue' the blocklinking algorithm gives while I'm playing
Pokemon Colosseum:

http://i39.tinypic.com/2d18bye.jpg

But then, I press the 'Escape' button on the keyboard, and the game continues:

http://i43.tinypic.com/34fcv0z.jpg

It's ok now, I've been doing my own compiles lately, and I enabled the speedhack
myself. If anyone wants a compile, just send me an email asking me for it.