Emulator Issues #546
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Floating point math errors (F-Zero, Super Monkey Ball 1/2/Wii)
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Description
What steps will reproduce the problem?
- Start game
What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
- The game should run correctly.
- Instead, there are very strange graphical glitches.
- We have hacky workarounds for Super Monkey Ball 1 but there are still
problems. SMB2/Wii/F-Zero still have problems.
The root cause is that these games use a completely mad math library that
relies on the status of weird flags in FPSCR after simple operations like
fmul or frsp. We do not emulate these flags correctly since the performance
hit would be prohibitive and nearly zero games read them. Unfortunately,
this number is obviously not zero.
One solution would be to pull in soft-float-ppc from the linux kernel and
use it for a small range of code (the mad math library), hardcoded (or
ini-defined) per game. Another would be to HLE the offending functions.
This was done with some success for Super Monkey Ball but I have not been
able to fix all the problems in F-Zero yet.
Updated by Isamu99 over 15 years ago
hrydgard I just wanted to say thank you VERY much for working on getting F-ZeroGX
playable via Dolphin. It is my favorite game of all time and I can't wait for the day
it's fully playable in Dolphin. You have my sincere gratitude and I'm confident you
will work your magic to make this dream happen. Good luck my friend and thanks again :)
Updated by marcus about 15 years ago
Does this have anything to do with the camera problems in smb:bb?
Updated by
Updated by marcus about 15 years ago
oh...then what's the problem with it then?
(I thought they might be related because smb1 has a similar issue in the name entry
course)
Updated by marcus about 15 years ago
Well now mkb1 crashes right after the av logo...
Updated by Anonymous almost 15 years ago
how prohibitive speed wise? :>
These flags are not emulated correctly, even in interpreter?
Updated by marcus almost 15 years ago
None of the monkey balls get past the menu for me :(
Updated by MrMister1991 almost 15 years ago
Damn, I got email about someone updating this issue only to be disappointed again. :(
I want to play F-Zero GX at 720p so bad!
Updated by hrydgard almost 15 years ago
These flags are now emulated correctly, if you enable an option which is auto-enabled
for all the monkey balls and F-Zero.
However, this doesn't help F-Zero, it should've, but it didn't, it has more problems :(
Super Monkey Ball 2 has never really worked, but Super Monkey Ball 1 still works just
fine, at least for me .. what country is your version marc?
Updated by hrydgard over 14 years ago
- Status changed from New to Fixed
F-Zero's problem had nothing to do with this. This issue has been fixed.