New Odyssey2 emulator: Homer!

[manskirtbrew]

haha that's no good. I guess the sprite display isn't as simple as forward- or reverse-order. I'll do some more tinkering, thanks for testing it out!

[manskirtbrew]

Figured it out and uploaded Homer 0.5 to the OP. The problem was the way I'm drawing sprites and characters. I'm doing it per-scanline, but drawing out the whole sprite/char. So if they overlap, no matter what order I do them in, a character at a later scanline always overwrites an earlier one.

This is now fixed for sprites -- they're drawn line-by-line -- but still needs to be fixed for characters. It seems to have made Nice Ice work correctly (great game, btw!) and everything else still looks good.

[LS650]

I use O2EM all the time, but hadn't heard of Homer until just now.
I will check it out this weekend.

[LS650]

I tried playing UFO! and KC Munchkin; this is with an old Toshiba running Windows XP.

I offer some "constructive criticism"...
 1) Seems slightly slower than a real console; maybe 10% slower.

 2) If you don't have a full keyboard, it's pretty difficult to play using number keys for a controller.  My suggestion would be to make it possible to use some of the alphabetic keys work, such as WASD.

 3) Why use Del and Enter as the fire buttons?  Very awkward.  I would use the Control and Alt keys instead.

 4) Option to resize screen (at least 2x) is needed.

[manskirtbrew]

Thanks for the feedback! I appreciate all constructive criticism. I've been busy opening a brewery (no, really!), but I decided to work on Homer a little. To address your feedback directly:

1) Seems slightly slower than a real console; maybe 10% slower.

 2) If you don't have a full keyboard, it's pretty difficult to play using number keys for a controller.  My suggestion would be to make it possible to use some of the alphabetic keys work, such as WASD.

 3) Why use Del and Enter as the fire buttons?  Very awkward.  I would use the Control and Alt keys instead.

 4) Option to resize screen (at least 2x) is needed.

1) Is your console PAL or NTSC? I should be running at 60FPS.

2) I have added key customization. You can edit keys.cfg to whatever you like.

3) See #2

4) Screen was resizable in the last release. Just drag the corner. Now the size is saved each time you run. You can also F3 for fullscreen.

See the OP to download the latest 0.6 version.

[19rsn007]

is this gonna be an open source project?
I would love to see/build a linux version

[Chris!]

I doubt that this is being worked on any more, but I have found a small error in Homer regarding my fireball in the Plumber game I'm working on. O2EM and real hardware handle it fine, but Homer seems to add one x pixel to the character that makes up the center.

[PowerpointGOD]

Sometimes i get a collision error popup. Is there someway to fix this?

[Chris!]

I doubt it. The guy who made this seems to have vanished off the forums.