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Geek Culture / DBPRO programs on PSP?

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Ermes
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Hi old friends, just come back to say how long i don't make nothing of finished with dbpro (just december 2004, sundaypanzers), nothing than a lot of experiments and unfinished crappy things i like to call games, but i have a question, it is possible to run db games on a psp with firmware 1,5 or custom firmware 3.77 with some kind of emulator? Some of my friends would like to make a site to download freeware games for psp, they gain $$ with adv in the frontend of games, so someone of you can tell me something?
Thanks people. Ermes.

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Deathead
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I'm afraid its a no go. As you would need to know C++ to make a psp game.

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bitJericho
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if a psp can run windows xp with directx 9.0c then yes. But I don't think that's possible


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Ermes
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ah, i see

so we need an xp emulator with dx9.0c for psp

- nearly impossible -

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bitJericho
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It likely is impossible, due to the memory requirements. Add to that the slow clockrate on a psp (comparably to a computer), an x86 emulator running xp would be unbearably slow.


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Raven
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The PSP uses a custom Linux using the 2.6.x Kernel, and there is a firmware that'll run most full linux builds from a UMD (as they hold about 1.8GB) with all the features you'd expect from the desktop-pc versions.

While they'll have trouble running some aspects of DBP, forget what the current build of Cedega/Wine that is capable of DirectX9.0c it should work for the most part without many problems.

The real trouble comes with setting Linux up to run them really.
Ubuntu solves most of these for people without experience but you'll run into some other issues.

Hell failing that, you could just use ReactOS that'll also run as a boot-time that supports most of Windows 2000/XP features (including DirectX)

It's possibly, but real question is how much do you actually want to do it. Personally I'd suggest middleware that actually supports the PSP though; like GameBryo or Renderware.

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Quote: "While they'll have trouble running some aspects of DBP, forget what the current build of Cedega/Wine that is capable of DirectX9.0c it should work for the most part without many problems."

Cedega/Wine is only an API emulator, not a processor emulator, so you won't have any luck running an x86 app on a MIPS processor. You'd have to use Bochs, which is probably fast enough to play games designed for a 386.

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Inspire
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Quote: "I'm afraid its a no go. As you would need to know C++ to make a psp game."


Wrong. You can code in LUA.

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Osiris
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Oh snap!

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Jess T
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Which is interpreted somewhere along the line... The interpreter is written in C++.

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Awe

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Jeku
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Even if you could get something running, you couldn't sell it or make money from it as you suggest.

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Tom J
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I think there is a PSP version of Hexaxis (a nVidia compo entry) although that may have been coded in a different language to the competition entry.

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Deathead
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It was coded in C++. Oh no not again! First Xeno now Gamingcolosseum! I bet that I'll be the only person not to have changed their names with the mods.

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Aaron Miller
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Change your name temporarily to Deathead_A, without the mods. Then come back and tell everyone how you did it, then change back (if you wish).


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Quote: "Which is interpreted somewhere along the line... The interpreter is written in C++."


Still, you don't have to code in C++.

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Are you sure about that? Correct me if I'm wrong, but are there any games out there that are just programmed with Lua, and no other language? I thought Lua was something of a subset of any other language, much like how XML is read and written by any language under the sun, but you can't really do much with it on its own. I could (and probably am) very wrong.

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bitJericho
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I was under the impression lua is more like python, can be used alone or in conjunction with another language. I, like you, could be very wrong though.


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I thought the same as you, Jerico.

I've seen game engines in which you code exclusively in LUA, for everything, not just scripting.

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