Released: PSPVE v1.0.1

Tendold · Jun 11, 2008

Una cosa di cui la piccola di casa Sony non può certo lamentarsi, è la quantità smodata di emulatori; infatti ad oggi potremo dire che sono state emulate tutte le retro console con hardware inferiore a PSP.
Nonostante tutto, il buon Zx-81 è riuscito a trovare un altra chicca per noi retro gamer che risponde al nome di Vectrex.
Grazie a PSPVE v1.0.1 potremo emulare il Vectrex, mitica console del 1982 coredata di shermo posizionato in verticale, ed un joystick con 4 pulsanti.

Di seguito il changelog, mentre a fondo news troverete il link per il download.

Welcome to Portable Vectrex Emulator

Original Author of VecX

Valavan Manohararajah

Author of the PSP port version

Ludovic Jacomme alias Zx-81 zx81.zx81(at)gmail.com

Homepage: http://zx81.zx81.free.fr

1. INTRODUCTION
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VecX emulates the Vectrex game console on systems such as Linux and Windows.

PSP-VE is a port on PSP of one latest version of VecX.

Special thanks to Raven's for his eboot icons (that i've modified a bit)
and to all PSPSDK developpers.

This package is under GPL Copyright, read COPYING file for
more information about it.

2. INSTALLATION
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Unzip the zip file, and copy the content of the directory fw3.x or fw1.5
(depending of the version of your firmware) on the psp/game, psp/game150,
or psp/game3xx if you use custom firmware 3.xx-M33.

It has been developped on linux for Firmware 3.91-m33 and i hope it works
also for other firmwares (but i do support only m33 or OE firmwares)

For any comments or questions on this version, please visit
http://zx81.zx81.free.fr or http://zx81.dcemu.co.uk

3. CONTROL
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3.1 - Virtual keyboard

In the VECTREX emulator window, there are three different mapping
(standard, left trigger, and right Trigger mappings).
You can toggle between while playing inside the emulator using
the two PSP trigger keys.

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PSP VECTREX (standard)

Square 1
Triangle 2
Circle 3
Cross 4
Up Up
Down Down
Left Left
Right Right

Analog Joystick

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PSP VECTREX (left trigger)

Square FPS
Triangle LOAD Snapshot
Circle Swap digital / Analog
Cross SAVE Snapshot
Up Up
Down Down
Left Render mode
Right Render mode

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PSP VECTREX (right trigger)

Square 1
Triangle 2
Circle 3
Cross Auto-fire
Up Up
Down Down
Left Dec fire
Right Inc fire

Analog Joystick

Press Start + L + R to exit and return to eloader.
Press Select to enter in emulator main menu.
Press Start open/close the On-Screen keyboard

In the main menu

RTrigger Reset the emulator

Triangle Go Up directory
Cross Valid
Circle Valid
Square Go Back to the emulator window

The On-Screen Keyboard of "Danzel" and "Jeff Chen"

Use Analog stick to choose one of the 9 squares, and
use Triangle, Square, Cross and Circle to choose one
of the 4 letters of the highlighted square.

Use LTrigger and RTrigger to see other 9 squares
figures.

3.2 - IR keyboard

You can also use IR keyboard. Edit the pspirkeyb.ini file
to specify your IR keyboard model, and modify eventually
layout keyboard files in the keymap directory.

The following mapping is done :

IR-keyboard PSP

Cursor Digital Pad

Tab Start
Ctrl-W Start

Escape Select
Ctrl-Q Select

Ctrl-E Triangle
Ctrl-X Cross
Ctrl-S Square
Ctrl-F Circle
Ctrl-Z L-trigger
Ctrl-C R-trigger

In the emulator window you can use the IR keyboard to
enter letters, special characters and digits.

4. LOADING ROM FILES (.rom or .bin)

If you want to load rom image in your emulator, you have to put
your rom file (with .rom or .bin file extension) on your PSP
memory stick in the 'roms' directory.

Then, while inside emulator, just press SELECT to enter in the emulator
main menu, choose "Load Rom", and then using the file selector choose one
rom image file to load in your emulator.

5. LOADING KEY MAPPING FILES

For given games, the default keyboard mapping between PSP Keys and VECTREX keys,
is not suitable, and the game can't be played on PSPVECTREX.

To overcome the issue, you can write your own mapping file. Using notepad for
example you can edit a file with the .kbd extension and put it in the kbd
directory.

For the exact syntax of those mapping files, have a look on sample files already
presents in the kbd directory (default.kbd etc ...).

After writting such keyboard mapping file, you can load them using
the main menu inside the emulator.

If the keyboard filename is the same as the rom file then when you load
this file, the corresponding keyboard file is automatically loaded !

You can now use the Keyboard menu and edit, load and save your
keyboard mapping files inside the emulator. The Save option save the .kbd
file in the kbd directory using the "Game Name" as filename. The game name
is displayed on the right corner in the emulator menu.

If you have saved the state of a game, then a thumbnail image will be
displayed in the file requester while selecting any file (roms, keyboard,
settings) with game name, to help you to recognize that game later.

You can use the virtual keyboard in the file requester menu to choose the
first letter of the game you search (it might be useful when you have tons of
games in the same folder)

6. COMPILATION
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It has been developped under Linux using gcc with PSPSDK.
To rebuild the homebrew run the Makefile in the src archive.
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Enjoy...

Download: PSPVE v1.0.1

leoustariz · Jun 11, 2008

mai sentito parlarne...

SPILBERG · Jun 12, 2008

chiedo aiuto....ho gli emulatori ma cm si fanno a far partire i giochi

leoustariz · Jun 12, 2008

SPILBERG said: ↑

chiedo aiuto....ho gli emulatori ma cm si fanno a far partire i giochi
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ce li metti e li carichi con il searcher dell'emulatore che usi

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