Eternal Darkness

GodRays · 03-19-2010, 04:56 PM **#51**

FIFO stuff pop up in many games, I hope skid can find a good fix !

chrono2002 · 03-19-2010, 07:59 PM **#52**

awesome!
keep it up guys!

jinnai3k · 03-19-2010, 11:21 PM **#53**

Hey guys refresh my memory, was Rouge Squadron also a FIFO issue?

Thanks for all your input Skid and Starscream, if I didn't have 6 more essays to do, I would be tinkering with different setups and revs/save states too just to see if I could get around the issue. If a month passes (when i'll be done) and nothing has happened of this thread, then I just might do that.

It's not much, not like we can code, but we can definitely point out what currently works and doesn't something that takes oodles of time itself.

**skid** · (This post was last modified: 03-19-2010, 11:24 PM by skid.)

Rogue Squadron has some sort of RAM issue. It is not FIFO related. The symptom of a FIFO related problem is when the screen goes black, the FPS stays at zero while the VPS and and speed fluctuate.

**Starscream** · (This post was last modified: 03-20-2010, 12:02 AM by Starscream.)

(03-19-2010, 05:11 PM)TopGun1986 Wrote: I think we can have this game playable in just a few months if not sooner, the progress so far is outstanding.

I can really feel that the solution is so close.

There really has been no progress. Everything we did to get the game to boot and to get as far as I showed was always able to be done, it's just that no one ever figured out how to do it until now. There is only so far you can get in a game that does not want to work by cheating your way through it before you run out of options. But yes, I hope the game can be playable in the future.

(03-19-2010, 11:21 PM)jinnai3k Wrote: Hey guys refresh my memory, was Rouge Squadron also a FIFO issue?

Thanks for all your input Skid and Starscream, if I didn't have 6 more essays to do, I would be tinkering with different setups and revs/save states too just to see if I could get around the issue. If a month passes (when i'll be done) and nothing has happened of this thread, then I just might do that.

It's not much, not like we can code, but we can definitely point out what currently works and doesn't something that takes oodles of time itself.

I've already exhausted all possible options to get the game working. There is nothing left to do or test at this point as we have hit a brick wall. Believe me, I think I want to play this game on Dolphin as much as anyone, but there is simply nothing left for a non-coder to do here. All that can be done now is the actual hard part by skid or other developers.

On a side note, I did find revision R145 that allows the game to boot without any problems and I am able to get to the memory card area, but the same memory card files that work here show up as corrupt on that revision. I have a feeling that build would have gotten in-game had the save worked seeing how the timing in that build is totally different, but I could be wrong.

jinnai3k · 03-20-2010, 01:49 AM **#56**

(03-19-2010, 11:24 PM)skid Wrote: Rogue Squadron has some sort of RAM issue. It is not FIFO related. The symptom of a FIFO related problem is when the screen goes black, the FPS stays at zero while the VPS and and speed fluctuate.

Thanks for all your help skid, it's great to have some perspective on these issues, I am on my second degree and this one's going to be in computer science, I am hopeful that at some point I am able to take a in depth look at just how much work has gone into dolphin.

I imagine as a dev posting on the non-coding section usually ends up in "CAN U FIXXX ME THIS ITEMZ!!~!!#@", and I can just imagine the frustration that would go with that, given that probably 60-70% of the people here are *probably* under 18.

Thanks again.

**StripTheSoul** · 03-20-2010, 05:07 AM **#57**

@ Starscream: The fact alone that skid is working on it is already big-time progress Wink

Emulatong · 03-25-2010, 03:57 AM **#58**

any further progress?

**Starscream** · 03-25-2010, 07:23 AM **#59**

It's going to take a while, man, nothing any time soon. I'm sure skid or even I will post something more when the time comes.

03-25-2010, 07:22 PM **#60**

I have problem regarding playing Eternal darkness.I have a wiikey 2 fitted and been playing GCOS multi disks no problems.The problem I have is I just cannot get Eternal darkness to work..It just gives me an error on the first title screen something about restart console and read the manual.