isledecomp
Add PSP port
- [x] Add sound support
- [ ] Reduce memory consumption <64MB
- [ ] Reduce memory consumption <32MB
- [x] Verify working on real hardware
- [ ] Create instructions for building and installing
- [x] Add CI building
Known issues:
- ~~Does not (currently) work on PSP-1000 models. This may or may not be fixable.~~
- ~~Does not (currently) work on real hardware. This is likely solvable with memory usage reduction.~~
- Poor performance. Unfortunately, without further understanding of why this is occurring, this may not be fixable.
- Controls are sub-par. This is a general issue with LEGO Island, unfortunately.
Optimise control scheme (LEGO Island PSP Controls.pdf)
It uses the default control scheme so lets not put this as a requirement for this port, general improvements to the gamepad scheme can come separate as it's not PSP specific.
It uses the default control scheme so lets not put this as a requirement for this port, general improvements to the gamepad scheme can come separate as it's not PSP specific.
In that case, I might make a general issue for tracking work on improving the input methods for the game, namely controller.
A bit premature to merge my PR in to this PR before it's ready to get merged ...
I wanted to see if your changes allowed it to run on real hardware, and it kinda does.
I wanted to see if your changes allowed it to run on real hardware, and it kinda does.
Oh do you have a way to test it on real hardware now? Can you confirm the two graphics glitches on hardware?
PPSSPP:
PC:
I have workarounds for both but I don't want to apply them before knowing if it's also an issue on real hardware.
I wanted to see if your changes allowed it to run on real hardware, and it kinda does.
Oh do you have a way to test it on real hardware now?
Kinda. We've had more success and been able to get further in the game, but I think we are still running out of memory. I'll see if the newest changes help.
EDIT: Now realising it might be because I compiled it as a debug build. The release builds definitely have higher performance, so maybe it'd actually allow getting properly in-game.
med model details helps a lot, low textures might also help, but haven't verified that.
Kinda.
You Kinda have a PSP??
Ah lol, I think I misunderstood. I know someone who has been willing to test the builds I produce on their PSP Go and PSP 1000 models. While I still don't have a PSP myself, they've been very helpful. The build I provided them with last night got closer to actual gameplay than ever before. I've sent them a compiled Release build with the latest changes in the hope it'll work even better.
It doesn't look like the texture quality makes any difference to memory usage (and probably not to performance either), it appears it's just the same textures with reduced colors. I don't even think it would have made a difference in 1997.