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2PCSX-ReARMed - yet another PCSX fork
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4http://notaz.gp2x.de/pcsx_rearmed.php
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7About
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10PCSX ReARMed is yet another PCSX fork based on the PCSX-Reloaded project,
11which itself contains code from PCSX, PCSX-df and PCSX-Revolution. This
12version is ARM architecture oriented and features MIPS->ARM recompiler by
13Ari64. It was created for Pandora handheld, but should be usable on other
14devices after some code adjustments.
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16PCSX ReARMed features GPU plugin from PCSX4ALL project.
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19Usage
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22This version features a framebuffer driven menu that can be used to run
23games and configure the emulator.
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25Supportd CD image formats:
26- .bin/.cue
27- .bin/.toc
28- .img/.ccd/.sub
29- .mdf/.mds
30- .Z/.Z.table
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32CDDA (CD audio) support requires .cue/.bin format.
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34The emulator can simulate BIOS, which means BIOS files are not required,
35however implementation is not complete and some games still need real BIOS
36to work. To use real BIOS, copy uncompressed BIOS files to
37[sd card]/pandora/appdata/pcsx_rearmed/bios/
38then select the BIOS you want to use in Options->BIOS/Plugins menu.
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41Plugins
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44GPU (graphics) and SPU (sound) plugins can be selected in
45[BIOS/Plugins] menu:
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47builtin_gpu - the P.E.Op.S. GPU plugin, most accurate but slow.
48gpuPCSX4ALL.so - plugin from PCSX4ALL project. Faster but has some glitches.
49gpuGLES.so - experimental port of P.E.Op.S. MesaGL plugin to OpenGL ES.
50 Occasionally faster but has lots of glitches and seems to
51 be rather unstable (may crash the system).
52builtin_spu - P.E.Op.S. SPU plugin, most accurate but slow.
53spunull.so - NULL plugin, i.e. no sound emulation.
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55
56Changelog
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59r4 (2011-01-15)
60+ added real BIOS support (and various things for it to work)
61* fixed various recompiler issues
62+ added interpreter option (useful to overcome dynarec bugs)
63* fixed some memory card related issues with HLE bios
64* rewrote frame limiter (old was sometimes sleeping needlessly)
65
66r3 (2011-01-05):
67+ added Pickle's port of gpu-gles from psx4m project
68+ added PCSX4ALL gpu as a plugin
69* improved gpu plugin support
70+ added savestate preview
71* various frontend fixes
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73r2 (2010-12-29):
74* fixed memcard paths
75* fixed a keybind copy-paste bug
76* properly implemented pad handling
77 (inputs no longer control both emulated pads at once)
78* fixed a crash caused by framebuffer out of range access
79* fixed SWL/SWR handling (usually resulted in graphic glitches)
80* fixed BxxZAL (Medal of Honor)
81* fixed alignment crash in color space conversion code (Lunar)
82* fixed SWC2 occasional use of wrong address register (Parasite Eve)
83* fixed firstfile() handling in HLE BIOS (broken memory cards in some games)
84+ added per-game configs (controls still not saved though)
85+ added simple plugin select interface to the menu
86
87r1 (2010-12-25):
88* initial release
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91Credits / License
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94Emulator core:
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96(C) 1999-2003 PCSX Team
97 (c) 1998 Vision Thing
98 Linuzappz <linuzappz@pcsx.net>
99 Shadow <shadow@pcsx.net>
100 Pete Bernett <psswitch@online.de>
101 NoComp <NoComp@mailcity.com>
102 Nik3d
103 Akumax <akumax@pcsx.net>
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105(C) 2005-2009 PCSX-df Team
106 (c) Ryan Schultz <schultz.ryan@gmail.com>
107 (c) Andrew Burton <adb@iinet.net.au>
108 (c) Stephen Chao <schao@myrealbox.com>
109 (c) Marcus Comstedt <marcus@mc.pp.se>
110 Stefan Sikora <hoshy@schrauberstube.de>
111
112(C) 2009-2010 PCSX-Reloaded Team
113 edgbla (Root counters, various core/plugin fixes)
114 Firnis (GTE code from PCSX-Revolution Project)
115 Gabriele Gorla (MDEC decoder)
116 Peter Collingbourne (Various core/psxbios fixes)
117 Dario, NeToU, siveritas (Various bugfixes)
118 shalma (GTE Divider, various core fixes)
119 Wei Mingzhi (Maintainer, input plugin, iso/cheat support, misc stuff)
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121PCSX4ALL GPU plugin:
122 (C) 2010 PCSX4ALL Team
123 (C) 2010 Unai
124 Franxis <franxism@gmail.com>
125 Chui <sdl_gp32@yahoo.es>
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127GLES plugin (psx4m project):
128 (C) 1999-2009 by Pete Bernert
129 EQ
130 Olli Hinkka
131 Proger
132 Pickle
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134builtin GPU/SPU plugins:
135 Pete Bernert and the P.E.Op.S. team
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137MIPS->ARM recompiler:
138 (C) 2009-2010 Ari64
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140integration, optimization and frontend:
141 (C) 2010-2011 notaz
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143Source code is released under GNU GPL license, version 2 or later.
144See COPYING included in the archive (.pnd can be extracted using unsquashfs).
145The source code is available in a GIT repository at:
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147git://notaz.gp2x.de/~notaz/pcsx_rearmed.git
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