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Higan/bsnes (SNES cycle emulator) no longer in active development

LeleSocho said:
To anyone who starts a discourse like that i can only say "fuck off", seriously, from the bottom of my heart, Fuck off.
"I *only* have a talent *siiiigh*"
Disgusting. Think of the people who have no talents whatsoever and stuggle every single day of their life, both psychologically and financially.
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Yeah. The guy is a real asshole for wanting to be more than his one "talent". Don't be stupid.
 
For what it's worth, I admire your skills and your dedication very much, byuu. You've done more than enough...focus on yourself and find what makes you happy. It may take awhile, but you'll find it.
 
15 years of unsuccessfully learning Japanese wow, poor guy
I hope he learns Japanese, it seems he really really needs it, maybe some job offer in Japan or something like that, it has to be.
 
byuu said:
> You should try to think about how to approach these problems in a way that matches you learning style.

I wish I knew how to figure that part out.

I don't think I have ever been good at long-term rote memorization. School always had the trick that the final exams were just all the previous quizzes mixed and matched. So I would make these charts where I'd make an acronym of the first four letters of the first four words of a question, and then the answer to the question, and I'd put it in short-term memory. For the A-Z match system, I'd turn the entire section into a string of gibberish that was the answer: CFIAHEDGBI", so I'd just say "cfiahedgbi" twenty times ten minutes before the test. 'd keep my entire years' quiz results, and do this for the whole thing. I'd absolutely ace the exams every time. By the next day, I would forget it all. They never did figure it out, I honestly brought one teacher to tears over it (in a negative way.) Their own fault for making final exams count so much for your final grade :P

You can say it backfired on me now, but the truth is, I never knew how to memorize things long-term, so it was do this or fail.
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If you're not good at rote memorization, then it might be better if you just don't that method. Would you be able to surround yourself in the language? It might be easier for you if you just try to dive right in, dictionary in hand, as opposed to studying beforehand. Try to figure things out as you need to.
 
Depression a medically recognized illness. It involves fundamental imbalances to the way chemicals/neurotransmitters/receptors in your brain work. How the heck do you boot-strap your way out of pathology?

It's not some sort of logical disease that only afflicts those "worthy of it".

It's nonsensical for you to arbitrate who can and can't be depressed, Lele. I'm kind of disappointed.
 
I can relate to feeling like shit physically all the time and not having doctors take you seriously because it doesn't show up on blood tests. That alone can kill any motivation you have when you literally know you aren't well but have no way to fix it.
 
byuu said:
> I went to ZSNES.com today to see how long you'd been a member there and you have no profile, where every other user has one. What's up with that??

It goes back to the drama that's always caused when people try and say which of our two emulators were better. Eventually I felt that I was bogging down the ZSNES and Snes9X forums too much with it, so I posted in the private areas that I was going to stick to posting on my own board, where I could ban people who started that shit.

I didn't ask them to; but on the ZSNES board, an admin there deleted my account, but left my posts. On the Snes9X board, for reasons I still can't comprehend, someone went and deleted my account, and every post I had ever made (about four years worth of emulation findings.) I don't know who did that nor if it were intentional. But that was a huge loss, as that info would help anyone else starting a new SNES emu a lot.

I left RHDN and bannister.org forums due to disagreements with the admins in charge. I'm very fickle and won't bother trying to stay at a place where I'm not welcome.

(On that note, to maybe get too specific, there's one ZSNES "dev" (doesn't actually code) that I didn't get along with, and he kept intentionally reactivating the account of someone whose sole purpose in life is to troll me. I don't care about that, but I did care that an admin there was actively hostile toward me. He was also an admin on the Snes9X forum. So with the aforementioned issue included, I felt it was better for everyone if I just left.)
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Thats pretty messed up but I can relate. I left around the time all that seifer and "what the boat" stuff started happening. It got a bit too "in-joke" for me, although I still occasionally go back and hit up grin from time to time.
 
I greatly appreciate the offers for help. If anyone's certain enough of their abilities to not steer me in the wrong direction, and is okay with Skype, I'd be happy for any speaking practice and try and return the favor somehow.

> Do you know if ZSNES is still actually in development? Grinvader's been talking about 2.0 for like 8 years now and he insists it's still being worked on every time someone asks (the last time of which was about a month ago)

It isn't, ZSNES is no more. It has ceased to be. It's expired and gone to meet its maker.

The only people who truly understood that codebase were zsKnight and _Demo_. Both have moved on. The work done since by the new maintainers has only made the program worse (see how SA-1 games are really broken in v1.51), or applied to things few would care about (Nach's path handling, porting the GUI portion to C.) I am not saying those changes are useless, I'm just saying that they have nothing to do with emulation. Only Jonas Quinn has done anything, and it's just been a few small patches. I stopped trying to help after they rejected my simple "don't write to VRAM during active display" patch.

There's a slim chance they might release a new emulator and call it "ZSNES 2.0", but that's no different than if I renamed higan to ZSNES 2.0, is it?

I have no idea why they feel it's appropriate to lead people on and pretend the project is alive after eight years of inactivity. I'm starting to feel that Snes9X is done now too, we're up to 3.5 years with no release there. That's kind of the point of my post, I didn't want people left hanging like that.

> is Tengai Makyou Zero also on the chopping block?

I hope not. I promised to finish that one, and I'd hate to break that. But I have to sort this stuff out first. At the very least, I will need to port my SNES debugger to my new UI. It may only run on Linux, but that's all I need to do the translation from my end.

> Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain?

Lesson two of that book was "draw Picasso's Stravinsky ... upside down."

This was my result with that book: http://i.imgur.com/QRejfoN.png

I uh, won't quit my day job. The book said, "didn't you draw a lot better upside down?" Uh, no. No I did not.
This is how I draw right-side up.

> 15 years of unsuccessfully learning Japanese wow, poor guy

Yeah, it's been a horrible roller coaster (JP: jet coaster.)

My pattern has always been to study as much as I could, burn out in a few months, take a few months off, back to study. While I don't necessarily forget everything I've learned, I forget a lot of it.

I have to find a way to break that cycle and stick to this. I think having a teacher to set goals and push me each week will help.

> Would you be able to surround yourself in the language?

The closest I can do is watch TV Japan (and it's all crap, good god) and read comics. I do translate comics on my own, but when I get stuck, I'm stuck pretty hard. I then have to pay someone to answer my questions and explain the parts I don't get.

Dictionaries do not work on this language, the language is almost entirely isolated from English.

You could look up how to say "play soccer", but if you picked 遊ぶ (play), you would be dead wrong. The Japanese don't play sports, they する (do) sports. So you "do soccer." Want to turn on a light? Sorry, you 付ける (attach) the light. So turning it off would be detach, right? Nope, to turn off a light, you 変える (erase) it. Want to say you don't know something? Just respond 知らない (don't know), right? Well, that would be incredibly rude and akin to saying, "I don't give a shit" in English. You want 分かりません (don't understand) to say you don't know something. Want to say you'll come again later? Be sure to say また (again) 出直す (come again). You don't come again in Japan, you come again again. Want to ask if you can smoke? Use 吸う. Want to ask if you can slurp your soup? Use 吸う. Want to ask what people don't like about something? Say Xのどこがあった (X's where? didn't exist.)

I learned an important lesson recently: if you don't know how to say something in Japanese yet, then you don't know how to say it. If you try and say it anyway, by using your best dictionaries+online resources, you will be wrong. Worst case, you can gravely offend someone unintentionally, and not even realize it. Especially online, where they can't see your skin color to know that you just don't know any better.

> I can relate to feeling like shit physically all the time and not having doctors take you seriously because it doesn't show up on blood tests. That alone can kill any motivation you have when you literally know you aren't well but have no way to fix it.

Yeah, I think I could be studying 2-4x as much if I weren't racked with chest pain after two hours of reading. I often have to go lie down (doesn't help much) after that until it passes.

I really hate doctors in this country. They think everyone is a hypochondriac out to get oxycodone from them (note: I don't want pain killers, I want the pain fixed.)
 
byuu said:
> Surely byuu can find some language compatriots across the lands of romhacking.net, here, and what other enthusiast spaces there are

The hardest part is that I don't want to practice with someone of equal skill level in learning. The way my mind works, when I learn something wrong, it is a hundred times harder to correct. I learned east from west wrong as a kid, and for the next eight years I constantly mixed them up. Similar story with left from right. I had to do the hand L shape for about a year before that one clicked.

Would you want to spend three hours a day teaching someone English, if they couldn't pay you but a paltry $150 a month? (my finances are partly my own fault, I burned all of my savings on the US SNES set, sold that, then burned that and MORE on the JP SFC set. I need to scan and sell those things already, but ... talk about torture. That would drive me to full-on suicide right about now.)
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1. DEFINITELY take Aeana and the others in this thread up on their generous offers! Seriously, that's straight up progress on a fair portion of your dilemma right there and from that vantage point you may well start to reclaim and build momentum sooner than you think.

2. Forget not the human element gentle byuu, look past economic transactional wranglings and over-scoping thereof. Aeana isn't after your stacks of cash for time, nor anybody else when it comes to this that has stepped forward thus far---just a genuine desire to help folks(you in this case, others in others) out as a need presented itself where things happened to intersect with what folks had going in their own right to be able to help. I've seen lots of this in my time when it comes to folks in the world of tech in general especially---going along with the notion of such a limited and narrow sandbox just results in folks getting shackled thusly without even really realizing it. Dealing with systems isn't dealing with people---especially when aiming to advance things along to a better future with either.

Some of this stuff you just have to metaphorically, if not literally, swagger through on some bombast via tilting at windmills moreso than trying to square everything with a ledger like some maddened accountant---perfectionism itself is as much an intermediary step/sandtrap on the road to the horizon, be it in tech and otherwise. You must have some general goals with your art and Japanese wranglings in progress---at the heart of the matter those goals are almost certainly not tied to Reaching X Score on Y Test or some such predestined terminus, but rather a spark of likely irrational impetus and personal enjoyment that had you take a shine on them in the first place. That's the thing to go after.

Get you some especially greater meals going forward(apropos of nothing else, every damn thing in this world IS, assuredly, more likely primed to be a pain in the ass on an empty or less optimally content stomach), check your bases medically from a few different vantage points to establish your ground to ideally roughly hold, and adventure it up on the lot of it.
 
byuu said:
Yeah, it's been a horrible roller coaster (JP: jet coaster.)

My pattern has always been to study as much as I could, burn out in a few months, take a few months off, back to study. While I don't necessarily forget everything I've learned, I forget a lot of it.

I have to find a way to break that cycle and stick to this. I think having a teacher to set goals and push me each week will help.

> Would you be able to surround yourself in the language?

The closest I can do is watch TV Japan (and it's all crap, good god) and read comics. I do translate comics on my own, but when I get stuck, I'm stuck pretty hard. I then have to pay someone to answer my questions and explain the parts I don't get.

Dictionaries do not work on this language, the language is almost entirely isolated from English.

You could look up how to say "play soccer", but if you picked 遊ぶ (play), you would be dead wrong. The Japanese don't play sports, they する (do) sports. So you "do soccer." Want to turn on a light? Sorry, you 付ける (attach) the light. So turning it off would be detach, right? Nope, to turn off a light, you 変える (erase) it. Want to say you don't know something? Just respond 知らない (don't know), right? Well, that would be incredibly rude and akin to saying, "I don't give a shit" in English. You want 分かりません (don't understand) to say you don't know something. Want to say you'll come again later? Be sure to say また (again) 出直す (come again). You don't come again in Japan, you come again again. Want to ask if you can smoke? Use 吸う. Want to ask if you can slurp your soup? Use 吸う. Want to ask what people don't like about something? Say Xのどこがあった (X's where? didn't exist.)

I learned an important lesson recently: if you don't know how to say something in Japanese yet, then you don't know how to say it. If you try and say it anyway, by using your best dictionaries+online resources, you will be wrong. Worst case, you can gravely offend someone unintentionally, and not even realize it. Especially online, where they can't see your skin color to know that you just don't know any better.
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I took 4 years of japanese after learning Spanish as a second language. I thought my experience learning and incorporating spanish into my daily language would have prepared me for learning japanese, and I was dead wrong. Japanese is such a difficult language. If I spend a few weeks brushing up I can remember most of what I learned, but it never becomes natural for me. The language is so annoyingly horribly vague. I honestly think the only way to learn japanese is to be forced to use japanese every day, i.e. actually living in japan.

Best of luck, going from a western language to japanese is pretty difficult.
 
Sorry to bump this but I'm not sure where to ask - I can't seem to get bsnes/higan working on Win 8.1 - it crashes on rom load-up. Anyone know what the problem might be? I've tried compatibility modes, etc. I'm fairly new to emulators and haven't the foggiest what it could be.

edit: nevermind, I fixed it. higan just didn't like that I was trying to run it while remoted into that particular PC. Once I went downstairs and tried it locally it worked just fine.
 
sounds like he got his shit together

but regarding the japanese, why doesn't he just go to a local community college and take a course
i know part of the has to have a communication component where one would actually have to talk to someone (fellow classmates, TAs, or the prof)

maybe he will come back and give us an update
 
Hey Byuu, I speak Japanese and I'm also in the coaster club (I think I recall someone mentioning you were too?)

If you fancy chatting sometime just shoot me a PM, I owe you one - been using your emulator for years!

(I'm trying to write a NeoGeo cycle perfect emu at the moment, but find it hard to gather the documentation together and don't have enough knowledge to reverse engineer this stuff)
 
Good to hear that he's seemingly turned his life around and resumed active development. Regardless, I think too that writing something like higan is an achievement in and of itself and one that he should be proud of, preserving a whole generation of gaming so that future generations might experience it the way it was intended.
 
I haven't used BSNES or Higan in ages so I'm feeling pretty silly here but I can't get the latest build to see any SNES ROM files.

I open Library > Super Famicom and nothing appears in the window even though I have the files in the displayed path. The files aren't zipped or anything.
 
CrunchyFrog said:
Good to hear that he's seemingly turned his life around and resumed active development. Regardless, I think too that writing something like higan is an achievement in and of itself and one that he should be proud of, preserving a whole generation of gaming so that future generations might experience it the way it was intended.
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Tell me about - I can barely point to another pointer, and here's this guy simulating a Super Famicom from the ground up.

At least I can draw a realistic pair of tits to jerk off to.
 
epmode said:
I haven't used BSNES or Higan in ages so I'm feeling pretty silly here but I can't get the latest build to see any SNES ROM files.

I open Library > Super Famicom and nothing appears in the window even though I have the files in the displayed path. The files aren't zipped or anything.
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Higan/BSNES only sees SMC or SFC files (it's one or the other, can't remember which.)
 
JoeyJungle said:
Higan/BSNES only sees SMC or SFC files (it's one or the other, can't remember which.)
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I've read that it sees SFC files but the game I'm trying to play is already in that format. I tried renaming it to .SMC just in case but it doesn't see that either. Nothing appears in the library window regardless of the game's extension.
 
epmode said:
I've read that it sees SFC files but the game I'm trying to play is already in that format. I tried renaming it to .SMC just in case but it doesn't see that either. Nothing appears in the library window regardless of the game's extension.
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Did you use the import function to import them into Higan's library? Or is that what's not working?
 
YianGaruga said:
Did you use the import function to import them into Higan's library?
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I did not! I don't see a way to do that using the latest build though. The only exe files are higan-accuracy.exe and higan-balanced.exe. The emulator itself doesn't have anything about importing in any of its configuration menus and I don't see a readme file.
 
epmode said:
I did not! I don't see a way to do that using the latest build though. The only exe files are higan-accuracy.exe and higan-balanced.exe. The emulator itself doesn't have anything about importing in any of its configuration menus and I don't see a readme file.
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I'm most likely using an older version, but do you not have this?

C3B3Yh4.png
 
epmode said:
No, I can't find that at all.
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Click on Library in the upper left, then you see the different consoles, click on either and you'll open a window with tabs for each of the consoles, the rightmost tab has the Import option
 
Easy_D said:
Click on Library in the upper left, then you see the different consoles, click on either and you'll open a window with tabs for each of the consoles, the rightmost tab has the Import option
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I edited my earlier post to show you what I see when I click Libary and then Super Famicom. I can't find Import anywhere.

edit: I hope I'm just doing something stupid!
 
epmode said:
I edited my earlier post to show you what I see when I click Libary and then Super Famicom. I can't find Import anywhere.

edit: I hope I'm just doing something stupid!
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Are you running version 0.94?

Edit: Oh, he changed the UI for the new WIP version. All you gotta do is find the folder with the appropriate roms and it'll remember it now, as long as it finds the rom files it should load them
 
Easy_D said:
Are you running version 0.94?

Edit: Oh, he changed the UI for the new WIP version. All you gotta do is find the folder with the appropriate roms and it'll remember it now, as long as it finds the rom files it should load them
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Higan is definitely pointing to the correct path. If I copy/paste the path from my second screenshot into the Windows explorer bar, I see the SNES ROMs.
 
Okay I see what you're saying now, turns out Higan was just finding the old games I had imported in older builds. Can't seem to load the actual smc/sfc files.

Edit:

Known issues:
* there's no game file importer yet

So what you can do as a current workaround is load up the older build to import the games, the later build then finds the imported rom files without issue. You can find it in Here
 
Thanks. I figured that you had to re-import the games with each new version. I'll give an older version a try.

edit: It worked! I loaded the Higan version you linked, used it to import a game, copied the settings files to the folder with the newer build and launched the new build. The game showed up when I checked the Super Famicom library.

Thanks again!
 
Anony said:
but regarding the japanese, why doesn't he just go to a local community college and take a course
i know part of the has to have a communication component where one would actually have to talk to someone (fellow classmates, TAs, or the prof)
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Courses help for sure, especially for learning grammar, but studying Japanese is really a long road of pain one has to endure.
For me most problems come from simply having to memorize a gigaton of stuff.

That huge amount of work you need to do can be very defeating at times, unless you have a photographic memory.
 
Lettuce said:
is it though??...i though there was only like 1 game where Higan had shadows for an object where as snes9x did not
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That's a pretty exaggerated picture of the differences. As byuu mentions in an article he wrote a few years ago, there are a lot of different games that have timing, display, or sound bugs that don't have a major effect on the user playing in most cases, but collectively add up to a big gap in accuracy.
 
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