What would you like to see in Gens/GS?

I'd like to see a feature to load higher resolution tiles from external files, similar to what Dolphin (gc/wii emulator) and TexMod does.
It'd be amazing, especially combined with SonMP3. =P

 

The ability to pick full screen resolution, and also the game window resolution, both independently of each other. Fusion allows this, but only by hard-setting the window size in the configuration file. Also allow the user to fill the empty area of the screen with either black or the border color. This way you could set the output to look exactly like it would in real hardware.

This is honestly the only reason keeping me from using Gens/GS over Fusion, apart from the video capture feature (which, while not necessary, is very convenient).

EDIT: Oh, and draw the otherwise skipped lines in 448/480 line resolution when the vertical window size is bigger than 224/240. You know, that thing that makes Sonic 2 splitscreen look so much better on Fusion.

 

It would be nice if the pause wasn't blue and if there was rerecording.

 

I don't know if this has already been mentioned, but a debugger for the VDP, M68K, Z80, I/O Ports, and the sound chips. That would just be awesum.

 

Well.



Ahem. If you please.

 

Don't want to sound like a nag as it has been mentioned before. But I'm very eager for an over-clocking option so I don't have to put up with slowdowns. Also, as echoed before. A fixed 4:3 mode in full screen. At a guess. How soon do you think it will be till you implement them?

 

Personally, I'd love to see an option to play games with VRAM tiles loaded from external files, allowing for higher resolution tiles.
It's a longshot, but you don't ask, you don't get. =P

 

Might sound stupid, but I'd like to be able to disable the "keep aspect" option, so everything is streched when the window. Because the original Gens isn't keeping the aspect 4:3 (when I maximize the window), I got used to it so much, that I can't play without it anymore.

 

I... can't believe you just said these things :|

You shouldn't be maximizing the window to begin with. If you want to play fullscreen, use the fullscreen mode. Maximizing the window is just stupid. And, you want the picture to be stretched? That's wrong on even more levels.
This is one of the things that Fusion does better than Gens: it doesn't allow you to resize the window at all, like it should be. I always hated how Gens allows you to resize the window, because this opened the flood gates to people like you who use this "feature" to do it wrong.

tl;dr if you resize your emulator's window you're stupid. Don't do it.

edit: HURRRRR LET'S PLAY SONINEKO IN A STRETCHED WINDOW

 

Not completely true; running in fullscreen mode on my laptop, for example, requires various changes to the display in the background, means I can't see when I've been pinged on IRC, and also takes a few seconds to switch from normal to fullscreen and back again. Hence, maximising works for me.

Wanting it stretched is pretty stupid, though.

 

The main (and pretty much only) reason why I want this: I have 16:10 screen and I HATE black bars. I'd rather have things streched than seeing 30% of my screen being black.

I'm also aware of the fact with noobs making shitty screenshots, which is why I want to be able to turn it off (in other words, "Keep Aspect" should be enabled by default).

 

I would like to see an overview of the debugging hotkeys in the F1 help. The F1 help does not provide any information in this regard. The only list of debug hotkeys I can find is an Archived Topic. However this list is incomplete, such as the "N" hotkey that appears to increment the PC to the next instruction (which is useful to make temporary breakpoints with a "Self: bra.s Self", look at the debug info, and continue execution).

 

Hm... Movie recording?

 

Ultimate MK3 Trilogy support. Even if the system don't support such a large cartridge standard you can see in a previous post that flash cartridges can be made to work with the game.

 

The problem with UMK3T is that it fills the 68000 address space from $000000 through to $9FFFFF. With a Sega CD connected, $400000-$7FFFFF is lost, and with a 32X, $800000-$9FFFFF is lost. If UMK3T support is going to be added, it'll need special handling specific to that ROM... so what happens when people try to hack it? Will the entire emulator have to be rewritten due to hard-coded ROM checksum checks? Or will we have to have "Disable Sega CD"/"Disable 32X" options which affect the 688000 memory map once changed (meaning emulation must stop arbitrarily, which can be bad)?

Actually oerg866 what was your console setup running that?