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| PGEN v1.5.1 Sega Genesis/Megadrive emulator for the Playstation 2 |
| |
+-+ PS2 Specific code by Nick Van Veen (Sjeep) +-+
++| Based on source code from Generator, coded by James Ponder |++
++| Readapted by AKuHAK |++
+++--------------------------------------------------------------------+++
+++--------------------------------------------------------------------+++
++| Introduction |++
+++--------------------------------------------------------------------+++
+-+ +-+
| PGEN is a Sega Genesis/Megadrive emulator for the PS2. It began |
| as a port of Generator, an open source emulator for Linux, written |
| by James Ponder. Since then, PGEN has evolved to be much more than |
| that. The compatibility rate is very high and the speed is practically |
| perfect with stereo sound. |
| |
| PGEN is freeware and can be downloaded at |
| https://bitbucket.org/AKuHAK/pgen/src/ |
| Please do not |
| ask for ROMs or distribute this program with ROMs. We do not condone |
| such behavior. |
+-+ +-+
+++--------------------------------------------------------------------+++
+++--------------------------------------------------------------------+++
++| Current features in v1.5: |++
+++--------------------------------------------------------------------+++
+-+ +-+
| - Compatible with .SMD, .BIN and .GEN rom format |
| - High speed emulation with stereo sound (at 48Khz) |
| - Two types of sprite rendering: Cell and Line. |
| Cell is faster but less accurate. |
| - Pal/NTSC rom autodetect |
| - Supports SRAM saves and saved states (which are compressed) |
| - Save manager to manipulate PGEN save data |
| - Very configurable (and options get saved to memory card or HDD) |
| - Quick savestate function, does not write to memcard |
| - Screen positioning |
| - Dual-shock controller analog stick support |
| - Cool GUI with customizable music |
| - Automatic ROM detection (no FILES.TXT needed!) |
| - Support for multiple levels of rom directories |
| - Supports Joliet filesystem - long filenames, no file number limit |
| - Support for swapping ROM cd's without restarting the emulator |
| - Load zipped rom files |
| - Linear filtering for rendered display |
| - Load ROMS from a PS2 HDD, and save/load saved states to a PS2 HDD |
| - Boot PGEN via M R Brown's exploit, and load roms from a memory card |
| - Support for the PS2 multi-tap for 4 player games |
| - DMS3 Dev.olution mode compatibile |
+-+ +-+
+++--------------------------------------------------------------------+++
+++--------------------------------------------------------------------+++
++| To-do List: |++
+++--------------------------------------------------------------------+++
+-+ +-+
| - Re-write rendering engine (to get 100% speed in ALL games) |
| - Fix any remaining bugs |
| - Change base emultaor to improve compatability |
+-+ +-+
+++--------------------------------------------------------------------+++
+++--------------------------------------------------------------------+++
++| Booting PGEN and getting ROM's in place |++
+++--------------------------------------------------------------------+++
+-+ +-+
| PGEN can be loaded from a CDROM, HDD, USB, Memory card. It can also |
| load roms from any of those four devices. The method for booting PGEN |
| and getting the roms into place varies between each of the devices, |
| and each method is described below: |
| |
| CDROM |
| ----- |
| NOTE: In order to boot PGEN or load roms from a CDROM, you will need |
| to know how to boot CDR's on your PS2. I can not provide help in this |
| area, please seek information on this from a PS2 related website or |
| forum such as http://www.ps2newz.net |
| |
| Prepare a CD compilation using your favourite burning software. For |
| this compilation, you must place the PGEN files (PGEN.ELF and |
| SYSTEM.CNF) in the root of the compilation. If you will be placing roms|
| on the compilation (which isnt necessary, as you may wish to place the |
| roms on a HDD or memory card instead), then place them in one or |
| several sub-directories in the root of the compilation. You must make |
| sure that the number of files and directories inside the root directory|
| does not exceed 32. For this reason it is recommended that you have a |
| directory called "Roms" in the root of your compilation, and then place|
| all your roms inside this directory. The 32 file/dir limitation only |
| applies for the root directory. Once your compilation has been |
| prepared, burn as a MODE2/XA disc. |
| You can get example of CD disk at |
| https://bitbucket.org/AKuHAK/pgen/downloads/pgen_test.zip |
| |
| Memory Card |
| ----------- |
| PGEN can be loaded from memory card by using Free MC Boot. |
| |
| HDD (Hard Disk Drive) |
| --------------------- |
| PGEN can be loaded from a HDD installed in your PS2, and can load roms |
| stored on the HDD. You can load PGEN from internal hard disk drive by |
| using HDD software, BB Navigator or simply uLaunchelf :) |
| |
| Notes about the PGEN rom list: |
| ------------------------------ |
| |
| The PGEN romlist is built the same way for each of the 3 supported |
| devices, according to the layout of the filesystem for each device. |
| This means that you can have sub-directories which span off the root |
| directory, and you can use directories to categorise your rom files. |
| |
| PGEN will use the filenames of roms when building the romlist - it |
| will not scan rom headers to get the rom name (this would take far too |
| much time). This means that if a rom's filename was "Sonic the Hedgehog|
| 2 (JUE) [!].smd", it will appear as "Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (JUE) [!]" |
| in the romlist. We suggest using the GoodGEN utility to rename your |
| roms to use the standard rom naming convention. You can download the |
| GoodGEN utility from the PGEN website. |
| |
| NOTE: Roms MUST have either a ".bin", ".smd", ".gen", ".md" or ".zip" |
| extension to be recognised by PGEN. |
+-+ +-+
+++--------------------------------------------------------------------+++
+++--------------------------------------------------------------------+++
++| Default In-Game Controls |++
+++--------------------------------------------------------------------+++
+-+ +-+
| Genesis - PS2 |
| ------------- |
| D-Pad - D-Pad or left analog stick |
| Start - Start |
| A - Square |
| B - X |
| C - Circle |
| X - L1 |
| Y - R1 |
| Z - R2 |
| Mode - L2 |
| |
| Select on PS2 controller = enter ingame menu |
| |
| NOTE: If you are having problems with 6-button gamepad emulation, or |
| just want to disable it, hold down Mode when starting a game to |
| forcefully disable 6-button gamepad emulation. |
+-+ +-+
+++--------------------------------------------------------------------+++
+++--------------------------------------------------------------------+++
++| PGEN Usage |++
+++--------------------------------------------------------------------+++
+-+ +-+
| NOTICE: You CAN NOT use saved states from any PGEN version older than |
| 1.1. The staved state format has changed as |
| of version 1.1 and any old saved states are incompatible. You |
| wont need to delete your old saves however, you can still use |
| them with the older PGEN releases. |
| |
| GUI controls: |
| ------------- |
| While navigating the GUI, use the up and down arrows on the d-pad to |
| change selection, X to confirm selection and triangle to return to the |
| previous dialog. At any time in the GUI you may change the video mode. |
| Hold down all shoulder buttons (L1 + L2 + R1 + R2) and then press |
| START to change to NTSC or SELECT to change to PAL. |
| |
| Rom list: |
| --------- |
| Use the d-pad to navigate through the rom list. Up/Down scroll one |
| item at a time, Left/Right scroll one page at a time. L1 places the |
| selection at the top of the romlist, L2 places the selection at the |
| bottom. If you scroll past the top rom, the selection will warp to the |
| bottom rom, and vice-versa. Once you have made your selection press X. |
| If a directory was selected, the romlist will change into that |
| directory. If a rom was selected, emulation of that rom will start. |
| |
| Swapping rom CD's |
| ================= |
| You can swap rom CD's by returning to the base romlist directory |
| (the one which lists "CDROM", "Memory Card 1" etc), switching CD's |
| and then selecting "CDROM" again. Each time "CDROM" is selected |
| from the base romlist directory, the CD listing is refreshed. |
| |
| Swapping USB Flash Drives |
| ================= |
| You can swap rom USB by returning to the base romlist directory |
| (the one which lists "CDROM", "Memory Card 1" etc), switching USB |
| and then selecting "MASS" again. Each time "MASS" is selected |
| from the base romlist directory, the USB listing is refreshed. |
| |
| Options menu: |
| ------------- |
| The options menu is used to configure PGEN. If a memory card is |
| present in slot 1, the options will be saved to the memory card and |
| restored next time you start PGEN. Below is a description of each |
| setting available in the options menu: |
| |
| Region: This is the region that will be emulated. If set to AUTO, PGEN |
| will auto-detect the correct region for each rom when it loads.|
| If set to USA, Europe or Japan, the selected region will be |
| forced. |
| |
| Default Region: Some ROM's are designed for all regions. |
| If this situation arises, PGEN will emulate the |
| default region. |
| |
| Renderer: Use this option to select the rendering engine which will be |
| used to render the genesis display. The CELL engine is much |
| faster than the LINE renderer, but does not render some games|
| properly. The LINE renderer is slower, but much more |
| accurate. |
| |
| Sound: Switch sound emulation on or off. |
| |
| MultiMode TV: If this option is enabled, the PS2 will switch the TV |
| video mode to the emulated video mode when you start |
| emulation of each rom. For example, if you are using a |
| PAL PS2 and you run a NTSC rom, the video mode of your |
| TV will be changed from PAL to NTSC. This is useful, |
| because it gets the roms running at the correct speed. |
| This option should ONLY be enabled if your TV supports |
| both the PAL and NTSC signal. |
| |
| Reposition screen: Select this to enter screen repositioning mode. |
| |
| Frame counter: If this option is enabled, a framecounter will be |
| displayed below the genesis display during emulation. |
| |
| Video mode: Switching between PAL or NTSC video modes |
| |
| Save Device: If a properly formatted HDD is installed in your PS2 then |
| by default PGEN will use the HDD to store saved states |
| and emulation settings. You can override this by setting |
| save device to memory card instead of HDD. |
| |
| In-game menu: |
| ------------- |
| During emulation, press SELECT to bring up the ingame menu. From here |
| you can save/load the game state and change the rendering settings. |
| Below is a description of each setting available in the ingame menu: |
| |
| Quick Save State: Quickly saves the game state to RAM (not to the |
| memory card). |
| Quick Load State: Quickly loads the game state from RAM. |
| MC/HDD Save State: Compresses the game state and saves to the memory |
| card. |
| MC/HDD Load State: Loads the game state for the game currently being |
| emulated from the memory card. |
| Reposition Screen: Enter screen repositioning mode. |
| Renderer: Changes the rendering engine ingame. |
| Region: Changes the region ingame. However, this will only |
| come into effect after a soft reset. |
| Soft Reset: Resets emulation of the current game. |
| |
| Save manager: |
| ------------- |
| The save manager is used to manipulate PGEN save data on the current |
| save device (one of MC or HDD, selectable from the options menu). From |
| the save manager dialog, you can see how much space is free on the |
| save device, see the total amount of space taken up by PGEN saves, see |
| how much space each individual save takes up, and most importantly |
| delete saves. |
| |
| Navigate through the list of saves using the up/down arrows on the |
| d-pad. To delete a save, make your selection and press X. You will then|
| be asked for confirmation to delete. Select "yes" and press X again. |
| |
| Note: Save names prefixed with "(SR)" are SRAM saves. All others are |
| saved states. |
| |
| Gui music: |
| ------------- |
| The music used was |
| http://modarchive.org/index.php?request=view_by_moduleid&query=58827 |
| credit due to who wrote this fantatic 8bit masterpieces. |
+-+ +-+
+++--------------------------------------------------------------------+++
+++--------------------------------------------------------------------+++
++| FAQ |++
+++--------------------------------------------------------------------+++
+-+ +-+
| |
| 1) How do I get this to run on my Playstation 2? |
| |
| You need to be able to do one of the following: |
| * Boot CD-R's. This requires either a modchip or the use of |
| a "swap trick". Please see http://www.ps2newz.net for more |
| information about modchips and the swap trick. |
| * A way to get PGEN and roms onto your memory card, for use |
| with Free MC Boot. For more information please see |
| http://psx-scene.com/forums/official-free-mc-boot-forums/ |
| * A HDD installed in your PS2 and a way to boot appplications |
| from the HDD. to my mind the best way to do it is to |
| install Free MC Boot on your HDD. |
| |
| 2) Ok, I downloaded all the files off the website. How do I make a cd? |
| |
| You can take a CD example from |
| http://depositfiles.com/files/gnw56fthk |
| |
| 3) Sound is too slow/fast! |
| |
| If possible, make sure that the emulated video mode is the |
| same as your PS2 video mode. If the emulated video mode does |
| not match the video mode of your PS2, the emulated game will |
| not run at the correct speed. Eg: If a PAL video mode is being |
| being emulated (region = Europe) but your PS2 it using a NTSC |
| video mode, than the game will run 20% faster than it should, |
| which means that the music will run 20% faster too. |
| |
| 4) PGEN saving into memory card takes up to 5 minutes. |
| |
| Yep this is PGEN related bugs if you are using bad memory or |
| memory card with a little bit broken structure. Unfortunately |
| for now there is no way to fix this. You can try to press POWER |
| button on your PS2 to interrupt the process and try again. |
| |
| 5) Sometimes PGEN was frozen. What can i do if it is happened? |
| |
| You can try to press POWER button. |
| |
| 6) POWER button ddoesn't switch off the console. |
| |
| Thu can try to press POWER button. |
| |
| 7) I cant load my saved states from earlier PGEN releases, what gives? |
| |
| The saved state format has changed with v1.1, and any old saves |
| are incompatible. You can still use the old saves with the old |
| PGEN releases, however. |
+-+ +-+
+++--------------------------------------------------------------------+++
+++--------------------------------------------------------------------+++
++| Outdated History |++
+++--------------------------------------------------------------------+++
+-+ +-+
| |
| v1.5.1s - Changes include: |
| |
| This is Pgen 1.51.s with a new look and modified to work on a ps2 |
| compatible ps3. The new ps3 look was done by Samson from ps3hax. The |
| modifications for the ps3 were done by aries2k. This version doesn´t |
| support hdd saving. I had to deactivate the hdd modules for the elf to |
| load. All references to naplink were removed. The SifIopReset sequence |
| was removed and replaced with the one from uLaunch.elf by E.P and |
| dlanor. All necessary .Irx modules have been embedded in the elf.The |
| Irx module are all 100% homebrew from the ps2 homebrew sdk. :) |
| No copyrighted Sony ps2 bios modules are used. |
| |
| 18th March, 2007: v1.5.1 - Changes include: |
| |
| - Now using older ps2hdd related IRX modules instead of latest |
| PS2SDK ones because console wasn't turning off! |
| - Fixed minor credits screen scroll bug. |
| |
| 10th Janurary, 2007: v1.5 - Changes include: |
| |
| - CPU68K ABCD instruction fix by bootsector (thanks Barry!) |
| - Added gslib 0.51 library files |
| - Changed background image (thanks to luckess ;) |
| |
| 28th July, 2006: v1.4 - Changes include: |
| |
| - Updated to recent ps2sdk |
| - Added usb mass storage support |
| |
| 30th Janurary, 2004: v1.2 - Changes include: |
| |
| - Fixed zipped rom support |
| - Fixed loading PGEN via AR2 or other swap disc |
| |
| 16th November, 2003: v1.1 - Changes include: |
| |
| - Just about all PS2 specific code re-written |
| - Started using gsLib for graphics |
| - Added scroll bar to romlist and Save Manager |
| - Added support for loading ROM's from the memory cards |
| - Added HDD support. Now possible to save/load states and options to |
| the HDD, and load ROM's from the HDD |
| - CD refresh obsolete, removed |
| - Added support for zipped roms |
| - Filtering now available for rendering (hardware linear filtering) |
| - Saved states now use zlib for compression. Old saves are |
| incompatible. |
| - Killed support for OLD JAP consoles (sorry :P) |
| - Fixed bug with FIFO empty (VDP control port) emulation. Fixes games |
| such as Wonderboy 5 and Splatterhouse 2. |
| - Added multitap support for use in 4 player games |
| - No longer load modules from cdrom, making it possible to boot from a |
| memory card via the PS2 Independence exploit |
| - Many other misc changes |
| |
| 16th April, 2003: v1.0 BETA - Changes include: |
| |
| - Lots of bugfixes |
| - Disclaimer only showed on first use (if you have a memory card) |
| - Added support for swapping ROM cd's |
| - Added support for customising the music played in the menu screen |
| - Added old Japanese console compatibility |
| - Removed crypto protection code |
| - Speedups |
| |
| 2nd August, 2002: RC2 beta - Changes include: |
| |
| - Minor speed increase |
| - Fixed bug in pag code (you can now use an old PS1 digital controller)|
| - Fixed "red screen of death" bug (added checksum fixer) |
| - Added proper region emulation, improved region detection code |
| - Made selector loop in ingame menu and romlist |
| - Fixed FPS counter position with NTSC video mode |
| - Additions to the ingame menu: Soft reset, Region selection, Screen |
| repositioning |
| - Now include screen position in saved options |
| - Spin down CD when not in use |
| - Added emulation of 6-button genesis controller |
| - Added support for subdirs inside the base rom directory |
| - Added shortcuts in romlist: L1 to move to top of list, L2 to move to |
| bottom |
| |
| 21st July, 2002: RC1 beta - First official release |
+-+ +-+
+++--------------------------------------------------------------------+++
+++--------------------------------------------------------------------+++
++| Contact |++
+++--------------------------------------------------------------------+++
+-+ +-+
| PGEN Homepage: https://bitbucket.org/AKuHAK/pgen |
| |
| AKuHAK: new pgen developer |
| - e-mail: akuhak@gmail.com |
| |
| |
| Nick Van Veen (aka Sjeep) - PGEN Author (stop working on emulator) |
| - e-mail: sjeep@gamebase.ca |
| - IRC: Sjeep, on EFNet |
| |
+-+ +-+
+++--------------------------------------------------------------------+++
+++--------------------------------------------------------------------+++
++| Credits/Greetz etc |++
+++--------------------------------------------------------------------+++
+-+ +-+
| CREDITS |
| ------- |
| |
| PS2 specific code, as well as many additions to the emulation core by |
| Nicholas Van Veen (aka Sjeep) |
| |
| Generator, the emulator which PGEN is based on, was written by |
| James Ponder |
| |
| PSG and FM emulation code by Stephane, author of the Gens emulator |
| |
| SjPCM sound output library by Sjeep |
| |
| libMtap multitap library by Sjeep |
| |
| libhdd HDD utility library by Sjeep |
| |
| HDD drivers by Sjeep, mrbrown, RCE and [RO]man |
| |
| libCDVD PS2 CDVD library written by Sjeep and Hiryu |
| |
| PS2Lib PS2 kernel library by Sjeep, Gustavo Scotti, Hiryu, mrbrown, |
| Oobles, Pukko and others |
| |
| gsLib PS2 graphics library by Hiryu |
| |
| AmigaMod mod file player by Vzzrzzn |
| |
| The memory card icon was created by Nikorasu |
| |
| THANKS TO: |
| ---------- |
| |
| Special thanks goes to the DMS team. They have chosen to sponsor me |
| and my projects, and it is because of them that PGEN has been revived |
| and will continue to be developed |
| |
| Hiryu for gsLib and libCDVD, for his continual help and support |
| |
| The Unknown artists who composed the excellent MOD file |
| used in the menu |
| |
| [vEX], Bgnome and MoRpHiUs for creating tutorials, documents, websites |
| etc related to PGEN |
| |
| Fat Mike, for lending me his spare HDD to assist in adding HDD support |
| |
| The BETA testers: Drakonite, emukid, Emulord, Hiryu, Jide, Jimmi, |
| Mark, Rob6021 |
| |
| GREETZ |
| ------ |
| |
| adk, adresd, blackdroid, drakonite, dreamtime, duke, guichi, herben, |
| hiryu, jenova, jules, karmix, longchair, loser, mrbrown, nagra, |
| nikorasu, norecess, oobles, oopo, pukko, rce, [ro]man, runtime, sg2, |
| tyranid, warren, vzzrzzn and anybody else that I forgot to mention :) |
+-+ +-+
+++--------------------------------------------------------------------+++
+++--------------------------------------------------------------------+++
++| Legalese |++
+++--------------------------------------------------------------------+++
+-+ +-+
| This software is not endorsed by Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. or |
| SEGA Inc. in any way. This software is produced without the use of any |
| copyrighted material which belongs to Sony Computer Entertainment Inc, |
| or SEGA Inc, or any other party. |
| |
| Companies and all products pertaining to that company are trademarks of|
| that company. Please contact the appropriate company for trademark and |
| copyright information. |
| |
| This software should only be used to play games which the user |
| legally owns. |
| |
| This software must never be distributed with any copyrighted games or |
| other material. Any breach of these terms is out of the authors control|
| and is not at the authors consent. |
| |
| PGEN is FREE software. If you bought this, you have been ripped off. |
+-+ +-+
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++ Layout by MoRpHiUs ++
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ps2homebrew/pgen
PGEN is an old Sega Genesis/Megadrive emulator for the PS2 based on Generator source code.
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