Fast port of MAME to the Pandora handheld!

Hello from ZodTTD of zodttd.com!
Here's Outrun running on Pandora via mame4all!
I had such fun with Franxis' mame4all project for the GP2X, that I decided to give it a port to the Pandora. Pandora is a upcoming high end gaming handheld (homepage: openpandora.org). I did this port in approximately two hours. It uses the Cyclone and DrZ80 assembly cores. It has fully working sound via OSS. Everything I have thrown at it runs fullspeed and requires throttling, and this is all at 500MHz instead of the 600MHz+ the Pandora can handle with ease! Also worth mentioning I am using a very early devkit, so I had to scale the screen as well as rotate it within software, so performance will be even better on newer devkits and the final product! Note that screeching wheels sound is normal Outrun goodness, though a tad annoying! I am using headphones for outputting the sound as well.

The little time it took to port this over from the GP2X to the Pandora and the resulting performance increase is amazing.

Hope you enjoy this video of Outrun emulated via mame4all ported to the Pandora! Thanks,
ZodTTD
zodttd.com

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• pandora
• openpandora
• openpandora.org
• gaming
• handheld
• zodttd
• mame4pandora
• mame
• outrun
• arcade
• emulator
• zodttd.com

[saejinoh]

is that clicking sound normal for pandora or was 3rd party controller used for the demonstration?

[zodttd]

Heh! That clicking sound is due to using a very old devkit. The retail Pandora won't have that sound. :)

[PurpleeEse]

im blue and planing to buy a Pandora hey zodTTD i have your source for installer and its acting retarded

[zodttd]

Cool! As for the iPhone Installer repo, its for 1.1.4 firmware and earlier. Check out the Cydia repo for 2.x.x firmware. ;)

[toximan2008]

Hey zod, I have pretty much all your emulators, but here is a challenge is it possible ( can you make it ) a N64 Emu that is availiable for iPhone?

[zodttd]

Sadly the iPhone just doesn't have the muscle (due to the processor and even the OS) needed to do an N64 emulator on it. An N64 Pandora, is to be seen though.

[cyborgtroy]

You mean the Asus eee?

It's pretty lame. Bigger than the Pandora, worse battery life.

I guess it's good if you want to sit on the couch for a few hours, but you need a free hand or a backpack to carry it.

[meemeesiko57]

*Watches this*

*Faints from sheer awesomeness*

Do I need to say anything more?

And if this was my response to THIS video, then imagine how powerful my seizures were when I saw the Final Fantasy 7 video.

[bugauga1]

MAME on the Pandora isn´t very good - much ROM´s do not work. I found no working ROM for Outrun...

[RammsteinUser]

too bad the pandora will finally come in.....2023?

[termanogue]

I can play this on my nds :D!

[puckman]

is it me or is the sound choppy?

[cyborgtroy]

No, the first batch is supposed to ship this year, and they're going to make a second batch next year.

And still, after years of development, only the iPhone 3GS and N900 have come close to it in CPU / GPU performance, to say nothing of the superior input devices.

[shallowlife]

I wont, Pandora will be outdated by the time it is released (10 years from now) XD

[makan95]

well you cant so buy pandora

[cyborgtroy]

I think I meant, "netbook", not the PSP... The PSP isn't even in the same class of computer as the Pandora.

[shallowlife]

I wish I could play this on my psp :( !