Test-ROM thoughts

essial · Post by **essial** » Wed Jul 21, 2010 8:43 pm

blargg you should join our team to help us make things as accurate as possible

cpow · Post by **cpow** » Wed Jul 21, 2010 8:47 pm

blargg wrote:Posting emulator test results is also an objective way of evaluating an emulator. Simply seeing it stated that "sprite hit timing is accurate" isn't very meaningful. I suppose I should be more diligent about versioning my tests.

I used to keep your old versions around but then my pass/fail counts were polluted with repeats. I have left a couple of them in there, specifically the MMC3 test suites that you recently updated because I passed the scanline timing test in the old suite but not the new. I just haven't got back to MMC3 yet to figure out what's going on there.

git is a *great* and *easy* VCS. I use SVN/ClearCase professionally but now have joined a few others at work that use git instead.

Zepper · Post by **Zepper** » Wed Jul 21, 2010 8:58 pm

@NESICIDE: I tried in both Internet Explorer and Firefox. WinRAR says it's a corrupted file (around 12 megs).

essial · Post by **essial** » Wed Jul 21, 2010 9:02 pm

Poor windows users

You can browse individually here:
http://www.gitorious.org/nesicide/nesic ... /test_roms

HEAD is pretty darn big now :p (no pun intended, seriously)

cpow · Post by **cpow** » Wed Jul 21, 2010 9:05 pm

Zepper wrote:@NESICIDE: I tried in both Internet Explorer and Firefox. WinRAR says it's a corrupted file (around 12 megs).

WinZIP worked for me...do you have that?

Or, you can install git and get the repo...

cpow · Post by **cpow** » Wed Jul 21, 2010 9:09 pm

essial wrote:Poor windows users

You can browse individually here:
http://www.gitorious.org/nesicide/nesic ... /test_roms

HEAD is pretty darn big now :p (no pun intended, seriously)

Maybe we should set up a separate repo just for tests...

essial · Post by **essial** » Wed Jul 21, 2010 9:19 pm

NESICIDE wrote:
essial wrote:Poor windows users

You can browse individually here:
http://www.gitorious.org/nesicide/nesic ... /test_roms

HEAD is pretty darn big now :p (no pun intended, seriously)
Maybe we should set up a separate repo just for tests...

No :p
Honestly before too long tests will be managed inside of the IDE.. you'll see what I mean in a few weeks hopefully

Zepper · Post by **Zepper** » Wed Jul 21, 2010 9:32 pm

essial wrote:Poor windows users

essial · Post by **essial** » Wed Jul 21, 2010 9:59 pm

Two can play at that game :p

Zepper · Post by **Zepper** » Wed Jul 21, 2010 10:01 pm

- Right, but I don't mind. I still love Windows. Yup, I already tried Linux/Ubuntu. Back to the topic now, plz? ^_^;;

tokumaru · Post by **tokumaru** » Wed Jul 21, 2010 10:07 pm

essial wrote:Two can play at that game :p

Zepper's is much better... It makes fun of the people who are bashing an OS, like you just did, not the competing OS itself.

I say we stop the OS war now. Yeah, Linux is great and all, but not everyone has the time and the competence necessary to configure it, so as long as Windows allows you to point-and-click through tasks that in Linux require a shitload of complex written commands, it will have a large user base.

essial · Post by **essial** » Wed Jul 21, 2010 10:09 pm

Last post before getting back OT.. I have all 3 OSs on my machine (yes, OSx86 :p). I've recommend and installed Windows for more people than Linux -- and in both situations they've been happy so far. I just love trolling sometimes :p

Post by **tepples** » Thu Jul 22, 2010 5:06 am

tineras wrote:I have only glanced at the wiki a couple of times and didn't notice [[Emulator tests]] there.

If you failed to find something, it's likely that we failed to make it findable. Where on the wiki did you expect to find a link to this page?

NESICIDE wrote:git is a *great* and *easy* VCS.

How well does it perform in a mixed Linux/Windows environment? I was thinking of using Mercurial; is git noticeably better?

essial wrote:Poor windows users

Not everybody has a beefy enough PC to run VirtualBox.

qeed · Post by **qeed** » Thu Jul 22, 2010 5:10 am

git is one of the fastest src control evah, check out this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XpnKHJAok8 One of his designs goals was to make it fast enough to manage the kernel.