Mednafen error: BOGUS SALAMANDERS, CAPTAIN!?

NetSphereEngineer · 15 January 2017 03:42

I was playing when suddenly the game freezes and gives me this weird message! Anyone can please translate this for me?

hunterk · 15 January 2017 06:03

It’s an internal framebuffer(?) error in the emulated PSX GPU, it seems:

libretro/beetle-psx-libretro/blob/master/mednafen/psx/gpu.cpp

/* Mednafen - Multi-system Emulator
 *
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 * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
 * the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
 * (at your option) any later version.
 *
 * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
 * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
 * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
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 */

#include "psx.h"
#include "timer.h"
#include "../../rsx/rsx_intf.h"

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I don’t think there’s anything you can do about it, short of playing a different game.

NetSphereEngineer · 15 January 2017 06:04

So it’s not my computer nor the game itself?

If I use the original mednafen guess it will not make any difference right?

Do you think if I contact the author this can be easily fixed? I really wanted to continue playing this game

hunterk · 15 January 2017 06:04

Try it in standalone. I suspect it will have the same behavior. If so, you can raise an issue on their forums and see if it’s something they can fix.

NetSphereEngineer · 15 January 2017 06:04

The standalone gives me no error but here is the thing: after that I can’t get the error even in the retroarch version! maybe it is cause it’s a super fast racing class and sometimes it will freeze the game? Anyway it’s not that bad now!

anon24419061 · 15 January 2017 06:04

It’s possible that it’s been fixed already in standalone, the mednafen core is not really up to date

NetSphereEngineer · 15 January 2017 06:04

I wish I could use retroarch as a frontend but with the latest version of mednafen cause retroarch interface it’s the best at least in my opinion! (I love how I can pause the game and go to the main menu using the xbox middle button and control everything with my controller)

The others is not easy to configure the controls and I get freezes when going to fullscreen mode. I wish I could make a request but you devs must be real busy to turn you backs to the cores and try to implement a mednafen frontend mode just for me Kind of makes my curious if it’s even possible or how is the difficult to do this.

anon24419061 · 15 January 2017 06:04

Yeah, the main dev is just busy with 1.2, once that’s out core work will be a priority again.

NetSphereEngineer · 15 January 2017 06:04

core work is made by the same guy? wow