core: game compatibility list

[deltabeard]

Please comment whether Peanut-GB was able to play a game in a playable state or not.
Any issues with playable games must be listed with a comment.
Unplayable games must have a comment describing why it isn't playable.

Playable:

• Legend of Zelda: Links Awakening
• Mega Man V
• Pokémon Red/Blue/Yellow
• Pokémon Gold/Silver
• Tetris
• Pipe Dream
• Dr. Mario
• Super Mario Land 2 - 6 Golden Coins
• Metroid II
• Kirby's Dream Land 2
• Final Fantasy Legend

Unplayable:

• Is That a Demo in Your Pocket? (gb: Is That a Demo in Your Pocket? crashes during the demo #81)
• Dragon Warrior III (gb: Dragon Warrior III halts forever error at 0x53BB #83)

[DasBlackfur]

Pokémon Red/Blue crashes when blacking out / healing your Pokémon. Making the game literally unplayable.

[deltabeard]

Pokémon Red/Blue crashes when blacking out / healing your Pokémon. Making the game literally unplayable.

Is this with the latest commit?

[DasBlackfur]

Will have to check, thanks for the quick response

[DasBlackfur]

Turns out I am too small brain to merge these properly as the fork of peanut gb I am working with has made quite some modifications. Could you tell me what exactly fixed the issue with pokecenters?

[DasBlackfur]

Okay, with the new update, this still happens.

[deltabeard]

I can't reproduce the problem with the SDL2 example. I used the version of Pokemon Red at https://github.com/pret/pokered

Only problem with Gen 1 Pokemon games so far was fixed in 86a0092 whereby entering the Pokemon Center would crash the game. This was due to the serial connection (link cable) not being emulated correctly.

Are you also using the SDL2 example or a different one?

[diddyholz]

I reproduced the bug in the SDL2 example on master branch in Pokemon Blue. It's definitely happening there

[deltabeard]

This time I tested with the retail version of Pokemon Blue (U). Using the Pokemon Center worked and so did getting whited out. I'm unable to reproduce the problem. Tested with the latest version of Peanut-SDL.

Please provide a save file and your copy of Peanut-SDL, and I will test again.

[diddyholz]

Ok it looks like this issue occures when you do not define ENABLE_SOUND. When I defined that while building, the bug did not occur and healing in Pokemon Center worked just fine. Is this expected behaviour?
These are my compiled peanut-sdl binary and savegame.

[deltabeard]

Ah. That is a bug. I've opened an issue at #49 . Thanks for investigating the problem and for the files.

[deltabeard]

@TheBlackfurGuy @diddyholz I think I've fixed the issue in 8872351. This commit fixes reading and writing to APU registers when APU emulation is disabled with ENABLE_SOUND=0. I need to test a bunch of other games to just to make sure I haven't broken anything else.

[YouMakeTech]

Playable

• Batman - The Animated Series (USA, Europe)
• Bomberman GB (USA, Europe)
• Captain America and the Avengers (USA)
• Castlevania Adventure, The (USA)
• Castlevania II - Belmont's Revenge (USA, Europe)
• Castlevania Legends (USA, Europe)
• Chessmaster, The (USA) (Rev A)
• Contra - The Alien Wars (USA)
• Donkey Kong (World) (Rev A)
• Dr. Mario (World) (Rev A)
• Gargoyle's Quest (USA, Europe)
• Mega Man - Dr. Wily's Revenge (USA)
• Mega Man II (USA)
• Mega Man III (USA)
• Mega Man IV (USA)
• Mega Man V (USA)
• Metroid II - Return of Samus (World) (USA)
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - Fall of the Foot Clan (USA)
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III - Radical Rescue (USA)
• R-Type II (Europe)
• Super Mario Land (World) (Rev A)
• Super Mario Land 2 - 6 Golden Coins (USA, Europe) (Rev B)
• Tetris (World) (Rev A)
• Wario Land - Super Mario Land 3 (World)
• Yoshi (USA)

Unplayable

• Bubble Bobble (USA, Europe) : Return to the main title after displaying Taito
• Kirby's Dream Land 2 (USA, Europe): Error: INVALID OPCODE at 0x131E with instruction DB, shortly after the main menu and before the 1st level

[Mr-PauI]

Playable:
Arcade Classics No1: Asteroids & Missile Command
F1 Race
Final Fantasy Legend II
Final Fantasy Adventure
Golf
Kirby's Pinball Land
Mystic Quest
Street Racer
Space Invaders

Partial Support:
Battlezone/Superbreakout. Battlezone has rendering issues, flickering 3d rendering; must be run without frameskip option to get any output. Objects seem to render incorrectly. The Superbreakout half of the collection works perfectly.

Unplayable:
Final Fantasy Legend III - Locks up when entering battle on overworld; intro is playable. Tested on SDL version and my own implementation. Debugging shows it endlessly looping within gb_run_frame(), and taking fallthrough case 3 in __gb_read().
LittleSoundDJ - note: Has 128kb cart ram which is larger than the 32kb of the largest official original gameboy game.

LSDJ fails it's own internal SRAM test.

[alphic]

Partial Support: Battlezone/Superbreakout. Battlezone has rendering issues, flickering 3d rendering; must be run without frameskip option to get any output. Objects seem to render incorrectly. The Superbreakout half of the collection works perfectly.

Do note that the Battlezone half was developed with period-correct screen ghosting in mind. Might take more development (and probably more resources) to create good frameblend functionality without sacrificing speed, but that's just me. There are a few other games I know of that do similar "screen flicker tricks", so please keep this in mind.