Its certainly closer now than when it was on stock firmware v1.5. Not sure they'll ever get to perfect, but its at least mostly usable now. Need a nicer interface for adding your own games on other emulators, but again that will hopefully come.
0.0.9 was a huge update not just with the screen tearing fix but with improvements throughout all the cores. I’m not entirely sure snes will ever be full speed for the more demanding games, but for me, having a $20 device that plays SEGA cd and pc engine cd is pretty amazing. I totally agree this is not a novice device and would be hard to recommend it if anyone wants to mainly play snes despite the form factor. I’m thinking about a long vid tutorial/follow guide to installing Multicore and your own games, and have them show up in the menu and not under user settings. It’s not hard just.. messy right now.
I installed the Multicore 0.09 and I've noticed a big improvement in compatibility. NES roms are just about perfect aside from sound issues. SNES and GBA still lags with certain games but I'm amazed how far this device has come in the past year. I agree to pay no more than $20 but if you're on a tight budget and love NES games, I highly recommend. Good review.
@@nb6175 Its how the games were designed to run. Anything less with classic games leads to slowdown and sub par performance. 🤷♂ I'd rather have as near to original performance as possible than stuttering, slowdowns and lag. Seems perfectly reasonable to me. 🤣
Correct me if I'm wrong but don't you have to use the multicore emulators under "game list" or was it the hijacked GBA emulator? If you use the stock SFC in the menu is it not the original emulator? Original emulator = poor/same performance? Someone got Rondo of Blood working at full speed. Seems like we're all missing some steps here.
@@handheldgaming4life So it turns out you're not using the new multicore emulators unless you load a new Yoshi's Island on to your device. The original file will just default to the original emulator. This is from one of the devs working on multicore/cfw "Multicore cores can't run any roms that are packaged up in that zfb file format that come with the sf2000. The assumption, when you install multicore is that the only roms you are loading will be ones you supply yourself, and either place in the roms directory at /roms/gba (or whatever the core expects, as documented), or that you install with tadpole to package up as the kind of "new" zfb files that have the stub needed for multicore already built in. Not counting the user roms menu, if you're just running stuff from the menu without using tadpole to generate new main menu content using your own roms, then you're not using multicore cores whether multicore is installed or not."
I'd be interested in a follow up on your comment. Its 2 months later, Christmas is firmly in the rearview mirror. How is your "someone" getting on with their SF2000? Did they love it for all of Christmas day? Or are they still playing on it now?
Depends who you believe. The people doing the hacking who've said its 47-8hz and are trying to push it to 60hz or the people buying it and claiming "all games run full speed"
Would be nice when they finally get it working perfectly with SNES games. I own 2 of these, The grey model and the Mario coloured one.
Its certainly closer now than when it was on stock firmware v1.5. Not sure they'll ever get to perfect, but its at least mostly usable now. Need a nicer interface for adding your own games on other emulators, but again that will hopefully come.
0.0.9 was a huge update not just with the screen tearing fix but with improvements throughout all the cores. I’m not entirely sure snes will ever be full speed for the more demanding games, but for me, having a $20 device that plays SEGA cd and pc engine cd is pretty amazing. I totally agree this is not a novice device and would be hard to recommend it if anyone wants to mainly play snes despite the form factor. I’m thinking about a long vid tutorial/follow guide to installing Multicore and your own games, and have them show up in the menu and not under user settings. It’s not hard just.. messy right now.
I installed the Multicore 0.09 and I've noticed a big improvement in compatibility. NES roms are just about perfect aside from sound issues. SNES and GBA still lags with certain games but I'm amazed how far this device has come in the past year. I agree to pay no more than $20 but if you're on a tight budget and love NES games, I highly recommend. Good review.
Its came a ways, but it's still got a way for full 60fps. I've been monitoring the update channel hoping for an Alpha 0.10 but not here yet.
why on earth would you only be happy with 60fps? What are you playing competitive first person shooters on a handheld? @@handheldgaming4life
@@nb6175 Its how the games were designed to run. Anything less with classic games leads to slowdown and sub par performance. 🤷♂ I'd rather have as near to original performance as possible than stuttering, slowdowns and lag. Seems perfectly reasonable to me. 🤣
You should do a performanxe comparison between official firmware 1.71v vs. "Custom" firmware multicore alpha 0.09
There is really no comparison. Firmware 1.7 isn't much of an upgrade over 1.6. But the multicore is a substantial uplift in performance.
im on the latest version of tadpole, how do i go about changing cores on a specific game?
Did you compare it to the latest 1.71 official firmware?
I've tried 1.71 of the official firmware, its not real improvement over 1.6 and the multicore is recommended only on 1.6. 👍
Does this fix screen tearing?
Correct me if I'm wrong but don't you have to use the multicore emulators under "game list" or was it the hijacked GBA emulator? If you use the stock SFC in the menu is it not the original emulator? Original emulator = poor/same performance? Someone got Rondo of Blood working at full speed. Seems like we're all missing some steps here.
Part of the process of installing the multicore was to also install the hijacked GBA emulator. 👍
@@handheldgaming4life So it turns out you're not using the new multicore emulators unless you load a new Yoshi's Island on to your device. The original file will just default to the original emulator. This is from one of the devs working on multicore/cfw
"Multicore cores can't run any roms that are packaged up in that zfb file format that come with the sf2000.
The assumption, when you install multicore is that the only roms you are loading will be ones you supply yourself, and either place in the roms directory at /roms/gba (or whatever the core expects, as documented), or that you install with tadpole to package up as the kind of "new" zfb files that have the stub needed for multicore already built in.
Not counting the user roms menu, if you're just running stuff from the menu without using tadpole to generate new main menu content using your own roms, then you're not using multicore cores whether multicore is installed or not."
I think for $20, this is something i can quickly modify to run and look better and gift it to someone that just wants something that's easy to use.
I'd be interested in a follow up on your comment. Its 2 months later, Christmas is firmly in the rearview mirror. How is your "someone" getting on with their SF2000? Did they love it for all of Christmas day? Or are they still playing on it now?
What about the GBA version of Yoshi's Island?
Runs like hot trash unfortunately.
@@handheldgaming4life Oh that's unfortunate. I always thought it was the easier one to emulate
Not work for me only show me icon of Multicore Alpha nothing happens
Have you copied ROMs back to the SD card after rebuilding it with Multicore?
I did not know that was how the multicore worked, by switching off the game, opening another one and reopening the game again?
That's pretty much how SNES games worked on all firmware iterations.
I didn't know Lynx was supported I knew about master system.
Lynx is actually pretty good.
I've put Lynx Roms in there but they aren't showing up. How did you do it? Thanks again for the videos.
Pilotwings, FX chip and Yoshi Island are never going to work.
But they're a good repeatable test. And the device comes with those games included. Ergo the average buyer is going to expect them to work.
Always bad framerate
Depends who you believe. The people doing the hacking who've said its 47-8hz and are trying to push it to 60hz or the people buying it and claiming "all games run full speed"