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That was kind of my point, the display capabilities have -NOTHING- to do with the processor or system, or the number of 'bits' a system has. PC may be 32bits or 64bits, but remmeber you can still run your desktop in 4color or 16color or 256color (8bit per pixel), 16bit (65,000 colors), 24bit or 32bi...

It just relies on having both a 'material color' and an alpha blended texture. The texture is of the explosion with an alpha mask, and then you can just make the textured quad get bigger over the course of 250ms or so, while also reducing the alpha of the material color. (So that the material color ...

LOL Let me explain... the "16 bits" or whatever usually has no meaning as to the graphics of a system. For instance the Nintendo was 8bit but really only had like 16 colors for a given sprite. I think in total it could actually do 256 colors (8bit) but not on the same line or something. Re...

You're going about it all the wrong way. Instead of manually getting each pixel, manipulating its values, and setting it back, which would be HORRENDOUSLY slow, do this: Make a quad, color it red, give it an alpha channel of like 40% or whatever, and draw it over your entire screen after your done d...

Dont disable exceptions....

Its more complicated and a bigger pain in the ass to worry about your game objects having #INF or #NAN values than it is to just fix the algorithms that make them creep in in the first place.

Ahh yes, the PSP will hang when it hits floating point exceptions, where as PC will just continue on and put a value like #INF or 0 in its place. Ensure that you arnt doing any divide by 0s, or any overflows or underflows. To really stress your code, use something like this: float intToFloat&#40...

You need to be a little more specific with the way you're drawing text & what sBuffer is.

Please post the code that calls the get_random() function and we can help you figure out whats wrong, because the get_random() function looks correct to me.

To answer the original question, the PSP uses very OpenGL-like code.

However, you're probably going to have more of a problem learning the 3d math of matrices & vectors & quaternions than you will have getting things to draw on the screen.

You're code should look more like: typedef struct{ int x, y; }Objects; Objects Robot[10]; int main() { Robot[0].x = 100; Robot[0].y = 100; } Remember that an array of size 10 is indexed 0 - 9, not 1 -...

initials[3] = '\000'; ??? Why three 0's?? You only need: '\0' or, better yet, just do: initials[3] = 0; to answer some other questions from above, there are times when you need to take 0-25 (or 1-26) as a letter in the alphabet, and the easiest way to do that is: char mychar = 'A' + num; or (num-1)....

PBP cannot be loaded nonwhatsoever the devunits do not know about pbp loading and pbps are done on sony side so best bet is to stick to good ol' elf/prx as those work fine also you would do best to not have such magic keywords in your elf like ms0:/ and lsfatms0:/ as another user has suggested crea...

You arnt able to burn a CD or a DVD of the files... The files have to be generated using an internal tool that packages the files into the correct format that the testkit or devkit can use. As previously stated, sending them a memstick isnt advisable because unless they have a 1.0 or 1.5 retail PSP ...

%u16 will print an unsigned number followed by a 16.... heh

Rotating texture coordintaes would not give the desired effect...

Edges would be cut off, because the image on the screen is still square at all times.

To make sprites rotate, you need to stop using sprites and start using quads... vertex and matrix time. :)

The issue here is that if you're planning on making a loader that runs games from UMD, those games will never return. So both programs will be loaded and running at the same time after you start it. If you're displaying an image, you cant afford to 'steal' that memory from the game you're trying to ...

I just noticed that you never intialize "object". Its a global pointer so its pointing at NULL.

You need to do:

object = new objects[numobjects];

Also, you're naming of object and objects is backwards, you should switch them so each item is an object, and the collection is objects.

First rule in debugging... start small, and slowly add code until you can reproduce the problem.

Take out all of your code that does stuff, and get it so you can run. You probably have a divide by zero or you're accessing an invalid memory address.

Dont use that function. Use the sceKernelCreateFpl function (not sure if thats the exact spelling & capitalization) Fpl = Fixed Pool Theres also sceKernelAllocFpl which allocates inside of it. I'm fairly certain that CreateFpl internally calls AllocPartitionMemory, but Id still stay away from it.

The PSP is really... strange... in the way it handles file IO.

For instance, when doing any disk IO you can pass in a 'repeat' factor that says how many times to retry something, because it doesnt always work.

So, I say you call it until it does what you want. But thats just me :)

Have the PSP do a format on the memory stick and give it another go

I have had VERY strange problems with a memory stick that have been solved this way, due to corruption.

47 fps? If you are on platform you cant get any other FPS values than 60, 30, 20, 15, 12,10, and then you get some strange ones. It has a 60Hz refresh rate and everyone should be using vsynch, so only fps values that are 60/x (x = int) can work. Anyways, FPS is not a very good way of testing code sp...

I cant download the file to see exactly how you're doing this, but a bigger program should not be slower. Depending on what you're doing cache misses can be an issue, but honestly I think you're probably just going slower because of multithreading. If you want to run a test, Id suggest loading up th...

Is that with a standard USB cable to a PC connected, or with the microphone connected?

How do you get that you cant unswizzle a texture in one function??

Its just moving bytes around, just undo it.

The USB chip is -NOT- host capable. Definately not. Nope. Never.

But that doesnt mean there wont be a lot of awesome uses for it. I mean, a mic!?!? Thats AWESOME! :D

http://www.cplusplus.com/ Thats where I learned C/C++ 5 years ago. :) Id also recomend picking up a compiler (Visual Studio 6 or better... VisualStudio.NET 2003, or even VisualStudio.NET 2005 which is in beta and FREE right now) and learning on Windows before jumping into PSP programming. Its much f...

sceCtrlReadBufferPositive() will set the "buttons" flags with the current state of the buttons (if the flag is present then that means the button is pressed down, if its not present then the button is not pressed). The code from weltall only handles half of this. What you really want to do...

sceDisplayWaitVBlankStart() waits until the VSynch gets called to the OS. Its tied into the screen refresh rate, the PSP refreshes 60 times a second. So calling it 6 times in a tight loop essentially is the same thing as doing a sceKernelDelayThread( 6 * (1000000/60) ); which should be 100 milliseco...

Dont use a counter. unsigned GetMilliseconds() { SceKernelSysClock clock; sceKernelGetSystemTime(&clock); unsigned time = clock.low / 1000; time += clock.hi * (0xFFFFFFFF / 1000); return time; } This gets the time. When someone pr...

One cycle isnt enough. The typical way to do key holding is to set a timer when you press the key down, and once that timer reaches some value (400ms or so) you signal the output again, and then set the timer back to something like 300ms, so that the next signal only takes 100ms... This is how you g...