2019-12-12 14:01:13 +00:00
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void scale_2x(planar32_t *dst32, splanar16_t src16)
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[C decompilation] [th01/fuuin] Slow 2x VRAM region scaling
This function raises one of those essential questions about the eventual ports
we'd like to do. I'll explain everything more thoroughly here, since people
who might complain about the ports not being faithful enough need to
understand this.
----
The original plan was aim for "100% frame-perfect" ports and advertise them as
such. However, the PC-98 is not a console with fixed specs. As the name
implies, it's a computer architecture, and a plethora of different, more and
more powerful PC-98 models were released during its lifespan. Even if we only
consider the subset of products that fulfills the minimum requirements to run
the PC-98 Touhou games, that's still a sizable number of systems.
Therefore, the only true definition of a *frame* can be "everything that is
drawn between two Vsync wait calls". Such a *frame* may contain certain
expensive function calls, and certain systems may run these functions slower
than the developer expected, thus effectively leading to more *frames* than
the developer explicitly specified.
This is one of those functions.
Here, we have a scaling function that appears to be written deliberately to
run very slow, which ends up creating the rolling effect you see in the route
selection and the high score and continue screens of TH01. However, that
doesn't change the fact that the function is still CPU-bound, and neither
waits for Vsync nor is iteratively called by something that does. The faster
your CPU, the faster the rolling effect gets… until ultimately, it's faster
than one frame and therefore vanishes altogether. Mind you, this is true on
both emulators and real hardware. The final PC-98 model, the Ra43, had a CPU
clocked at 433 Mhz, and it may have even been instant there.
If you use more optimized algorithm, it also runs faster on the same CPU (I
tried this, and it worked beautifully)… you get the idea.
Still, it may very well be that this algorithm was not a deliberate choice and
simply resulted from a lack of experience, especially since this was ZUN's
first game.
That leaves us with two approaches to porting functions like these:
1) Look at the recommended system requirements ZUN specified, configure the
PC-98 emulator accordingly, measure how much of the work is done in each
frame, then rewrite the function to be bound to that specific frame rate…
2) …or just continue using a CPU-bound algorithm, which will pretty much
complete instantly on any modern system.
I'd argue that 2) is actually the more "faithful" approach. It will run faster
than the typical clock speeds people emulate the games at, and maybe draw a
bit of criticism because of that, but it seems a lot more rational than the
approximation provided by 1). Not to mention that it's undeniably easier to
implement, and hey, a faster game feels a lot better than a slower one, right?
… Oh well, maybe we'll still encounter some kind of CPU-bound animation that
is so essential to the experience that we do want to lock it to a certain
frame rate…
2015-03-09 16:58:30 +00:00
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{
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2019-12-12 14:01:13 +00:00
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planar32_t mask = 1;
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planar32_t srcex = 0;
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planar32_t dst_local;
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[C decompilation] [th01/fuuin] Slow 2x VRAM region scaling
This function raises one of those essential questions about the eventual ports
we'd like to do. I'll explain everything more thoroughly here, since people
who might complain about the ports not being faithful enough need to
understand this.
----
The original plan was aim for "100% frame-perfect" ports and advertise them as
such. However, the PC-98 is not a console with fixed specs. As the name
implies, it's a computer architecture, and a plethora of different, more and
more powerful PC-98 models were released during its lifespan. Even if we only
consider the subset of products that fulfills the minimum requirements to run
the PC-98 Touhou games, that's still a sizable number of systems.
Therefore, the only true definition of a *frame* can be "everything that is
drawn between two Vsync wait calls". Such a *frame* may contain certain
expensive function calls, and certain systems may run these functions slower
than the developer expected, thus effectively leading to more *frames* than
the developer explicitly specified.
This is one of those functions.
Here, we have a scaling function that appears to be written deliberately to
run very slow, which ends up creating the rolling effect you see in the route
selection and the high score and continue screens of TH01. However, that
doesn't change the fact that the function is still CPU-bound, and neither
waits for Vsync nor is iteratively called by something that does. The faster
your CPU, the faster the rolling effect gets… until ultimately, it's faster
than one frame and therefore vanishes altogether. Mind you, this is true on
both emulators and real hardware. The final PC-98 model, the Ra43, had a CPU
clocked at 433 Mhz, and it may have even been instant there.
If you use more optimized algorithm, it also runs faster on the same CPU (I
tried this, and it worked beautifully)… you get the idea.
Still, it may very well be that this algorithm was not a deliberate choice and
simply resulted from a lack of experience, especially since this was ZUN's
first game.
That leaves us with two approaches to porting functions like these:
1) Look at the recommended system requirements ZUN specified, configure the
PC-98 emulator accordingly, measure how much of the work is done in each
frame, then rewrite the function to be bound to that specific frame rate…
2) …or just continue using a CPU-bound algorithm, which will pretty much
complete instantly on any modern system.
I'd argue that 2) is actually the more "faithful" approach. It will run faster
than the typical clock speeds people emulate the games at, and maybe draw a
bit of criticism because of that, but it seems a lot more rational than the
approximation provided by 1). Not to mention that it's undeniably easier to
implement, and hey, a faster game feels a lot better than a slower one, right?
… Oh well, maybe we'll still encounter some kind of CPU-bound animation that
is so essential to the experience that we do want to lock it to a certain
frame rate…
2015-03-09 16:58:30 +00:00
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int i;
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srcex = src16;
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dst_local = 0;
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*dst32 = 0;
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for(i = 0; i < 16; i++) {
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dst_local |= _lrotl(srcex & mask, ((i * 2) + 0) - i);
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dst_local |= _lrotl(srcex & mask, ((i * 2) + 1) - i);
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mask = _lrotl(mask, 1);
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}
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mask = 0x00FF00FF; *dst32 |= _lrotl(dst_local & mask, 8);
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mask = 0xFF00FF00; *dst32 |= _lrotr(dst_local & mask, 8);
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}
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2015-03-10 12:59:12 +00:00
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void graph_slow_2xscale_rect_1_to_0(int x0, int y0, int x1, int y1, int w1, int h1)
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[C decompilation] [th01/fuuin] Slow 2x VRAM region scaling
This function raises one of those essential questions about the eventual ports
we'd like to do. I'll explain everything more thoroughly here, since people
who might complain about the ports not being faithful enough need to
understand this.
----
The original plan was aim for "100% frame-perfect" ports and advertise them as
such. However, the PC-98 is not a console with fixed specs. As the name
implies, it's a computer architecture, and a plethora of different, more and
more powerful PC-98 models were released during its lifespan. Even if we only
consider the subset of products that fulfills the minimum requirements to run
the PC-98 Touhou games, that's still a sizable number of systems.
Therefore, the only true definition of a *frame* can be "everything that is
drawn between two Vsync wait calls". Such a *frame* may contain certain
expensive function calls, and certain systems may run these functions slower
than the developer expected, thus effectively leading to more *frames* than
the developer explicitly specified.
This is one of those functions.
Here, we have a scaling function that appears to be written deliberately to
run very slow, which ends up creating the rolling effect you see in the route
selection and the high score and continue screens of TH01. However, that
doesn't change the fact that the function is still CPU-bound, and neither
waits for Vsync nor is iteratively called by something that does. The faster
your CPU, the faster the rolling effect gets… until ultimately, it's faster
than one frame and therefore vanishes altogether. Mind you, this is true on
both emulators and real hardware. The final PC-98 model, the Ra43, had a CPU
clocked at 433 Mhz, and it may have even been instant there.
If you use more optimized algorithm, it also runs faster on the same CPU (I
tried this, and it worked beautifully)… you get the idea.
Still, it may very well be that this algorithm was not a deliberate choice and
simply resulted from a lack of experience, especially since this was ZUN's
first game.
That leaves us with two approaches to porting functions like these:
1) Look at the recommended system requirements ZUN specified, configure the
PC-98 emulator accordingly, measure how much of the work is done in each
frame, then rewrite the function to be bound to that specific frame rate…
2) …or just continue using a CPU-bound algorithm, which will pretty much
complete instantly on any modern system.
I'd argue that 2) is actually the more "faithful" approach. It will run faster
than the typical clock speeds people emulate the games at, and maybe draw a
bit of criticism because of that, but it seems a lot more rational than the
approximation provided by 1). Not to mention that it's undeniably easier to
implement, and hey, a faster game feels a lot better than a slower one, right?
… Oh well, maybe we'll still encounter some kind of CPU-bound animation that
is so essential to the experience that we do want to lock it to a certain
frame rate…
2015-03-09 16:58:30 +00:00
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{
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int row_p1 = (x1 / 8) + (y1 * ROW_SIZE);
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int row_p0 = (x0 / 8) + (y0 * ROW_SIZE);
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int col16;
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int row;
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vram_planar_16_pixels_t px16;
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2019-12-12 14:01:13 +00:00
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planar16_t px16_nonzero;
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[C decompilation] [th01/fuuin] Slow 2x VRAM region scaling
This function raises one of those essential questions about the eventual ports
we'd like to do. I'll explain everything more thoroughly here, since people
who might complain about the ports not being faithful enough need to
understand this.
----
The original plan was aim for "100% frame-perfect" ports and advertise them as
such. However, the PC-98 is not a console with fixed specs. As the name
implies, it's a computer architecture, and a plethora of different, more and
more powerful PC-98 models were released during its lifespan. Even if we only
consider the subset of products that fulfills the minimum requirements to run
the PC-98 Touhou games, that's still a sizable number of systems.
Therefore, the only true definition of a *frame* can be "everything that is
drawn between two Vsync wait calls". Such a *frame* may contain certain
expensive function calls, and certain systems may run these functions slower
than the developer expected, thus effectively leading to more *frames* than
the developer explicitly specified.
This is one of those functions.
Here, we have a scaling function that appears to be written deliberately to
run very slow, which ends up creating the rolling effect you see in the route
selection and the high score and continue screens of TH01. However, that
doesn't change the fact that the function is still CPU-bound, and neither
waits for Vsync nor is iteratively called by something that does. The faster
your CPU, the faster the rolling effect gets… until ultimately, it's faster
than one frame and therefore vanishes altogether. Mind you, this is true on
both emulators and real hardware. The final PC-98 model, the Ra43, had a CPU
clocked at 433 Mhz, and it may have even been instant there.
If you use more optimized algorithm, it also runs faster on the same CPU (I
tried this, and it worked beautifully)… you get the idea.
Still, it may very well be that this algorithm was not a deliberate choice and
simply resulted from a lack of experience, especially since this was ZUN's
first game.
That leaves us with two approaches to porting functions like these:
1) Look at the recommended system requirements ZUN specified, configure the
PC-98 emulator accordingly, measure how much of the work is done in each
frame, then rewrite the function to be bound to that specific frame rate…
2) …or just continue using a CPU-bound algorithm, which will pretty much
complete instantly on any modern system.
I'd argue that 2) is actually the more "faithful" approach. It will run faster
than the typical clock speeds people emulate the games at, and maybe draw a
bit of criticism because of that, but it seems a lot more rational than the
approximation provided by 1). Not to mention that it's undeniably easier to
implement, and hey, a faster game feels a lot better than a slower one, right?
… Oh well, maybe we'll still encounter some kind of CPU-bound animation that
is so essential to the experience that we do want to lock it to a certain
frame rate…
2015-03-09 16:58:30 +00:00
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for(row = 0; row < h1; row++) {
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int p0 = row_p0;
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int p1 = row_p1;
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for(col16 = 0; col16 < w1 / 16; col16++) {
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int scale_p;
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2020-01-09 20:17:16 +00:00
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graph_accesspage_func(1);
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2020-01-12 19:34:42 +00:00
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VRAM_SNAP_4(px16, p1, 16);
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[C decompilation] [th01/fuuin] Slow 2x VRAM region scaling
This function raises one of those essential questions about the eventual ports
we'd like to do. I'll explain everything more thoroughly here, since people
who might complain about the ports not being faithful enough need to
understand this.
----
The original plan was aim for "100% frame-perfect" ports and advertise them as
such. However, the PC-98 is not a console with fixed specs. As the name
implies, it's a computer architecture, and a plethora of different, more and
more powerful PC-98 models were released during its lifespan. Even if we only
consider the subset of products that fulfills the minimum requirements to run
the PC-98 Touhou games, that's still a sizable number of systems.
Therefore, the only true definition of a *frame* can be "everything that is
drawn between two Vsync wait calls". Such a *frame* may contain certain
expensive function calls, and certain systems may run these functions slower
than the developer expected, thus effectively leading to more *frames* than
the developer explicitly specified.
This is one of those functions.
Here, we have a scaling function that appears to be written deliberately to
run very slow, which ends up creating the rolling effect you see in the route
selection and the high score and continue screens of TH01. However, that
doesn't change the fact that the function is still CPU-bound, and neither
waits for Vsync nor is iteratively called by something that does. The faster
your CPU, the faster the rolling effect gets… until ultimately, it's faster
than one frame and therefore vanishes altogether. Mind you, this is true on
both emulators and real hardware. The final PC-98 model, the Ra43, had a CPU
clocked at 433 Mhz, and it may have even been instant there.
If you use more optimized algorithm, it also runs faster on the same CPU (I
tried this, and it worked beautifully)… you get the idea.
Still, it may very well be that this algorithm was not a deliberate choice and
simply resulted from a lack of experience, especially since this was ZUN's
first game.
That leaves us with two approaches to porting functions like these:
1) Look at the recommended system requirements ZUN specified, configure the
PC-98 emulator accordingly, measure how much of the work is done in each
frame, then rewrite the function to be bound to that specific frame rate…
2) …or just continue using a CPU-bound algorithm, which will pretty much
complete instantly on any modern system.
I'd argue that 2) is actually the more "faithful" approach. It will run faster
than the typical clock speeds people emulate the games at, and maybe draw a
bit of criticism because of that, but it seems a lot more rational than the
approximation provided by 1). Not to mention that it's undeniably easier to
implement, and hey, a faster game feels a lot better than a slower one, right?
… Oh well, maybe we'll still encounter some kind of CPU-bound animation that
is so essential to the experience that we do want to lock it to a certain
frame rate…
2015-03-09 16:58:30 +00:00
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px16_nonzero = px16.B | px16.R | px16.G | px16.E;
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for(scale_p = 0; scale_p < ROW_SIZE * 2; scale_p += ROW_SIZE) {
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2019-12-12 14:01:13 +00:00
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planar32_t dst32;
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planar32_t px32_nonzero;
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[C decompilation] [th01/fuuin] Slow 2x VRAM region scaling
This function raises one of those essential questions about the eventual ports
we'd like to do. I'll explain everything more thoroughly here, since people
who might complain about the ports not being faithful enough need to
understand this.
----
The original plan was aim for "100% frame-perfect" ports and advertise them as
such. However, the PC-98 is not a console with fixed specs. As the name
implies, it's a computer architecture, and a plethora of different, more and
more powerful PC-98 models were released during its lifespan. Even if we only
consider the subset of products that fulfills the minimum requirements to run
the PC-98 Touhou games, that's still a sizable number of systems.
Therefore, the only true definition of a *frame* can be "everything that is
drawn between two Vsync wait calls". Such a *frame* may contain certain
expensive function calls, and certain systems may run these functions slower
than the developer expected, thus effectively leading to more *frames* than
the developer explicitly specified.
This is one of those functions.
Here, we have a scaling function that appears to be written deliberately to
run very slow, which ends up creating the rolling effect you see in the route
selection and the high score and continue screens of TH01. However, that
doesn't change the fact that the function is still CPU-bound, and neither
waits for Vsync nor is iteratively called by something that does. The faster
your CPU, the faster the rolling effect gets… until ultimately, it's faster
than one frame and therefore vanishes altogether. Mind you, this is true on
both emulators and real hardware. The final PC-98 model, the Ra43, had a CPU
clocked at 433 Mhz, and it may have even been instant there.
If you use more optimized algorithm, it also runs faster on the same CPU (I
tried this, and it worked beautifully)… you get the idea.
Still, it may very well be that this algorithm was not a deliberate choice and
simply resulted from a lack of experience, especially since this was ZUN's
first game.
That leaves us with two approaches to porting functions like these:
1) Look at the recommended system requirements ZUN specified, configure the
PC-98 emulator accordingly, measure how much of the work is done in each
frame, then rewrite the function to be bound to that specific frame rate…
2) …or just continue using a CPU-bound algorithm, which will pretty much
complete instantly on any modern system.
I'd argue that 2) is actually the more "faithful" approach. It will run faster
than the typical clock speeds people emulate the games at, and maybe draw a
bit of criticism because of that, but it seems a lot more rational than the
approximation provided by 1). Not to mention that it's undeniably easier to
implement, and hey, a faster game feels a lot better than a slower one, right?
… Oh well, maybe we'll still encounter some kind of CPU-bound animation that
is so essential to the experience that we do want to lock it to a certain
frame rate…
2015-03-09 16:58:30 +00:00
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2020-01-09 20:17:16 +00:00
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graph_accesspage_func(0);
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[C decompilation] [th01/fuuin] Slow 2x VRAM region scaling
This function raises one of those essential questions about the eventual ports
we'd like to do. I'll explain everything more thoroughly here, since people
who might complain about the ports not being faithful enough need to
understand this.
----
The original plan was aim for "100% frame-perfect" ports and advertise them as
such. However, the PC-98 is not a console with fixed specs. As the name
implies, it's a computer architecture, and a plethora of different, more and
more powerful PC-98 models were released during its lifespan. Even if we only
consider the subset of products that fulfills the minimum requirements to run
the PC-98 Touhou games, that's still a sizable number of systems.
Therefore, the only true definition of a *frame* can be "everything that is
drawn between two Vsync wait calls". Such a *frame* may contain certain
expensive function calls, and certain systems may run these functions slower
than the developer expected, thus effectively leading to more *frames* than
the developer explicitly specified.
This is one of those functions.
Here, we have a scaling function that appears to be written deliberately to
run very slow, which ends up creating the rolling effect you see in the route
selection and the high score and continue screens of TH01. However, that
doesn't change the fact that the function is still CPU-bound, and neither
waits for Vsync nor is iteratively called by something that does. The faster
your CPU, the faster the rolling effect gets… until ultimately, it's faster
than one frame and therefore vanishes altogether. Mind you, this is true on
both emulators and real hardware. The final PC-98 model, the Ra43, had a CPU
clocked at 433 Mhz, and it may have even been instant there.
If you use more optimized algorithm, it also runs faster on the same CPU (I
tried this, and it worked beautifully)… you get the idea.
Still, it may very well be that this algorithm was not a deliberate choice and
simply resulted from a lack of experience, especially since this was ZUN's
first game.
That leaves us with two approaches to porting functions like these:
1) Look at the recommended system requirements ZUN specified, configure the
PC-98 emulator accordingly, measure how much of the work is done in each
frame, then rewrite the function to be bound to that specific frame rate…
2) …or just continue using a CPU-bound algorithm, which will pretty much
complete instantly on any modern system.
I'd argue that 2) is actually the more "faithful" approach. It will run faster
than the typical clock speeds people emulate the games at, and maybe draw a
bit of criticism because of that, but it seems a lot more rational than the
approximation provided by 1). Not to mention that it's undeniably easier to
implement, and hey, a faster game feels a lot better than a slower one, right?
… Oh well, maybe we'll still encounter some kind of CPU-bound animation that
is so essential to the experience that we do want to lock it to a certain
frame rate…
2015-03-09 16:58:30 +00:00
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scale_2x(&px32_nonzero, px16_nonzero);
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grcg_setcolor_rmw(0);
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2019-12-12 14:01:13 +00:00
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*(planar32_t*)(VRAM_PLANE_B + p0 + scale_p) = px32_nonzero;
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[C decompilation] [th01/fuuin] Slow 2x VRAM region scaling
This function raises one of those essential questions about the eventual ports
we'd like to do. I'll explain everything more thoroughly here, since people
who might complain about the ports not being faithful enough need to
understand this.
----
The original plan was aim for "100% frame-perfect" ports and advertise them as
such. However, the PC-98 is not a console with fixed specs. As the name
implies, it's a computer architecture, and a plethora of different, more and
more powerful PC-98 models were released during its lifespan. Even if we only
consider the subset of products that fulfills the minimum requirements to run
the PC-98 Touhou games, that's still a sizable number of systems.
Therefore, the only true definition of a *frame* can be "everything that is
drawn between two Vsync wait calls". Such a *frame* may contain certain
expensive function calls, and certain systems may run these functions slower
than the developer expected, thus effectively leading to more *frames* than
the developer explicitly specified.
This is one of those functions.
Here, we have a scaling function that appears to be written deliberately to
run very slow, which ends up creating the rolling effect you see in the route
selection and the high score and continue screens of TH01. However, that
doesn't change the fact that the function is still CPU-bound, and neither
waits for Vsync nor is iteratively called by something that does. The faster
your CPU, the faster the rolling effect gets… until ultimately, it's faster
than one frame and therefore vanishes altogether. Mind you, this is true on
both emulators and real hardware. The final PC-98 model, the Ra43, had a CPU
clocked at 433 Mhz, and it may have even been instant there.
If you use more optimized algorithm, it also runs faster on the same CPU (I
tried this, and it worked beautifully)… you get the idea.
Still, it may very well be that this algorithm was not a deliberate choice and
simply resulted from a lack of experience, especially since this was ZUN's
first game.
That leaves us with two approaches to porting functions like these:
1) Look at the recommended system requirements ZUN specified, configure the
PC-98 emulator accordingly, measure how much of the work is done in each
frame, then rewrite the function to be bound to that specific frame rate…
2) …or just continue using a CPU-bound algorithm, which will pretty much
complete instantly on any modern system.
I'd argue that 2) is actually the more "faithful" approach. It will run faster
than the typical clock speeds people emulate the games at, and maybe draw a
bit of criticism because of that, but it seems a lot more rational than the
approximation provided by 1). Not to mention that it's undeniably easier to
implement, and hey, a faster game feels a lot better than a slower one, right?
… Oh well, maybe we'll still encounter some kind of CPU-bound animation that
is so essential to the experience that we do want to lock it to a certain
frame rate…
2015-03-09 16:58:30 +00:00
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grcg_off();
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2015-09-07 13:44:02 +00:00
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scale_2x(&dst32, px16.B);
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2019-12-12 14:01:13 +00:00
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*(planar32_t*)(VRAM_PLANE_B + p0 + scale_p) |= dst32;
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[C decompilation] [th01/fuuin] Slow 2x VRAM region scaling
This function raises one of those essential questions about the eventual ports
we'd like to do. I'll explain everything more thoroughly here, since people
who might complain about the ports not being faithful enough need to
understand this.
----
The original plan was aim for "100% frame-perfect" ports and advertise them as
such. However, the PC-98 is not a console with fixed specs. As the name
implies, it's a computer architecture, and a plethora of different, more and
more powerful PC-98 models were released during its lifespan. Even if we only
consider the subset of products that fulfills the minimum requirements to run
the PC-98 Touhou games, that's still a sizable number of systems.
Therefore, the only true definition of a *frame* can be "everything that is
drawn between two Vsync wait calls". Such a *frame* may contain certain
expensive function calls, and certain systems may run these functions slower
than the developer expected, thus effectively leading to more *frames* than
the developer explicitly specified.
This is one of those functions.
Here, we have a scaling function that appears to be written deliberately to
run very slow, which ends up creating the rolling effect you see in the route
selection and the high score and continue screens of TH01. However, that
doesn't change the fact that the function is still CPU-bound, and neither
waits for Vsync nor is iteratively called by something that does. The faster
your CPU, the faster the rolling effect gets… until ultimately, it's faster
than one frame and therefore vanishes altogether. Mind you, this is true on
both emulators and real hardware. The final PC-98 model, the Ra43, had a CPU
clocked at 433 Mhz, and it may have even been instant there.
If you use more optimized algorithm, it also runs faster on the same CPU (I
tried this, and it worked beautifully)… you get the idea.
Still, it may very well be that this algorithm was not a deliberate choice and
simply resulted from a lack of experience, especially since this was ZUN's
first game.
That leaves us with two approaches to porting functions like these:
1) Look at the recommended system requirements ZUN specified, configure the
PC-98 emulator accordingly, measure how much of the work is done in each
frame, then rewrite the function to be bound to that specific frame rate…
2) …or just continue using a CPU-bound algorithm, which will pretty much
complete instantly on any modern system.
I'd argue that 2) is actually the more "faithful" approach. It will run faster
than the typical clock speeds people emulate the games at, and maybe draw a
bit of criticism because of that, but it seems a lot more rational than the
approximation provided by 1). Not to mention that it's undeniably easier to
implement, and hey, a faster game feels a lot better than a slower one, right?
… Oh well, maybe we'll still encounter some kind of CPU-bound animation that
is so essential to the experience that we do want to lock it to a certain
frame rate…
2015-03-09 16:58:30 +00:00
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scale_2x(&dst32, px16.R);
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2019-12-12 14:01:13 +00:00
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*(planar32_t*)(VRAM_PLANE_R + p0 + scale_p) |= dst32;
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[C decompilation] [th01/fuuin] Slow 2x VRAM region scaling
This function raises one of those essential questions about the eventual ports
we'd like to do. I'll explain everything more thoroughly here, since people
who might complain about the ports not being faithful enough need to
understand this.
----
The original plan was aim for "100% frame-perfect" ports and advertise them as
such. However, the PC-98 is not a console with fixed specs. As the name
implies, it's a computer architecture, and a plethora of different, more and
more powerful PC-98 models were released during its lifespan. Even if we only
consider the subset of products that fulfills the minimum requirements to run
the PC-98 Touhou games, that's still a sizable number of systems.
Therefore, the only true definition of a *frame* can be "everything that is
drawn between two Vsync wait calls". Such a *frame* may contain certain
expensive function calls, and certain systems may run these functions slower
than the developer expected, thus effectively leading to more *frames* than
the developer explicitly specified.
This is one of those functions.
Here, we have a scaling function that appears to be written deliberately to
run very slow, which ends up creating the rolling effect you see in the route
selection and the high score and continue screens of TH01. However, that
doesn't change the fact that the function is still CPU-bound, and neither
waits for Vsync nor is iteratively called by something that does. The faster
your CPU, the faster the rolling effect gets… until ultimately, it's faster
than one frame and therefore vanishes altogether. Mind you, this is true on
both emulators and real hardware. The final PC-98 model, the Ra43, had a CPU
clocked at 433 Mhz, and it may have even been instant there.
If you use more optimized algorithm, it also runs faster on the same CPU (I
tried this, and it worked beautifully)… you get the idea.
Still, it may very well be that this algorithm was not a deliberate choice and
simply resulted from a lack of experience, especially since this was ZUN's
first game.
That leaves us with two approaches to porting functions like these:
1) Look at the recommended system requirements ZUN specified, configure the
PC-98 emulator accordingly, measure how much of the work is done in each
frame, then rewrite the function to be bound to that specific frame rate…
2) …or just continue using a CPU-bound algorithm, which will pretty much
complete instantly on any modern system.
I'd argue that 2) is actually the more "faithful" approach. It will run faster
than the typical clock speeds people emulate the games at, and maybe draw a
bit of criticism because of that, but it seems a lot more rational than the
approximation provided by 1). Not to mention that it's undeniably easier to
implement, and hey, a faster game feels a lot better than a slower one, right?
… Oh well, maybe we'll still encounter some kind of CPU-bound animation that
is so essential to the experience that we do want to lock it to a certain
frame rate…
2015-03-09 16:58:30 +00:00
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scale_2x(&dst32, px16.G);
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2019-12-12 14:01:13 +00:00
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*(planar32_t*)(VRAM_PLANE_G + p0 + scale_p) |= dst32;
|
[C decompilation] [th01/fuuin] Slow 2x VRAM region scaling
This function raises one of those essential questions about the eventual ports
we'd like to do. I'll explain everything more thoroughly here, since people
who might complain about the ports not being faithful enough need to
understand this.
----
The original plan was aim for "100% frame-perfect" ports and advertise them as
such. However, the PC-98 is not a console with fixed specs. As the name
implies, it's a computer architecture, and a plethora of different, more and
more powerful PC-98 models were released during its lifespan. Even if we only
consider the subset of products that fulfills the minimum requirements to run
the PC-98 Touhou games, that's still a sizable number of systems.
Therefore, the only true definition of a *frame* can be "everything that is
drawn between two Vsync wait calls". Such a *frame* may contain certain
expensive function calls, and certain systems may run these functions slower
than the developer expected, thus effectively leading to more *frames* than
the developer explicitly specified.
This is one of those functions.
Here, we have a scaling function that appears to be written deliberately to
run very slow, which ends up creating the rolling effect you see in the route
selection and the high score and continue screens of TH01. However, that
doesn't change the fact that the function is still CPU-bound, and neither
waits for Vsync nor is iteratively called by something that does. The faster
your CPU, the faster the rolling effect gets… until ultimately, it's faster
than one frame and therefore vanishes altogether. Mind you, this is true on
both emulators and real hardware. The final PC-98 model, the Ra43, had a CPU
clocked at 433 Mhz, and it may have even been instant there.
If you use more optimized algorithm, it also runs faster on the same CPU (I
tried this, and it worked beautifully)… you get the idea.
Still, it may very well be that this algorithm was not a deliberate choice and
simply resulted from a lack of experience, especially since this was ZUN's
first game.
That leaves us with two approaches to porting functions like these:
1) Look at the recommended system requirements ZUN specified, configure the
PC-98 emulator accordingly, measure how much of the work is done in each
frame, then rewrite the function to be bound to that specific frame rate…
2) …or just continue using a CPU-bound algorithm, which will pretty much
complete instantly on any modern system.
I'd argue that 2) is actually the more "faithful" approach. It will run faster
than the typical clock speeds people emulate the games at, and maybe draw a
bit of criticism because of that, but it seems a lot more rational than the
approximation provided by 1). Not to mention that it's undeniably easier to
implement, and hey, a faster game feels a lot better than a slower one, right?
… Oh well, maybe we'll still encounter some kind of CPU-bound animation that
is so essential to the experience that we do want to lock it to a certain
frame rate…
2015-03-09 16:58:30 +00:00
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scale_2x(&dst32, px16.E);
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2019-12-12 14:01:13 +00:00
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*(planar32_t*)(VRAM_PLANE_E + p0 + scale_p) |= dst32;
|
[C decompilation] [th01/fuuin] Slow 2x VRAM region scaling
This function raises one of those essential questions about the eventual ports
we'd like to do. I'll explain everything more thoroughly here, since people
who might complain about the ports not being faithful enough need to
understand this.
----
The original plan was aim for "100% frame-perfect" ports and advertise them as
such. However, the PC-98 is not a console with fixed specs. As the name
implies, it's a computer architecture, and a plethora of different, more and
more powerful PC-98 models were released during its lifespan. Even if we only
consider the subset of products that fulfills the minimum requirements to run
the PC-98 Touhou games, that's still a sizable number of systems.
Therefore, the only true definition of a *frame* can be "everything that is
drawn between two Vsync wait calls". Such a *frame* may contain certain
expensive function calls, and certain systems may run these functions slower
than the developer expected, thus effectively leading to more *frames* than
the developer explicitly specified.
This is one of those functions.
Here, we have a scaling function that appears to be written deliberately to
run very slow, which ends up creating the rolling effect you see in the route
selection and the high score and continue screens of TH01. However, that
doesn't change the fact that the function is still CPU-bound, and neither
waits for Vsync nor is iteratively called by something that does. The faster
your CPU, the faster the rolling effect gets… until ultimately, it's faster
than one frame and therefore vanishes altogether. Mind you, this is true on
both emulators and real hardware. The final PC-98 model, the Ra43, had a CPU
clocked at 433 Mhz, and it may have even been instant there.
If you use more optimized algorithm, it also runs faster on the same CPU (I
tried this, and it worked beautifully)… you get the idea.
Still, it may very well be that this algorithm was not a deliberate choice and
simply resulted from a lack of experience, especially since this was ZUN's
first game.
That leaves us with two approaches to porting functions like these:
1) Look at the recommended system requirements ZUN specified, configure the
PC-98 emulator accordingly, measure how much of the work is done in each
frame, then rewrite the function to be bound to that specific frame rate…
2) …or just continue using a CPU-bound algorithm, which will pretty much
complete instantly on any modern system.
I'd argue that 2) is actually the more "faithful" approach. It will run faster
than the typical clock speeds people emulate the games at, and maybe draw a
bit of criticism because of that, but it seems a lot more rational than the
approximation provided by 1). Not to mention that it's undeniably easier to
implement, and hey, a faster game feels a lot better than a slower one, right?
… Oh well, maybe we'll still encounter some kind of CPU-bound animation that
is so essential to the experience that we do want to lock it to a certain
frame rate…
2015-03-09 16:58:30 +00:00
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}
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p1 += 2;
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p0 += 4;
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}
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row_p0 += ROW_SIZE * 2;
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row_p1 += ROW_SIZE;
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}
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}
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