UAE4All ported to the PS Vita! (GekiHEN contest Entry)
You can now read every article related to the GekiHEN Contest by simply clicking here. Hopefully this will be a great reference point for all of you who haven’t been following the contest closely enough.
Aside from taiHENkaku and Adrenaline news, it has been a slow month when it comes to PS Vita releases. It seems like everything has slowed down and everyone is looking into the new possibilities offered by the taiHEN framework. However, you might remember that in one of my last Wishlist for GekiHEN articles I mentioned how cool it would be for us to get an Amiga emulator. While there is a PSP version that you could run on Adrenaline, the performance isn’t the best due to the MIPS processor’s slow speed.
Fret not for developer cpajuste has got us covered! As an entry to the ongoing GekiHEN Contest, he has released a port of UAE4All which the UI suggests was from the Pandora version. I have done some playing around with it and stuff that didn’t work well on the PSP Amiga emulator now works fine!
What is UAE4All?
UAE4All is a popular emulator of the Amiga 500/1200 computer that has been ported to many platforms from the PC to the Dreamcast and Pandora. It has now been ported for us PS Vita users by developer cpajuste of ScummVM Vita fame. The emulator is fully featured and runs fullspeed. It is now the better alternative to the old PSPUAE emulator that you could run on the Vita’s PSP emulator.
Instructions for UAE4All
Installation:
- Install vpk
- Copy Amiga kickstart 1.3 and 3.1 roms (BIOS files) into the ux0:/data/uae4all/kickstarts and rename them kick13.rom and kick31.rom respectively (Google the files, they are relatively easy to find)
- Put disks (adf) in “ux0:/data/uae4all/roms”
Usage:
- Cross : left mouse / button 1 / select
- Square : right mouse / button 2 / back / return to emulation
- Triangle : button 3 / skip code
- Circle : button 4
- Select : return to menu
- R : Reset (run emulator)
- L + R + UP / DOWN : move screen up/down
Credits
consolex-bordeaux.fr for the support
ScHlAuChi for the help/advices/testing !
Download UAE4All
To download and start using UAE4All simply go to the GekiHEN website and on the entry page for this emulator you’ll find the download button (if you’ve been following this contest you know how this works by now). Remember to carefully follow the instructions given and it should work fine.
Enjoy another fine release!
So nice!
Having beta tested this emulator I can confirm that HDF files work!
So instead of bothering with ADF files, i recommend a HDF with WHDLoad!
Wait wait, are you the guy who makes all those longplays on YouTube? Neat!
I’d use HDF files, but they’re… not especially easy to make. heck, I can’t even get some of the ADF files to work. The system gets stuck on the trainer screen in Turrican, for instance. No idea how to get past it.
Yep, thats me, if you want a pre-made HDF, just visit the webchat on our site and I can send it 🙂
Thanks! I found a way to make a hard drive and fill it with games on another site, though. Problem is, some games I can’t get to function, like Lionheart and the AGA version of Fightin’ Spirit. It looks like I’m missing out in a big way with Lionheart, but Fightin’ Spirit is not a big loss. I can slum with the low color version if necessary.
Just come by our chat and I try to help 🙂
I would be interested in the pre-made HDF… having tried several times over the last couple of days, I am not having any luck… mostly got it working but it is complaining that the WHD game files are read protected.
You mentioned to visit in the web chat… where is the web chat? I know I am 95% of the way there… just need the final push
Wanted an Amiga emulator for The Vita, I managed to get PSPUAE working with Adrenaline a few days ago, now another Amiga Emulator arrives, Christmas has come early this year!!
I managed to get Castaway (ATARI ST emulator) working with Adrenaline to…..roll em baby!!
Awesome!
Accidental double post, please delete!
Your wish is my command 😛
Now we need PC-88 and PC-98 emulator for Touhou Project and eroge.
Would be sick!
dreamcast emulator
Thankyou! I have been waiting for an Amiga emulator since Henkaku was released. Have fired up Turrican 2 and Nitro, working nicely. Nice to see some support for the Amiga on PS Vita. Thanks again!!!
What mean “nicely”? perfect? no frame drops? The most important games for me are the Turrican games too.
I can’t see any frame drops. 100% better than PSPUAE. You can even run A1200 AGA games so that’s a good indication.
Great job, I’m a happy man now 🙂
So I have been testing this out… anyone know how to bring up a virtual keyboard?
I wanted that to, unable to press f10 for alien syndrome lol.
I dont think it has a virtual keyboard but it is possible to map any keyboard character under “custom controls”
you can allocate any key to button a,b,x,y and L, R.
Thanks for this… got it worked out in the end 🙂
http://solveitwithyourheart.com/iphone-6-plus-review/
I had no problems (not much) with release 1.43, but with 1.50 the keyboard function does not output anything on some games and secret of monkey island disk one just gets rejected when it was fine on 1.43. Where could I send bug reports. 1.50 seems to work less well.
after installing v. 1.50 I noticed that keyboard output did not work in for instance on future classics collection and monkey island disk one was rejected. YET when I re-installed this older version (it was 1.40 actually) moneky island disk one was not rejected anymore yet the keyboard function did not work anymore on future classics collection. Then I deleted and shut down etc and installed v. 1.50 again. Same problems. Then I deleted and shut down etc and installed the old (previously FINE working 1.40) and installed 1.40 which worked fine before and not anymore. So SOMETHING went broke on the configurations etc which is clearly a BUG. A little disappointed that I can’t get back to the working 1.40 anymore.
Why did my comment got removed when it was a bug report?