Graphical Problems with Bubble Heroes

[Marskilla]

As my previous bug reports/evolution requests/questions (this one, this one , that one and this one) have all been greatly solved, here is another one.

I have graphical problems with Bubble Heroes :

glitches with opening videos



graphical elements missing (the words yes and no are here hidden)



glitches in the character selection screen



wrong colors during the game

Here are some informations :

• The Cd image file and the hdf are working (almost) fine with Winuae 2.6.1 (very low graphical problems).
• I Installed AGA version
• I use an amiga 4000/40 configuration
• I patched bubble heroes version using this.
• I tried evry video option available (fsaa, keepaspect, shader, video_sync, texture_fiter...)
• I tried different GPU chipset (Intel, Nvidia quadro...)
• I only tried windows version of fs-uae. 2.2.3b2

I guess this one is a tough one. Anyway, congrats for the job that's done on fs-uae.

[jbl007]

Originally Posted by Marskilla

[*]I use an amiga 4000/40 configuration

Just use the cycle exact A1200 emulation.

[Marskilla]

Yes... it works ! Thank you !

I choosed the A4000 / 040 configuration because of the requirements on de back cover of the CD (68030 CPU or above):

I didn't think a 68EC020 will do.

[Marskilla]

I recently tested this game with fs-uae 2.5.11 dev, and the glitches are back !

I tried to modify the config file with elements which were proved to help games working better, but, no matter what it just doesn't work.

Here is the config file :

[config]
amiga_model=a1200
kickstart_file = Kickstart v3.1 rev 40.68 (1993)(Commodore)(A1200)[!].zip
kickstarts_dir = .\kickstarts\
window_width = 752
window_height = 572
fsaa = 4
keep_aspect = 1
video_sync_method = finish-swap-finish
floppies_dir = .\floppies\
chip_memory = 2048
fast_memory = 8192
keyboard_key_lctrl = action_joy_1_fire_button
fullscreen_mode = fullscreen-window
audio_buffer_target_bytes = 16384
cdroms_dir = .\cds\
cdrom_drive_0 = BubbleHeroes\Bubble Heroes - Crystal - 1999.cue
hard_drives_dir = .\hds\
hard_drive_0 = BubbleHeroes.hdf
cpu_cycle_exact=true
blitter_cycle_exact=true
cycle_exact=true
uae_immediate_blits = true

[Foul]

Publied yesterday on Aminet :http://aminet.net/package/game/patch/BubbleHeroesUpdate

Maybe it can help

[Marskilla]

Thanks a lot, Foul. (It's weird to write this, what kind of nickname is that ? )

Maybe I found this patch somewhere else than in Aminet, but I had these version of executables already (checksums are the same).

[Foul]

based of my real name !

in France... Monféfoul (my real name) "IS" weird.. and all my friends prefer call me "Foul".. easier for all...and stay everywhere i go

[FrodeSolheim]

I cannot reproduce the problem with the following config:

[fs-uae]
amiga_model = A1200
fast_memory = 8192
hard_drive_0 = bubble-heroes
cdrom_drive_0 = Bubble Heroes (1999)(Crystal Interactive Software)[!].cue

I used a clean WB 3.1 install with only the game installed (minimum) on a directory hard drive. Installing the latest game update linked in this thread made no difference, it worked every time.

(There were some flickering when some screens were fading, other than that everything seems to work fine)

Perhaps you should try doing a clean / minimum hard drive install (and possibly also try with another CD image, if possible).