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everett1911:
I was wondering, is there any possible way to listen to music while playing rockdoom?

because as soon as I launch rockdoom from the plugins menu, all music stops playing (aside from the radio, though it also stops when you start the game) and it's kinda annoying.

my mp3 player is a iriver h10 5gb. would it have anything to do with this?

AlexP:
Nope, Rockdoom requires too many resources to be able to play music at the same time.

josh.e:
Well ummmm... what would be the stipulation to rockboy i know the reasoning for a nonexisting rockboy for gba is not enough memmory can music be ran in background of current rockboy or can we step up the RAM

torne:
The limiting factor is not really memory but processing power; running Rockboy stretches the CPU on almost all of the supported players to the limit (and beyond, in fact, which is why it doesn't run many games at full speed on most of them). Playing music in the background as well would need even more CPU power.

The GBA would require even more processing power; many of the targets have enough memory for it, but are far from being fast enough.

kkurbjun:
To follow on torne's response:

Rockboy does allow music to continue while playing a game on the Gigabeat F/X as long as the ROM is small enough to fit in the plugin buffer. 

Other targets do not have enough processing power for this feature.

Fullspeed GBA 'emulation' could be possible on most/all of the ARM targets since the code could partially be executed natively, but it would require writing an 'emulator' from scratch.

-Karl

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