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Support and General Use => Plugins/Viewers => Topic started by: limarus on March 06, 2010, 06:59:13 PM

Title: Rockboy on Ipod Nano 2g
Post by: limarus on March 06, 2010, 06:59:13 PM
Hi. I'm having problem with Rockboy on my Nano 2g. Im using the newest build.
Every time I try to start any GB or GBC game, I've got error *PANIC* stkov main .
I asked another person with Nano 2g and Rockbox and he couldn't play any game too.
Is there any chance to make Rockboy work?
Thanks for help.
Title: Re: Rockboy on Ipod Nano 2g
Post by: AlexP on March 06, 2010, 07:41:34 PM
Sure it can be made to work, but the nano 2G is listed as unstable for a reason.  It just needs someone with the needed skills to take a look at it, and for most devs Rockboy isn't a priority.
Title: Re: Rockboy on Ipod Nano 2g
Post by: [Saint] on March 06, 2010, 09:00:01 PM
limarus,


I don't suppose you have a build environment set up do you?
The problem with Rockboy is fairly trivial to fix if you do.

Have a look here (http://www.rockbox.org/wiki/DevelopmentGuide#Set_Up_Your_Environment), then post back.


[St.]
Title: Re: Rockboy on Ipod Nano 2g
Post by: limarus on March 07, 2010, 12:42:30 PM
Unfortunately I don't have skill to do it  ::)
So we have to wait for some kind dev to do this.
Thank you for explanation.
Title: Re: Rockboy on Ipod Nano 2g
Post by: [Saint] on March 07, 2010, 08:19:26 PM
G4Oblivion,

There is no need to create the rockboy directory manually...the plugin will do this itself.
The "problem" as I understand it relates the the main stack size, hence the *PANIC* Stkov Main (or *PANIC* Stackoverflow Main).
As I said in my earlier post, this is rather trivial to fix if you have a build environment set up.
Though I'm not sure "fix" is quite the right word for it...its more of a workaround.
The same "fix" will also stop the pictureflow.rock plugin from throwing the same error.


PS: What do you mean by "Warning: iPod Nano doesn't have sound with iboy"?

Are you talking about Rockboy (the Rockbox plugin) or iBoy (from IPL)?

Rockboy most certainly does have sound enabled (although it is a bit crappy), but I can't (and won't) speak for iBoy...as that would be entirely off-topic to both this thread and the entire Forum.


[St.]
Title: Re: Rockboy on Ipod Nano 2g
Post by: Darkknight512 on March 07, 2010, 09:57:01 PM
Sure it can be made to work, but the nano 2G is listed as unstable for a reason.  It just needs someone with the needed skills to take a look at it, and for most devs Rockboy isn't a priority.

It already does work, or atleast did, guess it got broken in one of the updates.
Title: Re: Rockboy on Ipod Nano 2g
Post by: G4Oblivion on March 07, 2010, 11:48:32 PM
When I create the directory manually rockboy works, when I don't rockboy gives the error "*PANIC* stkov main". I have no idea what the reason for this is and i'm not that good at coding so I won't understand why.

I never had to create the file manually before but lately I've had too.
All I know is that it works fine if I create the rockboy directory.

About the iBoy thing, I name the file where I keep my ROMs "iBoy" not because of IPL but, because its a smaller name than rockboy and it goes between iMovie (My movie folder) and above Notes. Sorry for the misunderstanding.
Title: Re: Rockboy on Ipod Nano 2g
Post by: dheyse on March 10, 2010, 05:11:07 PM
Where do you create the rockboy directory? 

I have the same *PANIC* stkov problem now, but it worked with a build from Feb. 

I suspect this change http://svn.rockbox.org/viewvc.cgi/trunk/apps/plugins/rockboy.c?r1=19776&r2=20160 from Mar 2 may be what broke it.  If I get a chance I'll try and build with that change reversed and see if it fixes it.

Oops, that change was from Mar 2 of last year, so that can't be it...
Title: Re: Rockboy on Ipod Nano 2g
Post by: G4Oblivion on March 10, 2010, 09:13:08 PM
E:/.rockbox/rockboy/

Just create a folder called rockboy in the .rockbox folder.
Title: Re: Rockboy on Ipod Nano 2g
Post by: krazykit on March 11, 2010, 08:31:13 PM
E:/.rockbox/rockboy/

Just create a folder called rockboy in the .rockbox folder.

that's kind of a terrible place to put them, as rockboy is a viewer plugin, meaning you'd need to navigate to the (hidden by default) .rockbox directory before being able to play a game.
Title: Re: Rockboy on Ipod Nano 2g
Post by: AlexP on March 12, 2010, 07:02:40 AM
Yes, just stick the ROMs anywhere you like.
Title: Re: Rockboy on Ipod Nano 2g
Post by: dheyse on March 12, 2010, 09:44:31 AM
Nobody said anything about putting ROMS in /.rockbox/rockboy.  But for some reason rockboy wants this directory.  Maybe for save files?  Creating it ahead of time, even if the ROMS are stored elsewhere seems to get rockboy past the stack overflow PANIC in the build I had from a week ago.

Perhaps this is all moot now as the Nano 2g stack size was just doubled in SVN yesterday.  You guys are doing a great job with this!  Thanks.

Title: Re: Rockboy on Ipod Nano 2g
Post by: farleytron on March 12, 2010, 01:04:24 PM
It works!

 :D

WHOOHOO!

It just gets better and better!
Title: Re: Rockboy on Ipod Nano 2g
Post by: AlexP on March 12, 2010, 02:36:16 PM
Nobody said anything about putting ROMS in /.rockbox/rockboy.  But for some reason rockboy wants this directory.  Maybe for save files?  Creating it ahead of time, even if the ROMS are stored elsewhere seems to get rockboy past the stack overflow PANIC in the build I had from a week ago.

Perhaps this is all moot now as the Nano 2g stack size was just doubled in SVN yesterday.  You guys are doing a great job with this!  Thanks.

Sorry, I only read the last response properly, my bad :)
Title: Re: Rockboy on Ipod Nano 2g
Post by: G4Oblivion on March 12, 2010, 11:40:01 PM
It would be awesome if someone started working on rockboy again. Rockboy still has quite a few bugs.

Getting the sound working on the Nano 2G would be nice. (Sounds very choppy and slow, you can't make anything out.)
Rockboy and the MPEG player are the main reasons people use rockbox.
Title: Re: Rockboy on Ipod Nano 2g
Post by: Chronon on March 13, 2010, 12:28:09 AM

Rockboy and the MPEG player are the main reasons people use rockbox.

Then some of these people should invest some time into learning how to improve these parts of Rockbox.
Title: Re: Rockboy on Ipod Nano 2g
Post by: AlexP on March 13, 2010, 03:18:14 AM
Rockboy and the MPEG player are the main reasons people use rockbox.

It is pointless to engage in a debate of why people use Rocbox without acutally knowing, but I'd contend this is absolutely not true.  Most people in my experience use it because of the wide range of codec support, on the fly playlists, filetree browsing, replaygain, equaliser, ....

If you really only want to play gameboy games then you are much better off buying a gameboy.
Title: Re: Rockboy on Ipod Nano 2g
Post by: G4Oblivion on March 13, 2010, 10:20:41 AM
I'm sorry for it sounding like that. I meant that a lot of people use rockbox to play videos and play gb, gbc games. I didn't mean that its the only thing. I realize rockbox supports a bunch more things than the OFW. Rockbox has tons of things that are useful.

It would be really nice if someone took at look at rockboy when they have free time, even if they can't find anything wrong with it. Just knowing that rockboy hasn't been forgotten is enough.

- rockboy is just one of many things that makes rockbox awesome.


btw, I've lost/broken most of my gb/gbc games and my SP's backlight doesn't work. Rockboy is quite the nice thing.
Title: Re: Rockboy on Ipod Nano 2g
Post by: saratoga on March 13, 2010, 11:43:17 AM
Rockboy and the MPEG player are the main reasons people use rockbox.

Maybe the main reason you use them, but I can assure you they're much less popular then audio playback.  Hence the extreme trouble getting anyone to care enough to work on them.
Title: Re: Rockboy on Ipod Nano 2g
Post by: GodEater on March 13, 2010, 12:31:26 PM
Ditto, I couldn't care less about Rockboy or MPEG Player to be honest - it's all about the music playback for me.
Title: Re: Rockboy on Ipod Nano 2g
Post by: farleytron on March 18, 2010, 11:19:37 PM
Me again... (The Name Caller)

 ::)

I love Rockbox because it does SO MANY THINGS!

I've been reading Asimov novels on it... I haven't read a book in YEARS.

And watching Family Guy or Futurama shows...

Or full length movies!

Or playing Gameboy games (minus sound)...

And listening to music...

My iPod has been sitting unused for 3+ years because it was so LIMITED!

Now, I used it anytime I'm idle for more than a minute or two...

If Rockboy sound gets fixed, it would only be icing on the cake!

(http://)
Title: Re: Rockboy on Ipod Nano 2g
Post by: Chronon on March 19, 2010, 08:23:14 PM
Me again... (The Name Caller)

 ::)
;D Don't worry, that doesn't have to be your nickname. 

Quote
I love Rockbox because it does SO MANY THINGS!

I've been reading Asimov novels on it... I haven't read a book in YEARS.

And

<snip>

If Rockboy sound gets fixed, it would only be icing on the cake!
Rockbox is a volunteer effort.  Anyone who really cares about improving this is welcome to step forward and submit patches to improve things.