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**Marach** · 05-31-2009, 08:13 AM

Hello, my first post.
This is my PSP port of a game Meritous by Asceai.
I hope you like it like I do. Please report bugs, comments, complains and love letters in this thread.

Meritous PSP 1.4

INFO:
It's a dungeon-crawl-action game. You travel through thousands of rooms killing monsters, finding artifacts and dealing with bosses. Controls are explained in readme file. Plot and more game help is explained in the in-game help file opened by pressing Select. The game has 3 endings! Wuss mode is for less experienced, but I recomend playing always in normal mode. Game fits into PSP screen - all content is reordered to fit.

Know issues:
- HOME button not working
- Attempting to quit freezes the game; the only way to quit the game is holding the power switch

**dan369** · 05-31-2009, 08:37 AM

http://elementgame.boo.pl/downloads/public/meritous.zip
Element

There you go. You need to add some more info, what the game is about, controls etc.
Frankly, i don't have a clue about this game

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**scionsamurai** · 05-31-2009, 10:56 AM

this game is odly addicting. i have been playing for like 30 min strait, and am only 7% done!!! i am on normal mode not wuss.lol

**SG57** · 05-31-2009, 02:15 PM

Sounds like a re-occuring memory leak Marach.

**Marach** · 05-31-2009, 09:46 PM

I know.
I will contact with game creator, who already helped me before. Fixing even half of memory leaks can lengthen the gameplay to an hour :) .

**yaustar** · 06-01-2009, 05:31 AM

I do wonder if it is memory related as I would have expected the game to hang rather then not work. It could be due to memory fragmentation (which isn't much of a worry on PC) as there are lots of little memory allocations.

**Marach** · 06-01-2009, 05:33 AM

So how do you think I can fix that?

**yaustar** · 06-01-2009, 08:00 AM

Originally Posted by Marach

So how do you think I can fix that?

The problem is that I am not 100% sure if that is the problem. To reduce the amount of dynamic allocations, you have to think about using fixed sized memory pools and custom allocators.

**nickxab** · 06-01-2009, 09:29 AM

Cool.
Nice game man.

**Marach** · 06-02-2009, 11:22 PM

If an incomplete RPG demo can get its place on QJ main website, why this port can't? :Cry: You can check how people enjoy this one...

BTW, a stability fix is coming this week, stay tuned :).
I think the code loads the same image/sound twice and doesn't free the previous one.
Or, I will just load all images and sound at once to prevent fragmentation.

LOL where this forum sees any link or email address

**dan369** · 06-03-2009, 03:10 AM

Because there Busy, its E3 you know. They will but it up eventually

**Marach** · 06-03-2009, 03:43 AM

So you can eventually wait for the fix :) it won't take long.

**nickxab** · 06-03-2009, 04:00 AM

Nice a new update :Jump:

**Tdude_gamer** · 06-03-2009, 02:29 PM

haha ive been playing this so long i forgot to reply

. This is like the most complete homebrew i have ever downloaded in my life

. I thought it would be another partially finished rpg. But i got like 20% through the game, then i saved on an outside saving area, and when i turned it back on, i was back down to 3% with really weak stuff back at the main starting area

. do the outer saving posts not work or something?

**Marach** · 06-07-2009, 04:31 AM

^^ You can save wherever you want, but restart every 30 minutes or the game won't save anymore.

And, what I wanted to say:
HELP! Please, I need help fixing the memory bug! I tried creating custom memory allocator, but something is really f**ked up here.
If you want to help improving my allocator or you have an idea what's going on, PLEASE send me a PM. Any help will be appreciated.
-=Double Post Merge =-
One thing I forgot to mention: the new version (if it will ever come out) will have MUCH improved performance.

**daaa57150** · 06-10-2009, 01:28 AM

Originally Posted by Marach

HELP! Please, I need help fixing the memory bug! I tried creating custom memory allocator, but something is really f**ked up here.
If you want to help improving my allocator or you have an idea what's going on, PLEASE send me a PM. Any help will be appreciated.

What language is this programmed in? If it's C++ I have written a bunch of things to watch memory state, count objects allocation/deallocations and the like. Some things will work if it's pure C too. I found a lot of small memory leaks with that; and the most weird thing that caused problem was the use of std::iostreams: some initialization had to be done at the start of the program or else after a while the game would freeze during a loading.

**Marach** · 06-10-2009, 02:59 AM

It's written in C, but I changed filenames to cpp and used C++ features extensively to patch the game to work on PSP.

**daaa57150** · 06-10-2009, 04:52 AM

Ok, then maybe you'll find some useful code in my sources .
Look inside code/framework/check, there are 2 things you may be interested in:

- MemoryWatcher: use this to use the "wolf fence" technique, I wrote it after reading that article : Finding memory leaks with mallinfo()
Read it and you'll know what it does. I have 3 "getMemoryLost" methods; if I remember I reffered to only one of them but I don't remember which one, the others may be broken you have to test sorry :)

- Trackable: I used this to count my allocations / deallocations; but works only on C++ classes, so I'm not sure you'll have an interest. Briefly: you make the class you're interested in inherit from this one, call the "startTracking" method, and when you're finished call "stopTracking" and then "Trackable:: dumpToFile", and you'll see the number of allocations & deallocations for all your tracked classes.

**suloku** · 06-11-2009, 04:56 PM

That's one hell of a game! I really hope you can manage to solve the saving bug, 30 minutes are gold in this game.

BTW i've played 2 hours straight (pc version), can't get tired of it. I have 1/3 of the game only, but all the artifacts.

It's beggining to feel monotonous, though I want that agate knife!

**dargx001** · 06-12-2009, 07:16 AM

Quite honestly this is one of the best homebrew I have seen for the PSP. I can't stop playing it. I enjoyed powder, I enjoyed the port of rogue, but this takes the cake. I can't wait until the bugs are fixed and I can play it indefinitely. Keep up the great work!

**suloku** · 06-29-2009, 10:01 AM

Any progress on this?

**Sithis** · 08-08-2009, 03:23 PM

Don't know if it's okay to bump or not (please let me off with a warning if it isn't), but I'd love to see this updated.
I really like this game and I don't want to have to worry about save problems if I switch to the port.

**dan369** · 08-08-2009, 03:56 PM

Recent threads (a few months ago, like this) is okay. 1 year+ threads, is considered spamming.

**EsTuArT** · 08-08-2009, 05:53 PM

thanks

**FaT3oYCG** · 08-08-2009, 07:16 PM

stop spamming just so you can post links, atleast post something that expresses your opinion and not just thanks.

**elite999** · 08-09-2009, 06:34 AM

@FaT3oYCG, some things can't be stopped. :/ I am going to try this game, because many users said it is addicting. :)

**Marach** · 09-11-2010, 09:22 AM

I'm back after over a year of inactivity... I see the link is long broken and I lost the project files... Does ANYONE have this game somewhere? I'd love to work some more on it... And sorry for necroposting.

**cmbeke** · 09-11-2010, 09:44 AM

here you go, Download Meritous.zip from Sendspace.com - send big files the easy way , its a great game

glad to see you restarting on it

**Marach** · 09-11-2010, 10:07 AM

Woah, huge thanks for the fast response! I'll get to work soon

Updated the link.

**nonekiller901** · 09-11-2010, 12:10 PM

Marach, you just made my day!! Are you planning to fix the save bug(the one where you can't save after 30 min)?

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