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nes6502

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« on: March 24, 2006, 09:20:00 AM »

As a personal challenge, I decided to try and port my favorite windows emulator to the Xbox: Zsnes. After a lot of work I finally got it working. I will be releasing a beta version sometime in the next few weeks. It will contain:

A rom browser with game preview  
SRAM support
at least 1 video filter
sound and graphic options changeable through an ini

The current state will load a game and display the graphics.

Todo:

Fix screen display
Rewrite the sound code
Rewrite the input code
Add a rom browser
Add SRAM support
Add ini support
Add screenshot loading and saving

These are the minimum features that have to be completed before I will release a beta. More features will follow after that.
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Diontae18

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« Reply #1 on: March 24, 2006, 10:07:00 AM »

*Can't Wait*

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nes6502

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« Reply #2 on: March 24, 2006, 10:52:00 AM »

Any particular reason why you think this is bs?
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nes6502

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« Reply #3 on: March 24, 2006, 12:14:00 PM »

If anyone is interested, here is a post I made the other day on the Zsnes development board. Perhaps this will lend some credibility to this post (for any doubters that is).

http://board.zsnes.c...opic.php?t=6679

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« Reply #4 on: March 24, 2006, 01:27:00 PM »

Forgive any cynicism you may encounter. CandieCorpse is merely expressing what many of us feel when we read such announcements having read so many in the past that ultimately come to nothing.

And while I do wish you all the best with the port, personally I'm not going to get my hopes up until I see that first beta listed on the X-S news page.
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nes6502

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« Reply #5 on: March 24, 2006, 01:30:00 PM »

Fair enough
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« Reply #6 on: March 24, 2006, 02:58:00 PM »

nice, looking forward to it
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« Reply #7 on: March 24, 2006, 03:03:00 PM »

Finally an emulator that works, I downloaded both xSnes9x and Snes9x X and they both don't list my roms and they freeze at random points.
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nes6502

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« Reply #8 on: March 24, 2006, 03:07:00 PM »

xSnes9x is fantastic. Your roms should be in the roms folder, and I've never had it freeze unless the skin it was looking for was deleted.
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« Reply #9 on: March 24, 2006, 03:23:00 PM »

QUOTE(Likklebaer @ Mar 24 2006, 01:34 PM) View Post

Forgive any cynicism you may encounter. CandieCorpse is merely expressing what many of us feel when we read such announcements having read so many in the past that ultimately come to nothing.

And while I do wish you all the best with the port, personally I'm not going to get my hopes up until I see that first beta listed on the X-S news page.



Cynicism is one thing, being rude is another.
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nes6502

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« Reply #10 on: March 24, 2006, 03:32:00 PM »

I started this port for several reasons:

Zsnes has far superior sound, is updated daily, and runs Top Gear 3000 (a game I like). There are also various graphic issues that are fixed in some games (FF3, Pilotwings doesn't have the Mode7 warping effect). I've used both for 6 years and have allways found Zsnes superior. Snes9x is a great emulator, and runs most things perfect, but some things are still better on Zsnes. Of course, Snes9x does some things Zsnes doesn't.
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« Reply #11 on: March 24, 2006, 03:39:00 PM »

the one thing xsnes9x lacks is a cheat search function. if you keep this for zsnes, i think thats reason enough  to port it.
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nes6502

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« Reply #12 on: March 24, 2006, 05:37:00 PM »

At this point it runs like crap. The frameskip kicks in fairly often depending on the game. However, this is not the emulators fault. What I have basiclly is a "hack job" just to see if this was even possible. No sound, inpt, rom browser, etc...

I wasn't sure this was even possible because I didn't know if the instruction set was different for the cpu in the Xbox. It seems to be the same as the games work perfectly, just choppy because of my currently terrible graphics code. I am currently looking at other emulator sources to see what the "correct" way to do the graphics is. Once I have a better framework in place, I will be able to give acurate speed information.

However, Zsnes runs full speed on much less than an Xbox cpu, so I expect full speed emulation. If it is not, that means my code needs to be fixed. That's one of the things I am working on now.

I don't object to adding feature to the emulator. SMB will not be at the top of the list. However, I know nothing about addidng it, so I would have to either get sourcecode that did it or find other information on it.

Cheat functionality is also something that will be lower on the list for 2 reasons. This is setup through the Zsnes GUI which is coded in assembly (making it harder for my to hijack the functionality). It won't be impossible, just lower priority.
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« Reply #13 on: March 24, 2006, 11:22:00 PM »

QUOTE(Sirmatto @ Mar 24 2006, 11:28 PM) View Post

PS Go Washington Huskies!


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« Reply #14 on: March 25, 2006, 01:08:00 PM »

QUOTE(Thraxen @ Mar 24 2006, 10:29 PM) View Post

sad.gif   Robbed

Yeah, what is it with Washington teams getting robbed by the refs?  First my Seahawks, then my Huskies, they can't get no respect I tell ya.

Anyways, go Zsnexbox!
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