Gameboy Emulator + Raycasting Demo - Unfinished

[blackwood550]

Good luck to ya...yer gonna need it.


('es got no idea do e?)

[vbetts]

Originally Posted by lordhoban

You know, you're right! I've never worked on a xna program or emulation program in my life, but if I just *believe*... I-CAN-DO-IT.

Ok, my life's ambition is to make that emulator work for the 30 gig zune!

It's not emulation if you want to convert it.

The thing is though, a 500mhz cpu should enough for a gb emulator. I have no experience with XNA at all, but if I had to guess why it's not working right, is because the zune OS is not as open as what actual windows OS is for freeware. But then take into consideration other things, like the memory. 32mb was it or something like that? That's not enough really to load the emulator into, then process the rom. Unless something becomes more open for the Zune, I don't think we'll see anything improved until the ZuneHD comes out with the tegra inside of it. Until then, the only option is to basically remake the game.

[Azu-nyan]

Originally Posted by vbetts

It's not emulation if you want to convert it.

The thing is though, a 500mhz cpu should enough for a gb emulator. I have no experience with XNA at all, but if I had to guess why it's not working right, is because the zune OS is not as open as what actual windows OS is for freeware. But then take into consideration other things, like the memory. 32mb was it or something like that? That's not enough really to load the emulator into, then process the rom. Unless something becomes more open for the Zune, I don't think we'll see anything improved until the ZuneHD comes out with the tegra inside of it. Until then, the only option is to basically remake the game.

It's the compact .NET framework. It's just slow, and there's no way to run anything but managed code, C#. The memory is a bit of an issue but can be worked around with smart programming, loading and unloading from the RAM as needed. The game itself can be up to 2 GB.

[Netrix]

Originally Posted by vbetts

It's not emulation if you want to convert it.

The thing is though, a 500mhz cpu should enough for a gb emulator. I have no experience with XNA at all, but if I had to guess why it's not working right, is because the zune OS is not as open as what actual windows OS is for freeware. But then take into consideration other things, like the memory. 32mb was it or something like that? That's not enough really to load the emulator into, then process the rom. Unless something becomes more open for the Zune, I don't think we'll see anything improved until the ZuneHD comes out with the tegra inside of it. Until then, the only option is to basically remake the game.

The Zune firmware currently only allows XNA programs to be run on it. The only reason the Zune does not run the NES emulator at a decent speed is because XNA (on the Zune) is horribly inefficient compared to native code. The current Zune are fully capable of running a native NES emulator at sufficient speed. The current Zunes have 64 MB of RAM.

[Azu-nyan]

Originally Posted by Netrix

The Zune firmware currently only allows XNA programs to be run on it. The only reason the Zune does not run the NES emulator at a decent speed is because XNA (on the Zune) is horribly inefficient compared to native code. The current Zune are fully capable of running a native NES emulator at sufficient speed. The current Zunes have 64 MB of RAM.

They have 64 MB, but XNA only allows the use of 32 MB, correct?

[Tiptup300]

Originally Posted by Locke

They have 64 MB, but XNA only allows the use of 32 MB, correct?

16mb to make room for music.

[Netrix]

Originally Posted by Locke

They have 64 MB, but XNA only allows the use of 32 MB, correct?

16 MB, but that is irrelevant for any emulator on the Zune because XNA is not an option for a NES emulator that will run at more than 20 FPS, unless the Tegra is almost three times as fast as the Zune 30. It is also possible that the next update will allow more RAM to be used.