Gameboy Emulator + Raycasting Demo - Unfinished

[Tiptup300]

Gameboy Emulator
http://www.codeplex.com/GameKnight
Ported from directx + windows forms to xna

Link: http://smwstuff.com/tiptup300/GameKnight.rar

Raycasting Demo
http://www.beatthemachine.com/Projec...ts_raycast.htm
Ported from directx + windows forms to xna

Link: http://smwstuff.com/tiptup300/RayCaster.rar



Not finishing either. Please download and modify. The code I made in it is unlicensed. The code by their creators are based on their own license.

[SimReality]

Rock solid. Time for me to have some fun.

[LedZepp]

Very nice Tiptup, this is going to make everything a bit more interesting.
+rep

[Spike!]

While the Emulator is awesome, I'd say im more excited to see what comes of the RayCasting Engine. I want me some Doom

[birdman]

So is the emulator going to be able to go onto the zune so we can play any gameboy game?

[sk8er209]

so people who don't have knowledge about about this stuff are not going to be able to use this?

[Spike!]

Originally Posted by sk8er209

so people who don't have knowledge about about this stuff are not going to be able to use this?

Well that's kind of obvious, since this is Development Discussions and not the Completed Games forum.

[cable729]

if NES emulators don't work, will gameboy emulators really work?

[Pauliver]

nes emulator works runs at 7 fps

thanks tiptup

[SimReality]

He just ported it. It doesn't necessarily run the quickest. I haven't tried (too busy getting that ray casting thing running faster), so I'm not sure. I have gotten the ray casting demo integrated into my code base and running a couple frames per second faster using some nicer textures .

[cable729]

Originally Posted by Pauliver

nes emulator works runs at 7 fps

thanks tiptup

it does?

[Pauliver]

yes

[cable729]

so how do we work these emulators, and where do we dlownload the nes games?

[Spike!]

Originally Posted by SimReality

He just ported it. It doesn't necessarily run the quickest. I haven't tried (too busy getting that ray casting thing running faster), so I'm not sure. I have gotten the ray casting demo integrated into my code base and running a couple frames per second faster using some nicer textures .

Doom? DOOM!? Must have ZuneDoom

[SimReality]

Originally Posted by Spike!

Doom? DOOM!? Must have ZuneDoom

Might not be Doom, but that's the general style of game I'm shooting for. I have mine running at about 27fps now and I'm sure I can get it running faster. There are also some glitches in collision detection that need fixing. And the whole thing is messy (you can tell that the original author of the C# code was a C++ coder for sure). But we'll see how long until I'm able to show a nice video of it.

[Spike!]

Originally Posted by SimReality

Might not be Doom, but that's the general style of game I'm shooting for. I have mine running at about 27fps now and I'm sure I can get it running faster. There are also some glitches in collision detection that need fixing. And the whole thing is messy (you can tell that the original author of the C# code was a C++ coder for sure). But we'll see how long until I'm able to show a nice video of it.

Well it's definatly alot of progress in a short amount of time. Wether it's Doom or an origional game, an FPS-type game using this Ray Casting engine would be immediatly popular.

[Soccerfreak24]

Hmm.. Glad to see a gameboy emulator, but playing games at 7 fps could be a bit fail. Good work none the less for the find.

[Pauliver]

The gameboy emulator should be portable as well, There will be a bit of work that needs to be done be there.

The core of the problem is that if you want to set data in a zune texture you need to use the type Color, the NES emulator and this emulator seem to be using uint [or short] which doesn't get the same output color wise on the zune as it does on windows.

From the tests i did it appears that if you do not use color you get no output, while if you do use Color (specifically in)

TextureName.SetData<Color>( ect..

then things work. I could be wrong there might be other ways to get things working, this is just what i have found.

[Spike!]

Originally Posted by Pauliver

The gameboy emulator should be portable as well, There will be a bit of work that needs to be done be there.

The core of the problem is that if you want to set data in a zune texture you need to use the type Color, the NES emulator and this emulator seem to be using uint [or short] which doesn't get the same output color wise on the zune as it does on windows.

From the tests i did it appears that if you do not use color you get no output, while if you do use Color (specifically in)

TextureName.SetData<Color>( ect..

then things work. I could be wrong there might be other ways to get things working, this is just what i have found.

I think the biggest problem would be getting the zune to reconize the ROM's to play. Unless, you somehow 'prepackaged' the emulator with one ROM and released it at one game at a time. Like, Emulator + Pokemon Game = One release, or something.

[LedZepp]

Originally Posted by Spike!

I think the biggest problem would be getting the zune to reconize the ROM's to play. Unless, you somehow 'prepackaged' the emulator with one ROM and released it at one game at a time. Like, Emulator + Pokemon Game = One release, or something.

You can just drop the rom files in the content folder, set their build action to none, and to copy them to the output folder if newer.
Although it will take a while to copy the rom files over to the zune i believe.