Working on a NDS emu

[Roor]

Hello,

My name is Roor. I worked coding some emulators and stuff in the past, and as a hobby I've begun working on a NintendoDS emulator, something like 4 or 5 months ago.

It is actually quite slow, has no sound, almost no settings to play around, and it is still lacking in lots of aspects.
Although I've always tried to focus on compatibility, before getting on nice features or hight performance.
I begun with it after I noticed that No$GBA haven't been updated for a while, nor anything close to an iPhone/Android NDS emu in sight; which would be my ultimate and long term goal.

So far, it is named DuoS, and although slow, it is able to play several games so far, under Windows.
I'll upload some screenshots later, if someone is interested.

I'm about to open a tiny blog, were to publish about progress and stuff.
The emu is reaching a stage where it might be very helpful to have feedback regarding compatibility, as well as debug/log information.
If someone is interested in helping on this aspect, please contact me.
Remember that it actually not very useful for actual "gameplay", and still far from finished...

Thanks in advance for you attention,

Roor

[VintageTorrie]

I'll definitely be interested in seeing screenshots, good luck!

[Roor]

I just took these shots from games that are actually playable, with a huge frameskip value; I've been incorporating new stuff to the renderer from the old AdriPSX, so it is showing better results, as you can see in the last shot; working with layers is a real pain... but it's improving well so far.

Labyrinth


The Logic Machine


Super Mario 64 DS


Some graphics during play in Mario show some corruption because of bugs with matrix operations, I'll try to improve that during this weekend.

BTW, the "white box" in the upper corner of the window... is the actual (and non-existant) icon for the emu...

[Roor]

I'll definitely be interested in seeing screenshots, good luck!

Just posted a few shots here, but it seems that they'll have to wait for approval from a moderator before being shown.

[testmachine]

Can't wait to the emu to get finished!

[Mupen64 Man]

This looks okay. When do you think you'll release a beta?

[Roor]

This looks okay. When do you think you'll release a beta?

I really don't want to make any public release until getting some performance/playability improvements done.
The emu is fairly compatible with several commercial games so far, and I'm about to get the ARM Dynamic Recompiler done along this week... so...

I'll make a try with a private release for "willing testers" in something like two weeks.

I'm just abou to set a tiny blog for that purpose as well as to use it as homepage.

BTW, I posted some shots on this thread, but seems that they are just "frozen in the moderation queue"...

[Roor]

I'm just abou to set a tiny blog for that purpose as well as to use it as homepage.

I just started the blog at http://ds-duos.blogspot.com.ar/.

I'll post some shots and more stuff later tomorrow.

[Mupen64 Man]

Alright, I'll keep a lookout.

[VintageTorrie]

Looking good so far