Homebrew Official [5.5.0/1][WIP] LiteNESU - A terrible (userspace) NES emulator

[QuarkTheAwesome]

Brienj has turned my little PoC into a workable product! Check it out here and on his GitHub here.

Hey everyone!
As you can tell from the title, this is a NES emulator that runs under 5.5.0/5.5.1.
It's based off LiteNES (github) so it's fairly limited (no sound, basically no compatibility with most games) but it works!
It's been tested with Yie-Ar Kung-Fu and that seems to work okay (albeit slowly.) Super Mario has some weird corruption problems but I guess it's playable if you're really dedicated.
I've posted it on GitHub so you can have a look there for more of my ramblings on what's wrong with this ;3

It's really just a proof-of-concept and needs a heck of a lot of work. But hey, it's userspace!

Everything's on GitHub so just look there for code, binaries, instructions and whatnot.

I can't take good pictures, but I tried my best and you can look at those here.

It really does need a lot of work so if you think you can fix it up please let me know! Thank you!

 

[VinsCool]

Oh my gosh.

It's happening!

 

[Jahruze]

Awesome dudee

 

[Lucar]

OH. MY. GAWD.

I see a CUTE BUNNY... I mean, Great Job OP, can't wait to see more like this!

 

[GOT4N]

I was just about to edit that into my post. GOD DAMNIT GOAT

MY B SORRY MAN :'(

 

[Lucar]

MY B SORRY MAN :'(

11/10 it's ok - IGN

 

[Masterwin]

Good news , we will prove it !

 

[Daggot]

Awesome work man.

 

[Taven]

As the famous idubbbz would say

"Oh hell yeah"

 

[Phantom64]

FUCK YEAH FINALLY SOMETHING USEFUL. NOT SHITPONG AND ASSTEROIDS DICK.

 

[fatsquirrel]

Fantastic! Btw why is the screen so small?

 

[SANNIC789]

FUCK YEAH FINALLY SOMETHING USEFUL. NOT SHITPONG AND ASSTEROIDS DICK.

hay now thats not nise

 

[Erikku]

Nice, glad to see some progress towards getting WiiU homebrew.
Stupid question though, is this the first ever homebrew emulator on WiiU? If so, congrats man. ^o^

 

[thekarter104]

Nice work on making this. This shows there's interest in Wii U Homebrew development!
Is it also possible to make an emulator accurate? I think the Wii U power can handle that.

But just take your time with more games, great job!

 

[SkittleDash]

Omg! Could this mean Snes and N64 emulation could be at our reach?!

 

[QuarkTheAwesome]

Btw why is the screen so small?

Right now, it renders each pixel one at a time. As far as I can tell, this is the main reason why everything is so slow (the OSScreen method for putting a pixel onto the screen is called 61k+ times each frame!) I don't really want to add the extra load of upscaling on top of all that until I can find a better rendering method (GX2 maybe? If anyone knows how that works please let me know)

 

[Kakkoii]

Right now, it renders each pixel one at a time. As far as I can tell, this is the main reason why everything is so slow (the OSScreen method for putting a pixel onto the screen is called 61k+ times each frame!) I don't really want to add the extra load of upscaling on top of all that until I can find a better rendering method (GX2 maybe? If anyone knows how that works please let me know)

Check out the description on @vgmoose 's game, by storing the coreinit pointers and simply passing those around to your various functions, you can get some drastic speedups.
https://github.com/vgmoose/space

 

[OriginalHamster]

Cool beans, thanks for sharing your work :3

 

[wartimekillers]

This is Great!!! Thanks for sharing!

 

[Phantom64]

Make a Wii U emulator, please.