Homebrew blargSnes -- SNES emulator for the 3DS (WIP)

[gbazone]

Hey StapleButter,

Just wanted to say thanks for your efforts. This is making me nostalgic for the exciting GBA homebrew days when Loopy was doing LoopyNES and I was fourteen or something.

 

[Arisotura]

Thanks Oh and you reminded me of things like SNES Advance. That is truly amazing.


The promised release is here. See the first post.

 

[piratesephiroth]

whoa

 

[Cyan]

Thank you for the release

I always wondered how emulators were working to read from dumped ROM and find all the game's data with no file system.
One day I'll try to learn (starting with Chip8 probably ).

 

[Ziggyro]

Was worried you wouldn't release this ever since that's what happens to delayed releases.
Thanks for proving me wrong, Good work.

 

[Doran754]

.srm extention? All the ones I have are .smc am I getting the wrong ones are their different types of snes roms ?

 

[Abcdfv]

.srm extention? All the ones I have are .smc am I getting the wrong ones are their different types of snes roms ?

.srm is a save file.

 

[piratesephiroth]

Yeah, it's .smc
Create a 'snes' folder on your 3DS SD card and put the unzipped roms in there.

Also this version is basically the same as the one relaesed by gadorach. Pretty much the same compatibility and bugs.
You must pause emulation (touch the lower screen) before closing the emulator, or you'll just get stuck and be forced to shut the power off and reload the gateway exploit again.
As far as I can see there's no way to change roms so you always have to close the emulator to try other games.

 

[Arisotura]

Thank you for the release

I always wondered how emulators were working to read from dumped ROM and find all the game's data with no file system.
One day I'll try to learn (starting with Chip8 probably ).

I can't speak for other systems, but in the case of the SNES, the ROM in the cartridge is plugged directly in the CPU's address space.

The game's data is embedded in the ROM directly. The game's code then has hardcoded pointers to the data.

The splashscreen and font graphics in blargSnes are embedded in the same way, by the way. In the code, they are defined as arrays, like this and this.

 

[bobmcjr]

Earthbound and DKC work, ALTTP still seems to freeze after starting a new game

 

[Cyan]

If there's a need for Wiki compat list, let me know the columns you need to get good report from users and improve it.
If you don't need specific columns (chipset, high/low, sound (when will be emulated), etc.), just the information that users want to know will be enough (title/version of emu/comments). Maybe CRC? because there are a lot of different ROMs for the same game.

 

[Doran754]

I only have one .srm extention rom all the rest are .smc, I tested two different smc roms neither of which loaded, If I simply changed the extention would that work? Ive made the correct folders and placed the roms in the correct place etc.

 

[Cyan]

the extension doesn't change the data in the file.
A lot of games were released and dumped with 5 different extensions (depending on the Game dumper used), but all of them are the same format.
.smc
.1 .2 .3 etc.
.sfc
.fig
.swc
or even no extension at all.

Though, the srm is not the ROM file, but the save file. (sram)

 

[cracker]

Some extensions signify whether there is a header or just a raw dump. Though, I've come across quite a few mislabled extensions.

 

[Arisotura]

blargSnes takes both .smc and .sfc. It also runs a few checks to determine the presence of a header, no matter what the file extension is.

 

[Abcdfv]

blargSnes takes both .smc and .sfc. It also runs a few checks to determine the presence of a header, no matter what the file extension is.

Yes well you sir are awesome and doing awesome work.

 

[kyogre123]

No offence, but this seems to have more bugs than the unofficial release.

 

[hippy dave]

First release of an emulator is going to have hella bugs. Looking forward to trying it out tomorrow

 

[Rurounik9999]

Nice work. SMW is playable.

Good improvements in just a couple days!

 

[Arisotura]

No offence, but this seems to have more bugs than the unofficial release.

Telling me what the actual bugs are would be far more useful than just coming in and saying this >_>