Tantric has given me his blessing to ask around for people who are willing to volunteer and contribute to the original source code of his emulators (FCE Ultra GX, SNES9x GX, etc).
He's very busy, and after exchanging a few emails with him, its become clear that the reason for no longer working on his emulators is simply because its too much work for him alone. There are many coders out there that love his emulators and perhaps are not aware that he'd like for them to contribute to the official source so that his emu's don't remain unfinished. He said to me that his ports were never meant to be a "one-man show" and that "it would be nicer if people were to contribute directly to the project". In my honest opinion, I believe that this method is preferable, instead of branching his work and adding to it and putting someone elses name on it (after all, these ports are his work you know).
He told me that he's "happy to give developers access to the Google Code and to help coordinate", so there's a great opportunity here for any of you coder's out there to give him a hand and revive those nice emulators. There's many things on the official builds that still have not been implemented (proper covers+game info on the side of the roms list, bugs that need to be ironed out, a possible port of SNES9x Next 1.52.4, eliminate input lag on SNES9x GX, improved audio/video drivers, etc)
Now your probably thinking to yourself "well why doesn't Tantric post a thread himself"? Because he doesn't think there will be many volunteers, so I figured I'd try and get the ball rolling since he said it would be ok for me to do so. If there are any volunteers, now's the time to speak up.
P.S. I may or may not post here every single day due to other things going on in my life, but I'll still keep the thread going as long as necessary. I know what your thinking, "Your not going to help code?" Well, I would if I knew even the first thing about coding AND had the nerves and skill required to do it without pulling out my hair. All I can do at the moment is seek out volunteers and create a thread. So please take it easy on me.
He's very busy, and after exchanging a few emails with him, its become clear that the reason for no longer working on his emulators is simply because its too much work for him alone. There are many coders out there that love his emulators and perhaps are not aware that he'd like for them to contribute to the official source so that his emu's don't remain unfinished. He said to me that his ports were never meant to be a "one-man show" and that "it would be nicer if people were to contribute directly to the project". In my honest opinion, I believe that this method is preferable, instead of branching his work and adding to it and putting someone elses name on it (after all, these ports are his work you know).
He told me that he's "happy to give developers access to the Google Code and to help coordinate", so there's a great opportunity here for any of you coder's out there to give him a hand and revive those nice emulators. There's many things on the official builds that still have not been implemented (proper covers+game info on the side of the roms list, bugs that need to be ironed out, a possible port of SNES9x Next 1.52.4, eliminate input lag on SNES9x GX, improved audio/video drivers, etc)
Now your probably thinking to yourself "well why doesn't Tantric post a thread himself"? Because he doesn't think there will be many volunteers, so I figured I'd try and get the ball rolling since he said it would be ok for me to do so. If there are any volunteers, now's the time to speak up.
P.S. I may or may not post here every single day due to other things going on in my life, but I'll still keep the thread going as long as necessary. I know what your thinking, "Your not going to help code?" Well, I would if I knew even the first thing about coding AND had the nerves and skill required to do it without pulling out my hair. All I can do at the moment is seek out volunteers and create a thread. So please take it easy on me.
