Homebrew SNES9x for Old 3DS

[vander263]

That's insanely cool,i wish i could help , and how is Kirby Super Star with this experimental hack?

 

[bubble2k16]

That's insanely cool,i wish i could help , and how is Kirby Super Star with this experimental hack?

Not really good. Kirby SS is a busy game. I was trying Spring Breeze. It went at about 55 fps (with about 10-20 frame skips). It does drop to about 40-48fps if things get really busy, and if your helper appears. Games that use more of SA-1 will perform poorer for obvious reasons.

 

[ArtemisM]

And that's why I find it surprising that we have better options in the slower DS.

Yeah, it's bizarre and a testament to the work people put into the old DS emulators. It has a highly functional, full-speed NeoGeo (many of the games at least) and Genesis/MD one too, without need of a special flashcart CPU.

 

[vander263]

The Neogeo one it's not full-speed, i would be if NeoDS ran on TWL mode without graphical problems on TWLoader, but on NTR mode it run at 40 - 50 fps on Garou:Mark Of Wolves and Metal Slug X, so not to enjoyable, but NitroGrafx some other's run really good at full speed.

 

[DiscostewSM]

And that's why I find it surprising that we have better options in the slower DS.

Well, the DS had some things the 3DS does not have access to with regard to NES emulation. One being 2D hardware. That relieved so much processing on the DS, allowing the CPU to do actual CPU stuff. It's why even the GBA could do NES emulation well (minus the squished screen).

 

[RupeeClock]

So does that mean the DS had a similar advantage for doing NeoGeo games, due to 2D hardware?
The 3DS could really use a native NeoGeo emulator worth using, especially considering the resolution. Most Neo Geo games were 320x224.

 

[thewhiteboy23]

You are the man!!! Thank you!!!!!!!

 

[bubble2k16]

Well, the DS had some things the 3DS does not have access to with regard to NES emulation. One being 2D hardware. That relieved so much processing on the DS, allowing the CPU to do actual CPU stuff. It's why even the GBA could do NES emulation well (minus the squished screen).

And SNES emulation to some extent. I, of all people, should know this.

That does mean that while the GBA and NDS firmwares execute the ARM codes natively, it actually has to emulate the GBA/DS 2D with software in that case, I suppose.

By the way, did you experience crackling and pops in audio in BlargSNES? Seems like some games send KON / KOFF to the DSP frequently to stop and start sound samples that causes the sudden change in waveforms giving all these pops. It seems even more apparent when using Gaussian Interpolation since it smooths out the waveform that any sudden change makes these pops really obvious and annoying.

 

[vander263]

I Wish it was possible to divide the payload between ARM9 and ARM11 processor

 

[CrashMidnick]

Not sure if I will be able to find out the underlying problem with the shaking ground. Sounds difficult. As for out of this world, what are the sound problems? Haven't really played this before on a working emulator.

For Out of this World, all digitized sounds are missing it seems.

 

[bubble2k16]

I Wish it was possible to divide the payload between ARM9 and ARM11 processor

Don't really know how we can execute code in ARM9 as of now. But at least ARM11 has two cores, which we use to divide workload for this emulator, just like BlargSNES did. The first core handles the sound output, the second core handles everything else.

 

[Michaeldgs]

Are you planning to implement multiplayer support online? Local, wifi or hamachi?

 

[ArtemisM]

Are you planning to implement multiplayer support online? Local, wifi or hamachi?

Somehow I doubt that.

 

[coinblock]

@bubble2k16: Small request- can you please add an option to swap controller slots?

 

[WolfHeroEX]

https://gbatemp.net/threads/release-oldsnes-snes-vc-for-old-3ds-users.430190/

I tried that specific version before, but it doesn't have SA-1 emulation. Made a fool of myself trying to make a CIA for Kirby Super Star.

This just got released, I'll wait on SNES9x and O3DS support.

 

[jamespoo]

good work thanks

 

[vander263]

I tested Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 on Picodrive on my O3DS, i'm very dissapointed with the level of MD emulation on the system, the game running below 50 fps, how can a SNES emulator like this one that runs SA-1 games always above 53 fps with pretty good sound quality, and a basic MD emulator runs a game that didn't even have a special chip on it's cart run horrible and with TERRIBLE sound, @bubble2k16, when you get bored of the SNES emulator, please do a good Mega Drive one, you are the only hope we have

 

[DiscostewSM]

I tested Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 on Picodrive on my O3DS, i'm very dissapointed with the level of MD emulation on the system, the game running below 50 fps, how can a SNES emulator like this one that runs SA-1 games always above 53 fps with pretty good sound quality, and a basic MD emulator runs a game that didn't even have a special chip on it's cart run horrible and with TERRIBLE sound, @bubble2k16, when you get bored of the SNES emulator, please do a good Mega Drive one, you are the only hope we have

Picodrive is likely doing software rendering, where it plots each pixel. SNES9x for 3DS utilizes the 3D hardware for rendering.

 

[Billy Acuña]

Indeed, RetroArch cores for 3DS aren't good enough and doesn't give a good emulation quality lile this one. So if you decide @bubble2k16, you can start from NES, Megadrive or even a hypervisor for GBA on 3DS.

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[coinblock]

I tested Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 on Picodrive on my O3DS, i'm very dissapointed with the level of MD emulation on the system, the game running below 50 fps, how can a SNES emulator like this one that runs SA-1 games always above 53 fps with pretty good sound quality, and a basic MD emulator runs a game that didn't even have a special chip on it's cart run horrible and with TERRIBLE sound, @bubble2k16, when you get bored of the SNES emulator, please do a good Mega Drive one, you are the only hope we have

Do you have video filters enabled? Go to settings, and then video to check. In some Retroarch builds I've noticed LQ2X was enabled by default, which is quite performance demanding.