THE GBATEMP SWITCH HOMEBREW BOUNTY
MONTH 3: SWITCH EMULATORS​

What is the GBAtemp Switch Homebrew Bounty? Read more here.
The third month has now officially begun. You have until March 15th (23:59:59 UTC+00) to submit your Switch homebrew emulator and get a chance to win a massive cash reward! There will be 4 consecutive months, one for each category. We'd like to remind you that this is the third month, and this month dedicated to the following category.

CATEGORY 3: Switch Emulators

This category is meant to reward authors of Switch emulators, as in, either emulator programs that run natively on the Switch itself and emulate another console or system; or an emulator that runs on PC and emulates the Switch. If your project isn't an emulator then it doesn't belong in this category. WINNERS ANNOUNCED! CLICK HERE

The top 5 highest-voted projects in this category will receive:
#1: $1,000 reward
#2: $500 reward
#3: $300 reward
#4: $150 reward
#5: $55 reward

In order to submit your project, please respect the following instructions:
• Upload your project to the GBAtemp Download Center. Make sure to give a proper description, screenshots, anything you might find useful. This is your chance to showcase your project, the better your page looks, the more chance you may receive votes from judges.
• If your project is not entirely new, it must at least come with a major/significant update, so please describe specifically what new feature(s) the upgrade brings forth.
• After your project is posted to the download center, please post a comment in this thread to link to your project.

After March 15th, two voting sessions will begin simultaneously: a staff vote, and a patron vote (for our backers on Patreon). The results will be announced a week after.

Sponsors

Half of this sum is generously donated by yours truly, GBAtemp!
Thanks to ad revenue and to our Patreon backers, GBAtemp is the biggest donator.
The other half comes from our generous sponsors as listed below.

MOD3DSCARD.COM
Buy flashcard to mod 3DS and Switch | Team Xecuter SX | Sky3ds+ | Stargate 3DS | R4 3DS - mod3dscard

AXIOGAME.COM
Axiogame | Backup Units, Modchips and more

And let's not forget Team Xecuter who made a very generous donation too.

Member donations

The bounty isn't only about sponsor companies: you, beloved members of our community (and even guests) can contribute too! If you want to make a donation, simply click the button below to send a payment to our Paypal. Needless to say, 100% of the amount we receive will be transfered to the authors of winning projects.



Upon submitting your donation, you can indicate whether you want the donation to go to a particular category, or all of them.
Also please note that our Paypal account name is "FILETRIP" - this is normal.

We have already received the following donations:
• Eric C. donated $100 towards the Game bounty
• Pierce T. donated $25 towards the Emulator bounty
• Jonah N. donated $10 to the bounty
• Andrew B. donated £5 towards the Tools and Utilities bounty
• Michael C. donated $5 to the bounty
• Raphael G.V. donated an incredible $0.36 towards, hmm, creating complexity for our accountant?

Thanks a lot guys! To everyone else, feel free to make additional donations, which will go to the other 2 categories.

 

[m4xw]

I am referring to the matter in which normal Switch software/homebrew looks and feels. I want it to feel like Goldleaf, not like DZ. A skin does not solve the fundamental design failures of Retroarch. It's an endless sea of fussy options and buttons and junk.

See, you clearly don't know what you talk about.
If you think you can do it better, PR's are welcome.

 

[blahblah]

See, you clearly don't know what you talk about.
If you think you can do it better, PR's are welcome.

I clearly do know what I am talking about. Anyone who's used Retroarch and also used a normal emulator knows what I'm talking about.

Retroarch as a concept is fundamentally flawed. No pull request can solve the problems core to the concept.

 

[Costello]

@Costello what percentage for this bounty will be allocated from TX money?
I will only partake in this bounty if you can assure me none of the money would be coming from TX pockets and that the difference will be donated from gba's side to a foundation of my choice.

they are contributing $250 per event
we can do whatever we want with your money if you win a prize yeah haha

 

[rsn8887]

I updated Uae4All2 again. So I would like the judges to please consider uae4all2, update v1.95 (released Feb. 27) into this competition.

The changes as part of this competition are those from update 1.94 release (Feb 14) and update 1.95 release (Feb 27). They are listed on the download page.

The gbatemp download page is here:
Amiga Emulator UAE4All2 for Switch

Discussion thread:
https://gbatemp.net/threads/release-amiga-emulator-uae4all2-for-switch.522539/

 

[Crusatyr]

Costello what percentage for this bounty will be allocated from TX money?
I will only partake in this bounty if you can assure me none of the money would be coming from TX pockets and that the difference will be donated from gba's side to a foundation of my choice.

Honestly with an attitude like yours, don't enter it. This is supposed to benefit the scene and yet here you are essentially grandstanding over a small amount of money because "I need to be morally superior." Here's a thought for you though, Costello said TX has donated $250 for each event, that means they've donated $1000 to the scene. Put your money where your mouth is, and match them. If you win, donate ALL of your winnings to a charity of your choice. Show them you're the bigger man.

 

[Essasetic]

Honestly with an attitude like yours, don't enter it. This is supposed to benefit the scene and yet here you are essentially grandstanding over a small amount of money because "I need to be morally superior." Here's a thought for you though, Costello said TX has donated $250 for each event, that means they've donated $1000 to the scene. Put your money where your mouth is, and match them. If you win, donate ALL of your winnings to a charity of your choice. Show them you're the bigger man.

Or if he wins more than $250. Just donate $250 to charity. Then he can invest the rest into further development.

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Also I stand by him. TX has been killing the homebrew scene by stealing code and claiming it as their own. Practically forcing others (like Blawar) to sell out to TX.

 

[Crusatyr]

X has been killing the homebrew scene by stealing code and claiming it as their own. Practically forcing others (like Blawar) to sell out to TX.

Blawar didn't sell out to TX, he GAVE then Tinfoil/SX Installer to annoy the scene. Guess what? It worked. Honestly, ReSwitched has hurt the scene more than TX has. They spread lies about their own and other CFW, grandstand about being morally superior to everyone else, won't admit when there are bugs in their software, and worst of all lock opensource code behind their signing keys. All TX did was ignore copyleft.

 

[Essasetic]

Blawar didn't sell out to TX, he GAVE then Tinfoil/SX Installer to annoy the scene. Guess what? It worked.

That was after he acted like a child after everyone called him out on stealing the Tinfoil name. Also no. He most likely got paid a lot of money to give the source code to them. He wouldn't just give it away. Also notice how after he sold to TX his source code became closed source? Coincidence?

Honestly, ReSwitched has hurt the scene more than TX has. They spread lies about their own and other CFW, grandstand about being morally superior to everyone else, won't admit when there are bugs in their software, and worst of all lock opensource code behind their signing keys. All TX did was ignore copyleft.

Ok. One thing I will admit is that the ReSwitched discord is overly strict and there have been perma bans for even a slight joke about piracy. But I completely disagree with you on that they've hurt the scene more than TX.

1. Show me that they've spread lies about their CFW.

2. Who specifically is standing a moral ground against anyone?

3. Again, show me examples of them denying bugs in the Atmosphere CFW.

4. Let me note that 95% of Sept is open source. The way that it's signed and encrypted. All open source for everyone to see. The only bit that isn't open source is the method to get the keys and the keys themselves. Now, I don't entirely blame them for this move. As TX has been copying and pasting their code without crediting or even acknowledging it.

Finally, yeah no. TX has been purposely out to ruin the homebrew scene for a while now. If Blawar wasn't a good enough example then let me mention the time that they tried to make M4xw's build of Retroarch (with OpenGL) exclusive to SX OS. That (of course) failed miserably. There's also the fact they stole the original Adubbz Tinfoil code back in 1.4 (which they did a very shit job of covering up btw). Again, without credit. And they've been pretty infamous to steal CTCaer Hekate fixes as well.

So please rephrase of how ReSwitched is harming the scene more than TX.

 

[Crusatyr]

Also notice how after he sold to TX his source code became closed source? Coincidence?

His app became closed source LONG before he sold it to TX. @blawar can confirm this himself.

1. Show me that they've spread lies about their CFW.

How about the time they claimed CREPORT will prevent bans or the fact that "ReiNX is a shitty clone of Atmosphere" despite the fact there are a bunch of differences between the two CFWs.

2. Who specifically is standing a moral ground against anyone?

How about how anti-piracy they are, claiming legal nsps are a warez meme, and claiming all other CFWs are "used only for piracy".

3. Again, show me examples of them denying bugs in the Atmosphere CFW.

How about the Freebird thread where mx4w kept claiming it was ReiNX that was bugged and thats why it was stable on Max cpu OC rather than atmosphere being unstable was the bug.

4. Let me note that 95% of Sept is open source. The way that it's signed and encrypted. All open source for everyone to see.

And let me note that there's no guarantee that sept.enc is actually composed of the code they've claimed. You can't vet it.

Finally, yeah no. TX has been purposely out to ruin the homebrew scene for a while now. If Blawar wasn't a good enough example then let me mention the time that they tried to make M4xw's build of Retroarch (with OpenGL) exclusive to SX OS. That (of course) failed miserably. There's also the fact they stole the original Adubbz Tinfoil code back in 1.4 (which they did a very shit job of covering up btw). Again, without credit. And they've been pretty infamous to steal CTCaer Hekate fixes as well.

So like I said, they ignored copyleft. On the other hand, they gave their users emunand, a cheat engine, XCI and usb hdd loading, and the community the ability to interface with their usb HDD loading. These are all things missing from other CFWs.

So please rephrase of how ReSwitched is harming the scene more than TX

I don't expect you to agree with my reasoning, but there it is for you.

 

[Shrike]

</Drama>

<PostFunEmulators>
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[blawar]

His app became closed source LONG before he sold it to TX. @blawar can confirm this himself.

DZ went closed source after the N1dus / Tinfoil drama, after which I stated that not only would I not release the source code, but that I would give it to TX for free. SX Installer was released several months after that @Essasetic

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I am referring to the matter in which normal Switch software/homebrew looks and feels. I want it to feel like Goldleaf, not like DZ. A skin does not solve the fundamental design failures of Retroarch. It's an endless sea of fussy options and buttons and junk.

If you want it to feel like goldleaf, just install 7.0, start a NSP install, and then throw it into the wall while it's installing.

 

[blahblah]

If you want it to feel like goldleaf, just install 7.0, start a NSP install, and then throw it into the wall while it's installing.

There is no need for you to make nasty comments just because you are unable or unwilling to design a user interface that isn't horrendous.

 

[blawar]

There is no need for you to make nasty comments just because you are unable or unwilling to design a user interface that isn't horrendous.

If you don't like it, submit a PR.

 

[blahblah]

If you don't like it, submit a PR.

To your closed source app? Yeah, okay. I'll get right on that.

 

[blawar]

To your closed source app? Yeah, okay. I'll get right on that.

i accept binary patches.

 

[blahblah]

i accept binary patches.

Yeah, no, you ridiculous child: I am not going to hack on your closed source binary. Grow up.

 

[Essasetic]

DZ went closed source after the N1dus / Tinfoil drama, after which I stated that not only would I not release the source code, but that I would give it to TX for free. SX Installer was released several months after that @Essasetic

Right, my bad then.

 

[Hydr8gon]

Heh, I see we've been having some fun here. Anyways, I just released an update for melonDS for Switch, so I suppose it counts for this competition! Here's the download center page, and here's the forum post. Good luck to everyone, hopefully we see more competition soon

 

[cobjak]

Good luck all you all deserve to win

 

[Costello]

5 days until this competition ends.

if you've got something you plan to submit, now may be a good time to post...