The Lynx on DS, is this project feasible?

Indy13 · May 24, 2024

Hello friends,

I'm asking a simple question and I want to clarify that it is not one request but just a simple question.

Yesterday with a friend we were discussing DS projects which unfortunately never generated much enthusiasm to result in something truly finished, I am thinking in particular of Vectrex, Apple2 or Odyssey2 emulation. In the middle of all this I remembered an attempt to port Handy (see link), the sequel to which we never saw the light (at least to my knowledge) hence my question: the Lynx on DS would this theoretically be possible ?

https://dmunsie.wordpress.com/2007/04/25/handy-on-the-ds/

Sorry in advance for the inconvenience but I would like to tag a few members to get your opinions

@wavemotion @FluBBa @RocketRobz @Apache Thunder @Pk11 @mrparrot2 @elhobbs @Gericom @DSoryu

FluBBa · May 24, 2024

I think it should be able to perform very well on the DS, the Handy source is a bit of a mess though so it's some work to just get it working on the DS. The SDL version I guess is a little bit better in regard to the source code structure.
I don't remember how high the cpu clock is compared to the NES, but that should not be a problem, the "unique" thing about the Lynx is that it doesn't have tiles & sprites like everything else but instead a blitter with zoom/rotation capabilities, that might take some effort to make fast.

ber71 · May 24, 2024

There is handy for 3ds, which struggles to reach full speed on a o3ds. Most probably, due to insufficient optimization.
Therefore, i think that nds might run well, if the most intensive parts were rewritten in assembly code. There are a few talented coders floating around capable of that

Indy13 · May 24, 2024

I am maybe completely off the mark by saying this because actually having no knowledge in coding, I recognize in advance I talk about things that are a little beyond me (and it is a sweet euphemism to say that^^) but in fact this questioning pushed me to inquire a little more about the Lynx emulation which, I admit, apart from Handy3DS and Mednafen, I knew nothing about. I discover that in fact Handy has its own derivative like Felix but there are many other more or less advanced emulators like Metalynx (which seems abandoned for a long time), a project that enlightened me on something I didn’t know (yet this is the basis and I should have started there) it is the Pantheon multi system. While browsing the site of this project, I realized that this multi systems emulator focused mainly on the emulation of the processor MOS 6502 emulates a large number of systems already ported to DS, It’s gonna sound silly but I never realized how common this processor was to so many systems.

I leave a link for those who would be interested in discovering this project:

http://bostjan-grandovec.si/Content/Pantheon.htm

I also put this link because by digging through the tools that were offered, there was a MOS 6502 processor emulator capable of importing the source code to assemble it and execute it step by step perhaps that could be useful for some of your projects

http://bostjan-grandovec.si/Content/emu6502.htm

Nikokaro · May 24, 2024

Hey @Indy13 , you've called on all the brainiacs and hacking bigwigs on this site: that takes some courage (or perhaps brazenness?

). I'm curious to see who else of them will respond to you and how. It would be nice if several excellent minds collaborated in this fun endeavor.

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