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Switch Homebrew Bounty Month 3: Switch Emulators

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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.

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

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AXIOGAME.COM
Axiogame | Backup Units, Modchips and more

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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.

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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.

 

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Do source ports of games count? Like programs used to i guess, emulate, older games?

Like quakegasm and eDuke32 are used to run Quake and Duke Nukem 3D for example. Cpajuste and fgsfds have ported multiple of these which are all excellent.
 
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Do source ports of games count? Like programs used to i guess, emulate, older games?

Like quakegasm and eDuke32 are used to run Quake and Duke Nukem 3D for example. Cpajuste and fgsfds have ported multiple of these which are all excellent.
I would say they fit in the game category (they are either game engine / interpreter).
 
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@Mods
The frontpage still links to Month 2

Just saying..

Good luck everyone <3

Oh and could someone please make a PC98 Emulator with Keyboard support?
You can not configure keys of the PC98 emulator in Retroarch, and physical keyboards are not working with the switch :((
(Atleast in Retroarch)

:D
 

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The frontpage still links to Month 2

Just saying..

Good luck everyone <3

Oh and could someone please make a PC98 Emulator with Keyboard support?
You can not configure keys of the PC98 emulator in Retroarch, and physical keyboards are not working with the switch :((
(Atleast in Retroarch)

:D

thanks, I have updated the front page link with the link to the 3rd month :)
 
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re: JPCSP, wouldn't PPSSPP be an easier project to port? Not only is it more complete right now but it already has an ARM Android counterpart... hint hint ;)

And man, I would have killed to see a proper media player on Wii U, and maybe a Quake source port and/or a Dreamcast emulator or the like. I didn't even know people were offering cash incentives! The scene was sorely underrepresented and maybe now that the console has reached end-of-life the real fun can begin. :)
 

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@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.
 

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Retroarch shouldn't count. Retroarch is junky. Horrible interface, horrible user experience, the wrong goal is being solved. It's not a huge deal to use different apps to emulate different consoles. Doing so is almost always a better user experience.
 

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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.

Why do you need GBAtemp to donate it.. you could just do it yourself after knowing the amount. :P
 

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Retroarch shouldn't count. Retroarch is junky. Horrible interface, horrible user experience, the wrong goal is being solved. It's not a huge deal to use different apps to emulate different consoles. Doing so is almost always a better user experience.
I will not give in to your subjective statements, but I agree that RetroArch shouldn't count, but you know, RetroArch is not a emulator to begin with.
Mupen64Plus-Next on the other hand... is a complete rewrite of the old N64 core, with first-class support for switch.

Why do you need GBAtemp to donate it.. you could just do it yourself after knowing the amount. :P
Because I don't even want to touch their shit with gloves.
It's my personal choice.
 

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I will not give in to your subjective statements, but I agree that RetroArch shouldn't count, but you know, RetroArch is not a emulator to begin with.
Mupen64Plus-Next on the other hand... is a complete rewrite of the old N64 core, with first-class support for switch.
Build a proper native Switch interface around that 'core' and I'd be very interested :)
 

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You never tried Ozone?
It's literally a replica of the switch's UI.

I don't want that. I don't want XMB or the appearance of the normal Switch UI or anything. I want a normal emulator UI. Retroarch is like DZ: too big, too heavy, trying to accomplish different goals than mine. I just want to select a game and play it.
 
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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.
 
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