gacube emeleter

[Swiftloke]

Hello GBATemp.

It's been a very long time, hasn't it?

In fact, it's been a little over seven years since I last spoke here.

Well, I left the forum for a reason, and those reasons haven't changed much over the years. But it wasn't all bad, was it?

Some things stuck in my mind after all this time. And as the years went on, I found myself able to realize an old prophecy spoken by a beloved former member much like myself.

Please observe for yourself, and enjoy.

https://nocoffei.com/?p=99

Note: I moved this thread over from the Edge of the Forum, since I felt it was more appropriate here, given that it's serious technical work... Sort of.

Post automatically merged: Apr 19, 2024

I barely remember the names and faces I interacted with back in the day, but I at least recall @VinsCool @GhostLatte @CeeDee. Hopefully pinging them is enough to get the rest of the old crowds attention.

 

[Maximumbeans]

I love shit like this. It's way before my time but I love me some GBATemp history

 

[kuro0628neko]

What a wild ride. Thank you for sharing this.

 

[AdenTheThird]

That story was absolutely nuts. It's like his grammar was inversely affected by his anger! Always love GBATemp lore. Welcome back!

 

[Latiodile]

i remember seeing this unfold in person, i still have the startup theme on my 3ds i think, i don't remember if it was multiple people though because i remember there was also a twitter account talking about it

i still reference this regularly

 

[zekro94]

When seeing the tittle of this thread I thought "How can someone misspell something so horribly"
I'm quite relieved at what it is, it got some laughs and the images with the spelling.....I can't explain it clearly but I felt I almost had an aneurysm while reading peter's post.
Still, pretty impressive to even have something like that booting at least on a 3ds. One question though: could it be possible to use sdl https://github.com/xerpi/SDL-3DS so that way you could build a cia file? that way you wouldn't need linux (asking as a curiosity since I know the 3ds isn't powerful enough but I'm not that technically savy). I assume the answer would be: it would take a good amount of time to change code in dolphin for something that won't even work

 

[splaca]

Great project and post, this is truly important stuff while also being really funny

 

[PrincessLillie]

GBATemp is a fairly toxic place.

As a user of GBAtemp, I take offense to that statement
On a more serious note, this is an amazing post. A great history lesson and an even more impressive, if somewhat useless, project. Good shit.
Somehow I think I remember peter, but not by much.

 

[Swiftloke]

I'm quite relieved at what it is, it got some laughs and the images with the spelling.....I can't explain it clearly but I felt I almost had an aneurysm while reading peter's post.

Correct take.

One question though: could it be possible to use sdl https://github.com/xerpi/SDL-3DS so that way you could build a cia file? that way you wouldn't need linux (asking as a curiosity since I know the 3ds isn't powerful enough but I'm not that technically savy). I assume the answer would be: it would take a good amount of time to change code in dolphin for something that won't even work

There's an SDL port maintained by devkitPro (unlike that one, which hasn't been touched in eight years) but SDL isn't a magic bullet that automatically solves all porting problems. In simple terms, it only helps with porting the frontend (UI, user input etc.) for apps that use SDL-- which Dolphin does not, it uses Qt.

Notably SDL does not help you at all with the backend, which is the far more interesting part of a program that like, actually does stuff. The gacube emeleter is not built with Qt enabled at all and yet it still runs fine.

Attempting to port Dolphin to Horizon 3DS would pose some engineering problems that are intractable for something that won't run at full speed anyway. Two very big, obvious problems are present: first, Horizon 3DS is "cooperatively threaded", which is a model of multi-core programming that's completely incompatible for major operating systems. Second, even with the new 3DS extended memory mode (separate from the original 3DS extended memory mode, see here for a list, no retail titles shipped with this) you can only get 178MB in a userland program, Horizon still eats 78MB for itself, which is unacceptable in a context where every last megabyte counts.

Though it's not as intractible a problem, no one to my knowledge has attempted a native port of Dolphin to the Switch for the same reason that it's pointless to put in the effort if it won't run at fullspeed. (You have plenty of RAM for Dolphin and Horizon NX offers a "preemptive threading" compatibility mode.) Anyone who tries to run it AFAICT does so under Linux with heavy overclocking.

 

[koffieleut]

Animal Crossing is small enough to maybe test it. It's smaller then 100mb,

 

[Ricken]

I have had many moments where I've wished for no coffei to be remembered. There was a night peter spammed incredibly gross, ponographic images in one of the EoF discord servers.
I spammed him back with a lot of nothing. We spent hours exchanging CTRL+V inputs...
Good times.

 

[daemonspudguy]

Like several other people here, I understand only the technical details and basically none of the backstory, only getting into 3DS modding after boot9strap came out. But, at the same time, removing the gibberish and translating the rest into something vaguely resembling coherent English, peterpeter's tale is all too familiar. Being the resident tech nerd in my family, I'm very familiar with the puzzling tendency for the tech illiterate to try to do something while not reading the fucking manual, as one always should.

 

[JORGETECH]

That's some impressive shitposting for sure, I wasn't paying attention to the 3DS scene back then so I never heard of such events.

What really interests me of the article is the Raspbian 3DS port, I've been trying to search for more complete distro images to be used with firm_linux_loader but I couldn't find any. I hope the Raspbian port gets released eventually, I would love to play with that.

 

[SylverReZ]

Impressive emulator thus far.

 

[a_username_that_is_cool]