Hacking Gamecube emulation

[Fear Zoa]

Lets worry about gba and snes emulation for now okay?

 

[Snailface]

Ports are possible. Emulation, not even close to possible.

 

[Apache Thunder]

This topic is beyond ridicules. I have a i7 Quad Core CPU running at 3.2GHz with 6GB of DDR3 ram on a ASUS P6T motherboard (4GB minimum for the emulator to even work) and even then some games have trouble playing full speed and you honestly believe the 3DS would be anywhere near the specs needed to run a usable Gamcube/Wii emulator? You must be out of your f***ing mind....

Topics about N64 emulation on the DS are one thing, but this....just....wow....

 

[Feels Good Man]

This topic is beyond ridicules. I have a i7 Quad Core CPU running at 3.2GHz with 6GB of ram (4GB minimum for the emulator to even work) and even then some games have trouble playing full speed and you honestly believe the 3DS would be anywhere near the specs needed to run a usable Gamcube/Wii emulator? You must be out of your f***ing mind....

The difference between your emulator and Nintendo actually designing Gamecube games to run on the 3DS is that one is official and one is a fan made project. Nintendo knows its technology more than the general public and could design something that can run on the given hardware. For example, the PSP. If there was a PSP emulator made by fans to run PSX games, I can guarantee you it would have many problems. In fact, the SNES9x emulator for the PSP isn't perfect yet and the SNES is older than the PSX. Sony got around that because of their knowledge of the system. They knew the technology and it ran PSX games.

Who knows? Maybe Nintendo will create something to like what Sony did. Don't have your hopes up though, it probably won't happen.

 

[Rydian]

For example, the PSP. If there was a PSP emulator made by fans to run PSX games, I can guarantee you it would have many problems.

There is, and it does.

 

[Feels Good Man]

For example, the PSP. If there was a PSP emulator made by fans to run PSX games, I can guarantee you it would have many problems.

There is, and it does.

Is there? I haven't really been keeping up with handheld/console news lately. I've been gaming on my PC too much because of Steam >__>

 

[Rydian]

For example, the PSP. If there was a PSP emulator made by fans to run PSX games, I can guarantee you it would have many problems.

There is, and it does.

Is there? I haven't really been keeping up with handheld/console news lately. I've been gaming on my PC too much because of Steam >__>

It's not lately, it's old. It was abandoned when POPS loading was figured out, for obvious reasons.

It resurfaced for 6.x when people remembered it and went back to it for PSX games since POPS wasn't working on it... but most people tried it once and stopped.

 

[Apache Thunder]

The difference between your emulator and Nintendo actually designing Gamecube games to run on the 3DS is that one is official and one is a fan made project. Nintendo knows its technology more than the general public and could design something that can run on the given hardware. For example, the PSP. If there was a PSP emulator made by fans to run PSX games, I can guarantee you it would have many problems. In fact, the SNES9x emulator for the PSP isn't perfect yet and the SNES is older than the PSX. Sony got around that because of their knowledge of the system. They knew the technology and it ran PSX games.

Who knows? Maybe Nintendo will create something to like what Sony did. Don't have your hopes up though, it probably won't happen.

That's like saying I could fine tune a old Buick to run as fast as a Ferrari without changing the engines.

Knowing the hardware may allow you make more efficient code, but at the end of the day the two gaming platforms are two different architectures and emulating a possibly faster hardware system on a slower hardware system which always has extra overhead in emulating functions that the ARM architecture does not have is just plain impossible with the 3DS's current specs in mind.

 

[pocchama1996]

Direct emulation is impossible.
BUT
IF the wireless capabilites are improved from the ds.
Then we may see an app like Win2DS that lets you run it on your computer but control it and view it using your ds.

 

[nl255]

This topic is beyond ridicules. I have a i7 Quad Core CPU running at 3.2GHz with 6GB of ram (4GB minimum for the emulator to even work) and even then some games have trouble playing full speed and you honestly believe the 3DS would be anywhere near the specs needed to run a usable Gamcube/Wii emulator? You must be out of your f***ing mind....

The difference between your emulator and Nintendo actually designing Gamecube games to run on the 3DS is that one is official and one is a fan made project. Nintendo knows its technology more than the general public and could design something that can run on the given hardware. For example, the PSP. If there was a PSP emulator made by fans to run PSX games, I can guarantee you it would have many problems. In fact, the SNES9x emulator for the PSP isn't perfect yet and the SNES is older than the PSX. Sony got around that because of their knowledge of the system. They knew the technology and it ran PSX games.

Who knows? Maybe Nintendo will create something to like what Sony did. Don't have your hopes up though, it probably won't happen.

No, Sony got around the problem because POPS IS NOT AN EMULATOR. Because the PSP's CPU is compatible with the PS1, Sony could use virtualization (like Virtualbox or Parallels) rather than emulation (like Dosbox) to make PS1 games work. There is absolutely no CPU emulation being done on the PSP when you run PS1 games. If the 3DS has a CPU and video hardware that is fully compatible with the Gamecube then yes, the 3DS could be hacked to run Gamecube games.

 

[Apache Thunder]

I recall the Gamecube had a ATI chipset for the GPU and the CPU might have been PowerPC based or something....Definitely not compatible with the ARM chipset for sure.

 

[john.jingle]

Hey guys since the 3DS is more powerful than the Wii, it can definitely run a PS3 emulator, ya? 3DS>Wii, therefore 3DS=PS3
I are so smurt.

 

[TheNikkoMan]

Hey guys since the 3DS is more powerful than the Wii, it can definitely run a PS3 emulator, ya? 3DS>Wii, therefore 3DS=PS3
I are so smurt.

yeah, and since it more powerful than you it can maybe lift a milk carton.

 

[AlanJohn]

I would think that it would be better to think about N64 emulation. It may be possible since the 3DS is 2 times more powerfull than the N64. Maybe not PERFECT emulation but atleast we will get something...

 

[beard00]

Judging from my experience with 3DS while testing it yesterday, I can say for sure it is not as powerful as Gamecube or Wii, possibly not even N64. I really wish Nintendo would have made it a little more powerful. iPhone4 for example is also definetily a lot faster than 3DS.

 

[KingVamp]

Judging from my experience with 3DS while testing it yesterday, I can say for sure it is not as powerful as Gamecube or Wii, possibly not even N64. I really wish Nintendo would have made it a little more powerful. iPhone4 for example is also definitely a lot faster than 3DS.

This doesn't sound right at all.

What was you testing exactly and where?

Plus when others and companies say differ.

Then there games that will release at wii level with the wii, so I do not know what you are talking about.

 

[DiscostewSM]

Judging from my experience with 3DS while testing it yesterday, I can say for sure it is not as powerful as Gamecube or Wii, possibly not even N64. I really wish Nintendo would have made it a little more powerful. iPhone4 for example is also definetily a lot faster than 3DS.

Must be pretty silly to not have known that you were doing a test-drive on a DS, yeah?

 

[granville]

Judging from my experience with 3DS while testing it yesterday, I can say for sure it is not as powerful as Gamecube or Wii, possibly not even N64. I really wish Nintendo would have made it a little more powerful. iPhone4 for example is also definetily a lot faster than 3DS.

Which games did you try? We've seen games pushing effects even Gamecube and Wii have trouble doing (Resident Evil Revelations and Super Street Fighter 4 for examples). There's a few games that look crappy, but not many that aren't even up to spec with N64.

 

[bigpaws]

Judging from my experience with 3DS while testing it yesterday, I can say for sure it is not as powerful as Gamecube or Wii, possibly not even N64. I really wish Nintendo would have made it a little more powerful. iPhone4 for example is also definetily a lot faster than 3DS.

those sony fanboys
they cant praise their systems so they demote ours

 

[Evo.lve]

Judging from my experience with 3DS while testing it yesterday, I can say for sure it is not as powerful as Gamecube or Wii, possibly not even N64. I really wish Nintendo would have made it a little more powerful. iPhone4 for example is also definetily a lot faster than 3DS.

those sony fanboys
they cant praise their systems so they demote ours

QFT, at risk of flaming from Urza.

-.-