Emulation IodineGBA, a javascript GBA emulator

[Ben_j]

I've just seen on github that the guy who did the (excellent) GameBoy Color JavaScript emulator is now working on a GBA emulator. It's not testable yet but you can still look around in the sources here https://github.com/g...aster/IodineGBA
According to grantgalitz the project is close to being released, so I guess it's working fine. I'll try to figure out how to use this pile of javascript files to see how the emulator runs tonight.

EDIT : here's the GBC emulator http://gamecenter.grantgalitz.org/

 

[DinohScene]

Hmm.
The link is questionable since it contains ROMs.

However.
It's pretty sweet!

 

[loco365]

In a way it's like Vizzed, so I think it'd be allowed. It's a pretty cool emulator tbh.

 

[grantgalitz]

I've just seen on github that the guy who did the (excellent) GameBoy Color JavaScript emulator is now working on a GBA emulator. It's not testable yet but you can still look around in the sources here https://github.com/g...aster/IodineGBA
According to grantgalitz the project is close to being released, so I guess it's working fine. I'll try to figure out how to use this pile of javascript files to see how the emulator runs tonight.

EDIT : here's the GBC emulator http://gamecenter.grantgalitz.org/

Yeah no, it won't boot yet. It's just getting close to completion, but not 100% there yet. Target for completion is before the end of this month, as I don't want to be too optimistic.

 

[Ben_j]

Hmm.
The link is questionable since it contains ROMs.

However.
It's pretty sweet!

woops, sorry, I didn't think about that. I just wanted to share the emulator, not the roms.

Yeah no, it won't boot yet. It's just getting close to completion, but not 100% there yet. Target for completion is before the end of this month, as I don't want to be too optimistic.

Ah I'll be watching that closely.
Btw, I forked the GBC emulator to add cloudpad to it, it's one of our technology that lets you use your iPhone or other smartphone as a game controller for the emulator, you can see an example here : http://themirage.fr
If you want more details or want to test, send me a message on github (SBRK)

 

[DinohScene]

It's questionable heh

It contains ROMs but their not downloadable.
So I guess it's alright but I'm not sure of it.
Mod can provide with a better or even solid answer about it ;]

Never the less it's a sweet emu.

 

[grantgalitz]

Hmm.
The link is questionable since it contains ROMs.

However.
It's pretty sweet!

woops, sorry, I didn't think about that. I just wanted to share the emulator, not the roms.

Yeah no, it won't boot yet. It's just getting close to completion, but not 100% there yet. Target for completion is before the end of this month, as I don't want to be too optimistic.

Ah I'll be watching that closely.
Btw, I forked the GBC emulator to add cloudpad to it, it's one of our technology that lets you use your iPhone or other smartphone as a game controller for the emulator, you can see an example here : http://themirage.fr
If you want more details or want to test, send me a message on github (SBRK)

That's why the github repository only links to http://gameboy.grantgalitz.org/ where you can only load in your own ROMs.

There's an iphone version already (type in iphone/ after the gamecenter URL ), although the iphone's brower is a piece of s**t (Almost always in interpreter even with "nitro" and audio is only in iOS 6 beta). Then again, you're trying to make the iphone a controller, as the iphone's browser is too poopy to run the emulator itself.

 

[Ben_j]

Hmm.
The link is questionable since it contains ROMs.

However.
It's pretty sweet!

woops, sorry, I didn't think about that. I just wanted to share the emulator, not the roms.

Yeah no, it won't boot yet. It's just getting close to completion, but not 100% there yet. Target for completion is before the end of this month, as I don't want to be too optimistic.

Ah I'll be watching that closely.
Btw, I forked the GBC emulator to add cloudpad to it, it's one of our technology that lets you use your iPhone or other smartphone as a game controller for the emulator, you can see an example here : http://themirage.fr
If you want more details or want to test, send me a message on github (SBRK)

That's why the github repository only links to http://gameboy.grantgalitz.org/ where you can only load in your own ROMs.

There's an iphone version already (type in iphone/ after the gamecenter URL ), although the iphone's brower is a piece of s**t (Almost always in interpreter even with "nitro" and audio is only in iOS 6 beta). Then again, you're trying to make the iphone a controller, as the iphone's browser is too poopy to run the emulator itself.

Exactly, and it works fine ! And for having worked on this project on many different mobile browsers, Safari is the most complete, and you can do almost anything you want with it, unlike most Android browsers...

 

[grantgalitz]

Alright, working on it again, some games work for sure now.

 

[kehkou]

Will it work for the 3DS browser...At least until your forced to load the rom (which cannot be done on 3DS IIRC)??

 

[grantgalitz]

No, plus the 3DS isn't powerful enough anyhow to emulate a GBA properly. You're gonna need a native dynarec based one for a 3DS so it doesn't turn the 3DS into a fireball.

 

[JoostinOnline]

No, plus the 3DS isn't powerful enough anyhow to emulate a GBA properly.

Interesting, considering Nintendo did it fine with the Ambassador Program.

 

[grantgalitz]

Because nintendo ported the games with hacks specific to each game? Releasing a runtime for one game only allows you to make it super inaccurate and break if it runs anything else. Key word I used is properly.

 

[JoostinOnline]

Because nintendo ported the games with hacks specific to each game? Releasing a runtime for one game only allows you to make it super inaccurate and break if it runs anything else. Key word I used is properly.

It used Virtual Console, which is just a generic emulator (one for each system).

 

[grantgalitz]

Which still loads in hacks when you get the game.

 

[JoostinOnline]

Which still loads in hacks when you get the game.

Source?

 

[grantgalitz]

Don't have one on me right now, but the jist of it is some games busy loop most of their cycles wasting cpu time. An emulator that can apply hacks to circumvent this will perform much better. ARM CPUs do have issues running gba emulators though, just look at ones for android and iphone. They all are dynarecs with frameskip built in sometimes.

 

[Rydian]

Source?

The fact that you have to replace certain ROMs with other ROMs for systems like the N64 on the Wii should show well enough that each game is packaged with a customized emulator.

 

[JoostinOnline]

The fact that you have to replace certain ROMs with other ROMs for systems like the N64 on the Wii should show well enough that each game is packaged with a customized emulator.

What are you talking about? You don't HAVE to replace roms. You CAN replace them, because VC is just an emulator. There are a few different versions of the same emulator, with special settings for games that aren't average. It's the same as having to change the settings and/or plugins on an emulator for compatibility with certain games.

 

[Rydian]

What are you talking about? You don't HAVE to replace roms. You CAN replace them, because VC is just an emulator. There are a few different versions of the same emulator, with special settings for games that aren't average. It's the same as having to change the settings and/or plugins on an emulator for compatibility with certain games.

No, I mean in order to get some games working, you need a certain 'donor' original to swap them into.

Like how when people used to swap the ARM7 binary in DS ROMs to get past save-data-AP checks (ARM7 is responsible for saving), they just needed to take the ARM7 binary from a game that used the same save type/system and did not have the AP, since many DS games use the same ARM7 code, but not all.