Citra is the real deal. No sound and kinda buggy, but it's getting there.
Yes, there are 3ds emulators and some of them such as certain Citra versions can boot some commercial games and even let you play them to some degree. Note that there is a big difference between "can get past the menu and do some actual gameplay" and "playable enough to beat the game without cheats or transferring the save to a real 3ds to get past certain parts". Not to mention it will be very slow without an OpenGL renderer which I don't think is in the main branch yet. 3DS emulation has come a long way but there is still tons of work left to do before it is even as good as Nesticle.
No, and even when they do start working it will almost certainly be quite a bit longer after that before they are winnable. Citra is at the point where in a couple of games you can play the first level or the tutorial level.
I don't think OOT is fully working, if by fully working you mean able to complete the game from start to finish. There are a couple of others like Super Monkey Ball and Etrian Mystery Dungeon where you can complete a level or so.
Citra and 3dmoo. Citra is the apparently furthest, 3dmoo I hear is still being worked on but not publically. Come back in six months or so. Even then, they got oot playing back in january. Six months later it runs about the same and a couple other games run the same way, very very slowly, so it'll take some time.
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yall im torn... ive been hacking away at tales of phantasia GBA (the USA version) and have so many documents of reverse engineering i've done -
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I just found out that the EU version is better in literally every way, better sound quality, better lighting, and there's even a patch someone made to make the text look nicer
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Do I restart now using what i've learned on the EU version since it's a better overall experience? or do I continue with the US version since that is what ive been using, and if someone decides to play my hack, it would most likely be that version?
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Sicklyboy:
@TwoSpikedHands, I'll preface this with the fact that I know nothing about the game, but, I think it depends on what your goals are. Are you trying to make a definitive version of the game? You may want to refocus your efforts on the EU version then. Or, are you trying to make a better US version? In which case, the only way to make a better US version is to keep on plugging away at that one
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Sicklyboy:
I'm not familiar with the technicalities of the differences between the two versions, but I'm wondering if at least some of those differences are things that you could port over to the US version in your patch without having to include copyrighted assets from the EU version
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TwoSpikedHands:
@Sicklyboy I am wanting to fully change the game and bend it to my will lol. I would like to eventually have the ability to add more characters, enemies, even have a completely different story if i wanted. I already have the ability to change the tilemaps in the US version, so I can basically make my own map and warp to it in game - so I'm pretty far into it!
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TwoSpikedHands:
I really would like to make a hack that I would enjoy playing, and maybe other people would too. swapping to the EU version would also mean my US friends could not legally play it
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TwoSpikedHands:
I am definitely considering porting over some of the EU features without using the actual ROM itself, tbh that would probably be the best way to go about it... but i'm sad that the voice acting is so.... not good on the US version. May not be a way around that though
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The Real Jdbye:
@TwoSpikedHands just switch, all the knowledge you learned still applies and most of the code and assets should be the same anyway -
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