Okie dokie~
Here's 0.8.3, download on GitHub or on the GBAtemp download center. Again, don't expect too much. As I said before, we're just getting a few bug fixes; most of the improvements for 0.8.3 were for the desktop UI. Oh, and I wasn't able to test this build because I updated my Switch to play Smash online. There shouldn't be any problems, but let me know if there is.

And on a somewhat unrelated note, I might as well give another update on NooDS for anyone that's interested. I know @catlover007 is working on a lovely ARM64 JIT for melonDS, but I'm still chipping away on my own project as well! Games are booting, saving works, and the 2D engine is getting closer to completion. Speed is still worse than melonDS, but there's still a lot of potential for optimization. Unfortunately progress hasn't been as fast as I'd like it to be, due to a variety of factors in my life right now. But anyways, here are some screenshots from my most recent progress update to give you a bit of an idea:


I do feel a bit bad for neglecting melonDS though... for example, I had planned on spending more time trying to find a solution/workaround for the OpenGL renderer's polygon bug, but that never ended up happening. I've learned a hell of a lot about how the DS works though, and hopefully one day NooDS will become a worthy competitor for melonDS! Well, one way or another, we'll definitely get a full speed DS experience on the Switch eventually. Either from melonDS or NooDS, or both!

 

hey hey hey

at this point Hydr8gon you might want to open a separate thread for NooDS, dunno

anyway you're making good progress there, can't wait to see what you have in store

 

on the switch/performance side yes and no. It's mostly still the same as I detailed in my last post. There have been some improvements here and there, but we're still not completely there.

The x64 JIT source already publicly available, while the ARM64 JIT still sleeps on my computer. I forked the ARM64 JIT code base of the x64 JIT code base, so it makes more sense to do developements which affect both there. That's what I've done over the last time, idk how much of a difference they make on Switch, I've yet to integrate these changes there.

In theory you could already play most 2d games, but I currently don't want to share binaries or source (plus it's GPL licensed so I'm not even allowed to only publish binaries) until everything's tidied up.

 

Well you're right Pokemon games are gameplay wise 2d, but from a technical standpoint they use 3d graphics, that was what I meant.

There are also games like Pokemon Ranger, which look like completely 2d games but which are rendered using the 3d gpu, those fall into the same category.

 

where do you put the rom files now?

 

thanks

 

Damn thanks for this update @catlover007
Always nice to see improvements of the DS emulation on the Switch

 

This is the current UI

And yes atm only touch controls work for the UI

 

this version is a bit dirty, but once the new additions mature they can be intergrated into the main developement branch, from where out it'll be easy to integrate them into the existing frontend.

that's odd. Do you have all the files(bios and romlist.bin) in place?

 

Nice