Homebrew Discussion OPENGL finally on horizon SWITCH??

[mustafag32g]

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— fincs🐈 (@fincsdev) September 2, 2018

Several clarifications: -
Based on Armada's mesa port, continuing where he left off
- This is OpenGL, and concretely es2gears
- Still a lot of work to do but at least this basic program runs at 60fps w/o glitches
- libnx gfx code was overhauled - hopefully no more dequeue fatals!

Feel free to correct me

 

[Huntereb]

Awesome! Unfortunate he didn't show launching and exiting the glxgears port from hbmenu or something, what's shown in the tweet could very easily be done in Linux! Hope and pray this development continues, it'll mean a lot for homebrew and emulation!

 

[Rabbid4240]

soooooooooooooooo what does this mean? n64 games at 60fps?

 

[RyanTheArchivist]

soooooooooooooooo what does this mean? n64 games at 60fps?

this means more hardware itensive homebrew apps

 

[Rabbid4240]

this means more hardware itensive homebrew apps

neet-o

 

[Huntereb]

soooooooooooooooo what does this mean? n64 games at 60fps?

Most likely! Any graphics-intensive homebrew will benefit greatly from hardware-accelerated video!

 

[Rabbid4240]

Most likely! Any graphics-intensive homebrew will benefit greatly from hardware-accelerated video!

neet-o despacito

 

[Pluupy]

This is nice. Good for that DS emulator.

 

[pinbi7]

I feel like somebody greatly missed out on a play on words here :/

 

[Fadi5555]

I hope to see a standalone version of dolphin getting port to horizon os after this
Beside damon pro (this is ps2 emu on android).

 

[Ericthegreat]

soooooooooooooooo what does this mean? n64 games at 60fps?

The 60 fps part will take a while.

 

[Huntereb]

The 60 fps part will take a while.

Nah, the primary issue with the current Libretro ports is software rendering. The CPU is more than capable of emulating the console, but when you have to emulate a console as well as render video output, things start to slow down. Allowing the CPU to take care of CPU things, and the GPU take care of GPU things will make all of the difference in performance.

Now, that's not to say the Libretro cores won't have their share of glitches in the porting process. Beyond that, emulation speed is hardly a concern.

 

[mrsupertom]

What sort of time frame does it usually take for an OpenGL implementation like this to make its way from this stage to a usable driver in, say, Retroarch Switch (RetroNX)? This stuff is really exciting - There's been huge improvements to RetroNX recently (especially the PCSX-Rearmed core) but I feel like this is the missing piece in the puzzle!

 

[Arithmatics]

This is exciting

 

[SecureBoot]

Fully expected a troll or misleading title. I like being wrong

 

[Kioku]

Reading the comments on the tweet is kinda cringe worthy ngl ..

 

[sj33]

This is really a big deal - all the interesting ports starting happening on the Vita when vitaGL arrived.

 

[nWo]

I'm just going crazy for a N64 and DS emulator on the S. Hope we soon get them !!! Working at least at fair speed.

 

[[3rd]Wael]

Ps remote play or streaming your pc are the last missing parts to make the switch my only go to console for the next few years.

 

[Bellebite2000]

What sort of time frame does it usually take for an OpenGL implementation like this to make its way from this stage to a usable driver in, say, Retroarch Switch (RetroNX)? This stuff is really exciting - There's been huge improvements to RetroNX recently (especially the PCSX-Rearmed core) but I feel like this is the missing piece in the puzzle!

Two or three hours...

Tons of rewrite are necessary to make it right, and last time dev was talking of at least a month. Since no one can code but everyone wants stuff, it is what it is.