Homebrew Question Port and older PC game to Switch?

[RafaMR13]

Hi guys, I was thinking if it's possible to port to the switch an older PC game with an emulator or something, because it will be cool to play some classic games from PC (I would love to play Claw Pirate on portable mode on switch)

 

[hippy dave]

I don't know how old Claw Pirate is, but there's Dosbox as part of retroarch, might not be 100% operational yet.

 

[RafaMR13]

the game is from 1997

 

[notimp]

This is a fascinating game of moron chess, where instead of making a move the two players sit with their backs turned towards the board, throwing a baseball, and a hammer against opposite walls, until one of the pieces on the board moves by a piece of ricochet flying in from the walls.

Fascinating as it is:

- The game isnt listed on the dosbox compatibilitylist
- much of which is due to the fact, that it is a Windows only game
- for witch the source code isn't published.

Im now sitting back and awaiting the "but I want!" response on part of the millennial, but at least the intense chess game is over. It ended in a draw btw. none of you managed to make a move.

Oh, I used google for 5 seconds to find out. Consider me an expert.

 

[RafaMR13]

I only asked if it will be possible, if it cant be so I will play it on the pc its simple

 

[notimp]

There is actually an open source reimplementation of the engine though, so a port would be possible:
https://github.com/pjasicek/OpenClaw

Google, another 5 seconds.

 

[RafaMR13]

What I won with that? the engine that its made its compatible with retroarch or something? because I have it on pc already

 

[djmuted]

I am working on a port of this game for a few weeks now and I managed to compile OpenClaw using libnx but still there is a problem with the tinyxml library causing the entire OS to freeze and there is no proper way to debug it atm.
I guess I need to wait for proper libnx debug tools or else working on ports will be hard.

 

[RafaMR13]

if you can do it, it will be awesome if not at least we have pc

 

[hippy dave]

(the usual shitcuntery)

I was actually supplying them with some info to work with, something to google perhaps, but without going so far as to google it myself. However, I was doing so without being an abrasive shitcunt. Try it sometime.