Another emulator port I made for fun. This time it's the emulator of an old console using vectorial graphics - Vectrex.

The original code is from vecx by Valavan Manohararajah.

The source code is on my Github.

Attached there is also a zip file with a set of overlays resized for the 3ds.

A romset to be used with these overlays can be downloaded here. Roms can have .bin or .vec extension.

Changelog

Ver. 0.4 (14 April 2016)

• Optimized emulator code for speed
• Added GUI (grabbed from Handy3DS)
• Added sound

Ver. 0.3 (31 March 2016)

• Fixed exiting to HB Launcher
• Implemented some tweak on the emulator code
• Fixed flickering
• Fixed framerate count (was overstimated)
• Added support for .bin roms
• Used a darker overlay for default ROM

Ver. 0.2 (27 March 2016)

• Added ROM selection
• Added overlay
• Added view mode selection (SELECT Key)

Ver. 0.1 POC (26 March 2016)

• First release (here)

Installation

WARNING: folder structure changed starting from v0.3. If you update from v0.2 move your roms in the /Vectrex/Roms subfolder

In the the zip file there is a Vex3DS folder with the program in 3dsx format. This folder have to be placed in the 3DS folder. There is also a Vectrex folder to be placed in the root of the SD. This folder has 3 subfolder:

• Roms: where you can put roms and overlays
• Bios: where the emulator seraches bios.dat (the BIOS file free for non commercial use) and bios.png files (included in the zip)
• Skin: the folder contains the default image for the menu top screen

Starting the program you can select a ROM and make it run with the A key or you can run the default ROM in the bios with B.

While running a ROM you can change the screen view with the Select key. In the rotated view, the direction keys are rotated too.

While playing a ROM, the Start key open the menu.

Speed is almost 50FPS on most games using frameskip 4. The sound in crappy but will improve in next releases.

Known Bugs

- Selecting the default bios rom with X key doesn't work

To Do List

- Get better sound
- Reach full speed (50 FPS) with less frameskip
- Add N3DS CPU boost

Screenshots

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This is pretty cool

 

Added some screenshots in the OP.

 

Looking forward to this ... What a surprise.

I remember playing this in the department store in 1983 whilst mum went shopping elsewhere. Never did own one.

Maybe make an overlay feature having a small frontal offset as a front 3D layer giving a slight amount of parallax.

 

Bug is already fixed. For fullspeed I have to work on emulator code. Don't know yet if it is possible but I'll try.

Now the priority is to eliminate flickering, but for this too i have to changethe emulator internals.

 

O3DS gets 42fps in Mine Storm
Select rotates you to the different screens (full screen spread over top and bottom, rotated, etc...)

I don't know if it's possible to get a sharper image, for now full screen spread over top/bottom is best to read

 

Man, this is so good.

Thank you!!

 

Just added in the OP a zip file with a set of overlays resized for the 3ds.

A romset to be used with these overlays can be downloaded here. Roms have .bin extension: rename in .vec or wait a couple of days for the next release.

 

A random new emulator out of the blue is always great to see, thanks!

 

Thanks for working with this emulator! It seems like it is getting closer to near perfect, or at least fully playable!