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Game boy advance
GodEater:
Nothing is impossible - go right ahead and start work if you want it.
You'll find it's probably a pretty unpopular choice with the core dev team - none of whom actually use rockboy as it is to my knowledge. So the only way this is going to happen is if the people who actually want it, write it.
Mad Cow:
Starting with the Gigabeat would be the logical choice if anyone ever tries it. From what I know, that's how previous rockbox codecs and plugs were implemented. They started off running 100% with the fastest target, then got optimized for slower targets.
GodEater:
The gigabeat is one of our most recent ports - so this isn't true really.
I believe *most* of our codecs probably started life on the first swcodec platform rockbox had, which was the iRiver H1x0.
Mad Cow:
--- Quote from: GodEater on June 23, 2007, 12:11:26 PM ---The gigabeat is one of our most recent ports - so this isn't true really.
I believe *most* of our codecs probably started life on the first swcodec platform rockbox had, which was the iRiver H1x0.
--- End quote ---
Exactle, for example the AAC codec, it started life running 100% on the coldfire targets, but didn't run realtime on the portalplayers, then slowly it got optimized until it did. I think that same happened with OGG and FLAC.
Vortex:
--- Quote ---im pretty sure the amount of people that have rockbox will double. The rockboy advance presuming you would call it that would be the ultimate viewer and maybe even more popular and used more then the mpeg player
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I don't think so because you still need the GBA roms. If you don't own any GBA roms (which is pretty pointless when you don't own a GBA) then this viewer plugin is worthless.
Besides, those people who want to play GBA games might as well go and buy a GBA. That way you will definitely get a better game experience than by playing on you DAP.
I'm not saying that making a GBA emulator for Rockbox would be a bad idea, but I don't think that it would "double the amount of people" that use Rockbox.
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