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Genesis Emulator for IPOD

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Chronon:
I suppose it can stay open provided further discussion is restricted to developing a Rockbox plugin.

LambdaCalculus:
I doubt a Genesis emulator would work. We would have to emulate quite a few chips, including, but not limited to:

* 68000 CPU running at approx. 8 MHz
* Z80 CPU running at 3.58 MHz
* YM2612 FM chip, which provides the bulk of the audio work

There's another chip in the system that's used for the sound system, but I don't remember what it is off the top of my head. Not to mention the fact that playing anything of this sort on an iPod will be an excersice in frustration... but can you imagine playing games that require 6 buttons? *BLEEP* that!

The only players that COULD do it MAY be the Coldfire targets, provided someone can run a virtual 68K session on top of the Coldfire (which is mostly 68K-compatible, instruction wise). But this is all speculation.

Sanek:

--- Quote from: LambdaCalculus379 on September 17, 2007, 11:33:21 AM --- Not to mention the fact that playing anything of this sort on an iPod will be an excersice in frustration... but can you imagine playing games that require 6 buttons? *BLEEP* that!

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Its not that bad really, try it with rockboy - setup up, down, left, right, make button A in top left corner (move the wheel a little for it to register), button B in top right corner, use bottom left for start, bottom right for select and the middle button for menu (if there is such a button in gameboy).

When you play, you don't actually have to press any of those buttons on the ipod wheel, just need to touch it and it will get activated. Finished Prince of Persia under rockboy, you really do get used to the keys pretty fast.

LambdaCalculus:
Okay, for argument's sake, let's say someone writes a Genesis emulator, and then I want to watch you try and play something like Streets of Rage or Sonic the Hedgehog, or any high action game for that matter with the scroll wheel. Then we'll talk more about "not that bad, really".

Rockboy is "not that bad, really" because the Game Boy only has four buttons: A, B, Select, Start. You can map them to the corners of the scroll wheel, but it's still unintuitive to play platform games on them. For example, I can play Tetris with no problems, but a game like, say, Mega Man will give me a lot of problems, because I try to move and keep on brushing the corners, making Mega Man jump when I don't want to and constantly throwing myself into pits. In my opinion, the only DAP with a workable button configuration for Rockboy is the iriver H300.

Rob:

--- Quote from: LambdaCalculus379 on September 18, 2007, 08:20:18 AM ---Okay, for argument's sake, let's say someone writes a Genesis emulator, and then I want to watch you try and play something like Streets of Rage or Sonic the Hedgehog, or any high action game for that matter with the scroll wheel. Then we'll talk more about "not that bad, really".

Rockboy is "not that bad, really" because the Game Boy only has four buttons: A, B, Select, Start. You can map them to the corners of the scroll wheel, but it's still unintuitive to play platform games on them. For example, I can play Tetris with no problems, but a game like, say, Mega Man will give me a lot of problems, because I try to move and keep on brushing the corners, making Mega Man jump when I don't want to and constantly throwing myself into pits. In my opinion, the only DAP with a workable button configuration for Rockboy is the iriver H300.

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The h300 works better than most, though from my experience it's not entirely suited - due to how close circle and A+B buttons are (become buttons A and B) are to the direction keys, you end up pressing the wrong ones, especially on high action games and racers. Though on something like pokemon, that isn't fast paced, it works perfectly.

In my opinion the next console to port, if any, is the NES - it's very similar in power to the gameboy, and has the exact same buttons, meaning it won't get any more akward than it already is.

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