Console Emulation section?

[PenguinGuy]

It's what I've been wanting to get into. Such as CHIP-8/SCHIP, N64, PS1/PS2, GameBoy, etc..

Their is plenty of documentation available on the internet, just not many decent places to share ideas with or get help.
All the forums I've stumbled across are mean or idiots. =(

[MentaL]

[Flaffera]

Nice job of spamming Tack, Anyways i support this because it might even help people who are making emulations for servers too.

[Ptolemy]

I support this. I'd be highly interested and active in a section like this and also be willing to gather and/or write some of my own guides for console emulations. Oh, "Your Master" is right by the way, other - if not all - communities that partake in console emulation usually are idiotic and incomprehensible; seeing how well RageZone functions together it'd be a great hit. It all depends on Dan of course :P

[Ron]

All you need to know about any console emulator is on their websites. You wouldn't be able to post roms here either because its warez.

There would be no point in having a console emulation section.

[PenguinGuy]

All you need to know about any console emulator is on their websites. You wouldn't be able to post roms here either because its warez.

There would be no point in having a console emulation section.

The original idea of this thread was about development - coding an emulator. I don't really care about downloading and using console emulators nor ROM's, there are plenty of websites out their for that.

[Tyler]

Then again, people are going to. What are console emulators without ROMs? Not to mention your not allowed to advertise the external sites either.

[Zorno]

Not all consoles needs roms. Try to make a dreamcast emu. There are many homegrown programs out there that are legal to copy. Also there is a linux dist that is running on it. Check Wikipedia

[PenguinGuy]

Then again, people are going to. What are console emulators without ROMs? Not to mention your not allowed to advertise the external sites either.

That's why there are moderators. People can use the famous website called google to look for ROM's.

[MentaL]

You mean OLD school stuff? I wonder if we can some how get around hot linking to Roms (hosted on rapidshare for example).

[PenguinGuy]

You mean OLD school stuff? I wonder if we can some how get around hot linking to Roms (hosted on rapidshare for example).

I'm talking about building actual emulators. Write interpreters/compilers/assemblers for them, etc.. But see, this is my point on this post:

Their is plenty of documentation available on the internet, just not many decent places to share ideas with or get help.

CHIP8

A lot of people who want to take a step into developing emulators are told to start with CHIP8 due to it's simplicity. But, that is pretty well the best documentation available (well that I found). That discourages them people extremely, and most will wind up quitting when people start screaming "OMG LEARN 2 CODE FIRST NUB".

And about ROM's, you could take a look at Emu paradise ToS or see how they are getting around it.

[Dawson]

I fully support this it's still game development! having RZ users work on some emulators would be kinda cool :)

And yea after some research the existing places... they're not too great.

[Katsuro]

I think this would be a great idea.

[Flameingskull]

You mean OLD school stuff? I wonder if we can some how get around hot linking to Roms (hosted on rapidshare for example).

if the games are old enough then the copyright on them essentially runs out so depending on the game and system you may be able to link to them legally but you'd have to find the exact dates for all of them first.

[XZeenon]

This would be cool to get into, and learn something new. Support.