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And let's not forget the fun factor. Isn't that the only reason any of us indie developers code anything? That and donations. I got enough donations from TOD, my GBA test cases, and my forum.gbadev.org posts to buy a DS and a DS homebrew kit back when homebrew was expensive (early PassMe days). Loc...

@Zepper Why does anybody attempt to make an emulator? And why do people continue to make emulators of consoles that are often already perfect or near perfectly emulated? Is it because it is necessary? No. It's the personal challenge, the learning experience, the inquistive nature of wanting to know ...

@tepples The systems that are already directly backwards compatible don't interest me so much. Eg. PS1 on PS2, or GC games on a Wii. These systems don't really need to be re-emulated or converted anyway. I wonder though more about things like turning a .nes into a .wad, for example. Not to play thro...

Yeah, I can't promise that anything will ever come of this idea either.

The whole concept of it is interesting though. Being able to play a previous generation's game on a console in a non-emulated form.

I'll be back with more questions, if it gets off of the ground.

@Disch Not a lot yet, but: 1. There are plenty of technical docs available explain what things are and how they work. 2. There are also plenty tools to help decpiher whats going on. 3. There are even rom maps available for a number of games to aid the process. The fact that there is already hardwar...

Well getting an NROM game to patch would be my first objective.

But surely with a bit of work it could also be done for games with different mappers?

He's right. Every NES game that I tried works sucessfully.

So the interesting thing to me is now, can the same thing be done in the ROM itself rather than in the emulator?

This might be interesting...

byuu wrote:There's also Super Sleuth, which is really novel.

It's an SNES emulator, but it redirects NES registers to their SNES "roughly" equivalents, and uses the SNES CPU. With only a little bit of code, it runs Super Mario Bros.

That's pretty cool. Thanks for the link.

Hehe. I didn't expect this sort of a response.

It was more of a "would this be possible," rather than anything concrete.
tbh I am nowhere near skilled enough coding-wise to be able to pull something like this off yet, or even any time soon.

wasn't the snes built to be compatible with nes games ? so that's probably a possible thing The SNES was originally supposed to be compatible with NES ROMS, but apparently Nintendo had a lot of prob at the time getting it working, and so it never happened. Both the NES and SNES CPU are the similar ...

Well so far I've seen that people have done this by hand, but I've yet to come across any apps written that automate the process.

Not saying that they don't exist though...

Ok I'm slowly learning C++, and teaching myself how to make a NES emulator at the same time. But I also have an idea for a little side/project. What I want to try is to make a program that can convert NES games to SNES games. Why do you ask? Especially when there are already plenty of both NES and S...

That would be good if you could update the instructions, please.

Hi there, I'm a hobbyist just starting out and hoping to code my own NES emulator. Anyway I've just stumbled across the nesdevWiki which I think is a great idea. Especially the way it is all layed out in a series of logical steps to take. So I downloaded cc65-win32-2.13.0-1.zip as per the instructio...