WedNESday - Emulator

[WedNESday]

I've finally released WedNESday after 22 years of (on and off) development!

It's written in JavaScript and it's not been properly optimised yet. Also, a few games do still have problems but most of them run without issue.

I'd appreciate it if you could give it a quick test. I'd especially like some of the forum's longest serving members (i.e. the people who have known me since I first started posting here) to do so.

Any bug reports, comments etc. please either post it below or PM me it.

Have fun!

https://www.frontendjames.com/javascript/famicom.html

[creaothceann]

Doesn't seem to work in Firefox. Works in Chrome/Edge.

[WedNESday]

Doesn't seem to work in Firefox. Works in Chrome/Edge.

Thanks for the feedback! Could you be a little more descriptive of your experience?

What happened in Firefox exactly? What was it like in Chrome/Edge?

[dink]

Hi,
I'm using firefox 115 (last one that works with win7), this page below is just blank:
https://www.frontendjames.com/javascrip ... micom.html

best regards,
- dink

[creaothceann]

Thanks for the feedback! Could you be a little more descriptive of your experience?

What happened in Firefox exactly? What was it like in Chrome/Edge?

Clicked on the link in "Please click here to start playing!" and pressed the numpad's + key. A file selection dialog pops up and I can select ROMs (in my case Super Mario Bros., Metroid, Micro Mages).

Firefox:
- the window stays blank and silent, but I can hear my CPU fan ramping up (much more than in Chrome)

Chrome:
- Super Mario Bros. and Micro Mages show up on screen and play their audio
- Metroid stays blank but plays audio; pressing Enter starts the game but somehow it seems to go back to the title screen almost immediately

[WedNESday]

Thanks for the feedback, guys.

I'll have to do some investigative work to determine the issue with Firefox.

For those of you who aren't aware...

- You need to press the numpad's + button to open the file selection window to load a ROM.

- Once loaded, you can use the 'b' button to cycle through a mapper's boards. This is required to play games like Metroid. You can look up which board a games uses @ https://www.nescartdb.com/.

[Dwedit]

If there's no text on the page, then nobody will figure out the controls. I had to read the source code to figure it out, but it seems that you also posted the controls here too.

anyway...

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		// pause for 1 second to allow web audio to initialise
		
		temp = Audio.Context.currentTime + 1;
		
		while (Audio.Context.currentTime < temp)
			;

This freezes Firefox in a endless while loop.

[tepples]

Do you plan to add support for laptop computers that lack a numpad, such as my ThinkPad T450?