VT-369 emulators?

[hjalfi]

Are there any decent open-source emulators for VT-369 derived devices? I'm currently reverse engineering a weird bootleg device and would like something I can hack about with.

I know about NintendulatorNRS, but unfortunately it only builds on Windows, which I don't use. And there's also MAME, but it barely has any VT-369 support and I don't really feel up to implementing it all by myself. Does anyone know of any others?

Thanks!

[stan423321]

NintendulatorNRS is the one emulator that indeed bothers with a few more enhanced famiclones. Most other emulator authors nowadays target accuracy in emulation of the more common / less enhanced Famicom variants instead. I can only speculate this has to do with 1. lack of availability of software-modifiable VT-xx(x) hardware globally and 2. lack of well known high quality games for that hardware that people would want to play.

I think most people just use it with Wine when appropriate. If you're on a non-x86 computer without a Fex or BoxXX port, maybe winelib is still a thing?

[hjalfi]

NintendulatorNRS runs fine on Wine, but I want to be able to modify it, and the source is extremely Windows-only (i.e. Visual Studio .sln files)...

The context, BTW, is that I've found a source of VT-369 bootleg multicart players off AliExpress for about $10 each, and the ROM is a serial flash chip and so is easy to remove and modify.

[Ben Boldt]

Has there ever been a VT-03 or higher console that accepts normal cartridges or is it always stuck using an onboard flash chip?

[tepples]

NintendulatorNRS runs fine on Wine, but I want to be able to modify it, and the source is extremely Windows-only (i.e. Visual Studio .sln files)...

org on the NESdev Discord server recommended two things:

1. Install Python, and convert the .sln file to CMakeLists.txt using cmake-converter
2. Install Visual Studio 2022 in Wine, provided you have a large enough SSD

[hjalfi]

I tried cmake-converter --- no luck, I'm afraid. It doesn't seem to like something in the sln files, and after applying a suggested workaround the resulting cmake files wouldn't build. And there appears to be no version of Visual Studio which is installable on Wine... so it looks like I'm out of luck there!

[Dwedit]

Can winemaker build it?