SNEmulDS! v0.1 - New Snes Emulator for the Nintendo DS

[wraggster]

New release from archeide (http://www.playeradvance.org/forum/showpost.php?p=71040&postcount=1), heres the translated news:


Hello!

It is my first message on this forum, therefore I present myself a little bit: archeide, I worked on a Super emulator BORN called SNEmul in a former life (it has almost 10 years there!), oldest among you will remember it can be! Since I had a little dropped the world from the emulation. But I fell under the charm from the small DS lite, and I cracked on June 23 I bought one of them! And after having played a little bit, I could not resist, almost 10 years after, I was caught a large blow of nostalgia, and I wanted to carry this old emulator for DOS (which I had carried out with v0x) on his/her small sister, the DS!

After 3 working weeks intensive, that starts to take form.
According to close the topicality on this excellent site, I thus allows itself to call upon you to test a version alpha of the emulator.
For the moment, the emulator still has a large defect: it is rather slow bus entirely programmed out of C. But good nothing dramatic, that remains rather playable.
It also does not miss badly a thing: the MODE7, an update line by line, the SOUND, etc
For the moment, I seek especially testers on other readers that my m3 slim SD. I use the bookshop chrism modified by KIDNEY.

To use it it is rather simple:
It is necessary to put SNEmulDS.ds (I do not have yet a ds.gba, I did not even study how that was manufactured say me how to make ) at the root of the chart flash.
It is necessary to create a repertory SNES with the root, and to put ROMs inside.
It is then enough to launch SNEmulDS and a list is posted to choose the ROMANIAN with launching. Support on START, and normally the play launches out.
The screen of bottom is handled directly with the stylet, sorry if that jumps from time to time (if you have goods algos I am taking). The GUI is very summary and would need talents in the field!

This message is thus also a call to all those which would wish to take part in this project. I will provide the sources soon. As it is entirely out of C, I think that that will be able interessser of the world.
I am new in the world of development DS thus I am in the search of information or assistance to optimize the emulator kind how to place pieces of codes in the IWRAM (can one take 64kb in ARM9
??)

I would post later on gbadev, but it is true that they would be more sympathetic to have a project 100% French!

If you have comments or very other notices, I am still there for a few days before leaving in vacancy.

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[JKKDARK]

nice emu :)

[kcajblue]

alright! a new SNES emulator! :D

[havoc_012]

SNES emulator!! Awsome!!

Can't figure out how the file browser works though.

bottom screen

"says Init OK...
Initialize FS...
Found FS..."

Should be a way to get to the roms though...

Update: Seems like the file browser doesn't like certain symbols. Just had to simplify the names to get the roms running. Apparantly one bad name and the whole list gets thrown off. At any rate, got it running now.

[Andy C]

this sound welll cool i've been waiting forever for a descent snes emulator, good work!

I've only tried cannon fodder and chaos engine so far but both roms stay black with the menu on the bottom screen.

I'm sure most games will be playable soon so keep it up!

[The Hombrew Hunter]

How does it work?

[toiletking]

Yes! great! very good work ! It's very nice that we don't need to translate the rom with a software!

C'est du très bon travail!!! un émulateur à la picodrive : une super interface, une bonne compatibilité : ca s'annonce super bien!

On supercard CF :
Actraiser 1 : Black screen
Actraiser 2 : works fine
Castlevania 4 : Works fine
Castlevania vampire kiss : works fine

Slow but effective!

Good job!

[Video_freak]

How fast does this run? :)

[The Hombrew Hunter]

SOMEONE TELL ME HOW TO GET THE DAMN THING WORKING! Please?

Edit: 900th poooost!

[Video_freak]

SOMEONE TELL ME HOW TO GET THE DAMN THING WORKING! Please?

Edit: 900th poooost!
Sorry, I don't do NDS homebrew...

[kcajblue]

all of the games i tried didnt work. except one of them

[SuperJMN]

I hope this emulator would break the SNES emulator scene. Keep on trying and show your skills! It's a great start!

Well done :D!

[Video_freak]

all of the games i tried didnt work. except one of them
How was the speed? What game?

[kcajblue]

the only one that worked was Pocky & Rocky and it was running kind of slow.

[Video_freak]

Oh. Thanks for the quick reply. ;)

[ACID]

Sweet works great and with some sound. All though big games over 1.3mb still dont work atleast the ones i tryied.

[kcajblue]

is that 1.3mb zipped or unzipped.

[ACID]

is that 1.3mb zipped or unzipped.
unzipped it doesnt read any game thats zipped:(

[Video_freak]

unzipped it doesnt read any game thats zipped:(
So you wouldn't say it's as good as the PSP SNES emu then... :(

[ACID]

Not in a million years

[Video_freak]

Not in a million years
:(

[kcajblue]

yeah. the PSP SNES is soo much better.

[ACID]

but this is still an improvement for the NDS. Hopefully he will keep at it and we will get something great for the NDS

[kcajblue]

hopefully...

[ACID]

ITs a pain to work with the emulating ao ARM7 & ARM9 And redirecting and buffering sound on the NDS but very well capable. Im sure he will do fine

[Video_freak]

I hope! NDS needs this! :)

[kcajblue]

it really does need this. but for now, ill stick with SNES on my PSP.

[ACID]

Hey GBC , PC ENGINE , NES , SMS , SGG , GENESIS work very good on it. And GBA

[Video_freak]

Yeah... just sayin SNES is also awesome! :)

[ACID]

Hey think about this NDS plays GBA games at full speed. The PSP doesnt 1 point for the NDS. LOL

[Video_freak]

1 and only 1. ;)

[ACID]

but moving on up.

[Eyedunno]

I still consider it a major screwup on Nintendo's part to not allow programming the X and Y buttons for GBA games. It would have been great for the Street Fighter games and so on.

[Arimasen]

Does It Work On The M3 Perfect With Mini-sd Card

[xelinor]

So far I got 3 games to work for me (havent gotten sound to work at all):

Ranma - Treasure of the Crimson Cats (worked perfectly, save for sound, but was a bit slow)

Mega Man X - a decent number of graphical errors, but works well enough to be playable.

Where in Time is Carmen Sandiago - sorta worked...

This is useing a Supercard Lite and superkey, and this is the first SNES emulator i've even been able to get to LAUNCH, so good stuff! Keep it up!

[Klaus2]

Hello

So crappy comments :eek: "my PSP does better".

Its an Alpha dudes :cool:


The interface is really nice (that what SnezziDS is missing) no need to poweroff/on every time i wanna test a new rom.

Greets
Klaus

P.S. u ever thaught about joining http://boards.pocketheaven.com/ ?

There are really capable Emu writers who could help u when u have a problem.

[The Hombrew Hunter]

Tetris 3-ALMOST FULL SPEED! WORKED LIKEA CHARM!

[metroplex2k7]

This thing sounds good. But here's what'll make you legend... Save capability, ability to play games over 1.5M (Chronotrigger, Tales of Phantasia) oh, and a personal request, Max Media Dock compatibility. ;) You da man!

[sonikku88]

This thing sounds good. But here's what'll make you legend... Save capability, ability to play games over 1.5M (Chronotrigger, Tales of Phantasia) oh, and a personal request, Max Media Dock compatibility. ;) You da man!

Yep, Max Media compatiblity is a bugger. When I try to load it up on my MMD, the "Initialize...FS" message keeps appearing over and over, not going anywhere. :(

[Qerppsmmnx]

So, it's the MMD that is doing that? :( I was so happy too....

[iball]

Screw compatability with the MMD for the time being.
Work should continue on bigger ROMs and speeding it up and THEN someone can go back and attempt to make it work for that flashcart-that's-not-a-flashcart.

[ACID]

Contra III runs very good hope he keeps it up.

[emuking]

cool a new emu and wow there is so many comments :D

[Video_freak]

cool a new emu and wow there is so many comments :D
When something this big hits, there's usually A LOT of comments. :)

[Arimasen]

When I launch it, this is all that shows up:

http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c20/Arimasen/Snapshots/DSC00001.jpg

Yes, I have all my ROMs in a /SNES/ folder from the root. Yes I have the .nds file in the root. I'm using a M3 Perfect with Passcard3 and a 2GB miniSD card. WHY WONT THIS WORK

[kcajblue]

its probably the name of your rom. rename it to something simple.
before: Chrono Trigger - Music Library.smc
after: chrono trigger music library.smc

[Arimasen]

its probably the name of your rom. rename it to something simple.
before: Chrono Trigger - Music Library.smc
after: chrono trigger music library.smc
I have more than one rom in the folder. Is this a problem? I thought I could select a rom from a list inside the folder. But I will rename my roms to be one word each to make it easier and I will edit this post with results (or if someone else posts, I will make a new post).

[kcajblue]

you can have multiple roms in the SNES folder

[Arimasen]

Okay renaming all my roms to one word all lowercase didnt help at all. Now I'm just stumped.

[kcajblue]

did you remove special characters like : - + and others.

[Arimasen]

did you remove special characters like : - + and others.
as I said before, my file names are one word, like "supermarioworld.smc".

[kcajblue]

These are what i tested.
Chrono Trigger: Gives me an Error
Street Fighter Alpha 2: Gives me an Error
Final Fantasy 5: Gives me an Error
Yoshi's Island: Gives me an Error
Tenchi Muyo: Gives me an Error
Super Punch Out: Gives me an Error
Super Mario Kart: Loads but gets stuck at Nintendo Logo
Mortal Kombat 2: Gives me an Error
Pocky and Rocky: Runs slowly
Sonic Blastman: Runs slowly
Star Ocean: Gives me an Error
Super Bomberman 2: Black Screen
Super Bomberman 3: Black Screen
Super Bomberman 4: Gives me an Error
Super Bomberman 5: Gives me an Error
Super Mario Allstars + World: Gives me an Error
Worms: Gives me an Error
Dragon Ball Z Hyper Dimension: Gives me an Error
Final Fantasy 3: Gives me an Error
Final Fantasy 4: Ran slowly with glitchy graphics
Flashback: Gives me an Error
LoZ, A Link To The Past: Runs slowly
Magic Knights Rayearth: Black Screen

[kcajblue]

as I said before, my file names are one word, like "supermarioworld.smc".thats odd. it should work then.

[Arimasen]

Im guessing this emu, just like SnesDS and SnezziDS, do not work on the M3 Perfect w/ Passcard3 and a miniSD card.

[kcajblue]

who knows? gotta wait for other peoples responses.

[ramjet]

HEYYY SNES MUL I remmeber using that to play secret of manna and chrono trigger (with no sound) on my p133 in the early days of emulators (before the mighty zsnes and snes9x) , hope this becomes as quality as your release was back then.

[Weasel211]

tried Sim City. Runs slow and many Graphic Errors

[Bonic]

realease a source code of this ....NOW

[ACID]

Works great with supercard lite

[miracleropit]

Im guessing this emu, just like SnesDS and SnezziDS, do not work on the M3 Perfect w/ Passcard3 and a miniSD card.

I have that exact setup and got one of them to run ok! I think Snezzi. Have you gotten the latest version? It runs and with sound, but of course many/most ROMs don't play correctly, parts are invisible.

[The Hombrew Hunter]

Rename all roms to have no brackets or parenthesis, or the like.

Like from Seiken Densetu 3 (J).smc to Seiken Densetu 3.smc

Note, Seiken Densetu 3 doesn't work on SNEmulDS.

[le_dadaiste]

I've tested uniracer, unable to play (only see racers, the background doesnt appear) and to slow.

I also tested super punch out, speed seems great but as for uniracer unable to see anything while in match.

Bravo quand meme, ca a l'air vraiment tout pres de fontionner a merveille, tu risques de réaliser mon reve su DS (jouer a seiken densetsu 3) si jamais tu as besoin d'aide pour tester ou quoi que ce soit, envoie moi un mail a [email protected].

Ciao et encore bravo

[bagofsnakes]

no sound, slow, weird graphical errors sometimes