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OP
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Could anyone give a good description of how an emulator is made and the basics for making an emulator?
Your planning on making an emulator? sweet! Okay, the basics are: Getting the game,for the system being used, able to play.... yeah, I'm no good at these graphical stuff, it's better jsut to post on Homebrew sites,where there are lotsa inventors... ;DOh, and I think this should be on Technical help...
OP
ok thx for the tip
You need a hell of a lot of experience in programming languages such as C and assembler.
OP
I know that but that's not my problem. :-\
You have to be skilled in C and assembler, and know a lot about the consoles like it's memory mapping and stuff.It's not an easy task.
Take the Project 128 guy for instance; he's going through some strong turbulence in his production. ::)
If you want to experiment with creating an emulator, there's certainly no harm in trying. Whatever you do, don't try a PS3 emulator or whatever, start with something like 'Chip 8', and move up to NES afterwards if you're feeling cocky :P. The first step, of course, would be to thoroughly understand the console and all of its specifications. Then that's generally where mad C++ skills come into play.
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