alt Hacker NewsAmazing effort, but just makes me pine for the write-ups of Byuu (or the Dolphin devlog in more recent times).
I would highly recommend Shonumi's contemporary devlog focusing mainly on rare or difficult to emulate peripherals for the gameboy and GBA, ranging from infrared modems to Sonar-based fish detection dongles!
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Dolphin has some absolutely fascinating right ups on the lengths they had to go to in order to get Factor 5 games to run. When you're working with a fixed hardware set there are absolutely incredible things you can do to eke out extra performance that will go completely unappreciated until years later when somebody tries to run that software on a emulate hardware.
Does anyone know a PC emulator that properly allows mic input via Soundblaster emulation?
I managed to find my first published app on archive.org from like 1994, but it's a music visualizer and requires audio input.
Rest in power. The scene is not the same without him.
https://shonumi.github.io/articles/art16.html
Wow, that brings back childhood memories.
> I should mention that I was a huge Battle Network fan growing up with the GBA. I joined my first online community (GameWinners.com) specifically for the Mega Man forum.
> My first username (Team Shadow V2) was actually a riff on one of the new features found in MMBN2.
> In a way, Battle Network is a huge reason why I'm here trying to preserve old games.
> The Battle Network games will always hold memories of joy and nostalgia for me, so I wanted to see the Battle Chip Gates fully emulated not only for the benefit of video game history, but also for my own enjoyment.
Me too... MMBN2 is a big reason why I learned English and became a programmer. Huge respect.
I still love it so much. It's fun to think back on it and reflect on how oddly prescient it was.
PCs reachable directly from the internet, hosting home pages: a world without NAT. Internet connected doghouses and dishwashers. Mobile handheld AI capable personal computers. Everyone has their own custom AI agents that help navigate the complexity of the cyberworld, and also for self-defense. What I can only assume to be vulnerabilities, reified as literal weapons used by the AIs. Underworld networks normal people don't dare to navigate into. Cyber terrorists everywhere doing things like trying to burn people's houses down by electronically sabotating ovens, causing major damage and loss of life by hacking water mains, power grids, traffic signals, trying to nuke dams, actually hacking entire nations and genociding their AI populations, disrupting global environmental control systems, hacking autopilot systems in planes to bring them down like 9/11...
Byuu was fantastic - I remember when they came onto the scene and made a big push for better emulator compatibility across the board. Byuu made positive changes in the world, and I still think about them from time to time.