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Post by loser13 on Oct 27, 2006 6:36:15 GMT 1
I know nothing about programming, but would it be possible to program a emulator that runs a specific game? In example, an emulator that runs metal gear soloid for the psp and nothing else, and is built just to read that specific data, so that it runs at full speed(or close)?
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Post by anonymous on Oct 27, 2006 19:50:07 GMT 1
Are you thinking of a "port" of a game? (ie: ZQuake, ZDoom, etc)
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Post by loser13 on Oct 28, 2006 8:44:11 GMT 1
More like the way bleem for the dreamcast was done. A single disc would play only one game, because the emu on the disk was programmed to only play that game, but play it perfectly. Just kind of a way to get some of the more wanted psone and n64 titles to the psp.
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Post by Tinnus on Oct 31, 2006 1:52:41 GMT 1
Would take some work, but it's possible... you'd have to really like that game, or someone wanting to pay for it (like Bleem) though  |
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Post by loser13 on Oct 31, 2006 4:25:04 GMT 1
So what your saying, is it would be just as difficult to make a single game emulator, so you might as well make a fully fledged one that trys to play all games?
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Post by angel on Oct 31, 2006 6:29:38 GMT 1
He say you have to be really dedicated to the game to spend a lot of time optimizing it only for fun without getting bored of coding such an emulator. And you will need a great community supporting this game to give you the will to finish and optimize it to the end. Its hard enough to work on a multiple game/machines emulator and keep the mood of continuing and update it. I guess it would be very hard to work such a long time on a single game. Doable, but hard (look TTD, not really an emulator but Fraggler works since very long on it, i guess the community helps a lot). |
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Post by loser13 on Oct 31, 2006 7:30:18 GMT 1
Ahh, i see.I guess it would have to be a game loved by many people, which would make mgs pretty useless with portable ops coming. FF7 or the Ocarina of Time would probably be more supported, but its not like i can code anyway, so oh well. just a thought
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Post by Tinnus on Oct 31, 2006 23:06:39 GMT 1
All PSX games can be run fullspeed emulated in the PSP. That's a technical fact...
Having the skills is a completely different thing though.
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Post by loser13 on Nov 1, 2006 7:09:07 GMT 1
I heard(cant remember where) that psp games are programmed very similiar to psone games, so yeah. Im sure it will be much time before anyone will take on that challenge though. Lets hope sonys psone emu is cracked, so i can enjoy star ocean the second story in a great new portable glory.
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Post by Tinnus on Nov 4, 2006 1:24:17 GMT 1
Yeah well that allegation is wrong. They aren't programmed very likely, they just use the same family of CPUs. WHich only helps with the emulator programmer writing some code to translate the CPU code, hehe. ALso, the PSP has *some* stuff that specifically help emulate other specific parts of the PS1--helps, but it's not like they're similar. It's like having a good GFX card in your PC helps emulate a PS2. Not that the hardware is too similar |
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