Hi there,
You might have seen our little announcement of Facebook, but for those who didn't I'll post here, too.
A number of people have asked whether they could support the project via donations. We've been a bit hesitant with setting up something like this, but ultimately realized that it would indeed make a lot of things easier. So if you're interested in helping us out, here's the paypal to go to:
https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=K899FANUJ2ZXW
Donations accumulate easily, so don't worry if you can only donate a small amount
To give you an idea of things we'll spend the donations on:
* 3DS consoles: This is the most expensive, but also most helpful point. Developers can use access to actual consoles to figure out how the hardware works. Some of us have bought consoles out of their own pocket solely for reverse-engineering the hardware and never played any games with them. We would like this to be the exception, and instead give skilled developers something to work with without requiring them to pay for working on an open-source project.
* Additional 3DS equipment: Games, NDS flashcards, etc. All that kind of stuff which is required for testing and/or getting homebrew code execution.
* In the future, we will likely need some income to cover for server costs (website, buildbots, etc), too.
* More generally, we would like to be able to buy things helping Citra development directly or indirectly without having to worry about our personal finances.
Some people stated concerns that they would be willing to pay only if they received a binary build to tinker around with. Please understand that we will not provide those builds in the near future. We simply see little point in it currently, and it would just mean that we have to set up some buildbot infrastructure now and deal with user support. It's just not worth currently given that this is time that we lose for coding. That said, I believe we have thrown out more than enough evidence (here and on our
Facebook page) that our project is legit and is making steady (if not even accelerating) progress. Rest assured, builds will be provided once we think the general public should have access to them, and meanwhile anyone can set up a development environment and
build it from the source code on GitHub.
That said, I'm looking forward to seeing what people think about this announcement and/or if I should be more specific in any relevant points, so feel free to leave a comment to this thread.
Regards,
neobrain
Citra developer