Sony needs to make a new Xperia Play ASAP.
ZOMG! You are so right! I always thought that the Xperia play was an awesome product. Hell, I still want one! Sony dropped the ball when they decided to just give up on the device.
It's a good thing Sony has been nice to the developers, the guys over at XDA seem to be doing just fine with the Xperia Play ATM. The only reason why I haven't picked one up myself is because I'm still hoping Sony has plans for a Play 2
Didn't realize you had an account on here. How well does it make use of multiple cores? Is the compatibility better than No$GBA?The emulator's source doesn't have any connection with any other emulator's, not even gpSP, so yeah it's from scratch. Compatibility is worse than desmume, but hopefully only a very small amount of that is due to intrinsic inaccuracies rather than bugs that can hopefully be fixed in time.
Well it's very subjective what passes as good enough emulation or what's considered extremely powerful, but I think a pretty mid-range phone or tablet should be okay for most people. Something with a couple Cortex-A9 cores (but not Tegra 2, it needs NEON) should work pretty well. On Pandora a lot of games run well and that only has a single Cortex-A8 @ 1GHz, but there are some efficiency advantages there vs running it on Android. Still, even a single core Cortex-A8 or Scorpion platform may be good enough some games.
Didn't realize you had an account on here. How well does it make use of multiple cores? Is the compatibility better than No$GBA?
Anyway great work on this, there are a couple desmume ports already but they run so slowly I wasn't sure a full speed emulator was possible.
I'm pretty amazed you wrote this from scratch. How long did that take?
Exophase: Does this emulator support local multiplayer? If yes, will it be via local WiFi, Bluetooth or both?
There's an option to use another thread for 3D rendering, but it currently causes glitches in some games so it's off by default (I'm still working out improved strategies for this). It can improve performance quite a lot, although I wouldn't say it's a must. Other than that, the screen update runs on a separate thread in Android.
No idea about compatibility vs No$GBA big picture-wise, although I do know there are at least some games it plays that No$GBA doesn't.
I worked on it about 9 months from 2009 to 2010 and 11 months from 2012 to now so about 20 months total. Spent much more time on it than gpSP (or any other emulator stuff I've worked on). Lordus has also been working on the Android stuff for the past few months.
There's no DS wifi emulation. That's really pretty complex.
I guess it's outdated then... My PC can run Dolphin and PS2 emulators just fine, but the versions of No$GBA and DeSmume are very slow, maybe something to do with the settings (?), ;0;
The wifi chip itself (yes, its used in local multiplayer) is the complex part which is why its hard to emulate.I'm sorry, I should have clarified myself. I wasn't talking about WiFi as in Nintendo WiFi connection but I was wondering if the local multiplayer protocol would be emulated and if THAT protocol would be using either local bluetooth or local wifi to connect multiple devices. Even with that said, I can totally understand if that would also be considered too hard to emulate. BTW any ETA on this great piece of software? I'm ready to just hand you mah money lol!
omg omg omg
wait wait I have a Droid Razr HD, does anyone know of any reason that would be non compatible off the top of their heads?
Should work fine for your device.
One of the many reasons android beats apple.