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Re: Would an NES emulator be possible on Nspire?
« Reply #345 on: February 04, 2012, 01:24:45 am »
Would there be any chance of the American Video Entertainment's (79) mapper to be supported in a future release. Support for their hearty Solitaire/Blackjack engine would be great, as well as various minor games such as Impossible Mission-II, Dudes with Attitude, etc...

The current release is amazing, If I may add. Keep up the good work, Goplat.

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Re: Would an NES emulator be possible on Nspire?
« Reply #346 on: February 05, 2012, 06:24:56 pm »
Just added support for Ndless file associations. Also added a workaround for the Sonic the Hedgehog $2002 issue (turns out some other games have the problem too).

Would there be any chance of the American Video Entertainment's (79) mapper to be supported in a future release
I'd need to make it possible for mappers to hook reads/writes to 4000-7FFF addresses, right now the mapper is only called when writing to 8000-FFFF.

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Re: Would an NES emulator be possible on Nspire?
« Reply #347 on: February 05, 2012, 10:33:21 pm »
ERROR: unimplemented mapper
Guess I had better explain this. The NES hardware only provided 32kB of memory space for program ROM and 8kB for character ROM. This wasn't enough for most games, so to overcome these limits they would add hardware in the cartridge, called a "mapper", that the game could use to map different parts of ROM (and sometimes RAM) into memory. Some mappers would have other functions as well.

There are over 100 different kinds of mappers that have been used, and some are very complicated, so being able to emulate every one of them is a tall order. I've implemented only a few of the most common ones.
please implement the one in super mario bros 2 the lost levels (I love this game and want to play it on my nspire)
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Re: Would an NES emulator be possible on Nspire?
« Reply #348 on: February 06, 2012, 08:29:30 am »
It's different from the Original SMB? ??? I kind of figured they were the exact same game, except that Lost levels had different level data (and a new effect or two (IE wind).

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Re: Would an NES emulator be possible on Nspire?
« Reply #349 on: February 06, 2012, 07:02:51 pm »
no. Lost Levels are made for pro players.
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Re: Would an NES emulator be possible on Nspire?
« Reply #350 on: February 07, 2012, 08:16:32 am »
Yea, I know. I just figured the engine would be nearly identical.

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Re: Would an NES emulator be possible on Nspire?
« Reply #351 on: February 07, 2012, 10:46:30 am »
The Japanese Super Mario Bros. 2 (aka "Lost Levels") was for the Famicom Disk System add-on, which was a lot more than just a mapper.
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Re: Would an NES emulator be possible on Nspire?
« Reply #352 on: February 07, 2012, 07:58:31 pm »
Ah, wow. I did not know that. :D

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Re: Would an NES emulator be possible on Nspire?
« Reply #353 on: March 06, 2012, 11:48:49 pm »
I tried to get Earthbound 1 on my TI - nSpire CAS w/ Touchpad. It has ndless 3.1 and NESulator (The NES emulator). But it says "Error: not an NES file". Please someone help? Step-by-step instructions would help a bunch!

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Re: Would an NES emulator be possible on Nspire?
« Reply #354 on: March 07, 2012, 01:52:21 am »
that is a snes game
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Re: Would an NES emulator be possible on Nspire?
« Reply #355 on: March 07, 2012, 02:04:03 am »
Hi and welcome to the forums. Right now this emulator only supports NES games, not SNES. You could try Mother 1/Earthbound 0 though.

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Re: Would an NES emulator be possible on Nspire?
« Reply #356 on: April 07, 2012, 04:44:09 pm »
I know it's necroposting and everything, but at least save states in NESpire will be nice to have.
iirc, save state is just the copy of the instant memory, right?
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Re: Would an NES emulator be possible on Nspire?
« Reply #357 on: April 07, 2012, 07:19:35 pm »
I know it's necroposting and everything, but at least save states in NESpire will be nice to have.
iirc, save state is just the copy of the instant memory, right?
That's true. Since Super Mario 3 doesn't save (idk how a least) I always hav to start over.
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Re: Would an NES emulator be possible on Nspire?
« Reply #358 on: April 24, 2012, 10:35:46 pm »
Double post since it's been a long time :P

For Dragon Warrior III, I used the 'S' to save.  When I looked up the game, it is supposedly a battery-backed save game (unless I saw wrong).
How come the save can't be accessed or the game doesn't read it?
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Re: Would an NES emulator be possible on Nspire?
« Reply #359 on: April 25, 2012, 05:13:24 pm »
Move it, or delete it?