Gameboy Advance Emulator.

[Ferentix]

don't think people should donate toward an emulator, for two reasons. One, it's illegal to make money off of an emulator, and thus could get the project shut down.

Not really true. If devs accept donations, then it is just that- a donation. Which means that you aren't really paying for it directly- they aren't making money off the emulator as such in any case. It's just a donation. You could be making it for any reason . In any case, it is not really illegal to be making money off an emulator any more than it is to make it off any other software (by being paid for it I mean, not talking bout malware like virus or whatever).

Two, the developer should be doing this for his hobby and for fun, not to make money.

er... why not?

Anyway, in many cases, devs don't charge for their games and emus. Most will accept voluntary donations, but there are few projects on GP32 by homebrew devs that have a mandatory payment. That's really cool of the devs to do that, but also there would often be plenty of justification to be charging most of the time, given the number of good quality projects there are! Just because you do it for fun, as a hobby, doesn't mean you shouldn't make money. If you're good enough at it, and there are people willing to pay, and you wish to sell... then that's perfectly fair

 

[geniv]

I don't think people should donate toward an emulator, for two reasons. One, it's illegal to make money off of an emulator, and thus could get the project shut down. Two, the developer should be doing this for his hobby and for fun, not to make money.

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why is it illegal to make money off an emulator? that's not true.
look at:
MAGIC ENGINE
VGS (the psx emulator)
MORPHGEAR.
LIBERTY

Why can't a developer make money along with having fun programming the emu?

the way I see is. I support the developer and donation is a way to keep up their spirit.
after all a hungry or thirsty dev is not as productive. and donations make them know someone cares.

heck if they spent god knows how many hours to make a good emu the least I can do is sacrafice say half an hour of my payday and give them that $20 bux.

 

[DijiTao]

don't forget bleem....

I just gave Reesy $25 for his excellent work on DrMD- and there's more where that came from if anybody wants to do a NeoGeo MVS emulator.

 

[stepp]

Im all for this...as soon as mine arrives and i test out some of these emulators the ones that impress me are definatly getting a donation.

God i hope mine arrives this week

 

[circle_that_pit]

ahh.. if only we had subways in oregon.. then I could do that too.. Meh. I'd rather not boast my beast, or I'll get it stolen or something.

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we have MAX trains. hahaha, and i got my gp32 stolen. so that's some good thinking.

 

[deadlychicken22]

I love these 'I wouldn't have to carry TWO devices (into the shower). Really, no one believes you. You just want to play all the new Ninty games for nothing, you naughty young scamps.

If it was really true, what you say, you should use the money you say you 'will' donate to buy a new bag, or new pockets. Or even to join a gym so you can be big and strong enough to be able to carry around those 'heavy' GBAs. Or even buy a GBA micro, so small, your pocket won't even know it's there.

But enough already with this 'crap'




(Nice use of ' there, 'Lubidog'.)

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I would definitely use a GBA emulator to emulate games I own! While many people may not, I think it is stupid to put everyone in the same catagory. I own over 30 (about 33 or so) gameboy advance games and they are quite a pain to carry around everywhere. I have looked at getting one of those homebrew carts, but I would really like to avoid spending any more money if I could just play them on my gp2x. Right now, if I want to carry all of my games with me + my NDS I end up putting it all in my Playstation Carrying bag along with my gp2x and usually a couple CD's. I hate doing this so I only do it when I am going on a long vacation.

 

[Alpha2]

why is it illegal to make money off an emulator?  that's not true. 
look at:
MAGIC ENGINE
VGS (the psx emulator)
MORPHGEAR.
LIBERTY

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It's my understanding that Magic engine and VGS are LICENECED emmulators making them endorsed or atleast not actively disliked by their respective companies.

The key thing to remember is how this effects their intellectual property. by contributing to making the use of these IPs free without compensation to the IP owners makes things sticky for emulator creators if it starts to look too obvious that it was made for the express purpose of screwing over the IP owner. A GBA emulator made for a portable system where the developer activly takes payment for said emulator looks a lot like a person that would also say "I'm getting paid to screw you over, HAHA!"

Most emulators are developed by programers who just want to see what they can do. Then they say they'll take a donation just for "whatever" but they arnt looking to get paid for their work on a specific project just get a little dought to help cover expenses while they continue to program.

 

[Midgard]

Most of the best GBA games (for me) have been ported from SNES anyway so an SNES emulator will do for me

I will definitly make some donations to dev's who will make a good SNES emu on the gp2x that is for me the most important As far as for games, I think I'm stuck in the period 1990-1998

 

[sand_man]

Most of the best GBA games (for me) have been ported from SNES anyway so an SNES emulator will do for me

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Me too. In fact, there aren't a lot of GBA games that interest me all that much anyway...

 

[Squidge]

Do I need to get my wet haddock out and start slapping people to get this thread back on topic, or what?

 

[LHC]

with SNES emulators. the font/text are alittle small. as the games were first intended to be played on bigger video like a 20" tv.

I'm not keen on trying to read little words on a rpg on a 3.5 inch screen.

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When did you sit inches away from your 20 inch TV? It really isn't a problem on a 3.5 inch screen.

 

[WrongEyedJesus]

Do I need to get my wet haddock out and start slapping people to get this thread back on topic, or what?

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Nice to think that you keep a wet haddock for such situations.

 

[lubidog]

Yes. Snes!

 

[daminator]

But there are lots of great GBC games....

aaah ^^ Really hope for a GBC / GBA Emu for christmas as a present

 

[Mr. Anderson]

besides: snes and megadrive emulation is more important than gba.

 

[Squidge]

Looking at various charts, it seems that people are interested in genesis and snes as the number 1 spot, followed closely by mame. GBA is a bit further down.

 

[Mr. Anderson]

But I would really apreciate a GBC Emulator! Why isn't there one? the GB/C was such a great machine, unlike the GBA

edit: I could be wrong, but I remember some NES PC emulators running GBC games as well, there doesn't seem to be a big difference between gbc and nes, or is there?

 

[iignotus]

I, too, am waiting for that fabled GB/C emulator... so many great games, all so tiny in size... I could have the entire library on one SD card.

 

[nickspoon]

I'll try it, when my GP2X comes. There are quite a lot of open source GBC emulators, if I feel like porting. Look forward to that!

 

[Paradox]

I, too, am waiting for that fabled GB/C emulator... so many great games, all so tiny in size... I could have the entire library on one SD card.

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entire library of GB/C/A games would run up in the near 10gig mark i would suspect, plus where do you get the money for all these games? D;