Gp Advance Become Open Source

[slubman]

enf65 GP Advance author decide to make it emulator Open Source so that developpers could help him

For those who don't know: GP Advance is a GBA "emulator" for GP32

enf65 said (in french) :
Je me suis enfin décidé à ne pas vendre GP Advance, et surtout de diffuser les sources.
Elles seront dispo au cours de la semaine.

Je dois les commenter un peu et faire un peu de ménage avant de les mettre sur le web.

Je sais pas trop comment marche le CVS, mais je pense que ça pourait être pas mal pour que d'autres programmeurs puissent s'y mettre. Je pense aussi faire des genre de plugins pour pouvoir choisir différents "moteur" graphiques, sonores...

Source: gp32news forum

Coders it's your turn to play B)

 

[Squidge]

I've just read that in english on his website Will definitely be having a sniff through... Maybe even offer some optimisation tips if I can find anything to optimise (it seems damn fast already from his status report - 30fps).

 

[Efompor]

now it will never die

 

[GPJosh]

I think with it going open source people can help him with the video modes he hasn't been able to do/hasn't has time to do yet (Sprites for example).

 

[PeDRoRist]

Yup, he said the main reason was to get help with video modes he hasn't time to deal with. Squidge, I reckon you should definitely have a look into this (and hopefully help this emu become the best thing since sliced bread )

 

[Sonic-NKT]

great news.. but i hope this wont mean that enf65 stops to work on it..
still hope that some great coders will help him. I want Rayman on the gp32

 

[Squidge]

Yup, he said the main reason was to get help with video modes he hasn't time to deal with. Squidge, I reckon you should definitely have a look into this (and hopefully help this emu become the best thing since sliced bread )

Hay, I'm a big GBA fan, so certainly wouldn't mind helping the GP32 become as good a GBA emulator as possible

 

[Octavious]

well, I would really love to have gba on the 32

~Octavious

 

[Wolfsclaw]

yippie ut now shh... nintendo shouldnt know that

 

[Fishbong]

Yeah, but if the Emu would get released commercial, the reaction of Nintendo wuold be even worse... However, i would have paid a LOT of money for a real good running GBA Emu... :rolleyes:

 

[papapopalung]

does this emu run anything yet?

if so, what? and how well?

 

[Akuma no Houkon]

does this emu run anything yet?

if so, what? and how well?

It runs a few demos, and quite fast.

It doesnt have enough mode and sprite support to run anything other than a few tech demos.

 

[Enslaved]

But soon that will change!

(By soon I mean I have no clue when)

 

[Q-Wi-Q]

if anyone could pull this one off ...

 

[Wildheart Baby]

However, i would have paid a LOT of money for a real good running GBA Emu... :rolleyes:

why?

I don't see what the fuss is, if you want to play gba then buy one, the original units must be dirt cheap by now

 

[Squidge]

they are, but the flash linkers are still expensive, and a gp32 emu would do away with the flash linker part.

 

[dr.no]

Great idea. Hopefully, some coders will join our community after the EuroLaunch and help to make this as compatible as the snes and sms emus that were told to be "impossible" to run at decent speed on the GP32 a year ago.

 

[Mark]

And it would be nice to play the games with a nice big screen, and design that doesn't hurt your hands after going back to it from the GP32

 

[PinkSpider]

I know what you mean. I played on my cousins GBA (my old one) and it is sooo small :s I forgot how bad it was :/

 

[Phil]

this is exciting, it'd be nice for some games.