Need this on Pandora :)


If this could ever be ported it would be a major coup for the Pandora.
It can be done. I mean there is "just" 4 problems :


1) it have a very large dependency tree (aka dependency hell)


2) it is made to work at a larger resolution than the pandora's one. so many thing will broke once the resolution is reduced.


3) it depend on GL. So a port to GLES have to be done


4) it depend on CEGUI for the menu. CEGUI use GL, so CEGUI need to be ported to GLES too.


I know somes that dont fear dependencies hells, but cant fix the laters.


I know somes that could manage 2 and 3 easily (that mean in a few weeks/months) but wont fight with large dependencies.


Then, porting CEGUI to GLES is a large task. Its own author, have receive offer to fund a port to android and have yet to accept...


So porting this will requiere a team work by some devs dedicated to this projet.


There are so many things left todo that I dont think it's a priority to any dev yet.
 
I have learned a little bit about programming, but I still can't figure out how you guys have learned to port games. Are there some projects which might be good for a beginner? Maybe things that have been done before or have some kind of walkthrough? All I know how to do is mess with databases, and make shitty pictures move around :( I have a tough time with getting experience :/
 
Secret maryo is nice, but since it'll need a long time of portage, I'll keep playing Super Mario All-Stars instead :D


What I need ATM is a retrode to make legal dump of my consoles cartridges…


If I've understood correctly, porting softwares/libraries is mainly knowing what hardware/libraries are available on the target system and hack the source code to use those.


Examples :

  • We don't have openGL so you have to use GLES instead.
  • Omaps aren't good with floating point arithmetic, but they have NEON. You'll get fare better if you use a lib that use that NEON.
  • etc.


When all the libs are available/ported, all you need to do is compiling the sources.


Then you'll have binaries for the pandora.


(I may be wrong and/or incomplete
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