Re:Yuzu – Nintendo Switch Emulator
by derefr on Monday January 15, 2018 @10:58PM
(#16155700)
The dev forums are dead-ish†, but the docs are still around; I was just trying to pick it up the other day and I found everything I needed (including modern things like a Rust libgba: https://github.com/tbelaire/rusty-TONC).
I decided against pursuing GBA homebrew in particular, though, because Nintendo DS homebrew is slightly more fun while not being particularly higher-level than the GBA. You've still got sprites and backgrounds and scale/rot/shear effects; but now you've got two GPUs (where either GPU can address either screen), and a 3D layer sandwiched in amongst the background layers and sprite layers.
† Though, I mean, that's a matter of interpretation; all the modern 3DS and Wii U homebrew is still released/discussed/developed on the GBATemp forums, which—obviously—had its roots in the GBA homebrew scene.)
Re:Yuzu – Nintendo Switch Emulator
by photojosh on Wednesday January 17, 2018 @06:22PM
(#16173039)
Almost 20 years later, I'm still following and intrigued by the homebrew scene and I take my hat off in particular to emulator developers... but I get to do embedded/microcontroller development in my day job, and that's enough difficulty for me. ;)
I decided against pursuing GBA homebrew in particular, though, because Nintendo DS homebrew is slightly more fun while not being particularly higher-level than the GBA. You've still got sprites and backgrounds and scale/rot/shear effects; but now you've got two GPUs (where either GPU can address either screen), and a 3D layer sandwiched in amongst the background layers and sprite layers.
† Though, I mean, that's a matter of interpretation; all the modern 3DS and Wii U homebrew is still released/discussed/developed on the GBATemp forums, which—obviously—had its roots in the GBA homebrew scene.)