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Re:Project-Nested: An NES Emulator Running on the SNES by codebolt on Sunday July 11, 2021 @01:40PM (#27802926)
The Super GameBoy comes to mind. Was it a full-fledged emulator or did it use any neat tricks to run GB code directly on the SNES?
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Re:Project-Nested: An NES Emulator Running on the SNES by monocasa on Sunday July 11, 2021 @01:43PM (#27802947)
It wasn't even an emulator, it was a complete gameboy SoC with the pixel stream routed to the SNES's VRAM rather than an LCD screen.
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Re:Project-Nested: An NES Emulator Running on the SNES by einr on Sunday July 11, 2021 @01:42PM (#27802942)
The Super GameBoy is essentially full GameBoy hardware in a cart, that hijacks the SNES PPU for video output and uses SNES controllers for input. There is no hardware emulation going on.
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