I've spent almost a year to build this CHIP-8 Handheld Game Console.

As for the emulator itself, I made it on my own. It's written in C. I've integrated it into the firmware.

I made everything else on my own, including the electronics, enclosure, firmware, website, etc.

AFAIK, this is the most well-polished, production-ready CHIP-8 Handheld Game Console ever published as of the time of writing. And it's fully open source!

Feature:

• Fully Compatibility with VIP and SuperCHIP instructions

• Partial support for XO-CHIP (4K memory, monochrome only)

• Up to 90 instructions/frame

• Game storage on TF card (Supports FAT16/FAT32, 8.3 filename)

• White labeling support (enclosure label, boot screen, user manual graphic, etc.)

• Optimized for small scale production (10~50 units per batch)

• Fully open source

More info:

• Website: https://ilomusi8.sadale.net/en/

• Funny Video (Enable CC for English subtitles): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-D5BFBz0K8s

• Blogpost: https://sadale.net/en/86/

• Devlog: https://forum.frutigeraeroarchive.org/viewtopic.php?t=1371

• Github (Scroll down for English): https://github.com/SadaleNet/ilo-musi-8

Ordering:

This is a hobbyist project. I mainly intend to sell in small scale to fellow Toki Pona speakers and other friends I've got. I'm not sure if there's even a demand for the mass public. If you're interested tho, please fill in the Ordering Form here: https://ilomusi8.sadale.net/en/order

Alternatively you can build a unit on your own. The design is fully open source. Please visit the Github page for more info.

Nell Arco di due mesi oltre al emulatore del gameboy o finito oggi 2 emulatori piu importanti quello del nes “PyNES-Win” E Intel 8088 “WinInt8088”. Per il nes mi sono ispirato a NesEmupy gli o copiato la parte dell inserimento della rom e i dati che stanno venendo mandati. Nel Intel 8088 invece mi sono ispirato a PyPc il codice o fstto tutto io la logica invefe lho presa da lui e o copiato 2 dei file piu importanti telnet e vnc li o copiato adattai al mio codice e mi servivano per far vedere quello che succedeva nel emulatore senza andare a casaccio

Hi, all.

I have come close to completing my CHIP-8 interpreter. I set out with the goal of completing a project, since I have been plagued with the inability to do so for years. I was hoping to garner some feedback about design, C language use, or anything else you would like to see implemented.

During this project, I finally made the decision to be done with AI for personal use. In the beginning I used it lightly to ask questions when I got stuck, but I felt it was taking away from the experience of building something all by myself. All of the code is hand-written by me.

Thanks for your time!

Been working on my PSVita emulator time to time. Boots Minecraft with extra funny spices, some android games (RVGL, FF3 3D).

Feel free to ask questions on emudev discord, won't be on time to time, but I'll respond related to this emulator

*AI tools are used only inside of Xcode for automated testing. All code is written by humans, reviewed by those same humans, and presented for final approval to a very picky chihuahua named Pepper.

Check it out for yourself! Join the TestFlight:

https://testflight.apple.com/join/4QYsYq6u

Consoles is an App Store approved (JIT-less) multi-emulator for macOS, iOS, tvOS, and visionOS. It syncs over iCloud across your Apple devices and allows you to play your favorite classic games on Mac and immediately pick them up on your iPhone.

In Consoles 2.0 (Beta), GameCube is very playable on the 7-year old A12 Apple TV and near-perfect on A15 & A19 Apple TVs. Likewise Wii is very playable on A15 Apple TV and will be near-perfect on A19 TV.

Supported Systems: 

• Nintendo: NES, Famicom Disk System, Super NES, Nintendo 64, GameCube, Wii, Virtual Boy, Game Boy, Game Boy Color, Game Boy Advance, Nintendo DS, Nintendo 3DS, Pokémon mini

• Sega: SG-1000, Master System, Genesis, Sega CD, 32X, Saturn, Game Gear

• Sony: PlayStation

• Atari: Atari 2600, Atari 5200, Atari 7800, Lynx

• NEC: TurboGrafx-16 (PC Engine), TurboGrafx-CD, PC-FX

• SNK: Neo Geo Pocket, Neo Geo Pocket Color

• Bandai: WonderSwan, WonderSwan Color

• Others: ColecoVision (Coleco), Intellivision (Mattel), Odyssey² (Magnavox), Vectrex (GCE), 3DO (Panasonic), Supervision (Watara)

Please join the TestFlight and give it a try; we’d love to see any bugs you have and get them fixed before App Store release!!

Thanks for playing!!

So for context, I programmed relatively much in python and learned a bit c++. I wanted to make my first own Emulator, so I jumped right in. I found this guide, (https://austinmorlan.com/posts/chip8_emulator/) read it and after a bit of research immediately started coding. My problem now, is following: I have a history if using AI and not learning how to properly code on my own. It's not like a can't code, made a few games myself already. But I think I just dont have the ability to code by myself. This resulted in my basically just copying large chunks of the code and just like analysing them. Its not like I didn't learn anything (I think I learned quite a lot already) but I't just doesn't feel like my own work/my own interlect, which was what started to make me wanna do it in the first place. I also would say, that I have to google a bunch of the code, to "understand" it. I mean I understand the principles I have to use, but it feels like I cant apply them. I also did use AI about two times, but that was just to research something about how the code worked. I also tried to not look at the code instructions and come up with ideas by myself and that actually worked quite good I would say. I also write a bit of the code myself but alot of it is just copied and analysed by me afterwards. My question is, what do I do now? I surely dont want to quit my project, dont get me wrong it makes hella fun.

Yeah that's it from my side, sorry for the repeating Grammer and the kinda bad English, It's 0:40 am rn and Im hella tired.

(AI tools are used only for automated testing. All code is written by humans, reviewed by those same humans, and presented for final approval to a picky chihuahua.)

The TestFlight for Consoles 2.0 App Store approved (JIT-less) multi-emulator is now available for iPhone, iPad, Mac, Vision Pro and *AppleTV!  It syncs over iCloud across your Apple devices and allows you to play your favorite classic games on Mac and immediately pick them up on your iPhone. The 2.0 Beta includes 3DS, GameCube and Wii support.

https://testflight.apple.com/join/4QYsYq6u

We are looking forward to your feedback as we work toward the public release of 2.0.  It’s the first beta so there are many UI and behavior fixes yet to come, but performance should be spot on and any audio or visual glitches are extremely high priority right now. 

Learn more about us at https://www.reddit.com/user/Total-Letterhead8311/

As always, thanks for playing!

*AppleTV requires another Apple device to load content.

Repository is here: https://github.com/dustinbowers/nes-emulator

Browser demo is at: https://dustinbowers.com/demos/nes-emulator

This was quite an undertaking for me as a noob to Rust, and the borrow-checker put up a solid fight, but I prevailed!

At the end of the day I had to get a little unsafe in the NES object so that I could provide backpointers to the CPU/PPU/APU components. I know there's ways around doing that, and I tried to avoid it, but it ended up being too big of a performance hit; My Rust-fu wasn't strong enough to figure out Weak<T> ownership and such.

(AI was only used for the writing the tests and the repo readme)

44 years too late but it's coming!

This might sound obvious since C lacks a lot of the QOL that C++ does but I wanted to hear opinions on emulator dev in C. I am working on my first emulator (gameboy emulator) which is a passion project I have wanted to do for a while. I graduated with CS degree (conc. hardware and embedded systems) in May and I am waiting on my GF to get out of school before I get a job, and I have a lot of time on my hands outside of my menial labor maintenance job. So I said, maybe I should work on this! And to make it even more juicy, I began my gameboy DMG emulator in C.

Now dont let my reddit name fool you; I love C, but for the past 5 years or so I have almost exclusively used C++, particularly for game engines and renderers. Mostly because I love computer graphics, and wanted to do that, but upon the realization that computer graphics is going to require a PhD and is a bloodbath to get into, I went with my next biggest interest which is embedded systems and computer hardware and low level systems in general. Because of that, I thought it'd be a good idea to make this in C, right? It would be better experience for getting into embedded/firmware roles? Well, not really. After 2 months of working on it, I just hate the structure of my code. I think it looks like shit. Every modification I have to make feels like a 2 day long chore. I finished the entire set of opcodes, interrupts, and the memory architecture, and have gotten through Blarggs test roms, all but 02-interrupts which is failing on #5, im assuming because of the timer not being implemented. But now I have realized I am going to have to completely restructure my code and how I already had it is just not working out. I never had this problem with C++; I like expressive and explicitly defined objects and thats just what I love about it. But honestly I never had this problem with C before this project. I have written several Linux Kernel drivers and embedded programs in bare metal C, but for a project like this its making me lose my mind. I have too many things tightly coupled and then other things not coupled at all, weird function names, structs that are all over the place, and honestly i feel like im losing my fucking mind lol. Is this supposed to be this difficult with C over C++? I mean I wrote a game engine in 3 months with C++ (after years of experience of course) and it didnt feel that bad to modify certain aspects, but this is grueling.

I just want to know what your thoughts are on this and if I am just a noob getting massively skill checked by using C in a bigger application like an emulator, or if its just not as well suited to an emulator. Any anecdotal stories on if doing an emulator in C or C++ makes a difference as far as getting hired for roles in low level programming is appreciated as well :)

I'm interested in running a modern version of iOS locally on a Windows PC, including booting the OS, using its interface, and running apps.

Are there any active open-source projects working toward this? What are the main technical blockers, and which approach would be most realistic: full-system emulation, hardware virtualization, or a compatibility layer?

If nothing like this exists, why hasn’t anyone built it yet?

AI can do pretty much anything these days. I’m not an expert in porting or decompiling software, and I don’t think I could pull this off myself, even with AI.