I thought I saw a program like this somewhere before (maybe I was hallucinating?).
Does such an app exist?
Something that extracted a nes file and emulator to a temporary directory, then ran the emulator specifying a nes file would work.
Jedi QuestMaster wrote:
I thought I saw a program like this somewhere before (maybe I was hallucinating?).
Does such an app exist?
- I remember of an old NES emulator with such feature, named PCNES. However, it's what Dwedit said: just take the game binary bundled with the emulator.
Ideally, an emulator designed for attaching to a ROM would allow theming the configuration for input, sound, and video to look like the game, with the same 8x8 pixel font, colors, border graphics, etc. This way, conversions could look more like a monolithic game, without a jarring discontinuity between the game menus and the config menus that screams "this is an emulator".
Haha, I remember the old NES-lord emulator could do that. There was no sound emulation, instead it played a song using the OPL chip, it was kinda funny.
Memblers wrote:
There was no sound emulation, instead it played a song using the OPL chip
In fact, HLEing the music would be a nice idea. The emulator's build config file could tell the emulator to patch the ROM not to play the music through the APU. Instead, it would write to a register that tells the emu to start an included .s3m, .xm, or .ogg file based on the value in A when it hits the song init code. I seem to remember a Mega Man 2-specific emu that did this, as did CD ports of cart games for the TG16 and Genesis.
tepples wrote:
Memblers wrote:
There was no sound emulation, instead it played a song using the OPL chip
In fact, HLEing the music would be a nice idea. The emulator's build config file could tell the emulator to patch the ROM not to play the music through the APU. Instead, it would write to a register that tells the emu to start an included .s3m, .xm, or .ogg file based on the value in A when it hits the song init code. I seem to remember a Mega Man 2-specific emu that did this, as did CD ports of cart games for the TG16 and Genesis.
Yeah, I remember Bananmos and I had talked about something like that a really long time ago too. I had forgotten about that, I also didn't know there was an emulator that does that for MM2. It would be kinda cool if it was standardized.
Neslord just played some random tune from the demoscene.