MAMEWorld Forums - EmuChat - Re: Byuu's Bsnes GBA, NES, etc emulation...

> I am curious, does byuu plan on emulating the new systems he recently added support
> to(GBA, GB, GBC, NES, etc.) in bsnes at the same accuracy level as he did with the
> SNES? Ya know how bsnes SNES emulation accuracy is nearly 100% accurate... well does
> he plan on doing the same thing with the GBA, NES, etc. that he recently added
> support to?

From what I read on the forms at byuu and nesdev, it seems the answer is an indefinite yes to both questions with the implication such would take years.

> If it's a SNES emulator, then why did he add support to the NES, GBA, etc.? Did he
> decide to make bsnes a multi-emulator?

Perhaps love for Nintendo. Perhaps he wants to archive all Nintendo related items under his new purposed ROM archiving format. Maybe it's for being known to have done that all, maybe it's all a true labor of love. Perhaps a combination of those and other reasons. I haven't come across anything stating the exact exclusive reason(s).

>Because I remember reading one of his articles
> that was posted on some other site and he said that he did not plan on working on
> emulating another game system. Because somebody asked him what his plans were after
> he finished working on bsnes... they asked him if he planned on making a NES emulator
> or Sega Saturn emulator (I forgot which one) and he replied no. Maybe he changed his
> mind since then?

I recall the article you mentioned, but evidently by this track record...

0.83 = Adds NES
0.84 = Adds Gameboy (Color)
0.88 = Adds Gameboy Advance
0.89 = Adds ability to "easily add (and remove) entire systems from bsnes with only three lines of code."

...To say the least, he changed his mind.

http://board.byuu.org/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=2731&start=45

2012-04-26 at 08:41 AM byuu said:

"In all seriousness, hopefully you'll enjoy once the emulation is more mature. But yeah, this is very likely to be the final emulator I do*, at least for the bsnes project. I don't want bsnes to become MESS2. MESS does a better job of unlimited systems than I could.
So from this point, we could certainly discuss working toward the GUI being more dynamic to allowing additional CPU cores that others develop**, but I'm not going to own any more cores myself."

*He is referring to the Gameboy Advance.
**Probably tied to the aforementioned v0.89 added ability.