Dartendo lets you play your nintendo games in browser
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Dartendo lets you play your nintendo games in browser
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#2As the name implies, this is an NES emulator written in dart, running on app engine. The source can be found here: http://code.google.com/p/super-dartendo/
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#3It was pretty smart of the person that made this to use roms that you upload. Nintendo is pretty serious about rom sites.
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#4It was pretty smart of the person that made this to use roms that you upload. Nintendo is pretty serious about rom sites.
Strangely enough, the repo appears to have some ROMs. Smart that he doesn't expose them to the casual user and that he doesn't advertise them, however.
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#5How in the world does someone begin to write something like this? It's one thing to understand the language, but how does one gain insight into the underlying mechanics of a device like this, and given this insight, understand how to instrument a replacement?
I've been a developer for over a decade, and reading code like this still leaves me in awe...
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#7Seems to be based on vNes and JSNES (the repo in google code contains copies of both projects).
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#8How in the world does someone begin to write something like this? It's one thing to understand the language, but how does one gain insight into the underlying mechanics of a device like this, and given this insight, understand how to instrument a replacement? I've been a developer for over a decade, and reading code like this still leaves me in awe...
Emulators are a dime a dozen, and almost every console from before the PSX already had at least one by 1999.
In the beginning it wasn't (usually) one person but an entire team studying every component of the console, dumping the BIOS and then coding something that (at first) could at least boot the game. After that it was mostly about working out the details like graphic glitches, slow framerate, certain graphical issues, etc...
But once the "core" was made other teams or individuals could use it to make their own versions, or port it to other OSes/architectures.
The NES is together with the Sega Genesis one of the most emulated consoles out there: you'll find emulators of these two for every computer, PDA, PMP, phone or tablet.
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#9has anyone got it working?
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#10It was pretty smart of the person that made this to use roms that you upload. Nintendo is pretty serious about rom sites.
Strangely enough, the repo appears to have some ROMs. Smart that he doesn't expose them to the casual user and that he doesn't advertise them, however.
Those look to be free/homebrew not commercial games.