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I wouldn't have guessed C# would be a good fit for something like this, but neat to see!
[2] https://github.com/ClassicUO/ClassicUO
Shit shouldn't have thought about UO, now I am sad :'( (and old)
Is there any way to play games (legally) on this if you don't have a Switch to dump them from? Is it possible to buy Switch games through a web browser?
Having a jailbroken switch is the only way. So every new one you buy is almost definitely a patched V2, and all the Switch Lites and OLEDs are not jailbrakable either, without soldering a modchip.
i gotta ask, what kind of career path does one have to have to figure out how to make this sort of thing? just hacking nights and weekends for 2 years straight? because i dont know how anyone gets paid to do this and yet there is so much incredible depth to learn that is probably undocumented because of legal issues
i gotta ask, what kind of career path does one have to have to figure out how to make this sort of thing? just hacking nights and weekends for 2 years straight? because i dont know how anyone gets paid to do this and yet there is so much incredible depth to learn that is probably undocumented because of legal issues
i gotta ask, what kind of career path does one have to have to figure out how to make this sort of thing? just hacking nights and weekends for 2 years straight? because i dont know how anyone gets paid to do this and yet there is so much incredible depth to learn that is probably undocumented because of legal issues
Don't forget that the Chinese do this constantly with American products. Trying to figure out how we built something, and doing it for cheaper.
So what would be cool is if he could make a great console experience cheaper than Nintendo could make it.
i gotta ask, what kind of career path does one have to have to figure out how to make this sort of thing? just hacking nights and weekends for 2 years straight? because i dont know how anyone gets paid to do this and yet there is so much incredible depth to learn that is probably undocumented because of legal issues
You'll see one-person operations, but they're usually relegated to older hardware and they still utilize documentation from many disparate sources. Even nesdev wiki was built on top of 6502 researchers, Taiwanese clone manufacturer reverse engineers, decappers, older NES emulators, heaps of existing documentation, etc.
Is there any way to play games (legally) on this if you don't have a Switch to dump them from? Is it possible to buy Switch games through a web browser?
Having a jailbroken switch is the only way. So every new one you buy is almost definitely a patched V2, and all the Switch Lites and OLEDs are not jailbrakable either, without soldering a modchip.
i gotta ask, what kind of career path does one have to have to figure out how to make this sort of thing? just hacking nights and weekends for 2 years straight? because i dont know how anyone gets paid to do this and yet there is so much incredible depth to learn that is probably undocumented because of legal issues
Yes, just hacking nights and weekends. I've done my fair share of console reverse engineering, developing software for console devices (mostly GBA and NDS development, but a fair bit of SMS and Genesis reverse engineering), etc, and it's seriously some of the most fun I've had as a developer. But it takes an enormous amount of tenacity to push through the inevitable challenges.
But the joy of working on a machine that's part of your life, without the need to please end users (which is cool too but sometimes induce pressure), well, that's basically coding like when I was a kid. Except that now I have a TON more knowledge to work with !
And, while working on disk emulation I had the pleasure ot discover those many copy protections that "prevented" me to get many games :-)
i gotta ask, what kind of career path does one have to have to figure out how to make this sort of thing? just hacking nights and weekends for 2 years straight? because i dont know how anyone gets paid to do this and yet there is so much incredible depth to learn that is probably undocumented because of legal issues
Sometimes yea, people have a career in an adjacent field and hack on emulators on the evenings. Other times I've ran across incredibly talented individuals with significant contributions that have never been employed in tech. I've seen multiple instances of this when a younger individual gets involved in a project they don't feel comfortable putting their real identity on for fear of hassles with Japanese companies known to be litigious.