Virtual Boy Emulator

Virtual Boy Emulator Over at another forum, the idea of a Virtual Boy emulator came up, and it sounds like a really cool idea. There are a bunch of emulators out there that are open source for the system, and most of them feature settings which lets you modify the 3D settings so that it works with different kind of goggles, or just plain 2D gaming. It also has some very good games that would work great on a TV, and the Wii+Nunchuk or double sticks on the classic controllers would work for the dual dpads on the original console. It's one of the last old systems not emulated on Wii by Nintendo so it would be nice to have them all on one console.http://forum.wiibrew.org/read.php?26,52431,52431#msg-52431Wed, 22 Apr 2026 14:07:33 +0200 Phorum 5.2.23 http://forum.wiibrew.org/read.php?26,52431,62501#msg-62501 Re: Virtual Boy Emulatorhttp://forum.wiibrew.org/read.php?26,52431,62501#msg-62501code.google.com] ) and using the port of ALLEGRO I've managed to get the emulator working in some respects. It begins basic CPU emulation but fails as I need to do a lot of endianness swapping to the ROM for it be read. Im pushing for at least a crappy initial release no later than the new year.]]> Arikado Ideas, requestsFri, 26 Nov 2010 15:23:57 +0100 http://forum.wiibrew.org/read.php?26,52431,62497#msg-62497 Re: Virtual Boy Emulatorhttp://forum.wiibrew.org/read.php?26,52431,62497#msg-62497

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punkydudester
When you get the emulator going will you please make a really cool forwarder channel like Tantric did with his emulators? It's the icing on the cake.

I doubt it. You can make your own forwarder.]]> bg4545 Ideas, requestsFri, 26 Nov 2010 10:02:13 +0100 http://forum.wiibrew.org/read.php?26,52431,62488#msg-62488 Re: Virtual Boy Emulatorhttp://forum.wiibrew.org/read.php?26,52431,62488#msg-62488 punkydudester Ideas, requestsFri, 26 Nov 2010 04:51:14 +0100 http://forum.wiibrew.org/read.php?26,52431,56625#msg-56625 Re: Virtual Boy Emulatorhttp://forum.wiibrew.org/read.php?26,52431,56625#msg-56625

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corey89
@Arikado

Just curious if you started working on the port of Reality Boy, I remember you mentioned you had started coding something some time ago.

[code.google.com]

It's got some stuff ported (input) and other stuff that still needs to be ported. About 30% complete. I stopped working on it publicly and am currently only working privately in order to avoid making tons of commits. However, I can 99% guarantee you that what's in there now would work if the rest was completed - only stable code is in there.]]> Arikado Ideas, requestsSun, 25 Jul 2010 16:50:50 +0200 http://forum.wiibrew.org/read.php?26,52431,56514#msg-56514 Re: Virtual Boy Emulatorhttp://forum.wiibrew.org/read.php?26,52431,56514#msg-56514 nightwishfan1 Ideas, requestsFri, 23 Jul 2010 02:41:33 +0200 http://forum.wiibrew.org/read.php?26,52431,56505#msg-56505 Re: Virtual Boy Emulatorhttp://forum.wiibrew.org/read.php?26,52431,56505#msg-56505
Just curious if you started working on the port of Reality Boy, I remember you mentioned you had started coding something some time ago.]]> corey89 Ideas, requestsThu, 22 Jul 2010 23:55:18 +0200 http://forum.wiibrew.org/read.php?26,52431,52770#msg-52770 Re: Virtual Boy Emulatorhttp://forum.wiibrew.org/read.php?26,52431,52770#msg-52770

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nightwishfan1
How about "Wiiality Boy" for the name?

ROFL. It fits!]]> gameboy13 Ideas, requestsFri, 23 Apr 2010 14:57:46 +0200 http://forum.wiibrew.org/read.php?26,52431,52765#msg-52765 Re: Virtual Boy Emulatorhttp://forum.wiibrew.org/read.php?26,52431,52765#msg-52765 nightwishfan1 Ideas, requestsFri, 23 Apr 2010 06:19:20 +0200 http://forum.wiibrew.org/read.php?26,52431,52712#msg-52712 Re: Virtual Boy Emulatorhttp://forum.wiibrew.org/read.php?26,52431,52712#msg-52712
Only the CPU emulator is based off Reality Boy, and that has been heavily optimized and otherwise improved. The sound chip emulation, video chip emulation, and general VB support code in Mednafen is all original.]]> Mednafen Ideas, requestsThu, 22 Apr 2010 00:13:31 +0200 http://forum.wiibrew.org/read.php?26,52431,52692#msg-52692 Re: Virtual Boy Emulatorhttp://forum.wiibrew.org/read.php?26,52431,52692#msg-52692

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alainvey
I suggest calling it "Super Headache-Inducer GX"

I like that name :)

@Mednafen: IIRC Mednafen is based off Reality Boy, so as fast as someone gets Reality Boy running it should be possible to transfer and modify some code from Mednafen to Reality Boy. Someone also mentioned this in the beginning of this topic I think.]]> profetylen Ideas, requestsWed, 21 Apr 2010 12:36:41 +0200 http://forum.wiibrew.org/read.php?26,52431,52689#msg-52689 Re: Virtual Boy Emulatorhttp://forum.wiibrew.org/read.php?26,52431,52689#msg-52689 alainvey Ideas, requestsWed, 21 Apr 2010 12:01:35 +0200 http://forum.wiibrew.org/read.php?26,52431,52679#msg-52679 Re: Virtual Boy Emulatorhttp://forum.wiibrew.org/read.php?26,52431,52679#msg-52679We have an ALLEGRO port for Wii homebrew?

I basically chose Reality Boy over Mednafen because for me personally it is much easier to port and will probably perform better on the Wii than Mednafen which performs better on higher end machines.]]> Arikado Ideas, requestsWed, 21 Apr 2010 02:28:12 +0200 http://forum.wiibrew.org/read.php?26,52431,52670#msg-52670 Re: Virtual Boy Emulatorhttp://forum.wiibrew.org/read.php?26,52431,52670#msg-52670
Mednafen can be built without emulation of all systems but one, as well.]]> Mednafen Ideas, requestsTue, 20 Apr 2010 23:43:57 +0200 http://forum.wiibrew.org/read.php?26,52431,52666#msg-52666 Re: Virtual Boy Emulatorhttp://forum.wiibrew.org/read.php?26,52431,52666#msg-52666

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profetylen
@cactus: I'll consider that name, but I'll let the name part of my brain grow for a while before I decide. If I need an icon, I'll let you know. :) You can't code? That's a suprise. For some reason you seem like a guy who can!

Oh, I know all sorts of computer theory and whatnot, I just never sat down and learned C, or any other programming language, and have no idea where to begin.

I begun C++ here: [newdata.box.sk] if you're interested.]]> profetylen Ideas, requestsTue, 20 Apr 2010 23:07:39 +0200 http://forum.wiibrew.org/read.php?26,52431,52659#msg-52659 Re: Virtual Boy Emulatorhttp://forum.wiibrew.org/read.php?26,52431,52659#msg-52659

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profetylen
@cactus: I'll consider that name, but I'll let the name part of my brain grow for a while before I decide. If I need an icon, I'll let you know. :) You can't code? That's a suprise. For some reason you seem like a guy who can!

Oh, I know all sorts of computer theory and whatnot, I just never sat down and learned C, or any other programming language, and have no idea where to begin.]]> cactusjack901 Ideas, requestsTue, 20 Apr 2010 22:22:37 +0200 http://forum.wiibrew.org/read.php?26,52431,52646#msg-52646 Re: Virtual Boy Emulatorhttp://forum.wiibrew.org/read.php?26,52431,52646#msg-52646 profetylen Ideas, requestsTue, 20 Apr 2010 19:31:20 +0200 http://forum.wiibrew.org/read.php?26,52431,52634#msg-52634 Re: Virtual Boy Emulatorhttp://forum.wiibrew.org/read.php?26,52431,52634#msg-52634

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profetylen
@Cactusjack: Yep, I get what you mean :)

@Arikado: Thank you, Arikado! Of course, I'll credit you if I use something! The thing is, if I want to get on board, you'll most likely work so quickly compared to me and I won't have the time to write any code of my own, only study yours and, because of that I wont learn as much as if I do it all on my own. However, if I realize that this project is to hard, so I can't do it on my own, I'll of course consider getting on board you project!

Another thing: Since Reality Boy Wii is now unavailable, my project doesn't have a name. And since Arikado will probably make the better emulator, it would be fun if my project could at least beat him in one genre, namely the naming. Suggestions anyone? (We need something über catchy here ;P)

Well, it may be the sleep deprivation but "Realitii Boy" seems to work in my head. Once you decide on a name, I'll throw you together an icon as well.

I can't code, and I feel I don't give enough to the homebrew community, so I'm just gonna do whatever artwork people need for their projects (unless it requires me to actually freehand-draw something, because I can't draw. Pixel art, and cobbling things together from multiple pieces however, I can do no problem)

In other news: I just got an idea to make an official Wiibrew mym

SLEEP-DEPRIVATION-MAN, AWAYYYY!!!]]> cactusjack901 Ideas, requestsTue, 20 Apr 2010 16:30:48 +0200 http://forum.wiibrew.org/read.php?26,52431,52626#msg-52626 Re: Virtual Boy Emulatorhttp://forum.wiibrew.org/read.php?26,52431,52626#msg-52626
@Arikado: Thank you, Arikado! Of course, I'll credit you if I use something! The thing is, if I want to get on board, you'll most likely work so quickly compared to me and I won't have the time to write any code of my own, only study yours and, because of that I wont learn as much as if I do it all on my own. However, if I realize that this project is to hard, so I can't do it on my own, I'll of course consider getting on board you project!

Another thing: Since Reality Boy Wii is now unavailable, my project doesn't have a name. And since Arikado will probably make the better emulator, it would be fun if my project could at least beat him in one genre, namely the naming. Suggestions anyone? (We need something über catchy here ;P)]]> profetylen Ideas, requestsTue, 20 Apr 2010 15:45:57 +0200 http://forum.wiibrew.org/read.php?26,52431,52614#msg-52614 Re: Virtual Boy Emulatorhttp://forum.wiibrew.org/read.php?26,52431,52614#msg-52614
The reason I chose to do this is because Reality Boy is tailor made for ALLEGRO. Coincidentally, I know ALLEGRO better than I know any other library. I've been writing code with it for more than 3 years.

One of the problems we had with porting DeSmuME was that we couldn't figure out what stuff does so we didn't know how to rewrite. This is partly because OpenGL was confusing as all hell and partly because I had no experience in emulation and didn't understand the different components of it. So now that I understand how emulation works and the code is written under a library I know like the back of my hand, I hope to have this done pretty quickly.

The only brick wall I see in my future is getting the color pallette to operate under GX and rewriting ALLEGRO's blitting functions under GX. But it's nothing a little research and a few /msgs can't overcome.

Lastly, Profetylen, if you change your mind you're welcome to e-mail me for help or come on board to my project any time you want. Again, best of luck to you =)]]> Arikado Ideas, requestsTue, 20 Apr 2010 14:30:45 +0200 http://forum.wiibrew.org/read.php?26,52431,52612#msg-52612 Re: Virtual Boy Emulatorhttp://forum.wiibrew.org/read.php?26,52431,52612#msg-52612
For example, you, may use libwiigui to make an interface like Tantric's emulators do, and Arikado may not, but down the road, maybe your GUI is better, but Arikado's backend is superior, why not merge them. Get what I mean?]]> cactusjack901 Ideas, requestsTue, 20 Apr 2010 13:02:15 +0200 http://forum.wiibrew.org/read.php?26,52431,52611#msg-52611 Re: Virtual Boy Emulatorhttp://forum.wiibrew.org/read.php?26,52431,52611#msg-52611
Then this topic comes up and like 3 days ago I decided to try to port a virtual boy emulator as the virtual boy system isn't as demanding as the DS and should therefore not be as impossible to port as DeSmuME is.

2 Days ago I decided Reality Boy is probably the best emulator and I also noticed the simplicity of it which encouraged me alot to continue working on it.

And yesterday I actually e-mailed David Tucker (the author of Reality Boy) about some info of Reality Boy.

This time I'm not going to try to help you, Arikado. I'd probably just delay your work anyway. Despite that, I'm mainly doing this in the purpose of learning, so I think I'd be better off doing it myself.

I also want to make clear that I by no means want to stop or slow down your project. There's a great chance that I will fail anyway, so you better continue it! ;D (I don't think this even wouldn't have stopped you from making it, but I thought, I'd let you know my stance.)

Also, I realize, this may look like a pure lie, regarding how unlikely it is to happen. (I mean, first DeSmuME and now this.) But if you're uncertain about that, you could always ask David Tucker whom I e-mailed before you stated you were going to port Reality Boy.

Why am I writing this? I don't know! Maybe just not to look like an idiot who steals your work if I'd happen to realese my emulator before you do, Arikado (which is very unlikeley to happen anyway, but as it isn't impossible, so I better write it.).]]> profetylen Ideas, requestsTue, 20 Apr 2010 12:02:38 +0200 http://forum.wiibrew.org/read.php?26,52431,52596#msg-52596 Re: Virtual Boy Emulatorhttp://forum.wiibrew.org/read.php?26,52431,52596#msg-52596 Arikado Ideas, requestsTue, 20 Apr 2010 04:38:12 +0200 http://forum.wiibrew.org/read.php?26,52431,52592#msg-52592 Re: Virtual Boy Emulatorhttp://forum.wiibrew.org/read.php?26,52431,52592#msg-52592

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Arikado
Yeah, again, it looks great. Don't get rid of the high-res version or anything. It's awesome. I just need the smaller size so it's hbc compatible.

Yeah, sorry I took so long to post it, I accidentally clicked post before I even resized the image, and then had to edit into the post =p]]> cactusjack901 Ideas, requestsTue, 20 Apr 2010 03:29:32 +0200 http://forum.wiibrew.org/read.php?26,52431,52591#msg-52591 Re: Virtual Boy Emulatorhttp://forum.wiibrew.org/read.php?26,52431,52591#msg-52591 Arikado Ideas, requestsTue, 20 Apr 2010 03:24:02 +0200 http://forum.wiibrew.org/read.php?26,52431,52590#msg-52590 Re: Virtual Boy Emulatorhttp://forum.wiibrew.org/read.php?26,52431,52590#msg-52590

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Arikado
Actually, it looks fine as it is. Great job :)

If you could please downsize it to 128 x 48 it would be the perfect size to be the HBC logo for the app as well.

Sure, I figured it'd look better if I made it in a higher res first. It'd also be easier to find any errors I made

Edit: Here you are, one icon.png

Oh the joys of not having a job]]> cactusjack901 Ideas, requestsTue, 20 Apr 2010 03:23:00 +0200 http://forum.wiibrew.org/read.php?26,52431,52589#msg-52589 Re: Virtual Boy Emulatorhttp://forum.wiibrew.org/read.php?26,52431,52589#msg-52589
If you could please downsize it to 128 x 48 it would be the perfect size to be the HBC logo for the app as well.]]> Arikado Ideas, requestsTue, 20 Apr 2010 03:12:26 +0200 http://forum.wiibrew.org/read.php?26,52431,52583#msg-52583 Re: Virtual Boy Emulatorhttp://forum.wiibrew.org/read.php?26,52431,52583#msg-52583

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Arikado
Alright, I looked through all of them personally and reality boy is definitely the easiest and simplest to port. So much so that I've decided to do it myself. It may take a bit more time than I'd like as I'm a little preoccupied with this other emulator I'm working on :P

The SVN I've set-up for the project is here: [code.google.com]

If someone has a free time, making a logo to be used for the SVN and for the homebrew channel would be cool ;-)

If anyone wants to work on the project with me, please get in touch.

I'll go ahead and do the logo and whatnot

EDIT: Logo done. Just tell me what you want changed, I've got it saved as a PSD with layers as well as a PNG

]]> cactusjack901 Ideas, requestsTue, 20 Apr 2010 02:37:52 +0200 http://forum.wiibrew.org/read.php?26,52431,52582#msg-52582 Re: Virtual Boy Emulatorhttp://forum.wiibrew.org/read.php?26,52431,52582#msg-52582
The SVN I've set-up for the project is here: [code.google.com]

If someone has a free time, making a logo to be used for the SVN and for the homebrew channel would be cool ;-)

If anyone wants to work on the project with me, please get in touch.]]> Arikado Ideas, requestsTue, 20 Apr 2010 02:35:22 +0200 http://forum.wiibrew.org/read.php?26,52431,52450#msg-52450 Re: Virtual Boy Emulatorhttp://forum.wiibrew.org/read.php?26,52431,52450#msg-52450http://mednafen.sourceforge.net/releases/).

"Mednafen is a portable, utilizing OpenGL and SDL, argument(command-line)-driven multi-system emulator with many advanced features. The Atari Lynx, GameBoy (Color), GameBoy Advance, NES, PC Engine(TurboGrafx 16), SuperGrafx, Neo Geo Pocket (Color), PC-FX, and WonderSwan (Color) are emulated."

Perhaps this is the reason for any hesitation: it's not just a VB emulator, so a more slender program might be the most suitable if VB emulation is all that is needed. Sounds cool though, since there's a couple of systems not covered on the Wii yet, and it uses Open GL and SDL.
I'm not wise enough to determine whether it contains any x86 assembly optimizations like ZSNES, so someone else will have to look into that if they're interested.]]> alainvey Ideas, requestsFri, 16 Apr 2010 13:45:58 +0200 http://forum.wiibrew.org/read.php?26,52431,52448#msg-52448 Re: Virtual Boy Emulatorhttp://forum.wiibrew.org/read.php?26,52431,52448#msg-52448

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corey89
I think the best would be Reality Boy, which is open source. It runs with a 90% compatibility rate. However recently Mednafen added VB support and they have 100% compatibility, so I dunno if you could take some code to optimize a wii port.

Since Mednafen has 100 % compability, it should be the preferred one or is there any other reason, it isn't appropriate for he wii?]]> profetylen Ideas, requestsFri, 16 Apr 2010 13:08:04 +0200