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Online playing on homebrew emulators?

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DrLucky
Re: Online playing on homebrew emulators?
December 08, 2008 03:55AM
yeah, most old games are not covered by piracy laws...
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daniel_c_w
Re: Online playing on homebrew emulators?
December 08, 2008 10:47AM
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iofthestorm
Well I think if you follow that definition of piracy than running ROMs in an emulator is piracy. Even if you physically own the game, I think you have to dump it yourself for it to not be piracy.

Maybe. It depends on the laws of the place where you live.


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DrLucky
yeah, most old games are not covered by piracy laws...

Every game is protected by copyrigth laws.


Back to topic: which emulator has an easily expandable sourcecode? (c prefered)
or is the design of any of them well described?



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 12/09/2008 04:32AM by daniel_c_w.
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DrLucky
Re: Online playing on homebrew emulators?
December 08, 2008 03:18PM
on the new Wii64 website, this is posted in the "want to accomplish" section:
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Netplay

We plan to eventually implement netplay over the Wii’s wireless connection and hopefully on the Gamecube via the broadband adapter. An alternative solution may also be to use the USBGecko together with a PC connected to the internet to allow for remote play.

so it looks like a few devs are in on the idea!
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Ibrewii
Re: Online playing on homebrew emulators?
December 09, 2008 02:08AM
Although I would look forward to netplay mainly for wii64 (goldeneye!), I think it would be longer until that can come than netplay for SNES or NES could be achieved. Any idea if netplay is being considered for any older consoles?
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Tantric
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December 09, 2008 06:10AM
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daniel_c_w
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iofthestorm
Well I think if you follow that definition of piracy than running ROMs in an emulator is piracy. Even if you physically own the game, I think you have to dump it yourself for it to not be piracy.

Maybe. It depends on the laws of the place where you live.


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DrLucky
yeah, most old games are not covered by piracy laws...

Every game is protected by copyrigth laws.


Back to topic: which emulator has an easily expandable sourcecode? (c prefered)
or is the design of any of them well described?

Snes9x netplay is somewhat documented, and not too badly designed. It's also written in C. Probably not a bad place to start. FCE Ultra GX uses 0.98.12 as a base. I'd consider upgrading to a newer source base (eg: FCEUX 2.03) before attempting to integrate netplay.
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Jonas
Re: Online playing on homebrew emulators?
December 10, 2008 10:43PM
ZSnes has had good network play for years. I'd call this doable.
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DrLucky
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December 10, 2008 11:26PM
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Jonas
ZSnes has had good network play for years. I'd call this doable.

i think it would be better to moddify the port of snes9x than to port a whole new one...
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Tantric
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December 10, 2008 11:46PM
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Jonas
ZSnes has had good network play for years. I'd call this doable.

Pointless to say. A better question is who's going to do it?
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Jonas
Re: Online playing on homebrew emulators?
December 11, 2008 06:06AM
I just pointed out that other programs have been able to do it. There was an argument over if this was possible, I figured this would settle it. Thanks for missing the point previous two.
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DrLucky
Re: Online playing on homebrew emulators?
December 11, 2008 04:16PM
sorry, I get what you mean...

so it is possible, now we just need to beg Tantric to implement it! :) haha
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daniel_c_w
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December 11, 2008 04:56PM
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Jonas
ZSnes has had good network play for years. I'd call this doable.

Pointless to say. A better question is who's going to do it?

I'd like to do it, but I fear that it could take me a long time to understand the code-design of the emulators.
Is any of them well documented?
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rush6432
Re: Online playing on homebrew emulators?
January 04, 2009 09:20AM
bump :) any update on this ??? this reminds me of the good ol' days with sega and snes and the xband modem ;)



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/04/2009 09:21AM by rush6432.
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DrLucky
Re: Online playing on homebrew emulators?
January 05, 2009 04:27PM
Well, I know that it is "in the works" for Wii64, we'll need to hear from Tantric or eekeek
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Tantric
Re: Online playing on homebrew emulators?
January 05, 2009 07:53PM
It's not in the works for any emulator, including Wii64 (ie: it's been conceived of but not worked on). It may happen some day, but that day is not anytime soon.
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DrLucky
Re: Online playing on homebrew emulators?
January 06, 2009 12:49AM
what I meant by "in the works" for Wii64 was that it was thought about by the devs...
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