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lol, Nintendo DS emulator for PSP!

Ponn01 said:
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:lol

dark10x, a man for one season.
 
lol... you realize it's going to take a hell of a long time to get this to work, the pc version of iDeaS still hardly runs anything at all, nothing at fullspeed I don't think.
 
The Faceless Master said:
a mouse?

nah, i think the USB touchscreen is a better idea...
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Completely do-able, but it sounds awfully expensive. The price for a good quality tOuchscreen may push the price upwards of 30 bones, and if the emu ever runs at good rates, Sony and Nintendo are sure to put pressure on the PSP scene.

And it'd utterly kill my interest in actually buying a DS, while doubling my frotHINg demand for a PSP.
 
Wow! A Nintendo DS that only lasts two hours!

THe PSP cannot withstand my time in the bathroom as much as the DS can.

I'll stick with my 'crappy' handheld, thanks.
 
dark10x, I hope you're not actually serious about this whole button issue. :lol

Link316 said:
they can just make the analog control some cursor on the screen to act as the stylus & hold down R1 to draw with it, NES emulators already do something similar like this to emulate the Zapper Light Gun so I don't see what the big fuss is
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The DS has an R button. The NES doesn't.
 
The Faceless Master said:
i swear, if people start to count the DS power button, and volume slider, and the 'eject ds cart button, and whatever button/switch it is that pauses the ds when you close the unit, then .. uhh .. i dunno ..
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Actually, you have to count the unit-closing switch because I know of at least one game that uses it for gameplay purposes.
 
We're all forgetting about the wifi switch and PSP remote. :lol

This will be seriously cool if it ever approaches playable, still won't prevent me from picking up a DS though.
 
Hate to break it to you guys, but this is very likely fake.

This is what was shown, on some emu site.

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Look at what someone found at that emu site and posted it in the comment section.

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This is from a PC emulator.

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What are the odds of the position being the same?
 
Wario64 said:
noooooo, you're gonna kill the thread
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It's just common sense, even without the pics, someone would have figured it out. The current emu right now can only run some game at 3-10 fps, and we are talking about 2-3Ghz processor. You telling me that a port of that emu is currently running it at 3-5 fps on a 222-333Mhz non-x86 processor?
 
dark10x said:
EXACTLY, but emulation generally works best with additional buttons for functionality.

13 buttons, but not all designed for gameplay. TECHNICALLY SPEAKING, regardless of what they are intended for, there are more buttons on PSP. That's all there is to it.
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Does the volume slider on the DS count as a button?
 
Does the volume slider on the DS count as a button?
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Nope. Neither do the lan, power, and eject switches on the PSP. I'm sorry, but that's the rules. No dials, switchs, analog sticks, or touch screens allowed in the button club.
 
dark10x said:
Nope. Neither do the lan, power, and eject switches on the PSP. I'm sorry, but that's the rules. No dials, switchs, analog sticks, or touch screens allowed in the button club.
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Why can't I count every pixel on the touchscreen?
 
akascream said:
Why can't I count every pixel on the touchscreen?
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I'll admit, the pixels on the DS screens are chunky enough to nearly make this valid...but it doesn't really apply.
 
jarrod said:
For gameplay?

DS
-Dpad~ 8
-ABXY~ 4
-L/R~ 2
-start/select~ 2
-total~ 16

PSP
-Dpad~ 8
-circle/square/triangle/X~ 4
-L/R~ 2
-start/select~ 2
-total~ 16

...any buttons I've missed?
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8 buttons on the d-pad? If combining up+right counts as an additional button, doesn't that mean that any combination of buttons is an additional button? So up+A or X+B or Y+start.. or even three at a time! Or more!

By my calculations that's a whole helluva lot of buttons!
 
Like I said in the previous thread about ds emulation, back in the days, they released a pirate version of Mario Paint that was trained in a way that you had a on screen cursor that you would control with the control pad, instead of the mouse.
 
dark10x said:
I'll admit, the pixels on the DS screens are chunky enough to nearly make this valid...but it doesn't really apply.
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I'm not sure how the touchscreen works, maybe it's elements are divided up in larger chunks than pixels, but each of these seperate touch elements is basically another button.

We're talking thousands of buttons on the DS.


HOWEVER, you can do combinations of buttons on the PSP no? You should count like L+every button, R+every button, X+every button, ect....
 
Apart from whether it's possible or not, there's no point in making a DS emulator for PSP (or any other platform for that matter), at least not with the intention to play the games. Here's a couple of cases which would be difficult to emulate:

- Blowing on the touchscreen (Yoshi / Feel the Magic XX/XY)
- Detecting whether the lid is closed (Another Code)
- Anyone remember the reflection puzzle in Another Code? How are you going to fold the PSP's screen?
- There are temperature diodes in the touchscreen, I don't know a game which makes use of that yet though

Kirby will be close to unplayable, you need to draw quickly and precise. Any game based on gestures actually, unless you fire up a Wacom of course hehe.
 
akascream said:
I'm not sure how the touchscreen works, maybe it's elements are divided up in larger chunks than pixels, but each of these seperate touch elements is basically another button.

We're talking thousands of buttons on the DS.


HOWEVER, you can do combinations of buttons on the PSP no? You should count like L+every button, R+every button, X+every button, ect....
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and you can't do that on DS...
 
mj1108 said:
So now PSP owners are excited to play DS games, even though some refuse to buy a DS? :lol
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I have a strong feeling you didn't read this train wreck of a thread because I don't know how you could pull that assumption from what has happened here.
 
Ponn01 said:
I have a strong feeling you didn't read this train wreck of a thread because I don't know how you could pull that assumption from what has happened here.
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I read most of it and I know it wasn't said here, but you know it'll be coming....
 
So you are saying its goint to be coming, yet your post said:

mj1108 said:
So now PSP owners are excited to play DS games, even though some refuse to buy a DS? :lol
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Sounds like you're trying to jump on PSP owners backs for being psyched about yet another emulator on the console.

I don't own a PSP, but knowing everything its capable of so far, it just keeps adding to the value when people achieve new things.
 
My classmate told me about this today, and I admit it did sting. I called shenanigans on it though, said it's not even playable on PC yet, and that was that.
 
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