While I wouldn't recommend trying to learn about emulation from someone as inexperienced as me, I wanted to outline the process of starting an emulator for the first time, talk about which documents were most helpful to me, and also talk about some of the design choices I went through. Windows version of Cinoop running Tetris before randomisation support It can be run on Windows, DS, GameCube, 3DS, Linux based OSes, PSP, and PS4. I called the project Cinoop.Ĭinoop is written in C and is open source. On the other hand, there's the NES and Game Boy both of which seemed far too advanced for me!Įventually, I decided to write a minimalist Game Boy interpreting emulator, without support for custom mappers or sound, (and probably many inaccuracies). I felt that I got enough out of just reading through other people's emulators, and that writing my own would be a pointless exercise. Reading about CHIP-8 definitely helped me to understand a lot of emulation concepts, but it seemed a bit too basic.
Picking a system to emulate isn't an easy choice the standard first emulator project seems to be a CHIP-8 emulator. I've always wanted to write an emulator from scratch, but I've held off for a long time because it's probably the most advanced programming project I've ever wanted to do. Writing a Game Boy emulator, Cinoop Initial publication: March 24th, 2015
