Homebrew Emulator Capturing Virtual Console game state

[Gyatso]

Hello, I'm new to the 3DS CFW scene, but experienced as a software engineer. I have a dream of making a cfw add-on for the virtual console: a button that, when tapped, transfers the emulation state of the current game to another emulator (e.g. mGBA on a personal computer), like Apple's handoff feature. Obviously this task is far from trivial; I'm aware it could be a massive undertaking. But I think it could be a cool way to gain experience with emulation and 3DS homebrew app development.

So I had a few questions:
1) has this already been accomplished by another app? If so, then no need to pursue this
2) has there been research/reverse engineering of the virtual console? Or at least the game state structure, since that's the most pertinent part.
3) any other feedback from experienced devs here?

Thanks!

 

[Ryab]

Hello, I'm new to the 3DS CFW scene, but experienced as a software engineer. I have a dream of making a cfw add-on for the virtual console: a button that, when tapped, transfers the emulation state of the current game to another emulator (e.g. mGBA on a personal computer), like Apple's handoff feature. Obviously this task is far from trivial; I'm aware it could be a massive undertaking. But I think it could be a cool way to gain experience with emulation and 3DS homebrew app development.

So I had a few questions:
1) has this already been accomplished by another app? If so, then no need to pursue this
2) has there been research/reverse engineering of the virtual console? Or at least the game state structure, since that's the most pertinent part.
3) any other feedback from experienced devs here?

Thanks!

Well all a save state really is, is a 1:1 dump of the current system memory. Transfering that over probably wouldnt be hard, the difficulty is actually extracting that data from the VC.