Homebrew Emulation Made a couple of arcade emus for DS

[FluBBa]

So I've been hacking away at some arcade emulators on and off the last couple of years, mostly to refine the actual sound/cpu/graphic chip emulation.
Now I have:
Black Tiger/ Black Dragon. https://gbatemp.net/download/blacktigerds.37036/
Double Dribble. https://gbatemp.net/download/doubledribbleds.37038/
Finalizer. https://gbatemp.net/download/finalizerds.37039/
Ghosts'n Goblins. https://gbatemp.net/download/ghostsngoblinsds.37049/
Green Beret / Rush 'n Attack / Mr. Goemon. https://gbatemp.net/download/greenberetds.37040/
Iron Horse. https://gbatemp.net/download/ironhorseds.37041/
Jackal. https://gbatemp.net/download/jackalds.37042/
Jail Break. https://gbatemp.net/download/jailbreakds.37043/
Punch Out. https://gbatemp.net/download/punchoutds.37059/
Renegade. https://gbatemp.net/download/renegadeds.37046/
Son Son. https://gbatemp.net/download/sonsonds.37044/
Yie Ar Kung-Fu. https://gbatemp.net/download/yieards.37045/

I also have a couple of them running on the GBA pretty good but I don't have a builder so it's harder to use there.
Not much sound yet, but I will try to make one of the FM chips (YM2151/YM2203).
I'm not ready to release the source so I can't really put them on GitHub, can I?

Edit: Now there is a single emulator for all the Konami games.
https://github.com/FluBBaOfWard/K80DS/releases/

 

[Nikokaro]

Hi.
Are you by chance the same, famous FluBBa author of PocketNes, Goomba, PCEAdvance, equally appreciated emulators on GBA?
If so it is a pleasure to make your acquaintance; for me, and many others, you are a true living myth!
Thank you for the many hours of fun you have given us, allowing us to play NES/GB/PCE old school gems on the small Nintendo handheld.
Sorry if I seemed intrusive and good luck for your new projects!

 

[FluBBa]

Yes, it's a me. I also have the S8DS and NitroGrafx for Sega 8bit and PC-Engine.
All emulators use the same menu system and share code/repo for all chips so it's easy to create new emulators that use the same chips.
Ghost'N Goblins doesn't want to start the file system though, not sure what is happening there, DeSmuME looks like it patches the DLDI correctly but it's not working.

 

[DinohScene]

You can upload builds to our Download center.
We'd love to have a updated collection of various emulators and homebrew for the devices the forum covers!

 

[Coto]

Yes, it's a me. I also have the S8DS and NitroGrafx for Sega 8bit and PC-Engine.
All emulators use the same menu system and share code/repo for all chips so it's easy to create new emulators that use the same chips.
Ghost'N Goblins doesn't want to start the file system though, not sure what is happening there, DeSmuME looks like it patches the DLDI correctly but it's not working.

The DLDI section in the linker map must be as close as possible to the entrypoint, DLDI patchers may be confused by it. The DLDI base source file (as part of the NDS binary, living inside theDevkitARM library) must have correct offsets relative to where the DLDI is physically located at the moment it was relocated by the linker; This because the usual DLDI patcher(cart loader, manual dldi patcher) will use its own DLDI start address as base to move it on runtime and make it relative to ARM9 payload within EWRAM.

 

[korbinian]

Yes, it's a me. I also have the S8DS and NitroGrafx for Sega 8bit and PC-Engine.

you sir do rock *tips hat*

 

[FluBBa]

You can upload builds to our Download center.
We'd love to have a updated collection of various emulators and homebrew for the devices the forum covers!

So how do I do that? Can I attach zip files in this thread?

 

[DinohScene]

So how do I do that? Can I attach zip files in this thread?

https://gbatemp.net/download/
You can also find the download center under our banner on the front page.
You can link people to the download page of your files after uploading them in the threads.
As for uploading zips in threads, I think it can be done but stashing it in our download center is wiser as it reaches a broader audience.

 

[Nikokaro]

I purposely bump this thread to make it more visible and hoping more people will notice and participate in the proposed poll. Perhaps it would be helpful to specify the presence of a poll in the thread title.

 

[CrashMidnick]

Yes, it's a me. I also have the S8DS and NitroGrafx for Sega 8bit and PC-Engine.
All emulators use the same menu system and share code/repo for all chips so it's easy to create new emulators that use the same chips.

I can’t thank you enough for what you’ve done for GBA/NDS users like me. Last week I updated all your emus with more roms on my Game Boy micro If only the GBA had a little more power for pc-engine.

THANK YOU !

 

[wavemotion]

I'm not ready to release the source so I can't really put them on GitHub, can I?

I don't see any reason why you can't create a github repository just to store the binary executable (in ZIP form if you like). I think you only need a readme file as your "source"

And a huge thanks from me as well, FluBBa - you're one of my DS-Emulation icons and gave me hope that the 8-bit emulators I've been working on can chug along smoothly on this venerable DS hardware. Glad you're still involved!

 

[FluBBa]

Maybe I'll fix up something on GitHub then.
I just updated DivkitARM and Unlaunch and found a couple of issues, but they will be fixed in a couple of days.
I'm trying to migrating unnecessary asm code to C so more people can help out, but there is still a lot left to fix.

 

[The Real Jdbye]

So I've been hacking away at some arcade emulators on and off the last couple of years, mostly to refine the actual sound/cpu/graphic chip emulation.
Now I have:
Black Tiger/ Black Dragon
Double Dribble
Finalizer
Ghosts'n Goblins
Green Beret / Rush 'n Attack / Mr. Goemon
Iron Horse
Jackal
Jail Break
Punch Out
Renegade
Son Son
Yie Ar Kung-Fu

I also have a couple of them running on the GBA pretty good but I don't have a builder so it's harder to use there.
Not much sound yet, but I will try to make one of the FM chips (YM2151/YM2203).
I'm not ready to release the source so I can't really put them on GitHub, can I?
Does anyone know where I can upload zip archives, the files are around 150kB compressed each.

I see closed source software released on GitHub every now and then, but it's pretty dumb just using a git repository to host binary files.

 

[torrent_get]

Another end user pays respect to Baron Von FluBBa

Bubble Bobble UP.

 

[FluBBa]

First emu uploaded, link in first post.

 

[FAST6191]

Welcome back to the homebrew world.

Gave it a spin.
Had some issues with layers -- I appeared to be running/encountering collisions about a tile above where it looked like it should be in scaled mode. Unscaled is fine though

Edit.
Got a thread up on the portal
https://gbatemp.net/threads/black-tiger-black-dragon-arcade-ds-emulator-by-flubba.585370/

 

[wavemotion]

Really nice, FluBBa!

I know there are some tile priority issues per your read me... However, I did notice that the player and enemies are "elevated" above the solid ground - maybe that's related to the tile priorities? Anyway, it runs really smooth and it feels like proper speed - something that is a hallmark for you

PS: Loaded directly via UNLAUNCH 2.0 on my DSi with no DLDI patch needed.

 

[FAST6191]

Oh dear did I fail to read a readme? Call it too excited to play with a new emulator.

Anyway unscaled mode does what I need for now.

 

[Nikokaro]

First emu uploaded, link in first post.

If the preferences were to go to Bubble Bobble (which by the way is already possible to play on DS in the .nes, .sms, .gg, .gba versions), you would later create all the same, time permitting, also Double Dragon (available for DS in .nes, .sms versions, but with significantly degraded graphics; however .gba version is perhaps better)?
Thank you for giving us your time and effort.

 

[WiiHomebrew+Snes]

Wow. Just incredible. Would love to see bubble bobble ported to the DS. Also maybe you can one-up the best homebrew Qbert port (GBC), still unrivaled for many decades.