Can't believe this hasn't been implemented yet.

[Krysanto]

Hello ladies and gentelmen.

I'm really missing a feature in ZSnes.
There needs to be an option that, when you start the game, there's a 1-7% chance of it not working properly.
And on the screen it says: Press A rapidly to blow the cartridge.
That is all. Thank you for your time.

[Gil_Hamilton]

That feature's only implemented in Z.NES, as the ZSNES console was generally reliable enough that it didn't need any spittle.

[adventure_of_link]

That feature's only implemented in Z.NES, as the ZSNES console was generally reliable enough that it didn't need any spittle.

And every once in awhile, ZGB as well...

[grinvader]

Press A rapidly to blow the cartridge.

Pressing A will do fuck all, exactly like on a cart with a dirty connector. Blowing the cartridge is a romtool feature, not an emulator one.

[paulguy]

Would be interesting to see an emulator that emulates unconnected or intermittent data or address lines.

[mudlord88]

And how would you do that?
Emulate cart interfaces like how C64 emulators do it, by emulating the actual I/O interfaces?

All SNES emus just read the ROM as a array, no delays involved.

[paulguy]

Yeah, I know. It just would be nice it could like, simulate a random data or address line getting stuck high or low or being intermittent. I know it wouldn't be exactly what goes on with a dirty NES or something, but it woulf be neat to add some kind of randomness to what's going on with a particular mapper as far as that goes and see what happens.

[grinvader]

All SNES emus just read the ROM as a array, no delays involved.

It's trivial to add read/write delays, and it's also simple to design the memmap code taking the pcb traces into account. Then you can make each line misfire at will. Stupid feature, but feasible.
Not really interesting to pull in any regard.

The trace-memmap design makes it very easy to mimic some tricky stuff, though, so that idea could be good.

[paulguy]

Oh yeah, I know it's dumb as hell, just would be amusing to see how old games would just blow up in to a blob of mush.

[kode54]

With NES games, it's possible to glitch out the game without crashing by twiddling bits on the character ROM/RAM address or data lines. Not so easy to do that with most other consoles, since they usually have a single address and data bus. In which case, twiddling an entire line will likely result in the entire game crashing spectacularly.

[Gil_Hamilton]

Ain't nothin' wrong with a spectacular crash. As long as it's not mundane.

[Zer0]

Ha. Would be interesting.