ZSNES for Android coming soon

[pagefault]

I have spent some time putting together a version of ZSNES that will work on android. It is essentially the old codeline with some improvements that will run in a custom qemu environment with a nice UI to configure and load your roms.

I figured we could do something in the meantime while we figure out what direction we want to take ZSNES in the future. There is still interest among the team to possibly rewrite/make a new emulator with technology not sourced from the late 90s

What is currently working:

• Load a rom
  Play a game with no input
  Sound
  Basic settings for screen size and filters

Stuff that needs to be done still:

• Put a virtual gamepad on the screen for some interaction (if anyone can recommend a nice free library for this would be appreciated)
  Support bluetooth gamepads
  Way to do a savestate/load
  Cheats

I don't have an ETA on when this will be available but will be on the zsnes.com files section as an apk. Currently there no plans to put it on Google Play store until we have a nice product that people would be happy to use.

My main development device is a Nexus 5 running 5.0.1 but I am targetting this for Jellybean at least. I expect any device with a dual core 1ghz cpu and 1gb of ram should be able to run it pretty well.

There is no plans for an iOS version unless someone wants to buy me an iPad or iPhone and a Mac (lol). Same goes for Windows Phone.

More news to follow later along with screenshots and stuff.

Please post comments and feedback here.

[odditude]

w00t

[Gil_Hamilton]

Holy shit, pagefault isn't dead!


That is the sum total of my meaningful contributions.

[grinvader]

¬_¬

[nintendo_nerd]

Wait, so...Zsnes is getting a port to Android, and I assume over time, will get the improved code (like better S-SMP emulation for the games with broken/jacked up sound)? Well I'll be damned!

[sweener2001]

It excites me to see pagefault posting again.

[pagefault]

Just an update that progress is good. But there are some problems in getting some of the code working, we have a lot of MMX code that doesn't work properly on ARM so looking at ways of making that work better.

Unrelated, does anyone have any broken SNES consoles they can open up? I need a new cart slot connector for mine as the pins seem kind of screwed up. Does anyone have any experience in changing/fixing these?

[nintendo_nerd]

Just an update that progress is good. But there are some problems in getting some of the code working, we have a lot of MMX code that doesn't work properly on ARM so looking at ways of making that work better.

Unrelated, does anyone have any broken SNES consoles they can open up? I need a new cart slot connector for mine as the pins seem kind of screwed up. Does anyone have any experience in changing/fixing these?

Glad to hear it's coming along slowly but surely Can't wait to try it out on my tablet.

[Silensho]

It has been time since I last posted in the forum.

I find these news marvelous and wonderful.

And bitchin' cool.

[pagefault]

This project is now on hold. We are working on something much more interesting. No details right now though.

[nintendo_nerd]

This project is now on hold. We are working on something much more interesting. No details right now though.

Oh ho ho, well then, hopefully it's related to Snes emulation nonetheless, awesome work

[Yuber]

Nice to hear about progress being made, and whenever it comes out I'm sure 2.0 or whatever the fuck it's gonna be called will be awesome. I'll keep using 9x for now(for PC, don't use any mobile emus) but this little update is a pleasant surprise.

[joe_devore]

Holy shit, pagefault isn't dead!
That is the sum total of my meaningful contributions.

HERE HERE PageFault LIVES!!!!! HUWAYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
the future is looking BRIGHTER already ^_^

Unrelated, does anyone have any broken SNES consoles they can open up? I need a new cart slot connector for mine as the pins seem kind of screwed up. Does anyone have any experience in changing/fixing these?

just buy a new one off of eBay, I will donate towards it beginning April I can do figure $20 via ZSNES PayPal Link

I found one complete used SNES for $195:
http://tinyurl.com/eBay-item-SNES

Here is my Search of eBay:
http://tinyurl.com/eBay-Search-SNES

But there are some problems in getting some of the code working,
we have a lot of MMX code that doesn't work properly on ARM so looking at ways of making that work better.

loi ;D the mmx code is still having issues to this day the
video filters NTSC and the HQ Filter.... cause SigSEGV when enabling or disabling via the GUI,
but changes via editing the zsnesw.cfg file no problem...

surprisingly on my laptop 2008 Toshiba (Intel integrated graphics)(Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit)
it does NOT SIGSEGV....

on my desktop Windows XP Professional 64bit SP2 it does (had a GTS 250, now using a Nvidia GTX 750 Ti SC ACX 2GB)
it does crash

I traced it back to.. depending on whether I was enabling or disabling it had a different crash location///
copyvwin.asm:169
NEWSYM copy640x480x16bwin
.mmxr

but as I don't know ASM other then a very basic understanding...
add esi,8
add this value to this reg.. O_o?

ie. there isn't anything I could do to fix it

I am using ZSNES_v1.51_(FuSoYa-8MB_R1) src version...
if you feel like it I can email you an archive of my copy I modified the makefile.ms file to move OPTs and a few other things to the top of the file after the copyright....

and so it would make it easier to compile and test, I added .cmd batch files...


one thing I have wanted to do was create separate sub folders for compile output so one DOES NOT need to have to keep cleaning when switching between debug, non-debug&non-releasegrade, releasegrade build types:
.\ZSNES_v1.51_(FuSoYa-8MB_R1)\src\_Debug_obj
.\ZSNES_v1.51_(FuSoYa-8MB_R1)\src\_Debug_bin
.\ZSNES_v1.51_(FuSoYa-8MB_R1)\src\_ReleaseGrade_obj
.\ZSNES_v1.51_(FuSoYa-8MB_R1)\src\_ReleaseGrade_bin
.\ZSNES_v1.51_(FuSoYa-8MB_R1)\src\_Non-ReleaseGrade_obj
.\ZSNES_v1.51_(FuSoYa-8MB_R1)\src\_Non-ReleaseGrade_bin

since the output is a single file, the separate obj & bin folders are optional and could be merged into single folders
.\ZSNES_v1.51_(FuSoYa-8MB_R1)\src\_Debug
.\ZSNES_v1.51_(FuSoYa-8MB_R1)\src\_ReleaseGrade
.\ZSNES_v1.51_(FuSoYa-8MB_R1)\src\_Non-ReleaseGrade


anyhow I can email a copy some day if you like Pagefault

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