ChaoticBob wrote:Sorry but if you are asking questions like this you will probably be aiming a bit high for the moment. From what I can see of the sources, the approach I would take is to copy the X11 backend, as it seems to be the most current one. Then you need to remove all mentions of X from the code until you can get it to successfully compile and link without X11. Then you need to replace all the rendering, input and most everything else with SDL versions. This will be quite hard. You might want to try porting something simpler that already uses SDL first.
So is no-one working on snes9x at all? It seems people are still using the very first version that even still has a cursor at the top of the screen. If so, ScummVM is pretty usable at the moment, so I might have a look at getting 1.51 running.
I would love to help. I have a history of computer engineering and just want to know if its a simple language switch that needs to me done. Like I said I have never worked in Linux so my knowledge in this particular area is lacking. I am eager to learn and have spare time in my office to work on something like this.
. So either the SDL version we have now is already optimised or they have focused a lot on compatibility over speed between 1.39 and 1.51. I'm leaning towards a little of both, but either way I think this is probably a dead end. If I start hacking things up to speed it up we will probably lose compatibility and be back where we started. It seems nearly all the "fast" snes emulators for portable devices have their roots in version 1.39 so I think any efforts would be better focused on improving that version. What games don't work with 1.39?