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From what I understand we are having some emulation limitations on SNES9x due to the version being used by Dingux.
Being that I am not familiar with Linux but do have a general idea of how things work I would like to get involved in making 1.51 a port to Dingux. I suppose a general explanation of how things work would be appreciated.

-B

Hi,

From what I understand the current SDL version is 1.39.

The PC version is at 1.5 (I think). We need someone to do a newer SDL version before it can be compiled and see if it works.

Hellsing1 wrote:Hi,

From what I understand the current SDL version is 1.39.

The PC version is at 1.5 (I think). We need someone to do a newer SDL version before it can be compiled and see if it works.

Can Linux compile any coding language? From what I understand is that the source code for SNES9x is floating around somewhere.

It seems that there is some info on a newer port being worked on here:
http://www.snes9x.com/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?t=3703

The Linux version sources of snes9x 1.51 are here.

http://linux.softpedia.com/get/System/E ... 8364.shtml

Hellsing1 wrote:The Linux version sources of snes9x 1.51 are here.

http://linux.softpedia.com/get/System/E ... 8364.shtml

Beautiful! Now what do I need to do to compile/port this to Dingux?

to just compile it, you'll need the dingux toolchain, to actually port it to work and be useful-all depends on how much of the sdl or whatever is unsupported, and how much x86 assembly there is in there etc

toolchain can be downloaded form th edingoo linux googlecode page

darfgarf wrote:to just compile it, you'll need the dingux toolchain, to actually port it to work and be useful-all depends on how much of the sdl or whatever is unsupported, and how much x86 assembly there is in there etc

toolchain can be downloaded form th edingoo linux googlecode page

So, is it safe to presume that Linux has more capabilities for compiling that our Dingux due to software limitations?

darfgarf wrote:to just compile it, you'll need the dingux toolchain, to actually port it to work and be useful-all depends on how much of the sdl or whatever is unsupported, and how much x86 assembly there is in there etc

toolchain can be downloaded form th edingoo linux googlecode page

You make it sound so easy? Is it really so easy or is it Linux easy so that you first need to know the basis and then can get it to work?
If it really that easy how much time would it take to learn to compile?

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.