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ideas for psp and a question about how they make an emulator

Discussion in 'General Discussion' started by 3dd13, Sep 27, 2008.

  1. 3dd13

    3dd13 Well-Known Member

    ok. i have [and am using to write this] a psp phat with custom firmware 3.90 m33-3. i need ideas for hacks as well as website links. and about the ds emulator, why cant they rip the code that runs the game and plug it into their emulators. i mean, come on, the pc has enouh processing power...
     
    3dd13, Sep 27, 2008
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  2. Loonylion

    Loonylion Administrator Staff Member

    A PC is is not capable of running DS code, the hardware is different so the x86 CPUs found in PCs would not know how to execute the instructions. Thus, you need some software to translate the DS' ARM instructions to x86 instructions. This piece of software is called an emulator.
     
    Loonylion, Sep 27, 2008
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  3. jc_106

    jc_106 Well-Known Member

    Which is quite difficult to produce. Living examples: the PS2. It's eight years old, and the emulators available for it can only play a few games, and you need quite the computer to do it.
     
    jc_106, Sep 27, 2008
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  4. 3dd13

    3dd13 Well-Known Member

    but look how they did the ps1...
     
    3dd13, Sep 27, 2008
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  5. Loonylion

    Loonylion Administrator Staff Member

    PS1 has been around for almost 10 years, and is considerably more simple than modern consoles.
     
    Loonylion, Sep 27, 2008
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