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NDS Emulators: still nothing

Discussion in 'Rants' started by CloudBoii12, Jun 25, 2008.

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  1. anandjones

    anandjones Well-Known Member

    That's why game developers suggest you to learn Assembly as well, if you want to code next-gen games.
     
    anandjones, Aug 27, 2008
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  2. ricky_

    ricky_ Well-Known Member

    Honestly, assembler is moot when dealing with next-generation consoles. If you're making games, most development studios farm out to a 3rd party middleware solution like CRI, RenderWare, Unreal Engine, Source, etc. At that point, most, if not all the optimization is really taken care of for you. The only things I'd see learning assembler for would be if you're working with the hardware, at the nitty gritty... working for one of these middleware solutions, or writing your own engine.

    Assembler also is way harder on next (well, fuck it, this) generation consoles, since dealing with cross-thread communication and shit like that (since both the PS3 and Xbox 360 are essentially multi-CPU) can get extremely frustrating with assembler code.
     
    ricky_, Aug 29, 2008
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  3. Loonylion

    Loonylion Administrator Staff Member

    Not only this, but x86 assembler won't help you code for a PS3, as it does not use X86 hardware. Assembly languages are highly hardware specific and will only work on the processor class they were written for. That is fine on PCs, as they all use x86 compatible hardware, and possibly for the xbox, which is almost x86 (just a cut down processor I think from memory) but the PS3 has a completely unique processor. This means you would almost certainly have to learn a different assembly language for every new console.
     
    Loonylion, Aug 29, 2008
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  4. elk1007

    elk1007 Well-Known Member

    You're actually right.
    C++ is designed to be efficient and easy for debugging.
    MASTERING C++ is hard.
    But learning it is relatively easy.
     
    elk1007, Sep 18, 2008
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  5. jc_106

    jc_106 Well-Known Member

    I beg to differ, but for a 1 year old emulator (2.6a is almost 1 year old), no$gba has a fantastic compatibility rate.
     
    jc_106, Sep 18, 2008
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  6. n0thealthy

    n0thealthy Well-Known Member

    I completely agree. no$gba is nothing to complain about.
     
    n0thealthy, Sep 27, 2008
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  7. waylonn

    waylonn Well-Known Member

    Debate Closed?

    Just live with No$GBA 2.6a

    CASE CLOSED
     
    waylonn, Sep 28, 2008
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