Hello guys!
I'm Carlos Lindeman from Brazil and since 2015 I'm developing an Nintendo DS emulator. Everything started when a co-worker was playing Super Smash Bros on his notebook in the breaktime, I was amazed by the performance of the emulator (Dolphin), the last time I tried to emulate something (at the time) was at least 10 years before. And in the moment I discovered it was opensource and looked at the source, man! I was amazed how such a brillant work could be done, it was nothing compared to every single software I developed since I started in this area ('95), so I started to search about emulation and other emulators, and became amazed with a lot of them, PPSSPP for its structure, NO$GBA for being absurdly written in assembly, Gambatte for it's accuracy. But I noted that no DS emulators (at least Open Source) was well... Friendly written? I looked at the Desmume Source and it was a mess... NO$ despite being incredible for being written in assembly wasn't opensource nor portable, so I tought, why not? Thankfully I had some experience with the ARM architecture in the past, so I started what I call "Rensata", yeah I don't have any creativity for names.
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My first objective was to make it work, I got to this in 2016 when I got Mario 64DS to boot! So I started to work with the "GPU" side, and got a software render that renders pretty well a hundred of games now. In the begin of 2017 I refactored every part of the code and mostly rewrote the ARM's interpreters (and got a huge performance boost, 300% the original DS velocity on an old Pentium 4), so I set another goal, an JIT to speed up things a little (and grant performance on portable devices)! At the current time I'm finishing the details of the JIT, and starting to work on a new renderer (with OpenGL3) and in the reversal enginnering of some common libraries embbeded on most DS games. I plan to release it to public at the moment the JIT is finished, so that way with a few adjusts it could be ported to every platform possible (at least in theory, I designed the JIT core directly with 3 modules, X86, X86_64 and ARM64, I don't know much about PowerPC and other architectures, but I think it'll work).
But at the moment I have one single problem... I worked to the same company since 1999, but it closed doors the begin of this year, and at least in my city I haven't find a job that pay the same nor that actually uses most of my experience (I worked all this time with C and C++), all the Java I knows seems to be at the same level of recently graduate students that can earn a starter salary, so at the moment I'm earning just to live and hardly pay my children school.
The thing is, I found out that some details of GBATek (the major source of information I used til now) have some parts not so acurrated, and I got to test this with a osciloscope of my alma mater, but I can't use it for my personal research without goverment authorization, and well, they didn't authorize me. So I'm keeping to buy one myself, but I can hardly keep any money each month, so I'm here to ask for your help! There's an osciloscope from Rigol that costs 350 USD on Amazon, but got an offer from a acquitance in Canada for 300 USD, with taxes it would cost me next to 600 USD (Yeah, Brazil import taxes are absurd, they tax everything (minus books and medicine)). That's a month of my salary, and the way I'm it will be 3 years to keep this ammount. So I'm asking for your help!
Any amount will be really appreciated! And if you donate, mail me and the moment the JIT get completed (Probably August), you'll receive a beta build, and if you are interested the access to the repository, and when every single test of JIT be OK will release it to public (September?). I know that I may sound just like an odd asking you for money, but well, the only guarantee I can give is my word. People said to me open an Patreon, but it won't work right now, since there's no source or public build, It would be nonsense. Well, that's it, thanks for hearing about my work and plans!
Email: carloslindeman1(at)outlook(dot)com
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