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GameCube emu loading Freeloader!

Martin

Martin

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The mystery author of this quickly progressing GameCube project gave us at Emulation64 another exclusive screenshot of the GameCube emulator running. This time a freeloader! What you see below is the first screenshot of the emulator running something that's not homebrewn. Great job - amazing progress! Isn't this smiliey fitting? :drool: :D

<center><a href="http://www.emulation64.com/Gamecube/freeloader.png"><img src="http://www.emulation64.com/Gamecube/freeloader.gif" border="0"></a>
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ra5555

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I don't mean to disapperciate, but, how do we know this is real? I mean he has only supplied us with screenshot, and the fact it's made by a mystery author rises some doubts.

If this is indeed real, then it's a great news :p
 
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Martin

Martin

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Mystery author is just a term used since he/she hasn't revealed him-/herself (as Redah would put it :p). Noone said anything about the author not being known in the emulation scene already. Not saying he/she is. Let's just say it's not fake ;)
 
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ra5555

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Martin said:
Mystery author is just a term used since he/she hasn't revealed him-/herself (as Redah would put it :p). Noone said anything about the author not being known in the emulation scene already. Not saying he/she is. Let's just say it's not fake ;)
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Cool :) Great, never expected GC emulation would progress this fast. This is indeed a wonderful news! :drool:
 
The Khan Artist

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Martin said:
Mystery author is just a term used since he/she hasn't revealed him-/herself (as Redah would put it :p). Noone said anything about the author not being known in the emulation scene already. Not saying he/she is. Let's just say it's not fake ;)
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So, you have first-hand knowledge?

If this IS real, it marks the first time anybody has managed a working PPC emulator, so it would be quite impressive.
 
piccolo17486

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@Khan
Yeah your right, and with the source we could also get the new apples emulated :) would be very cool

Yes the emu is great, was this freeloader the one which was ripped from starcube, it would prove that them are not a fake.
Last thing, it would (for me) be better if the make more porgress in homebrew dev for the gc, but this is also ok :)
 
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DesktopMan

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It's not impossible to emulate it, since docs can be obtained from ibm. (free, legal) Knowledge and experience is required though.

And on another note, yes it's real. And no, those wishing to play free cube games!!!!!!11 on their computer will be disasspointed. But it's great for home-brew nonetheless, and that's what I care about.

And as for StarCube's releases beeing real, both Freeloader and Action Replay has been booted with the pso hack. Does that answer the real/fake question?
 
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Trek234

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"it marks the first time anybody has managed a working PPC emulator"

Maybe.... There is a company that was developing a mac emu for PC many many months ago that supposedly emulated PPC almost perfectly. The company killed the project close to release, however.

I don't remember the name, but I bet it's somewhere on emulators.com
 
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Remote

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I suppose the hard part emulating the GC isn't the CPU, as DesktopMan said, the info required is avalible but of course it takes skill and experince to get it up running. I can't remember who said it, but I wouldn't be too surprised if it was an emu author, that a recompiler for the CPU is definetely manageble but until now there's nothing to run on it, so that would explain why this has popped out so suddenly. Until now there haven't been any GC dumps. I don't know how much the Gecko differs from the standard chip that it was developed from but I read somewhere that it was in the 50+ instructions range. Although when writing this I realise that I don't have a clue of how many instructions a typical CPU in this caliber has.

So with a little luck perhaps someone started work on a recompiler a long time ago...

As for GPU and SPU that will probaly take a long time since it's unknown hardware and the information needed to emulate it isn't avalible so it'll have to be reverse engeneered. I don't even want to know how that's done, it must be a cruel process where time and patience must be key items...

Hopefully we'll see a couple more screenshots of homebrew apps as it develops.
 
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Trek234

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"for GPU and SPU that will probaly take a long time since it's unknown hardware and the information needed to emulate it isn't avalible "

I'd say it's likely someone inside Nintendo will distribute the papers detailing the hardware. That type of thing always happens sooner or later....

Additionally, you can always read United States patents for info.
 
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The Khan Artist

The Khan Artist

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Trek234 said:
"it marks the first time anybody has managed a working PPC emulator"

Maybe.... There is a company that was developing a mac emu for PC many many months ago that supposedly emulated PPC almost perfectly. The company killed the project close to release, however.

I don't remember the name, but I bet it's somewhere on emulators.com
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They never did anything with it... and I've heard some well-founded rumors that is was faked, anyway.

The only other semi-working PPC emulator I've heard of is in the devel versions of Basilisk II. They say Mac OS 8.6 (PPC only) works with some major HLE.
 
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Remote

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Yes, info always gets leaked sooner or later but not neccesarily the correct and neccesary type. Look at SNES emulation, I bet there's a ton of info SNES emu authors would love to know regarding the SNES...
 
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