Bug#598968: RFP: bsnes -- The most accurate SNES/SuperFamicom emulator
On Sunday 03 October 2010 16:37:57 you wrote:
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
>
>
> * Package name : bsnes
> Version : 0.70
> Upstream Author : byuu
> * URL : http://byuu.org/bsnes/
> * License : GPL2
> Programming Lang: C++
> Description : The most accurate SNES/SuperFamicom emulator
>
> >>From the web site:
> bsnes is an emulator that began development on 2004-10-14. The purpose
> of this emulator is a bit different from others: it focuses on accuracy,
> debugging functionality, and clean code.
>
> The emulator does not focus on things that would hinder accuracy. This
> includes speed and game-specific hacks for compatibility. As a result,
> the minimum system requirements for bsnes are very high.
>
> The emulator itself was not derived from any existing emulator source
> code, such as SNES9x. It was written from scratch by myself. Any
> similarities to other emulators are merely coincidental.
>
> It is a very easy to use emulator with great, great accuracy. Best I've
> seen so far!
Isn't it a bit useless to package bsnes? mednafen (in Debian) has bsnes
already integrated [1] (afaik also with netplay support). Maybe it would be
better to help the mednafen maintainer [2]. For example nobody showed any
reactions to the ubuntu bugs (and maybe from other derivatives). Maybe you
could also provide some insight how to use the different emulation cores or
something like that. Also the debhelper compat could be updated to 8, dh could
be used in debian/rules and line endings fixed in copyright file. If you want
upstream help then you could try to get all patches since bsnes v059 be
applied on top of the mednafen version.
[1] http://forum.fobby.net/index.php?t=msg&th=544&start=0&;
[2] http://packages.qa.debian.org/m/mednafen.html
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