N64 Emulators for WP8?

[mobwi]

When are you going to released your N64 app on windowsPhone Store ?

Can you help me ask MS to enable executing ARM machine code on Windows Phone? For now Windows on ARM can run only Thumb-2 code, which makes the implementation of dynamic recompiler very hard to be done. I have tried to port the dynarec from ARM to Thumb2, however finally gave up. One reason is that it needs me to devote too much effort on so small a market, the other is it's not reasonable to redone the dynarec just for only an old machine architecture. Thumb-2 is designed for both excellent performance like ARM and efficient memory space like thumb, a time when the computer's memory space is not enough but good performance is desired. Considering the memory space at current age, Thumb-2 is really out of date. If Windows on ARM allows running ARM machine code in future update, it's feasible to make emulators for PSX, N64 and PSP on Windows Phone come true.

I hope you users ask MS for this feature together, so they can consider it seriously.

 

[Ben Levi Giron]

Can you help me ask MS to enable executing ARM machine code on Windows Phone? For now Windows on ARM can run only Thumb-2 code, which makes the implementation of dynamic recompiler very hard to be done. I have tried to port the dynarec from ARM to Thumb2, however finally gave up. One reason is that it needs me to devote too much effort on so small a market, the other is it's not reasonable to redone the dynarec just for only an old machine architecture. Thumb-2 is designed for both excellent performance like ARM and efficient memory space like thumb, a time when the computer's memory space is not enough but good performance is desired. Considering the memory space at current age, Thumb-2 is really out of date. If Windows on ARM allow running ARM machine code in future update, it's feasible to make emulators for PSX, N64 and PSP on Windows Phone come true.

I hope you users ask MS for this feature together, so they can consider it seriously.

Do you know if this isn't allowed yet on Windows 10 Mobile?

 

[mobwi]

Do you know if this isn't allowed yet on Windows 10 Mobile?

Yes, it's not allowed.

 

[mobwi]

I have successfully port the emulator's core interpreter(recompiled interpreter) version to Universal Windows Platform. I've also successfully run the emulator on a Lumia 822. There are still some UI and settings work to be done. I will release it asap.