Snes9x outputs 16-bit stereo digital sound data.

Pixel format conversion may be required before you place the rendered SNES screen on to the display. Snes9x uses 8MB to load SNES ROM images and several MB for emulating sound, graphics, custom chips, and so on.Ī 16-bit color (two bytes per pixel) or deeper display, at least 512*478 pixels in resolution. SNES emulation is very compute intensive two, or sometimes three CPUs to emulate, an 8-channel 16-bit stereo sound digital signal processor with real-time sample decompression, filter and echo effects, two custom graphics processor chips that can produce transparency, scaling, rotation and window effects in 32768 colors, and finally hardware DMA all take their toll on the host CPU.Įnough RAM. GCC is good for compiling Snes9x ( ).Ī fast CPU. For the most part Snes9x really isn't written in C++, it just uses the C++ compiler as a “better C” compiler to get inline functions and so on. It also gives some insights as to how Snes9x actually works, although that will be subject of another document yet to be written.Ī C++ compiler. It describes what code you have to write and what functions exist that you can make use of. This is brief description of the steps to port Snes9x to the new platform.

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