Changes

Jump to navigation Jump to search

History of emulation

976 bytes added, 18:12, 17 May 2022
Fixed some grammar, boy was my grammar horrendous in March
Later, Sparcade by David Spicer <ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20010202172300/http://www.sparcade.freeserve.co.uk/download.htm]</ref> was capable of running some arcade games in 1996.
 
Is worth note that DTMNT, a single emulator for Konami’s TMNT was released in 1998. <ref>[https://www.zophar.net/arcade/dtmnt.html]</ref>
1998 was also the year of the release of various complex multiple arcade games emulators, such as Callus (Capcom CPS-1) and System16 (Sega System 16).
* [https://code.google.com/archive/p/gekko-gc-emu/ Gekko] was started in April 2006.
 
===Xbox===
Xbox emulation dates as far as 2002.
* [[Cxbx]] was released as a proof of concept on August 2002. It can do some test apps, and later commercial games. Discontinued in October 2015.
* Xeon, released in 2003, was the first Xbox emulator whose first version can play games, but the only game that can boot and show graphics was Halo CE.
* Dxbx is a fork of Cxbx, released in 2008.
* [[Cxbx-Reloaded]] is a fork of Cxbx, that went open-source in April 2016. Because little work has been done on the original CXBX, its development is very slow (equals 15% playable titles), and like older Xbox emulators, it didn't need a BIOS dump to work.
* [[XQEMU]] was the first low-level Xbox emulator. Its first commit was on February 1, 2009. It emulated games at slow speeds. Its last commit was on December 2019.
* [[xemu]] is a continuation of XQEMU, released somewhere in February 2020. It can play 5x more titles than Cxbx-Reloaded, and needed an BIOS dump to work.
===Nintendo DS===
* [[yuzu]], a fork of [[Citra]], started research and early development sometime in Spring 2017,<ref name="yuzu announcement">[https://gbatemp.net/threads/yuzu-nintendo-switch-emulator.494181/ yuzu announcement and public release.]</ref> with its first commit on September 24, 2017.<ref>[https://github.com/yuzu-emu/yuzu/commit/6bafd3f4f754e093fe0f99ebf2e1136d3398981a yuzu's NSO support commit on Github]</ref> It was publicly released in January 13, 2018.<ref name="yuzu announcement"></ref>
* [[Ryujinx]] was the first Nintendo Switch emulator to boot a commercial game, Puyo Puyo Tetris, when it released on February 4, 2018.<ref>[https://github.com/gdkchan/Ryujinx/tree/b7e1d9930db6d80fcb1f7c5c6b0aa627e42e6595 Ryujinx's initial GitHub commit.]</ref>
* [[Skyline]] is an Switch emulator for Android. It's first commit was on June 28, 2019. It's first breakthrough was booting Super Mario Odyssey.
==References==
369
edits

Navigation menu