NESpire general discussion thread

[Munchor]

Ndless can work 3D games, so why not N64 games?


I mean, no way at 5 fps

[fb39ca4]

n64 Fullspeed emulation will be impossible-there is only so much you can do with 150mhz and no graphics hardware.

[Munchor]

n64 Fullspeed emulation will be impossible-there is only so much you can do with 150mhz and no graphics hardware.

yup, 3D animations in my Nspire already look slow... like a football turning around itself is slow... n64 would just boooom the calculator

[critor]

Ndless can work 3D games, so why not N64 games?

Why not SNES emulation before that?

[calc84maniac]

n64 Fullspeed emulation will be impossible-there is only so much you can do with 150mhz and no graphics hardware.

yup, 3D animations in my Nspire already look slow... like a football turning around itself is slow... n64 would just boooom the calculator

Is this in TI-Nspire Basic? If so, that could explain it

[Munchor]

n64 Fullspeed emulation will be impossible-there is only so much you can do with 150mhz and no graphics hardware.

yup, 3D animations in my Nspire already look slow... like a football turning around itself is slow... n64 would just boooom the calculator

Is this in TI-Nspire Basic? If so, that could explain it

The thing is I have a program called PolyHedra in

http://nelsonsousa.pt/index.php?lang=en&cat=2&subcat=3&article=40

It has a 3D football and when I play the animation it is very slow.
TI N-Spire Touchpad

[codeslicer]

n64 Fullspeed emulation will be impossible-there is only so much you can do with 150mhz and no graphics hardware.

yup, 3D animations in my Nspire already look slow... like a football turning around itself is slow... n64 would just boooom the calculator

Is this in TI-Nspire Basic? If so, that could explain it

The thing is I have a program called PolyHedra in

http://nelsonsousa.pt/index.php?lang=en&cat=2&subcat=3&article=40

It has a 3D football and when I play the animation it is very slow.
TI N-Spire Touchpad

Don't forget that the Nspire OS with all of its individual points moving, and lines being recalculated, means that pure C code would run much faster. (Although N64 is still pushing it).

[Munchor]

n64 Fullspeed emulation will be impossible-there is only so much you can do with 150mhz and no graphics hardware.

yup, 3D animations in my Nspire already look slow... like a football turning around itself is slow... n64 would just boooom the calculator

Is this in TI-Nspire Basic? If so, that could explain it

The thing is I have a program called PolyHedra in

http://nelsonsousa.pt/index.php?lang=en&cat=2&subcat=3&article=40

It has a 3D football and when I play the animation it is very slow.
TI N-Spire Touchpad

Don't forget that the Nspire OS with all of its individual points moving, and lines being recalculated, means that pure C code would run much faster. (Although N64 is still pushing it).

Yeah that's right and C is also the fastest language of all.

With some optimization, it could be possible


How dumb of me, i forgot that C is way faster in the nspire heheheheh

[fb39ca4]

The n64 had a 90mhz processor, and 3d graphics hardware.
IMO, the most efficient emulator ever is Dolphin, (Wii/GC emulator), and it still needs like 8x the CPU power compared to the actual thing to emulate most games.

[DJ Omnimaga]

Ndless can work 3D games, so why not N64 games?

Why not SNES emulation before that?

I agree with that, not to mention it has a much wider variery of games. If N64 is possible it would really rule, though. But yeah we need to start small at first.

[Goplat]

SNES is probably feasible, other than the games that had additional processors inside the cartridge. I remember using an emulator called ZSNES on my 100MHz 486, probably roughly comparable to the Nspire in terms of CPU power. Had to turn the frameskip up but many games were still playable.

[fb39ca4]

So no starfox, then?

[Munchor]

So no starfox, then?

I'm afraid so, but I don't think nobody ever tried making a N64 emulator, but how can we know without trying?

[calc84maniac]

Starfox was a SNES game. But at any rate, an N64 emulator isn't going to run on our 150MHz ARM processor with no GPU and only 32MB of RAM. The Pandora is just barely able to run an optimized N64 emulator, and it's 600MHz+ with 3d graphics hardware and 256MB RAM.

[Happybobjr]

Starfox was a SNES game. But at any rate, an N64 emulator isn't going to run on our 150MHz ARM processor with no GPU and only 32MB of RAM. The Pandora is just barely able to run an optimized N64 emulator, and it's 600MHz+ with 3d graphics hardware and 256MB RAM.

exscuse me.  Can't the Pandora emulate a Nintendo ds fully?
So why cant it emulate a n64 well?