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Dartendo lets you play your nintendo games in browser
- mdwrigh2 15y agoAs the name implies, this is an NES emulator written in dart, running on app engine. The source can be found here: http://code.google.com/p/super-dartendo/ http://code.google.com/p/super-dartendo/
- paulhauggis 15y agoIt was pretty smart of the person that made this to use roms that you upload. Nintendo is pretty serious about rom sites.
- mdwrigh2 15y agoStrangely enough, the repo appears to have some ROMs. Smart that he doesn't expose them to the casual user and that he doesn't advertise them, however.
- rosstafarian 15y agoThose look to be free/homebrew not commercial games.
- rufugee 15y agoHow in the world does someone begin to write something like this? It's one thing to understand the language, but how does one gain insight into the underlying mechanics of a device like this, and given this insight, understand how to instrument a replacement? I've been a developer for over a decade, and reading code like this still leaves me in awe...
- JVIDEL 15y agoEmulators are a dime a dozen, and almost every console from before the PSX already had at least one by 1999. In the beginning it wasn't (usually) one person but an entire team studying every component of the console, dumping the BIOS and then coding something that (at first) could at least boot the game. After that it was mostly about working out the details like graphic glitches, slow framerate, certain graphical issues, etc... But once the "core" was made other teams or individuals could use it to make their own versions, or port it to other OSes/architectures. The NES is together with the Sega Genesis one of the most emulated consoles out there: you'll find emulators of these two for every computer, PDA, PMP, phone or tablet.
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- gbaygon 15y agoSeems to be based on vNes and JSNES (the repo in google code contains copies of both projects).
- crowhack 15y agohas anyone got it working?
- NewHighScore 15y agoI haven't. I dont see anything at http://code.google.com/p/super-dartendo/ http://code.google.com/p/super-dartendo/ either?
- robwgibbons 15y agoThe ROMs tab doesn't do anything for me
- Jimmie 15y agoI couldn't figure out what to do either. One of the few flaws in HTML5 is I have no idea if everything is still loading or I'm just clicking in the wrong places.
- tux1968 15y agoDidn't work for me in Firefox but worked okay in Chrome. Even so, it was so slow and unresponsive it remained unplayable. But it's a good example of what still isn't really possible with current web technologies.
- oomkiller 15y agoHmm, controls seem a bit odd to me. Instead of the standard arrow keys or WASD, it looks like they are using the right side of the keyboard for some reason.
- tfb 15y agoI've seen a few emulators implemented for HTML5 but I have yet to actually get one to work. For this particular emulator, I've tried the SMB3 rom available in Dartendo's repo at http://code.google.com/p/super-dartendo/source/browse/trunk/dartendo/roms/SuperMario3.json http://code.google.com/p/super-dartendo/source/browse/trunk/..., but I must be doing something wrong because nothing happens when I "load" the rom. Anyone know what the deal is? I'm using Chrome 17 on Windows 7.
- FreeFull 15y agoDoes this work in Firefox?