I was looking at the BizHawk wiki page and noticed it was quite out of date. I was thinking of taking some time and giving it a bit of an update.
A lot of it is just adding new information or removing old and now incorrect information, but there are a few things I would like some feedback on:
NES accuracy tests: Most of the emulators listed in the table there are irrelevant for TAS (or now even for general use.) I'm thinking of simple removing them and leaving only NESHawk, PuNES, FCEUX, and adding Mesen. Also there are some relatively new tests to add. Any thoughts on this?
TODO page: It's a mess, mostly years old outdated stuff. What should be there now? Is it even needed?
Core road map: I guess it's not even really a road map, just a list of ideas. Are there any concrete plans for any of them?
Known Desyncs: last updated in 2014, is it still relevant?
If anyone has any additional thoughts feel free to chime in.
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Alyosha wrote:
NES accuracy tests: Most of the emulators listed in the table there are irrelevant for TAS (or now even for general use.) I'm thinking of simple removing them and leaving only NESHawk, PuNES, FCEUX, and adding Mesen. Also there are some relatively new tests to add. Any thoughts on this?
Quicknes is still relevant as it is in the BizHawk core. Maybe a few other popular ones are still relevant as a point of reference.
TODO page: It's a mess, mostly years old outdated stuff. What should be there now? Is it even needed?
I think the github issue tracker is the better place for this stuff anyway. Scrap it
Core road map: I guess it's not even really a road map, just a list of ideas. Are there any concrete plans for any of them?
There are no concrete plans at this point. I agree it is really just a list of ideas.
Known Desyncs: last updated in 2014, is it still relevant?
I personally don't really care what happens to this info
Alright, I went over the obvious stuff and cleaned things up a bit. There will be more to come.
A lot of the core pages only have one or 2 lines of info, maybe everything can be combined into one 'Core Information' page?
We need a page listing how to even control tastudio D:
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NES accuracy tests: Most of the emulators listed in the table there are irrelevant for TAS (or now even for general use.) I'm thinking of simple removing them and leaving only NESHawk, PuNES, FCEUX, and adding Mesen. Also there are some relatively new tests to add. Any thoughts on this?
I actually like the fact that the list includes ancient emulators so that it's easy to see how much progress has been made through out the years.
NES accuracy tests: Most of the emulators listed in the table there are irrelevant for TAS (or now even for general use.) I'm thinking of simple removing them and leaving only NESHawk, PuNES, FCEUX, and adding Mesen. Also there are some relatively new tests to add. Any thoughts on this?
I actually like the fact that the list includes ancient emulators so that it's easy to see how much progress has been made through out the years.
I think there's a better way / place for historical stuff, but at any rate you can still find the complete table here.
Realistically, Mesen has superseded basically every other emulator anyway. Once it gets TAS tools, the table itself will be more or less pointless.
