Alyosha, aren't you interested in creating an Atari Jaguar emulator at all?
There must be one or two emulators that don't work too badly, but that's all...
Same thing for the 3DO...
Or help to finish CPChawk and/or the Fairchild Channel F emulation?
Or a CD-I emulator? Or an equivalent of Atari800/Altirra?
Or GX-4000, or Amiga CD32.
There are so many "obscure" consoles, portable or not, which do not benefit from a correct emulation...
Watara’s SuperVision etc..
Another thing that would be interesting would be an Emerson Arcadia emulator (there is
https://amigan.yatho.com/ which is really quite good already).
Or for the joke an emulator for the Bandai Playdia, the N-Gage (that's a real challenge I think) or the Apple Bandai Pippin...
Or indeed a Xbox/Xbox360/Xbox One emulator! 😂
Or.. ultimately... finaly a good Dreamcast emulator! Or Amiga emulator indeed...
(I wonder, by the way, how complicated it would be to waterbox Redream, nullDC , Chankast, Reicast, DEmul, DreamEMU or Icarus , even if the best would be Redream I guess)
It's a stripped down and simplified version, mostly just to see how fast it would go out of the box. This is about 100 fps faster then C# NESHawk, but still not really comparable to Mesen which is up around 400. It could definitely be optimized to take advantage of C++ with pointer trickery and such a bit more, as well as some more general optimizations, but I also left out the mapper system (it only does nrom) so probably these things would roughly cancel out.
So while I think the test was worth the time to do, this won't be a production core. The whole NESHawk ecosystem is too big to port over and would be a huge time sink for not even double the speed.
It does give me a good test bed to work with though, so I'll be tinkering with things over time, especially the CPU, for optimization. Hopefully it will be sort of a launching point for a SNES core. Let's see how things go.
