Adding Emulators

[TheRedfields1998]

My idea for adding emulators, is having most of the games on there and you can sell the emulator for 29.99, and as time goes by keep updating it with brand new games, and you can have them with built in cheats and some mods

[Boblin the Goblin]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Crashed:

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Animus:

Nope, just a flash dump. But PS1+ era do. I have a hard drive that's basically my entire physical library backed up onto it. Lol

There is no flash on a NES. No firmware in the console and mask ROM in the cartridge.

IIRC, there wasn't any bios encryption until the Wii for Nintendo. PlayStation and Xbox came out the gate with that encryption.

[Haruspex]

Sega does this:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/34272/Comix_Zone/

They have their own emulator they call the Sega Megadrive/Genesis Interactive Hub, and each of the games is sold like a DLC. They're just straight ROM files. You can even just grab the files and run them on real hardware via something like an Everdrive, or swap out the ROM files for something else entirely if you want. Sega even facilitates it by offering Steam Workshop support. You can upload ROM hacks and such.

Other console makers can do this to, but it's entirely up to them, not Valve. I would love to see an official Nintendo emulator on Steam with an avenue to buy SNES roms and such. I would be first in line with cash on hand. I'm not holding my breath though.

[Start_Running]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Haruspex:

Sega does this:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/34272/Comix_Zone/

They have their own emulator they call the Sega Megadrive/Genesis Interactive Hub, and each of the games is sold like a DLC. They're just straight ROM files. You can even just grab the files and run them on real hardware via something like an Everdrive, or swap out the ROM files for something else entirely if you want. Sega even facilitates it by offering Steam Workshop support. You can upload ROM hacks and such.

Other console makers can do this to, but it's entirely up to them, not Valve. I would love to see an official Nintendo emulator on Steam with an avenue to buy SNES roms and such. I would be first in line with cash on hand. I'm not holding my breath though.

Ironically their emulator is kinda ♥♥♥♥♥.
But yt's at least there.

[Crashed]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Haruspex:

Sega does this:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/34272/Comix_Zone/

They have their own emulator they call the Sega Megadrive/Genesis Interactive Hub, and each of the games is sold like a DLC. They're just straight ROM files. You can even just grab the files and run them on real hardware via something like an Everdrive, or swap out the ROM files for something else entirely if you want. Sega even facilitates it by offering Steam Workshop support. You can upload ROM hacks and such.

Other console makers can do this to, but it's entirely up to them, not Valve. I would love to see an official Nintendo emulator on Steam with an avenue to buy SNES roms and such. I would be first in line with cash on hand. I'm not holding my breath though.

This example is Sega officially licensing their games for distribution on Steam.

[Crashed]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Boblin the Goblin:

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Crashed:

There is no flash on a NES. No firmware in the console and mask ROM in the cartridge.

IIRC, there wasn't any bios encryption until the Wii for Nintendo. PlayStation and Xbox came out the gate with that encryption.

PS1 and I believe PS2 is unencrypted; you can just pop the discs in your PC and they are perfectly readable.

[Boblin the Goblin]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Crashed:

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Boblin the Goblin:

IIRC, there wasn't any bios encryption until the Wii for Nintendo. PlayStation and Xbox came out the gate with that encryption.

PS1 and I believe PS2 is unencrypted; you can just pop the discs in your PC and they are perfectly readable.

They aren't.

The emulators both require the BIOS of their respective console to run.

[Crashed]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Boblin the Goblin:

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Crashed:

PS1 and I believe PS2 is unencrypted; you can just pop the discs in your PC and they are perfectly readable.

They aren't.

The emulators both require the BIOS of their respective console to run.

That doesn't mean they are encrypted; it just means the game code uses some functions from the BIOS as helpers instead of writing those bits of code from scratch and wasting RAM.

Some emulators such as PCSX for PS1 and Play! for PS2 can use HLE instead of the BIOS.