> also in later years I suspect made the job of emulator writers something of a misery
Most certainly. These tricks force developers to emulate systems down to individual cycles in order to get the timing right because getting them wrong will result in visual glitches or worse.
Byuu, the author of bsnes, wrote some very detailed articles about this as well. I can't seem to find them anymore though. His domain has also been excluded from the internet archive for some reason.
> His domain has also been excluded from the internet archive for some reason.
Because Byuu, who later went by "Near", tried to scrub as much personal information from the internet in the hopes of staying ahead of constant doxing attacks by an awful internet community called KiwiFarms. It didn't work. In the end, Near/Byuu committed suicide months ago to escape the constant harassment.
The free speech Alamo. It often leads to funny results, like lesbians finding it to be the only place they could complain about some psycho in Canada targeting women operating small businesses - Youtube and Twitter banned several people over it before the Canadian media started covering it. Sometimes it leads to not so funny results, because that is the cost of agency - its kinda crazy that even has to be pointed out... but we seem to be at that point.
Holy shit, I didn't know. I'm sorry, I'm shocked and just don't know what to say. Thanks byuu for all your work. Hope you find peace. You will be remembered.
Most certainly. These tricks force developers to emulate systems down to individual cycles in order to get the timing right because getting them wrong will result in visual glitches or worse.
https://mgba.io/2017/04/30/emulation-accuracy/
https://mgba.io/2017/07/31/holy-grail-bugs-2/
Byuu, the author of bsnes, wrote some very detailed articles about this as well. I can't seem to find them anymore though. His domain has also been excluded from the internet archive for some reason.