IDarcnes
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- The title of this article should be iDarcNES. The initial letter is capitalized due to technical limitations.
iDarcNES (http://www.dridus.com/~nyef/darcnes/) is an NES and SMS emulator for the iPod Nano, Video, and Photo. It uses the Hotdog graphics engine and an ARM optimized software CPU to get 90-100% speed on most games.
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Features
- Menu
- Auto FrameSkip
- Different display modes
- Zipped ROM support (?)
Downloads
Binary
iDarcnes (http://scs.ryerson.ca/~sriddle/idarcnes0.1.zip) Version 0.1 Details (http://www.ipodlinux.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=199200#199200) [1] (http://conflictonline.net/download/jdarcnes) jdarcnes Build 27.06.2007
Version 0.13z (http://www.zacaj.com/darcnes.bz2) (note: may freeze on Up-Left touch)
z build are builds by zacaj.
Version 0.125 (http://Bushwhacker.fileave.com/idarcnesv0125.zip) Bushwhacker's config file included. Doesn't freeze on Up-Left touch, but savegame doesn't work.
Source
Source (http://scs.ryerson.ca/~sriddle/darcnes.src.tar.gz)
This is not the most recent source.
Usage
Installation
- Put the latest binary and nes ROMs in /mnt/nes.
- Create a shell script (.sh) in the same folder, called rom.sh (replace rom with the name of your ROM)
- Paste
#!/bin/sh /mnt/nes/darcnes /mnt/nes/ROM.nes
- into it, replacing ROM.nes with the name of your ROM.
- Adding --nosound will turn off sound.
- iDarcnes can also be launched from Loader 2. To do so, add a line to your loader.cfg with something like this:
ROM @ (hd0,1)/kernel.bin /mnt/idarcnes /mnt/roms/ROM.nes
- You can also launch the shell scripts with Loader 2.
ROM @ (hd0,1)/kernel.bin /mnt/rom.sh
- Note: If the kernel is located on the EXT partition (hd0,1) has to be (hd0,2). Also for some users the kernel is named linux.bin and not kernel.bin.
Controls
Lightly touch:
- Menu: B
- Play: B
- Forward: B
- Rewind: B
- Center: A
- Upper Right: A
- Upper Left: B
- Lower Right: Start
- Lower Left: Select
- Up: Up
- Down: Down
- Right: Right
- Left: Left
- Hold: Menu
- Menu: up
- Play:down
- Center: select
- Rewind: back
Working Roms List
Most roms work fine, but there are some that run too fast, too slow or don't work at all. A list of working and not working roms are here.
Feel free to add roms to it in alphabetical order.
Pictures
Click on the images to enlarge them.
Discussion
Discussion on iDarcnes, along with more information, can be found here (http://www.ipodlinux.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=18245).
Contributers
- Nyef - Author of Darcnes
- Zaphod - Ported Darcnes
- Zacaj - scaling, menu expansion, controls cfg, etc
