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Oh yeah, GB Printer support was added, but I already covered that extensively in a previous articleĪugust 2016 - Post-processing GLSL shaders So while it's only good for 3 games, GBE+ can now emulate Pokemon Mystery Gifts and transfer data to the Trainer House in Viridian City. Other titles like Perfect Dark or Super Mario Bros. Even so, the success was short-lived, GBE+'s implementation of the IR port only seems to work with the Pokemon games (Gold, Silver, and Crystal). This was probably one of the most unexpected moments I've had so far in my time as an emulator developer.

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However, rather than blowing up my computer, things actually worked, on the 1st trial no less.

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I threw some code down but didn't anticipate anything working. The IR port is a rather obscure feature of the GBC that often gets ignored by other emulators (and even most commercial games ignored it.) but that only made it interesting to me. With GBE+ now able to connect two instances of the emulator, I figured I'd give it a shot. The backstory to this: I was browsing the EmuDev subreddit and noticed someone else was trying to get this working. In tandem with support for the DMG and GBC link cable, I managed to add basic support for the GBC infrared port. Adding netplay support to GBE+ turned out surpisingly well, especially for someone with no previous knowledge of network coding whatsoever. In my first years with emulators in the early 2000s, I never could get netplay working in other GB emulators (user error) so until last year, it was pretty much a mystery. It was easy enough to find a friend with another Game Boy, but good luck getting the same games (unless it was Pokemon). As a kid, I had many GBC games with multiplayer modes that I never knew what they were like.

Netplay was always something I've dreamed of tackling. July 2016 - DMG and GBC Netplay + Basic GBC IR emulation + GB Printer support

Fun fact: GBE+ can use GS and GG cheats simultaneously, a feat in real-life that isn't feasible without hardware mangling. A cheat file can be created and loaded up into the emulator, and a spiffy GUI helps users manage everything. GBE+ now supports Game Shark and Game Genie cheats. While cheats were not a priority in 1.0, they were quickly added to 1.1. SDL2 also brought haptic feedback to GBE+, so now games like Pokemon Pinball can take advantage of joysticks with rumble motors SDL2 does away with all of that uncertainty and frustration, allowing GBE+ to utilize modern OpenGL code and implement cool things like GLSL shaders. SDL 1.3 could set up OpenGL 3.3+ contexts, and that feature can be hacked back into some versions of SDL 1.2, but both could be unstable. The biggest factor came in the form of context management for OpenGL. SDL 1.2 did a fine job of all of the above, but moving to a newer version was necessary for a few reasons. Previously, GBE+ used SDL 1.2 for a host of core functions, such as drawing to the screen, handling user input, and playing sounds from emulated games. The move to SDL2 happened right after 1.0 was officially finished.

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June 2016 - SDL2 upgrade + Game Shark and Game Genie Support I intend to keep the introductions short and jump straight into what was added over the past 10 months or so. It has been a little less than a year since 1.0 came out last summer, but since then, GBE+ has made tons of progress.