Pokemon Emerald Ported to WebAssembly (100k FPS)

eigenspace

Very cool. Too bad this doesnt seem to work as a PWA, or am I jusr missing the button on Android Firefox?

dmitrygr

Ok. So what’s interesting here, presumably, is that this isn’t a wasm GBA emulator (which also exist and work). This is the game itself compiled to wasm. Even though no official source code was ever published, there was a community based decompilation.

Luc

https://github.com/tripplyons/pokeemerald-wasm/

hawkice

Confirming that saving genuinely works. Interesting stuff. Wonder if we can get trades working too.

itsthecourier

some weeks ago I made a Gameboy emulator from zero in rust and then exported it to wasm https://holy-lake-f6df.sdreyesg.workers.dev/ took me 3 hours with Opus. Opus knew the whole ISA, clock, bus quirks, etc. from their training without any external docs

oceansky

Next step: 100% browser javascript pokémon emerald.

gobdovan

Any way to get sound?

weird-eye-issue

I did a Pokémon Crystal playthrough several months ago, still great games! I used an emulator on my laptop with increased speed so it made everything like walking and combat way faster which was really nice and I probably would have given up if it wasn't for that

danielrmay

Super neat. I'd love to see what it would be like to play with more modern &intuitive touch controls instead of just the D-pad and A/B.

firefax

Why Emerald -- is classic already done? If anyone has emulator suggestions, I recently attempted a playthrough and found that midway through my copy of red, the game was corrupted? Oddest thing -- hadn't reading the point where you do the "Missingno trick" near cinnebar. Anyways, I suspect the save got corrupted somehow but it made me swear off emulation and try a physical copy. (Which had the battery I replaced fail... it's been a comedy of errors).

Innittech

29 FPS for me, what hardware are you using to get a hundred thousand FPS?

zuzululu

Nintendo lawyers intensifi

deadbabe

What kind of mods and new features could be added?

wild_pointer

There should be 2 options for speed, regular and sped up. Then there should be a key to speed the game up. When I was a kid, it was the space key for GBA. You could have the normal game and skip the boring parts fast.

Navaie

Crashed when using a potion vs May :(

ianm218

What are considered the best games in WASM? I recently got into playing around with WASM - it would've been great if this technology was prevalent during the Flash games era

wis

Cool! I like the speeding up feature. I suggest making the UI indicate that you can press the keys `z` and `x` on the keyboard to trigger the A and B buttons respectively, I figured that out by pressing on my keyboard the A and B keys and then all the letter keys. Btw, it seems there's a crash when you choose "Pokemon" in the "Fight/Bag/Pokemon/Run" menu: https://i.ibb.co/tpVV8q83/poke-fight-menu.png

vesche

This is awesome! It would be neato if you could export and reload your save file, I clear my browser data a lot.

theowaway213456

Certain entities seem to be displayed as numbers for me, like "You received a 6" etc when getting my first potion. Anyone else seeing this bug?

arthurcolle

This is amazing. Are the left right up down controls a bit wonky? If I cycle through the letters in the name select menu it seem to buggily not actually go through it?