pureikyubu

pureikyubu is a work-in-progress emulator of the Nintendo GameCube console.

The goal of the emulator is to research the hardware features of GameCube and reverse engineer the technologies used to develop games for this platform. GameCube is the hardware masterpiece of Nintendo/ArtX engineers, and it's a pleasure to explore this device and discover something new for yourself. Progress

The emulator boots and runs more titles with every release — the per-title throughput of the current release is listed in the 1.9.1 release notes. Release 1.9 added a second machine (an integrated Game Boy Advance and Game Boy, in src/gba), a software (CPU) rendering path next to the OpenGL one, a new debugger and a local MCP server; 1.9.1 makes the portable machines sound and time the way the hardware does, fixes the host-side BIOS, and leaves the SDL2 front end as the only one. The screenshots below are captures from earlier builds; the status bar shows the emulated MIPS, VI and PE rates. Some titles still fail to render or hang — compatibility is a work in progress.