Thread: Any suggestions? (C++ reading from file)

Originally Posted by reci

To clear up, on what machine will this 'emulator' be running? (i.e. computer, game console)

What will be the controller(s)? (i.e. keyboard + mouse, game console controller, etc)

Will you be writing the emulator for these games/consoles, or will your program solely consist of a GUI to select one of many games (and call an external program to start the emulation)?
(if the former, I think you're in over your head)



Will respond more thoroughly after the above is clear.

The emulators will be running on a PC, hopefully under Windows XP. Ultimately I would like the GUI to be navigable using only a game controller (N64 controller is one candidate, with USB adapters). The program is only going to be a frontend which will launch one of several emulators with the proper command line arguments (specifically, the name of the ROM file to load into the emulator).

If I were intending to actually write all these emulators I'd be in way, waaaay over my head

A note if you want to compile that code: I've just been tossing the .exe into a folder with zsnesw.exe and the 3 roms I used, whose filenames are found in the code. However, I've also (due I believe to the use of stdlib.h) had to put libgcc_s_dw2-1.dll and libstdc++-6.dll in the folder to get it to run; something's up with my compiler settings but that's a separate issue and I have an easy workaround for now.