wyattAug 1, 2025
nocash is so overlooked by the wider world outside of a handful of emulator authors.
Excellent reverse engineering and documentation of console hardware, some really cool things like a replacement PSX BIOS implementation, and stuff like Unlaunch for the DSi to boot out-of-region software.
And emulators written in x86 assembly
Show threadmedium rare birdAug 1, 2025
@wyatt no$gba is the only way I could play DS games at realtime speeds for like a decade. heroic piece of software
Show threadit/its kitten  Dec 2
@migratory @wyatt when is drastic ever going open source /hj 😭
Show threadwyattDec 2
@nyanpasu64 @migratory never and good riddance
Show threadit/its kitten  Dec 2
@wyatt @migratory wait it's bad? for years it was the only way to "play DS games at realtime speeds" on Android, but i never was able to pay for it
Show threadwyattDec 2
@nyanpasu64 @migratory and android has always been phoneshit I have no desire to use to play my games.
and if it's paid commercial software made to enable piracy then it's trash.
I don't care how good of an emulator it might be, I am fine if it disappears and i never see it again. Send money Martin's (nocash's) way instead, he could use it more
Show threadwyatt
@nyanpasu64 @migratory despite no$gba being closed source or whatever, nocash releases excellent documentation and is active in the wider community. As evidenced by the bug I found that impacted basically every emulator, basically every open source DS emulator is based at least in part on nocash's "gbatek" documentation file. As such I think he deserves steady income a lot more than someone profiting off piracy
(there's nothing wrong with piracy but there is something wrong with profiting off of it)
and no$gba was the only way to play DS games at full speeds on many laptops for a long time.
Dec 2 at 9:33amWeb