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Re: [gbadev] NDA.

> Now, I'm totally in favor of an AGB emulator for debugging purposes --
> no$gmb has been instrumental in my game development. But one that is
> created honestly (and none of us official developers can create one
honestly
> because we have the documentation), or one that is created in-house, and
> *kept* in-house is the only legitimate way to go.

I'm currently working on BoycottAdvance, an AGB emulator.
I'm not an official developer, I do not have any copyrighted docs nor a
development kit,
I only downloaded demos made by people and my goal is to try to emulate
these.
I started by writing a debugger since for me it is the main goal of my
emulator :
allow people to code easily their homebrewn demos.
But I think I will release it publicly.
I worked quite the same way for NeoPocott, my Neogeo Pocket emulator.
For Boycott, my Gameboy/Gameboy Color, it was a bit different since I
grabbed unofficial
docs maintained by people who tried to understand Nintendo patents and make
also
tests on real hardware to understand how it works.

Since I don't know exactly the innerworkings of the AGB console, I will try
to test and find
stuff on my own.

> Matt.

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Gollum




Mon Oct 2, 2000 1:24 pm

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All of you licensed AGB coders *do* know you are shattering your NDAs with nintendo by freely revealing AGB specs and such, right? Matt. -- shady matt conte ...
Matthew Conte
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Sep 27, 2000
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... Technically, I'd be willing to guess that most licensed sorts realize this. It seems that nintendo and it's lawyers, historically, have been indifferent...
Jeff Frohwein
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Oct 2, 2000
6:33 am

They'll probably start looking at it differently when people start making emulators months before the system is even released. -\|...
Dacium
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Oct 2, 2000
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Hi, ... I can understand why some companies would like a GBA emulator (buy one devkit and work with several teams on projects) I don't think it's illegal to do...
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Oct 2, 2000
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Hello Dacium, Monday, October 02, 2000, 11:58:15 AM, you wrote: D> They'll probably start looking at it differently when people start D> making emulators...
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Oct 2, 2000
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Emulation is totally legal, its even totally legal to sell emulation programs or even hardware devices. -\| www.handhelds.freeservers.com |/- ... From: "Collin...
Dacium
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From: "Collin van Ginkel" <collin@...> ... Emulators are completely legal, as long as they are created using black-box reverse engineering...
Matthew Conte
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Oct 2, 2000
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... honestly ... I'm currently working on BoycottAdvance, an AGB emulator. I'm not an official developer, I do not have any copyrighted docs nor a development...
Julien Frelat
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Oct 2, 2000
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