Design Goals and Requirements

Design Goals and Requirements

Goal: Achieve 100% capability of emulating existing homebrew and other software as accurately as reasonable without the use of hacks or per-image configurations.

UI Inferface:

• SDL based
• Custom UI using OpenGL draw methods
• A "console" feel as opposed to a "application" feel.

R4300 emulator:

• Flexible Big Endian or Little Endian implementation (at compile time).
• Interpretive to achieve 100% compatibility with existing software.
• Recompiler planned of an unspecified design

RSP Emulation:

• Interpretive to achieve 100% compatibility with existing software.
• Recompiler planned of an unspecified design
  • May have instruction accurate HLE baked in statically compile and speed up emulation
• Plugin support with internal defaults

RDP Emulation:

• Low-level primarily

Video:

• OpenGL through SDL
• Plugins

Audio:

• Audio through SDL
• Plugins

Input:

• Input through SDL
• Plugins

Other wishlist items:

• Save/Restore States
• Game Cheats / Patches
• Full debugger