Recent posts tagged emulation

Porting Test Drive II from SNES to PC, Part 5: Making scanline validation repo-owned The cleanup thread in this repo is still product work. That point is easy to miss when a change is small. The commit I closed today, 224057d on 2026-03-19, does n...

Porting Test Drive II from SNES to PC, Part 3: Provenance instead of screenshots Once the SDL runtime could play a real intro path, the next bottleneck was not rendering. It was evidence. If a frame looked close, that was no longer enough. The pro...

Porting Test Drive II from SNES to PC, Part 2: The first native intro slice The first two days in asmdump were about measurability. The next phase, from February 28 through March 2, was about replacing a narrow front-end slice with native code. Th...

Porting Test Drive II from SNES to PC, Part 1: Day 0 to a measurable ROM Between February 26 and March 19, 2026, the asmdump repo moved through 45 commits. It started as a raw reverse-engineering dump and ended this stretch with a C/SDL runtime, de...