Pokemon Emerald Ported to WebAssembly (100k FPS) (pokeemerald.com)
132 points by tripplyons 6 hours ago
hawkice 4 hours ago
Confirming that saving genuinely works. Interesting stuff. Wonder if we can get trades working too.
tripplyons 3 hours ago
Yeah, I made sure saving worked correctly
ceroxylon 2 hours ago
First thing I checked as well! I've been Poke-sniped, there goes a few hours.
wild_pointer 39 minutes ago
There should be 2 options for speed, regular and sped up. Then there should be a key to speed the game up. When I was a kid, it was the space key for GBA. You could have the normal game and skip the boring parts fast.
Luc 4 hours ago
fc417fc802 4 hours ago
How long until this is DMCA'd? How has the project it's based on stuck around for so long? Do I perhaps misunderstand what this is? https://github.com/pret/pokeemerald
mathgeek 4 hours ago
It's a port of a disassembly that requires you to provide your own ROM. The legality of such things is a tangled web that anyone producing them needs to navigate very, very carefully.
Lplololopo 42 minutes ago
yw3410 3 hours ago
oompydoompy74 2 hours ago
I’m of the opinion that projects like this should start hosting Forgejo instances in countries with favorable laws and just mirroring to Github for exposure.
elmt35 an hour ago
firefax 3 hours ago
Why Emerald -- is classic already done?
If anyone has emulator suggestions, I recently attempted a playthrough and found that midway through my copy of red, the game was corrupted? Oddest thing -- hadn't reading the point where you do the "Missingno trick" near cinnebar.
Anyways, I suspect the save got corrupted somehow but it made me swear off emulation and try a physical copy. (Which had the battery I replaced fail... it's been a comedy of errors).
jeremyloy_wt an hour ago
Emerald is well regarded as the best of Generation 3, which is the final of the traditional 2D games and can trade with Fire Red/Leaf Green (remakes of the classic)
So you have available all of the original Pokémon
tripplyons an hour ago
I chose Pokemon Emerald because it is my favorite of the games that have been disassembled!
patrickcorrigan 2 hours ago
Try https://afterplay.io it’s cross platform, saves every 20 seconds and keeps your last 50 saves which you can recover from if anything goes wrong
weird-eye-issue 4 hours ago
I did a Pokémon Crystal playthrough several months ago, still great games!
I used an emulator on my laptop with increased speed so it made everything like walking and combat way faster which was really nice and I probably would have given up if it wasn't for that
gobdovan 4 hours ago
Any way to get sound?
tripplyons 3 hours ago
I have not added that yet, but it would probably be quite easy to throw a few prompts to Codex to do so.
oceansky 4 hours ago
Next step: 100% browser javascript pokémon emerald.
vorticalbox a few seconds ago
New LLM benchmark?
danielrmay 3 hours ago
Super neat. I'd love to see what it would be like to play with more modern &intuitive touch controls instead of just the D-pad and A/B.
dmitrygr 4 hours ago
Ok. So what’s interesting here, presumably, is that this isn’t a wasm GBA emulator (which also exist and work). This is the game itself compiled to wasm. Even though no official source code was ever published, there was a community based decompilation.
tripplyons 3 hours ago
Yes, it a recompilation of a community decompilation!
eigenspace 5 hours ago
Very cool. Too bad this doesnt seem to work as a PWA, or am I jusr missing the button on Android Firefox?
ameliaquining 3 hours ago
You could send a PR. It's reasonably straightforward to add a manifest to make the app installable (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Progressive_web...), and to use Workbox to make it work offline since it's fully static (https://developer.chrome.com/docs/workbox).
The one caveat is that a PWA needs an icon but the project doesn't currently have one, so you'd have to design, find, or LLM-generate one.
parasti 4 hours ago
You have to use "Add to home" menu item on Firefox for Android. But this web app doesn't seem to be a PWA.
deadbabe 42 minutes ago
What kind of mods and new features could be added?
zuzululu an hour ago
Nintendo lawyers intensifi
Innittech 2 hours ago
29 FPS for me, what hardware are you using to get a hundred thousand FPS?
_vertigo 2 hours ago
iPhone 13. Did you change the slider at the bottom?
Innittech 43 minutes ago
Yeah, just found that. Now I'm getting 3000+FPS on my ancient Thinkpad T520.
itsthecourier 4 hours ago
some weeks ago I made a Gameboy emulator from zero in rust and then exported it to wasm
https://holy-lake-f6df.sdreyesg.workers.dev/
took me 3 hours with Opus. Opus knew the whole ISA, clock, bus quirks, etc. from their training without any external docs
mathgeek 4 hours ago
Likely because all of the external docs were already in its training set.
tripplyons 3 hours ago
Yes, this project was made in around 15 hours of Codex.