port for WP8

[ahmedjan87]

im not a dev but can someone port ppsspp to WP8 ? and associate the roms with the app so that we can download roms straight from the browser ( the elf files )

[BubblegumBalloon]

Windows phone 8 does not allow the use of JIT so all games will slowly. Also downloading roms is illegal, you must rip your games from your original UMD's using a hacked PSP.

[kevke96]

He said he wants do download .elf files. These are usually homebrew applications.
I dont think porting the emulator to WP8 is worth the hassle right now. We should wait until either theres a new version of WP that supports dynarecs, or the cpus get so fast that they run it well with the interpreter.

[xsacha]

WP8 will not be able to run any games at high enough speed to make such a port worthwhile.

[Kaancem]

İt would be Great ,if there was a wp8 ver.

[vontman]

it will be super slow any ways

[Kaancem]

no fair... even there is a version for symbian(so.. Is symbian better than wp8 ? )

[xsacha]

Yes, Symbian is better than Windows Phone 8 in this regard.
There are more apps and games and less restrictions (that make things like PPSSPP possible).

[djdron]

WP8 supports Native C++ & DirectX 9 with some additional features.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/....105).aspx

[Henrik]

Yes but WP8 still disallows runtime code generation (mapping memory as writable and executable), so we can't use the JIT and speed will be abysmal. Not worth the trouble.

[djdron]

@Henrik

and how their favourite managed C# code works? it uses JIT too? or they give runtime code generation access only for managed code?

[xsacha]

The code you write can't use JIT regardless of how it works behind the scenes .

I've found we can map GLES2 calls to DirectX9 but it still doesn't help that there's no JIT.

[djdron]

@xsacha

>I've found we can map GLES2 calls to DirectX9 but it still doesn't help that there's no JIT.

do you mean angle project?

[xsacha]

Yeah, Marmalade uses it for WP8 games.