Nintellisivion Version 4.5 Released

[+wavemotion]

Happy New Year Inty fans!  With the new year, comes a minor cleanup release of Nintellivision (an Intellivision emulator for your handheld DS/DSi/XL/LL):  

https://github.com/wavemotion-dave/NINTV-DS 

V4.5 : 01-Jan-2024 by wavemotion-dave

• Added new Screenshot handling (press and hold the L+R shoulder buttons for ~1 second to take a .bmp snapshot written to the SD card)
• Added new meta key mapping to temporarily un-throttle (Speedup) the emulator. Useful for games where your character is resting and you want the emulator to run the frames as fast as it can (I'm using this now for A Tale of Dragons and Swords).
• Minor cleanup on the internal database for the latest and greatest homebrew games.
• Lots of new and improved custom overlays in the extras.zip pack. Special thanks to @StephenJ and @ts-x among others for help with the overlay conversions.

Features :

• All known games run at full speed on a DSi or above (the DSi has 2X the CPU and 4X the memory of the normal DS handhelds).
• Many games run very close to full speed on the older DS-LITE and DS-PHAT hardware but you can play with config settings to get the most out of these games.
• Custom Overlay Support. See the 'extras' folder for details.
• Manual/Instruction Support. See the 'extras' folder for an example.
• Save Sate support (3 save slots per game).
• High Scores for up to 10 scores per game with various sorting options.
• Cheat / Hack support using NINTV-DS.cht (see 'extras' folder and place in /data directory)
• All of the button / controller mapping options you could want. Dual-Controller support (run and shoot at the same time).
• JLP support for accelerated functions (multiply/divide), extra RAM and flash memory. If not auto-detected, when loading a game use the X button to load with options.
• ECS support for ECS games including sound-enhanced games like Space Patrol. If not auto-detected, when loading a game use the X button to load with options.

Technical Specs :

• Loads .ROM or .BIN/.CFG format files.
• Up to 1024KB (512K words) of ROM memory emulated.
• JLP 16-bit RAM emulated (8K Words)
• JLP Flash support of 336 rows (42 sectors) for a total of 64K bytes (actual 64512 bytes). Each game gets their own 64K of file-backed flash.
• ECS emulated with the 2K of 8-bit RAM, Keyboard, extra sound channels, etc.
• Intellivoice emulated for games that take advantage of voice enhancements.
• Up to 8K of extra 8-bit RAM emulated for games like USFC Chess and Land Battle (note, the 2K of ECS 8-bit RAM comes out of this pool).
• Up to 16K Words of extra 16-bit RAM emulated beyond dedicated 8K words of JLP RAM.
• Paging on all segments of memory provided the full binary is 1024KB (bytes) or less (this is a bit more than twice the size of the largest game/binary I've been able to find and should provide reasonable future-proofing of the emulator)
   

 

[juancho]

This looks great. I will try it out, thank you!