âPokemon Fire Red.â
Thatâs so very cute.
Can they code up a GBA version of Minecraft to put on the GBA emulator next?
Iâd say that some people have weird hobbies and too much time, but this chest hair isnât going to braid itself.
This is a very misleading article. This isnât an emulated GBA running in Minecraft. This is a replica of a GBA game running in Minecraft. Thereâs a very significant difference here.
ETA: I donât want to take away from the work that was done here. It was clearly a massive amount of work. Whatâs annoying is I keep reading âthis guy emulated a GBA in Minecraftâ when they really didnât â thereâs no GBA hardware emulated here. What this person did was load textures from the original game and is basically reimplementing the entire game within Minecraft. That doesnât make this any less cool â donât get me wrong, but itâs like me saying Iâm âemulating a PDP-10 in a web browserâ because I rewrote Zork in a set of HTML pages.
I agree. One could argue that itâs emulation in the sense of the non-computing world, but as this is a computer, we should stick with consistent jargon. This guy is rebuilding a game within minecraft, and putting it inside the âshellâ of a device that looks like a GBA. You canât actually play âPokemon Fire Redâ as the replica is pretty limited.
This guy should download Unity next!
Yeah â in the most pedantic and literal sense, sure itâs emulation.
In computing terms, âemulationâ has a very specific meaning so I bristle at its use here.
Actually, âto imitate as to surpassâ is the non-computing definition of emulate, so I donât know if this qualifies.
I think I reached peak pedant.
OED also uses âimitateâ as a synonym which is appropriate here.
Does it provide any example sentences for that sense?
Not from the dictionary, but, âHe emulated his fatherâs example by joining the militaryâ would fit that that definition.
I guess I just want to see the word âsimulacrumâ used more frequently.
It is true that this isnât an emulator; but I would say that it is much better about the ârunning in Minecraftâ aspect of things than some of the âzOMG look what they made in Minecraft!!!â stuff is.
Theyâve unfortunately deleted all the stuff on github for some reason, so the technical details are now a bit sparser; but something like the âcellphone in minecraftâ involved using a library(which they did craft for the purpose; but in a standard programming language for execution outside of minecraft) that pretty much just generated and swapped in textures on a large rectangle of Minecraft blocks to allow it to be used as a crude framebuffer.
Nothing wrong with that; but only âin minecraftâ in the very loosest of senses. If we are going to have crazy minecraft widgets; Iâd take less sophisticated ones implemented entirely inside over more sophisticated ones basically just using minecraft as a particularly perverse UI any day.
Obviously, given that this isnât a proper emulation in the usual CS sense of the word, weâll just have to make something that IS Pokemon Fire Red being emulated in Minecraft.
In Excel.
I wouldnât be surprised if it largely gets âdisappearedâ thanks to the recent media attention to this project combined with Nintendoâs notoriously calm and reasonableoverzealous IP lawyers.
Why do you hate joy and fun? Why?
Duty called!
âWrong*â needs to be in quotes, if not also with an asterisk, when you use it like that.
Iâll let you take that one up with Mr Munroe. 
Thatâs not a hill Iâm going to die on.
Yeah, for points they should be using something really perverse as the UI. Like The Game of Life, or Pong.
