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I wouldn't be too surprised if the details from all of this get pulled into MAME/MESS. It will take some rewriting though as I believe BSNES is written using a number of C++ features (I seem to recall it even needing some C++11 stuff from when I last played with the source). The CPU cores themselves I'd imagine would be fairly easy to port over but I'm not sure how tied in everything is for timing and everything else in there.

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The main magic I do for RISC CPUs is allowing a write callback binding to the registers (overloading operator=) This allows us to handle pipeline invalidation on writes to the PC register, without having to special case the hell out of every single instruction that can modify it.

Ah seems my memory was bad there. I must have had it confused with another emulator, however that sounds while it wouldn't be trivial to rewrite those sections it shouldn't be very difficult to do so either, just very very tedious. I think other than that there could only be a licensing issue, and I seem to recall that bsnes had a fairly liberal license that shouldn't run into any problems. Though obviously you'll know better than me byuu :) In that case it's all about time and who has it that'll determine when/if it'll happen

Keep up the good work Byuu.

MAME/MESS has recently started moving their codebase to C++, so what would the problem be?

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