Writing A New Emulator...

[Agozer]

Yeah, the SGB borders were pretty nifty, although they didn't serve any other purpose that eye-candy. Like Prican said, The SGB only had color sets; it didn't color the games the same way Gameboy Color did, as that would have made too many color calculations....Just some change to the dull black and white.

[Wizard]

I would say practice with something open source first.

[someboddy]

Most of the programers don't know every function in their favirite language. However, If you wnat to write an emulator, you better know 100% the language of the system you want to emulate. You never know when will a rom use a function you forgot to include.

[taratata]

I would say practice with something open source first.

Most are in C, which is efficient but low-level, so quite hard and time-consuming.

I may look in the code of open-source emulators, but not modify them or contribute to them. Btw, I'll probably put mine in open-source too.

 

I'll probably begin with a Chip 8 emulator, like iq_132 said. As a beginning it seems much more reasonable than a gameboy.

[someboddy]

C and C++ are very easy to learn. Their syntex in much like Java's.