Programming an emulator

It is kinda hard to steal a SDK

>>59620571
At one of the big 4 in tech you could have a much easier job than hardware emulation and earn more than 150k.

The truth is not that many people have the low level systems knowledge to make these, and because "full stack" work is sexier somehow less people bother going this deep year after year. There are less jobs in this space than other parts of programming but you will be carving a niche that is needed in the future because we will always need people who connect hardware to userspace no matter how many layers of abstraction we throw on top of it.

>>59620591
The guys who made Dolphin didn't steal anything, and still, the dev team was pretty small at first.

They are working hard and delivering a product. Unlike other emulation projects that seem not to get anywhere.

It's not about being hard or easy.
Plus everyone knows that when BotW gets good enough, most of the patreons will drop because that all they want from this project.

>>59620640
Yeah but OP is talking about cemu, which has 1 or 2 developers

>>59620571
For emulator people, it's not about the money, but rather, the thrill of emulation. They are a different kind of people.

>>59620571
You can make more than that shitting out Java CRUD apps at Google and Facebook right out of college.

>>59620646
>It's not about being hard or easy.
Then why there aren't other anons/pajeets or anyone making their own cemu equivalent?
Or it's like the other anon said, very few people know about low level coding?

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>tfw used to be a very famous emu programmer in 2000s
>now only a former shadow of myself
It's amazing how much getting married fucks you.

>>59620947
Was your emulator decent at least?

Same with RPCS3. Since it went on Patreon, two developers have been making enormous progress. You can literally play PS3 games on your PC through emulation right now.

>>59621292
One dev does the vast majority of work on RPCS3. He also lives in Russia, so can live comfortably on $1200 a month. He recently quit his job to work on the emulator full time when the Patreon passed $1k a month.

>>59621181
Yeah they were the most accurate emulators for the systems they emulated for many years although a bit slow since I used C and other competing emus used assembly. I guess others have probably surpassed it in accuracy with new findings by now.

>>59621353
What system is this? Snes? DS? Dreamcast?

It requires a vast amount of knowledge most don't have. Stuff you can't learn in college, but have to learn on your own by tinkering and lots of research.

Not a lot of people reach this level of not only making an emulator but making it fast enough to run in modern hardware.

>>59620571
>Seeing how a pair of guys are making 300k this year
ftfy. this shit isn't a career.

>>59620571
Probably the hardest shit after OS and compilers.

>>59623433
>making a compiler with tons of documentation available and where the speed have no importance is harder than a emulator with very little documentation

just DO IT

>>59620640
dolphin took like 6 years to become respectable.

>>59620571
How are they making money from this?
Why doesn't Nintendo c&d them?

>>59625837
Because emulation isn't illegal, retard. Look up Sony's efforts to sue Bleem before you were even born.

>>59625855
Woah there anon you almost cut me with that edge. I emulate as well I'm just genuinely curious on how they are making money from this

I made nesticle for zophar
No respect

Trips dont lie

>>59625837
it was from some kickstarter or patreon or whatever digital hobos use nowadays

>>59623433

Considering that a JIT compiler is an important part of emulators of more powerful systems, I'd say that making am emulator is harder than making a normal compiler.