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If anybody has this, try and get it to Moonlight (Infantile Paralysiser) His blog says that he was trying to make a MSE (MoonShell Executable) to launch .nes files! But he couldn't find the nesDS source...

NesDS is based on pocketnes, and shares a lot of code. PocketNES doesn't compile on a GCC toolchain because the GNU assembler doesn't support register-relative equates, or the associated MAP directive. The MAP directive allows a bunch of equates to be defined relative to a base address, or relative to a register. When the equates are relative to a register, you can do LDR, STR, LDRB, STRB, ADR, or ADRL instructions on them.
From what I've seen, GCC's arm assembler only supports ADR when used with pc-relative equates.

Here's a snippet of code from nesds which makes use of the map directive to define a bunch of symbols ("globalptr" was defined as register r10 using the RN directive)

Code:

MAP 0,globalptr ;6502.s
opz # 256*4
readmem_tbl # 8*4
writemem_tbl # 8*4
memmap_tbl # 8*4
cpuregs # 7*4
m6502_s # 4
lastbank # 4
...

So either someone needs to make a code preprocessor to turn ARM SDT asm code into GNU Assembler compatible code, or the gnu assembler needs to add support for register-reletive equates.
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Besides of course loopy, also someone named emu_kidid (who hangs around on Maxconsole forums apparently) has the source to NesDS. Hope that helps.
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Actually I also have it. Still haven't tried to compile it though, since it needs codewarrior and arm sdt.
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