Include whichboot.gb in the shootout

daid / GBEmulatorShootout

https://daid.github.io/GBEmulatorShootout/

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Include whichboot.gb in the shootout #11

Open nitro2k01 opened 2 years ago

nitro2k01 commented 2 years ago

Requesting that you include my ROM whichboot.gb as an info ROM. It's a ROM which...

reports the initial state of the CPU registers.
extracts the hidden fractional bits of the DIV register.
check the state of VRAM to see if the Nintendo logo is present.
tries to guess which hardware or emulator it's running on based on the above.

https://github.com/nitro2k01/whichboot.gb

daid commented 2 years ago

Isn't all of this already covered by other tests?

nitro2k01 commented 2 years ago

I don't think so? mooneye/misc/boot_div-cgbABCDE.gb measures exact boot timings indirectly, but it's really just an assertion test (pass/fail) and doesn't derive the exact value in a readable form. Also, I'm not sure anything in the shootout analyzes the VRAM contents that should be left by the boot ROM, but I could be wrong. Also, there's the "fun factor" of identifying several of the emulators in the shootout by name based on the timings and/or CPU registers.