Powar is a prototype Pokéwalker emulator. It is still missing tons of features and cannot connect to DS emulator (yet).
Get a Pokéwalker ROM and EEPROM image, you can dump these yourself using PoroCYon's dumper for DSi or DmitryGR's PalmOS app.
Name these images rom.bin and eeprom.bin respectively and put them in the same folder as the emulator.
Start the emulator. The buttons are mapped to the arrow keys (left, down, right) and WSD.
- All CPU instructions the walker uses (so far)
- EEPROM
- LCD
- Buttons
- Some Timer W functions
- RTC
- Accelerometer
- Most interrupts
- Sleep mode
- IR communication
- Sound
- Many more :')
Make sure SDL2 and CMake are installed.
$ cmake .
$ cmake --build .
Make sure Visual Studio is installed, along with the "Desktop development with C++" workload. Additionally, you'll need to install vcpkg, activate the Visual Studio integration by running vcpkg integrate install from an elevated prompt, and install SDL2 by running vcpkg install sdl2.
From Visual Studio use File > Open > CMake to open the CMakeLists.txt file. Use the Select Startup Item menu to select powar.exe, and click Run. This will result in an error, but will create the out\build\x64-Debug directory. Place your rom.bin and eeprom.bin in that folder and click Run again.
Make sure CMake is installed, and then install Emscripten using the emsdk. After installation, activate PATH and other environment variables using the provided scripts (emsdk_env.sh, emsdk_env.bat, or emsdk_env.ps1 based on your shell). On Windows, you'll also need to put Ninja in your PATH.
$ emcmake cmake .
$ cmake --build .
You can then run the web interface by starting a web server in the static folder.
Help is always welcome.
Would not be possible without DmitryGR's work on hacking and documenting the Pokéwalker, or PoroCYon's dumper.
