Developers: How to Build Core Plugins (OEGameCore API documentation coming soon)
clobber edited this page Feb 15, 2014
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You will need the latest Xcode to build OpenEmu.
Clone the OpenEmu repo on GitHub. Use the GitHub for Mac app if you're new to Git or don't want to use the command line.
Enable the debug preferences pane in OpenEmu with: defaults write org.openemu.OpenEmu debug 1
The goal of OpenEmu is to be system agnostic so that plugins can be created to add support for new systems. One should be able to write a new plugin using only OpenEmuBase.framework and OpenEmuSystem.framework
OpenEmu can be described as three layers:
- The Application handles audio and video output to the OS and input from HID devices.
- The System Plugin describes a system and provides an interface for cores to plug into.
- The Core Plugin is the implementation of the emulator which then ties into a system plugin.
System Plugins describe a core system and contain:
- SystemController and SystemResponder classes
- Plugin name and system identifier
- Supported rom types (file suffixes)
- Button mapping defaults and settings
- Controller preference layouts, graphics and icons.
These settings are stored in property list (.plist) files.
Core Plugins implement systems and contain: ...
oecoreplugin, SystemResponderClient.h, GameCore.h, GameCore.mm ...
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