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Does an nVidia NV-1 wrapper exist?

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First post, by Devil Master

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I have recently discovered the existence of an nVidia video card, made in the 1990s that rendered scenes using quads instead of triangles, and for which a handful of games were made, among which Virtua Fighter, as shown in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VK9sg_93iCE
This made me curious to know more, so I googled "nv-1 emulator". I have found a couple of interesting links on this very site:
1) an attempt to reverse-engineer the NV-1 drivers, at NVIDIA NV1 Wrapper
2) the NV-1 software development kit, at http://www.vogonsdrivers.com/getfile.php?fileid=706

Has anything been done with that information? I would really like a wrapper that translates NV-1 calls to Direct3D 9.0c calls and lets the user increase the resolution at will. Using Direct3D 9.0c would also allow eventual stereoscopic drivers to kick in and display those games in real 3D.

Reply 1 of 1, by Stiletto

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Answer: Not yet.

Blueshogun96's reverse-engineering work seemed promising (he has posted slightly more at AssemblerGames recently: https://www.assemblergames.com/forums/showthr … ll=1#post783454 ) but he is a man of many projects and seems to have gone silent on that front for the last several months.

Another thing you did not discover is Tuxality's work-in-progress projects in which he states he'd like to tackle a nVidia NV-1 wrapper of some kind, but after his PowerVR and ATI 3D Rage projects. 😀
Is this the possibility of a Power VR SGL Wrapper?

Other than that, there's been nothing done lately that I am aware of. Some of our earliest threads here back in 2002 are about the potential for nVidia NV-1, PowerVR, ATI 3D Rage, S3 S3D Toolkit wrappers, and more. Here's hoping it will happen someday soon! Tuxality's projects seem the most mature but it's still extremely early days as you can see. Also, PCem (emulator) added S3 ViRGE emulation which should allow for the execution of S3D Toolkit games. The information for many of these chips has been leaking out slowly, so I only have high hopes for the future. 😀

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