Retroachievements API?

[retropieuser]

Hi there,

I appreciate this isn't specific to xm8mac and could just work on the other emulators you've ported to modern systems but have you thought about calling the Retroachievements API to look at the memory as you play so you can add achievements to the pc8801?

Officially the only emulator that runs pc8801 games is RAquasi88 which is windows only and abit outdated, so it'd be awesome if someone could come up with a modern systems solution

https://api-docs.retroachievements.org/

[bubio]

Thanks for the suggestion.

I didn't know something like this existed—this is the first time I've heard of it.

I'll check it out.

[retropieuser]

It's interesting at least for a unique architecture like the pc8801. Obviously it's not as popular as things like the SNES or Playstation 1, but it's always good to see unusual systems like pc8801 or neo geo pocket supported with unique new features like achievements

Perhaps it's more suitable to your M88 port, given that emulator exposes the memory in the debugs, I'm not sure if the other PC8801 emulators do that

[bubio]

So RetroArc does support the QUASI88 core (though the core version seems to be outdated). I was surprised by how many features it has.

[bubio]

@retropieuser

Retro Achievements is now supported in v2.0.0.

Please give it a try if you'd like!

[retropieuser]

That's awesome thank you. Have you put a request in with the Retroachievements Devs to let your emulator use hardcore mode too? But in any case I justed and it works very well, that's an amazingly good job thank you!!

[bubio]

@retropieuser

Thank you.
"Retro Achievements" isn't something Japanese people are very familiar with. Since I didn't even know what it was to begin with, I started by implementing it in a GameBoy emulator (BubiBoy) that seemed easy to implement and had plenty of examples. Even though I had an AI write the code, I still had to support all platforms and test it thoroughly, so it was quite a challenge.

However, it seems I haven't met the requirements for Hardcore Mode yet, so it looks like it will take a little more time.