The Saturn Emu is still in the works and from what they say, they are progressing pretty well. On top of that they successfully ported VGA (PC GBA Emulator) to the DC. Info on that can be found here: http://www.dcemu.co.uk/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl?board=dcemu;action=display;num=1084378886 And well heres info on the N64 emu. http://www.dcemu.co.uk/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl?board=dcemu;action=display;num=1091227578;start=0 Some of you might have known about this but I just found out about the GBA and N64 emu and all I have to say is good luck to them. :smt023
This is really nice news. It probably is possible to make the Dreamcast run N64 games under a certain size with special compression techniques as it is to get the Dreamcast running a GBA. The problem is that all these fine fellows who make these emulators are NOT professionals. I'm not bad mouthing these guys. They do an amazing job and I wish them all the luck they can get. The problem is that they just don't have the know how. The Saturn is home to a Full Speed Mega Drive emulator with 99% spot on sound thanks to Technosoft who used it for their conversions of Thunder Force II MD, Thunder Force III and Thunder Force IV. Their first rendition of the emulator used for Thunder Force II and III did have slow down issues and no music but that was all changed for the Thunder Force IV version. Capcom made a Super Famicom (SNES) emulator for the Saturn for their Capcom Generations series or so I was told. With that emulator they ran Ghouls'n Ghosts. The resolution looked a bit odd on the Saturn because the picture had whopping black lines down the left and right of the screen. All the sound and speed was there though. Perfect. Even lost the slowdown that the SFC version had if I remember rightly. Been quite a while since I played it. The point of the above is just to say if a Saturn can run a professionally made Full Speed emulator of a Mega Drive and Super Famicom then surly the Dreamcast can. It just needs the right guys with the know how to pull it off. Yakumo
Yeh. The guys might be professionals however they are not getting paid. If they were getting paid like a regular developer company then chances are, they would make the SNES emulator, Saturn Emulator and all other emulators run very well on the DC.
On another point, making an emulator to run a few selected games can be easier: if you only have to emulate game X, you can skip emulating features it doesn't need, or even trick the game and have dedicated optimisations. Making a generic emulator can be much more difficult. I'm sure it is possible on a Saturn like machine but it would require lots of work. As you pointed out, emulators programmers are usually hobbyst. Eg: my case, If I had enough time, I'd love to improve my own emulator. With the knowledge I have today, I could make it much much better. But today I need to work most of the time so I cannot :|
True. True. BTW. This is a bit off-topic but since you're from france Omar. Is it true that its illegal to build your own PC??? I heard this from my friend and I just want to know if he's right or not.
You realize yoru statement is a bit bold? Even the Xbox doesn't emulate EVERYTHING before it, but does quite a bit. Or did you mean all Sega machines before it?
??? I don't see why it would be illegal. We have plenty of shops selling hardware pieces to build your PC: Your friend must have been working for Compaq/Dell.
... it won't happen... most of these projects are just ports and the coders do not take time to write something properly for the DC...most of them are happy to see something runnin' and then call it quits...I am not yelling,i know how much effort is needed for these projects,but facts are facts...
