FBA's Higemaru on Saturn !

Download here : http://vberthelot.free.fr/fba/

It should run full speed on a PAL Saturn, the game is included inside the binary.

 

Next Marvel vs Capcom? ^^;

 

I'm downloading now. Should be fun to see the Saturn emulating something. Don't think I've ever ran emulation on my Saturn.

 

Considering their shared use of the same processor (albeit for different purposes), I always expected Sega to announce either full backwards compatibility or at least some kind of Megadrive emulator for the Saturn. However, this never came to be, even though a few 16-bit games were ported over using what I assume was this very ability. Has anyone ever looked into the possibility of making better use of this feature? Also, since both possess the same basic SH-2 setup could further CPS2 or even CPS3 games be ported to the Saturn with relative ease? I'm not the most technically-minded person here, but surely the classic titles in the Sonic Jam compilation and at least some of the Sega Ages range were produced this way?

 

For me, Sonic Jam is the worst ever made convertion on Saturn. Blurry graphics, and awful BGM converted from Gneesis to PCM audio on Saturn. Lazy programmers....

 

And awful slowdowns in Sonic 2.

 

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Sorry, what exactly does this FBA thing emulate?

 

Emulate some FM hardware would be possible. Even on the Saturn. If it's done on a PC (Genesis emulation isn't new), it may be done on Saturn.

 

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This really doesn't make a whole lot of sense. Sharing the same CPU isn't that big of an advantage to porting necessarily. I don't believe the 68000 in the Saturn would help much if at all with such ports of CPS2 games. There is no reason not to use the SH-2s. Porting is still going to require reworking sound and video parts of the game's code and most importantly dealing with the limited RAM and CD-ROM access. Same with CPS3 despite using a SH-2, that is a relatively minor bonus compared to the vastly different graphics and sound setups combined with CPS3 (and 2) having access to all game data in an instant compared to Saturn which has limited RAM that must be loaded from the very slow CD-ROM. Slow in the sense that you can't access all your data in an instant.

 

Actuallyt some other drivers are in progress.

 

current drivers :

d_bankp
d_gberet
d_higemaru
d_mitchell
d_news
d_pkunwar
d_sys1

just for test :

d_gng
d_vigilant

 

Some great games in that list!

 

Amazing!

 

So is that screen shot above taken from an emulator running all of those games on a Saturn? I can't find anything about it on the Higemaru links at the top of this page.

Yakumo

 

Work in progress I assume?

 

yep, more pics :

 

If all of these become playable at full speed with correct sound then this will be an amazing Sega collection that poops on Sega's own Memorial Collections.

Yakumo

 

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