so wait a minute. Emulator emulated on another emulator?? That means the Naomi emulator will work on the DC console then right?? :smt017 if so... :smt023 :smt024 rayer: rayer: rayer: rayer:
no they are just using the dreamcast emulator to play naomi games cos the hardware is so close it would only need small modifications ....
yup... no need for new pc , if you have a 2.0+ processor 512 of ram and a good video card you are good to go 128mb up :snipe:
I could be wrong, but from how I understood it, they got Virtua Striker 2 (the Dreamcast version) finally to run ... so no Naomi arcade hardware or something ...
Good thing I surpass that requirement . Building your own PC costs so much less than buying a Dell or Alienware.
Now they just need a way to read Naomi GD-Roms. I guess they're going to have to hack it through the Network port maybe? I guess a GD-ROM drive might be a good place to start. I'd rather have HIkaru emulation...Planet Harriers... yumm.....
Would be interesting to see if NAOMI games could possibly be hacked to run on the Dreamcast. I imagine you'd have to pull a lot of strange voodoo to get it to work, as wasn't the main difference between the NAOMI and the Dreamcast that the former had about twice as much ram?
And how does one make a "backup" of a disc that can't be read by a computer? When I say GD-ROM, I mean a Gigabyte Disc... not a ROM dump from a cartridge based Naomi game.
Finally, a proper dc emulator, but when dc are so cheap nowadays, modding it into a naomi 1/2 emulator will even be more useful. imagine the amount of wonderful games u can play at home then. That screenshot is from the dc version i think, many arcade converted console games still say insert coin. Hacking naomi games to run on dc is a great idea!
My guess is that they'd prolly work it the same way they did with making Dreamcast backups - tricking the NAOMI into streaming the disc data over to a PC. I wonder if NAOMI GD-ROM machines would have the same weakness the Dreamcast did that allowed for booting of CD-R copies? If not, the backup games would only be good for emulators anyways, if they ever become really usable.
But could Dreamcast read NAOMI GDs? Or does it really matter when it's in slave/ripping mode - maybe it just reads raw data from the disc without regard to the format. I really have no clue as to how the ripping really works, as all I have is a coder's cable, and I don't relish spending hours waiting for a game to rip to my PC.
how can dc go into another mode, like that slave/ripping mode u were talking about? i think it should work.
As far as I can tell from reading, you burn the slave software to a disc and boot the Dreamcast with the disc, which allows you to send it commands from a PC connected with the BBA/coder's cable. You then swap in your disc and give the DC instructions to download everything to the PC. I'm not completely sure if this is how it works, but it sounds right.
I don't believe a DC can read a Naomi GD-Rom, but I don't know for sure. I would assume not though, being the tech-savy asshole that I am. Anyways, to unload a DC GD-ROM, you load your DC w/ a boot disc, which gives the DC NIC and IP address. Your PC can then chat w/ your DC over this IP address. The other way is to just get the MAC address of your NIC, then use ARP, and talk to it that way. Some tools use one method, while others use another. In the meantime, I generally buy DC games for almost nothing while other people are trying to rip them.
