What can I do with a Katana?

Dear

I would like know what can I do with a Katana I cant with dreamcast NTSC J standard?
Atomiswave games run on it?
Naomi game?
that's all?

Finally how much it?

Thanks

 

You can use it to develop and debug Dreamcast games and of course also play the majority of retail games on it. You can't play Atomiswave \ Naomi with it.

 

You can, however, play Playstation 4 games on it if you can find the very hard to find CUH-100*A add-on...

 

I think it's a forum mistake.

Thanks Wombat, also what's the Naomi dev kit?

 

Details about the NAOMI dev kit are very scarce, apparently it's a combination of the Dreamcast dev kit and some unknown hardware.

 

Thanks

 

Why it´s so difficult to develop a 3D game that make good use of the DC hardware with Katana?

 

Because it's basically a full-time job for a professional software development team?

Nowadays it's easier to make 3D DC-like games on PC because the tools are very modern and advanced. But they're also very unoptimized and unfit for old consoles.

Give a modern game studio Katanas and a team and they'd do a fine job in a year or so...

 

Thx for the answer! I don´t know too much about this topic, but with the Katana Devkit is not possible to use the source code or the graphic engine of a game (for example Shenmue, Test Drive LeMans, Sonic Adventure 2, etc) and modify it to create a new game?

 

It would be possible to reuse a pre-existing engine, yes. Companies do that all the time. But you need the source to do this, and those are not public.

Even with a full-featured engine, it's still quite hard and time-demanding to develop a full game on any console.

 

Too bad...I think DC reach it´s 15 years in America and Europe this year...Sega should make public some source code, a la Id with the old Id Tech...May be with that, we can finally see the real DC top capabilities and enjoy newer stuff taking full advatage of DC hardware...