DC Generator

Warmachine · Post by **Warmachine** » Sat Nov 30, 2002 7:09 pm

Hi I would like to say first this is the best Dreamcast website out there. I have been using it every since early 2001. But I would like to know how to use the DCGenerator(Sega Genesis). I download the program for Disc Juggler, then i burned the Program. Then after that I took my SG(Sega Genesis) roms and burt them on a different disc. I started the program then i took out the cd and put the roms cd and it didnt work. Am I doing something wrong? I couldnt find a Tutorial for it. So I was wondering if someone could show me. Please help me because I really would like to know how to use it. Thanks.

Robert Kabbabe

Prophet][ · Post by **Prophet][** » Sun Dec 01, 2002 6:11 am

Their not really any tutorials cos its not worth burnin, its slow. But don't worry, someones making a new one that will be out hopefully soon

reaper2k2 · Post by **reaper2k2** » Sun Dec 01, 2002 7:02 am

Prophet][ wrote:Their not really any tutorials cos its not worth burnin, its slow. But don't worry, someones making a new one that will be out hopefully soon

Was the source code to dcgen ever released ?

I thought it was open source at one time using pvrdma should bring it up to close to fullspeed as it did for neogeo.

dont think there was much wrong with dcgen it was a touch slow but playable .... THE emulator you speak of is at 30% speed and is not going to come out any time soon .....

Post by **BlueCrab** » Sun Dec 01, 2002 8:09 am

reaper2k2 wrote:
Prophet][ wrote:Their not really any tutorials cos its not worth burnin, its slow. But don't worry, someones making a new one that will be out hopefully soon
Was the source code to dcgen ever released ?

I thought it was open source at one time using pvrdma should bring it up to close to fullspeed as it did for neogeo.

dont think there was much wrong with dcgen it was a touch slow but playable .... THE emulator you speak of is at 30% speed and is not going to come out any time soon .....

Yeah the source was released, I'll look for a link to it for you.

EDIT: Found it, it is at http://www.emucamp.com/dcgen/

yodanut · Post by **yodanut** » Sun Dec 01, 2002 9:57 am

Think you can improve it, reaper? Someone had taken over the project officially but only released one (small) update before forgetting it. It would be nice if work on it could continue, as Genesis emulation is still pretty vapid on the DC.

lux92886 · Post by **lux92886** » Sun Dec 01, 2002 10:14 am

MetaFox I believe took it over. Hasn't done anything with it since.
*patiently waits for crt0's gen emu

*

Cless · Post by **Cless** » Sun Dec 01, 2002 11:06 am

Umm you dopes I think metafox is really sick.

reaper2k2 · Post by **reaper2k2** » Sun Dec 01, 2002 7:18 pm

thanks i like playing around with all this stuff i have dgen SDL version source to if i can get the dc source to compile ill have a go at it

so far it will not compile at the moment

bluecrab can you see if it will compile with your system

it's failing for me at this time

im right uptodate kos cvs version with no build errors when rebuilt

Code: Select all

D_arch_dreamcast -I/usr/local/dc/kos/include -I/usr/local/dc/kos/libc/include -I
ocal/dc/kos/kernel/arch/dreamcast/include -c generator.c -o generator.o
generator.c: In function `main':
generator.c:66: warning: implicit declaration of function `kos_init_all'
generator.c:66: `IRQ_ENABLE' undeclared (first use in this function)
generator.c:66: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
generator.c:66: for each function it appears in.)
generator.c:66: `THD_ENABLE' undeclared (first use in this function)
generator.c: In function `update_progress':
generator.c:130: warning: implicit declaration of function `pvr_dummy_poly'
generator.c:160:5: warning: pasting "ui_log_verbose" and "(" does not give a val
processing token
generator.c:403:5: warning: pasting "ui_log_critical" and "(" does not give a va
eprocessing token
make[1]: *** [generator.o] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/dc/dcgen/main'
make: *** [_dir_main] Error 2

thats the errors it give when trying to compile the dcgen source .

Cless · Post by **Cless** » Sun Dec 01, 2002 7:41 pm

Its always great to see one of my favorite programers checking into a emulator. Here my pre congrats on the improving of the emulator reaper. Congrats.

Post by **BlueCrab** » Sun Dec 01, 2002 7:45 pm

reaper2k2, many of your errors were because the intialization of KOS changed since the last time DCGen was updated. I'll look at the source for it possibly tomorrow after school and tell you what I come up with.

reaper2k2 · Post by **reaper2k2** » Sun Dec 01, 2002 8:01 pm

BlueCrab wrote:reaper2k2, your errors were because the intialization of KOS changed since the last time DCGen was updated. I'll look at the source for it possibly tomorrow after school and tell you what I come up with.

thanks .. still dont know my way around kos to well

i say give me 6 more months i might be ok at it lol

reaper2k2 · Post by **reaper2k2** » Mon Dec 02, 2002 7:32 pm

sorry still no luck trying to compile this

Cless · Post by **Cless** » Mon Dec 02, 2002 7:47 pm

reaper2k2 wrote:sorry still no luck trying to compile this

*crys*

crt0 · Post by **crt0** » Mon Dec 02, 2002 7:50 pm

If you have no idea how to fix these kinds of things on your own, you should give up, seriously. That's also what happens when you have a braindead/broken environment setup, but that's beyond the point at this moment. If you can't figure out how to update the initialization code between KOS revisions, and can't proceed without any hand holding to hack stuff, you aren't going to make significant progress anywhere. Also note DGen/SDL will be ass-slow if you port it to DC.

Cless · Post by **Cless** » Mon Dec 02, 2002 8:10 pm

crt0 wrote:If you have no idea how to fix these kinds of things on your own, you should give up, seriously. That's also what happens when you have a braindead/broken environment setup, but that's beyond the point at this moment. If you can't figure out how to update the initialization code between KOS revisions, and can't proceed without any hand holding to hack stuff, you aren't going to make significant progress anywhere. Also note DGen/SDL will be ass-slow if you port it to DC.

Can you do a temp speed up.

toastman · Post by **toastman** » Mon Dec 02, 2002 8:23 pm

Cless wrote:
crt0 wrote:If you have no idea how to fix these kinds of things on your own, you should give up, seriously. That's also what happens when you have a braindead/broken environment setup, but that's beyond the point at this moment. If you can't figure out how to update the initialization code between KOS revisions, and can't proceed without any hand holding to hack stuff, you aren't going to make significant progress anywhere. Also note DGen/SDL will be ass-slow if you port it to DC.
Can you do a temp speed up.

No, he can't.
He's busy making a Genesis emulator from the ground up. Any work on any other Genesis emulator would be useless.

Cless · Post by **Cless** » Mon Dec 02, 2002 8:28 pm

toastman wrote:
Cless wrote:
crt0 wrote:If you have no idea how to fix these kinds of things on your own, you should give up, seriously. That's also what happens when you have a braindead/broken environment setup, but that's beyond the point at this moment. If you can't figure out how to update the initialization code between KOS revisions, and can't proceed without any hand holding to hack stuff, you aren't going to make significant progress anywhere. Also note DGen/SDL will be ass-slow if you port it to DC.
Can you do a temp speed up.
No, he can't.
He's busy making a Genesis emulator from the ground up. Any work on any other Genesis emulator would be useless.

Yeah but, only you get to play the beta leaks we all have to wait. *sobs*

toastman · Post by **toastman** » Mon Dec 02, 2002 8:36 pm

Cless wrote:Yeah but, only you get to play the beta leaks we all have to wait. *sobs*

It wasn't a "leak". That was sent to me by crt0 himself.
Plus, soon I'm going to be doing more than just playing the betas...

Cless · Post by **Cless** » Mon Dec 02, 2002 8:48 pm

toastman wrote:
Cless wrote:Yeah but, only you get to play the beta leaks we all have to wait. *sobs*
It wasn't a "leak". That was sent to me by crt0 himself.
Plus, soon I'm going to be doing more than just playing the betas...

I hope you join the devo team with him.

ZacMc · Post by **ZacMc** » Mon Dec 02, 2002 8:51 pm

devo

Devo? The guys who did "Whip It"

Can you do a temp speed up.
No, he can't.

How about a perm speedup