this emu is the coolest i've ever seen! there are only a couple small requests from me.
screen adjust option (where you can make the game fit your TV perfectly, a theme choser (as in there are themes allready on the disk and you can go into an option and chose one) and that all i can think of. otherwise you guys made the best darn emulator in this universe.
And please map the other keys (A,B,X,Y,L,R,UP,DOWN,LEFT,RIGHT,ENTER) to be used in-game as well.
This will allow benchmark and bug testers to fiddle with the settings "on the fly" while watching the results immediately.
2. DreamSNES doesn't save the 50/60 Hz setting to the VMU.This should also be saved in the settings file.
3. The reboot (CTRL+PrScr) combination is not working properly.It needs a fix.Graphics get messed up in the lower half of the screen.(to note,my CD is 100% scratch-free)
4. The text besides the IHI logo has a few errors. few words have incorrect spelling:
SEGA Enterprices (not correct) -->
should be: SEGA Enterprises.
endorced (not correct) --> should be: endorsed
preceeding (not correct) --> should be: preceding
licenced(B.E.) --> should be licensed(A.E.) (this word is not really incorrect,BTW but the others are)
5. Like in NesterDC: Screen centering and Screen size adjustment.Wow,that's awesome!I like to make all 60Hz NTSC games to have borders.It gives you a feeling like playing on a 16:9 TV or watching a DVD movie.It's much better(more natural) that way.Or making the screen small to give you a feeling like playing on a Game Boy Advance!Or the best thing yet is zooming the picture WAAAY close,so you get a quasi-first person view(great for RPGs).This is all possible with NesterDC,and i like this to be available in DreamSNES as well.Have you tried this stuff with NesterDC?
6. A lot of new translations in other languages.(I'm going to translate it in two more languages)
And that's nearly all of what I can write now...
So,what do U think now?
:)
I like to hear some orginal but GOOD ideas from you,DreamSNES users as well...
Love your ideas and I agree with most of them. Having an FPS counter sure would be nice as well as the on-the-fly switches, as you said, really helping to speed things up.
Of the things that I would like most that haven't been mentioned:
1) Some sort of popup indicator telling us status messages (I guess debug messages) sort of like how ZSNES works. (No, I'm not asking them to port ZSNES. I had to say that since I'm sure that's what people first think when they see "ZSNES" on this board.) Especially useful would be a filename indicator. "Super Mario World (U).smc loaded." or something similar sure would be nice especially when you have multiple versions like I do. If most ROMs had correct headers, it wouldn't really be needed.. but since most don't... bleh.
2) The ability to have DreamSNES simply list ROM filenames rather than header names.. without needing to put a roms.lst in there. It would really make things so much simpler for someone like me that has correct, full filenames. The ROMS.LST file has never worked properly with me and since there are a few ROMs with full filenames that are longer than 31 characters. (The ROMS.LST Creator just simply pops up error after error.. perhaps about 50% of all ROMs give me an error.. and the list comes out all wrong anyways. Glad it seems to work for most everyone else though.)
Of the ones that have been mentioned already that I would like to see most:
1) Have the ROM list display one vertical column of games (as opposed to two). Perhaps make this a switchable option, saved to the VMU, if at all possible.
Now, I know this is really just a pipedream and really isn't needed, it sure would be nice:
2) The ability to playback .SPC soundtrack files. I'm sure that since DreamSNES would only really need to emulate the SPC700 sound chip that you could get it to play most music 100% at original quality. Give it a simple gui (similar to the Windows CD player would be just fine) and you have another great (but completely unnessessary) feature. Hmm... I'm sure there are a few people out there that would rather DreamSNES play an SPC for the menus instead of an Mp3. Sure would be nice to be able to have some classic SNES music playing when looking for a game to play. (I'm not saying "get rid of mp3 playback", just supplement it with SPCs.)
Basically though, I would be happy even if DreamSNES doesn't include any new features whatsoever. I love this piece of software so much already.
i was wondering if it were possible to make dreamsnes not only emulate snes but nes
It would be possible, but it would be kind of pointless. NES and SNES share some features, but they're not close enough that it's easy to adapt an emulator for one into an emulator for the other. At best, they might be able to reuse most of the CPU emulation and bits of the graphics emulation. Aside from that it would probably be better off as two separate programs. Speaking of separate programs, there's this lovely bit of code that goes by the name of NesterDC; perhaps you've heard of it...
The SNES processor has a 6502 (NES processor) compatibility mode which is probably why there are so many NES to SNES hacks out there, but for the emulator to emulate sound as well as the other parts of the NES console.. it's just too much extra work. They would be reinventing the wheel, since, as Ex-Cyber pointed out, NesterDC already does an excellent job emulating the NES.
I'd rather the DreamSNES team get the SNES done before tackling something of that nature.
any way dream snes is allready very cool as is (i'd like to that the creators for that ) i don't think there is much more stuff to add then what people have allready listed
Could you perhaps bind any function that would normally use the Print Screen key to also use the comma as well for the same function?
And also, could any current/future use of the tilde key also be applied to a secondary alternate key as well?
I say this because I have a Hais mini keyboard for the Dreamcast, and among other things, it has no tilde key at all, and QuakeDC(which I used to test the actual placement of the misplaced/mislabeled keys) registers the Print Screen key as a comma.
(Though I am unsure what QuakeDC would register from the same keys on a Sega keyboard)
To my knowledge, this is the only third party keyboard I have ever seen, and it would be really nice to take these hardware limitations for some into account for future key binds.
Are you sure about that? That would be hard to program it for each game.
(duh)
I know this has been said, a VMU system menu. That would REALLY help.
I had a weird dream that I was playing a version of DreamSNES, and it had netplay! A sort of netplay like Xband! It was so weird! Man, when I woke up, I had tears coming out my eyes! (not really) Too bad no one can figure out the modem yet.
The people of the land were overjoyed at the gift God gave them, and they rejoiced and praised God, and chanted "DreamSNES rules, DreamSNES rules!"
A quick save/quick load feature(saving/loading only in RAM,not in the VMU,since it's impossible).It will allow you to check a specific part of a game many times,and also guarantees an easier way to beat some of the tough,cheap games like those Spiderman fighting games from LJN/Acclaim (AARGH!).NesterDC has this feature and I use it a lot.I never save to VMU,the RAM quicksave is enough for me.
I think that it would be a nice thing to have but it's something that I think the DreamSNES team may consider to be cheating (as I do). Heh.. you miss that jump? You have to start the level over before trying again.
I can see it being useful though if you want to test a certain portion of the game under various conditions... but since I'm sure the DreamSNES team already has something like this using their own debugging tools, I doubt we'd get it.
Reminds me of that GameSaver for the SNES. More features, the better though.
I'd like to see an option like in NesterDC to allow manual, or auto frameskip. Other than that i think DreamSNES is great, One of the best DC progs out there.
I'd like to see an option like in NesterDC to allow manual, or auto frameskip. Other than that i think DreamSNES is great, One of the best DC progs out there.
