Chanka Released

WRAGGSTER · Post by **WRAGGSTER** » Sat May 29, 2004 7:46 am

Chanka the very highly anticipated Dreamcast Emulator for Windows has been released.

The Emulator itself comes in 3 flavours, a normal alpha, new gfx and a capcom hack download.

Info from the official ( http://www.chanka.org/ ) Site

Chankast is an advanced SEGA DREAMCAST emulator for x86 platforms.

This project started 3 months ago, it's a joint venture between baktery, unai and garrofi. It hasn't been easy, a lot of hours and headaches, but we think it's time to release an alpha version. We hope you will be surprise, you can play commercial games at a decent speed with a 2ghz CPU. Chankast is a very fast emulator with no hle parts.

We haven't done this emulator to promote piracy, it's a tribute to the great DC.

The emulator is far from perfect, expect new releases with more speed, better graphics, better sound, and more compatibility

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Download from above or this mirror --> http://www.dcemu.co.uk/chanka.shtml

DaMadFiddler · Post by **DaMadFiddler** » Sat May 29, 2004 7:51 am

:bigsmile:

...Hopefully, having a more "complete" DC emu will drastically help with homebrew development, saving on downtime (with coder's cable uploads) or wasted CD-Rs.

M@jk · Post by **M@jk** » Sat May 29, 2004 8:14 am

i try to download this emu but theres an error, when trying to unpack (header is corrupted or sth.)

az_bont · Post by **az_bont** » Sat May 29, 2004 8:38 am

I've found information on the internet that says you can use dc-tool to extract your own BIOS using a coder's cable. It says to use the following command line, but it isn't working for me:

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dc-tool -d bios.bin -a 0x0 -s 0x200000

I don't know if I'm doing this right or not, because I've never used the softwrae before, but it creates a blank file and the command line displays the following:

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Console enabled
Download 2097152 bytes at <0x0> to <bios.bin>
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And it just stays there, with the little line flashing. Anyone got any advice?

frogcoin · Post by **frogcoin** » Sat May 29, 2004 8:39 am

it can run hombrews in this stage? i would like to prove some hombebrew to make sure i want to burn it or in case like nester prove if i have a good dump or a bad one:mrgreen:

APE · Post by **APE** » Sat May 29, 2004 8:43 am

It won't run images, so the idea of creating test isos with SBI and testing them before burning is out of the question. Unless it likes Daemon Tools, which will just spur further questions on operating it and wether or not it actually sees anything it cannot see on the IDE bus.

Neo Matrix IV · Post by **Neo Matrix IV** » Sat May 29, 2004 8:56 am

You can always use Daemon Tools or Alcohol 120% to test the cd images

PD: You can also download itHERE if the official site doesn't work for ya

APE · Post by **APE** » Sat May 29, 2004 9:04 am

Neo Matrix IV wrote:You can always use Daemon Tools or Alcohol 120% to test the cd images

PD: You can also download itHERE if the official site doesn't work for ya

http://www.daemon-tools.cc/
http://www.alcohol-software.com/

speud · Post by **speud** » Sat May 29, 2004 9:28 am

here is a tool to dump your DC BIOS with a coder cable/bba.
thanks BlackAura for the example.

launch the elf with dc-tool and follow the instructions.
the dump will be saved under /pc/dc_bios.bin, which means in your PC root directory.

http://bswirl.kitsunet.org/biosdumper.rar

az_bont · Post by **az_bont** » Sat May 29, 2004 9:34 am

Thanl you veyr much, speud

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az_bont · Post by **az_bont** » Sat May 29, 2004 9:44 am

Hang on a minute - I forgot I should be using DCLoad instead of the usual serial slave

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Strapping Scherzo · Post by **Strapping Scherzo** » Sat May 29, 2004 9:46 am

Well, I dumped my bios and got Chanka to run the bios but it won't run any of my CDs. Anyone got this far? Also, I always have to configure the time when I start it even though there appears to be a dc_flash.bin file where I would assume that would be saved at. It's pretty cool to see the bios running though.

speud · Post by **speud** » Sat May 29, 2004 9:51 am

nope, i didnt succes to launch anything so far, though im pretty sure the dump is good.

i also used a VM dump made with VMU Tool and it emulates it correctly in the filemanager.

the internal clock seems wrong though, the minutes are increasing every second.

oh and about the time it does that for me too, everytime i try to boot a game it shows the red swirl, then ask me for the date and time 2 times in a row and finally goes back to the boot menu.

az_bont · Post by **az_bont** » Sat May 29, 2004 9:57 am

Bugger, still ain't working

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Strapping Scherzo · Post by **Strapping Scherzo** » Sat May 29, 2004 11:24 am

speud wrote:nope, i didnt succes to launch anything so far, though im pretty sure the dump is good.

i also used a VM dump made with VMU Tool and it emulates it correctly in the filemanager.

the internal clock seems wrong though, the minutes are increasing every second.

oh and about the time it does that for me too, everytime i try to boot a game it shows the red swirl, then ask me for the date and time 2 times in a row and finally goes back to the boot menu.

It does exactly the same thing for me. Of course, everything I tried was homebrew. I didn't try an actual commercial game yet. I never bought one in my life actually. I only bought my Dreamcast for emulation and homebrew.

speud · Post by **speud** » Sat May 29, 2004 12:22 pm

i think it is due to the missing flash dump.
im improving my dumper so it also dumps the flash.

after i used my dumped flash i got the blue swirl, then it seemed it tried to boot the game, and chanka crashed. but that may be an hardware issue.

note that it cant boot commercial games on gd, the emu is made to run games from selfboot cd-r.
hopefully the bios/flash needed will force people to own a DC, at least before some other people spread the illegal bios/flash files.

compacho · Post by **compacho** » Sat May 29, 2004 12:31 pm

Lol, i like how the site uses sandals into its design. So I guess that explains the name then.

sonicblur · Post by **sonicblur** » Sat May 29, 2004 12:36 pm

Grrr... I dumped my BIOS with the method mentioned in the 5th post in this thread months ago. Unfortunately, chanka doesn't want to start up with it. :-(
(The Data appears to be valid, there's a SEGA KATANA string in the bios)
I guess I need to hook my DC back up and dump it again.

Oh well. Thanks for releasing the dumping tool, speud. Edit: Woo.. Works now with the new dump. Thanks again.... Well, I'm stuck in the BIOS like everyone else. But I get 82fps from it! :-)

ShadowofBob · Post by **ShadowofBob** » Sat May 29, 2004 12:46 pm

sonicblur wrote:Grrr... I dumped my BIOS with the method mentioned in the 5th post in this thread months ago. Unfortunately, chanka doesn't want to start up with it.
(The Data appears to be valid, there's a SEGA KATANA string in the bios)
I guess I need to hook my DC back up and dump it again.

Oh well. Thanks for releasing the dumping tool, speud.

Yeah, When I tried that method Chankast would just freeze on me trying to boot. Now with the BIOS dumped using the speud's tool no games will boot and I constantly get that time/date screen.

Strapping Scherzo · Post by **Strapping Scherzo** » Sat May 29, 2004 12:48 pm

Yeah, spued, that would be cool if you could modify your dumper to also dump the flash.