ljsdcdev Project L (aka, yabause-dc)

LyonHrt · Post by **LyonHrt** » Mon Jun 21, 2004 10:42 am

I think theres quite a few nice demos on segaxtreme
Actually i think ssf is pretty good, plus there was an update earlier this month, so work is still going on, on it.

abydos1000 · Post by **abydos1000** » Mon Jun 21, 2004 11:20 am

Just took a look at that site. There is even an SMS emulator (two actually, one doesn't work, but the other says it does). That might be a thing to test out with some legal/homebrew roms. http://www.pdroms.com has a couple for the SMS. There is even one Saturn homebrew game there.

Actually, this is a good site to find legal roms; as far as I know pdroms is 100% legal (no illegal roms or porn).

racketboy · Post by **racketboy** » Mon Jun 21, 2004 3:32 pm

SegaXtreme is one of the best sites for Saturn dev stuff.
Although I'm partial since I'm a mod there.
But there are a few guys on the board that are pretty into it -- both of homebrew stuff for the Saturn and for Saturn emus.

Zealous zerotype · Post by **Zealous zerotype** » Tue Jun 22, 2004 11:15 pm

Man imagine is they ever got stardust workign

Mikey242 · Post by **Mikey242** » Wed Jun 23, 2004 6:48 am

Great news on your progress so far Blue, especially on the speed up, that should make testing a little easier at least. Let us know if you make anymore advances, this is a really interesting emulator.

Post by **BlueCrab** » Wed Jun 23, 2004 4:35 pm

Okay, status update. I have a new version of the source code to work with, and am attempting to get it to run correctly without any PVR acceleration right now. As soon as I finish with that, I'll work again on the PVR-based renderer.

Salamander2 · Post by **Salamander2** » Wed Jun 23, 2004 5:41 pm

the memory manager works?

Post by **BlueCrab** » Wed Jun 23, 2004 6:31 pm

No, that's one of the hurdles in the way....

poots · Post by **poots** » Wed Jun 23, 2004 7:12 pm

excellent.

you get a kiss

Mikey242 · Post by **Mikey242** » Thu Jun 24, 2004 8:48 am

Hey I dont know if this will help or not, or whether you already have it but here is some saturn technical documents:

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http://cgfm2.emuviews.com/saturn.php

Anyway I have been thinking of getting a Sega Saturn because of its 2D graphics capability (which I understand is good). Just wanted some views from the message board about it (I was thinking of mainly fighting games

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Post by **BlueCrab** » Thu Jun 24, 2004 9:21 am

yeah, I've seen that site before. And while I'm not a fan of fighting games, I've heard that there are quite a few good ones on the Saturn.

Good news everyone, I'm starting to get the new pieces of yabause code working on the Dreamcast, and vdp1 is now working! (at least what parts of it are in yabause)

Post by **Christuserloeser** » Thu Jun 24, 2004 10:28 am

Mikey242 wrote:Anyway I have been thinking of getting a Sega Saturn because of its 2D graphics capability (which I understand is good).

It's very good! Lot's of great 2D games out for it, RPGs (MKRE), Adventures (Shining Wisdom), Sh'mups (DariusGaiden), Jump'n'Runs (Astal, ShinobiX) - even much more

@BlueCrab: Very good news!

Chris

speud · Post by **speud** » Thu Jun 24, 2004 12:39 pm

nice progress bluecrab

so is yabause evoluting at the same time as its port?

abydos1000 · Post by **abydos1000** » Thu Jun 24, 2004 2:01 pm

Anyway I have been thinking of getting a Sega Saturn because of its 2D graphics capability (which I understand is good). Just wanted some views from the message board about it (I was thinking of mainly fighting games)

I can't speak for fighting games since I wasn't into them at the time, but my favorites were Dragon Warrior, Guardian Heroes (excellent 2D game- fighting and RPG elements), Panzer Dragoon Zwei, and Nights. The last three are an easy find on ebay. The first one can be really expensive.

I did like a couple of other role playing games...one was from working designs, and I can't put my finger on one. At the time, I got a Saturn because of the RPG potential. There wasn't any for the PS. Then everything changed. I had both the PS and the Saturn for awhile, then my PS died just as I got FF7. Well, since I was poor in graduate school, I sold off the Saturn and all of the games. To this day:

It would be great to have a DC emu for the Saturn. I'd be the first to head over to ebay and pick up some of the games I used to have if they were playable.[/i]

Alexvrb · Post by **Alexvrb** » Thu Jun 24, 2004 2:56 pm

If you want to see an incredible 2D game in action: Radiant Silvergun. The sequel, "Ikaruga", is on DC.

So ka · Post by **So ka** » Thu Jun 24, 2004 3:42 pm

Bluecrab i want to say that : Man you're great

Good luck for the rest and keep courage.

Alexvrb radiant silvergun is not a 2d game but a 3d game.
Shining force3 and a tengaimakyo 4 on dc will be great, but we have time.

Alexvrb · Post by **Alexvrb** » Thu Jun 24, 2004 4:36 pm

So ka wrote:Alexvrb radiant silvergun is not a 2d game but a 3d game.

Well, actually its both.

Post by **BlueCrab** » Thu Jun 24, 2004 10:14 pm

Progress update:
I've started work on a dynarec-like CPU core for yabause-dc

By the way, I say dynarec-like because not much needs to be done in order to make the instructions work on the dreamcast, just byteswapping them.

Alexvrb · Post by **Alexvrb** » Thu Jun 24, 2004 11:47 pm

Nice!

Post by **BlueCrab** » Fri Jun 25, 2004 12:37 am

Hehe, well, my dynarec thingy should be complete now... The only problem is how to keep the rest of the emulated saturn in sync with sh2 code. I guess I could force it to execute a certain number of opcodes.... not sure though.

Anyway, its almost 2:00 AM now, its time for sleep.....