why do we emulate on the dreamcast?

ZacMc · Post by **ZacMc** » Sun Feb 10, 2002 7:30 pm

mik wrote:
Hollywood Hasney wrote: Yep, soon to be public beta. From what I heard now, full-speed without sound

"The dreamcast is more powerful than a ps2" Exsqueeze me? Especially not in arcade emulation terms since it has 128mb of RAM

"We will be on PS3 before PS2 is hacked" Again... HUH? Theres been demos running off of CDRs for about a year now, visit http://www.napalm-x.com Theres even a coders cable

I doubt GC will be hacked much... it don't even READ CDs

I don't think HH wrote all that..

dcemuler · Post by **dcemuler** » Sun Feb 10, 2002 8:27 pm

hmmm....
it's simple ,
1) SEGA RULEZ 4 EVER
2) I'M NOT GOING TO BUY ANOTHER CONSOLE THAT IS NOT FROM SEGA
3)DC has a excellent video card ( play house of the dead 2 )
4)I can't play shenmue & sonic adventure on pc
5) excelent joystick
6) vmu to easily trade files with my friend ( much better than floppy disk)
7) I can EASILY connect my tv to a stereo sound
and thousands of things , but I have more important stuff to do than keep saying why we prefer dc emulation than pc emulation

orgazmo · Post by **orgazmo** » Mon Feb 11, 2002 12:51 am

I have to agree with Hasney...
I grew up playing my nes on my dad's 46" television and when I moved out on my own, I bought a 64" bigscreen tv...
Once you're used to playing games on those, emulation on the pc just doesn't really impress, no matter how superior the emulators may be at the time...
It should also be noted that the pc emulators are good because they've had such time to become so.
Who would have thought back at the time of the DC's launch that in just a few years, we'd be playing the nes and master system at near perfection, plus (in a slightly less perfect state) playing the 2600, genesis, snes, doom, quake, wolfenstein and many other amazing emulators on the dc from the comfort of our own living rooms. Just imagine with the leaps that have been made already, what is still to come...

Van_Lardo · Post by **Van_Lardo** » Mon Feb 11, 2002 9:24 am

2 people here have 64 inch TVs?!!! :O

I'm DEFINITELY getting into the games industry if that's what you can get! Even a hanger on such as myself can only scrape together a 34 inch telly (which I thought was massive... I guess size DOES matter!... Unfortunately...

)

(By the way... speaking of size mattering... the board seems to have gotten much bigger! I never used to have to scroll left/right to see the whole page before!

Whassupwitdat? Although the emoticons have been updated too... Nice!

IUG-13 · Post by **IUG-13** » Mon Feb 11, 2002 10:48 am

dcemuler wrote: hmmm....
it's simple ,
1) SEGA RULEZ 4 EVER
2) I'M NOT GOING TO BUY ANOTHER CONSOLE THAT IS NOT FROM SEGA
3)DC has a excellent video card ( play house of the dead 2 )
4)I can't play shenmue & sonic adventure on pc
5) excelent joystick
6) vmu to easily trade files with my friend ( much better than floppy disk)
7) I can EASILY connect my tv to a stereo sound
and thousands of things , but I have more important stuff to do than keep saying why we prefer dc emulation than pc emulation

Let's see...
1 - Yup
2 - Yup
3 - Yup
4 - ehh
5 - Yup
6 - Yup
7 - Yup and amen!

dcemuler · Post by **dcemuler** » Mon Feb 11, 2002 2:15 pm

Who was the genius who had the idea of make emulation on dreamcast???

perry · Post by **perry** » Mon Feb 11, 2002 2:23 pm

Yea good ques!

fatheadpi · Post by **fatheadpi** » Tue Feb 12, 2002 9:38 am

Two words:

Jimi Hendrix

RC · Post by RC » Tue Feb 12, 2002 3:48 pm

Well, another thing is PC Gaming sucks anyway.. It's all based on system requirements and is made up of losers(Gets hit by a pipe). Not to mention a TV is way better than a monitor(With any fancy graphics card) and it gives you more of a classic feeling that way. Not to mention Dreamcast's controller kicks ass :D

Sakiru · Post by **Sakiru** » Sat Sep 07, 2002 11:41 pm

PC gaming is superior as far as FPS/RTS are concerned. How ever I would take a nice console RPG over any PC RPG, with the exception of DiabloII (but it isn't even really that much of an rpg). Now that we have that cleared up, why DC is a great system for EMU:

1)No modding required
2)Putting the system to work
3)Can be obtained cheaply
4)Has the coolest memory card (VMU)
5)Did I mention no modding?

Heliophobe · Post by **Heliophobe** » Sun Sep 08, 2002 1:51 am

why do we bump seven month old threads?

pavelbure · Post by **pavelbure** » Sun Sep 08, 2002 6:50 am

Heliophobe wrote:why do we bump seven month old threads?

i guess he wanted to say something. nothing wrong with that.

ndr008 · Post by **ndr008** » Sun Sep 08, 2002 10:48 am

another thing, PC games requiring installing it so HDD space, drivers, and updates, patches for your hardware, bug with certain devices, incompatibity due to OSes etc, too much crap to get a game running.

And that is why i still prefer consoles, just connect, slap in CD, and get gamming, conenct another couple of joypads, and you're multiplaying.

Other then that, when it comes to top end graphics, obviously you have to go for a PC. I have an ATI Radeon 8500 with TV out and hook it to the TC, and use my PSX pad on the PC with a 1024x768 res, or play need for speed V at 1600x1200 on the 19"" monitor, just beautiful.

But consoles are way more practical, sure u might not reach such peaks of graphics, but at least u can buy a game with the asssurance that when u go home, if all ur hardware still works, all will be running flawlessly, no installs and shit like that.

reptilezero · Post by **reptilezero** » Sun Sep 08, 2002 10:51 am

you know if you get tv out, and a psx-usb adapter for your pc, you'll never go back to playing emus on the dc...NNNesterJ blows away nester on the DC :) not to mention zinc is pretty kick ass, along with zsnes, mame, etc :)

edit - hehe :) someone already knows the joys of tv out and psx pads i see :)

Nico0020 · Post by **Nico0020** » Sun Sep 08, 2002 12:06 pm

this is a bit late of a reply to the orinigal topic but lets just put it this way. to quote president Kennedy, "we dont do it because its easy, we do it because its hard". many of us could go to programing for the xbox with its easy to port system, but why? that takes the fun outa it, the challenge.

Nyarlathotep · Post by **Nyarlathotep** » Sun Sep 08, 2002 12:52 pm

meh, sometimes its nice to try a whole lot of different stuff without having to defrag your HDD because youve been creating / deleting lots of files.

Hopefully thats a good enough answer to see this question die for another 7 months

Sakiru · Post by **Sakiru** » Sun Sep 08, 2002 1:04 pm

I didn't bump the thread. It was right near the top of the forum. So... yeah.

Chaniyth · Post by **Chaniyth** » Sun Sep 08, 2002 9:00 pm

This answer is simple... we have Dreamcast, it's a multifunction machine, therefore we emulate on it.

It can also be simpler, by saying... Because the Dreamcast can do it.

Hawke · Post by **Hawke** » Mon Sep 09, 2002 9:35 am

...that and it reads cdr's with no modchip

Chaniyth · Post by **Chaniyth** » Mon Sep 09, 2002 9:54 am

Holly Hasney wrote:Yep, soon to be public beta. From what I heard now, full-speed without sound

"The dreamcast is more powerful than a ps2" Exsqueeze me? Especially not in arcade emulation terms since it has 128mb of RAM

"We will be on PS3 before PS2 is hacked" Again... HUH? Theres been demos running off of CDRs for about a year now, visit http://www.napalm-x.com Theres even a coders cable

I doubt GC will be hacked much... it don't even READ CDs

Uh, PS2 doesn;t have 128megs of RAM! It's only got 32megs of RDRAM, and 4megs of video ram.

why do we emulate on the dreamcast?

DC4ever!