A Complete List Of The -Best- Emulators For Dreamcast
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Well, there is a Saturn emu: BlueCrab's Yabause-DC.
Out of the current systems, the DC is the platform for a SAT emulator. The DC's main CPU, the SH4, is somewhat backward compatible to the Saturn SH2 CPUs. They share the same instruction set. Still it's a bit more complicated than it sounds because they use a different byte order (little endian / big endian) but BlueCrab wrote somewhere on these forums that he works on a real-time byte swapper to make full use of the possibilities.
Based on Yabause v0.0.7 which as of then only emulated the Saturn BIOS, Yabause-DC v0.0.7 emulated the BIOS too. Slow, but it did. It was a plain test port without PVR acceleration or the dynarec-like byte swapping implemented. Blue Crab is still working on Yabause-DC. As with most of us, he just doesn't have as much free time as he'd wish so it will take some time until we see a new release.
Yabause Website:
http://yabause.sourceforge.net/compatibility.php
v0.0.7 Release:
http://www.dcemulation.org/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=60693
There's no SEGA CD emu yet. It needs more work than e.g. a NeoGeo emulator as the SCD is more powerful than a NeoGeo. Emulating the complete MD/G hardware and the even stronger SCD on DC might be possible to a degree but needs an incredible amount of work and would implement a lot of compromises like underclocking, frameskip, probably even disabled FM music or soundFX, etc. - most-likely resulting in limited compatibility.
Could be that we'll see a working SCD emu some day, but I assume it won't ever be perfect.
Out of the current systems, the DC is the platform for a SAT emulator. The DC's main CPU, the SH4, is somewhat backward compatible to the Saturn SH2 CPUs. They share the same instruction set. Still it's a bit more complicated than it sounds because they use a different byte order (little endian / big endian) but BlueCrab wrote somewhere on these forums that he works on a real-time byte swapper to make full use of the possibilities.
Based on Yabause v0.0.7 which as of then only emulated the Saturn BIOS, Yabause-DC v0.0.7 emulated the BIOS too. Slow, but it did. It was a plain test port without PVR acceleration or the dynarec-like byte swapping implemented. Blue Crab is still working on Yabause-DC. As with most of us, he just doesn't have as much free time as he'd wish so it will take some time until we see a new release.
Yabause Website:
http://yabause.sourceforge.net/compatibility.php
v0.0.7 Release:
http://www.dcemulation.org/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=60693
There's no SEGA CD emu yet. It needs more work than e.g. a NeoGeo emulator as the SCD is more powerful than a NeoGeo. Emulating the complete MD/G hardware and the even stronger SCD on DC might be possible to a degree but needs an incredible amount of work and would implement a lot of compromises like underclocking, frameskip, probably even disabled FM music or soundFX, etc. - most-likely resulting in limited compatibility.
Could be that we'll see a working SCD emu some day, but I assume it won't ever be perfect.
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Updated the list with today's news!
* DCastaway Final by Chui & Ron
Download: http://www.rockandaluz.com/~dciberia/ro ... ay-rc3.rar
* MSX: Replaced fMSX DC with the new MSXCast by LTK
Download: http://www.rockandaluz.com/~dciberia/LTK/MSXCast.zip
* Updated the link to FreeSCI's DC page
There also have been new releases of Neo4All (NeoGeoCD) and UAE4All (Amiga500).
* DCastaway Final by Chui & Ron
Download: http://www.rockandaluz.com/~dciberia/ro ... ay-rc3.rar
* MSX: Replaced fMSX DC with the new MSXCast by LTK
Download: http://www.rockandaluz.com/~dciberia/LTK/MSXCast.zip
* Updated the link to FreeSCI's DC page
There also have been new releases of Neo4All (NeoGeoCD) and UAE4All (Amiga500).
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Major update to the list with the following changes:
* Added missing author info
* Added missing links to the official websites
* Added links to DCS database entries: http://www.dreamcast-scene.com/index.php/Main/Scene
* Added Neo4All/AES entry
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* Added links to DCS database entries: http://www.dreamcast-scene.com/index.php/Main/Scene
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Since it sucks in general, even though it is the best we have, it is not listed here. For anything ever done by me, just go to http://www.screamcast.netOrange_Ribbon wrote:Hey Quzar, I thought your TG played the hue cards rather well from what you told me before. By the way, where can I DL that anyway?Quzar wrote:*edit* didn't see the second page
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Hi, I write this in order to update MSXCast home, and inform about CPCast (Amstrad CPC emu) and his home
MSXCast
http://ltk.dciberia.net/dreamcast/msxcast/msxcast.htm
CPCast
http://ltk.dciberia.net/dreamcast/cpcast/cpcast.htm
Thats all
MSXCast
http://ltk.dciberia.net/dreamcast/msxcast/msxcast.htm
CPCast
http://ltk.dciberia.net/dreamcast/cpcast/cpcast.htm
Thats all
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Finally fixed all links to DCEmu.co.uk ( now http://dreamcast.dcemu.co.uk/ ).
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Does GenesisPlusDC have support for sound? Says it does have it here> http://www.dreamcast-scene.com/index.ph ... esisPlusDC but read soemwhere else it does not have sound?!
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PVR Preview 3 has sound. V1 does not.Spiritual_Chaos wrote:Does GenesisPlusDC have support for sound? Says it does have it here> http://www.dreamcast-scene.com/index.ph ... esisPlusDC but read soemwhere else it does not have sound?!
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Hm, I am sure you know, but it does not suck in general. All I was asking for would be a better GUI, full screen support and the option to get back to the ROM browser once playing a game. If these features would be implemented I'd love to add it to the listQuzar wrote:Since it sucks in general, even though it is the best we have, it is not listed here. For anything ever done by me, just go to http://www.screamcast.net
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