So how well can UAE4ALL emulate the Amiga on DC?

[MethodGit]

I ask because I was left very disappointed by the PSP equivalent - PSPUAE - which often autoframeskipped nearly every game I threw at it at a rate of 8 or so, making for very jerky and near unplayable gameplay. Even when clocked at 333Mhz. I'm like, "why the hell is a handheld that's more powerful and newer than the DC struggling so much with this sort of emulation?"


So I fear the DC won't do it any better, unless you guys can prove me wrong?


Funnily enough, just today I found someone made another PSP port, this time more or less based on the DC and GP2X versions of UAE4ALL. You can find it here.

[Christuserloeser]

The Dreamcast version uses Fox68k's FAME core in SH4 assembler while the PSP port uses a C version of that core:

- Fast FAME Motorola 68000 C core by Fox68k.

Similar situation as with gpspDC, the GameBoyAdvance emulator for Dreamcast based on the PSP version. The PSP original used a dynarec written for the PSP CPU; while the Dreamcast version uses the C core. That's why it is so slow compared to the PSP variant.


I am not a big friend of playing home computer games on a console but last time I checked UAE4All, which was a few versions ago I guess, it pretty much ran full speed with sound. Pretty impressive.

- Same for the Atari ST emulator DCastaway btw.

[Tyne]

I played Turrican 2 on UAE4ALL, it played quite good on a Frameskip of 2 if I remember correctly with sound and music both on.

[TechnoWolf]

I've used it with Defender Of The Crown, Bards Tale 1 +2, and Pirates! and all were quite playable with a handy drive emulator which allows a vmu save. You have to use a pc amiga emu to create a "blank formatted disc" image and include it in the dc compilation in order to save to vmu. It's worth it by my standards (and I'm picky).

[rondc]

UAE4ALL is an amazing Amiga Emulator for Dreamcast

Most of your amiga preffered games will work easily and with the menu options even easy to find the best config for evry game.

Anyway final release is still to come

Bye

[Jamirus]

Is only on blank disc actually needed? I have used DCastaway, but haven't played a game yet using the save feature, so I don't know exactly how it works. You just insert the blank, and the emulators save the changes for each game?

[TechnoWolf]

Is only on blank disc actually needed? I have used DCastaway, but haven't played a game yet using the save feature, so I don't know exactly how it works. You just insert the blank, and the emulators save the changes for each game?

As far as UAE4ALL, there is a .exe PC version of amiga emulator in the uae4all download called WINUAE. Run WINUAE on your PC, mount the image of the game you want to make a blank image for, then without "starting" or running the game, tell it to create a 3.5DD Standard Format disk, and save in your ROMS folder for UAE4ALL with a name that makes sense to the game it's for. When playing on the dc, and the game is at a point where it will allow a save, follow the game prompts until it tells you to insert a blank disk. Then mount the blank image you made for this game from the uae4all menu, go back to the game and select okay. The game will save to vmu with a save name the same as the name of the blank image you made. This will help avoid confusion on your vmu so you know which game it's for.
There is no "save state" as we are spoiled with in some other emulators, you may save when and where a game would have allowed you to on the Amiga.

[MethodGit]

I feel I should clarify things after reading this thread again.......

PSPUAE is based on WinUAE, so I was wrong in a way to call it the equivalent of UAE4ALL.

UAE4ALL PSP is the other UAE program for PSP that came out recently.