Genesis Plus / DC

BlackAura · Post by **BlackAura** » Sat May 24, 2003 8:52 am

I've just released my port of Genesis Plus, which I've been working on for about a week and a half.

The default theme included was made by politoe. Of the 7 people who voted on the theme, four of them chose this theme. So here it is. I'll convert the themes made by -=DC_Zach=-, Chrisfbt1, impetus and area and upload them a little later.

Genesis Plus / DC 0.1 - Scrambled Binary
Genesis Plus / DC 0.1 Source Code

zickfun · Post by **zickfun** » Sat May 24, 2003 9:06 am

kewl cant wait to get back my dreamcast from my friend...whats the current progress

BlackAura · Post by **BlackAura** » Sat May 24, 2003 9:19 am

Compatability is good - it only fails to run two games (Altered Beast, Alex Kidd) out of the seventy or so that I tested on it. Of course, that's nothing at all to do with me.

Speed is OK. It varies depending on the games and settings, but tends to be around half speed. Frameskipping above 2 seems to make pretty much no difference - it just makes the game a lot jumpier.

Graphics - Full screen, minor palette and masking errors, and some screen corruption at the bottom due to a bug in the DMA code. I presonally would rather put up with the corruption, since using DMA gives a reasonable speed increase.

On the negative side - there is no sound.,I couldn't get the second controller to work for some weird reason, you can't always swap discs, and the GUI is a little quirky in places.

What else... It has a themable GUI, and supports zipped ROMs, as well as standard uncompressed BIN and SMD files. I've not tested it with any SMD files, since I don't have any, but I assume they work.

Post by **Dr. Zoidberg** » Sat May 24, 2003 9:33 am

Good stuff BA, I'll have to buy some new blanks tomorrow so I can have a bit of a play with this.

sk8erhacker · Post by **sk8erhacker** » Sat May 24, 2003 9:44 am

Has anyone made an sbi yet?

BlackAura · Post by **BlackAura** » Sat May 24, 2003 9:47 am

Hmm.. That's got to be some kind of record. Less than an hour until someone asks for an SBI.

I'll see if I can do one, but I'm not promising anything. I've not used Selfboot Inducer since version 1.

Edit - I can't find any information on the newer SBI format. I guess I'll have to download some and disect them

OneThirty8 · Post by **OneThirty8** » Sat May 24, 2003 10:07 am

Sweet! Thanks BA! Wasn't expecting this so soon. Can't wait to try it out. In the middle of moving right now...

BlackAura · Post by **BlackAura** » Sat May 24, 2003 10:49 am

SBI 2.1 Package - It's untested, and it's the first SBI I've actually made. It should work though.

ZacMc · Post by **ZacMc** » Sat May 24, 2003 10:56 am

Just tested it out.. TMNT is playable without frame skipping

Nice work BlackAura

Joestar · Post by **Joestar** » Sat May 24, 2003 11:26 am

sonic plays well once you get the speed shoes lol

and .smd roms work btw

LeSMiTo · Post by **LeSMiTo** » Sat May 24, 2003 11:33 am

I'm Looking por autoboot image nero or cdi.. pleaseee

raziel73 · Post by **raziel73** » Sat May 24, 2003 11:46 am

what a great work black aura!
i' ve tested some games and they all work at a playable speed (dynamite heady, sonic 1 ,sonic 2, street of rage 2 and 3,golden axe 2,street fighter 2 prime,columns 3 and other...)
I don't know if it is a dream but if you set the processor emulation speed at lower value the emulation is more speed!!!!

Keep up the good works black aura...a little speed increase,the sound and your emulator will be perfect

Smirre · Post by **Smirre** » Sat May 24, 2003 12:26 pm

Whoa this is very nice news indeed! It seems amazing to be a first public release of Genesis+.

Btw how it possible to have zipped rom support in Genesis roms but not in Dreamsnes? Isn't those roms pretty much same size?

Good job BlackAura thx

ZacMc · Post by **ZacMc** » Sat May 24, 2003 12:32 pm

Btw how it possible to have zipped rom support in Genesis roms but not in Dreamsnes? Isn't those roms pretty much same size?

It is possible for DreamSNES to have zip support.. The coders just aren't interested in doing it..

No Name · Post by **No Name** » Sat May 24, 2003 12:35 pm

BlackAura wrote:The default theme included was made by politoe. Of the 7 people who voted on the theme, four of them chose this theme. So here it is. I'll convert the themes made by -=DC_Zach=-, Chrisfbt1, impetus and area and upload them a little later.

I'll set up a new section on B!CC once you get them converted.

Skater_dusto · Post by **Skater_dusto** » Sat May 24, 2003 1:00 pm

Ohh man what an awesome emulator!! The first release is way better than what I thought it would be. I think you're being a little modest, but I don't know.. I'm pretty excited.

Good luck on the emulator. Thanks.

chrisfbt1 · Post by **chrisfbt1** » Sat May 24, 2003 1:27 pm

WOW

This is Awesome

Everyone Should Burn this Now Destroy any record of SegaGens's existence

Great Job BlackAura

Now I must Go play some more

Nico0020 · Post by **Nico0020** » Sat May 24, 2003 1:38 pm

Man I need CD's. I have one left, but that one is put away just incase of a DreamSNES release

. hmmm I think I still have money of my gift card at buest buy.

chrisfbt1 · Post by **chrisfbt1** » Sat May 24, 2003 1:42 pm

Everygame ive tested so far is playable Comparable to DreamSnes

The Kron · Post by **The Kron** » Sat May 24, 2003 2:02 pm

Very well done BA!

Great first release

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