Sega Saturn

DarkGambitX · Post by **DarkGambitX** » Wed Jan 28, 2004 7:00 am

Can DC emulate sega saturn? Is the emulater real and does it work??

sappel · Post by **sappel** » Wed Jan 28, 2004 7:50 am

NO it wil never happen! it is impossible for normal people to meulate it, even if SEGA would make a fine working emu, it would play the games with 1fps
Don't ever dream about it because it will never come

DarkGambitX · Post by **DarkGambitX** » Wed Jan 28, 2004 7:52 am

I thought it wasn't real. When i was donwloading....some stuff

I seen something there about it. I thought it didn't exist.

Hobbes T Tiger · Post by **Hobbes T Tiger** » Wed Jan 28, 2004 11:50 am

...for old times sake...

rbenchley · Post by **rbenchley** » Wed Jan 28, 2004 12:41 pm

When I was managing a FuncoLand video game store back in the summer of 1999, we used to get a magazine that was soley for video game retailers. The magazine had quite a bit of Dreamcast content at the time, due to the Dreamcast's launch date being a few months away. Anywho, there was an article in the magazine that mentioned that Sega was planning to sell a Saturn emulator for the Dreamcast in Japan, due to the Saturn's healthy sales in Japan. Unfortunately, it was never released. I believe that Sega's internal development team did in fact create a Saturn emulator. They were working on a similar architecture, and they had the time and resources to do a proper emulator. So while I think that it is technically possible to code a workable Saturn emulator for the Dreamcast, it would require an intimate knowledge of both the Saturn and Dreamcast, and the official development kits and documentation for both systems. In short, there's a snowball's chance in hell of there ever being a playable Saturn emulator for our beloved Dreamcast.

Alexvrb · Post by **Alexvrb** » Wed Jan 28, 2004 4:49 pm

rbenchley wrote:So while I think that it is technically possible to code a workable Saturn emulator for the Dreamcast, it would require an intimate knowledge of both the Saturn and Dreamcast, and the official development kits and documentation for both systems.

I disagree. Similarities are minimal, and would not really help. A true emulator with decent speed would be impossible on DC.

Gambit: Next time do a quick search first, please.

Orange_Ribbon · Post by **Orange_Ribbon** » Wed Jan 28, 2004 7:05 pm

I shall Join you Hobbs

DemoniusX · Post by **DemoniusX** » Wed Jan 28, 2004 10:54 pm

the problem is the dc would have to emulate all the micro processors and the two main processors. it is just too hard for the dc to emulate that sure you could emu a saturn, just would never be playable speed on the dc could not handle it, but it would be nice if some one proved me wrong

Sir Slash · Post by **Sir Slash** » Wed Jan 28, 2004 11:14 pm

imagine if someone got a RAM card like thing to work on a dreamcast.... that would be pretty sweet... emulation would be a lot easier to speed up

(Modem slot)

Alexvrb · Post by **Alexvrb** » Thu Jan 29, 2004 3:02 pm

Actually, it wouldn't affect the speed of emulation at all.

az_bont · Post by **az_bont** » Thu Jan 29, 2004 3:03 pm

I doubt the modem slot has fast enough access speeds.

Post by **Quzar** » Thu Jan 29, 2004 3:26 pm

the modem slot runs at (?) 24Mhz 16-bit so like 48Mbps max or something? unless i am doing the math wrong which is highly probable. This is slightly faster than PC-30 ram but is still hellah slow. The reason a RAM card would help is because it would allow you to have sloppy emulation sacraficing space for speed.

impetus · Post by **impetus** » Thu Jan 29, 2004 5:10 pm

methinks Hobbes is waiting for me to lock this...?

Post by **Quzar** » Thu Jan 29, 2004 8:45 pm

might as well just let it die out, since it wasnt one of those newbie-ish 'GIMMIE SATURN EMU NOwZ!!!!!!!111', maybe a few people will say something and it will die. no need to lock

Alexvrb · Post by **Alexvrb** » Thu Jan 29, 2004 10:09 pm

quzar wrote:the modem slot runs at (?) 24Mhz 16-bit so like 48Mbps max or something? unless i am doing the math wrong which is highly probable. This is slightly faster than PC-30 ram but is still hellah slow. The reason a RAM card would help is because it would allow you to have sloppy emulation sacraficing space for speed.

Errm, but emus for don't have space problems except for storing the ROMs in memory. So that plan doesn't get off the ground. In fact, smaller programs will run better on the DC because of its limited memory/bus clock and its limited cache.

Now, I agree with you that it is too slow for use as regular memory by programs, but think of huge arcade games. The slot port might not be nearly as fast as internal memory, but might it be fast enough for storing some or all of a ROM. Or perhaps for holding stuff like background music, menus, etc so you don't have to take up main memory while playing a game.

Either way, it might be useful, but it sure isn't going to help emulation speed.

Post by **Quzar** » Thu Jan 29, 2004 11:28 pm

hehe, on IMRtec there was someone saying they were gonna try to convert the GC GBA adapter to the DC, i dont think they even tried though.

Alexvrb · Post by **Alexvrb** » Fri Jan 30, 2004 2:30 pm

Yeah, I doubt it. That sounds like a lot of work just to have Nintendo come to your house and kill you...

Hobbes T Tiger · Post by **Hobbes T Tiger** » Sat Jan 31, 2004 12:21 pm

Alexvrb wrote:Yeah, I doubt it. That sounds like a lot of work just to have Nintendo come to your house and kill you...

I had to go find a special smiley for that

As for getting this locked....?

HEy! Iam dissing all joo l00zers! DC is so lame! iT is teh sux0r!!!

Post by **Quzar** » Sat Jan 31, 2004 2:58 pm

awww i likes the smily Hobbes. hehe yea that would be hilarious. Nintendo having some sort of raid on you for trying =P

Alexvrb · Post by **Alexvrb** » Sat Jan 31, 2004 8:05 pm

"Wasn't there a house next door, where that smoldering crater is?"
"Yeah, but he got Nintendo really pissed at him. Something about GBA on Dreamcast"
"Wow, I'm surprised they didn't just virus bomb the whole street!!"