vbt
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The first Dreamcast emulator running games has been released there :
http://www.chanka.org/index.html
http://www.chanka.org/index.html
Chanka released
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vbt
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Originally posted by Runik@May 29, 2004 @ 04:48 PM
I had the privilege to test it one month ago, and it was already impressive
eheh, you lucky
For now it doesn't work on my PC even with the dc_bios and dc_flash. Maybe it's because of win98. I'm installing again w2000and will try the emu on this OS. No HLE hmm? Interesting. Does anyone have a compatibilty list? Also, does the emu support running games in higher resolutions?
I never saw much point in DC emulation on its own, but playing DC games with netplay down the road will rock, I'm sure. (Just imagine Power Stone 2 over the net!)
I never saw much point in DC emulation on its own, but playing DC games with netplay down the road will rock, I'm sure. (Just imagine Power Stone 2 over the net!)
SEGA SEGAKATANA SEGA ENTERPRISES0000 CD-ROM1/1 JUE E000F10 T0000 V1.00020000627 1ST_READ.BIN DAN POTTER STARS DEMO
Because all it is is an ip.bin for a star demo Dan Potter made. Its relatively easy to dump the bios for onself, don't know how to do it offhand but there was a post on another board somewhere.
Because all it is is an ip.bin for a star demo Dan Potter made. Its relatively easy to dump the bios for onself, don't know how to do it offhand but there was a post on another board somewhere.
I've heard it doesn't seem to run any homebrew yet, which makes it useless (right now) for DC devvers wanting to test their stuff without uploading it. As far as commercial stuff goes, it has come amazingly far, and speed is quite respectable all considered.
What'd be really sweet is if we could start seeing hacked firmware for readily available optical drives, so we could run real GD-ROMs.
What'd be really sweet is if we could start seeing hacked firmware for readily available optical drives, so we could run real GD-ROMs.
Maybe Sega could get in on this, if the speed is there perhaps we could see another GiriGiri type situation, with Sega releasing DC games on CD or for download. Highly improbable at this point, I guess, but I could see it happening in Japan. With the price of a used DC these days there's not much point though, I guess. (although the same could be said for the Saturn)
If you believe what's written over at the ChooDo forums (registration required), reading GD ROMs with your PC's drive may still be on the cards.
Just to add to the compatibility list, StreetFighter 3 Third Strike is running at about 25 fps. Thanks very much to the guys who let us have dc_bios.bin you are saviours. By the way that game is running on the standard alpha version, I havnt tried it with the capcom or new graphics hack yet, but will do later on tonight. Anyway cheers guys
There are three different exe's for the emulator. There is the standard alpha version, there is a capcom version and a new graphics version. I havnt tried any bar the standard version yet. But I was thinnking a while ago, if firmware could be modified to allow a dvd-drive to READ a gd-rom, could it be possible to then burn the contents of that gd-rom to a dvd-r and to finalise or format the dvd in such a way so that it is recognised as a gd-rom? I know there would be an awful waste of space but hey....you cant go to a store and buy a spool of 50 gd-roms, and games wont fit on a standard cd-rom so what other choice would we have. It would do away with having to strip out certain parts of the games to make them fit, and also it would make backing up gd-roms without the need for the serial or network cable.
