I'm just curious about what you people think about this idea, in case I am not successful with a Saturn game project.
Saturn 2 Poll
- Thread starter SaturnTeam
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I've decided to go ahead with this project. I plan on making it backwards-compatible with the Saturn. For now, I'll be focusing on the game design of the first title.
EmeraldNova
Pluto Supporter
Any builds yet?
While i totally like the idea of recreating the Saturn on a novel hardware, changing the core system (to make it "2") i can live without because of obvious reasons.
At the first stage one can remove the obsolete non-proprietary infrastructure like memories and build a glue fpga-based structure around VDPs, SH2s, SCU, SMPC and SCSP. Then replacing them one-by-one with an fpga emulators should take place, until they are all verilog. After this you fit'em in a single chip and get a mini-saturn.
That's a helluva lot of work, and reversing might require some data we'll never get, so let's keep this as my crazy impossible dream until someone proves it's doable.
At the first stage one can remove the obsolete non-proprietary infrastructure like memories and build a glue fpga-based structure around VDPs, SH2s, SCU, SMPC and SCSP. Then replacing them one-by-one with an fpga emulators should take place, until they are all verilog. After this you fit'em in a single chip and get a mini-saturn.
That's a helluva lot of work, and reversing might require some data we'll never get, so let's keep this as my crazy impossible dream until someone proves it's doable.
If you can do it, you would be a god amongst men
