Hey, whats your problem with P4's? I happen to preffer them over athlon anyday. Granted they are slower, but athlons are more unstable from my experience, and I take compatability over speed any day. But back on to the subject of saturn emulation though. Back when Saturn Cast was looking (or sounding) like a reasonably good reason to be a saturn fan, I e-mailed the author of the project to get some questions and answers from him. Just for the heck of it, here is what it said:
Q1. What inspired you to create the Saturncast. I belive a lot of people would be interested why you decided to make an emulator for the Sega Saturn on the DC.
A1. I love Sega Saturn, it had its share of good titles, but I am now so used to Dreamcast, and I wanted to play Saturn games on my dc. I then started researching it.
Q2. How are you able to make an emulator that works on the DC? Are you taking tech specs for the system, building an emulator, and then uploading it to a server for your dreamcast to download it from into a vmu? Or something else?
A2. You have probably heard of the Utopia boot Disk and how it loads into the internal memory of the dc, well I am going for something similar, I hope
🙂
Q3. How do you plan on overcoming the obstacle of the Dreamcast controller having fewer buttons then the Sega Saturn control pad?
A3. I donât know about the dc controller, just yet, I am having extreme problems with the control.
Q4. In its later stages of development, do you plan on making it so that the Saturn games can be run on high resolution, or will they play on standard resolution?
A4. I am going to higher res. Witch I donât think will be a problem.
Q5. Will the games be able to save to the vmu memory cards of the Dreamcast?
A5. I have not gone that far with saving games yet. But saving it to the vmu will take a long time most likely...so donât look for that at the first release.
Q6. Do you plan on supporting the DC gun for shooting games such as Virtua cop?
A6. I plan on supporting anything like the dc gun (notice the word "plan" it could change
🙁
Q7. Do you plan on some time, probably late in development, have it so that you can play import games such as radiant silvergun?
A7. Maybe it will play imports, later in development.
Q8. Is it going to be able to play CD-R games?
A8. Yes it should be able to play CD-R's.
Q9. When do you plan on releasing a version to the
Public?
A9. I donât know a release date yet, as right now it seems to be messing with the laser direction on the dc. I have to fix that and many other problems.
And the last question:
Q10. . How long has Saturn cast been in development?
A10. Saturncast has been in development since last July, but did not really progress until January 2001.
Anyways, looked real enough to me, but alas, it never ended up being released, due to people saying (and possibly being right about) it was a fake. Here is a pic I saved of the Saturncasts logo:
http://cyclonex4.freeyellow.com/saturncast.cmp
One other thing before I end this post, if you are interested in computer emus, get girigiri, its the fastest and most reliable one out their at this point. It also set to high res, which is quite nice as well.
(Edited by Fabrizo at 11:54 pm on Oct. 24, 2001)