hope : Shenmue for psp

[khalid-neo]

hey everybody

intro:
i am a BIG DC FANS and as much of fans i liked Shenmue & all DC games so wouldn't be great if we could in some how make them playable on psp

subject:
only for information only three games in the history of games that costs Their companies about 100 milions to make them:
1-Shenmue (DC : December 1, 2000)
2-GTA IV (XBOX 360 & PS3 : April 29, 2008)
3-TOO HUMAN (XBOX 360 : not yet)
so ppl you figure it out the Difference between the three games in time and Platform(s) and how Shenmue was a great game so it will be a big lost to the gaming world to lose a game like Shenmue.

MY Hope:
if we could find any way to play it on any other Platform espicially psp because i have read that the psp is nearly equal the DC in many ways & it has a popular Homebrew community, so if there is any way to play it on psp that would be perfect i don't care if it ported to the psp or make an emulater for the dreamcast in the psp or any way else i really hope to find the answare in this form so please help me and i am waiting for your commets

[yaustar]

A DC emulator will not be possible (at the very least, not at playable rates).

Unless the original games get ported by the current IP owners, then it is not going to be seen on the PSP anytime soon.

[khalid-neo]

ok can't we ask sega to remake it for psp or any other platoform or if they refuse then we will ask them to give us the ip and the whole codes of the game and we will make it soooooooooooooooooo who with me ???

[JKKDARK]

Sega will never give the source code to the public.

And the Shenmue games weren't profitable for Sega, so they will not touch this serie again. Shenmue Online was going to be a spin-off for PC but it was cancelled.

[khalid-neo]

but you know as every one here that psp play psx games smoother the psp games it self and as i know the ps1 is equal the dreamcast perfumance (sorry about the spelling im to lazy to find the right one) so why we can't do the same things that we done to ps1 and convert them to be playable on psp sorry if that is stupid question but i need to know

[reizencroft]

but you know as every one here that psp play psx games smoother the psp games it self and as i know the ps1 is equal the dreamcast perfumance (sorry about the spelling im to lazy to find the right one) so why we can't do the same things that we done to ps1 and convert them to be playable on psp sorry if that is stupid question but i need to know

Yes, performance wise, ps1 and DC are quite similar. But DC and ps1 has very different architectures. We see many ps1 converts to psp because, in terms of architecture, they are very similar. So there is little needed to be changed to play ps1 games to psp. Im betting that DC and psp has very different architecture, hence, we need to create an emulator from scratch. I only played a few games in DC but seeing it hardware, it is a bit better than ps1, so psp will need to work extra hard to emulate DC games.

[JKKDARK]

but you know as every one here that psp play psx games smoother the psp games it self and as i know the ps1 is equal the dreamcast perfumance (sorry about the spelling im to lazy to find the right one) so why we can't do the same things that we done to ps1 and convert them to be playable on psp sorry if that is stupid question but i need to know

No. Dreamcast is similar to PlayStation 2, since they are from the same generation.

[khalid-neo]

i got 2 Dreamcast one is made in japan and have a red color logo and the other one is made in indonesia and have a blue color logo and i also have ps2 and ps1 & psp and when i play them i can see it clear that the psp is better than ps1 and a little less than ps2 and just like DC if not better so guys i want to understand, from reizencroft words is it Possible to make a converter just like the ps1 for a DC ,and also the game could be playable (i mean in the FPS Situations) and thanx.

[reizencroft]

As i looked at the specs of PSP and DC, in the processor department, PSP has a 133MHz advantage. With the main RAM, PSP has 32/64MB and DC has 16MB. But in the VRAM, we will have a problem, DC has 8MiB@100MHz while PSP has 2MiB@166MHz. Though the psp has extra 66Mhz extra, I don't think we can offset, the missing 6MiB in VRAM. It is possible to emulate DC games since it has the computing power to boot, but it graphics rendering will not be enough. I really doubt that we can have a playable framerate in contrast to the original DC. In my opinion, it is highly improbable to port DC games to PSP without getting our hands on the actual source code because we need to adjust graphics rendering of the game to make it playable with the PSP.

[dangee]

I don't think we can offset, the missing 6MiB in VRAM.

a 0.5 resolution, single frameskip , interlaced display @15-20 fps, using main RAM as a VRAM cache may do it