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wraggster
May 5th, 2009, 00:17
drk||Raziel (http://www.emudev.org/drkIIRaziel/blog/?p=35) a frequent member of the Dcemu chatroom has released a news update of his work on his Dreamcast Emulator for Windows and Soon PSP and Maybe Even Xbox and PS3,

Heres the full newspost:

After many many many many many months of inactivity i finaly started some real work on the dynarec.It now features a basic IL with a working decoder frontend and backends for x86/arm/mips-allegrex.Work is currently done to port the code to Wii/ps3/ps2 ( hah !)/xbox.Anyway i don’t feel like writing atm maby i’l edit this post later

*edit #1*

Note that the arm videos are much older than the psp, the arm rec misses MANY opcodes at that point.When ZeZu brings arm on par/i get the beagleboard he mailed speeds should be ~ 3x of what psp gets

*edit #2*

To give some PSP numbers, bios (menu) is up from ~ 1.5 fps to ~9, Doa2 ingame from ~0.8 to ~4.5 , PoP3d from ~ 1.2 to ~9.Only 4x more to get PoP fullspeed :p

Results :

PSP
(video by PSPdemon)

Powerstone:
http://www.youtube.com/v/skUS7UI5OGU

Shenmue:
http://www.youtube.com/v/fhbWrb4528Q

Crazy Taxi:
http://www.youtube.com/v/FPCK08kBNzs

BeagleBoard:
(videos by ZeZu — he’s the one working on the omap front atm)

This is encouraging news and even better that hes thinking of porting to Wii, PSP, PS3 and Xbox and also a Pandora Port is likely, Give your thoughts on this emulator via comments.
pspandrew2006
May 5th, 2009, 00:25
looks awesome cant wait for full speed to be released for psp
apex05
May 5th, 2009, 00:34
Yes i'm really looking forward to playing Dreamcast at 3fps on my Psp. But get it running on the Xbox original and that's a different story, and get it going on the 360 and it's definately a good reason to buy one.
siulmagic
May 5th, 2009, 01:08
excellent news glad your still working on it drk, although i do not own a slim i look forward to updates =D
havoc_012
May 5th, 2009, 06:46
looks awesome cant wait for full speed to be released for psp

Your gonna be waiting for a long time

I know this is done as a hobby, but I would rather see coders put time into projects that are actually doable. Theres no way to emulate DC on PSP at playable speeds.
yakumo
May 5th, 2009, 10:42
Drool...
neutrOpik
May 5th, 2009, 13:27
Wow, what is the minimum spec to run this emu project atm ?
fpcreator2000
May 5th, 2009, 14:28
keep up the good work. Fullspeed? It's going to be a while, but I like to believe that it can be done, just will take time (longer than a lot of other things), but I like to believe it is possible.

Many people have said that a lot of things couldn't be done (CPS-III emulation, N64 emulation on the PSP, ect) and they have come to pass. We'll have to wait and see what is going to happen.
osgeld
May 5th, 2009, 14:43
Many people have said that a lot of things couldn't be done (CPS-III emulation, N64 emulation on the PSP, ect) and they have come to pass.

yea and technically you still cant
Zack
May 5th, 2009, 15:02
Come on guys, lets not take the next turn to negative town here.

Whether it will or won't be fullspeed isn't the point in hand here. This is a thread to show that progress is being made with nulldc psp. Nothing more ;)
kenny789
May 5th, 2009, 16:41
Powerstone is looking pretty good.
Awesome job, keep it up!
Ryupowerup
May 5th, 2009, 23:15
Powerstone is looking pretty good.
Awesome job, keep it up!

Powerstone 1 and 2(Power Stone Collection) run at full speed
when you are playing the UMD (PSP version)
of the game
kenny789
May 6th, 2009, 01:14
I know, but seeing the Dreamcast version of Powerstone being emulated on a Psp is still impressive.
odino
May 8th, 2009, 12:59
powerston is incredible, this coder is a genius.:cool: