JKKDARK
March 18th, 2008, 00:22
What's going on with the Sega Dreamcast emulator for PC.
From the official website (http://dknute.livejournal.com/):
Another batch of pictures. Seems like people enjoy them, and I have to run every GD image at least once to get MD5 and see if it boots at the very least, so why not capture few screenshots along the way?
My Merry May is another one of those titles that go above and beyond simple VMU animation. I have to say SEGA idea behing VMUs was simply brilliant - too bad they had to make them cheap and so two CR2032 lithium cells last only what, 3 months? Assuming you do not play on your VMU or else it's a week tops.
That reminds me - is there a good VMU emulator out there? Preferably one that runs on 2000/XP systems and doesn't look like 16-bit Windows 3.1 application, but I'll settle for anything that works. No KATANA dev utils please, those aren't free, or even legal.
http://pics.livejournal.com/dknute/pic/000bbfwq
http://pics.livejournal.com/dknute/pic/000bcdqr
http://pics.livejournal.com/dknute/pic/000bdtx4
http://pics.livejournal.com/dknute/pic/000berty
This is Exodus Guilty Neos. Don't ask me. Title aside, it has nice graphics - those sharp edges seem out of place at first but soon you get used to them. I think it gives the game less cartoonish, more comic-like look. Oh, and it seems Exodus doesn't like alternate sorting mode much - some texts go missing. Too bad, I guess only D32_FLOAT_S8X24_UINT format can save us now. But that's DirectX 10 and up. I'd tell you to petition M$ to create DX10 runtime for Windows XP but we all know once you earn some fifty billion dollars or so you just don't care that much about puny hyu-mans anymore :)
These screens also show you can easily switch to and from built-in Internet browser (no actual modem/BBA emulation yet), and that PuruPuru pack is being recognized.
http://pics.livejournal.com/dknute/pic/000bfate
http://pics.livejournal.com/dknute/pic/000bgb2t
http://pics.livejournal.com/dknute/pic/000bhasx
http://pics.livejournal.com/dknute/pic/000bk3td
http://pics.livejournal.com/dknute/pic/000bp6cg
http://pics.livejournal.com/dknute/pic/000bqh87
And now time for Giant Gram and some sweating masculine torsos. What's not to like? Feel free to watch, I'll be waiting at the next paragraph.
http://pics.livejournal.com/dknute/pic/000br7h0
http://pics.livejournal.com/dknute/pic/000bs5y4
Not exactly my taste either, but it's a progress :) Canary has one long, boring intro let me tell you... You get served with centered lines of white text on black screen for several minutes - now this would good for building atmosphere in some dark cyberpunk but not this game?!
http://pics.livejournal.com/dknute/pic/000btge7
http://pics.livejournal.com/dknute/pic/000bwpft
Some folks dancing. Sort of. Wait, does this prove people walk on their hands on the other side of the planet?
Now this is funny. SF Alpha is called Zero in Japan. Who knew? Not to mention this is a special version (full name Street Fighter Zero 3 - Saikyo-Ryu Dojo for Matching Service) and the plain one won't boot. Some SH4 bug it seems. This should be easy to find, and let's hope easy to fix as well. Won't be so funny if it turns out to be another GD-DMA problem, but at least it's easy to spot and trips Makaron every time.
http://pics.livejournal.com/dknute/pic/000bxr7b
http://pics.livejournal.com/dknute/pic/000byb5w
http://pics.livejournal.com/dknute/pic/000bzecc
http://pics.livejournal.com/dknute/pic/000c0x33
From the official website (http://dknute.livejournal.com/):
Another batch of pictures. Seems like people enjoy them, and I have to run every GD image at least once to get MD5 and see if it boots at the very least, so why not capture few screenshots along the way?
My Merry May is another one of those titles that go above and beyond simple VMU animation. I have to say SEGA idea behing VMUs was simply brilliant - too bad they had to make them cheap and so two CR2032 lithium cells last only what, 3 months? Assuming you do not play on your VMU or else it's a week tops.
That reminds me - is there a good VMU emulator out there? Preferably one that runs on 2000/XP systems and doesn't look like 16-bit Windows 3.1 application, but I'll settle for anything that works. No KATANA dev utils please, those aren't free, or even legal.
http://pics.livejournal.com/dknute/pic/000bbfwq
http://pics.livejournal.com/dknute/pic/000bcdqr
http://pics.livejournal.com/dknute/pic/000bdtx4
http://pics.livejournal.com/dknute/pic/000berty
This is Exodus Guilty Neos. Don't ask me. Title aside, it has nice graphics - those sharp edges seem out of place at first but soon you get used to them. I think it gives the game less cartoonish, more comic-like look. Oh, and it seems Exodus doesn't like alternate sorting mode much - some texts go missing. Too bad, I guess only D32_FLOAT_S8X24_UINT format can save us now. But that's DirectX 10 and up. I'd tell you to petition M$ to create DX10 runtime for Windows XP but we all know once you earn some fifty billion dollars or so you just don't care that much about puny hyu-mans anymore :)
These screens also show you can easily switch to and from built-in Internet browser (no actual modem/BBA emulation yet), and that PuruPuru pack is being recognized.
http://pics.livejournal.com/dknute/pic/000bfate
http://pics.livejournal.com/dknute/pic/000bgb2t
http://pics.livejournal.com/dknute/pic/000bhasx
http://pics.livejournal.com/dknute/pic/000bk3td
http://pics.livejournal.com/dknute/pic/000bp6cg
http://pics.livejournal.com/dknute/pic/000bqh87
And now time for Giant Gram and some sweating masculine torsos. What's not to like? Feel free to watch, I'll be waiting at the next paragraph.
http://pics.livejournal.com/dknute/pic/000br7h0
http://pics.livejournal.com/dknute/pic/000bs5y4
Not exactly my taste either, but it's a progress :) Canary has one long, boring intro let me tell you... You get served with centered lines of white text on black screen for several minutes - now this would good for building atmosphere in some dark cyberpunk but not this game?!
http://pics.livejournal.com/dknute/pic/000btge7
http://pics.livejournal.com/dknute/pic/000bwpft
Some folks dancing. Sort of. Wait, does this prove people walk on their hands on the other side of the planet?
Now this is funny. SF Alpha is called Zero in Japan. Who knew? Not to mention this is a special version (full name Street Fighter Zero 3 - Saikyo-Ryu Dojo for Matching Service) and the plain one won't boot. Some SH4 bug it seems. This should be easy to find, and let's hope easy to fix as well. Won't be so funny if it turns out to be another GD-DMA problem, but at least it's easy to spot and trips Makaron every time.
http://pics.livejournal.com/dknute/pic/000bxr7b
http://pics.livejournal.com/dknute/pic/000byb5w
http://pics.livejournal.com/dknute/pic/000bzecc
http://pics.livejournal.com/dknute/pic/000c0x33