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The Dreamcast main unit contains the following hardware:
* Hitachi SuperH SH-4 RISC CPU @ 200MHz
* NEC PowerVR2 graphics chip
* Yamaha AICA sound system (64 channel PCM sound)
* 16 MB main memory
* 8 MB texture memory
* 2 MB sound memory
* 12X GD-ROM (double density CD-ROM) drive
* 33.6Kbit modem
* Fan
Don't let the Hitachi 200Mhz CPU freak you out. The CPU in the Dreamcast is an SH4 CPU using the RISC architecture, and can't be compared to PC technology Mhz by Mhz.
It's been said that it's comparable to a 300Mhz PC, but I disagree - I'd place it somewhere a bit higher than that. It's all speculative anyway.
yeah i agree, risc is a faster chip than a pc chip (Reduced Instruction Set Computer), though obviously relys on vid card more than a pc.
Its very hard to pinpoint it, when you see pc converstions like quake3 running full speed on the dc.
Also the same with the powervr2 chipset, on the pc you wouldn't expect it to be powerfull enough for modern games like crazy taxi etc.
Anyway welcome to the forums Nightwolf :)
Speaking to a techie that i know, he places the Dreamcast closer to the speed of a 400Mhz pc
But a Pentium 1 or P2 Like processor?
Another question, anyone has played a game made in Fenix?
[quote author=Nightwolf link=board=homebrew;num=1095504740;start=0#14 date=10/13/04 at 17:29:44]But a Pentium 1 or P2 Like processor?[/quote]
No. The SH4 is a lot faster like a P2 with 200Mhz and uses a different structure.
I've played SORR and it could work!
I LOVE IT BY THE WAY :-* :-* :-*
I am one of the biggest Streets of Rage fans around and I'd like to thank you for your great work!!!!
Thank you so much!
A game like this just belongs on Dreamcast!
...with 4 Player support ;D
(The DC has 4 Controller ports built in like N64, GC etc)
Yep and Chui is the one porting Fenix to DC:Quote:
Another question, anyone has played a game made in Fenix?
His first compilation:
http://www.gp32spain.com/public_ftp/...iscjuggler.rar
I've tried to get SORR to work with Fenix for Dreamcast but I had this message if I remember correctly:
"This is not a v2 Fenix format" or something like that :'(
I'll get Chui in contact with you.
His email: [email protected]
Most recent Fenix topic here at DCEmu UK:
http://www.dcemu.co.uk/cgi-bin/yabb/...num=1093909218
Chris
nono!!!
my email: [email protected]
:D
Chui, can you help us to port Sorr to Dreamcast and Gp32? We want to discuss with you the limits of fenix Dreamcast. See you!
My mail adresss naitguolf AT wanadoo DOT es
Depending on what you want to do with it, the SH-4 is either very, very fast compared to a PC processor with equivalent clock speed (like floating point calculations for 3D games - have a guess why Sega used it?), or a bit slower (emulation). It's really intended to be used mostly to drive the video hardware. Pretty much any 2D game you can think of wouldn't even come close to using half the Dreamcast's CPU if you're using the 3D hardware for 2D rendering.
i know DC should be fast enough to handle every 2d game. But was Fenix good ported?