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Hey all,
I just got my first Dreamcast two weeks ago and I love it. My emulation burns and other burns have burned successfully. I'm just a little curious about somethings.
1.) What decent game emulators for the DC is still active? I seen some emulator websites haven't been active for years.
2.) What non-gaming homebrews do you find interesting or fun to play with?
3.) Has anyone experimented with the video player homebrews with fansub avi?
Thanks for your time all. :)
1: well some are still active, all the ...4all emus are active for example, which systems are you talking about?
2: non-gaming.. there are tech demos with are intesting and a divx players and mp3 players
3: not that i know of
Well I am mostly messing with NES and SNES emulators. I like NesterDC and SE.
I have tried DreamSNES, but find it a bit slow and had to pull the memory card out because the emulator would make it beep annoyingly every 10 seconds.
well i'm guessing you got NesterDC SE, that was just released at xmas there. dreamsnes has stop, but there is Super Famicast, which is open source, but there has not been a release in a while. but there is snes4all that was released just a month or so ago
Do any of them perform at the correct game speed than DreamSNES?
Why do people think activity/being newer=speed/reliability/compatability?
I'm not saying that because its newer it means its more speedy, reliable, or has better compatability. =/ I only wanted to know if maybe it played the games at normal speed. I am well aware of the time need to make a program to have all 3 goals met. But, some programers could have started at working on the speed of the program while sacrificing having 100% compatability.
I maybe new to the Dreamcast sceen but I am not stupid. I know emulators like ZSNES, SNES9x, Mame, etc are where there are now because of years of long and hard programing.
Only wanted to know is if those two programs ran faster on DC than DreamSNES. I can live with not being able to play all my favorite games as long as the program moves faster than me.
Both SuperFamicast & SNES4All are almost as fast as DreamSNES, you just need to play around with the settings iirc. Also I am sure that SNES4ALL & SuperFamicast will see some new releases soon.
Until now DreamSNES should be good enuff if you follow some instructions to improve the speed, which can be found here:
http://www.dreamcast-scene.com/index.php/Main/DreamSNES
Regarding your questions:
1) 4All series, GenesisPlusDC and loads of others that still recieve updates from time to time (even after years of inactivity).
Very interesting though not an emulator but still seeing regular updates:
http://www.dreamcast-scene.com/index.php/Main/ScummVM
2) DCPlaya is by far the best media player for DC. (u)DCDivX, ToEleven & GypPlay are great too.
Some info:
http://www.dreamcast-scene.com/index...wareGames#Apps
For some nice demos, check out these:
http://www.dreamcast-scene.com/index...ames#Demoscene
3) Most likely not supported...
Oh, and since you are a NES fan, I strongly recommend this download:
http://www.dcevolution.net/cgi-bin/d...ile=DEPNES.rar
Info, covers & screenshots: http://www.dcevolution.net/emulation_depnes.php
Okay. Here's a new question.
How do I get games not in the NesterDC SE database, on NesterDC SE?
Swap out the game from xxx.zip.
Okay here is my new question.
How do I get the X-Men single arcade emulator up and running? The readme file tells me nothing unlike the TMNT emulator which told me what files I needed.
P.S. I'm glad DCEmu is back. ;) No site is better.
Those single emulators by Ian Micheal Reaper (IMR) are not worth the trouble if you ask me. Haven't really tried the X-Men one though.
I heard the Wow packs where good.
hmmm. I will give wow a try.
New Question.
I'm looking into Mame4all and the biggest hurdle is trying to figure out what belongs to each group.
Basicly companies like Taito, I don't know what games would fall into Taito and Taito2.
I think the compatabililty list should include what group each successfully tested game belongs too. To keep us easily confuzzled n00bs from asking dumb questions like this. ;)