Yabause 0.8.5 Released!

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June 24th, 2007, 23:22
BlueCrab

Yabause 0.8.5 Released!

Well, its been a while since the last release to come from me, and that can only mean one thing: I'm overdue for one.

So, Yabause 0.8.5 for the Dreamcast has been released today (along with for all the other platforms that Yabause supports). There's not too many Dreamcast-specific changes in this version, so I'm going to keep this newspost kinda brief.

Anyway, you can download it from here:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showf...ease_id=518262

Note, the binary in the yabause-0.8.5-dc.tar.gz file is NOT scrambled already.
June 25th, 2007, 07:37
ron

Thank You.

I'll take a deep look on it.

Thx again
June 25th, 2007, 09:27
Masta-G

Awesome work man:)
So what does it run so far?
June 25th, 2007, 16:28
BlueCrab

Quote:

Originally Posted by Masta-G

Awesome work man:)
So what does it run so far?

It SHOULD run approximately the same things as all the other ports of Yabause. You can look to the Compatibility List on http://yabause.sourceforge.net/ for reference, but it isn't updated particularly often.

I can tell you for sure though that NiGHTS does not run. I haven't had time to implement the odd video mode that NiGHTS uses in the Dreamcast video core. I'm not entirely sure that NiGHTS runs particularly well on the other versions, but I know it at least runs (On the Dreamcast port, it will actually cause the emulator to exit itself). I only use NiGHTS as an example, since I know its one of the more popular games for the Saturn.

Oh, and for one that I know works pretty well (at least up to the title screen) is Magical School Lunar. I can't read Japanese, so I didn't get very far past the title screen on that one. Also, fackue (from DCEmulation) has said that game recently released for free, Return Fire, works (albeit slowly) on Yabause. There are instructions here on how to burn a single disc with Return Fire and Yabause-DC on it, if you wanna try that out. If you do this, you'll be prompted to take out the disc and exchange it for a Saturn disc (and press start) by Yabause-DC. Ignore that, and just hit start, and it should run.
June 25th, 2007, 21:18
Elven6

Could someone upload a scrambled version like last time? I don't have any compiling tools and I don't really know how to use them.
June 25th, 2007, 22:11
fackue

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Elven6

Could someone upload a scrambled version like last time? I don't have any compiling tools and I don't really know how to use them.

For future reference:

Windows: The easiest program to scamble\unscramble is 1ST_READ.BIN Checker

Linux: scramble

Macintosh: DC (de)scrambler
June 25th, 2007, 23:29
I_Highway

Great work, BlueCrab, as soon as I get my DC back I will try it. This is one of the most ambicious projects, and is nice to see things going forward.

And thanks to fackue too, for his answer to Elven6.
June 26th, 2007, 00:42
JKKDARK

Thanks for the release BlueCrab! I will download it and try on my Dreamcast :D
June 26th, 2007, 01:27
VampDude

Quote:

Originally Posted by JKKDARK

Thanks for the release BlueCrab! I will download it and try on my Dreamcast :D

Then you can give some info! :)
June 26th, 2007, 16:46
wadd0001

very nice

GEX is playable :D
June 26th, 2007, 17:42
OV3RFiEND

Quote:

Originally Posted by wadd0001

very nice

GEX is playable :D

sure in slowmotion....

EDIT: i've tested capcom generation's 5 and it's very slow and not really playable at all... so don't waste your cd's...
June 26th, 2007, 20:22
VampDude

Quote:

Originally Posted by OV3RFiEND

sure in slowmotion....

EDIT: i've tested capcom generation's 5 and it's very slow and not really playable at all... so don't waste your cd's...

Yabuse is always slow, the Dreamcastwill never be able to run Saturn games at full speed...

...Not without an accelerator anyway! :D
June 26th, 2007, 21:59
Dull Blade

I thanked already on DCemulation.com, but I'll do it again. Anyways, I was going to test sega rally. but my DC is being gay and wont boot the emulator, yeah I scrammbled it too. [hopes he doesnt have to recaliburate again]
June 26th, 2007, 22:53
BlueCrab

Quote:

Originally Posted by VampDude

Yabuse is always slow, the Dreamcastwill never be able to run Saturn games at full speed...

...Not without an accelerator anyway! :D

And attitudes like that are precisely what inspire me 2nd most to work on it (first being, of course how much people appreciate the work I put into it).

Nobody ever thought there would be a Saturn emulator at all on the Dreamcast.

I proved them wrong.

Nobody thinks that it will ever be full speed.

I will try to prove them wrong. Even if it seems impossible, I will try to prove them wrong.
June 26th, 2007, 23:01
wadd0001

Quote:

Originally Posted by BlueCrab

And attitudes like that are precisely what inspire me 2nd most to work on it (first being, of course how much people appreciate the work I put into it).

Nobody ever thought there would be a Saturn emulator at all on the Dreamcast.

I proved them wrong.

Nobody thinks that it will ever be full speed.

I will try to prove them wrong. Even if it seems impossible, I will try to prove them wrong.

:thumbup:
June 27th, 2007, 16:19
Elven6

Screw N64 Saturn is the way to go!
June 27th, 2007, 23:16
VampDude

Quote:

Originally Posted by BlueCrab

And attitudes like that are precisely what inspire me 2nd most to work on it (first being, of course how much people appreciate the work I put into it).

Nobody ever thought there would be a Saturn emulator at all on the Dreamcast.

I proved them wrong.

Nobody thinks that it will ever be full speed.

I will try to prove them wrong. Even if it seems impossible, I will try to prove them wrong.

I appreciate the work people put into their emulators, I like the fact that people are always working on them to make improvements on previous builds. But when some people work on their emulators the newer builds aren't too much better than the previous build, I hope one day the Saturn works at full speed and with sound on the Dreamcast in the near future - But I wont be holding my hopes as I have a Saturn console for playing Saturn games, but to oneday compare the two at full speed would be cool :)
June 27th, 2007, 23:58
I_Highway

If that also inspires you, BlueCrab, so, I highly doubt Yabause could get any better.

Just kidding, you have already proved we can trust in you!!!
June 28th, 2007, 00:01
Christuserloeser

Go, BC go ! :)
June 28th, 2007, 05:11
VampDude

Wonder howlong it will be until Yabause is running at near a good 70-80% of fullspeed?
June 28th, 2007, 06:20
BlueCrab

Quote:

Originally Posted by VampDude

Wonder howlong it will be until Yabause is running at near a good 70-80% of fullspeed?

Its very hard to say. If I had the time to work on it that I'd like to put in it, I'd like to think it would already be at least 30%-50%. But unfortunately, I have very little time to work on Yabause (due to work, other projects, etc).
June 28th, 2007, 11:04
Sonicboy 101

Quote:

Originally Posted by BlueCrab

And attitudes like that are precisely what inspire me 2nd most to work on it (first being, of course how much people appreciate the work I put into it).

Nobody ever thought there would be a Saturn emulator at all on the Dreamcast.

I proved them wrong.

Nobody thinks that it will ever be full speed.

I will try to prove them wrong. Even if it seems impossible, I will try to prove them wrong.

I look forward to it. Good luck! :thumbup: