Hey, is there a Sega CD emu. fot the dreamcast???

**I_Highway** · November 5th, 2006, 16:40

Well, iniquitous_beast, I agree with you, but what I meant was that in SegaCD its sound is not generated by the CPU, but just played in CDDA, so there's no need to emulate it. I think this is the same thing that quzar said.

This way, playing sounds and voices just like a normal CD, with no need to emulate them, we would have a great emulator, with high reading speed, and maybe even better than the original SegaCD.

Darksaviour69, I didn't even know this game, and as soon as I have some more CD-Rs, I'll try it. Thanks!!!

**Cernex** · November 6th, 2006, 03:29

I think the main problem here is that the Dreamcast would have to emulate both the Genesis and Sega CD at the same time, and (at least on my case) dunno that the Dreamcast can pull it off, specially at the current state of the Genesis emulation...

El Cernex

***quzar*** · November 6th, 2006, 10:11

Originally Posted by Cernex

I think the main problem here is that the Dreamcast would have to emulate both the Genesis and Sega CD at the same time, and (at least on my case) dunno that the Dreamcast can pull it off, specially at the current state of the Genesis emulation...

El Cernex

The *ONLY* things the Sega CD added were an extra processor and the cd drive (which allowed for CDDA).

***Darksaviour69*** · November 6th, 2006, 11:20

hmm i always wanted to play sonic cd, but could not justify buying a mega cd just for that...

***quzar*** · November 6th, 2006, 11:21

Originally Posted by Darksaviour69

hmm i always wanted to play sonic cd, but could not justify buying a mega cd just for that...

There's a PC version. I got it in a sonic 3 pack =).

**kwok** · November 6th, 2006, 12:20

Theres a decent sega cd emulator for the xbox. I have run almost every single sega cd game created via this emulator. Neogenesis. Has support for all megadrive and sega cd games, it will even emulate different sega cd versions allowing you to play import games. Full-speed/sound/music. Download it from xbins (do a search for this site, excellent for xbox binaries) get a second hand xbox £50 if you dont have one, run the softmod or the hotswap hack (i used hotswap, and works cool), then install neogenesis. Excellent, and probably cheaper than lookin for a second hand sega cd + mega drive, also remeber that sega cd drives will probably start failing as they are so old... Failing all that i'm sure theres probably an sega cd emulator for the pc.

***Darksaviour69*** · November 6th, 2006, 12:28

yeah but i heard the p.c. version is not as good, but its not the same playing sonic on the p.c.

i do have a xbox and a mod chip for it that i have never got round to installing

***quzar*** · November 6th, 2006, 12:48

Originally Posted by kwok

Theres a decent sega cd emulator for the xbox. I have run almost every single sega cd game created via this emulator. Neogenesis. Has support for all megadrive and sega cd games, it will even emulate different sega cd versions allowing you to play import games. Full-speed/sound/music. Download it from xbins (do a search for this site, excellent for xbox binaries) get a second hand xbox £50 if you dont have one, run the softmod or the hotswap hack (i used hotswap, and works cool), then install neogenesis. Excellent, and probably cheaper than lookin for a second hand sega cd + mega drive, also remeber that sega cd drives will probably start failing as they are so old... Failing all that i'm sure theres probably an sega cd emulator for the pc.

you do realize that every emulator for the xbox is for the most part just a direct copy of a PC emulator with control changes right? (the exceptions being the much newer systems which need more optimization for fullspeed play. Also, they're for the most part illegal.

**Baboon** · November 6th, 2006, 13:53

It would be cool if one day there was a working sega cd emu on the DC. Theres quite a few retro games that would be great to play again.

**Sweater Fish Deluxe** · November 8th, 2006, 05:24

Originally Posted by quzar

The *ONLY* things the Sega CD added were an extra processor and the cd drive (which allowed for CDDA).

But the extra processor was another M68K and at twice the clock speed as the one in the Genesis. However, I'm not sure how often that co-processor was actually used outside of a few games. I also don't know if there might even be some possible efficiencies when emulating two roughly identical processors that would make it easier.

Sega CD emulation would be really nice to see on the Dreamcast eventually. Even if it was fairly slow, it'd just be a nice and impressive thing to have.

Originally Posted by Darksaviour69

there is one sega cd game that runs on the dc now, Heart of the Alien
http://dreamcast.dcemu.co.uk/cgi-bin...0,0,0,0,61,449

Actually, there's two. The Sega CD version of Monkey Island works through SCUMMVM-DC.

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