Saturn games on Dreamcast?

[VampDude]

Is a playable speed Saturn emu even possible?.

I thought it was too hard to develop even for a PC @_@

Nope, although a very slow and not very accurate/stable Saturn EMU is available

[BlueCrab]

Nope, although a very slow and not very accurate/stable Saturn EMU is available

If you're talking about Yabause-DC, I've never had any stability issues with released versions (my private WIP versions, that nobody else ever sees is a different story). Also, I think Yabause at large is one of the more accurate Saturn emulators, and it grows more so with every release (heck, I remember some Saturn emulators that didn't even bother emulating the VDP2 of the Saturn).

Also, while I doubt that in any reasonable time I'd have a working, full-speed Saturn emulator for the Dreamcast, I wouldn't say its impossible.

With enough time, and enough work, it should be possible (but EXTREMELY difficult) to get a full-speed Saturn emulator going on the Dreamcast.

[OV3RFiEND]

my private WIP versions, that nobody else ever sees is a different story

sound good, please tell me more....

[BlueCrab]

Well, what to say about the version on my hard drive right now....

I've mostly implemented a rather stupid cacheing system for VDP1 sprites so that when a bunch of sprites share the same texture (think the flying polygons on the bootup sequence) the texture only gets changed from the Saturn's format to a Dreamcast texture. This code is buggy at the moment, but I think I know what's wrong, after reflecting on it on my way to work this morning.

That's about all I have changed (other than the bugfixes that are going into the other ports of Yabause for the next version) that actually will be included.

[Christuserloeser]

I've mostly implemented a rather stupid cacheing system for VDP1 sprites so that when a bunch of sprites share the same texture (think the flying polygons on the bootup sequence) the texture only gets changed from the Saturn's format to a Dreamcast texture.

This sounds VERY interesting

[BlueCrab]

This sounds VERY interesting

Unfortunately, I didn't get anywhere near the speed boost I was hoping for from it. I think it only increased the speed by about 0.1 FPS ...