Tutorial: How To Get DreamSNES To Play At 100% Full Speed

[Xiaopang]

Seems so. If you turn off sound in DreamSnes then most games run at 100%. Also emulating the 3D-Chip for a few games reduces performance remarkably. For such a low power system as the Dreamcast, emulators have to be quite to optimized to run well, but it is possible as the commercial releases of Sega Smashpack and some NeoGeo ports show.

Unfortunately no coder seems to have the patience, skill or both to accomplish a perfectly good running snes-emu which implements all features and let's almost all games run fluently. Especially not after the release of the new console generation...

[Christuserloeser]

Time will tell. SNES4ALL has the most potential atm, so I'm keeping my fingers crossed

[Xiaopang]

uhm you mean the emulator which last update lies back more than a year? well, to me that project seems kinda dead. and even if it isn't, at that pace it will take a decade till it's as reliable and fast as dreamsnes.

wasn't there another emulator for snes where you could turn off backgrounds and stuff? that looked very promising last time i checked it, but that was a while ago and i forgot the name

[Darksaviour69]

there are 3 main snes emus, dreamsnes, Super Famicast and Snes4all. At the moment snes4all has the best chance as chui said that he will be getting back to it.

http://dreamcast.dcemu.co.uk/cgi-bin...cgi?0,0,0,0,47

[Xiaopang]

well, let's see what time brings. what about that emulator i mentioned? i stumbled over its webpage half a year ago. it showed screenshots where you could turn off four background layers. the whole site was in a super mario world style. i can't remember the name and no big emulation site seems to know it. may be it was a hoax. i just want to be sure about it.

[Darksaviour69]

well all the known snes emus are listed on that link i gave you there.

[Christuserloeser]

uhm you mean the emulator which last update lies back more than a year? well, to me that project seems kinda dead. and even if it isn't, at that pace it will take a decade till it's as reliable and fast as dreamsnes.

It isn't dead. It's currently on hold until the 68K/Z80 emus are completed.

well, let's see what time brings. what about that emulator i mentioned?

Super Famicast. I think that's abandoned in favor of other projects.

[StryfeDc]

Being as this is in a tutorial thread, I'm going to bump this dinosaur.

My question is: Can you delete any unnecessary files in DSNES that aren't needed?
For some examples for deleting, how about the Mp3 or text files that I found in the directories?
Are these loaded into the RAM, and therefor could they be deleted to speed things up?

[Darksaviour69]

na, it won't help speed things up as the mp3 is only played in the menu. While the games are running it only the emu and rom in the ram