Yabause-dc News

[quzar]

i'm fairly sure that ssf is farther along, but it has been out longer (iirc). yabause is also the only working saturn emulator for mac or linux.

[MrTeressaBond]

ohright.

well i dont mean to be rude or anything, but because this is related to an actual Saturn emu for the dreamcast, is it possible to create another Saturn emu for hte Dreamcast but using the SFF source code?

more or less a SSF emu for the Dreamcast.

possible?

[quzar]

No. Even if so, it would be harder than yabause for DC. and afaik, ssf isn't open source.

[MrTeressaBond]

if it was open source, then could it be a maybe at least?

[BlueCrab]

I have this feeling that SSF probably uses assembly internally for at least some parts, so it wouldn't be very easy to port. If it used too much assembly, then it would be pretty much impossible to port without rewriting the entire thing from the ground up.

Yabause, on the other hand, is written entirely in C, so its reasonable to port.

[MrTeressaBond]

having said that, is Yabuse at a stage near to SSF to wat it can do?

[BlueCrab]

I have no idea honestly. I haven't used SSF any time in the recent past.

Yabause however, can do a pretty good job of emulating a Saturn though. There's a lot of stuff (at least partially) emulated in Yabause that I haven't seen any other Saturn emulator support (like, the MPEG card is partially emulated).

[MrTeressaBond]

ahh i see then.

well BlueCrab, here is a link of the recent changes of SSF:

http://www.ngemu.com/

i really like the emulator, cause it existed for awhile, wen i assume back then nothing happened to it, now it came back, with much better updates coming so often.

and you can download it here:

http://www.ngemu.com/saturn/ssf.php?action=get&id=554

hope this helps.

[quzar]

ahh i see then.

well BlueCrab, here is a link of the recent changes of SSF:

http://www.ngemu.com/

i really like the emulator, cause it existed for awhile, wen i assume back then nothing happened to it, now it came back, with much better updates coming so often.

and you can download it here:

http://www.ngemu.com/saturn/ssf.php?action=get&id=554

hope this helps.

not saying it's not nice to get info, but realistically, if you want to see how they compare... compare them! Both are free for download, just download them both and see how they go!

[MrTeressaBond]

well i did try, but i couldnt get Yabuse to work for me, plus i thought it would be cool to get it from a professional point of view sir.

hope thats ok.