Chankast The Good the Bad and The Ugly

DCEmu_Newsposter · January 1st, 1970, 01:00

Chankast is the emulator of the year a true defining moment in emulation and one that has made history for all sorts of reasons, as a pure emulation fan you can see its a real great emulator, i take my hats off to the authors.[br][br]Hopefully this will bring a lot of new people to the scene when they see what they are missing, the Homebrew scene is the best there is.[br][br]Now the bad side, any emu for any system brings the topic of Piracy and to that end its a shame, hopefully the next release of Chankast will support Homebrew and can be used as a development tool. Id like and encourage all people on the forums to test homebrew for us and see if theres a way to get it working and have a Homebrew Compat list.[br][br]Now the ugly, if your on one side of the fence or the other, i do respect all views but there comes a time when ive had enough.[br][br]So from now all commercial talk about Chankast can go to our hosts forums at Emutalk [br][br]We still want your Homebrew and Non GDrom compat screenshots in our forums.[br][br]Anyone no matter who they are who breaks the rules will be sorted

[Modified 05/31/04 21:08:40 by DCEmu_Newsposter]

***wraggster*** · May 31st, 2004, 19:15

Right now 2 people are on my high warning list and ill ban if one foot is out of place.

Im sorry to all those who came here who are fans of emulation, my friends at emutalk will be better with you.

Those who moaned about chankast being a warez emu hopefully will now test homebrew and so push that side, if those that moaned dont like it then dont post on these forums.

I do understand the points of view good and bad but constant whining and moanng doesnt win anyone over, all its done is piss the very people who run this site off to an extent where we ban.

I never ban willy nilly but well that will change if things carry on.

**MetaFox** · May 31st, 2004, 19:58

[quote author=DCEmu_Newsposter link=board=DCPCEmu;num=1086015718;start=0#0 date=05/31/04 17:01:58]So from now all commercial talk etc about Chankast can go to our hosts forums at Emutalk You can still use our forums for all Homebrew talk about Chankast.[/quote]Good for you wraggster. The discussion was turning very warezy, with people talking about the downloaded bios and cracked games. I'm glad to see you're putting your foot down.

***wraggster*** · May 31st, 2004, 20:03

Metafox while you kept your respect with me by making valid points others did not, we were watching the situation all the time and it wasnt our fault chanka didnt play homebrew and well im bitterly disapointed that people spammed my forums to get their point across.

Homebrew discussion is where we go from now

But those on my high ban list stay, im sure they know who i mean, i like those people but this isnt any other site and i dont mess about.

saying that have a nice day :P

**vipor231** · May 31st, 2004, 20:10

yea it stinks when people moan and groan about stupid things now can only talk about homebrew now.thanks to those people cuz it wasnt getting warezy.like i said the emulator is a piece of work and i complament the authors for such a great emu on its first release.but it stinks that people have to think negative all the time.the dreamcast lives on cuz of us.not cuz of warez.

***wraggster*** · May 31st, 2004, 20:24

Yes i agree vipor, the emu itself is a fantastic piece of work, if anyone has any homebrew reports or screenshots id love to see em

**MetaFox** · May 31st, 2004, 20:29

[quote author=vipor231 link=board=DCPCEmu;num=1086015718;start=0#4 date=05/31/04 at 21:10:25]yea it stinks when people moan and groan about stupid things now can only talk about homebrew now.thanks to those people cuz it wasnt getting warezy.[/quote]Hey, there are a lot of good homebrew games. True, only Battery is playable on this release, but the authors are going to work to support more homebrew in the next release. My complaint wasn't that the emulator played warezed copies of games - it was that it was the ONLY choice. This is going to be changed in the future due to the fact that more homebrew will be supported, and I'm awaiting that version with open arms.

As for the fact that the discussion was turning warezy - it was - people were discussing bios from regions of Dreamcast's which they don't own, as well as whether the emulator wasn't running their games because they were using cracked versions.

The fact that wraggster has decided to only discuss homebrew is a good one - the discussion can't turn warezy anymore, and we can appreciate the hard work of the coders that are trying their best to keep the Dreamcast alive.

[quote author=vipor231 link=board=DCPCEmu;num=1086015718;start=0#4 date=05/31/04 at 21:10:25]like i said the emulator is a piece of work and i complament the authors for such a great emu on its first release.but it stinks that people have to think negative all the time.[/quote]Indeed, now that the authors have decided to rework the emulator to support homebrew, and I have made all of my arguments, I will say that I think the emulator is amazing. I didn't think a full speed Dreamcast emulator would be possible on this generation of computers. I'm impressed with the technical aspects of the emulator - and when it supports homebrew, I'll be impressed with the emulator itself as well.

[quote author=vipor231 link=board=DCPCEmu;num=1086015718;start=0#4 date=05/31/04 at 21:10:25]The dreamcast lives on because of us, not because of warez.[/quote]I like that quote, very well said vipor231.

**vipor231** · May 31st, 2004, 20:36

personally i think the games for dreamcast are far better than ps2.there are hardly any games on dreamcast that stink.with the homebrew scene hopefully we get a even bigger library.i love the streets of rage clone.that is a great game.unfortunally the emulator dont play along with dc anthology vol 1 which is another home brew title which consists of tons of works on one cd.cant get that to work either.hopefully the authors will fix this issue cuz its very strange that it dont run homebrew titles either.