Yabause 0.8.5 Released!

***BlueCrab*** · June 24th, 2007, 23:22

Well, its been a while since the last release to come from me, and that can only mean one thing: I'm overdue for one.

So, Yabause 0.8.5 for the Dreamcast has been released today (along with for all the other platforms that Yabause supports). There's not too many Dreamcast-specific changes in this version, so I'm going to keep this newspost kinda brief.

Anyway, you can download it from here:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showf...ease_id=518262

Note, the binary in the yabause-0.8.5-dc.tar.gz file is NOT scrambled already.

**ron** · June 25th, 2007, 07:37

Thank You.

I'll take a deep look on it.

Thx again

**Masta-G** · June 25th, 2007, 09:27

Awesome work man

So what does it run so far?

***BlueCrab*** · June 25th, 2007, 16:28

Originally Posted by Masta-G

Awesome work man

So what does it run so far?

It SHOULD run approximately the same things as all the other ports of Yabause. You can look to the Compatibility List on http://yabause.sourceforge.net/ for reference, but it isn't updated particularly often.

I can tell you for sure though that NiGHTS does not run. I haven't had time to implement the odd video mode that NiGHTS uses in the Dreamcast video core. I'm not entirely sure that NiGHTS runs particularly well on the other versions, but I know it at least runs (On the Dreamcast port, it will actually cause the emulator to exit itself). I only use NiGHTS as an example, since I know its one of the more popular games for the Saturn.

Oh, and for one that I know works pretty well (at least up to the title screen) is Magical School Lunar. I can't read Japanese, so I didn't get very far past the title screen on that one. Also, fackue (from DCEmulation) has said that game recently released for free, Return Fire, works (albeit slowly) on Yabause. There are instructions here on how to burn a single disc with Return Fire and Yabause-DC on it, if you wanna try that out. If you do this, you'll be prompted to take out the disc and exchange it for a Saturn disc (and press start) by Yabause-DC. Ignore that, and just hit start, and it should run.

**Elven6** · June 25th, 2007, 21:18

Could someone upload a scrambled version like last time? I don't have any compiling tools and I don't really know how to use them.

**fackue** · June 25th, 2007, 22:11

Originally Posted by Elven6

Could someone upload a scrambled version like last time? I don't have any compiling tools and I don't really know how to use them.

For future reference:

Windows: The easiest program to scamble\unscramble is 1ST_READ.BIN Checker

Linux: scramble

Macintosh: DC (de)scrambler

**I_Highway** · June 25th, 2007, 23:29

Great work, BlueCrab, as soon as I get my DC back I will try it. This is one of the most ambicious projects, and is nice to see things going forward.

And thanks to fackue too, for his answer to Elven6.