jEnesisDS v0.4 released

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jEnesisDS v0.4 released

New Genesis/Mega Drive emulator for DS









Lordus has released a new Genesis/Mega Drive emulator for the Nintendo DS. Apparently compatibility and speed in this version is very impressive, but just like PicoDrive DS, there is no sound emulation yet.

"jEnesisDS" is a Sega MegaDrive/Genesis Emulator for the Nintendo DS.
It started as a port of my Java Genesis/32X emulator jEnesis. By now, the code has been
completely rewritten and many parts (CPU core, parts of GPU) are written in ARM assembler.



It didnt quite want to release it yet, but decided to do so entering it in the GBAX competition.
There is no sound emulation yet, just some code to fake the Z80 and make more games boot.
Unfortunately this can affect some games, that use the Z80 for timing, but should be O.K for most
games.Change log:Lordusv0.4 * Initial Preview Release


- Custom ARM asm Motorola68000 CPU core

- Hardware and Software renderer (this release defaults to the HW renderer and the SW renderer can not yet been choosen through the settings.

- VDP emulation with all DMA modes

- Horizontal & Vertical Interrupts

- Support for PAL/NTSC and all country codes (all games will run at 60Hz though)

- .smd, .bin & .gen support

- partial SRAM save/load support (doesnt work for all games yet)

- Line based renderer

- Scroll Layers A+B & Window rendering with priorities (horizontal Windows arenot emulated in the HW renderer yet)

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Thanks to hadrian for the heads up.

 

[FAST6191]

A third megadrive emu and with an impressive feature list, fantastic. If z80 emulation does appear even better.

 

[Hadrian]

I've personally found it faster than PicodriveDS, tried Streets of Rage 1, 2, 3, Alien Storm, Contra Corps, Castlevania Bloodlines and Gunstar Heroes all worked perfectly, I had slowdown on PicoDriveDS on those games.

Just gonna try some more and some 32X games. Will post again saying what I've got to work.

 

[Hadrian]

No 32X games work at all, these below are the other games I've just tried.

Addams Family
Aladdin LITTLE SCROLLING PROBLEM
Another World SLOW
Aquatic Games
Art of Fighting LITTE GRAPHIC GLITCHES
Batman
Beyond Oasis BACKGROUND GLITCHES
Bio-Hazard Battle NOT WORKING
Brutal - Paws of Fury GRAPHIC GLITCHES ON FIGHTER SELECT
California Games NOT WORKING
Cannon Fodder GRAPHIC GLITCHES
Chakan
Chaos Engine GRAPHIC GLITCHES
Chuck Rock
Chuck Rock 2
Clayfighter SOME GRAPHIC GLITCHES
Columns 3
Comix Zone GRAPHIC GLITCHES
Cool Spot
Death & Return of Superman
Decap Attack
Earthworm Jim
Earthworm Jim 2
Eternal Champions SPRITES FLICKER
Fantastic Dizzy
Fatal Fury 2
Fifa '96 NOT WORKING
Flashback
Ghouls 'n' Ghosts SLIGHT GRAPHIC GLITCH
Gods
Humans CRASHES AT MENU SCREEN
It Came From The Desert CRASHES AT MENU
James Pond
James Pond 2: Robocod
James Pond 3: Operation Starfish CRASHES AFTER EA SCREEN
Jim Power
Jimmy Whites Whirlwind Snooker NOT WORKING
Joe & Mac Caveman Ninja
Jungle Book GRAPHIC GLITCHES
Jungle Strike
Killing Game Show NOT WORKING
Killing Game Show Remix NOT WORKING
King of Fighters '98 CRASHES AFTER FIGHTER SELECT
Krustys Super Funhouse NOT WORKING
Land Stalker
Lemmings
Lemmings 2 - The Tribes
Lethal Enforcers
Lethal Enforcers 2
Lion King
Mega Bomberman NOT WORKING
Mega Man - The Wiley Wars NOT WORKING
Mega Swiv CRASHES EMULATOR
Mega Turrican
Mick & Mac Global Gladiators
Midnight Resistance
Mortal Kombat II NOT WORKING
Mortal Kombat III NOT WORKING
New Zealand Story
Ninja Gaiden NOT WORKING
Ooze
Page Master NOT WORKING
Paperboy GRAPHIC GLITCHES & CRASHES SOMETIMES
Paperboy 2 A LITTLE TEXT GLITCH
Psycho Pinball
Punisher GRAPHIC GLITCHES
Risky Woods GRAPHIC GLITCHES
Ristar
Road Rash NOT WORKING
Robocop Vs Terminator
Rocket Knight Adventures NOT WORKING
Samurai Showdown SOME GRAPHIC GLITCHES
Second Samurai
Shadow of the Beast CRASHES AFTER EA SCREEN
Shadow of the Beast 2 SOME GRAPHICAL GLITCHES, SOMETIMES SLOW
Shadow Run
Sonic The Hedghog Compilation
Sonic & Knuckles
Splatterhouse 2
Splatterhouse 3
Speedball II
Street Fighter Special Championship Ed
Strider
Strider 2
Sunset Riders
Super Street Fighter NOT WORKING
The Haunting GRAPHIC GLITCHES
Worms
Xenon Megablast SLOW & WITH GRAPHIC ERRORS
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - Hyperstone Hiest
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - Tournement Fighters
Terminator
Terminator 2 - Arcade Game TEXT GLITCHES
Toejam & Earl SPRITES FLICKER
Turrican BACKGROUND GLITCHES
Ultimate Mortal Kombat NOT WORKING
Urban Strike
Vectorman NOT WORKING
Vectorman 2 NOT WORKING
Wiz & Liz
Zero Tolerance
Zombies Ate My Neighbours SOME GRAPHIC GLITCHES
Zool BACKGROUND SHAKES A LOT

Fantastic compatibility for an early version.

 

[spas]

I am getting excited now just sound needs to be figured out. But the gameplay is very impressive, im dreaming here but maybe oneday wi fi multiplayer support by tricking the rom into thinking the 2nd ds is another gamepad. Like Kfusion does.

Keep up the good work Lordus!

 

[Destructobot]

No 32X games work at all

The DS isn't anywhere near fast enough to emulate the 32X's two 23MHZ SH-2 CPUs, much less that plus the Genesis CPU and all of the Genesis and 32X graphics and sound hardware at once.

 

[Sonicandtails]

I love you. Have my children Lordus.

 

[Hadrian]

No 32X games work at all
The DS isn't anywhere near fast enough to emulate the 32X's two 23MHZ SH-2 CPUs, much less that plus the Genesis CPU and all of the Genesis and 32X graphics and sound hardware at once.

Oh well its no loss really, theres not that many great 32x titles.

 

[Icarus]

How do Sonic titles work? I think those are the most important ones for me =]

 

[Hadrian]

How do Sonic titles work? I think those are the most important ones for me =]

Near perfection.

 

[DS64]

Nicely done, one of my favorite on my microsd at the moment.

 

[4ppleseed]

Fantastic compatibility for an early version.

I'm sure Picodrive isn't that glitchy? Things like Toejam and Earl are fine if I remember rightly.

 

[Icarus]

How do Sonic titles work? I think those are the most important ones for me =]

Near perfection.

Thanks a lot, I'm gonna look into this emulator =]

 

[Hadrian]

Fantastic compatibility for an early version.


I'm sure Picodrive isn't that glitchy? Things like Toejam and Earl are fine if I remember rightly.

Picodrive just ran quite slowly for me perhaps its just my M3 or whatever but it just did, anyway it is an early version so it is very impressive.

 

[AMDdude]

At least Strider works.. I hope they get the sound working sometime soon

 

[gigermunit]

When the sound works ill love it but some of the games dont work like double dragon but contra hard corp works........

 

[cenotaph]

I am getting excited now just sound needs to be figured out.

Don't get your hopes up. Emulation of the FM sound chip (YM-something) requires at least as much processing power as emulating the MC68k does. To quote the author (as posted at dcemu.co.uk):
QUOTEI cannot really say much about it atm, but ill definately try everything i can to make sound work. PSG sound is realistic in my opinion, the FM chip just really needs a lot of power to be emulated.

 

[Saylient_Dreams]

This works better for me than picodrive, but I can't get sonic 3 + s&k to work with this. So far all the games I've tried run at pretty good speed. Hopefully sound is emulated, it's kinda boring without sound, but with the hardware I wouldn't be suprised if it isn't integrated till the next gen of nintendo's handheld. Is there savestates in this emu btw? I couldn't figure out if there were or not.

 

[Ad_Enuff]

The best Genesis/Megadrive emulator for PC is HAZE's HazeMD with source found HERE.. If nobody has heard of him before, then you haven't played MAME either! The MAME project emulates hardware 100% so there are no short cuts and therefore compatibility is 100% once the emulation is complete.

If Lordus can find any of the source code helpful to him to increase compatibility and add sound etc to his DS emu, then point him in that direction.

I really want a Genesis/Megadrive emulator really badly!

 

[FAST6191]

I really like kega fusion Ad_Enuff, accuracy is nice but often needs a beast to play it for these multichip things.