Homebrew RELEASE reicast [Dreamcast emulator] for Switch/Horizon [Alpha]

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Hey there folks,

I'm glad to introduce you reicast for switch. This is a very rushed release, expect bugs and many issues, but in the next days a more polished version should be in order. Also a more proper release, since we don't have yet automated builds for switch.
The current version has some caveats: although it uses JIT (so fullspeed! in fact can go at x2 the speed easily) there's no exception handling yet, therefor things like texture invalidation don't' work well. This can be very limiting for some games, whereas others won't show many quirks. In fact just the BIOS shows this behaviour, textures in dialogs won't get updated :D

Well that's it, this is a very alpha version, so expect most bugs to get fixed soon. You might also wanna check out reicast on Android or PC (at reicast.com)
I'd like to thanks flyinghead for this tremendous contributions (he's the one to thank for the armv8 JIT backend), and of course skmp and all the crew that keep reicast great (although unreadable!)

Edit: How to use it.
Yeah forgot to add that. You'll need the BIOS files at /reicast/data/dc_boot.bin /reicast/data/dc_flash.bin. The settings can be tweaked at /reicast/emu.cfg. I'd also place ROMs at /reicast on your sd card.
Notice that games using MMU won't work, that's WinCE games (I guess this list is reasonable: https://segaretro.org/Windows_CE).

Important: reicast needs some memory (like 512MB+), so launching the app via nb loader won't work if you use the Album thingy to launch it. This bit me during porting too. You need to launch a game (any game) and press the R trigger to enter the HB loader in "game mode". That should do.

Love, davidgf

Finally some mandatory screenshots:

Do you have any form of payment options that people like myself can donate to you for the hard work that you and whoever else that you've worked with? I want to help cover dev time/costs to furthur improve development on this emulator.
 
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Do you have any form of payment options that people like myself can donate to you for the hard work that you and whoever else that you've worked with? I want to help cover dev time/costs to furthur improve development on this emulator.
Yeah you can use: https://www.bountysource.com/teams/reicast
There's a donation thingy, and the money is used towards bounties. You can post your won bounty IIRC.
Anyway I don't thing I'll claim any bounty, so that people who need it more can take it :)
 

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Have those files for Shenmue:
Code:
Shenmue (USA) - (Disc 1 of 4).chd
Shenmue (USA) - (Disc 2 of 4).chd
Shenmue (USA) - (Disc 3 of 4) [1S].chd
Shenmue (USA) - (Disc 3 of 4) [2S].chd
Shenmue (USA) - (Disc 4 of 4).chd

Why there are 2 different Disc 3? Is one of them optional?
 

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Have those files for Shenmue:
Code:
Shenmue (USA) - (Disc 1 of 4).chd
Shenmue (USA) - (Disc 2 of 4).chd
Shenmue (USA) - (Disc 3 of 4) [1S].chd
Shenmue (USA) - (Disc 3 of 4) [2S].chd
Shenmue (USA) - (Disc 4 of 4).chd

Why there are 2 different Disc 3? Is one of them optional?

I ran into this too, and I can't test it until I get that far lol but I did find another game (can't remember rn) that had the same. Could it be a revision? I've just used the 2S for both games and hope for the best. I couldn't find an answer on google, I also asked previously in this thread
 
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Any game i tried crash my switch to restart screen, i am using reinx 2.2.1 and 7.0.1

You're going to have to switch to Atmosphere because you need to hold R on a switch game which will take you to the homebrew menu and launch reicast from there. I don't think you can do that with reinx.
 
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Any game i tried crash my switch to restart screen, i am using reinx 2.2.1 and 7.0.1

You're going to have to switch to Atmosphere because you need to hold R on a switch game which will take you to the homebrew menu and launch reicast from there. I don't think you can do that with reinx.

I have the exact same setup he has and have been using the emulator just fine.

You can still gain full RAM access if you load the hbmenu through a NSP using this: gbatemp(dot)net/threads/homebrew-menu-loader-legal-nsp.518433/
 
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Any chance of Bleemcast! games working in the future? I tested it and it didn't work, although I got sound on Metal Gear Solid.
 
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Confidential Mission works great
Record of Lodoss War takes longer to load, fmv‘s not working even when oc the cpu (stutter)

Awesome work!!!

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Is there a way to get the joycon motion control to work as a lightgun? So I can play house of the dead as it is intended :rofl2:
Or any other railshooter :-)
DC had many of them
 

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