It's just about enough for very rudimentary emulation of the Dreamcast, I've seen nullDC running on the PSP. The emulator was never released though and I think work on it has been discontinued. It's really a miracle that it worked as well as it did.Only PSP mode is hacked and PSP isn't powerful enough for Dreamcast
It's just about enough for very rudimentary emulation of the Dreamcast, I've seen nullDC running on the PSP. The emulator was never released though and I think work on it has been discontinued. It's really a miracle that it worked as well as it did.
Pretty much - a proof-of-concept, low FPS "it can be done!" type of a port.Ah, i didn't knew that, thanks for showing me that, i guess it was akin to the Wii port of NullDC i guess ?
I bought my Nvidia shield and looks like Shenmue isn't fully supported, so I was wondering about the Vita, also if there is, how's Shenmue on it?
To be honest I never tries but there was a list of compatible games, will check when I can, thanks and woukd be cool if you provide more info.Odd, the Reicast team released an update that was supposed to fix a majority of the issues with Shenmue. You sure you're running the latest version of Reicast? I know the beginning cutscene still had some minor graphical errors, but the rest of the game should've been fully playable.
To be honest I never tries but there was a list of compatible games, will check when I can, thanks and woukd be cool if you provide more info.
I know this isnt REALLY the place to ask, but ill do it anyways. Is there anything past a POC Sega Saturn emu for the PSP?
If it's not powerful enough to emulate Dreamcast, there's no hope in hell of it being able to emulate Saturn.
why, the dreamcast is newer than the saturn
The Saturn is infinitely more complex to emulate than the Dreamcast for several reasons
why, the dreamcast is newer than the saturn
why, the dreamcast is newer than the saturn
The Saturn has a lot of poorly documented custom chips that weren't designed very well in a practical sense. 6 fully custom and two semi-custom iirc. Therefore, devs had to get rather creative to make games work with the limited and weirdly placed resources. Couple that with the fact that the Saturn was intended more as a 2D machine, in Sega's infinite wisdom, with 3D reluctantly being added and poorly implemented, devs again had to do weird things to make it work. That's why for the longest time Grandia stayed on the Saturn because an easy port to PS1 would not happen. As it stands, it's also why the PS1 port has a 2D battlefield and runs rather poorly throughout the entire game with slow-down rampant on just about every map.
In short, technically it COULD happen but there is no way in hell it will. Saturn emulators on PC are still rather poor and you can be a lot sloppier with PC emulators. It would take an extremely dedicated group of coders to make an efficient emulator and it would take a lot of effort to figure out all the CPUs through decaping and whatnot.
The Dreamcast, by comparison, has less complexity, uses more open code and more open, well understood, hardware. It has it quirks, but oddly if not for the polygon counts, it would be easier to make.
If only the Vita scene would get over themselves and break open the Vita. (There are a few ways supposedly known already as to how to do it) Screw the piracy excuse. The system is already dead to Sony out west and they're just bummed they can't blame piracy. So they just ignore it in full. Throwing Indie ports on it as an appeasement. At the very least we should be able to properly use the hardware since no developers seem to care.
Ah, people on them internets sometimes - they'll tell you something doesn't exist without... checking if it exists.I know this isnt REALLY the place to ask, but ill do it anyways. Is there anything past a POC Sega Saturn emu for the PSP?
Actually, nullDC was also ported to the PSP, however there were no public releases of the emulator (as mentioned earlier in the thread).If it's not powerful enough to emulate Dreamcast, there's no hope in hell of it being able to emulate Saturn.