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Watching FrameRater's video on emulators on Dreamcast and discovering that there are in fact still people out there working on emulators for the system makes me wonder what's truly the best SNES emulator for DC and does there exist something similar for SNES roms?

TheWhiteDevil27 wrote:Watching FrameRater's video on emulators on Dreamcast and discovering that there are in fact still people out there working on emulators for the system makes me wonder what's truly the best SNES emulator for DC and does there exist something similar for SNES roms?

I watched that pretty odd video. To me, most of what he showed was either old or dev builds or things I did for one game, not 100's.
When he said, Oh, there's a setting, but who cares? and then showed a game glitching out what you thought the settings were for, he showed

Never stop optimizing for DC and using emulators for DC.

I'm doing the same for the SNES, yes, and I have very good speed, but it's not for every game.

You can see on my channel many emulators for DC optimized and working perfectly; it's my dev YouTube channel.
I don't go, let's pick a broken game that runs the worst and go well. Who cares to learn the menu or settings? Why bother? Well, do you think coding the settings or menu is worth it? I go, Who cares? or Why bother? It was a dev build for testers; there are over 100 games that build fine; it would take him time to find the broken games. He showed that it's not 2003 any more; we have much better compilers, math, sh4 sm, and understanding of how the sh4 chip and pvr work.

Not releases smw 60fps no frame skip snes on dc
https://streamable.com/ub93n3

First time mario carts play-able with fixed mode 7
https://streamable.com/d2yvum

The game he showed glitching out fixed
https://streamable.com/g9xy3x

More snes fixes
https://streamable.com/3l9hf5

more
https://streamable.com/6to5il

puzzle bubble snes
https://streamable.com/kjyov7

He showed the INTV I did  and could not get games to work when almost all do with the right setting and can get back to the menu without a power cycle. The included readme has all the information on how to use it.He said, But I downloaded it from some random place. Is that not on you for not doing any research into anything?

I was not a fan of that video at all.


Yes, I'm still working on SNES and many other system emulators for the Dreamcast.

There is no truly best SNES emulator as each game would need optimizing for it, but can I get a ton of games at 60 fps with no frameskip and 44 kHz sound?
Is it an all-in-one game? No, it's not. For me, if it has a frame skip, I don't want to play it or release it.


Anyways back to the subject of my release and not about snes and some mainstream youtuber.

By magnus all perfect sound 60fps no frameskip

Ian Micheal wrote:

TheWhiteDevil27 wrote:Watching FrameRater's video on emulators on Dreamcast and discovering that there are in fact still people out there working on emulators for the system makes me wonder what's truly the best SNES emulator for DC and does there exist something similar for SNES roms?

I watched that pretty odd video. To me, most of what he showed was either old or dev builds or things I did for one game, not 100's.
When he said, Oh, there's a setting, but who cares? and then showed a game glitching out what you thought the settings were for, he showed

Never stop optimizing for DC and using emulators for DC.

I'm doing the same for the SNES, yes, and I have very good speed, but it's not for every game.

You can see on my channel many emulators for DC optimized and working perfectly; it's my dev YouTube channel.
I don't go, let's pick a broken game that runs the worst and go well. Who cares to learn the menu or settings? Why bother? Well, do you think coding the settings or menu is worth it? I go, Who cares? or Why bother? It was a dev build for testers; there are over 100 games that build fine; it would take him time to find the broken games. He showed that it's not 2003 any more; we have much better compilers, math, sh4 sm, and understanding of how the sh4 chip and pvr work.

Not releases smw 60fps no frame skip snes on dc
https://streamable.com/ub93n3

First time mario carts play-able with fixed mode 7
https://streamable.com/d2yvum

The game he showed glitching out fixed
https://streamable.com/g9xy3x

More snes fixes
https://streamable.com/3l9hf5

more
https://streamable.com/6to5il

puzzle bubble snes
https://streamable.com/kjyov7

He showed the INTV I did  and could not get games to work when almost all do with the right setting and can get back to the menu without a power cycle. The included readme has all the information on how to use it.He said, But I downloaded it from some random place. Is that not on you for not doing any research into anything?

I was not a fan of that video at all.


Yes, I'm still working on SNES and many other system emulators for the Dreamcast.

There is no truly best SNES emulator as each game would need optimizing for it, but can I get a ton of games at 60 fps with no frameskip and 44 kHz sound?
Is it an all-in-one game? No, it's not. For me, if it has a frame skip, I don't want to play it or release it.


Anyways back to the subject of my release and not about snes and some mainstream youtuber.

Oh well.

BTW, is there a way to have more then 1 game on one disc using this or do I need to use this program instead?: https://github.com/arthabus/DreamcastCdiTool A part of me wants to make a 2-in-1 disc containing BillyTime Games' SRAM and Weapon Switch hacks of Vectorman 1 & 2.

I used this program to create a selfboot disc of Pac Attack but the graphics are glitchy as hell thus the game is unplayable with the emulator you must be using for this program. Could you please fix it for the next update? BTW, I tested it using Flycast (a Dreamcast emulator).

TheWhiteDevil27 wrote:I used this program to create a selfboot disc of Pac Attack but the graphics are glitchy as hell thus the game is unplayable with the emulator you must be using for this program. Could you please fix it for the next update? BTW, I tested it using Flycast (a Dreamcast emulator).

You cant use dc emulators only demul flycast and redream are junk must of missed when i said this they display glitched .. I dont code for dc emulators and that's not my problem but flycast and redream for not emulating dc hardware..

Demul it will display correct and a real dreamcast..

example

Ian Micheal wrote:

TheWhiteDevil27 wrote:I used this program to create a selfboot disc of Pac Attack but the graphics are glitchy as hell thus the game is unplayable with the emulator you must be using for this program. Could you please fix it for the next update? BTW, I tested it using Flycast (a Dreamcast emulator).

You cant use dc emulators only demul flycast and redream are junk must of missed when i said this they display glitched .. I dont code for dc emulators and that's not my problem but flycast and redream for not emulating dc hardware..

Demul it will display correct and a real dreamcast..

Thank you for the advice.

TheWhiteDevil27 wrote:

Ian Micheal wrote:

TheWhiteDevil27 wrote:I used this program to create a selfboot disc of Pac Attack but the graphics are glitchy as hell thus the game is unplayable with the emulator you must be using for this program. Could you please fix it for the next update? BTW, I tested it using Flycast (a Dreamcast emulator).

You cant use dc emulators only demul flycast and redream are junk must of missed when i said this they display glitched .. I dont code for dc emulators and that's not my problem but flycast and redream for not emulating dc hardware..

Demul it will display correct and a real dreamcast..

Thank you for the advice.

I would love for Redream and Flycast to fix their rendering for the PVR GPU, but they have not. This emulator is using hardware features of a real Dreamcast that other emulators do not support, so it's not the fault or defect of this emulator but of their Implementation of the Dreamcast hardware. The only emulator that correctly renders using this is DEMUL from 2018. You can find it on the Russian forum.

By the way, when will there be a standalone version with just the emulator and a menu where you can add multiple games onto one CDI like most of the other emulators on the Dreamcast?
I just tested a CDI I made using your autoporter out on Demul and Pac Attack works like a charm.