[HN Gopher] Dreamcast Emulator Redream 1.5.0 Progress Report ___________________________________________________________________ Dreamcast Emulator Redream 1.5.0 Progress Report Author : tosh Score : 26 points Date : 2020-02-16 21:38 UTC (1 hours ago) (HTM) web link (redream.io) (TXT) w3m dump (redream.io) | lostgame wrote: | The Dreamcast is by far and large one of my all-time favourite | consoles. | | SEGA's level of innovation here was extreme. | | From great developer support, online play (even if the Broadband | Adapter for Ethernet was extremely rare); the VMU, and an | extremely impressive library of quality titles (Skies of Arcadia, | Crazy Taxi, Soul Calibur 2, etc) - it was literally a situation | that seemed geared to greatness. | | If it had a DVD player, I think it literally could've saved SEGA, | after the awful litany of repeated terrible decisions they made | in the mid-90's. (Here's looking at you, 32X...) | | I was just at A&C games here in Toronto, lamenting to an employee | of the demise of SEGA's consoles - but the Dreamcast, in | particular, deserved better than it got. | | The Saturn will always have a special place in my heart, though, | as an extremely early example of multi-processor architecture | (the Saturn technically has 7 processors, each for a different | task - 2 GPU's, CD I/O, sound, etc.) | shahinrostami wrote: | Great work - the Dreamcast brought me many years of fun and I | can't wait to check this out on a Raspberry Pi! | bArray wrote: | Impressive stuff, this will be massive for archive efforts. I am | still yet to find a good performance emulation experience for the | Play Station 2 console. | monocasa wrote: | PS2 is legitimately really hard. It's both just fast enough | that cycle accurate is off the table and probably always will | be on conventional processors, and is just barely old enough | that it has tons of little special instruction streams that | need to be in close sync with each other, sometimes without | explicit synchronization in their code. | lostgame wrote: | PCSX2 doesn't do the trick for you? Works great on my 2017 | MacBook Pro and decently on my 2012, even. | [deleted] ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2020-02-16 23:00 UTC)