Next Gen Emulator speeds?
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Lemmy
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Gamecube with GOOD (well maybe really good) dynrec would probably need a 3 ghz plus a direct3d 9 card (pixelshaders 2.0 would help alot cause of its advanced gfx). But 4-5 ghz would probably be more realistic.
XBOX something around 1 to 2 ghz, cause dynrec should be easier to do. But not an expert there.
I guess for PS2 you'd need something around 3 ghz.
Those are all my guesses. It highly depends on the quality of the emulator and the power of the systems which are difficult to estimate for me.
cheers
XBOX something around 1 to 2 ghz, cause dynrec should be easier to do. But not an expert there.
I guess for PS2 you'd need something around 3 ghz.
Those are all my guesses. It highly depends on the quality of the emulator and the power of the systems which are difficult to estimate for me.
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The Khan Artist
Warrior for God
Isn't CXBX a sort of virtual machine?
I guess the CXBX progress page has a pretty good explanation of what it is and what it isn't...
www.caustik.com/cxbx/
www.caustik.com/cxbx/
Reznor007
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Truly emulating Xbox will be VERY hard. CXBX basically just hacks the games into running on your PC, it doesn't really emulate the Xbox though.
Emulating Gamecube will be difficult because of the undocumented video chip and PowerPC chip, which is difficult to emulate.
PS2 is just another MIPS based system though, and just look at how many MIPS emulators are around. Emulating the vector units will be hella slow though.
Emulating Gamecube will be difficult because of the undocumented video chip and PowerPC chip, which is difficult to emulate.
PS2 is just another MIPS based system though, and just look at how many MIPS emulators are around. Emulating the vector units will be hella slow though.
nephalim
Psychic Vampire
You know you're "old school" if you remember all the "there will never be an N64 emu" rukus. 
HLE truly changed the world of emulation. It's good by allowing more complex systems to be emulated, such as allowing system as old as the N64 to be run on a standard system, but it's bad (IMHO) by allowing emulation of systems that are still in their prime. I think i'm the only one who is hoping next-gen emulation takes a few years before commercial games are playable (by very conservative standards.)
HLE truly changed the world of emulation. It's good by allowing more complex systems to be emulated, such as allowing system as old as the N64 to be run on a standard system, but it's bad (IMHO) by allowing emulation of systems that are still in their prime. I think i'm the only one who is hoping next-gen emulation takes a few years before commercial games are playable (by very conservative standards.)You could say that, but UltraHLE did some emulation at a much higher level, hooking OS functions that the dynarec couldn't handle and redirect them to C functions that performed their functions. From what i've understood, UltraHLE didn't bother to emulate the RSP co-processor either, but simply recognized the highlevel commands sent to it, and translated them to Glide.
Zsnes doesn't do anything similar, it's simply impossible on the SNES since there is no common OS code in games or co-processor with microcode. It would perhaps be possible to HLE the sound coprocessor in a few games but compatibility would drop, just like UltraHLE.
Zsnes doesn't do anything similar, it's simply impossible on the SNES since there is no common OS code in games or co-processor with microcode. It would perhaps be possible to HLE the sound coprocessor in a few games but compatibility would drop, just like UltraHLE.