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[PsyMan]

At last a DC emulator that runs commercial games is going to be released in about a month from now. Is it going to be as good as it seems? We'll find out sooner or later.
Ah and here are some screenshots showing its latest progress. ;)

Sonic Adventure 2:
http://www.emulatronia.com/fotos/sonic21.jpg

Unreal 2:
http://www.emulatronia.com/fotos/unreal2.jpg

Metropolis street racer:
http://www.emulatronia.com/fotos/msr.jpg

Tony Hawk 2:
http://www.emulatronia.com/fotos/tonyhawk2.jpg

Jet grind radio:
http://www.emulatronia.com/fotos/jetgrindradio.jpg

There are also some other screenshots and a couple of videos released here and there. You can use a search engine like google to find them if you are interested.

[minkster]

nice pics ya got there :)

[Stezo2k]

i'll believe it when i try it mate, seems kind of fake to me for some reason

[PsyMan]

i'll believe it when i try it mate, seems kind of fake to me for some reason
Well the only known fake DC emulator is nightmare.
There are some noobs saing that Icarus is fake but it isn't. Both F|RES and ector who are known for their recent Gamecube project (Dolphin) and of course CyRUS64 who is known for his efford on a N64 emulator (Daedalus) were working on Icarus.
If you enable the "overlay some statistics" option on Dolphin's GFX plugin configuration you'll see that some statistics are displayed on the screen just like on some Icarus screenshots.
Anyway ChankaDC is going to take part on a Dreamcast coding competition on this or the next month.

[dreamer]

wow if it really does work...i'll be very impressed, good work for finding this info out. i just wonder what kind of specs would be necessary for this to run well..

[CrzCorvette]

Looks real to me. JGR shows some clipping and texture errors, Tony Hawk 2 has miscolored text, which isn't an issue on the real thing. This will definitely make an interesting emu.

[rcgamer]

theres an interview with the programmer here
its translated.

http://www.dcemu.co.uk/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl?board=dcemu;action=display;num=1 082491911;start=0#1

[Stezo2k]

Well the only known fake DC emulator is nightmare.
There are some noobs saing that Icarus is fake but it isn't. Both F|RES and ector who are known for their recent Gamecube project (Dolphin) and of course CyRUS64 who is known for his efford on a N64 emulator (Daedalus) were working on Icarus.
If you enable the "overlay some statistics" option on Dolphin's GFX plugin configuration you'll see that some statistics are displayed on the screen just like on some Icarus screenshots.
Anyway ChankaDC is going to take part on a Dreamcast coding competition on this or the next month.

well yeah, but i was on about this emulator mate, i just think its strange how an unknown dreamcast emulator can come out of the blue without no news about it previously and play many games well. Too good to be true to be honest :)

Good work though if its real :)

[rcgamer]

actually there has been news about it for around a month now.

[Stezo2k]

actually there has been news about it for around a month now.

ah, suprised i have only just heard about it here then, cheers for the heads up :)

[PsyMan]

Good news! According to a Spanish radio program that is related to emulation, ChankaDC is going to be released in this or the next week! The compatibility is not very high (aprox.10%) but it increases with amazing speed. The emulation speed is quite high (Tony Hawk 2 runs at 60 fps with sound under an AMD 2600). If you speak Spanish you can download the recorded radio program from EMULATRONIA (http://www.emulatronia.com).

[Stezo2k]

Good news! According to a Spanish radio program that is related to emulation, ChankaDC is going to be released in this or the next week! The compatibility is not very high (aprox.10%) but it increases with amazing speed. The emulation speed is quite high (Tony Hawk 2 runs at 60 fps with sound under an AMD 2600). If you speak Spanish you can download the recorded radio program from EMULATRONIA (http://www.emulatronia.com).

wow, would like to try this then, hopefully i'll get 60FPS :) haven't got too many backups to play on it though :huh:

[PsyMan]

ChankaDC is going to be released in a few days so many people would like to know its requirements, here they are:

CPU with SSE instructions (Intel P3/P4 or AMD XP)
ATI Radeon or nVida GeForce (with the last drivers)
DirectX 9.0b
Windows XP and maybe 2003 (other Windows versions are NOT supported)

This ChankaDC release will have the following features:

Compatibility is about 10%
Some games work at 40fps
Near perfect sound (P4 2Ghz or AMD XP 2600).
Tony Hawk works at 60fps with sound!!

[Talas]

Kewl! I am really looking forward to it.

[mesman00]

well yeah, but i was on about this emulator mate, i just think its strange how an unknown dreamcast emulator can come out of the blue without no news about it previously and play many games well. Too good to be true to be honest :)

Good work though if its real :)

are you forgetting UltraHLE. it was the same thing, unknown and just came out of nowhere, cept for the n64.

[Hexidecimal]

I'm interested to get this as soon as it releases, and see which of my erm, legally backed up DC games play.

[revl8er]

This emulator seems pretty good, I've seen some of the screens on ngemu and they look great especially the gfx and speed. I just need to buy a new motherboard since mine doesn't wanna run my athlon xp 3200 at full speed.

[ggab]

news: from http://www.dcemu.co.uk/chanka.shtml

DCEmu.co.uk DC Emulators Section
Name: Chanka
Author: Garrofi (aka Miguel Angel Pastor)
Description: New Dreamcast Emulator for windows.
Download: Not Yet :)
Information:
We were speaking yesterday with the programmer of the Chanka(emulador de Dreamcast for Windows) and it said to us that the videos of the games reproduced correctly, that the sound or was implemented and was very good, and that the date of exit of the emulator continued being final of June or principles of Julio. So that you see the evolution of the emulator we put screenshots to you of the games here.
http://www.dcemu.co.uk/3rdstrike.gif
http://www.dcemu.co.uk/sonic222.gif
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check this out!!!!
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New Video 26th May 2004

New Video of Chanka Running- Download HERE (direct link http://homepage.ntlworld.com/da.waugh/chanka2.rm) Real Media Player Vid File size 3.1mb

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official page!!! is: http://www.chanka.org & http://chanka.emulatronia.com
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release date!!!! from http://downloads.rcb.es/sonic/audio/emulatronia/
maybe at this weekend (Saturday... just maybe...) check this radio's shows
(in Spanish) emulatronia19mayo.wma & emulatronia26mayo.wma
http://chanka.emulatronia.com/Chanka.jpg
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[dreamer]

<i>I'm interested to get this as soon as it releases, and see which of my erm, legally backed up DC games play.
</i>

i'm hoping skies of Arcadia works/will work in the future :holiday:

that really is a special game and would be great to play under emulation!

[ggab]

http://www.emulatronia.com/fotos/mvc2mini.jpg
29 of May (the Saturday!!!). During this week the compatibility has been increased considerably and now games like Marvel versus Capcom 2 work, Daytona the USA, Crazy Taxi, Capcom versus the SNK, Grandia 2... and very many more. Also the VMU have been emulated and support of joystick has been added.

[PsyMan]

Emm... I don't know how to say this, but there seem to be severe GFX problems in some games with Nvidia cards (GeForces only, TNTs work fine). Plus, running games from a boot disk is not supported (only selfbootable games run). The authors are trying to fix these problems before the release date (tommorow) but they may not make it on time , in that case these problems will probably be fixed on the next release.

[revl8er]

This emulator is gonna rock, I think i'm gonna have to buy some used dreamcast games to play on this emulator if it works great. I especially wanna try out Marvel vs Capcom 2 because I haven't had a chance to really play the game.

[JasonXT]

Oh my god, this is so cool! It's been so long since the dc first came out (6 years), and now we're finally getting a good emu to play with! This is going to be great playing Sonic Adventure on the pc, with the original sonic model.
Oh man! That coaster works video looks great! Although a little suspicious :unsure:

[Stezo2k]

Oh my god, this is so cool! It's been so long since the dc first came out (6 years)

actually, its 5 years mate.... september 9th '99 i'm pretty sure it was in the USA, 2000 in the UK i think, if so its only 4 years here in the UK

[dreamer]

This emulator is gonna rock, I think i'm gonna have to buy some used dreamcast games to play on this emulator if it works great.

i would love to try some of my old dreamcast games, but i don't know how to :(
i did ask on the DCemu site but they only told me off about it and to go look on google. which i did for hours and only found out dodgy prgrams which claim to burn all kinds of games, dvds and of course dc games, however i can't imagine it works if the drive cannot read the disk. i heard of a similar rumor about using a bb adaptor similar to the GC way of extracting data from cds, thus using the original dc as a drive. this is fine but i cant find a guide anywhere on how to do this in detail. i'm hoping you guys can help me more as you understand im not asking for illegal copies of roms, i want to try sonic adventure, grandia 2 and skies of arcadia (my own copies), i can't actually play them easily as i have no room for a TV in my bedroom. and about the graphics cards which lack compatibility - how will my video card do (considering it is nvidia)

Card name: NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 4200 with AGP8X
Manufacturer: NVIDIA
Chip type: GeForce4 Ti 4200 with AGP8X
DAC type: Integrated RAMDAC

i have a relatively fast processor but that wont help if the card is unsupported! any comments?

[JasonXT]

I thought it came out in '98 in Japan?

[Hexidecimal]

Wow, kick ass work guys, keep it up.

[JasonXT]

What country are these guys in? It's 5:24 pm Saturday, right now.

[PsyMan]

In Spain it should be 9:50 right now...

[Trotterwatch]

It's out guys :)

http://www.chanka.org/index.html

[dreamer]

:)

[xdaniel_FWB]

nice to see it released... but my CPU doesn't support SSE and i'm also unable to dump my DC's BIOS >_<" Ahh, well... i need to upgrade my PC anyway...
What CPUs support SSE again? Intel's P3 and higher as well as AMD's Athlon XP and higher, right?

[Flash]

Unreal 2 ? LOL ! It's UT ...

[Flash]

nice to see it released... but my CPU doesn't support SSE and i'm also unable to dump my DC's BIOS >_<" Ahh, well... i need to upgrade my PC anyway...
What CPUs support SSE again? Intel's P3 and higher as well as AMD's Athlon XP and higher, right?
Right.

[rcgamer]

let me be the first to post a pic.

[DuDe]

Heh, the exact same game I've been playing in the last hour :)

The speed is very nice, I average at about 30 to 40 FPS on Ikaruga on my 2600+, I'm very impressed.

[XS Guile]

I know it s bad to ask for bios and stuff but I won t do that, I juste want to know what should be the size of dc_flash.bin and dc_bios.bin?
I have my own dreamcast with real games (no copies) and I can t backup my bios cause I havn t all the stuff needed for... :ermm:
So I will look for the bios on the net but I need the size information please :cry:
TIA

PS: If I say something bad please delete my post

[Hexidecimal]

Hrmm, I got the emulator, and a BIOS file named IP.bin at 32 kb. After I rename it to DC_Bios.bin so chanka recognizes it, but in MVC2 and select my drive, I hit Init to start it up, and the program does nothing but start consuming memory, am I doing something wrong?

[Alchy]

If you've only got originals then you can't use this emulator anyway. It only plays copies.

[rcgamer]

Hrmm, I got the emulator, and a BIOS file named IP.bin at 32 kb. After I rename it to DC_Bios.bin so chanka recognizes it, but in MVC2 and select my drive, I hit Init to start it up, and the program does nothing but start consuming memory, am I doing something wrong?

you need the two files dc_bios.bin and dc_flash.bin. and they cant be renamed from the other bios.

[kurni]

what's dc_flash.bin ?

[rcgamer]

its a file you need to run the emulator. thats all we need to know.

BTW you guys might want to get each version of the emulator(there are 3). some games run better on different versions.

[kurni]

does it work with dan potter's bios ?

[rcgamer]

here is another pic from super streetfighter 2x. runs fine even on my 1800+ , so does the other game i posted a pic of.

[Stezo2k]

It's out guys :)

http://www.chanka.org/index.html

:o wow, gunna check this out cheers a lot geeza

[Waan2k]

yep sure is Sweet can you say Datyona ! :)

[Waan2k]

Can you say "Daytona" everyone :)

[Stezo2k]

skies of arcadia: works flawlessly with sound :)

[XS Guile]

hop a little edit thx for all guy now i could try it maybe i ll post screenshot later

[Stezo2k]

spawn (J): works very well, especially the FMV sequences and sound :D

[BlackRoth]

Hi!

I'm a new member, this is a very nice site, congratulations!

Now, in Talfi's World Forums (http://www.talfi.redtotalonline.net/e107/forum.php) (a spanish emulation site) have been posted a thread called "Chankas compatibility list" (http://www.talfi.redtotalonline.net/e107/forum_viewtopic.php?3.4786.0) with Chankast screenshots in action, also there are some games that can´t be played with it. :cool:

Bye!
BlackRoth

[Stezo2k]

Ok then, as I don t have the stuff needed to get the bios from my own dreamcast I want to know if it s legal to ask someone to send me the bios (it s the same than in my DC no?)
Please answer my question I want to test this new emu!

its probably not legal to use somebody else's bios, but as long as you own a DC I wouldn't let it bother you, PM sent btw :cool:

[DuDe]

Illegal.

[dreamer]

ah yes this (getting my/a bios) will probably be a problem for me aswell :(
i don't have a bb adaptor, does that mean i'm screwed with dc emulation?
its all a shame because i do have the console and game i want to try anyway (soa, dammit)!

[Waan2k]

[Stezo2k]

ah yes this (getting my/a bios) will probably be a problem for me aswell :(
i don't have a bb adaptor, does that mean i'm screwed with dc emulation?
its all a shame because i do have the console and game i want to try anyway (soa, dammit)!

not really, you can use backups, ISOS etc if you look in the right place mate :)

[Trotterwatch]

Not sure where my other message went...

Stezo2k, could you stop hinting at obtaining illegal things.

[Waan2k]

Rez Very cool game runs at pretty much 60 fps :)

[Flash]

Hrmm, I got the emulator, and a BIOS file named IP.bin at 32 kb. After I rename it to DC_Bios.bin so chanka recognizes it, but in MVC2 and select my drive, I hit Init to start it up, and the program does nothing but start consuming memory, am I doing something wrong?
DC BIOS must me 2Mb


dc_bios bin 2 097 152 bytes 89f2b1a1

[Stezo2k]

Not sure where my other message went...

Stezo2k, could you stop hinting at obtaining illegal things.

sorry mate, i was just saying he can use back ups if he wishes.

Providing he has the game, if not, well he may be taking a risk, mind you, downloading a DC bios which isn't your own is illegal anyway

[PsyMan]

I tryied Metropolis street racer on my friend's PC (P4 3.2 Ghz + ATI Radeon 9600) a few hours ago, it's almost perfect. I need to upgrade my CPU though :( (no Chanka until I get an AthlonXP), dammit.

[kurni]

i get guilty gear running @ 40 fps awesone not any glitches nearly playable
great work.

[vampireuk]

If anybody asks where to get anything illegal in here I will personally rip their god damn nuts off with my god damn bare hands

Now enjoy

[Redah]

If anybody asks where to get anything illegal in here I will personally rip their god damn nuts off with my god damn bare hands

Now enjoy

GIMMEH CRACK !!!!

[JasonXT]

Lol. Ogm Liek Where Cab I Get De Dc Bis!!?!??? Ples Answer!!!
Whoa, posted like one second after he did.

[vampireuk]

GIMMEH CRACK !!!!

HE TOOK MEH JEB!

[DarkKnight38]

skies of arcadia: works flawlessly with sound :)
is that ntsc or pal? I hear that the PAL version fails to boot.

[ray16]

I'm having trouble setting up my controller. I can't figure it out.. O_o

Logitech Wingman Rumblepad.

I can't figure out how to change the button assignments.

*Edit*

I should be more specific. I don't know how to set my D-PAD and Analog controls. I'm trying to play Ikagura but it won't detect it when I press my D-Pad or Analog sticks so I can shoot and whatnot but I can't move.

[revl8er]

Damn, now i have to wait to test this emulator out because I don't own any dreamcast games at the moment.

[Stezo2k]

is that ntsc or pal? I hear that the PAL version fails to boot.

NTSC mate, never got the thing working on my real DC, wouldn't work with my scart lead, seems to work great with the emu though

[XBOX]

can anyone tell me if chankast uses D3D OR OPENGL32#

note that cd emulation makes a lot of difference:

DAEMON TOOLs : slow emulation and some games crashes.

Alchool 120% : very fast , 200x the speed of daemon tools, higher frame rate
the games gains extra 10fps with this emulation over daemon tools

My system

P4 2.4GHZ
500 MB DDR
ATI RADEON 9700 PR0
WIN XP PRO, SEVICE PACK 1

[Waan2k]

really, for some reason all my images I load of my DC games now come up with Audio cd. anyone had this problem.

Last night they were loading up as normal with the data there and folders.

could it be dameon tools I have both that and Alchol 120% installed

[elbe]

Anybody try it on windows 2000 ??
I can't boot any game - emulator don't even try run cd likie he can't control it under 2000.

[exodust]

Any try to Ntsc bios?