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[Lord Cheese]

I am planning to release Dreamemu soon, but as a "Public Alpha". Regular releases of both the emulator and plugins should be occuring here soon, so make sure u check back in a few weeks or so.

[iq_132]

Great!!!! I can't wait to see how much this has progressed!!!

[Riven]

Nice!!!! I've waited for this too much :)

[perche]

I can play to soul calibur with the new released?
i want play this game many many time

[Grant64]

Cool I cannot wait for this!!! Good Luck - Icarus is doing well too hopefully SEGA emulation is improving!!! Model 2 - Saturn and now dreamcast!

[mesman00]

uhh, perche, i don't think you'll be playing soul calibar, unless lordcheese is goin to blow us all out of the water

[LD.]

Hey, it could happen ;)

[Stezo2k]

yeah in about a year or 2 :P

[BinoX]

Originally posted by perche
I can play to soul calibur with the new released?
i want play this game many many time

Har har.. U make no sense. :p



Lrd: Cool...

Btw. I'm returning to irc sometime soon.

[ShadowFX]

I never actually played on a real Dreamcast, so I'm not familiar with the emu-scene of this console either. But I saw Soul Reaver and Dead or Alive and it looked very good. Wasn't the Dreamcast out of business?

About emulation64.com: you should change the icon of the last message into a dreamcast icon instead of putting a N64 icon there ;)

[Lord Cheese]

hehe, i doubt soul calibur is going to run, but i havnt tried it so i dont know :) id put my money on no though. Dreamcast rocks - one of the best consoles of all time

[ben]

can the new dc emu play sonic adventure 2?

[Lord Cheese]

not as far as i know

[BinoX]

lol. I'll try a few commercial games later... do not expect results though people.. lol :p

[Stezo2k]

Originally posted by ben
can the new dc emu play sonic adventure 2?

LOL what a newbie, i dont think the emu has progressed that much, u will have to wait my freind ;)

Stez

[Lord Cheese]

hehe yea :) i would be absolutly amazed if it actually ran any commercial games yet. In fact, if it does, Ill make it open source and release it today :)

btw, its not a new DC emu, its been around for ageeeeess :)

[mmcoder]

Does the display list support work for everything and not just that demo? If so can I ask what's stopping it from working on more than that?

[mmcoder]

I obviously forgot how to speak english again

[Lord Cheese]

good question, and the answer is i dont know. it *should* work for all the kamui demos at least, but im not certain. I didnt have time to try any more out.

[RPGlover12]

Good luck Lord Cheese we hope to see a good emulator though :) i'd love to see dream emu be the one that emulates commercial games :)

[Slougi]

May the cheese be with you ;)

[Lord Cheese]

shut up Slougi
j/k :P

[BinoX]

No new compatibility to report. :\

Still testing stuff though.

[Grant64]

All I can say is Keep it Up - Try booting Smash Pack - That is what Icarus frst got a boot out of despite still having loads to do!!!
Where is Cyrus - What is Icarus State at the Mo!!

[Olivenemu]

there will be some commercial games which will turn? ;)

[Flash]

Originally posted by Grant64
All I can say is Keep it Up - Try booting Smash Pack - That is what Icarus frst got a boot out of despite still having loads to do!!!
Where is Cyrus - What is Icarus State at the Mo!!

Oh, Hickarus.. . It's only screenshots pack for me. :D

Why there's no public beta to run'n'see, like Fabien does with Satourne ?
Maybe Cyrus works for 3DRealms - "When it's done..." ? :D :D :D

[Grant64]

He is not obliged to release!!! It is his decision! Yeah it is nice seeing what fabian is doing but it was also nice with the project64 1.5 surprise!!!

[RatTrap]

/me puts lrd on his trap ;).. now let's catch slougi so i can grab his avatar..

[CyRUS64]

Flash: hehe
Grant64: Firstly I actually got namco museum to run first. Then Smash Pack. Then Snow Surfers. Then even reports from gfx renderer of Unreal Tournament working but being very fucked-up ;)
And of course Headhunter main 'press start' menu,
http://icarus.boob.co.uk/gallery/June02/headhunter.jpg
But its not solid emulation atm, so dont expect anything. Its still somewhat hit-and-miss with those kind of commercial games, and rendering needs to be improved much. (thats one reason immediaitely why a release is out of the question right now)

However there is no way dreamemu can run anything commercial, expect perhaps namco, without lrdcheese emulating g2 dma, which requires some reversing since the info isnt public yet :)

As for Icarus' state, well I've been figuring out a lot more about how sweet the dreamcast is and some of its very neat features/abilities, and thus am rewriting certain parts, but as for improved compatibility we'll just have to wait and see...
I'm very busy with uni also, so I have to juggle the two (well 3, +coding for dc) appropriately.

Regards,
CyRUS

[Grant64]

So just out of intrest how do you go about improving rendering???

[Stezo2k]

Originally posted by CyRUS64
Flash: hehe
Grant64: Firstly I actually got namco museum to run first. Then Smash Pack. Then Snow Surfers. Then even reports from gfx renderer of Unreal Tournament working but being very fucked-up ;)
And of course Headhunter main 'press start' menu,
http://icarus.boob.co.uk/gallery/June02/headhunter.jpg
But its not solid emulation atm, so dont expect anything. Its still somewhat hit-and-miss with those kind of commercial games, and rendering needs to be improved much. (thats one reason immediaitely why a release is out of the question right now)

However there is no way dreamemu can run anything commercial, expect perhaps namco, without lrdcheese emulating g2 dma, which requires some reversing since the info isnt public yet :)

As for Icarus' state, well I've been figuring out a lot more about how sweet the dreamcast is and some of its very neat features/abilities, and thus am rewriting certain parts, but as for improved compatibility we'll just have to wait and see...
I'm very busy with uni also, so I have to juggle the two (well 3, +coding for dc) appropriately.

Regards,
CyRUS

wow, nice to c u m8 :) icarus is sounding more and more promising everytime i hear news about it :) keep up the good work :thumbsup:

Stez

[JuGz]

Hey Lord Cheesy good luck with your emu, if u need any feedback or support u can count on me!

:)

[jvolel]

does the new emu run any commercial games? like ogaboga (doubt it being that its a alpha)

[jvolel]

never mind after reading the above post

[Flash]

Originally posted by Grant64
He is not obliged to release!!! It is his decision!


Sure. But if he will release it will be great.

Commercial games ? Why some people making noise here ? If even Icarus or Dreamemu will run Sonic Adventure, i'm
not so sure if anybody here have enough cpu horsepower to get more than 5 fps. Maybe me, but running dc emu on pc emu that runs on huge mainframe...
It's for masochists only... and i can't put mainframe in my pocket and bring it home :)

I need DC emu for testing some homebrew stuff before burning cds. :

[cdoty]

What about libdream stuff, does it work fairly well?

[CyRUS64]

I was doing a bit of testing actually of a couple of games I have around today and the 'Now Loading' screen from Jet Grind radio displays, and puyo puyo, aqua gt, unreal tournament and a couple of others 'work' and should display with improved rendering ;)
Other than nba2k2, which has some extra protection on it it seemed, with a bit of work I can hopefully get some improved results out of these and other games. (I sort of know what is needed for them and they arent crashing out unusually requiring tiring bughunts)
CyRUS

[Grant64]

Hey! That's great news!!!! Keep up the good work CYRUS!!!

[Stezo2k]

thats awesome news cyrus (good to see u around):D

Stez

[jhonny]

Is it possible that the emu coders will join power ? Boobcast (icarus) and Dreamemu ? I would like to see that ;) Could bring some interesting results.

I also have a silly question - coz i never wrote an emu before and i would like to know - that - once you guys have the specs of the chips of the console or arcade board - what do you do next ? And if u have all the specs for all the chips wouldnt the emu run all the games ?

[jhonny]

I was also wondering will we (the users) need to use the DC boot cd by Utopia to play DC games on the emu ?

and Cyrus64 - can you please post some new screens and update your site !!! Im a huge fan !!! And i would like to see some new screens - even if little progress has been made ;)

B T W - KEEP IT UP DUDES !!! U R THE GUYS WHO SHOULD BE WORKING FOR BIG ASS COMPANIES AND EARNING LOTS OF $$$$ - U SMART GUYS !!! I wish i had the brains to write an emulator ;) BTW - is there a guide for that ? LOL - i would love to write my own ;)

[Stezo2k]

nope we wouldnt need the boot cd and only the copied games would work on it, due to the pc not being able to read GD-roms

Stez

[Grant64]

Ripped GD roms could be played as ISOs

Jhonny : I spoke to lordcheese and he said this is a project he is working on alone in his spare time! Besides I like to see 2 emu's progressing their different ways!

[CyRUS64]

jhonny: Firstly there is no way Icarus and Dreamemu would ever join. It wouldnt at all give interesting results either.

Secondly although a few games are certainly 'running' in a sense, the problem is that the rendering isnt very stable and the results can often look very messed up due to lack of omplementation for certain compression schemes. Anyhow, if i get a chance ill take a pic of the now loading screen from jet grind radio, and perhaps even a pic of how messed up unreal tournament is looking!

Also, one of the methods for testing original gdroms in Icarus will be to hook up the dreamcast to your pc via broadband adaptor or lan adaptor, and with appropriate server software running on the dreamcast dynamically load data from the gdrom as is needed. This way, you have no need to spend a long time 'dumping' a gdrom, and it completely avoids legality issues of providing ppl with methods to create isos of games.

[Slougi]

Actually some Yamaha CD Drive could read GD-Roms, I read about that on some site. I woder if it's true....

[Grant64]

Is it possible to get a driver that allows you to put your DC GD drive in a PC in order to play games??? I have a spare DC and am willing to dismantle it for emulation purposes???

[Slougi]

Well, it might be possible to hack up a pci card that lets you connect the GD-Rom drive to it, or if the interface is similar to IDE/SCSI some interface between the two could be built. I doubt it's worth the effort, as it would take a hell of a lot of hacking. Basically: NO.

[perche]

cyrus64 test soul calibur please

[cooliscool]

Originally posted by perche
cyrus64 test soul calibur please

:plain2:

[Alex_A]

You cooked all that stuff?
Impresive, even for an DC coder...

Seems delicious! {;D

[Alex_A]

Cooliscool how you forgot the cheese in your food????
Lord Cheese is going to get angry with you......

starting gettin hungry...... yet? {;D

[Stezo2k]

Originally posted by cooliscool
Originally posted by perche
cyrus64 test soul calibur please

:plain2:

LOL

[mesman00]

oh boy, things are really starting to get exciting in the dc scene.

[Alex_A]

Yup! i´m waiting for more screenshots!
Icarus have some posted on its Web but most are b/w
now is dreamemu´s turn to snap some Previews

[BinoX]

*whistles an innocent tune and wanders off*

There may be some stuff before u think.

[Lord Cheese]

Find something new Mr. Binox? :)

[Alex_A]

Keep up the good work, Lord Cheese.

[BinoX]

Originally posted by Lord Cheese
Find something new Mr. Binox? :)

Possibly... It may have just been my imagination though... ^_^;;

I'll try it again later and tell u if I get the same thing.

[AGRACUTA]

SWEET! i cant wait to use this new realease!

[g00beRz]

Sonic Adventure??

[(*_*)MARK]

*gets out shotgun and aims it at g00berz head*



:plain2:

[g00beRz]

What? What is wrong with SONIC ADVENTURE?! gurrr

[AGRACUTA]

SHOOT EM!! BLOW HIS HEAD OFF!!

[CyRUS-]

Originally posted by perche
cyrus64 test soul calibur please

Well check the latest screenshots page and you'll see it runs to the 'no vmu found' screen, but the game doesnt recognise the controllers for some reason and thus i cant progress any further right now, but im planning a maple rewrite soon... ;)

[Killer90boy]

WOW....all this seem to have gotten so far....
Does anybody know where i can get a cheap DC so i can get the BIOS?