DEmul possible SHAM
Hi .....
I beleave DEmul to be fake , i think it is a (broken) early source or possible hacked encrypted/decrypted binary taken from chankast.
This emulator has far too many similarities to the chankast emulator and
there are possible hints from the readme file that comes with it that SOURCE
is the main progression with DEmul and that prommises of source seem like
they are just round the corner (mabe because a broken source) is all they have and want someone with more knowledge to do something with it.
From looking at several dreamcast games running on DEmul i can see far too
many similarities to chankast that i find very strange and suspicious , but apart
from that i also see two very suspect signs that look like data loss if you were
to decrypt an emulator binary and recompile it.
The frame rate indicator on DEmul is ridiculously inaccurate and looks like
a poor atempt at such an easy peice of code , something that should be extremely
easy to do for someone with tallents in writing an emulator, also it looks more like
a plugin adaptation for a frame counter and the main reason a frame rate plugin would be soo inaccurate would be that it is running with broken code.
Sound emulation also suffers in a big way if you are to recompile something
that was already locked down and the sound emulation to me looks broken,not unemulated or prilimenary.The sound emulation at a glance is something you would beleave in and think was proof that this emulator is a true build but sound can also hold many secrets and is an easy sign that its either unemulated or simply broken.Also broken is the keymap layout and interface functions,this
added with the last two problems is certainly suspicious and does make me wonder.
From looking at the actual graphic display emulation ,its amazing how similar the bugs from early and late chankast builds are exactly the same on two supposedly completly different graphics plugins when dreamcast hardware shouldnt be hard to display and we are not talking N64 emulation here , were this simularity could be more understanded even tho this doesnt happen with n64 graphics plugins.
Finaly , looking at DEmul and the list of avilable user options, i can see functions that are identical to chankast's only worded differently ie ,the capcom hack,tmu timing and there are others.
I personaly dont want this to be true as i love sega dreamcast and i am a long time fan of emulation and really really want a dreamcast emulator,but i cant help that a few things need to be addressed and i really do hope i am completly wrong.
ps , Please accept my apologies if i am wrong , and i DO wish the DEmul team
my best wishes.