It will be hard to emulate the GC!

[Teamz]

"Even with over 5 hours of compressed video (they are using their own codec for compression) Eternal Darkness will still be able to fit on one GameCube disc."



They are already using private algorithms, people will have some fun reversing this hehe

[blizz]

not really since the codec is either in built into the hardware or it is uploaded by the game to the hardware before each movie plays

it's a challenge but not one that can't be overcome by the right people

[pj64er]

thats the optimistic view. but u got to remember that noone is yet able to reverse the SDD1 compression of SNES!

[blizz]

no one has yet emulated the 64DD or a 32X but they are possible

[pj64er]

i thought we were talking about compressions

[Slougi]

what u forgot is that sdd1 is not just a compression technique, it's a chip. what we are talking about is done with the gamecubes processor, so if u emulate that reasonably accurately the compression algorithm will work all by itself.

And as to 32X, there are some emulators for that. 64DD might take a while yet, there is no real interest in it.

Edit: made post a bit clearer.

[Davemc]

i would like to see a 64DD emulator, but there would only be japanese roms for it, so maybe there isnt much point

it would be cool to see though

[blizz]

I forgot about AGES (it's hardly playable though)

and there should be interest in the 64DD if not just for the challenge but for F-Zero

[Slougi]

blizz: there is also Retrodrive and Xega. And Ages can be quite speedy with some ini tweaks.

[pj64er]

teamz, r u talking about a compression stored on the disc, or on a chip in the GC?