punisher001
Everyone gets what he deserves
A few days and it will be Chankast's birthday and with luck a release!
Bye guys!
Bye guys!
Just some days...
- Thread starter punisher001
- Start date
I lost all hope on a new release anytime soon (=less than six months), however an update saying that the authors are minimally interested in some day giving a new update/release would be awesome.
Such an awesome emulator so abandoned, so sad sigh. You now see how many emulators are ported to almost every existing platform like snes9x and all (check PSP emulators, so many old platforms now playable after some tweaking on it thanks to all those previous efforts) and thus the work of the programmers will be enjoyed on current and future platforms, this one could go side by side and be alive forever, some games here like Shenmue, Power Stone, etc deserve to be played by younger gamers, but it stays here in a weird limbo
Sorry for my stupid rant, if Chankast wasn't so good and promising I wouldn't be so sad about its current state, nor would I keep coming here day after day for the slightest hope, but nothing comes.
Such an awesome emulator so abandoned, so sad sigh. You now see how many emulators are ported to almost every existing platform like snes9x and all (check PSP emulators, so many old platforms now playable after some tweaking on it thanks to all those previous efforts) and thus the work of the programmers will be enjoyed on current and future platforms, this one could go side by side and be alive forever, some games here like Shenmue, Power Stone, etc deserve to be played by younger gamers, but it stays here in a weird limbo
Sorry for my stupid rant, if Chankast wasn't so good and promising I wouldn't be so sad about its current state, nor would I keep coming here day after day for the slightest hope, but nothing comes.
Last edited:
Trotterwatch
Active member
Branz_mf said:
Just hope, nothing factual I'm afraid. I too hope a birthday release will be forthcoming, but I have seen absoloutely nothing to imply that will be the case.
Trotterwatch
Active member
Well it isn't really the birthday that would have been in May, more the anniversarry since the last release which was in July (7th).
Trotterwatch
Active member
Well said!
Dreamemu is deader than Chankast btw, so that was a wierd notion to put forward that it was a more alive emulator.
Dreamemu is deader than Chankast btw, so that was a wierd notion to put forward that it was a more alive emulator.
Talbain
Moo.
Semi-sarcasm. Basically the "Dreamcast" emulators are not very active as far as development goes (the only emulator that I know of that's more dead is Saturn development). Or the developers are extremely silent about them. I'm always bothered by people who say emulators are still alive because they updated once in huge periods of time with virtually no information referencing them (or they didn't officially say they're dead, something that's laughable considering how many rise from the dead). In my mind, any emulator is dead if there's no activity after a significant amount of time. I consider the ZSNES emulator to be dead, but it's still updated every now and then. I also consider significant updates. Not updates that fix something like one polygon in one game.
KaneRobot
WEN-DI-GO
Talbain said:
You're not wrong. It may not be "dead" in the respect that no one will ever touch it again sometime over the next few years, but come on. It's been a year since a release and half a year since a site update. "Catatonic" is just as bad as "dead" as far as I'm concerned, since either way nothing is released.
Great emulator with lots of potential, but be fair - this is hardly a case of declaring it dead "24 hours" after there was no update.
Branz_mf said:
....shhh.
Squaresoft74
Pceripper
SSFTalbain said:
Alive and kicking , play lots of commercial games fully and is perfectly legit unlike that hacked girgiri or its lame gui hacked clone Cassini.
Satourne
Version 2.0 is under private beta testing since March and looks promising.
Saturnin
Still worked on and progressing nicely.
Yabause
Not much news atm for that one but progressing nicely aswell with each release.
I would hardly call the Saturn emulation development "dead" :whistling
Talbain
Moo.
Touche. I suppose it'd be easier to explain what I mean if I could talk with any of you, but, being unable to do so, I will simply say that I hope you are right as far as development of the Dreamcast and Saturn emulators goes, and the same for all other emulators as well. I'm not being unappreciative, far from it, but I do believe that correspondence with the people who want these things the most would be a good idea. Though, I'm told that programming makes you unable to communicate with people who aren't programmers, so maybe that's where my fault in thinking comes in.Squaresoft74 said:SSF
Alive and kicking , play lots of commercial games fully and is perfectly legit unlike that hacked girgiri or its lame gui hacked clone Cassini.
Satourne
Version 2.0 is under private beta testing since March and looks promising.
Saturnin
Still worked on and progressing nicely.
Yabause
Not much news atm for that one but progressing nicely aswell with each release.
I would hardly call the Saturn emulation development "dead" :whistling
Talbain said:
It is updated on average every 14.86 hours, and there is a WIP release every month. Hardly dead.
http://cia.navi.cx/stats/project/zsnes
KaneRobot
WEN-DI-GO
Talbain said:
Ditto. I don't care if/when they release something, what they've done so far is enough to hold me over indefinitely. But even just for the sake of donations - which I was planning on doing until I saw the length of time between releases and site updates - I wish they'd just put SOMETHING on their site like "We're not dead, progress is slow on the next version but it will be out eventually" or whatever the situation is. Even if it IS dead I'd rather hear them say it than just speculating endlessly.