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How hard would it be to emulate a 3-screen Sega Strike Fighter?

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Fursphere:


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--- Quote from: Dcpmark on October 07, 2013, 08:59:11 pm ---Assuming for sake of this hypothetical that there was a working ROM for an existing emulator, and assuming you could set up 3 4x3 LCDs like the arcade machine, what would you have to do to make it work?

TIA!

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I'm not sure what you're asking.  If all your assumptions were true, what else is there to know?

Sega Strike Fighter is a Sega NAOMI game and is playable with Demul emulator.
It requires a pretty top notch processor and video card though.

Demul doesn't support triple monitors as far as I know.
But if it did, you could just use a pc flight stick and throttle.

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I would imagine you could use one of the newer NVidia graphics cards that support three monitors and put it in "surround" mode.  (I think AMD/Radeon calls it Eyefinity).  Basically makes all three screens act as one really wide one.

Dcpmark:


--- Quote from: Fursphere on October 07, 2013, 10:37:26 pm ---
--- Quote from: BadMouth on October 07, 2013, 09:34:41 pm ---
--- Quote from: Dcpmark on October 07, 2013, 08:59:11 pm ---Assuming for sake of this hypothetical that there was a working ROM for an existing emulator, and assuming you could set up 3 4x3 LCDs like the arcade machine, what would you have to do to make it work?

TIA!

--- End quote ---

I'm not sure what you're asking.  If all your assumptions were true, what else is there to know?

Sega Strike Fighter is a Sega NAOMI game and is playable with Demul emulator.
It requires a pretty top notch processor and video card though.

Demul doesn't support triple monitors as far as I know.
But if it did, you could just use a pc flight stick and throttle.

--- End quote ---

I would imagine you could use one of the newer NVidia graphics cards that support three monitors and put it in "surround" mode.  (I think AMD/Radeon calls it Eyefinity).  Basically makes all three screens act as one really wide one.

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I have a newish Nvidia GTX 660 (not sure if it has surround mode), but I'm not sure that would work anyway. It might just stretch the single-screen version of the game to all 3 screens instead of using all the data for the 3-screen version of the game, like this:

http://shmups.system11.org/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=22529&start=5

paigeoliver:

I wouldn't worry too much about your configuration for this, it could be 10 years or more before the three screen version is running properly full speed without glitches on available hardware.

If you are really into the game then the single screen version can be had for under $1000. The three screen version is a bit spendier.

Dcpmark:


--- Quote from: paigeoliver on October 07, 2013, 11:41:59 pm ---
If you are really into the game then the single screen version can be had for under $1000. The three screen version is a bit spendier.

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Hmmm.....this might be a stupid question, but would it be possible to convert a single screen to a triple screen using LCDs for the side views, and if so, how hard would it be to do?

Haze:


--- Quote from: Dcpmark on October 07, 2013, 11:57:06 pm ---
--- Quote from: paigeoliver on October 07, 2013, 11:41:59 pm ---
If you are really into the game then the single screen version can be had for under $1000. The three screen version is a bit spendier.

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Hmmm.....this might be a stupid question, but would it be possible to convert a single screen to a triple screen using LCDs for the side views, and if so, how hard would it be to do?

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There are 3 (or is it 4) Naomi boards in the 3 screen versions, with different software to the single screen game, and even a custom bios rom.  It likely uses custom IO boards too.

So no. You can't cheat.

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