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Sega Saturn, Dreamcast Emulators
Nologic:
Okay a massively late reply but what the hell.
Okay with Crankcast you can only boot CDI CD disc images.
With nullDC you can boot CDI CD disc images along with whats called a GDI...which is typically raw data tracks pulled off a GD-ROM (DC disc) and linked to by a ascii text file.
The primary difference between CDI's & GDI's is that CDI's can be played on an actual DC, but at the price of many of the games having down sampled assets....now GDI's nothing has been down sampled...but currently there is no way to burn them to disc...and even if there was it would require 99min CDR's and several games would still be to big to be burned.
So for emulation you would want GDI's if possible...for an actual DC, you would want CDI's as they are the only thing you can really burn at this point.
hmm... should bring up another point...CDI's typically range in size from 40mb to 700mb, where GDI's range between 1gig and 1.2gig
Dariusz:
Is there an DC Emu which supports the original (or CDI) CD thru the use of the PC CD or DVD drive?
Dariusz
unclet:
Are any of the Sega Saturn emulators "good enough" to run full games yet and full speed without problems?
Seems like a lot of games are from Japan(J). Was the Sega Saturn console mostly used for Japanese games?
What are the homepage links of the Saturnin, SSF and Satourne emulators?
Does anyone have any of these emulators on their cabinet? If so, hwo do they run games?
Are there any problems with the emulators when running?
Is configuring them a pain or is it easy?
Must you download plugins for different games and all that nonsense to make a game work?
squirrellydw:
try here
http://www.emulator-zone.com/
SavannahLion:
--- Quote from: Nologic on June 13, 2007, 01:04:16 am ---but currently there is no way to burn them to disc...and even if there was it would require 99min CDR's and several games would still be to big to be burned.
--- End quote ---
A little surprising since there's a project out there hacking out custom firmware for certain model CDR/W drives. You'd think someone would figure out how to modify the drive routine from CLV to CAV for a burn.... Or am I doing the capacity math wrong on that one?
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