Master System Emulation on Saturn

[mick_aka]

Old stuff, but I found the site lurking in my bookmarks:

phemusat.tripod.com/

[Yart]

Bah! I tried it a month ago. It's in the early stages. Games play like poop on it. I would wait a bit longer.

[mick_aka]

I don't think waiting will help, I dont think there has been an update for quite some time.

[Madroms]

for sms emu on SS, check the sms plus emu by vbt

[mick_aka]

I thought support had ended for that just as long ago madroms?

Last time I tried it was terribly slow and had no sound.

[Madroms]

nope, vbt still works on it and released new version from time to time.
You will find one of the latest version ici: vberthelot.free.fr/smsplus/sms_plus_raze_empty3.zip

Else, you must contact him directly on our board sega-board.fr (so in french) or on segaxtreme.net (in english)

[mick_aka]

Thanks for the links madroms.

[Yart]

I know there was a port of SMS Plus to the N-Gage that was bloody excellent! I swear it was perfect emulation. Same emulator, different console? If so, I'll have to try this out.

Light Gun support would be awesome.

[chizzles]

My guess would be that the N-Gage version was probably mostly different, as far as the code was concerned.

I need to buy a new N-Gage, my current N-Gage's keypad is dead =/

[Yart]

Jul 4, 2008 12:02:24 GMT @chizzles said:

...I need to buy a new N-Gage, my current N-Gage's keypad is dead =/

Ditto. Mine smashed into pieces and almost went down a flight of stairs from flying out of my hands at one point. I got no rubber on it, the SD card slot barely works, typing is a pain, yet three years after that incident I still have it on me everyday. It's even my alarm clock.

And probably. Also consider that the N-Gage is about 80MHz more than one of the Saturn's processors.

[deathmonkey]

Ah but did you know that the Saturn's Audio Processor is the exact same chip as the Master System's CPU (Motorola MC68000)? Due to the distributed processing model used by the Saturn hardware it is at least theoretically possible to actually get an emulated Master System running inside the Saturn, using full hardware acceleration for the CPU!

Sorry for digging this up but I thought that this might be useful info.

[Yart]

Hot dang! This could be good news then! I wonder if the emulator programmers will take advantage of that.

[Snowcat.]

it would be great to be able to emulate stuff on the saturn :/ but that would make me lazy and i wouldn't play my consoles :/

[chizzles]

There are many hardware design issues that would, most probably, stop you from using the Audio Processor as a CPU...

Streaming data from the Audio processor is one thing (Shining Force III Part II) - actually using it as a CPU itself is quite another

[elend]

I'd love to play some emulated games on my Saturn. But I doubt they still work on the emulator?!