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[The Faceless Master]

Chankast port to Xbox?
>> From MetaFox on consolevision.com:

A few days ago we reported about the Spanish Dreamcast / GP32 party "MadriDC" which took place on Saturday 26th in Madrid, from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Lucky we catched a lot more information about what happend at the partyplace.

The most interesting act was the conference conducted by Unai, a member of Chankast team and responsable of the graphics core. He announced a new core in OpenGL to attempt a Linux port. Also the last alpha will be released very soon, and the next release would be a beta that will probably run fullspeed at 700Mhz and... there's a machine that runs at 600Mhz that can receive a port... (and that might the Xbox, sad for all us die-hard Dreamcast freaks).

Chankast is a Dreamcast emulator for PC currently in development.
You can find more info about Chankast on chanka.org.
Thanks to Momdad for the news/link.

how 'bout them apples?

 

[Culex]

.25 alpha runs in full screen and fixes a ton of graphic bugs. This is the god among emulators.

 

[MASB]

It's amazing how fast they're coming along with Chankast. They've only been working on it for 4-5 months or so. I heard that Wario World is showing/playing up in a GC emu. Of course it'll be years (as it should be) before a GC emu will be even as good as the real thing, let alone 'better'.

 

[ourumov]

I wasn't at the MadridDC but the people who were said the Chankast programers were cool people...
Anyways I find a bit risky to admit that they'll could do an XBOX port of Chankast...

 

[Saint Cornelius]

Wow if my XBox could play all of the Dreamcast games I have...

 

[kiryogi]

I imagine it'd be ISO dependent or something.. There isn't much outside that can read GDs normally :/

 

[Sho Nuff]

OH SNAP the new version of Chankast lets you jack up the screen res. Daytona in 1280x1024!!?!?!? Yes please!

 

[DCharlie]

what kind of PC beast does this require?

 

[Sho Nuff]

Uh, I don't think you'll have a problem with yours.

 

[Saint Cornelius]

I imagine it'd be ISO dependent or something.. There isn't much outside that can read GDs normally :/

Heh... when I said "all the DC games I have", ISOs were kinda what I was referring to.

 

[DaCocoBrova]

Don't you need the DC bios for DC emulation?

 

[dark10x]

Don't you need the DC bios for DC emulation?

Yep.

 

[DaCocoBrova]

Damn.

*regrets not grabbing a broadband adapter*

 

[Cold Shadow]

Damn.

*regrets not grabbing a broadband adapter*

you can find it all over the net

 

[DaCocoBrova]

For a lot more than I would've paid a year or so ago when they were cheap.

 

[dark10x]

For a lot more than I would've paid a year or so ago when they were cheap.

Err, he wasn't talking about the broadband adaptor. The point was that the Dreamcast BIOS is available all over the net.

 

[Culex]

what kind of PC beast does this require?

2 gigahertz or faster CPU, 256 meg ram or more, a directx 9 videocard (9500 Pro or higher, FX 5600 or higher), HUGE amount of HDD space for the images.

 

[DaCocoBrova]

I dedicated 10 minutes to finding it the other day w/ no success...

N/M

Found it!

 

[Lyte Edge]

So how well does the emulator work now? I've got a 3.2ghz PC with a gig of RAM...could I get SF3 running fast?

 

[The Faceless Master]

system bioses are rediculously easy to find it seems...
someone keeps them all in a "bios house"...
for free too... i think he's french...
even stuff like calculator bioses...

 

[MoxManiac]

I wish the chankast author would add a step frame feature so I can get accurate anim timings for Cable.

 

[DaCocoBrova]

So this is an 'iso only' thing?

 

[btrboyev]

well the xbox isn't going to read GD-Roms


What would be the point of an xbox port anyways? its cpu is far too slow.

 

[The Faceless Master]

well the xbox isn't going to read GD-Roms


What would be the point of an xbox port anyways? its cpu is far too slow.

way to not read the first post in the thread...

 

[btrboyev]

no I read it...full speed at 700mhz doesn't sound feasible to me..you can barely hit fullspeed on a psx emulator with that. Then again I'm not the author of the emu.

 

[NMan]

no I read it...full speed at 700mhz doesn't sound feasible to me..you can barely hit fullspeed on a psx emulator with that. Then again I'm not the author of the emu.

Dreamcast was able to offer psx emulation with moderate success

 

[btrboyev]

yes I know that..but it took quite a bit of optimation and it was game specific. Not to mention dreamcast was light years beyond psx hardware..the same cannot be said of xbox.

 

[The Faceless Master]

So this is an 'iso only' thing?

the PC version doesn't read real gams either...

 

[ourumov]

yes I know that..but it took quite a bit of optimation and it was game specific. Not to mention dreamcast was light years beyond psx hardware..the same cannot be said of xbox.

If you compare both CPUs you just have 1.4 GFLOPS against 2.9 GFLOPS...But I suppose their plan is to just overload X-GPU doing T&L. That's the reason why they want to upgrade the core to OGL.

Anyways, I'll doubt it'll run enough good...