Super Famicast v2

posted in Emulator Release by mfc on May 20th, 2004

Super Famicast, an SNES emulator for the Dreamcast, was updated recently. Here's a list of what is new:

Mouse support
Ability to enable/disable the various background and sprite layers
Sound is now syncronized with action
Sound quality can be turned up and down

Also from the author:

This is an exciting, disappointing, and hopeful release. It's exciting because Marcus Comstedt and the DreamSNES team did a wonderful thing and decided to let me use their 65c816 CPU core written in SH4 assembler. Before I go on any further, a huge public thanks to them!

This release is slightly disappointing because the new CPU did not produce the kind of speed increase some might have expected. Also, this CPU core does not seem to work if you disable the SNES sound CPU. So disabling the sound simply prevents the sound from being rendered, but doesn't not disable the emulation of the sound chip. Actually, I believe performance with sound disabled has decreased since the last release. This doesn't concern me too much since the goal is full speed emulation with sound.

So with that in mind, this is a hopeful release since emulation with sound has improved and some games are playable with sound. Also, the code given to us by the DreamSNES team provides valuable insight as to how other parts of the original snes9x code can be rewritten in assembler.

You can download this from our Emulators for Dreamcast section.

Emulators For:
Windows/DOS
Unix/Linux
BeOS
Macintosh
Amiga
Consoles
Java
Palm OS
Pocket PC
Digital Cameras
Digital Phones
Calculators
QNX
Windows Mobile Smartphone

Other Releases
Extenders
Frontends
ROMs (Public Domain)
Hacks
Cheats
Movies
Savestates
Music
Technical Documents
Translations

Utilities:
General
Auditing
Cheating
Development
Game Modification
Music Playback / Manipulation
Plugins