Public Help, Things we need...

[ZeZu]

If any wish to help out the nullDC project, by any means,
we will keep a list of things we could use / use help with here.

Skill sets:

- Translators, Japanese to English, more later
- Developers, Anyone with a lot of knowledge of PIC16x
... More to be added


Donations:

-Hardware:

- Any hardware related to Dreamcast/Atomiswave/Naomi/Naomi2/HIKARU

-- Arcade Motherboards, Game Carts/GDROMS, IO Boards, Jamma Harnesses,
Control Panels, Lightguns, compatible EPROMs.
Just about anything will help us here.

- Monetary:

-- Anyone wishing to donate cash:

All funds will be used accordingly for the project only, to buy hardware we will need to reverse unknown aspects of it.
(Compatible EPROMs for Naomi bootrom is one example).
Please contact myself or drkIIRaziel via a PM on this board for paypal informations or physical mailing address.


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The first order of business, A request for a translator:

The PDF Files on this page: index (http://www.jamma.or.jp/siryou/index.htm) Could use a proper translation.
The file JVST_VER3R.pdf is the best starting point,
It contains the most technical data on the JVS Specification.

We can provide FTP space for the file to be uploaded,
or an email address for upload.

Thanks in advance!

[drkIIRaziel]

I would like to add that some old PC hardware will come in handy too , i only have a Pentium 4 (Northwood) and an Athlon x2 to test the dynarec so its prety hard to optimise/benchmark for other cpu archs (like athlon xp).The cpus need to have sse1 support.

[zOe999]

For "lot of knowledge of PIC16x" you mean assembler for pic like 16F84 or 16F818 if so maybe i can help... when you will need italian traslation contact me too^^
P.S. contact me with PM

[bram64]

Old PC hardware? I'm using an old Pentium 3 laptop right now. Would that be good? I might be able to built on old Pentium 1 PC too.

[drkIIRaziel]

Yeah , Pentium 3 and above (needs to have sse1) is good.

[Smooth Criminal]

Penitum 4 motherboard anyone??
its not working i didn't bother to repair it but its repairable.

[bram64]

Ok then, just tell me when I have to do something. I checked with CPU-Z and it has SSE. It runs at 895MHz.

[Eggman]

Hello

I am not the good samaritan but I think that I can offer you my help.

I am on the emulation scene since more than 15 years. I have started programming with some demos on Atari ST and Amiga 500.

Now, I am 31 and I am still enjoying my old games, arcade cabinets and other electronic stuffs...

1) I speak and read japanese fluently (I have take look to the PDF and it's not so hard to translate)

2) I work as electronician and so I have the possibility to dump any EPROM, to program them... If you wanna what I can do, I have exactly the same dumping capabilities as the Guru.

3) As a big fan of Sega, I have any types of Dreamcast: US, PAL, JAPANESE and some of them are available to be explored... I have some GDROMS also...

I don't know if my help will be be accepted, but don't hesitate...

[Bob Sakamanno]

Hello good fellas.

I'm really happy that you're planning to work on the Dreamcast and all other hardware that it is based, it's one of the news of the year for me, because the emulation scene is quite warm these days.

I saw your post and tried to contact the Guru, because he is my reference on dumping, etc, but i (for me) he is very dificult to contact. Maybe you that are on the emulation scene could ask for some help.

I like the Eggman's post, really ! Try to talk with this man !

And for helping, i could try to do the Portuguese "BR" translations, and donate some cash.

Best of luck !

[ZeZu]

Thanks for the replies, as it stands there are two good Samaritans offering help with the JVST*.PDF, we shall see who gets it translated. There are all sorts of offers to translate the UI/Other aspects to various languages. In the final version we will support a script to accomplish this most likely.

Please do not contact Guru regarding this project, he is aware of the project for quite some time now, and is kept busy with his work and mamedev.

We are responding to our PM's as we have time, if you do not get an immediate reply, please don't be offended.

Thanks

[johnsonlam]

If any wish to help out the nullDC project, by any means,
we will keep a list of things we could use / use help with here.

Skill sets:

- Translators, Japanese to English, more later


I can read/write Chinese/English and a bit of Japanese, I can't say I'm very good but I believe I can handle technical terms.

I'll try translating the "JVST_VER3R.pdf", just downloaded it.

I saw Eggman offering help for the file, to be efficient I can try others or cooperate with him to archive better result.

Can't make a promise when I can finish it, since I need to work at free time, but I'm willing to help.

Email me anytime: johnson@tmfc.net

[ZeZu]

A big thanks to Mr. Fabulous, he has donated $50 USD towards the goals of naomi and dreamcast emulation on nullDC. He also donated a Sega v1 model IO Adapter a few weeks back.

Thanks again Mr. Fabulous

[Mr. Fabulous]

A big thanks to Mr. Fabulous, he has donated $50 USD towards the goals of naomi and dreamcast emulation on nullDC. He also donated a Sega v1 model IO Adapter a few weeks back.

Thanks again Mr. Fabulous

Glad to help in any small way I can.

[aureal]

I'm from Spain, if you want I can translate to spanish your emu ;) I program in C/C++ and others languajes ;) when you want ;)

[heynow]

I have an extra Dreamcast sitting in my closet. The only thing that's wrong is that the first controller port is iffy at best. Can you guys use it?

[Undermined]

What format do you need the translation in? PDF, JPG?

The translations are easy, it's just time consuming to redo the file. I'm assuming that the file doesn't have to look great, just work, right?

Has anyone started working on this yet? If not I can have a few pages in for today.

[Yamaraja]

the only thing I can think of that this emulator needs is netplay and controller support. and since you're probably already working on that, I can't think of anything. great emu, it plays Soul Calibur almost perfect.

[radeX]

Hi,

If you're looking for a PIC16 expert then I'm your man. I've developed literally dozens of projects using that microcontroller, so I'm very familiar with PIC16 assembler as well as its internal peripherals and architecture. I could write an accurate PIC16 emulator for PC.
I'm also very familiar with video game systems and emulation (one of my personal projects was a hardware Motorola 68K-based video game console for which I wrote an emulator). I'm very interested on dreamcast emulation because I'm a fan of sega/sonic.
I'm particullary interested in the PowerVR graphics chip emulation core and where can I get technical information about it because I'm developing a GPU for my homemade video console.
Just ask and you'll get it!
Greetings from Spain!

[Bakahashi]

I don't speak Japanese well yet, but my girlfriend does, she'd be happy to help me translate stuff into English since she works as a translator anyway and has to keep using English. So if you need something done, just PM me or something.

[ZeZu]

radeX, Anything you could help with in regards to PIC16 or PVR2 would be appreciated. PM me on these boards and we'll discuss.

[xZaRo]

JVST_VER3R.pdf seems harder...

i can see...

Video Consoles Boards and Connection of Peripherals devices
JAMMA standard VIDEO
(Third edition)
JAMMA STANDARD VIDEO
(THE THIRD EDITION)
(JVS)

And below is more difficult :???: But it is not impossible :) if the team need i can be try to traduce this, the best i can.

[jultknight]

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Isn't the 6150 LE onboard video better than my old FX 5500? I thought it was because it supports Proper Pixel Shading 2.0 as well as 3.0 unlike the FX 5500 and 5200.
The 6150's designed for the casual user, and not really aimed towards the gaming end of things. A cardinal rule of videocards - anything with an LE suffix is a bad sign. It's basically at the bottom end of the GF6 series, around where an MX card would be in the old days. And like the MX cards used to be, you'll get quite a bit of the functionality, but little of the punch.

Like Vlado said, a 7600GT would be a very good choice for an upgrade, should give you a considerable boost all round. They should be starting to go nice and cheap now the 8 series are out. You've got a decent processor there, and one of those would bring out the best in your setup


wrong,
my brother was 6150 not integrated and my board have 6150 Integrated and him it was traveling a $ 100 all the games and I nulldc not. The problem is that the integrated video card are in no way is to use games as memory is shared and the waiting time for the video card memory and clock ect ect is much less powerful than a video card in slot in plugger pc or PCI Express and time I had a radeon 9250 in a Pentium 4 3GHz 1gig ram, and I could play all games at 100% full speed compared to my 6150 integrated video card on my dual core AMD Athlon 5000 4 gig ram

[Pandit]

I have some DC peripherals around here somewhere you may be able to use. I have a cheap chinese lightgun (the rumble no longer works I think), a real DC keyboard, the microphone that came with Seaman, and a playstation 1 & ps/2 (keyboard) to DC adapter. Let me know if you can use any of them and I will search for them.

[ScottF]

I have some old equipment that I could part with, I have a 15 or 16 inch crt monitor, a 14 inch monitor, an old Compaq presario a cd rom drive of some sort( 16X) A keyboard, a trackball mouse, an old graphics tablet, and two old HD drives that need reformatting. If you could use any of it, let me know.

[johnnie_squier]

I can translate german to english, pretty well actually.
Ive come across many READMEs that are in german, as well as my fair share of programs.
So if anyone needs any help, Ich bin hier helfen.

[LastNinja]

If any wish to help out the nullDC project, by any means,
we will keep a list of things we could use / use help with here.


is the list still up to date?

did u ever get that japanese document translated? do u still need it translated?

is it anything else u need? is it still possible to donate?

ps. with donation i dont mean to demand anything in return... just give some cash as a way of saying thanks for all u've done over the years! :)