SSF ver 0.07 Protoype R2

[Hector]

Dunno, I don't understand a word. Go and see by yourself

SSF bla bla bla page

[Bopig!]

Heh, me neither. Has anyone acually got this emulator to work? I've tried it in the past with no success and since it's all hardcore japanese I can't really figure our what's wrong.

Edit:
Well, I've figured out how to get english text in the emulator. In case anyone cares, you simply have to go into the "message" folder and open the "default" file with a word program and remove the line there that says japanese leaving "english" intact.
My new problem now is figuring out what one error message I keep getting means. The error message is "There is no SSE". WTF does that mean?

[n_w95482]

I think fivefeet8 has gotten it to work. Maybe its like satourne where you have to go into one of the files and change one line from "french" to "english" for it to display english in the menus. Here's what I can get out of the site (I'll probably be wrong in some areas, I'm just guessing).

The required OS'es are win98/me/2000/xp and you need a processor that supports mmx and sse. You need (should have?) 256 mb ram and you either need to have directx 8 installed or a dx8 compatible card. You need a cd-rom drive with a aspi layer and you need a bios file . The SH2 processors are 100% emulated, the 68000 is 50%, CD drive is 30%, SCSP (?) is 0%, SCU (?) is 50%, SMPC (?) is 100%, VDP1 is 90% and VDP2 is 5% emulated. Near the bottom is a box with some comp specs in it. I guess that's the comp that was used in testing or used to program on. I was just guessing/improvising on this so if I'm wrong, correct me . Maybe 501XX can translate part of it for us .

edit: It probably means that your processor doesn't support SSE which is required to run the emulator apparently. Only newer processors run it (athlon non xp and xp, p4 and I think p3). Does anyone know for sure if durons support SSE? I had a feeling that you had to go into one of the files and change something like that, it was mentioned somewhere else on the forums.

[Bopig!]

Well I guess I can pretty much confirm that an AMD Duron motherboard doesn't have or support SSE whatever that is because that is the type of mother board I have. Does that mean I'm out of luck? Can you also explain what "SSE" is?

[n_w95482]

Well I think athlon processors support SSE (I'm not sure if EVERY single one does). SSE is a special instruction set in the processor that helps it process stuff faster in certain situations like games or movie encoding (MMX and 3dnow are similar). If you want more info on SSE and whether your processor supports it/if you can get a processor that supports it, talk to Demigod. He knows more about that stuff than I do. You could also stop by intel's site and search for it.

[fivefeet8]

See n_w95482, you do help people.

Your right, I have gotten SSF to run, but like you said the current version of SSF require a CPU with SSE support. You also need a copy of the saturn bios. Do a search of it on the web. The bios needs to name "bootrom.bin" and placed in the SSF root directory.

The emulator is still very slow though.

[CraigGen]

Yep, ALL Athlons from the Thunderbird to the XP, support SSE.
I've got this emulator to run Sega Rally, but even on my spec, it was slow (roughly 10fps).

[Bopig!]

Ok, well looks like I'm outta luck then but that's ok. If your only getting 10 FPS with a rig like that, it's not worth pursuing.
Thanks for your info everyone.

[Kane]

Originally Posted by CraigGen

Yep, ALL Athlons from the Thunderbird to the XP, support SSE.
I've got this emulator to run Sega Rally, but even on my spec, it was slow (roughly 10fps).

Actualy, the Palaminos (the first gen Athlon XPs) were the first Athlons to support SSE.

[n_w95482]

Originally Posted by Lord Kane

Actualy, the Palaminos (the first gen Athlon XPs) were the first Athlons to support SSE.

I didn't think my dad's old t-bird supported it and it was one of the things that I was thinking would help speed it up when he got a new processor (he now has a 1900+)

Anyways, has anyone else tested this emulator yet? How much has it improved?

[CraigGen]

Actualy, the Palaminos (the first gen Athlon XPs) were the first Athlons to support SSE.

You are right, darn it [slaps head]

My server has one of the first Palomino chips dated Oct/Nov 2001(1333 core - XP1500+), but sees it as a Thunderbird 1333, NOT an XP1500+.
Must get a BIOS update for it.

Anyway, It features the same bus speed as the Thunderbird Athlon (266 MHz) and the same amount of L2 cache (256K). But with additional support for Intel's SSE instructions, and a lower power consumption.