Hardware vs Software

burncloud · March 28th, 2008

Its been awhile since I've had my DC hardware available for me to use. Unfortunatley the games I own are thousands of miles away and I'm unable to test this myself. My question is this:

Are the .cdi images themselves EXACT replacas of the discs I've backed up (and therefore responsible for many of the graphical errors experienced in emulation) or are the images I've burned responsible for, at least, part of the graphics problems I have.

The reason I ask this is because I was considering purchasing a 'new' Dreamcast and making burnt copies of what I have in order to play them. Will I have the same graphical inconsistancies that I have with, say, nullDC (most notably, some of the background scenery in SoA)?

As a side question. Being the SNES enthusiast I once was, will SNES roms appear acceptable through the Dreamcast on my TV if I were to emulate them on hardware?... or will it give me crappy graphics quality. (FYI my SNES is located in the same area as my DC.).

NamesSolidSnake · March 29th, 2008

No, they should work fine.

burncloud · March 30th, 2008

Cool. I was worried that I'd experience the same graphical inequeties of pc emulation.

NamesSolidSnake · March 31st, 2008

Okay, you're welcome.

If you need help getting the burnt games to work, just ask.

Cid Highwind · April 2nd, 2008

If you're planning to use DreamSnes, the games look very good on it, it's just the framerate that's very ugly, probably only 10% of the games have an acceptable framerate to my standards.

burncloud · April 5th, 2008

That sucks, being a snes enthusiast i think my standards would, suffice to say, find myself wanting of a decent framerate. Is there a 'compatibility list' or something of the sort so that i could find?

March 28th, 2008	#1 (permalink)
burncloud the sky is burning Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: psilocybin forest Posts: 44	Hardware vs Software Its been awhile since I've had my DC hardware available for me to use. Unfortunatley the games I own are thousands of miles away and I'm unable to test this myself. My question is this: Are the .cdi images themselves EXACT replacas of the discs I've backed up (and therefore responsible for many of the graphical errors experienced in emulation) or are the images I've burned responsible for, at least, part of the graphics problems I have. The reason I ask this is because I was considering purchasing a 'new' Dreamcast and making burnt copies of what I have in order to play them. Will I have the same graphical inconsistancies that I have with, say, nullDC (most notably, some of the background scenery in SoA)? As a side question. Being the SNES enthusiast I once was, will SNES roms appear acceptable through the Dreamcast on my TV if I were to emulate them on hardware?... or will it give me crappy graphics quality. (FYI my SNES is located in the same area as my DC.).

March 29th, 2008	#2 (permalink)
NamesSolidSnake nullDC Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: California Posts: 592	No, they should work fine. __________________ PC/Laptop:Compaq Presario v5000 Notebook CPU: Mobile AMD Sempron 3000+ at 1.8 GHz with PowerNow! technology. Graphics: ATI Radeon Xpress Mobility 200 Series. RAM: 512 MB. HDD: 60 GB. OS: Windows XP Home Edition SP2.

March 31st, 2008	#4 (permalink)
NamesSolidSnake nullDC Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: California Posts: 592	Okay, you're welcome. If you need help getting the burnt games to work, just ask. __________________ PC/Laptop:Compaq Presario v5000 Notebook CPU: Mobile AMD Sempron 3000+ at 1.8 GHz with PowerNow! technology. Graphics: ATI Radeon Xpress Mobility 200 Series. RAM: 512 MB. HDD: 60 GB. OS: Windows XP Home Edition SP2.

April 2nd, 2008	#5 (permalink)
Cid Highwind Ramma Gay Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Somwhere out in space? The Land of the Free? Heaven or Hell? Posts: 11,209	If you're planning to use DreamSnes, the games look very good on it, it's just the framerate that's very ugly, probably only 10% of the games have an acceptable framerate to my standards. __________________ Geometry Wars: 198.400 Lumines: 523.879 Rip: Cid's Bleemcast 28-08-2007 X360/Wii/PS3 belong to the current generation, update your mindset FFS

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March 30th, 2008	#3 (permalink)
burncloud the sky is burning Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: psilocybin forest Posts: 44	Cool. I was worried that I'd experience the same graphical inequeties of pc emulation.

April 5th, 2008	#6 (permalink)
burncloud the sky is burning Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: psilocybin forest Posts: 44	That sucks, being a snes enthusiast i think my standards would, suffice to say, find myself wanting of a decent framerate. Is there a 'compatibility list' or something of the sort so that i could find?