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Best Saturn Emulator?
tsumake - Jan 30, 2006
  tsumake Jan 30, 2006
Which Saturn emulator do you guys think is the best? I'm currently using SSF, and its fine, save for a few audio glitches. Which one is the most stable? The fastest? Which one is the easiest to use? Thanks for your opinions.

 G. Borisz Feb 1, 2006
best is SSF

most stable is prolly SSF too

fastest is SaturnTV, then girigiri-gav and satourne

easiest to use - that would be relative, for me all of them are easy to use.

 mrkotfw Feb 1, 2006
You forgot Yabause. :flamethrower:

 dj898 Feb 1, 2006
bit OT but what kind of rig would you reckon optimal to run these emulators?

my P4-2.4 just doesn't cut it then it's loaded with stuff missus hardly uses but insists on...

 G. Borisz Feb 2, 2006

  
	
	

		
		

			Originally posted by Piratero@Wed, 2006-02-01 @ 02:38 PM



You forgot Yabause. :flamethrower:




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It's neither the best, fastest or easiest to use.

It's open source though.

dj: the dualcore athlon64 X2 runs ssf at fullspeed regardless of games, my athlon64 3200+ runs simpler games at fullspeed with minor framedropping (Puyo puyo sun, saturn bomberman, the BIOS, etc) but really chokes on more demanding games like Cotton or VF2.

dunno about the rest, they should be around the same speed or faster though.

 mrkotfw Feb 2, 2006
Yabause is in fact one of the best. What other Sega Saturn emulator can emulate King of Fighthers '95? Oh, it isn't too difficult to click on a few buttons.

 dj898 Feb 2, 2006

  
	
	

		
		

			Originally posted by Piratero@Fri, 2006-02-03 @ 10:58 AM



Yabause is in fact one of the best. What other Sega Saturn emulator can emulate King of Fighthers '95? Oh, it isn't too difficult to click on a few buttons.




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Huh?! since when ROM Cart of KoF 95 was dump'd? O_O

KoF 95 uses the data off its proprietary ROM cart last time I checked...

Maybe you were referring to KoF 96 and onward?

 slinga Feb 2, 2006
Yabause is the only sat emu I know that works on Linux.

 G. Borisz Feb 3, 2006

  
	
	

		
		

			Originally posted by Piratero@Thu, 2006-02-02 @ 06:58 PM



Yabause is in fact one of the best. What other Sega Saturn emulator can emulate King of Fighthers '95? Oh, it isn't too difficult to click on a few buttons.




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clicking a few buttons is not hard but using the default key config is.

 Runik Feb 3, 2006

  
	
	

		
		

			Originally posted by dj898@Fri, 2006-02-03 @ 03:31 AM



Huh?! since when ROM Cart of KoF 95 was dump'd? O_O



KoF 95 uses the data off its proprietary ROM cart last time I checked...



Maybe you were referring to KoF 96 and onward?




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The ROM cart was dumped

And I confirm that Yabause speed is great, I was pretty impressed with its improvements lately

And there's no point into discussing with Borisz, as he is a SSF fanatic ... no matter how good others emulators are they will always be no good compared to it ...

You should open your mind up a bit, it wouldn't hurt

 mrkotfw Feb 3, 2006
Yeah, open up your mind G. Borisz :biglaugh

 dj898 Feb 3, 2006

  
	
	

		
		

			Originally posted by G. Borisz@Fri, 2006-02-03 @ 12:41 AM







dj: the dualcore athlon64 X2 runs ssf at fullspeed regardless of games, my athlon64 3200+ runs simpler games at fullspeed with minor framedropping (Puyo puyo sun, saturn bomberman, the BIOS, etc) but really chokes on more demanding games like Cotton or VF2.



dunno about the rest, they should be around the same speed or faster though.




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Should I get Athlon for my next rig?

hmm.... O_O

 G. Borisz Feb 3, 2006

  
	
	

		
		

			Originally posted by Runik@Fri, 2006-02-03 @ 03:04 AM



The ROM cart was dumped 



And I confirm that Yabause speed is great, I was pretty impressed with its improvements lately 



And there's no point into discussing with Borisz, as he is a SSF fanatic ... no matter how good others emulators are they will always be no good compared to it ...



You should open your mind up a bit, it wouldn't hurt  




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I have my mind opened but still no other saturn emulators run as glitch free as SSF did nearly 4 years ago (even if it was slow) or even girigiri did 3 years ago (even if girigiri is a huge fiasco).

Perhaps it is you guys who would need to look on it from a non-developer point of view and realize that this... is not that exciting for everyone as it is for you?

dj: you might want to wait till the new amd socket comes out if you do. but aside from that amds are the best cpus currently available.

 Runik Feb 3, 2006
That's sure that if you take a game with severe glitches in Yabause that's easy to say that the emulator is no good ... why don't you take a picture from a fully working one for a change ?

And I'm sure that not all games are running on SSF ...

And for the record, SSF still needs SSE2 to work, so a lot of people (including myself) can't use it. Yabause works on any computer, and on a bunch more of OS. But that's nothing new ...

 CyberWarriorX Feb 3, 2006
Indeed. Obviously everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but in all honesty I think people should just try out all the emulators currently being worked on(Satourne, Saturnin, SSF, Yabause) and just make up their own mind. Let's not bring GiriGiri into this, I mean it's not even legal to distribute it, let alone any of its mutated children.

As far as Yabause is concerned, I agree it may not be at the same level at SSF is, yet. But certainly it fills the holes that SSF still hasn't plugged(such as ROM cart emulation, portable code, runs on systems other than high-end Athlons and Pentium 4's)

Cyber Warrior X

 G. Borisz Feb 3, 2006
Well, please excuse me for not taking any pictures, but none of the games I tried were running fully. (speaking of which, is there any particular place to report compatibility for Yabause?)

 mrkotfw Feb 3, 2006
I guess you can join the IRC channel (#yabause) and report any problems there.

 ExCyber Feb 3, 2006

  
	
	

		
		

			Originally posted by G. Borisz+-->
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is there any particular place to report compatibility for Yabause[/b]



There isn't a public-editable compatibility database as such, but you can file bugs in Yabause's SourceForge tracker....