#reicast

Reicast is kind of a weird thing. There’s still no stable, reliable, stand-alone Windows build as of yet. It was made primarily for Android, but a Windows version has been in the background for a while now. It’s just never at a point where they release it.

The only way to use Reicast at this point in Windows is to do so through RetroArch. RetroArch has something called a “Reicast OIT Core” which seems to produce very accurate visuals, but still has a few other CPU-related hiccups.

This loop in Green Forest, for example, has trouble executing properly because of an emulation error (I assume, anyway). Most of Sonic Adventure 2 seems to have run fine otherwise, though, outside of a few minor sound glitches.

Venturing beyond Sonic Adventure 2, though, and I find Reicast has pretty spotty compatibility. I keep a small handful of Dreamcast games around strictly for testing purposes, and here’s how the current version Reicast favored:

Looney Tunes Space Race: Intro sequence has sound, menus have sound, once you get in to a race you only have music. Game plays fine otherwise.

Crazy Taxi: Freezes after the Dreamcast boot up logo

Crazy Taxi 2: Played until I ran out of time. Seems perfect.

Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 2: Menus seem very sluggish and the game crashes the moment you “Push A to Play” after its done loading a level.

Rayman 2: Played first two levels. Scene transition effects don’t display, but otherwise seems perfect.

Sonic Adventure: Played up through Emerald Coast. Some minor sound problems with “continuous” sounds (helicopter rotors, the rain during Chaos 0). Otherwise seems perfect.

Sonic Adventure 2: Played up to around Metal Harbor. Some minor sound problems with “continuous” sounds (street board sound, grind rail sound). Logic emulation problems when going around some loops. Otherwise seems perfect.

I haven’t tried any of the other usual suspects yet (Jet Set Radio, Shenmue). Basically, on the games Reicast supports, they seem to run perfectly. I’ve heard the RetroArch build of Reicast gets updated nightly, so I’m sure compatibility is always going up.

Another new emulator came on the scene recently, called ReDream. That’s available through RetroArch too, but I’ve been told the RetroArch build of ReDream sucks, so it’s best to stick to the stand-alone version.

ReDream is unique as there is a free version and a paid premium version. The paid version is $5, and unlocks the ability to play Dreamcast games in HD resolutions. The free version is stuck to 640x480.

Regarding the above compatibility list, here’s how those same games faired the last time I played around with ReDream (June 2018):

Looney Tunes Space Race: Once you get past the studio logos at boot, there’s no sound at all. Game plays fine otherwise (played 4-5 races)

Crazy Taxi: Played until I ran out of time. Seems perfect.

Crazy Taxi 2: Played until I ran out of time. Seems perfect.

Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 2: Played up to the first tournament. Seems perfect.

Rayman 2: Played first three levels. Seems perfect.

Sonic Adventure: Played up through Emerald Coast. Some polygon sorting errors made Sonic’s face look weird.

Sonic Adventure 2: Played up to around Green Forest. I don’t remember any serious issues.

Wacky Races: Played one race. Sound hitched a little bit. Seemed fine.

Soul Reaver: A very talky intro means I didn’t play this very long but it seemed fine.

ReDream is also special in that it requires basically no setup. I don’t think I even had to give it a BIOS. I pointed it at my folder of ISOs, it automatically configured my Xbox controller, and I was off to the races.

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Reicast un émulateur Dreamcast pour Android,disponible gratuitement sur Google Play

Le Sega Dreamcast aura toujours une place spéciale dans notre coeur. Avec les nombreux différents émulateurs disponibles sur Android Google Play, nous supposons que ce n’était qu’une question de temps avant plus Sega – et dernière – console de salon a finalement été imité pour les appareils Android. Avec l’aide de la nouvelle émulateur Dreamcast Reicast, vous pouvez maintenant jouer à tous les meilleurs jeux de 1999, directement sur votre smartphone ou tablette Android.

Le développeur recommande un appareils avec au moins un processeur 1GHz dual-core + Cortex A9 chipset pour un jeu optimal, et fournit même quelques instructions sur la façon d’obtenir le BIOS installé et opérationnel sur votre Android dans la liste Play Store. Il suffit de garder à l’esprit Reicast est encore à ses débuts alpha mais pour les plus aventureux, vous pouvez le télécharger via le lien ci-dessous sur Google Play.

Несколько секунд для осмысления…

И ведь пишут, что это даже работает! В случае с Android требуется, как минимум, гигагерговый двухъядерный процессор Cortex-A9, работает (и поддерживает фирменный контроллер) и на OUYA. Как сообщает DroidGamers, этот эмулятор является переработкой известнейшего NullDCe (устойчивые слухи о выходе которого на Android ходили уже порядочное время) и уже, несмотря на альфа-статус и временное отсутствие многих привычных функций, запускает немалое количество Dreamcast-образов с приличным быстродействием. Не забудьте раздобыть BIOS и флэш-файлы оригинальной консоли, которые необходимо разместить в директориях /sdcard/dc/data/dc_boot.bin и /sdcard/dc/data/dc_flash.bin, соответственно. Для GCW Zero эмулятор можно раздобыть на официальном сайте проекта, для Android — также можно совершенно бесплатно скачать в Google Play.

Tony Hawk Pro Scater 2 (Dreamcast) на Android:

Смотреть на Youtube.

Загрузка системы на GCW Zero:

Смотреть на Youtube.

И ведь вроде не апрель месяц…

Во-общем, дерзайте, пока Сега не прикрыла эту внезапную Рождественскую лавочку.