SEGA Dreamcast
SEGA Dreamcast
Posted Jun 11, 2015 20:56 UTC (Thu) by flussence (guest, #85566)In reply to: SEGA Dreamcast by tshow
Parent article: Resurrecting the SuperH architecture
I wonder if this news is interesting to the console emulation crowd. The Saturn is the last of the 90's consoles that hasn't been completely preserved via software - partly because of the insane design, but I'd guess also because SuperH was relatively obscure and proprietary compared to the MIPS architecture everyone else went with at the time.
Posted Jun 18, 2015 8:35 UTC (Thu)
by Darkstar (guest, #28767)
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SEGA Dreamcast
The CPU was never the problem in emulating the Saturn. It was the insane synchronization requirement between the various (sub-)CPUs and other chips that basically forced emulators to either run in lock-step (essentially killing performance) or using game-specific tweaks and short-cuts (which were considered hacks and broke all the time)