General Emulation Discussions

[Neon Ignition]

https://www.timeextension.com/news/2024/07/worlds-first--dreamcastfpga-core-shown-in-action

[Tobal]

The Shadps4 emulator is making the rounds in the news for being the emulator to boot bloodborne into gameplay, though alot of work still needs to happen to make it playable (visually none of the shaders are working right now), Sony Bloodborne payday for a PC release could actually runout this year which is good, they've had enough to do it.

And Hilltop (translation group) dropped hints they are working on a Sega game next which looks to be Roommania#203 (DC or PS2 port, who knows).

edited update... Turns out the reveal was for Mini-Moni Shakatto Tambourine! Da Pyon, a Psone rhythm game i've never heard off, let alone a Sega released psone game. Translation is out now.

[Neon Ignition]

I think, if Sony doesn't make a full on Bloodborne remake early in the PS6's lifecycle then it's a door that can probably be closed forever. Given what we know of PS5 first party sales projections for their games I suspect that Bloodborne barely met its bar over the years with most of its 'sales' coming from low price points of the give aways etc. Demon's Souls remake was probably the go to reference point for Sony and though it's been a long while since it had updated figures I get the feeling that the audience isn't there for it, already eating up From's newer releases instead. The lack of Bloodborne II has already been a sizeable clue but it falls under the umbrella of titles that they should have properly updated via patch.

[Neon Ignition]

[Tobal]

Dreamcast oddity Birdcage of Horrors a 6 disc FMV game received a translation, seems only ODI's and emus will work with at the moment.

Patch page with some nice info about the game, https://github.com/DerekPascarella/B...atchDreamcast/

[wakka]

That looks interesting, thanks for sharing. I might give that a try in Redream. Although it's a shame I can't use my DC, to be honest it would be a hassle to burn six separate CDs, lol.

[CMcK]

Got round to trying the N64 and Saturn cores for MiSTer last night. Wow! I can’t tell the difference from the real thing. The video output from the MiSTer is better so it’s a great way to play these systems.

[Neon Ignition]

https://sonicfangameshq.com/forums/showcase/mega-man-x8-16-bit.2184/

One person has remade Mega Man X8 in 16 Bit form

[Neon Ignition]

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[Tobal]

Japanese only dungeon crawlers for Psone have had translations done in the last month, if you every wanted to get your arse handed to you in unfair ways, Wizardry if for you.

Wizardry 7

https://romhackplaza.org/translations/wizardry-7-english-japanese-translation-playstation/

Ultima Underworld: the Stygain Abyss patch updated to 1.2 to fix some key bugs. (1.0 was last sept23)

https://www.romhacking.net/forum/index.php?topic=37760.20

[Tobal]

Just seen Saturn's Princess Crown had an early release of a translation patch which fully translates the story, looking forward to replaying this now knowing what is going on, i still have my original copy with the front cover missing from the jewel case which i got £13 off ebay well over a decade+ ago.

https://github.com/eadmaster/pcrown

[wakka]

There's some drama about the new patch too:

https://www.timeextension.com/news/2024/10/theres-some-drama-surrounding-the-new-princess-crown-english-patch

[dataDave]

Got round to trying the N64 and Saturn cores for MiSTer last night. Wow! I can’t tell the difference from the real thing. The video output from the MiSTer is better so it’s a great way to play these systems.

Be sure to check out the video options on the N64 core. You can also turn off all of the various AA techniques to arrive at a full on de-blur. So you should, as a result, easily be able to tell the difference between the MiSTer and the real hardware.

[CMcK]

Sounds like a good tip. Thanks.

I see there is a Sinclair QL core coming to the Speccy Next. Any QL fans here that could recommend any decent games or demoscene stuff for the system?

[Tobal]

Snes Batman Returns built for the Megadrive, 9 sprites on screen (with bit of flicker), 2 player co-op (2x batman), full speed and higher res.