Sega CD Emulator??

Nes Man · Post by **Nes Man** » Thu Oct 14, 2004 5:32 pm

Hey was wondering can I write/download an emulator for Sega CD? Like a nes emulator????

Please help me out.
Thanx

Post by **gannon** » Thu Oct 14, 2004 5:38 pm

Have you even tried to look for one?

HK-47 · Post by **HK-47** » Thu Oct 14, 2004 5:43 pm

Its called google. Heres the url => http://www.google.com
Heres what turns up first page under "sega cd emu" = > http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=& ... tnG=Search
Use google before asking questions like that.

Post by **SpongeBuell** » Thu Oct 14, 2004 6:14 pm

I think he means emulating other systems with a real sega cd...

scherzo · Post by **scherzo** » Thu Oct 14, 2004 6:36 pm

I'm pretty sure that's what he means too. I don't think there's much of a chance to emulate the NES on a Genesis.

Nes Man · Post by **Nes Man** » Thu Oct 14, 2004 6:45 pm

Yea, thats what I ment. I know that Sega CD can play CD+G (Kariokie cd's). CD+G = CD+Grafics.

Post by **gannon** » Thu Oct 14, 2004 6:50 pm

So you want to know if there are any emulators that will run on the sega cd?

Post by **Sparkfist** » Thu Oct 14, 2004 7:42 pm

I doubt it. The Sega CD has about as much cpu power as the Genesis, which was ~7mH. You could try finding a way to over clock the Sega CD to 14mH but still thats not much. Also the system had a 1x speed drive, making loading either a trial of patients or pure tourture.

shelter pitfall · Post by **shelter pitfall** » Thu Oct 14, 2004 10:00 pm

ya, it wouldn't be worth it.
Though you could try to find a way to make genesis games play from the CD instead of the cart.

Post by **Sparkfist** » Thu Oct 14, 2004 10:40 pm

shelter pitfall wrote:ya, it wouldn't be worth it.
Though you could try to find a way to make genesis games play from the CD instead of the cart.

That was the whole idea behind the Sega CD. The only real advantage it has is more ram and because of the increased size of the media it aloues for full motion video to be played.

If you want try and make a SMS emulator on CD, it would be much more worth it as you can then condence the SMS library down to only a few discs.

Nes Man · Post by **Nes Man** » Fri Oct 15, 2004 6:53 am

A SMS emulator that could play Game Gear Games on a Sega CD would rock!

Now, how would I go about doing it???

Post by **Sparkfist** » Fri Oct 15, 2004 7:10 am

Well as they have a conveter to aloue SMS games to be played on the genesis, I'd say reverse engineer the software they use to emulate the system. Throw in a menu for selecting games and it should be fine.

I personally would love to help with the programming but as I know absolutly squat I cant.

scherzo · Post by **scherzo** » Fri Oct 15, 2004 8:53 am

Here's a link I found for Genesis development:
http://home.hiwaay.net/~eubanks/
It looks like there's a cross compiled GCC for it, but if you honestly want to make an emu that has a chance of performing well, you'll need to learn 68k assembler.

Here's another page with a whole bunch of links:
http://fvring.free.digitartstudio.com/i ... ga&sub=lks