It's time for another edition of "They Did What?" Okay, so it's the first and only edition (so far), but this is pretty darn cool. We're talking about nullDC PSP, the first Sega Dreamcast emulator for PSP. It's the creation of nullDC (a Dreamcast emulator for PC) author "drkIIRaziel" and has just recently gotten to the point where it loads and runs Shenmue ... at, oh, one frame per second. (With games taking 20-30 minutes to load.)
Still, the prospect of walking around with a "DC Pocket" is definitely appealing. Let's hope for the sake of those who'd use it to play games they legally own that Sony's rumored new PSP-3000 doesn't make a mess of the hombrew scene with potential new anti-piracy measures.
Hopefully, this first step will lead to something amazing...
Though, my hopes aren't too high. PSP even chokes a bit on playing Super NES games. Well, that's only due to the "best" emulator being a port of SNES9x to PSP... and I don't think the code is very well optimized (my guess, anyways; never looked at the code). If it were an original emulator written specifically for PSP, with optimized code, it'd probably run great (the CPS2 emulator works excellent; On my PSP-1K, it can run games like MvC1 at full speed with very few issues).
I think making a Naomi emulator would be easier instead, Naomi is the arcade board that ran Marvel Vs Capcom 2, along with other Dreamcast games like Power Stone, Capcom vs SNK 2, etc.
Even then, I think its impossible on the PSP.
I'm amazed at what we have right now, what amazing talent!
There's no way this will ever be functional at all. The Dreamcast was actually a bit MORE powerful than the PS2 in terms of raw power. The PSP is actually a tad bit less powerful than the PS2.
No one should get their hopes up for anything even remotely functional to come from this.
It's functioning right now.. Can't you see the video? Doesn't seem like you know much about emulation.. I admit that I don't but I have been reading the nulldc forums about it. The system requirements for nulldc is much lower than PCSX2 (ps2 emu). I don't think nulldc has dual core implemented into it and it's already running great on lower end pcs. That said, what makes you think that DreamCast has more power?
umm, actually the PS2 was significantly more powerful than the DC. and PS2 is slightly more powerful than PSP, although PSP has its advantages like native progressive resolution versus interlaced PS2 games.
now go ahead and quote DC games that looked better than launch/early PS2 games you noob.
i hope the 64MB ram of the PSP Slim is sufficient enough to get a working emulator going. PSP controls are even perfect for DC games (one analog stick, 2 shoulder buttons). if not, well then we can only hope that Sony ups the ram on PSP-3000 to 96MB.
I Don't want to be pessimist, but Like other people have stated, full speed emulation its impossible. I think I read somewhere that to be able to emulate hardware perfectly well the current system must be 5~10 times more powerful, in terms of CPU speed and RAM, than the one being emulated.
