Well, on 6/30 it was announced by a very reliable website (not allowed to post I believe due to rules of these forums) that they had gotten official screens from an emu in progress of some screens of the Naomi emulation, here is the rough translation of what the site wrote:
There was some speculation but the site was reputable on their news to this date and the admins even vouched for it. Some days later one of the coders, R. Belmont, released that he was working on it along with some others, here’s what he said:
Also, now MAME has added SFZ3U and CvS2!!! Getting the right set is another issue since there are sets running around the net that are missing 2 files or such. Don’t ask me where to get them since I do not have correct sets of them and they are very hard to find at this point just give it some time. Once Z3U got released these images surfaced:
So, looks like everything is on the right path. Only thing now is to get a computer that will be supporting this. It was posted that the games would run stable around 3.6ghz (I believe).
also you cant just say a 3.6ghz processor can handle it. u need to take into consideration many other factors. i know a Celeron runing at 3.6 wont run this =\
Yeah, you know what, scratch the thing about the 3.6ghz comp. I read something completely wrong. I just found the other thread too, I thought it died a long time ago though. Anyway, the SFZ3U pics are new .
It’s good to see new pictures, hard to verify their validity since those can easily be shots from other emulated version of the game. Just search next time before you post.
Also on computer front, you have to also factor in emulators that will use hardware acceleration to close the gap on some things. I mean, RBelmont was talking about having a nosound, nonthrottled SFIII running at 600%, so once they can get down what’s going on, a lot of times there are ways to take shortcuts.
Going to try this in mame right now, got a build with naomi support + the right files.
I’m on a quad core machine, so I’m expecting it to run slowly. But we’ll see.
Okay, reading around various places this is what I have gathered:
(Note: I am not well versed in technical aspects of emulation. Also this is just based on what I have read, mainly ElSemi and Wesker, as he tends to speak for Elsemi at times.)
1.) ElSemi is not making an emulator for Naomi, he merely has broken the encryption and is going to allow his work to be incorporated into other emulators. (Chankast has been spoken of in this capacity.)
2.) Apparently there may be some correlation from breakthroughs with Naomi leading to breakthroughs with Atomiswave.
3.) There has been debate about the ethical implications of releasing the info since there are still Naomi games slated to come out. Largely it does not seem that it is believed to be a problem.
4.) There is a chinese programmer purportedly working on a build of mame to include Naomi, I believe it’s called Mame XT. It has the error of requesting 1GB of ram for the track1.iso (or whater it is called.) Though, the word is that it wouldn’t work anyway, because emulation is not that far along yet.
That’s all I gathered so far. Take it with a grain of salt, but it seemed credible enough to report.
5.) ElSemi donated hardware to Makaron DC emulator’s author: http://dknute.livejournal.com/
who will work on a Naomi emulator to incorporate ElSemi’s breakthroughs
that emulator isn’t open source (i think) and the guy hates keyboards and won’t implement support for them, plus the current UI is unusable… kinda weak
As of right now, just out of curiosity, is there actually a commercial emulator that can run these dumps? I’m not really up to date with the progess of NAOMI emulation so you must forgive me…
There isn’t currently anything that can run those dumps. However, you can play many of the DC ports which are practically the same thing, on Chankast or NullDC (Nulldc being the better of the two in my opinion.)
I hope ElSemi continues to help out other emulators. There has been no talk, last I checked, about it’s inclusion into Final Burn Alpha, which while not necessarily there thing, would be interesting considering that’s what GGPO and 2DF use as their base.