Re: Video games - collectors market on the horizon?

Ken,

Where the heck have you been for the last few years?  You are wrong about
the state of emulation on the dreamcast..  There ARE emulators for the SNES,
Genesis, and TG16 that run on the Dreamcast and they in fact work very well.
Additionally the Smash-Pack that Sega released a few years ago for the
Dreamcast was in fact a Genesis emulator that contained 6 classic Genesis
games.  Some hackers figured out how to add additional roms to that disc and
now there are ISO images of that disc floating around the internet that
contain hundred of genesis rom that run fine on the Dreamcast.

Do a search for "Dreamcast emulation" if you have doubts...



"Ken Arromdee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Impmon  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>Check out the emulation sites and newsgroups.  It isn't uncommon for
people
> >>to buy the xbox to only use it as an emulator rather than for any
present
> >>games.  Of course the people who were around when these emulated systems
> >>were originally on the market have the disposable cash referenced in the
> >>main post of this thread to do this.
> >Wouldn't Dreamcast be easier?  DC doesn't need mod chip to play
> >emulator.  Unless you want to play MAME with new or recent arcade games
> >or play recent consoles (N64 for example), DC can handle most emulated
> >system just fine.
>
> The Dreamcast can't handle anything past NES at full speed with sound, no
> frame skipping, etc., except maybe with hand-written and hand-optimized
> assembly code, which emulator authors aren't doing much of.  No Genesis,
> no SNES, no PCE/TG-16, no Neo-Geo (and Neo-Geo wouldn't fit into the DC's
> memory anyway).  No GBA, for that matter.
>
> Also, PC emulators port easily to the Xbox since it's so much like a PC.
> -- 
>        Ken Arromdee / arromdee_AT_rahul.net /
http://www.rahul.net/arromdee
>
> "How pleasant it would be if only we lived a hundred years ago when it was
> easy to get servants."
> "It would be horrible...  We'd be the servants." -- Isaac Asimov