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Demul experiences?

Posted: Mon Jun 04, 2012 5:05 pm
by fastbilly1
Anyone else play with Demul? I always thought it was a straight Dreamcast emulator until Friday night when I discovered it plays Alien Front:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyyM4Za9aMc

Being that Alien Front was a favorite of mine on the Dreamcast Online, I downloaded the game, obtained a Naomi rom, and after a bit of time configuring it spent several hours destroying the human menace. After Alien Front (which had some graphical bugs but worked well), I loaded up Monkey Ball and it had some weird slowdown issues. It was still playable, just not smooth like on the cube. After 20 levels of Monkey Ball (being a cube launch title I got really good at it), I loaded up a game that they said did not work at all - Outtrigger. Low and behold it was playable, but had some goofy issues.

I need to experiment with it more but it looks like it might be able to play multiplayer Alien Front, Daytona, SCUD racer, and Outtrigger. Which means, I need four cabs...Daytona and Alien Front are two of my favorite modernish arcade games.

Anyone else have experiences with it? Apparently it runs Atomiswave games.

Re: Demul experiences?

Posted: Fri Jun 08, 2012 2:06 pm
by Pulsar_t
The main problem with Naomi games is input emulation.. something which isn't being actively worked on.

Re: Demul experiences?

Posted: Fri Jun 08, 2012 2:24 pm
by fastbilly1
What do you mean? Ive given a dozen or so Naomi games a run and havent had any terrible issues with it. Granted you have to set your controls in the emulator THEN see if they goofed up anything in the game settings - Alien Front is notorious for this in making your vehicles default to going right.

Re: Demul experiences?

Posted: Sat Jun 09, 2012 6:35 am
by Pulsar_t
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What I meant was that games with funky controls aren't supported.

Re: Demul experiences?

Posted: Sat Jun 09, 2012 1:18 pm
by fastbilly1
Ahhh, that makes sense