Chanka Dreamcast Emulator Will Release Next Week!

[Alpha]

It has been speculated that the first version of the new Chanka DreamCast Emulator will be released NEXT WEEK! This is big news for DreamCast fans because Icarus still has not been released yet for the past 2 or 3 years of waiting. Finally someone has stepped up and has made their own dreamcast emulator and that emulator is Chanka as well as a couple of other dreamcast emulator's in the works as well due to the increasing popularity! Keep checking back here soon for the full download link to the new Chanka DreamCast Emulator!

 

New Screenshots have been released below...

 

»» Credits: Emulatronia.Com & NGEmu.Com

[Gryph]

Wow, this is welcome news even though I just got a Dreamcast. It's nice to see emulation progress like this. Maybe we are much closer to NAOMI and Atomiswave than we think...

[random guy]

Have you guys seen the videos? The one of the BIOS screen, and the one playing sonic adventure? This emulator's looking pretty cool!

[Agozer]

Be still my racing heart. I wonder how many joyous moments I cn get from an emulator that runs 10fps? Anyway, any kind of progress is good.

[Wizard]

Wow, this is welcome news even though I just got a Dreamcast. It's nice to see emulation progress like this. Maybe we are much closer to NAOMI and Atomiswave than we think...

You might be right. Once they hit full DC-speed, we could hit AW as early as 2 years!

 

Or I can dream about it

[Ash_crimson]

You might be right. Once they hit full DC-speed, we could hit AW as early as 2 years!

 

Or I can dream about it

although the atomisewave is based on the dreamcast wont emulation be very different because it runs an a cart system not discs??

[Wizard]

It's cart system has 5 to 6 seconds in loading times though, which indicates it's A) A CD based cartrige, something like a ZIP disk or A harddrive based cartrige (picture an Ipod and you just hook up yo your comp like an N64 cart) both would explain the loading times to swamp information between the system and it's media.

Edited May 25, 2004 by K`dash

[Ash_crimson]

It's cart system has 5 to 6 seconds in loading times though, which indicates it's A) A CD based cartrige, something like a ZIP disk or A harddrive based cartrige (picture an Ipod and you just hook up yo your comp like an N64 cart) both would explain the loading times to swamp information between the system and it's media.

so would the roms be zip files or burned iso's??

[Wizard]

ZIP disk are completely different from Zip files

 

ZIP disks can hold upto 1 GB of data, but you need a ZIP drive for it. Search up I-Omega Zip drives. They suck, but i'm just using them as an example. They look like Floppy Disks, but a tad bit larger in thickness.

[Ash_crimson]

is that what theyre gonna be on then once the roms are released?

[Wizard]

I expect the roms to be iso images, but thats just me.

[Agozer]

To clarify a few things....

 

I own an Iomega ZIP drive. It's the old model (ZIP 100), which means that it only support 100MB disks. There's also another ZIP 250 model that reads 100MB disks and 250MB disks. Zip disks have never gone up to 1GB.

 

What K`dash was referring to is the Iomega Jazz, which can hold even more than 1GB, but that's not a disk drive per se, but a DAT tape drive.

Edited May 25, 2004 by Agozer

[Diso]

Finally A dreamcast emulator and I don't have to bother Rag anymore to play his

 

Can't wait for this since Icarus just went dead again

[i l l m a t i c]

i wonder if mvsc2 is playable even in 20fps...

[Gryph]

i wonder if mvsc2 is playable even in 20fps...

Well in the video the Sega Dreamcast logo is running at about 20 fps and looks really choppy. I don't know if thats a current form of the emulator but if it emulates the logo at 20 fps just imagine how slow the games will be.