Emulation (open discussion)

[Kairyu]

I recently saw a website with CPS-3 roms (Red Earth/Warzard, SFIII, etc.) for download. Has the CPS-3 been emulated?

[MottZilla]

No, but many systems that aren't emulated have the ROM dumps available before hand. Afterall, if you don't have the ROMs, you're never going to be able to emulate it. Right now the main thing holding back CPS3 progress is undoubtably encryption.

[Dr. Weird]

No, but many systems that aren't emulated have the ROM dumps available before hand. Afterall, if you don't have the ROMs, you're never going to be able to emulate it. Right now the main thing holding back CPS3 progress is undoubtably encryption.

heck, I've seen some NEOGEO stuff that hasn't been fully decrypted; frankly, it's a pain in the ass to find the files needed to replace the encrypted part of the roms...

[Darth Marsden]

Unrelated (what is in this thread?) - does anyone know of any decent Sonic 3/Sonic & Knuckles/Sonic 3 & Knuckles editors? I went through a phase of trying to essentially create a whole new Sonic game about a year ago, but never got very far. Having played them on the Sonic Mega Collection, I feel like giving it another go. Any ideas?

Just to clarify this... I meant easy-to-use tools like SonEd & stuff. Anyone got any ideas?

And, on a completely different emulation topic, does anyone know if/how the Nintendo DS & PSP can/will be emulated on PC?

[MottZilla]

Dr. Weird, NeoGeo roms aredecrypted on the fly. There is no reason to decrypt the roms or replace the encrypted roms with bootleg roms. MAME as well as Kawaks, and Final Burn Alpha, even Nebula all decrypt the graphics on the fly.

Darth, there is only that one that I know of, the SonED thing. About DS and PSP, there are emulators already out, but you must understand how emulation works. These systems are only partially emulated, and are ussually unoptimized. That translates to, all games are virtually unplayable.

The only system that was ever emulated well when it was still living was NeoGeo, and perhaps PSX. Ussually a system is dead from the market before it's emulated well, or it's been out awhile (GBA). Infact GBA is probably the last system of that kind. One that was able to be emulated very well so early on. GBA had no encryption, Nintendo DS does. Although it's already been hacked fyi.

Infact there are NES and SNES emulators out now for DS. And there is a GB/GBC emulator in the works. PSP is hacked too, with ports of PC emulators like Nester and Snes9X, and Dgen too I think.

[Darth Marsden]

Thanks, just wondered. I'll have to look into that DS SNES emulator when I eventually get one.