Exodus - A cycle-accurate Mega Drive/Genesis Emulator

[ekianjo]

And open source.


http://www.assemblergames.com/forums/showthread.php?45726-Cycle-accurate-Mega-Drive-emulation-Exodus-coming-in-April!

 

[levi]

Is there any chance something like this, simulating all the chips in a Megadrive would run in real-time on a Pandora (either GC or 1GHz)?

 

[ekianjo]

Is there any chance something like this, simulating all the chips in a Megadrive would run in real-time on a Pandora (either GC or 1GHz)?

Probably not, but who knows? We'll have to get a port first to confirm

By the way...

"This emulator is fundamentally different to every other emulator I know of, in several critical ways. I'll publish more about that towards the time of release, but most importantly, Exodus is not a Mega Drive emulator. Exodus is a generic emulation platform, which allows systems to be assembled from individual components at runtime. Nothing related to a particular system is hardcoded. Exodus constructs a system from a set of discrete components, manages the communication between those components, and keeps perfect timing accuracy between each component. Other systems can easily be modelled without modifying or rebuilding Exodus, it simply requires emulation cores for each device in that system to be available."

 

[levi]

Yeah, I read that. Certainly a project to keep an eye on. Mind you, I was under the impression that MESS was designed as an accurate multi-system emulator akin to MAME but for consumer electronics. Seems to me to build an accurate system emulator you need to accurately emulate all the components that make up that system, so I don't see how what differs from what's being proposed here.

 

[ekianjo]

Yeah, I read that. Certainly a project to keep an eye on. Mind you, I was under the impression that MESS was designed as an accurate multi-system emulator akin to MAME but for consumer electronics. Seems to me to build an accurate system emulator you need to accurately emulate all the components that make up that system, so I don't see how what differs from what's being proposed here.

I recommend reading the hacker news thread about this, byuu (creator of BSNES) has several interesting comments about this. 

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5670293

 

[bagmouse7]

There are some great comments on that page that ekianjo posted.


I kept thinking as I read them, "These guys need Pandoras..."

 

[ekianjo]

There are some great comments on that page that ekianjo posted.


I kept thinking as I read them, "These guys need Pandoras..."

Yeah, that's Hacker News. The best resource for hackers by hackers. I go there everyday. 

These guys KNOW about the Pandora, but they know as well about the disaster of the early pre-orders back at the beginning. It's not a good place to advertise the Pandora on, nowadays. Too bad, since there are a lot of linux people there.

 

[Askarus]

I think we should tell them that Pandora is now produced in Germany and available from stock.

If we tell them we still ship units to the ones ordered it might have a positive effect.

 

[ekianjo]

I think we should tell them that Pandora is now produced in Germany and available from stock.

If we tell them we still ship units to the ones ordered it might have a positive effect.

It's very hard to rebuild trust once it's damaged. That's Marketing basics. 

No matter how much better the situation is now compared to before you won't be able to fix the damage done. 

And its' not like mistakes were not done recently... (1Ghz preorder mess last year, again). 

It will take time. 

 

[Askarus]

Are they Craig customers without Pandoras?

 

[ekianjo]

Are they Craig customers without Pandoras?

Who knows. At least they have sufficiently heard about the issues.