Zodiac 1 Vs. Z2.. Whats The Diff?

[purple_goat]

whats the difference between zodiac versions?

thanks

 

[J201605]

zodiac 1 has 32mb of ram and the zodiac 2 has 128mb of ram. Also the zodiac 1 is grey and the zodiac 2 is blue. I don't know what you would need the extra ram for so i bought a zodiac 1 and saved about 60 buks.

 

[purple_goat]

RAM like ram or memory like NAND?

 

[TwoHeadedBoy]

I like your purple goat thingy :lol:

 

[purple_goat]

thanks did it myself!

 

[chaos engineer]

RAM like ram or memory like NAND?

ram like ram

 

[Draken]

zodiac 1 has 32mb of ram and the zodiac 2 has 128mb of ram. Also the zodiac 1 is grey and the zodiac 2 is blue. I don't know what you would need the extra ram for so i bought a zodiac 1 and saved about 60 buks.

Zodiac 2 is black, not blue...
The extra ram isn't necessery if you have sd cards, so a zodiac 1 is fine.

 

[Fishbong]

RAM like ram or memory like NAND?

ram like ram

No.

The Zodiac´s RAM splits up in an area that´s actually used as working memory (called the heap, max. 16MB big) and the rest of the RAM is used like flash memory, only it is extremely faster (because its RAM). Since the Zodiac is always on or on standby, the stuff you save on the latter part won´t get lost.

 

[purple_goat]

so is the zodiac 2 the better idea?

 

[chaos engineer]

RAM like ram or memory like NAND?

ram like ram

No.

The Zodiac´s RAM splits up in an area that´s actually used as working memory (called the heap, max. 16MB big) and the rest of the RAM is used like flash memory, only it is extremely faster (because its RAM). Since the Zodiac is always on or on standby, the stuff you save on the latter part won´t get lost.

disappointment, I am a Zod Noob (recieved it some weeks ago). I always thought that it is real ram, There are programs that maximize the ram, like UDMH, so you suggest that even by using these programs, the heap is capped by 16 mb. but why is it possible to play metal slug, shock troopers and last blade on zodneo, I do not think that this emu uses rom dumps.

hmm at least there must be an advantage to own a zod2, I would say that the internal ram is much faster than the sd card access

 

[Fishbong]

but why is it possible to play metal slug, shock troopers and last blade on zodneo, I do not think that this emu uses rom dumps.

AFAIK a part of the ROMs get loaded into the permanent part of the RAM, because its so fast, it doesn´t have to load the whole ROM.

 

[purple_goat]

so will having a zod2 make things play at higher fps than having a zod1?
or just boot faster?