Zodiac Emulating Game Cube???

[Steve-O]

Is it True that the Zodiac can Emulate the Game Cube?? I was on IRC Last night on this Roms Channel and said "You all need to get a GP32" Then someone said "Dont get a GP32, Get a Zodiac it Emulates the Game Cube".... Is that true?

I realy Dont think it can but he wouldnt take "No it cant" for an answer... hhmmm

 

[wave]

It can't and it will never can.

 

[kerb]

Only thing that plays gamecube is the gamecube.

 

[Sponge BoB]

the zodiac has half the cpu speed of the game cube. the gp32 cant even emulate the snes full speed easily as it is and it had a clock speed just ove 3mhz. the gp32 at 166 is over 55 times more powerfull than the snes.

 

[Azure]

Zodaic emulating GameCube! That's is the stupidest thing I've heard in a long time. The Zodiac has a 200 mhz ARM9 processor! I bet it can barely emulate GBA!

 

[Steve-O]

Zodaic emulating GameCube! That's is the stupidest thing I've heard in a long time. The Zodiac has a 200 mhz ARM9 processor! I bet it can barely emulate GBA!

Thats what I thought... But the guy on IRC Kept on saying that It could... And I was telling him it couldn't... Then he started P***ing me off so I ignored him after that...

 

[true karma]

The Zodiac has about as much chance of emulating the gamecube as the GP32 does of emulating a playstation 3 when it's released

 

[Rico]

Hmm... most likely a joke, they were screwing with you.

 

[Gorillazero]

Sup? I'm guessing the douche meant SNES not gamecube. And just didn't know any better. Ex. You know Mario on X-box (you mean Gamecube...) Oh Yea it's on Gamecube...

.... confusion is everywhere and stops for no man..

-Matt (Post'er did u really think it could emulate it, honestly?)

 

[generalnmx]

Both the Zodiac and GP32 are capable of emulating the Gamecube. Here's what you would need:

- The EXACT specs of what makes the Gamecube tick hardware-wise
- The EXACT specs of what makes the Gamcube tick software-wise (not available)
- A team of dedicated, professional programmers (or rlyeh )
- About 2 years of furious programming (on the programmer's part) and lack of bathing (on the programmer's part as well as the Gamecube fanboys who want GP32 and Zodiac emulation)
- Code written from stratch in ARM9 (for GP32) AND whatever chip the Zodiac uses
- Code written from stratch to compress, then intelligently decompress, images from the Gamecube

And there you go - Gamecube emulation on the GP32 and Zodiac!

... <_<

 

[jot2b]

LOL. Nice play, general!

 

[jlebrech]

Emulation of anything if possible, some emulations would never even run fast enough to get past the start screen on a game, and then you need to add everything such as bink video compatibility. Emulation of new hardware is very hard

 

[Steve-O]

-Matt (Post'er did u really think it could emulate it, honestly?)

No thats why I was telling him that it cant.....

 

[STRIDER_YUZO]

The zodiac emulating a game cube? THAT will never happen!

There is a huge zodiac fan-boy base out there- And a zodiac fan-boy can be painfully difficult to deal with. Esp. in the realm of emulation discussion. Its like talking to a dumb jock..... or a rich prep.... with the conversation ending in flames and being called a geek or a nerd.- its not always like that, but way more frequent than what i've seen in all gp32 forums.

Theres something to be said about that

yuzo

 

[pip]

The Zodiac will probably be able to emulate the SNES at a decent speed in quite a while, if someone dedicated decides to do it. But that is about it.

 

[Azure]

I'm guessing it'ill emulate SNES with sound at frameskip 2-3.

 

[The Dude]

My Pentium 4 computer can't emulate the Game Cube at anything higher than 2 FPS, so there is no way the Zodiac would ever even get close.

 

[Dozer]

I'm guessing it'ill emulate SNES with sound at frameskip 2-3.

what do you base that on?

 

[papapopalung]

my pentuimII 350 running zsnes couldn't run at frameskip 0 with sound all the time (seiken densetsu 3 ran particularly slow...)