Well the sintendo emulator for snes 9x for dreamcast was supposed to debut today but it apparently ran into problems. Here is a direct LONG quote from his site stating he will still release today.
“Unfortunately, Sintendo still crashes. I underestimated the problem and unfortunately, now, on the deadline, I still lack a completely functioning product. Against my better judgement, however, I will still release a Sintendo beta version today, with the following caveat: It doesn’t work! You can see some title screens and maybe play a little, but very few games are fully functioning. Thus far, we have found four: Prince of Persia 2, Super Offroad, TMNT 4, and Earthworm Jim 2. There are probably more but we obviously can’t test them all.
Again, Sintendo beta v0.01 does not work. If you burn it, don’t even think about complaining to me about it. Constructive critism is very welcome, but don’t start a “man Sintendo sucks” rampage on the open internet just because a very early beta version doesn’t work…because it doesn’t and I told you that.
There is good news. To better test which games work and which games don’t (and to try to get an idea why its not working), I implemented some menu code which now works quite well. Currently, Sintendo supports up to 128 ROMs in a directory called “SNES”, though this number will increase later and include subdirectories. The menu code will help keep you from having to re-burn over and over again and should actually add some enjoyment to an otherwise useless emulator.
The release will be posted some time before 12 midnight EST. It will include a menu and a reasonable frameskip will be implemented (resonable meaning all games will run at full speed, but some of the slower games will be noticably jurky). Almost every element of Sintendo is slated to be improved in later versions. Obviously, the bug will be fixed and another version will be out soon. The menu code will be improved to utilize the bitmaps noted on the “Graphics” page of this site. The frameskip, though it may require some time, will hopefully soon be a thing of the past as I intend to use every means possible to get Sintendo running at full speed.”
He also said the source code will come out with it. We will be sure to post it here.
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Interesting news. We at DCEmu cannot wait and im sure you cant either.