Saturn and Dreamcast emulators?

SEGA
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Does anyone know if there’re ever likely to be any good ones? My Saturn can’t last forever. And I used to have a DC with a games collection I was really proud of until my student home got broken into and they nicked the whole caboodle. I’d dearly love to play SoA again without having to buy a 2nd hand DC which will probably die in a few years anyway.

Would love to play 4-player Powerstone 2 and Rush 2049, too, but I think those days are probably over.

I know there’re a couple of Saturn ones out there, but the review websites all seem to think they’re fairly weak. IIRC last time I checked if there were any DC emulators at all they were also considered rubbish.

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I haven’t actually tried it, but SSF is supposed to be one of the better Saturn emulators out there.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSF_%28emulator%29

I seem to remember a decent Dreamcast emulator existing, but I can’t quite put my finger on the name of it.

If you’ve got a Gamecube, or are planning on getting a Wii, you could play Skies of Arcadia Legends on either of those platforms.

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Chankast. Sadly, it seems that development stopped long ago and while it run Shenmue and Headhunter nicely back when I tried it (atleast a year ago using the original discs mind you), I’m sure that it still had the odd error or crash happen…

NG emu is (or was) a pretty good website about emulator news in general so check it every so often for updates on the Saturn develppments.

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[quote=“Solo Wing Dragon”]I haven’t actually tried it, but SSF is supposed to be one of the better Saturn emulators out there.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSF_%28emulator%29

I seem to remember a decent Dreamcast emulator existing, but I can’t quite put my finger on the name of it.

If you’ve got a Gamecube, or are planning on getting a Wii, you could play Skies of Arcadia Legends on either of those platforms.[/quote]

If it was the same game I might get one for that reason alone (if I had the money… sighs)

But a big part of the appeal for me was SoA DC’s music.

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[quote=“Solo Wing Dragon”]I haven’t actually tried it, but SSF is supposed to be one of the better Saturn emulators out there.
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Jebus, I had no idea they were so processor-hungry!