Makaron WIP - Shake it, baby

March 3rd, 2008, 19:17 Posted By: JKKDARK

More progress on the Sega Dreamcast emulator for PC.

From the official site:

- AICA cleanup: done
- Puru Puru Pack (vibration) support: done
- Render to texture: done
- Fixed (again, and for good I hope) missing sound in Project Justice
- Spent 4 hours playing Elemental Gimmick Gear on Makaron

Force feedback was tested on Soul Reaver and seems to work. Did I ever mention this game is one of the reasons I moved from simple SH4 recompiler project to full-blow Dreamcast emulator? I simply adore whole series.

http://pics.livejournal.com/dknute/pic/000a4z68

Now this is actually Saturn conversion, that's why the graphics look a bit dated. Don't let it fool you into thinking it's old and boring - it's quite the opposite. Runs rock solid too, I've played it on full screen and never had a single problem whatsoever.

http://pics.livejournal.com/dknute/pic/000a5z4x

And this isn't a game at all, just a movie demo disc - GD though, so Dreamcast exclusive. Kinda sucks they didn't remove the interlace - looks pretty bad on PC monitors. Nothing can be done about that now, it's MPEG stream.

http://pics.livejournal.com/dknute/pic/000a6t1y

And this apparently is Makaron exclusive for now I've only played Interlude for several minutes (can't read kanji, so...) but I've noticed there's lots of nice backgrounds. Plenty of spoken dialogues as well. It's 2003 game so I guess quality is higher compared to similar games for Dreamcast (why, even compressed the image is still almost 1,2G).

http://pics.livejournal.com/dknute/pic/000a7x1x

I am so sick & tired of cutting every screenshot I make to size... I need a good and free screen capture program. Any suggestions?

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