Anybody out there emulating consoles on a Mac? What are your preferred emulators? I've got a 2017 iMac 27' (Core i5, Radeon 570 Pro, 16GB RAM) and I'm just starting out with the system. So far I grabbed Redream for Dreamcast games and has handled the games I want to play great. I even popped $5 for the premium version, and Dreamcast 3D games rendered at the native resolution of 3840x2880 (a 4:3 equivalent of the native res) looks GORGEOUS.
CoolROM.com's Mac emulator information and download page for lxdream (Sega Dreamcast). Experience the Dreamcast in HD. Redream is a work-in-progress Dreamcast emulator, enabling you to play your favorite Dreamcast games in high-definition on Windows, Mac and Linux.
Crazy Taxi, Soul Calibur, and Tony Hawk 2 look great. 2D fighters with 3D backgrounds, like Marvel vs Capcom 2 aren't quite so great, but the backgrounds are nice at least. And totally 2D games like Worms World Party are blocky, but that's the nature of the system. I don't mind supporting emulation projects if they're making progress, and this at least looks pretty good.
For just about everything else, there's OpenEmu. Haven't played with it TOO much but it seems to like what I've played on Genesis, Sega CD, etc. Looks like a Mac-specific port of RetroArch with a less controller-friendly UI.
I might go regular RetroArch down the road, I dunno. There's one pretty glaring hole, though, and that's PS2. I have a bunch of PS2 original discs and a USB DVD drive, and I'd love to play those still.
PCSX2 is on the system but he official build is years old at this point, which is disappointing. I've found instructions for using WINE but I haven't tried it yet. I'd rather find a native build if one exists. Anybody playing PS2 games on a Mac with any decent results? Feel free to chime in with anything you think is better than what I've listed above, too.
Edited by derFunkenstein, Sun Jul 15, 2018 4:26 PM. PlayOnMac might be a good alternative to Wine. It should make things a little simpler if you can't just run Windows via VirtualBox or Parallels. I think your setup is strong enough for a little emulation inception. I'd never heard of this before, but it seems pretty cool, like an easy Wine front-end.
And you were right, PCSX2 runs great on my Mac at higher resolutions. It can definitely handle the emu-ception. Thanks for the suggestion!
I tried OpenEmu because CD-based systems are a pain in RetroArch. Or at least a year ago they were.
You had to manually create the playlist, and that sucks. OpenEmu, by contrast, figured it out automatically from the Cue sheet. I had to make m3u files for multi-disc games, but that's easy, and 90% of the images I have are single-disc games.
Redream doesn't seem to like WinCE-based games, but that's OK. Most games aren't WinCE-based. Well, after my initial first impression of PCSX2 in PlayOnMac, I've dumped that install. I got my first taste of 3D emulation on the system, and it's ridiculously slow, because it only works in PlayOnMac in software emulation mode. I had been playing Disgaea 2 and it ran at a great, solid 60fps. Then last night I fired up Final Fantasy X and.nope. Looks like I had overstated it before.
It's not a deal breaker, though. I kept my SCPH-50000 PS2 with the official network adapter and a cool IDE-to-SATA adapter that works great with 2.5' hard drives. It boots off the hard drive and plays pretty much everything. It and my Saturn were the last two consoles that I wanted to check out before I sold them, and I'm definitely holding onto the PS2. I might hold onto the Saturn, too, particularly because there's no interest in it here. The native port of Dolphin has been fine.
The emulator warns me that performance will be 'horrible' but it does Gamecube games fine from what I can tell. Tony Hawk 3, Spider-Man 2, Mario Sunshine, and Super Monkey Ball have no problems. I haven't played any Wii games on it yet because I don't have a Dolphinbar.
The Dreamcast is a 6th generation console released by Sega in November 1998 in Japan and 1999 in other territories. It was the first entry in the 6th generation of video game consoles preceding PlayStation 2, Xbox and GameCube.
The Sega Dreamcast used many new technologies never before seen in video game consoles. These include internet connectivity and an internal hard drive. Dreamcast emulator is software that runs on the Sega Dreamcast. The Dreamcast was discontinued only 3 years later in 2001.
Specs:. Memory 16MB main RAM, 8MB Video RAM AND 2MB sound RAM.
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Resolution: 640x448. Colors 16.7 million. Dreamcast control pad: digital and analogue directional controls, dual analogue triggers, virtual memory system data save unit. Operating System: Customized Microsoft windows CE and Sega Operating System.
Famous Games that Based on Dreamcast 1.Shenmue (1& 2) Shenmue game is a story of Ryo Hazuki's quest for revenge that took place in Japan and China in the late 80's. In this game, the gamer explores detailed world conversed by virtual fighters. Shenmue was voted the best Dreamcast game. Skies of Arcadia The game is a story of Blue Rogue air pirate, Vyse and his friends which is a sublime masterpiece that contains a huge world, lovable characters, and plenty of secrets to discover. It also contains ship to ship battles and an adventure that wouldn't let you go.
Some people call this game the best Final Fantasy clone ever made. Sonic Adventure 2 This game features multiple characters, various game styles and some very impressive presentations. The pseudo-adventure element of this game makes it very interesting to play. Soul Calibur The weapon based combat in this game makes it lively and addictive to play.
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The combat system in this game was so wonderfully implemented and caters for newcomers and veterans alike. The game also packed in a collection of game modes including an impressive quest mode and other contents. Phantasy Star Online This is an epic game and as a hunter, your job was to leave the safe confines of your colony ship and enter into the surface of new planet Ragol. However, the planet was not at all safe and involved real time combat with creatures. Why People want a Dreamcast Emulator The Dreamcast emulation scene is very active and provides a tremendous afterlife to such a stunning machine and outstripping PS2 as an all-round entertainment machine. Advantages to having emulators on the Dreamcast include:. Dreamcast emulators are generally more simplistic to get running than a PC version.
With a PC, the main controller is the keyboard whereas the Dreamcast controller is better, effective and much more suited. On how many Platforms can Dreamcast Emulators run?. On Windows Platform. Macintosh operating system. Top 10 Famous Dreamcast Emulators 1. Chankast Chankast is an emulator for the Dreamcast system. It was the first Dreamcast emulator to run commercial games.
This emulator was specifically designed for Windows XP or 2003. It won't work under windows 9x or ME, and you will encounter some problems using it under windows 2000. Minimum Requirements:. 256 MB RAM. Pentium 4 with at least 1.6 GHZ. Latest DirectX. Windows XP or 2003 (won't work under any other).
Powerful graphic card such as Nvidia or Ati. DC Bios Rating 8.1 (12320 votes) Download link: 2. DreamEMU DreamEMU is a Sega Dreamcast emulator that can play CPU demos and homebrew games. It runs on windows platform.
It currently shows the Sega opening screen and runs some demos slowly. Pretty soon, we expect to see the first signs of commercial games. Rating: 7.0 (7059 votes) Download link: 3. NullDC NullDC was a Sega Dreamcast emulator for win86 and it's now archived at github.
Work is now done on reicast ( ) and while NullDC is still a better choice for Dreamcast emulation on windows/x86 reicast is where future development is. Rating 8.1 (1356 votes) Download link: 4.
DEmul Demul is a Sega Dreamcast emulator that is capable of playing commercial games at very fast speeds. Initially development on this emulator was thought to have stopped but has recently been picked by a Russian based firm recently with alpha Naomi support. It runs on Windows platform. Rating: 7.3 (643 votes: Download website: File Size: 853kb 5. Dreamer Dreamer was the first released and working Dreamcast emulator for the PC. It was developed by Elsemi from the late 2000 until mid-2001. It only runs several demos and no progress has been made in quite some time.
Rating: 00 Download link: 6. Makaron Makaron is a Sega Dreamcast console and Sega Naomi arcade emulator for windows OS. This Dreamcast emulator was released on and has a very high compatibility rate. It is capable of running many commercial games and runs on Windows platform only.
Rating: 0.0 Download link: 7. Icarus Icarus is the first emulator to play commercial games and improvements are still underway. Right now there is no version available for download as it's currently going through a rebuild.
Rating: 7.0 (7059 votes) Download link: 8. NesterDC NesterDC is a fully featured Nintendo entertainment system emulator for the Dreamcast. It is popular for its superb compatibility. You can save up to 10 states and the interactive selection screens can feature NES box art and also some classic background chip tunes.
NesterDC remains one of the leading Dreamcast NES emulator. Download site: 9. Sega Genesis Although it is still officially at the Beta stage, GENS4ALL is already a worthy contender for the best Genesis emulator on the Dreamcast. This emulator is able to save games to the VMU, sports VGA output and action replay cheat codes for Genesis games. Download site: 10. DreamSpec There exist a number of Spectrum emulators for Dreamcast but one of the stand out is DreamSpec.
This emulator comes in a pre-prepared CDI image for burning with over 200 legally available free ware spectrum games. Download link.