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Would it be possible to emulate NeoGeo AES on 68k Amiga
« on: December 17, 2004, 04:53:36 PM »
Hi

Was wondering whether it would be possible to emulate NeoGeo AES through:

Hardware emulation of 68000
Using the Z80a source code from the AmiMSX Emulator
Using HAM8 mode for the NeoGeo graphics

Would this be possible (at usable speed). Or am i barking up the wrong tree.

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Re: Would it be possible to emulate NeoGeo AES on 68k Amiga
« Reply #1 on: December 18, 2004, 03:38:06 PM »
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Hyperspeed wrote:
NeoGeo ROMs are massive so the first thing you'd need is a lot of
memory.

Then there's the issue of the joysticks - they were brilliant and
playing Fatal Fury on the Cheetah Bug wouldn't be quite so hardcore.

:-D :-D

I tried Basebal 2020 on MAME and it was seriously bad. Maybe PowerPC
can do it reasonably (I saw Art of Fighting on a P166 MMX once at full
speed).

We can't even get full speed on '060 AmiGenerator and the NeoGeo had
sprite-scaling/rotation, more colours and much more/bigger sprites.

However, it makes you wonder why an '060 can't emulate an '00 with 1:1
like Shapeshifter. If the custom chips of the AES could be hardware
assisted like the MAS Player...

:-)

Maybe a home brewed PCMCIA slot adaptor could be made for the AES
memory cards.

;-)


Yeah. I forgot a lot of mememory is needed! :0) I have 64meg, which is just enough for them smaller games. Maybe the HD can be used as (virtual memory), albeit, this would also slow things down.

AmiGenerator used software emulation for the 68000, i was looking at the hardare emualtion side of things (although that is far too technical for me!).

If this was emualted like Shapshifter, i just know NeoGeo and MegaDrive emulation is possible! :-)

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Re: Would it be possible to emulate NeoGeo AES on 68k Amiga
« Reply #2 on: December 20, 2004, 01:24:01 PM »
Whether its harder or not, would the bottom line be the hardware emulation is better to use than software emulation?

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Re: Would it be possible to emulate NeoGeo AES on 68k Amiga
« Reply #3 on: December 20, 2004, 02:00:27 PM »
@bloodhound

NO! Oh well, luckily i have brought Metal Slug for NeoGeo AES. :-)

I though HAM was pretty good. It seems okay in when using the HAM8 drivers in Shapeshifter?

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Re: Would it be possible to emulate NeoGeo AES on 68k Amiga
« Reply #4 on: December 21, 2004, 04:52:02 PM »
Okay so draw the line for me:

Wooult it be possible to do 68000 hardware emulation, or are you saying its IMPOSSIBLE?!
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