Cassini, perhaps the most compatible Saturn emulator to date, is not only back, but apparently has been updated:
http://www.barnitos.net/cassini/
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Cassini, perhaps the most compatible Saturn emulator to date, is not only back, but apparently has been updated:
http://www.barnitos.net/cassini/
What the...?
What I'll do now is:
Give you some rep first.
Check this out second.
Yes I read about in in march but apparently there isn't
any downloadable version yet...and you recieve a lot of rep
if you'll find me v2.0Beta for download. ;)
Wait...no...that comes for Satourne...how come Cassini
have been updated isn't it a hack????
OMG it's real. Rep to you. :D
Yeah I knew that was gonna happen since yesterday when barnito announced it at Romster :P
I gotta try it too :nod:
edit, the emu is here: http://www.barnitos.net/cassini/downloads.htm
It has been updated, but isn't much better speed-wise. At least it's alive now, so hopefully in the future it'll get better.
Yeah. I hope the same will go with Satourne...Quote:
Originally Posted by pkt-zer0
i remember for sega saturn this rpg game but i don't remember what it's called and i can't describe it enough to tell ya.. i remember at one point i was on a boat.............. lol
this is great news hopefully this will stir up the saturn emulation scene
Cassini will be updated again. Here is what barnito said:
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Originally Posted by barnito
Yawn...this is old news, it's been up there for a while now, I've had a link to it in my sig for a while now too, in the emulators section at the top of the list on the page.
Sounds like God hates him :lolQuote:
July 12, 2005
Cassini Emulator 2.0
Well, its been nearly half a year since I made any updates.
This comes in part due to health issues, my Saturn hardware being stollen, and a lightening strike destroying a dozen drives.
Wonder what they've stolen this time.
An even better question is what haven't they stolen this time:PQuote:
Originally Posted by Del_Boy
Cassini has been a version 2.0 emu. I dled it a long time ago, and here's a pic of the original installer...Quote:
7/18/05: Recent breakthroughs have allowed us to release Cassini v2.0.
http://forums.emuparadise.org/attach...id=16440&stc=1
So shouldn't it be like version 3.0 or 2.0b or some shit?
A "modified" bios, yay. :eyeball:Quote:
A modified bios is included that allows many games to work, but not all.
This is not old news cos its a new update that will be available soon ;)
It's already available on the site. I looked through the compatability list in the folder, and it wasn't even updated, so how is anyone supposed to know what games are playable now that weren't before? Heh, by the time the next update comes around a group of bandoleros will have invaded barnito's neighborhood and taken him hostage for another six months, not to mention it will rain fire and burn his house to the ground, destroying all his PC equipment in the process. :eyeball:Quote:
Originally Posted by Cookie Monster
As I advanced some days ago, a new version of Cassini (Cassini 3.0) is now available.
You can grab it at http://www.barnitos.net/cassini/downloads.htm ;)
Wow, it's almost double the size of the old version. And it has a multi-bios feature, bout damn time.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cookie Monster
Lately this Cassini thing has been a little confusing. :sweat:Quote:
Originally Posted by Cookie Monster
I'll grab this version too to see what has changed if really
something was changed. (as it's hard to change something
using just disassembled version of the emu's executable)
I think that next version of Satourne is the real thing that I'll be
waiting for...
Yipee! New version.Quote:
Originally Posted by MegaVolt
BTW, in the older version of Cassini, sound was sometimes lagging in movies (Guardian Heroes/Panzer Dragoon intro). In 2.0 it was normal. Sprite bugs remained however.
So there MIGHT be something changed in the newer version, too.
EDIT: Oooh, transparency. I don't think it had that before. Plus, Action Replay, codes, cheating, whatever.
cool i just downloaded & install it.New many options & at last inborn unbuggy
gamepad support.No more joy to key.
But i still cant run nights into dreams even on cassini 3.0
If you want to help me a little read all this crap i right Here
If you want to know what that stupid ass Barnito and his gang of idiots have changed, then perhaps check here:
http://www.emutalk.net/showthread.php?t=28880
Yep they've integrated other programs they have stolen and passed them off AGAIN as their own. Don't give the idiots the oxygen of publicity.
I'd wager game compat hasn't been touched, unless they've stolen a more advanced .ini from somewhere.
That's a bit brutal.Quote:
Originally Posted by Del_Boy
...So, Satourne it is. I'll just have to find some decent plugins and stuff when it'll be available.
Though it's not as compatible as Cassini it may really show a goodQuote:
Originally Posted by pkt-zer0
progress on Saturn emulation stage. Tested games run at about
20-30 Fps speed which is really decent and author at least have
a source code for it. ;)
But for now only official beta testers seems to have v2.0 of this emu.
Quote:
Originally Posted By Del_Boy
If you want to know what that stupid ass Barnito and his gang of idiots have changed, then perhaps check here:
http://www.emutalk.net/showthread.php?t=28880
Yep they've integrated other programs they have stolen and passed them off AGAIN as their own. Don't give the idiots the oxygen of publicity.
I'd wager game compat hasn't been touched, unless they've stolen a more advanced .ini from somewhere.
If you want my opinion to that look again now to that post.dont worry you can find my reply really easily.I have the same avatar & name.
I reply to 2 different forums boards in the same time and i use the one forum board to make a reply to the other ;)
What the hell i say/do now :lol
Cassini IS one of the best Saturn Emulators, but that is only by virtue of Giri Giri hacked being one of the best Saturn Emulators (seeing as this just steals in whole Giri Giri hacked, and then steals a few more utilities - then it would be considered by association 'good').
This is however not ever going to have increased compatability, a fancy plugin system etc The 'programmers' (lol) don't have source code, nor have they shown the ability to do anything more than a cheap and very lame resource hack.
If they were to rename it Giri Giri hack - and stop with the pathetic pretence that they have added anything original to it, then maybe then I'd give it a bit more respect.
Quote:
Originally Posted By Del_Boy
Cassini IS one of the best Saturn Emulators, but that is only by virtue of Giri Giri hacked being one of the best Saturn Emulators (seeing as this just steals in whole Giri Giri hacked, and then steals a few more utilities - then it would be considered by association 'good').
This is however not ever going to have increased compatability, a fancy plugin system etc The 'programmers' (lol) don't have source code, nor have they shown the ability to do anything more than a cheap and very lame resource hack.
If they were to rename it Giri Giri hack - and stop with the pathetic pretence that they have added anything original to it, then maybe then I'd give it a bit more respect.
i agree with all that especially with the "bold" one.
Unfortunately saturn emulation overall sucks.Only cassini (unfortunately again) is a good saturn emulator.ok i admit i dont try latest versions of ssf because i dont have sse2 cpu.
Look at ps1 n64 & even dreamcast!!! emulation.The quality is better than saturn emulation.
SSF is very good apparently, the next non beta version apparently should only need SSE1 (AFAIK, I may be totally wrong).
The main problem with Saturn emulation apart from perhaps a bit of lack of interest, is the thing is so damn complex (a bit of a bodge by Sega due to the competition with the PS1).
Since I personally have the highest esteem possible of you, I ask you, what should we do next time a new version is released, not to mention it at all? :shrug:Quote:
Originally Posted by Del_Boy
Mention it by all means - for what it is, it is good - very good. However all they are doing is stealing other peoples work and then claiming they themselves have made it. Put it this way, if I res-hacked PJ64 and called it Del_Boy64, it would still be a great emulator - it would however be complete and utter dishonesty on my part.
Personally I'd post it and make clear that Barnito, Snail et al are a bunch of thieving little pricks with 0 programming ability ;)
The new version will be the same as the previous, just with whatever else they can reshack and integrate (not tough to do, even for a complete moron).
Oh Del_Boy you and your drugs :P lolQuote:
Originally Posted by Del_Boy
But yeah I agree, I have seen a bit of contempt as far as this is concerned, I haven't bothered to download it myself because of this.
I totally agree with Del_Boy. This is why I still use Giri Giri Hacked, since I've never seen any difference in the quality of emulation between that and Cassini, but then Cassini is just Giri Giri renamed, of course. I am a bit curious about how SSF is coming along though. I hear it runs quite a few games, albeit slow.
There are no sound skipping in movies in Cassini 3.0 and there's also transparency, but that's about it... Right now, I'd like to kill whoever forgot to include the hacks in the GAMES.DAT file for the US version of Guardian Heroes... copy/pasted the codes for the japanese one, put the ID of the US version there, and ta-da! no more black background items. Gah.Quote:
Originally Posted by Akuma
:lol You're a better programmer than they are:PQuote:
Originally Posted by pkt-zer0
LMAO, I like that. You are the winner of my rep today, but seriously I heard that the bios hasn't even been changed on this (I could be wrong if so I apologise)Quote:
Originally Posted by Akuma
Thank you. You are a gentleman and a scholar.:nod: Somewhere on that site a couple days ago I read that Cassini included a "modified" bios that allowed more games to work, although they never stated which ones. Sounds to me like they weren't intelligent enough to actually modify the code of the emulator so they just hacked the bios.:eyeball: The whole thing is a cut n paste job, a "Frankenstein's monster" of emulation you might say. Hmmm, I vote that Cassini now be called "FrankenSaturn" :lolQuote:
Originally Posted by TheotheImpaler
Dunno what exactly a "hacked" BIOS would mean, but the US BIOS in the newest release is identical to the one I got ...ummm... two years ago?Quote:
Originally Posted by TheotheImpaler
HA! Figures...Quote:
Originally Posted by pkt-zer0
That's what I meant lol, it was supposed to be updated but wasn't :SQuote:
Originally Posted by pkt-zer0
and to Akuma, Me a scholar? I'm just a student :P
I just looked at the bios in Cassini 3, and it has a different CRC than the ones I have, same file size though, so something was done to it.
oddly, I will go kill my sources now :PQuote:
Originally Posted by Akuma
Compare it byte-by-byte in Total Commander (a US BIOS, and the new, "generic" one, the rest have file dates of 1999 and 1997), and you'll see that the only thing that was hacked, is that instead of saying "Copyright Sega Enterprises 1994", it says "Generic Global Sega Saturn Emulation BIOS 2005 by Snailsoft".Quote:
Originally Posted by Akuma