Street Fighter Alpha 3 Dreamcast: Can any emulator play it?

[Chris Sabin]

I've been trying to get SFA3 to work on chankast, dreamemu and nulldc. To be fair, with chankast/dreamemu I've had other issues with just getting the emulator to work at all, while nulldc did work with another game, just not SFA3. According to a compatibility list, SFA3 just plain doesn't run on nulldc.

For the other 2, dreamemu wanted me to change to a 16 bit color depth, and chankast will require me to burn a disc.

So before I try to remedy either of those, I want to know if Street Fighter Alpha 3 is even compatible on either of those emulators. Or any emulator.

Thanks in advance.

[Zorlon]

chankast, dreamemu have far too many issues and are a couple of the early Dreamcast emulators but don't play much very well at all

demul is next option if nulldc does not work

As it happens the info you got is wrong Street Fighter Alpha 3 boots fine in nullDC (don't remember actually wanting to play it via emulation though I just done basic tests and play my Dreamcast games with my Dreamcast as emulation is not great of that system... yet)

Kalisto's dump of the game will not work due to it not being a selfbootable media or Mil-CD every other copy works or at least boots in NullDC

Make sure you have the NullDC 1.0.4 r150 version not the 1.04 r141 version

I will do a couple of tests now though and share some screen grabs

I used the DCRES copy for the test

Well looks to run fine and full speed for me [the speed will depend on your hardware partly] (still did not play anything just let the demo roll play through)

http://www.epforums.org/showthread.php?84702 has modern compat notes though as above I only really done boot tests though I always atleast let the demo mode play a bit and played a few in-game a little

http://www.epforums.org/showthread.php?66669 has the emulator version I mentioned NullDC 1.0.4 r150

[Chris Sabin]

Hey it worked! For the record, I had tried 3 other versions of nulldc, but none of them were 150. I tried 150 and it worked smoothly. I played a little of arcade and versus mode, and both modes went great, including the sound quality. So thanks!