Specific Dreamcast roms not loading past Sega Logo (lr flycast)

swagford

@nemo93 I see. That's very unfortunate. Are there any PC emulators that could run these, or are they simply out of reach for now?

mitu

@swagford I think lr-flycast can play WinCE games on PC - https://www.libretro.com/index.php/flycast-wince-has-merged-into-regular-flycast-only-one-core-now-plus-switch-port-teaser/.

Steams71

Yes, iirc the only way to use Dreamcast Windows CE powered games is PC based. I think it's something to do with bit depth. Eventually it will come to Pi but We're a bit off yet.
The Nvidia shield TV (android) version may be able to do win ce via redream?

dankcushions

it requires 64-bit so you can run them on flycast + pi4 in aarch64, however it's a slideshow. redream doesn't support any win ce games right now, i think

barbudreadmon

yes, flycast supports wince on 64bits and it requires far more cpu power

swagford

Thanks for the replies everyone. You've all been very helpful!

Darksavior

@swagford Bust A Move 4 is playable on finalburn-neo.

barbudreadmon

Yes, bust a move 4 is a taito f3 arcade game which was ported on a lot of platforms, fwiw it's also available on psx.

TPR

Has there been any progress on this at all recently? Or, more specifically, can Windows CE games run on a Pi 4 yet? Or should I say, run well?

barbudreadmon

@tpr said in Specific Dreamcast roms not loading past Sega Logo (lr flycast):

can Windows CE games run on a Pi 4 yet

it seems there was some kind of misunderstanding so i'll be clear : it'll never happen, pi4 doesn't have the kind of specs required, by far.

dankcushions

@tpr please see my previous comment. they can run, but not well, and there’s no reason to suspect this situation will be improved as it’s computationally expensive.

barbudreadmon

@dankcushions said in Specific Dreamcast roms not loading past Sega Logo (lr flycast):

there’s no reason to suspect this situation will be improved

Yeah, flycast is already using every possible means of cpu optimization, but it's still not sufficient even on 3.2Ghz aarch64 devices iirc, so maybe when pis will hit those frequencies but until then i don't think it's useful to ask again.
Idk about redream, i think they mentioned "wince support nearly done" around 2 years ago, but i don't think it's available yet. Not that i see how they could do a miracle about this whole "very computationally expensive" situation.

TPR

@dankcushions Thank you for the response. I was just asking as it has been five months and I wanted to make sure there wasn't an update that I had missed. I see improvements in emulation all the time. I can now run far more MAME games with lr-2016 and lr-mame than I could with previous generations emulators even on the same hardware so I don't think my question was that outlandish.

Thank you for the update, though.