Sega Model 2

ajninosaurus

Hi there fellow retropie community !

I am currently building my arcade cabinet, its almost finished, and I've decided to build it for one reason. DYNAMITE COP !
It's only after purchasing everything (Pi 3 + all that goes with it) that I sadly discovered that the sega model 2 is not compatible with a retropie distribution...
There is an emulator that works fine on windows, there is also Wahcade on GNU/linux,
The purpose of this topic (yes there is one :D) is to know, for my little broken heart who has been hard working on his arcade cabinet, is there any possibility to see a SM2 emulator on retropie ?
(note: The dreamcast version on reicast is quite bad and almost unplayable)

I'm dying out there, the soul of my project is gone :(
Thanks for any info guys [I still very much love you @retropie]
ajninosaurus

dankcushions

no-one is working on this as far as i know. even if they were, the raspberry pi 3 is much weaker than the sort of PC you would need to emulate sega model 2.

edmaul69

@ajninosaurus what is the name of the model 2 emulator. I have a daytona usa 2 arcade that i had modified to use a modded xbox. I would love to be able to have the option of the model 2 games.

ajninosaurus

@edmaul69 http://nebula.emulatronia.com/descargas.php

@dankcushions that is heartbreaking :-(

matchaman

@dankcushions said in Sega Model 2:

no-one is working on this as far as i know. even if they were, the raspberry pi 3 is much weaker than the sort of PC you would need to emulate sega model 2.

Not sure about that. I remember emulating Virtua Fighter 2 on my terrible Atom netbook back in 2010. HLE emulation can be surprisingly good!

ajninosaurus

@matchaman oyy I saw the notification on the SM2 emulation from retropie you made me a short-lived happiness boy ! Tought there was a breakthrough :p

matchaman

Sorry about that :/

But at least there's hope if someone dedicates some time to develop a high-level emulator since it's far less complex than the SEGA Saturn.

I looked up and it seems the Model 2 emulator for Windows can even run on a Pentium 4! No wonder it worked fine on my old Intel Atom :)

ajninosaurus

@matchaman well I'll continue my prayers then, one day, maybe... There's always hope with emulation :)

dankcushions

you can't really make these comparisons. atoms and p4s are likely still faster than a single core rpi3 (remember that emulators are almost always single core, and that ARM is way less performant than x86 per MHz, in most scenarios), and ancient versions of emulators were more hacky than 'HLE'. things like ultraHLE (n64) would run on a toaster, but they were barely 'emulators' at that early stage. even today's HLE emulation is vastly more accurate, but needs more juice.

i don't see anyone spending a whole load of time making a hacky model 2 emulator targeted at raspberry pis. by the time they were finished it would be redundant.