Topic: Dreamcast games on XBLA and PSN!

[NWR_insanolord]

Seaman would be great on the 3DS.

[Kytim89]

Radiant SilverGun was just announced for Xbox Live as an exclusive(BS!), so does this mean that Saturn emulation is possible, or bypassed?

[TJ Spyke]

No one ever said Saturn emulation wasn't possible, just that it was difficult.

[Kytim89]

No one ever said Saturn emulation wasn't possible, just that it was difficult.

If they can put Radiant Silvergun on XBLA the they could have a virtual console fir Saturn on the wii 2, right? They could put all the popular Saturn titles on XBLA?

[TJ Spyke]

Absolutely, and I would love to have it happen since i've never even seen a Saturn in person (yet alone played any Saturn games). I would especially like to play some of the more rare games that tend to go for several hundred dollars on sites like eBay.

[BranDonk Kong]

If you have a PS3 with firmware 3.41 (or earlier)...there's a Dreamcast emulator being developed. It already plays games, slowly, but it's being ported by the actual coder of NullDC. He's going to eventually port it to Xbox 360 as well (I'm going to donate a JTAG'ed Xbox 360 to him). Oh, and there's a Saturn emulator out too.

[NWR_insanolord]

If you have a PS3 with firmware 3.41 (or earlier)...there's a Dreamcast emulator being developed. It already plays games, slowly, but it's being ported by the actual coder of NullDC. He's going to eventually port it to Xbox 360 as well (I'm going to donate a JTAG'ed Xbox 360 to him). Oh, and there's a Saturn emulator out too.

I'll be able to do that on a newer firmware at some point, right? I'm past that now, and I'll upgrade again to get discless Netflix, but I'd like to play around with that.

[broodwars]

If you have a PS3 with firmware 3.41 (or earlier)...there's a Dreamcast emulator being developed. It already plays games, slowly, but it's being ported by the actual coder of NullDC. He's going to eventually port it to Xbox 360 as well (I'm going to donate a JTAG'ed Xbox 360 to him). Oh, and there's a Saturn emulator out too.

I'll be able to do that on a newer firmware at some point, right? I'm past that now, and I'll upgrade again to get discless Netflix, but I'd like to play around with that.

Probably not.  If I'm not mistaken, the firmware immediately after the one he listed was the one that removed Linux support, which is probably the only way to install the emulator software and games.

[NWR_insanolord]

I figured you could do it with the jailbreak method I've been hearing about so much lately.

[TJ Spyke]

I think the latest firmware update (3.5) got rid of that, I don't know if they got a new workaround. Either way, I think most people want a legal way to play Saturn games.

[NWR_insanolord]

If it's anything like the Wii, they'll find a way around it soon.

I'm perfectly willing to pay money for legal versions of the games, but it's fun to play around with the emulators to see what they can do in the meantime.

[Kytim89]

Radiant Silvergun is going to be ported to XBLA in HD and it will be exclusive to the 360 for a period of time. This exclusivity will not last forever, however, and it will eventually make it to the PSN. The wii's internal storage is still too small for such games and the fact that it can not handle HD is another handicap preventing it from coming over to virtual console.
 
I absolutely love the virtual console, but I have the feeling that we will have to wait for the wii 2 before we get the Dreamcast and Saturn on virtual console. This RSG game for XBLA does give me hope of seeing something done with the Saturn.

[KDR_11k]

Meh, if the previous Dreamcast games are anything to go by Sega considers it a HD port if it renders in 1280x720, no matter how ugly the geometry itself is.

[BranDonk Kong]

3.21 was the update that killed Linux. 3.42 is what killed the JailBreak (for now, though probably forever), and the JailBreak has absolutely nothing to do with Linux. You just flash a certain type of USB board (there are many versions that work, you can install it on an iPhone, Android phones, an Xbox 360 USB SPI flasher, and now, even the PS3 DualShock controller will be able to do it), turn off the system (or unplug if it's a slim), plug in the USB board you're using, turn on the power switch (or plug it in), then hit power then eject quickly, and you're in. The JailBreak itself doesn't make any permanent changes to the system. I have SNES9X installed on my PS3, it's amazing how quickly it came out, though SNES360 is much better for now. Another cool thing you can do is edit PARAM.SFO on just about any PS3 game (has to be installed to the HDD though), and you can allow remote play on *any* game. Getting off subject though...