nightrnr wrote:That is Wicked! I had no idea someone was working on it.
I imagine a final product available for order is light years away (if it gets that far), but I am officially intrigued, and so is my wallet. I'd want to secure that flash cart 1st of course.
At least I have my other ODE's to keep me busy on other systems. 3DO was from the same era and shares some of the games.
So this and a PC Engine Super CD setup is what I'll be gunning for next in the future.
Shoot, there's probably a Sega CD ODE project that I don't know about yet.
I know man. I'm jacked! Check out these quotes and video below.
SainT estimated 6 months for the SD cart project. It also looks like he is
actively working with Carl for the Jag CD Unleashed software to emulate the J-CD on his SD cart.
Per SainT, It seems like it will be software that should run fine if the hardware is mapped to support it. Carl currently has his software running on the SKUNK board (which was developed years ago) but runs into some hardware based restrictions (see Primal Rage comment). This is why he has a smaller homebrew game such as Frog Feast running.
I image what will happen is Carl will let SainT know what he needs on his cart. SainT then ships Carl a cart to finish up his software. Then it gets interesting IMO. Does Carl sell a DL file that is then dropped onto the cart, similar BIOS needed in CD emus?
Will be fun to see shape up. I'd guess the SD cart comes out in 2017 and the Unleashed project roughly 4-6 months after with continual updates to fix bugs. We're dealing with two guys with previous history of released products (between the Lynx SD cart and finishing/releasing mutliple "dead" games) so I have faith! I'm following the thread on AA all will pre-order the second it opens.
Video of Jag CD Unleashed running on SKUNK for Proof of Concept:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmdmlDvvZbo#action=shareVia Carl regarding working on SKUNK:
Considering I am doing all of my JagCDU development on the Skunk, I think it's fair to say it works on the Skunk right now.
Whether or not it works on the Skunk in its final form depends on what kind of support is available (or needs to be developed) to access external USB memory.
Again, I am not developing JagCDU with a specific target platform in mind. I just wanted to get the announcement out there to ensure widest compatibility with these sorts of cartridges. I will happily work with other hobby developers to get this running on multiple platforms.
Via SainT regarding already working together:
Yep, just to say I've been chatting with Songbird about the requirements to get CD emulation working on the JagSD. It doesn't look like it will require much more than bringing the I2S lines to the controller chip and having the option to stream SD card data back via I2S as opposed to parallel. I currently don't have these mapped, so it's great to start talking about these things now before I've done any board layout.
Via Carl on current SKUNK restrictions:
I also tried to get Primal Rage running because it only has four data tracks (and a whole bunch of audio tracks in the first session, which I can ignore for now), but it turns out one of the data tracks is about 50MB in size so it won't work on Skunk without either USB or PC file reads implemented... guess I found my next project.
