Saturnin v0.20

posted in Emulator Release by mfc on May 19th, 2004

Saturnin, a Sega Saturn emulator for Windows, has also been updated recently. Here is what's new:
  • General : Possibility to choose any bios (Saturn or ST-V). (no more need to rename them)
  • General : Possibility to choose any path for ST-V roms
  • General : XP style using manifest files (thanks to Zydio)
  • ST-V : zipped roms supported
  • ST-V : Mame naming standard used for roms
  • ST-V : controls not dependant of the OpenGL window anymore
  • ST-V : F8 key added to bypass the ST-V bios
  • ST-V : F6 key added as a work-around to force the test menu
  • ST-V : rewritten the way roms are loaded into memory
  • VDP1 : corrected a transparency problem on polygons, the starfield is showing in the Saturn bios
  • VDP1 : corrected the color calculation mode for all the sprites
  • VDP1 : added a texture cache (preliminary)
  • VDP1 : F9 reloads the texture cache
  • VDP1 : added a disable check for all the sprite types
  • VDP1 : added the normal 32768 colors sprites
  • VDP1 : added the scaled sprites
  • VDP1 : added the 16 and 256 colors sprites
  • VDP1 : corrected the horizontal inversion for scaled sprites
  • VDP2 : various corrections, flip modes added
  • VDP2 : added 2x2 cell modes
  • VDP2 : code clean up
  • VDP2 : added a disable check for all the planes
  • VDP2 : added the color offset function
  • VDP2 : corrected the way planes start address is calculated (the doc is really wrong about this :D)
  • SH2 : corrected LDCSR in assembly mode
  • SH2 : corrected a bug that launched twice the NMI
  • SCU : corrected a bug in indirect mode
  • SCU : corrected the way transfers are done depending on the bus used
  • CD-Block : added Satourne code, disabled for now
  • SCSP : added Turbo68K (created by Bart Trzynadlowski)
  • SCSP : added Stef core, no sound for now
  • SCSP : removed sound hacks not needed anymore => more games are playable
  • Logs : C++ compliant, no more printf :)
  • Language : added italian (by Zydio)
  • Language : added polish (by Shocker)
  • Language : added german (by Ramuh)
  • Language : added spanish (by Gkstein)
  • Language : added dutch (by Alex3305)
  • Language : added simplified chinese (by Fiendpro)
  • Language : added traditional chinese (by Fiendpro)
  • Language : added portuguese (by Ricardo Costa)
  • Language : added indonesian (by Arifnmp)
  • Language : added french warez lord :P (by Ben.J)
  • and many other things ...
You can download this from our Saturn Emulators section.