New Sega Saturn core - Kronos - OpenGL rendering and cached interpreter available!
Added 2018-10-25 23:47:40 +0000 UTCWe are making a new Sega Saturn libretro core available today - Kronos. This is a fork of Yabause from the developer FCare. It's actually a fork of a fork, in this case a fork of uoYabause, now called Yaba Sanshiro.
It has an OpenGL ES 3.0 (for mobile) / 3.1 renderer, allows for texture filtering, and upscaling. It even has a cached interpreter CPU core which should be faster than the default interpreter that the standard Yabause core has.
See above a quick video of Daytona USA running on Kronos with RetroArch. First we start the game with the default resolution the original Saturn would run at, then we double the resolution by 2x (640x480), then by 4x (1280x960). The original Daytona USA version on Saturn ran at a resolution of 320x240 at a resolution of around 20 frames per second.
Sega Saturn arcade game support!
Another important thing to mention - this core has Sega ST-V arcade game support! Over the past few months we have covered Sega Saturn era arcade hardware emulation, Dreamcast arcade hardware emulation. Only Model 2 and Model 3 remains! (Supermodel). Please keep the faith that the latter is still coming and we are committed to bringing top-notch Sega arcade hardware emulation with hardware accelerated rendering to RetroArch, and have nearly covered the entire '90s to mid '00s lineup already!
Update: More videos!
See here two new videos of Tomb Raider and Quake running with 4x resolution upscaling - enjoy!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyJcqxMRoJ0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCC2JWJQ0vg
Comments
I love forks. It makes emulation living beings live longer
chuchuw
2018-10-26 07:33:27 +0000 UTCJust want to say it again: Thank you! Retroarch has become such a joy to use.
reTokyo
2018-10-26 05:53:45 +0000 UTC
