How Long B4 We Have A Dreamcast Emulator On the PC?

ZSNES is a very good emulator. My friend uses it and he likes it a lot. It doesn't play a lot of games though. He has around 150 ROMs and about 15 or so (maybe more?) don't work. I know people will try to emulate Xbox (which will be much easier seeing as it's basically just a PC) and GameCube but I really doubt we'll ever see more than a couple of decently playable games ever on an emulator...especially for the 'Cube
 
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ZSNES plays almost ALL games (95-99%)
your friend just have had bad luck or either he hasn't upgraded to the latest version
I have some trouble running ZSNES in win2k (can't run it in fullscreen) but other than that it's pretty much a perfect SNES emu.

for the N64 we have Project64
it doesn't play some of the latest games, Conqers Bad Furday, Banjo Tooie nor Paper Mario BUT it plays almost all other games
a bit slow unless you have a 1+Ghz CPU I must admit
but with the next release (1.2) almost all of the current games will work (90-95%)
(and actually you can try interpetring emulation for the games that don't work, but then you'll need a REALLY powerfull CPU, ie not any CPU that is availible today)
 
I'm curious now...I'll have to try that Project64 program to see how it works...anything else I've played has only worked with 4 or 5 games and average at that. I do think my friends probably has bad luck (he probably has all the ROMs that don't work) but even so, there are still quite a few games that won't even load and some that suffer graphic corruption when they do. If Nintendo themselves employed programmers to make emulators then I'm sure we'd see some good stuff but otherwise you're at the mercy of the "underground" programmers to do a lot of hard, tedious work
 
Okay I decided to find this "Project64" emulator and borrow my friends cd of N64 ROMs. SOME of the games work...most are quite buggy. Not a single game is 100% perfect. A lot require little changes and tweaks just to get running only to crash 5 minutes later. It's a very good emulator overall but it just goes to show how very hard it is to perfectly emulate a console (maybe almost impossible). If even the SNES can't be 100% emulated then it certainly doesn't sound good for future console emulators. I have a 1.1GHz CPU and a fast video card and some games run slow and stuttery...what kind of computer will people need to have a good PS2 emulator or GameCube? Maybe 6 or 7 years from now we'll have a decent emulator for current consoles but don't hold your breath. 5 years later and the N64 is still a huge emulation challenge
 
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