A Super Nintendo Entertainment System Emulator for the Sega Dreamcast ported and coded by Scherzo using GCC and the KOS Development Library. Super Famicast is a port of Snes9x, the great SNES emulator for PC. The current version of snes9x code used is v1.42. It also makes use of the same SH4 assembler CPU core found in DreamSNES courtesy of Marcus Comstedt and the DreamSNES team. A huge thanks to them!
- Many games emulate at fullspeed with frame skipping.
- Load ROMs from CD; swapping supported
- Sound (not synced or fast)
- Save SRAM to VMU
- Adjustable screen
- Theme system including background music
- Save emulator settings to VMU
If you obtained the plain files, use your method of choice to create a self-booting CD. You can find directions to do so at the DCEmulation message board. ROMs can be included on the same CD as Super Famicast, and they can be any number of directories deep, limited by CD format restrictions.
If you downloaded a CD image instead, you are pretty much forced to load your ROMs from a seperate CD.
SNES input maps exactly to DC input in placement, not by button names. Here is the mapping (perhaps configurable in the future):
| Dreamcast | SNES | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| A | B | |
| B | A | |
| X | Y | |
| Y | X | |
| L Trigger | L | |
| R Trigger | R | |
| D-Pad or Analog | D-Pad | Depends on configuration |
All menus, even the ROM browser, are controlled the same way in Super Famicast:
Directional Pad Up - Previous menu item Down - Next menu item Left - Previous choice item Right - Next choice item
Left Trigger - Variable speed through previous menu items Right Trigger - Variable speed through next menu items A Button - Selects menu item B Button = Cancels menu
During gameplay, the main menu can be reached by simultaneously pressing Analog-Left and START. The in-game menu is Analog-Left and Y. If you have the controllers configured to use the analog stick for SNES input, then use D-Pad-Left instead.
Starts browsing for a ROM from the root of the CD or from where the last location browsed. Directories are displayed in a different color (defined by the theme) than that of files. All files are shown and are allowed to be chosen. Loading something other than a known ROM can possibly cause the emulator to crash. So please don't do it.
You can swap the Super Famicast CD for another CD that has your ROMs. Do the swap before entering the ROM browser. Removing the CD stops the theme's music if it has it.
Enabling this feature will make the emulated image appear smoother and less pixelated. It does not affect performance.
Auto - Tells the emulator to skip frames in order to acheive full speed emulation. However, there is a limit to the max frames to be dropped, which is now 10. So if your game hits about 5/60 fps, it might not be running full speed. The max frames allowed to be dropped might be configurable in a future release. Hopefully it won't be needed due to speed increases.
0-5 - Draw every nth frame as fast as possible. For processing rich games, it can often produce smoother frame skipping than auto but full speed emulation is less likely. Experiment with your favorite game to find which pleases you most.
Enabling this feature will display the current frame rate during emulation. If auto frame skipping is not enabled, then this feature will always read the same ratio and is not a true indicator of frame rate.
If this feature is enabled, games that support SRAM will be checked every 30 seconds to see if changes have been made to SRAM. If so, then they are saved to VMU automatically during gameplay. A slight pause in game play occurs do to this.
Enables the SNES APU and produces sound output. This WILL slow down your game to just about an unplayable state AND it is out of sync. Future optimizations will hopefully free up enough CPU time to make sound a positive feature. Also note that if you enable of disable sound while a gmae is currently loaded, you will be forced to reset emulation.
This allows you to adjust to bounds of the area drawn to the screen to account for the fact the most TVs clip parts of the image on all sides. The D-Pad pans the image while the analog resizes it.
This currently allows you to configure whether the analog stick or D-Pad are used for SNES D-Pad input for each of the 4 players. You may also the Dreamcast mouse for SNES games that support the mouse. Currently, you must have the mouse plugged in before starting Super Famicast.
Saves all option settings, screen position, and currently selected theme to VMU. These settings are loaded automatically the next time you run Super Famicast.
NOTE: Currently, all saves to VMU within Super Famicast are done to the first VMU found. Later versions will have more control of VMU saving and loading.
This allows you to switch the active theme without restarting Super Famicast. You can store as many themes as you like under the themes directory.
This menu provides some quick and useful functions.
Explicitly save SRAM to VMU regardless of the auto-save feature.
Perform a soft-reset of emulation. This is equal to pressing reset on a real SNES. All SRAM will remain intact.
Identical to the Adjust Screen found under the options menu except that the current game frame is used as the background. White lines are drawn on the edges of the frame in case black borders the edges.
Toggle the display of various layers including backgrounds and sprites.
- Snes9x Team - for over 95% of the source used in Super Famicast
- DreamSNES team - for providing the cpu core
- mastakilla - for his Bowser theme
- Mikey - for the clean theme
- Rigor Mortis - for the first theme music
First, thanks to the authors of snes9x for their years of hard work. Thanks to all the cool people at the DCEmu boards that have been SUPER supportive! Without them I might have not purchased the broadband adapter that really made development faster and less stressful.
- Super Famicast: http://www.superfamicast.com/
- Snes9x: http://www.snes9x.com/
- KOS: http://cadcdev.sourceforge.net/
- DC Emulation: http://www.dcemulation.com/
- SourceForge: https://sourceforge.net/projects/superfamicast/
I frequently check the DCEmu message boards. AIM: ScherzoQ2