AnotherGuest has updated his rather excellent S60 Megadrive emulator, Picodrive, so now it supports Mega/Sega CD games too. Yay!
Performance is pretty good depending on the phone. My N97 requires heavy (around 4) frameskip so it's okay with stuff like Snatcher and Shining Force CD but not so good with shooters. Then again, the N97 is notoriously slow anyway as Nokia almost quadrupled the screen resolution of its earlier models but barely increased the processor speed of the N97. Paradoxically, older phones such as the N95 and N81 will play it much better as they have a lower resolution native screen.
Anyhoo, you can download it from herebut you will need to register for the forum in order to see the download link! Once you have registered and logged in you should see a post by AnotherGuest about half way down that has the link.
Someone has even been kind enough to upload a Youtube vid for you to guage its performance:
By the way, I noticed in that video that there was no Redbook audio in Lords of Thunder. I just wanted to point out that Picodrive does support Redbook and I've heard it myself using bin/cue images so I can only guess that the person who did the video didn't have a proper cue sheet for the image.
Enjoy!!
01-12-2011, 01:18 PM
acidspunk
After doing the video I actually got Silpheed running side by side on the n81 and the n900. It was interesting to see that performance was pretty close between them. AnotherGuest and Notaz did one hell of a job with this one. You only notice a performance drop on the n81 if the game requires scaling and rotation effects, like Batman Returns. In that case it starts crawling while the N900 runs those games with ease.
BTW crazyteknohed, dude... That phone. You really have to consider trading that thing for something a bit better being the emulation buff that you are and all.
