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[stranno]

Giovanni Bajo is working on a MVS/NG emulator for Nintendo 64 on libdragon and it seems it already runs Metal Slug.

GitHub - rasky/mvs64: A NeoGeo emulator for Nintendo64

A NeoGeo emulator for Nintendo64. Contribute to rasky/mvs64 development by creating an account on GitHub.

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[Kadve]

Impressive

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Is it simply something he did for fun just to prove that it could be done?

 

[PSYGN]

Impressive

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Is it simply something he did for fun just to prove that it could be done?

Probably. Programmers be like that.

 

[nkarafo]

I wonder how fast it's running?

I remember discussions about the Saturn being the best 2D machine of the generation and how the N64 couldn't handle Saturn's 2D games. And yet the Saturn couldn't handle an arcade perfect Metal Slug port. It would be incredibly funny to me if the N64 can handle an arcade perfect Metal Slug via emulation!

 

[Fake]

NeoGeo emulator is in development​

for Nintendo 64​

 

[stranno]

I wonder how fast it's running?

I remember discussions about the Saturn being the best 2D machine of the generation and how the N64 couldn't handle Saturn's 2D games. And yet the Saturn couldn't handle an arcade perfect Metal Slug port. It would be incredibly funny to me if the N64 can handle an arcade perfect Metal Slug via emulation!

I haven't seen anything about the performance, but it's probably quite slow.

I'm not familiarized with libdragon, but I will try to set it up. Giovanni will provide binaries in the future.

 

[nush]

And yet the Saturn couldn't handle an arcade perfect Metal Slug port.

It's more or less a perfect port for the time it was released.

 

[Raploz]

Great! Now I can use an N64 emulator to emulate the emulator running emulated NeoGeo games on N64.

 

[Alexios]

I wonder how fast it's running?

I remember discussions about the Saturn being the best 2D machine of the generation and how the N64 couldn't handle Saturn's 2D games. And yet the Saturn couldn't handle an arcade perfect Metal Slug port. It would be incredibly funny to me if the N64 can handle an arcade perfect Metal Slug via emulation!

That's more the game format than the system. IE no slow CD read speeds in the arcade/cartridge format. On the flipside you got amazing Capcom games on top of SNK's best (and many SNK games that don't continuously load a long level like Metal Slug are fine too) and many more all in 1.

And once again, not the absolute top tier (how much was a NeoGeo & games at the time?) doesn't mean suddenly trash so yes, it was a great 2D system even if not as great as NeoGeo in all aspects. It did other things better like sprite scaling as shown in stuff like 60fps Outrun for example...

Saturn definitely wins in some ways, I mean it's had very successful ports from arcade machines that are definitely more powerful than CPS2 or NeoGeo like Layer Section from Taito's F3 arcade machine. And of course it could do all the sprite scaling of System 32 and then some @ double fps.

 

[Agent X]

I wonder how fast it's running?

That was the first thing that I thought of. If this is anywhere close to a playable speed, then it would be mighty impressive.

I remember discussions about the Saturn being the best 2D machine of the generation and how the N64 couldn't handle Saturn's 2D games. And yet the Saturn couldn't handle an arcade perfect Metal Slug port. It would be incredibly funny to me if the N64 can handle an arcade perfect Metal Slug via emulation!

It could have something to do with the NeoGeo and Nintendo 64 both being cartridge-based systems, whereas Saturn was primarily disc-based.

The Saturn does have a cartridge slot, but I don't know if it could address as much memory from the cartridge as either the NeoGeo or the Nintendo 64. The issue with Metal Slug on the Saturn probably had to do with both technological and cost limitations of the media at the time, rather than its graphical capabilities.

It would be an interesting exercise for some modern programmer to develop a cartridge-based Saturn game with a similar capacity as the NeoGeo Metal Slug cartridge..

 

[El Sabroso]

omg, I would love to test it on my everdrive 64 as soon as it is released, looks like a really cool project

 

[PhaseJump]

PSA: If you want NeoGeo games in your life, build a MiSTer FPGA, and run the core.

 

[Nester99]

Make it run on a SNES and we can talk.

 

[Barakov]

Impressive

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Is it simply something he did for fun just to prove that it could be done?

Programmers :

 

[Kadve]

Great! Now I can use an N64 emulator to emulate the emulator running emulated NeoGeo games on N64.

Im sure that also is far from the world record whatever that would be.

 

[Spukc]

PSA: If you want NeoGeo games in your life, build a MiSTer FPGA, and run the core.

this poople use this post it is true all of it

 

[Danny Dudekisser]

Finally, some good N64 games.