Playstation Emulation On The Dreamcast

martial writes: "I saw the information on IGN; it seems that the people at Bleem! are going to release a DreamCast version of their software to play PC Playstation Emulator."

Comments

political issues - DVD, anyone?

[Deadbolt]

What a lot of people here may not know/realize is that we have a very, very good reason (those of us with DCs, anyway) to come out in strong support of bleemcast. Sony sued bleem!, over and over again, trying to bankrupt them, because they were losing control of their media. So they tried to stop bleem!'s release on the grounds that the programmer had reverse engineered it and in doing so had violated a slew of Sony patents and copyrights.

Sound familiar to anyone? How about Jon Johansen? The bleem! case is VERY applicable to a lot of us because bleem! WON their case against Sony. That case may come up as a precedent in the inevitable DVD lawsuits. In fact, I'm surprised the EFF lawyers didn't mention it when DeCSS was yanked.

In any case, even though bleem! is proprietary software (sorry :), we should support it and back it up with money. The company has shown grit and stamina in fighting the good fight. I'm sure many of us would like to emulate (pun intended) their successes against the evil corporations. Put $30 behind bleem! or bleemcast. It contributes to a good company with our interests at heart.

Works a little differently than PC Bleem...

[ClassicG]

One bit of worry earlier about the DC version of Bleem was the fact that you can't patch or upgrade a console program like one for the PC, and that the compatibly from the PC version (good but relatively low) would carry over and that there would be no way to improve it later.

But with the announcement of the 'bleempack' technology, each of which will be having support for 100 games, a theroy has emerged of how Bleem will get around this problem. Basically, Bleemcast will not be like the PC version - one single emulator, with balanced optimizations made to make as many games as possible run reasonably well. Instead, it is believed that each bleempack will contain one hundred versions of the emulator, each one specially tweaked to run one single game as faithfully as possible.

To my knowledge, this type of console emulation (multiple versions of the emulator, each tweaked specially for a particular game) has only been done once before - a Gameboy emulator for the Atari ST. I'm looking very forward to seeing how it turns out, and I suspect that this might be what finally gets me to get a DC for myself.

Phillip Morris, Nike, Microsoft..
For such crimes against humanity and depraved indifference

Emulation, oh boy oh boy

[Brento]

Somehow this harks back to OS2. The minor player in the market brings out "emulation" of the leader's last-generation platform. Sure, it works, but at that point, who really cares? People who buy Dreamcasts aren't going to get excited about the ability to play Playstation games when the Playstation 2 is already out.

(I know Bleem has nothing to do with Sega, so the IBM analogy doesn't really hold.)

I hear the comment already - you're saying, "But then I can upgrade and still keep all my Playstation games." What's the point, speedy - if you already have a Playstation, then you don't need the emulator. Why pay extra to play something you've already got?