Major Emu Breakthru!

[Agozer]

Like, whoo and such. Ok, it's awesome in a sense.

Edited September 6, 2004 by Agozer

[Prican25]

theres a catch tho, games for Chihiro could need a lot more ram then what xbox uses/upgradable to.

 

for example outrun 2 uses 512mb of ram where xbox's limit is 128mb ram

[L.S.D]

I dun get this

But nvm, as long as it encourage emulation

[ForceX]

This is great news...but the Xbox will not be able to emulate Chihiro mainly because of Chihiro's extra ram.

 

But, that doesn't mean we might not see a Chihiro Emu for the PC

 

For those of you who wish to know Chihiro's specs...here you go:-

 

System : X-Box based configuration.

CPU : Intel Pentium III 733MHz (133MHz FSB)

Graphics : nVidia XChip 200MHz (based on the nVidia GeForce 3)

Sound Hardware :

1. Cirrus Logic CS4630 Stream Processor (20-bit DAC, programmable to handle 3D sound streams, 2D sound (including DLS-compatible MIDI), MP3 acceleration, Sensaura environmental effects, and other functions)

2. Other sounds may be generated by the CPU via software engines.

3. nVidia nForce (Real time Dolby Digital 5.1 encoding)

RAM : Upgradable Module, from 64MB upwards (Outrun 2 has 512MB)

Media : Sega GD-Rom

Polygons : 125M Polys/sec (Theoretical Maximum)

Rendering Speed : 4.0 G pixel/sec

Features : Programmable vertex and pixel shading, hardware Transform & Lighting engine, Quincunx FSAA, Anisotropic filtering, bump mapping, hardware lighting, particle effects, other standard 3D features).

Edited September 6, 2004 by ForceX

[Gryph]

For the games you are able to run that's really cool.

[Wizard]

The Chihiro in PC terms is a "P.O.S."

[Weirdy]

wait?! where's the breakthrough part?! All I read was about arcade games running on xbox-based hardware which is old news to me

Edited September 6, 2004 by Weirdanzeige

[Gryph]

He's playing the arcade game on his XBOX, not on the Chihiro hardware.

[Fatal Rose]

VF5?

[Corn99]

can the x-box even do 125 million polygons per second?

[ForceX]

VF5?

I reckon that Sega will keep the VF series on the Naomi 2 board. So, I don't see much chance of VF5 making it to the Xbox