reicast

reicast

Developer(s)	reicast Team
Latest version	r6
Active	Yes
Platform(s)	Android, Linux, Windows
Emulates	Dreamcast
Website	reicast Site
Source code	GitHub

reicast is an open-source Dreamcast emulator produced currently for Android, Linux, and Windows. It is based on the source code of nullDC and nullDCe, existing Dreamcast emulators for Windows and Android, respectively.

Downloads

• r6 (Android)
• Google Play
• Windows/Android buildbot (required Windows runtime files)

Other platforms

The developers have stated^{[citation needed]} that they want to port the emulator to the following platforms in addition to what it already supports:

x86

• OS X
• Android

MIPS

• Linux
• Android

PPC

• Wii
• PS3
• Xbox 360

Libretro cores

The libretro emulator replaced the old reicast core with two new forks called Reicast OIT and Reicast regular on June 2018. They added highly compatible OpenGL renderers that backport changes from flyinghead's fork of the independent Reicast emulator. The regular variant requires OpenGL 2.x on the desktop and GLES 2.x on mobile while the OIT variant requires OpenGL 4.3 or above, and as a result is only available for Windows and Linux. The OIT core has a graphics feature called Order Independent Transparency that help to render more accurate graphics in affected titles.

Supported GPU features:

• Tile clipping support
• Fogging support
• Volume modifier shadow support
• Multipass rendering (enabled by default for non-OIT)
• Render to texture buffer
• Log 2 depth buffer
• Order independent transparency (OIT only)
• Two-volume mode support (OIT only)
• Accumulation Pixel Buffer Size core option (OIT only. Can be set to 512MB, 1GB or 2GB, depending on how much VRAM your video card has. May help with correct output at higher resolutions.)
• 64-bit dynarec (Fixes Shenmue 1/2, Marvel vs. Capcom 2 and Heavy Metal Geomatrix)
• Flat shading and bump-mapping
• Trilinear filtering

Misc features and enhancements:

• Analog trigger and digital trigger simulations (Analog controls also work on Naomi)
• Fast GD-ROM Loading (Cuts down virtually all loading times in games)
• Improved ADPCM decoding (Audio)

Supported platforms:

• Dreamcast
• Sega Naomi and Atomiswave arcades