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|title = Nintendo SwitchSega Dreamcast|image logo = nintendo-switch.png|image2 = switchdockedDreamcastConsole.png|imagecaption = The Switch in its two forms, portable (above) and docked (below).|developer = [[:NintendoSega]]|type = [[:Category:ConsolesHome consoles|Home video game console]]|generation = [[:Category:EighthSixth-generation video game consoles|Eighth Sixth generation]]|release = 20171998|discontinued = 2001|predecessor = [[Wii U emulatorsSega_Saturn_emulators|Wii USega Saturn]]|emulated = {{~✓}}

While Nintendo intended to step up the security of the The '''[[wikipedia:Sega Dreamcast|Dreamcast]]''' is a sixth-generation consolereleased by [[wikipedia:Sega|Sega]] on November 27, vulnerabilities were still found early 1998 in Japan and later on that allowed tons September 9, 1999 in NA. It retailed for {{Inflation|USD|199.99|1999}}. It had a Hitachi SH-4 RISC CPU at 200 MHz with 16 MB of system files to be dumpedRAM and 8 MB of VRAM. It had a PowerVR2 GPU at 100 MHz, including dumps which theoretically was capable of games in the form of romfspushing 3 million polygons/second on-screen.istorage archivesThere is a 2 MB audio RAM, an exefs folderwhich complemented a powerful 67 MHz Yamaha AICA sound processor, with a 32-bit ARM7 RISC CPU core. The audio chip could generate 64 voices with PCM or ADPCM codec and license filesprovided ten times the performance of the [[Sega Saturn emulators|Saturn's]] sound system.. These game dumps eventually got shared online by scene groups except for their licenses but were missing important files to run Sega also released the '''[[Sega NAOMI and even if they had been completedvariants|Naomi]]''', there were no custom homebrew apps let alone solutions an arcade system board with similar components to load unofficial game dumps for the systemDreamcast. Sammy's '''[https://segaretro. A number of prominent hacking teams (starting with shuffle2 org/Atomiswave Atomiswave]''' arcade board was also based on the Dreamcast and fail0verflow in collaboration) all came across a new exploit independently of each other that allowed complete control over the system, later officially recognized by Nvidia as CVE-2018-6242Naomi.

A "debugging emulator" for Sega collaborated with Microsoft on the Nintendo SwitchDreamcast's development, CageTheUnicorn (now and this partnership would continue later with the [[https://github.com/reswitched/Mephisto MephistoXbox emulators|Xbox]]), popped up not long after the first components were dumped. It What came out of this was designed the possibility for games to emulate sysmodules with "no support be developed for graphics, sound, input, or any kind an optimized version of even remotely performant processing [...] by design"'''Windows CE''' (with DirectX) on each disc. A couple of months laterHowever, members of both the [[Citra]] Windows CE wasn't mandatory to use and [[Dolphin]] teams announced the release most developers opted for Sega's development tools instead out of [[yuzu|their own emulator written convenience. Even in c++]]major emulators, which was capable of booting some homebrew applications; almost simultaneously, developer gdkchan released an emulator written in c# named [[Ryujinx]], which was capable of booting commercial Switch game Puyo Puyo Tetristhis aspect isn't implemented (or implemented well).

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! colspan="510"|PC / x86

|[[yuzuDEmul]]|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux}}|[httpshttp://yuzu-emudemul.orgemulation64.com/downloads/ Nightly{{DEmulVer}}]|{{✗}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}}||{{✓}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{~✓}}

|[[Ryujinxredream]]

|[https://ryujinxredream.orgio/download {{RedreamVer}}]|{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}}|-|[[Flycast|Flycast]]|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS|Android}}|[https:/#/Build Nightlyflyinghead.github.io/flycast-builds/ Builds]|{{✓}}||{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}}|-|[[reicast]]|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux}}|[http://builds.reicast.com/ Dev Builds]|{{~✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}}

|NSEmu[[nullDC]]

|[httpshttp://githubwww.emucr.com/RKX12092013/nsemu Git03/nulldc-svn-r150.html 1.0.4 r150]|{{✗}}||{{~}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}}

|[https://gbatemp.net/threads/sphinx-nintendo-switch-emulator.517276/ SphiNX[Makaron]]

|[https://www.zophar.net/dreamcast/makaron.html T12/5]|{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{~}} ||{{✗}} (WIP)||{{✗}} ||{{✗}}|-|[http://washemu.org/ WashingtonDC]|align=left|{{Icon|Linux}}|[https://github.com/washingtondc-emu/washingtondc git]|{{✗}}||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✗}}

|Mephisto[http://www.lxdream.org Lxdream]

|[httpshttp://githubwww.comlxdream.org/reswitched/Mephisto/releases v1download.php 0.29.1], [https://github.com/reswitched/Mephisto Git]|{{✗}}||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}}

|CageTheUnicorn[https://segaretro.org/Chankast Chankast]|align=left|{{Icon|Windows}}|[http://chanka.emulatronia.com/FrameSetDC_Down.htm 0.25]|{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}}|-|[[MAME]]

|[httpshttp://githubwww.commamedev.org/reswitched/CageTheUnicorn Gitrelease.html {{MAMEVer}}]|{{✓}} ||{{~}} ||{{~}} ||{{✗}}||{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✗}}

|[[redream]]|align=left|{{Icon|Android|LinuxARM}}|[https://eggnsplay.wordpressgoogle.com Egg NS/store/apps/details?id=io.recompiled.redream 1.1.98]<small> (Android)</small><br/>[https://redream.io/download Dev]<small> (Raspberry Pi)</small>|{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}}|-|[[Flycast]]|align=left|{{Icon|Android|iOS|Linux|Pandora}}|[https://driveflyinghead.github.io/flycast-builds CI Builds]|{{✓}} ||{{~}} ||{{~}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}}|-|[[reicast]]|align=left|{{Icon|Android|Pyra}}|[http://builds.reicast.com Builds][https://play.google.com/ustore/0apps/ucdetails?id=15jYpgxZZKcstAqxZYg5_znDiXS41Shep&export=download 1com.reicast.0emulator r20.304]</br>[https://pyra-handheld.com/repo/apps/122 Pyra Build]|{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✓}}||{{~}} ||{{✗✓}}

!colspan="10"|Console|-|[[nullDC PSP]]|align=left|{{Icon|PSP}}|[https://github.com/skylinePSP-Archive/nulldce-emupsp git][https://archive.org/details/skyline SkylinenullDC-PSP 1.2.1]|{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{~}}|-|nulldc-360|align=left|{{Icon|AndroidXbox360}}|[https://github.com/skylinegligli/nulldc-emu/skyline/releases 0.3360 git]|{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✓}}||{{✗}} ||{{~}}

===Comparisons===;[[yuzuDEmul]] <small class="plainlinks" style="font: Has the highest compatibility and accuracy, but it' Windows-only and closed-source. It supports Windows CE games, but in general, they run worse than standard Dreamcast titles. It's also more resource-weightintensive than other emulators.;[[redream]]:normal;">(Multi-platform and easy to use, but it's closed-source. Compatible with [https://yuzu-emuredream.orgio/game compatibility90+% of the Dreamcast library](Windows CE now supported)</small>:An open-source emulator made by many of [[Citra]]'s developers. As it , has a good user interface, is a hard fork of Citra it shares many of its traitseasy to set up, namely cross-platform support and the use of OpenGL (though unlike Citra it also supports Vulkan)can run without a BIOS. Many 2D games now render graphics properly and at good speeds; many 3D games are playableRuns on [https://youtu. This emulator currently offers early access builds to $5be/month [[Emulators on Patreon|PatreonrywLHa1i9yk?t=529 low-end machines]] subscribers which allows them to utilize new features prior to their release on the mainline buildprovided that they support OpenGL 3.1. One of yuzuThere's most notable features is its diska payware premium version that provides high-based shader cache for OpenGL, negating the need to compile shaders on the flydefinition rendering.

;[[RyujinxnullDC]] <small class=: Can run a lot of games at great speed on mid-end PC and it's open-source, however, it's no longer developed and the more recent forks have improved upon it.:;[[reicast]]: Eventually, nullDC's author forked his own project into reicast, with the main objective to widen platform availability to smartphones and tablets. While wider availability is generally a good thing, this resulted in cutting accuracy corners from the nullDC codebase to achieve the speed goals necessary to run on these platforms. Advancements in mobile hardware should have led to the removal of such "hacks"plainlinks; however lack of developer resources and interest led to long delays in Reicast development, and the codebase remained virtually untouched for years before the RetroArch team began working with it as part of a " style=Reicast core"font-weight, later named Flycast.:normal;">([[reicast#Libretro_core|Flycast]]: Fork of reicast available as a standalone emulator and as a [[libretro]] core. Libretro collaborators, primarily [https://github.com/Ryujinxflyinghead/Ryujinxreicast-Gamesemulator flyinghead], dramatically improved Reicast in areas such as graphics, input, system clock, and Dreamcast VMU. Atomiswave and NAOMI SH-4-Listbased arcade systems have also been added to great fanfare<ref name="flycastnaomi">https://github.com/libretro/flycast/issues compatibility])/136</smallref>:An open-source emulator that, along with support for MAME's programmed in C#popular CHD format. Most 2D Even full MMU support, which is needed to run WinCE-based games are now booting and running at comfortable speeds and many 3D games are playable. It also supports resolution upscaling to 4K and beyond; custom upscaling/downscaling ratios are supported. Unlike yuzusuch as "Armada", Ryujinx does not yet have a disk"Half-based shader cacheLife" and "SEGA Rally Championship 2", making has recently been tackled through an experimental branch (anyone following Dreamcast emulation over the first few moments of gameplay suffer years understands what a tough nut this is to crack). Aside from stutters some audio stuttering issues in certain games. Ryujinx does not offer early access builds; however work-in-progress features can still be tested by using pre-built Appveyor packages or building locally from unmerged pull requests. Separatelysuch as "Looney Toons Space Race" and "Resident Evil: Code Veronica", Ryujinx has released this is a closed source LDN-enabled preview build supporting local wireless multiplayer across the internethighly compatible and accurate emulator.

;SphiNX[[Makaron]]:A One of the only two closed-source emulator Dreamcast emulators that's been in the works since late July/August 2018. It can boot some homebrews as well as the title screen of one commercial game. The project appears to be dead at this time, with no known updates in over two yearsproperly play Windows CE games.

;Skyline==Emulation issues==:An open-source [[Compatibility layers|compatibility layer]] for ARMv8 [[Android]] devices. For the sake of convenience, the team bills the app as an emulator, but it functionally works like [[Wine]]emulators that are either mature or maturing, running almost all a very large percentage of the original code on bare metal except for what interfaces with the rest of the system. At the moment, Skyline does not have any graphical outputgames work well, but some games do boot with audiostill have problems and glitches.

;Egg NS==VMU emulators==:Claimed While some Dreamcast emulators can leverage the first spot in getting games screen of the VMU while the game is running on Android. 81 titles are purported , none of them allow you to work, and play the rest are either not working or assumed to failminigames developed for it. There is significant controversy surrounding this emulator for See the following reasons: the current version lacks any onscreen buttons and instead requires users to purchase a specific controller; it expects to run main page on a high-end device within the ballpark of a Qualcomm Snapdragon 855/855+/865/865+; it was discovered to have violated GPLv2 licensing requirements by using code from yuzu in a disallowed mannerVMU emulation [[Sega VMU emulators|here]]. ==Downloads==* [[Emulator_Files#Dreamcast|BIOS]]

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