Doctor Butler wrote:My understanding is that people downsample assets to fit a GigaDisc game within the 700MB limit of a CD-r, usually removing the dummy data, or in some cases, remastering assets at a lower quality to save space.
90% of games fit on a CD-R only when the dummy file is removed, but games still had to compress the quality of video and sound, just because the reading speed of CD-Rs does not allow them to be read in normal quality
Doctor Butler wrote:You're suggesting that Kenju's RAM footprint is too big for Dreamcast
no, I'm talking about the fact that some games will only work on a modified console.
Doctor Butler wrote:If you're gonna navigate through a gross, clunky menu, and not have physical media, you might as just emulate on your PC, what's the point, then?
it is not so difficult to accurately emulate a drive, but to make an accurate emulation of SH4, HOLLY, AICA is a very difficult task and at the moment no one has done this and will not do it in the near future