reicast-emulator vs flycast

reicast-emulator

Reicast is a multiplatform Sega Dreamcast emulator [Moved to: https://github.com/skmp/reicast-emulator] (by reicast)

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flycast

Flycast is a multiplatform Sega Dreamcast, Naomi, Naomi 2 and Atomiswave emulator (by flyinghead)

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reicast-emulator		flycast
	Project
3	Mentions	50
1,044	Stars	1,204
-	Growth	-
2.7	Activity	9.5
over 2 years ago	Latest Commit	1 day ago
C++	Language	C++
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 only

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reicast-emulator

Posts with mentions or reviews of reicast-emulator. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-08-14.

My preferred emulators, all loaded through altstore for a jailed device
16 projects | /r/AltStore | 14 Aug 2021

- Flycast, based on reicast: Dreamcast (IPA is among the artifacts of each successful compilation as flycast-apple-ios).
Dreamcast Soundfont discussion
1 project | /r/makingvaporwave | 21 May 2021

https://github.com/reicast/reicast-emulator there you go
Can someone explain why people hate RetroArch now?
3 projects | /r/emulation | 20 Feb 2021

Many emulator devs are alone and not noisy (because hey, real life), MAMEdevs has been vocal because it's a different group of emulator devs. But don't think RA have no impact on other emulators: https://github.com/reicast/reicast-emulator/issues/1928

flycast

Posts with mentions or reviews of flycast. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-21.

A multi-platform Sega Dreamcast, Naomi, Naomi 2, and Atomiswave emulator
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 18 Feb 2024
Dreamcast games on rg405m
1 project | /r/ANBERNIC | 9 Jun 2023
How to install apk files on the rm8 pro?
1 project | /r/RedMagic | 10 May 2023
Dreamcast internal clock
1 project | /r/RG353V | 9 May 2023
Flycast Shenmue animation glitching
2 projects | /r/RetroArch | 21 Apr 2023

Hmm, I thought it might be related to this AMD "devil's hand" bug, but it looks like you have an nvidia GPU, so maybe not... https://github.com/flyinghead/flycast/issues/879
Unreal Tournament on Android (ExaGear)(Galaxy Tab A8)
1 project | /r/EmulationOnAndroid | 11 Apr 2023
NAOMI 2
1 project | /r/EmulationStation_DE | 1 Apr 2023
Flycast v2.1 has been released!
5 projects | /r/emulation | 16 Feb 2023

NOTE: No longer actively developed, use upstream repo for libretro from now on - https://github.com/flyinghead/flycast
Is anyone actively working on Hikaru emulation?
1 project | /r/emulation | 11 Feb 2023
how is Dreamcast emulation? any arm supported Dreamcast emulators?
1 project | /r/macgaming | 27 Jan 2023

What are some alternatives?

When comparing reicast-emulator and flycast you can also consider the following projects:

mame - MAME

reicast-emulator - Reicast is a multiplatform Sega Dreamcast emulator

Genesis-Plus-GX - An enhanced port of Genesis Plus - accurate & portable Sega 8/16 bit emulator

Provenance - iOS & tvOS multi-emulator frontend, supporting various Atari, Bandai, NEC, Nintendo, Sega, SNK and Sony console systems… Get Started: https://wiki.provenance-emu.com |

UTM - Virtual machines for iOS and macOS

dospad - iDOS - DOSBox port on iOS

MAME4iOS - Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator for iOS, iPadOS, tvOS, macOS (Catalyst)

dolphin - Dolphin is a GameCube / Wii emulator, allowing you to play games for these two platforms on PC with improvements.

Play- - Play! - PlayStation2 Emulator

flycast - Flycast is a multiplatform Sega Dreamcast emulator. NOTE: No longer actively developed, use upstream repo for libretro from now on - https://github.com/flyinghead/flycast