Kronos : Comparison Table

version 1.4.0
last updated : 17 September, 2018

Site: https://github.com/FCare/yabause/tree/extui-align
Mail: François Care

Kronos is a Sega Saturn/ST-V emulator based on Yabause and Yaba Sanshiro. Copyright (C) 2017 - François Caron This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.

Comparison Table

The goal of this table is not to say which fork is better. I'm going to try to give you a state of emulation for 3 Yabause forks : Kronos, Yaba Sanshiro and Yabause.

	Kronos	Yaba Sanshiro	Yabause
Status	Active	Active	Inactive
Supported plateforms	Linux and Windows	Linux, Windows, Android	Linux, Windows, Macintosh, Dreamcast.
Emulator version	1.4.0	1.8.1	.9.5
Renderer OpenGL	Yes	Yes	Yes
Renderer Software	Broken	Broken	Yes
GFX Emulation (estimated, don't flame about it)	77-82%	76-81%	60-65%
Sound Emulation (estimated, don't flame about it)	98%	98%	85%
ST-V Support	Yes	No	No
Filter Video	Yes (HQ4X, Bilinear, Scanline, etc...)	Yes (FXAA, Scanline, Bilinear)	None
Translation	Yes	Yes (need refactoring)	Yes (need refactoring)
Specifics options/features	Windows 7 support, Redump archive support, Kronos interpreter, Extend Internal Backup memory to 8 Mb, video filter for low GPU (BRZ2)	Debug, Tesselation, screen rotation 90°, SCSP counter, Extend Internal Backup memory to 8 Mb	Debug, SH1 rom support, CD Block LLE, SH2 Dma Timing, SH2 Cache