Kronos : Comparison Table

version 2.7.0
December 28, 2024

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) 2017-2025 - 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 is not to say which emulator is the best. I will try to give the state of the emulation for 3 Yabause forks : Kronos, Yaba Sanshiro and Yabause.

Kronos Yaba Sanshiro v2 Yabause
Status
Active
Active
Inactive
Supported platforms
Linux and Windows
Linux, Windows, Android
Linux, Windows, Macintosh, Dreamcast.
Emulator version
2.7.0
1.16.6
0.9.5
OpenGL Renderer
Yes
Yes
Yes
Software Renderer
No
Broken
Yes
Compute Shader Renderer
Yes
No
No
GFX Emulation (estimated, don't flame about it)
90-92%
80-84%
60-65%
Sound Emulation (estimated, don't flame about it)
95%
95%
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
Debug (VDP1 & VDP2), Windows 7 support, Redump archive support, Kronos interpreter, Extend Internal Backup memory to 8 Mb, video filter for low GPU (BRZ2), CHD images support, Compute Shader
Debug, Tesselation, screen rotation 90°, SCSP counter, CHD images support, Extend Internal Backup memory to 8 Mb
Debug, SH1 rom support, CD Block LLE, SH2 Dma Timing, SH2 Cache

Kronos is Copyright © 2017-2025 by François Caron.

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Kronos is not affiliated with or endorsed by any of the companies mentioned.