Kronos Documentation

# Kronos : Comparison Table

version 2.6.1
December 27, 2023
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) 2017-2024 - 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 | 2.6.1 | 1.9.4 | 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) | 88-90% | 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 © 2017-2024 by François Caron.
SEGA SATURN is either a trademark or registered trademark of SEGA.
Kronos is not affiliated with or endorsed by any of the companies mentioned.