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is it bank_0.txt for syscard?

and 3 super turbografx cd bios to U and one J??

make a syscard and bios folder for tempest?
 
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I'm fairly certain that the information you seek is in the documentation. Have a look in the documentation submenu.
 
I'm fairly certain that the information you seek is in the documentation. Have a look in the documentation submenu.
I could not find it. I would not be asking if i saw it there. I am not a total boob.

There is no Temper documentation in the Pandora menu.
 
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Hm? Well, there is one, somewhere, because I've read it. I'll have a look and see what I can find.
 
Hm? Well, there is one, somewhere, because I've read it. I'll have a look and see what I can find.
There is a previous thread about Temper which I posted but it did not provide the information I am asking for.

Honestly I have spent three days trying to figure this out and I am ready to surrender. I will accept the fact that I cannot play turbografx cd games on my Pandora.

At least I got the SEGA CD games running.

Not only on Temper won't this work but on Hugo,PCEemu too.
 
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This thread:

http://boards.openpandora.org/index.php/topic/4621-temper-split-from-other-thread/

...contains all information, including the little titbit that the readme actually is just called "readme.txt" or something like that, so go through your readme.txt's in the documentation menu to make sure :D
Yes I posted this today and this is not what I need.

I need the exact bios, the proper syscard file =.txt and what format are these cd games played in?bin,iso,zip ....and why they won't play on any of the NEC emulators for me? There are 3 right?  hugo,pce.emu and temper .

Thanks for your efforts. That was kind.
 
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http://dl.openhandhelds.org/cgi-bin/pandora.cgi?0,0,0,0,5,466

contains a quick fact sheet for a lot of emulators, including the names of the files you need. Which are not text files, but actual roms, kind of. In order to make the PC-engine recognize the CD-addon, you put a special game card in the machine, that didn't contain a gam, but drivers and stuff for the CD players. Also, it had extra memory banks and stuff on it. These, being actual commercial products and copyrighted by NEC, are under copyright. Thus, we cannot supply you with links to them. 

The relevant bits from the readme (on your pandora, or in the link above) is this:

-- CD-ROM --

As of version 0.7 Temper can play CD-ROM games. This includes Super CD^2,

Arcade Card, and Games Express Card games, but you must have the appropriate

syscard image in the syscards directory for any of this to work (and the one

you want to use must be selected in the menu). See the menu option for what

to name the files.

The CD-ROM images themselves must be derived from bin/cue. This means that

there should be:

- A cue sheet of the standard format.

- Either a single file (.bin or .iso) for the entire image or one per each

track. The extension doesn't matter, but Temper supports either 2048 or

2352 byte sectors for the images. For data tracks using 2048 bytes is

advantageous since the others aren't used by games.

- Audio tracks may be .bin/.iso as above, .wav, or .ogg. WAVs may be anywhere

from 11025Hz mono 8bit (8bit is assumed to be unsigned) to 44100Hz stereo

16bit. OGGs must decode to stereo 44100Hz.

Basically, if you use a standard program to rip a CD as bin/cue then it will

work. Then, you can use the included bin_to_iso_ogg program to convert this

to iso/ogg/cue if you desire. Right now this program will only convert

bin/cue files, and if you use it on a case sensitive file system (like Linux)

you must make sure that the files in the CUE match the case of the BIN file

used.

NOTE: This program requires oggenc to be installed to your path (on Windows,

put it in c:\windows, on Linux in /usr/bin) to work. You can download oggenc

from http://www.rarewares.org/ogg.php.

Run the program as:

bin_cue_to_iso_ogg <name of cue file to convert> <base for output>

For instance if you did:

bin_cue_to_iso_ogg game.cue game

It would create the new cuesheet and track files in the directory game,

with names game.cue, and game_tN.* for the track files.

OGG playback is not without a price - at 200MHz some games might have some

slowdown. I'd like to have decoding happening on the second CPU, but for now

the best you can do is to stick with bin/cue or use fast RAM timings and/or

overclock.

Currently the CD-ROM access and load speeds are being emulated to be roughly

like they would on a real console. Some games require this to operate

properly. I'll probably add an option to disable this at some point.

If you try to load a cue sheet that Temper can't figure out (with invalid

file names for instance) it might drop back to the menu. If it can't load

any of the track files then this will happen. Try editing the CUE file

(in any standard text editor like notepad) and make sure that the names

used in the FILE lines match the files used, and that the type at the end

matches (BINARY for bin/iso, WAVE for wav, OGG for ogg).
and
Options menu:

[...]

- CD-ROM system - what kind of CD-ROM syscard is being used. This determines

what syscard to be loaded from the syscards directory, and determines how

much additional RAM is available:

v1/v2: Uses syscard1.bin and syscard2.bin respectively, no extra RAM.

v3: Uses syscard3.bin (for Super CD^2 support), 256KB extra RAM.

acd: Also uses syscard3.bin, but has 256KB + 2048KB of extra RAM.

gecd: Uses games_express.bin, has 256KB of extra RAM (it should probably be

lower but I don't really know)

- Per-game BRAM saves - if this option is on then the current game gets its

own .sav file BRAM in the bram directory. If it's off then bram.sav is

used. Keep it off to save space or to transfer saves between games.

- Use compatability mode - use this option to prevent Sidearms Special

and Exile from crashing, and possibly other games if they crash or don't

work. Otherwise, keep it off since it makes the emulator slower.
 
Thank you and I would never ask for anything illegal and I was not attempting to.

Finding these files are near impossible without some link if there is one. Trust me I have tried for hours now.

It is impossible for me to find these files anywhere and I know the limitations here.
 
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Hi, in Temper when I enable show fps it displays a constant 50/60 fps, does anyone else get the same?
 
Hi, in Temper when I enable show fps it displays a constant 50/60 fps, does anyone else get the same?
Sounds like you messed up the screen refresh rate running something else that didn't change it back.
 
I will attempt to describe what I have so far with Temper :

In appdata>temper folder I have these sub folders = bram,config, images,roms and syscard3.pce. 

In syscard3.pce I have > syscard2.pce, syscard1.pce, Bios super cd rom Japan 3.pce, BIOS Turbografx CD Supersystem card USA 3 .pce, CD ROM system 1, 2,2.01,2.10,3.10, all.pce format,syscard1.pce and syscard2.pce.

To my surprise all the above bios/syscard files when selected bring up the Turbografx CD start up screen. 

I attempted to put  CD game I always wanted to play again which is Gate of Thunder. I put this game in my roms folder in .iso and .bin format but it will not even show up in my rom folder when I go to Temper start up. If I change the file to .PCE it will show up in the rom folder but will not play.

Do I need a PCE file converter?

Please help me.

***made a syscard folder and placed syscard1,2 and 3 .pce in there. Also made a bios folder.
 
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***please note the above changes.

I will offer or donate 20.00 USD via paypal if somebody can help me properly with Temper so I may play Gate of Thunder.
 
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Hey Coco, create a folder 'appdata\Temper\syscards' , and place 'syscard3.pce' in there. When selecting the PCE CD game you have to choose the .cue file.
 
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