Weird, hasn't happened to me. Anyone else?euro48k said:try to set temper @ 100Mhz and save options will freeze the emu with no option but power off .. no matter if game loaded or fresh start
anyone with this thing ?
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Exophase said:Weird, hasn't happened to me. Anyone else?euro48k said:try to set temper @ 100Mhz and save options will freeze the emu with no option but power off .. no matter if game loaded or fresh start
anyone with this thing ?
0.55 / 0.56
I plan to support the BIN/CUE format initially, unless there are a lot of objections. Although I like the idea of MP3 tracks in theory (who doesn't?) it could be really troublesome getting mp3 decoding in. Partially because of speed concerns, but also because I'd need to either use a non-restrictive open source one (under BSD or LGPL or some such), link against a library, or write my own (not happening). Maybe later on someone will have some suggestions, because I don't want to make it GPL at this time.
Thank you for considering bin/cue format. Yeah it will be larger in size, but it's going to make things easier in the long run. I've been waiting for a portable pc-engine/tg-16 emu to do this for a long time. Also, for people that are going to dl cd games please know that there are a lot of bad rips going around. Most of the mp3/isos that have been on the net since the late 90's early 2000 are bad rips. The toc is all messed up with these games. Nightwolve made a nice little program called Tocfixer to fix this. You can get it here under the tutorials section. This has some nice info on ripping CD games. Anything that can do bin/cue though is fine.
PicoDrive uses MP3 decoding and it runs SegaCD fullspeed at 200 MHz. I think the Sega CD is much more complex than a TG-16 (maybe not, it is just a guess) so speed should be OK wouldn't it? Of course the GPL thing probably kills itExophase said:I plan to support the BIN/CUE format initially, unless there are a lot of objections. Although I like the idea of MP3 tracks in theory (who doesn't?) it could be really troublesome getting mp3 decoding in. Partially because of speed concerns, but also because I'd need to either use a non-restrictive open source one (under BSD or LGPL or some such), link against a library, or write my own (not happening). Maybe later on someone will have some suggestions, because I don't want to make it GPL at this time.
slaanesh said:Ninja Spirit is one of those high res games along side Sidearms, R-Type, Mr Heli, Hero Tonma... there are probably others. All the Irem ports I believe used this 352x224 mode (or whatever it was).hercule18 said:Then I guess you already now it, but in Ninja Spirit not all the screen is showing.
I've also found that 1943 has an option to use this mode to create a thinner aspect ratio on the real PC-Engine hardware.
I assume Exophase will put a scaling option in at some stage to accommodate this?
Any details or ideas on how CD support will be added? ISO? CSO? or perhaps rips with MP3 for audio tracks?
I'm curious because I have about 60 real PC Engine CDs ready for ripping.
how about a screen position option? this way it could be centered instead of resize and avoid a choppy downscaling.
DaveC said:PicoDrive uses MP3 decoding and it runs SegaCD fullspeed at 200 MHz. I think the Sega CD is much more complex than a TG-16 (maybe not, it is just a guess) so speed should be OK wouldn't it? Of course the GPL thing probably kills itExophase said:I plan to support the BIN/CUE format initially, unless there are a lot of objections. Although I like the idea of MP3 tracks in theory (who doesn't?) it could be really troublesome getting mp3 decoding in. Partially because of speed concerns, but also because I'd need to either use a non-restrictive open source one (under BSD or LGPL or some such), link against a library, or write my own (not happening). Maybe later on someone will have some suggestions, because I don't want to make it GPL at this time.Isn't there a way around the GPL thing?
I don't know about speed or ease of use, but libavcodec from ffmpeg should enable you to decode mp3 and is LGPL...
Of course!slaanesh said:Of course the best way of "archiving" the games is to buy them in the first place![]()
slaanesh said:Of course the best way of "archiving" the games is to buy them in the first place![]()
The problem there is many games are almost impossible to find. Then there is the fact that it would cost $1000 to get all the ones that I like due to the stupidly high prices of the "rare" ones (Drac-X etc).slaanesh said:Of course the best way of "archiving" the games is to buy them in the first place![]()
Yeah I noticed that too. I had all of my systems connected via hacked together RGB cables so I was doubtful how good it could be. I was suprised to see how good the TurboDuo composite was. Definetly the best of any composite I have seen.slaanesh said:So I bought the uber model PC Engine complete with CD drive and relatively nice composite video out. I must say that it this is one of the best quality composite out signals and must have been awesome back in it's day. Very clear, excellent color contrast and saturation.
DaveC said:The problem there is many games are almost impossible to find. Then there is the fact that it would cost $1000 to get all the ones that I like due to the stupidly high prices of the "rare" ones (Drac-X etc).slaanesh said:Of course the best way of "archiving" the games is to buy them in the first place![]()
The "backups" that could be "found" are all ISO+MP3 unfortunatly.
Still, any kind of CD support would be fantastic.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but can't you just rename .iso files as .bin and they work fine? Or am I thinking of Genesis games? (.bin renamed to .smd; it works perfectly)
Either way, can't you use Toast to convert them?
I paid under US$70 for mine. I kept bidding on auctions until I got one cheap enough. This is still a fair bit of money but compared to any modern release it's only a little more.DaveC said:...high prices of the "rare" ones (Drac-X etc).
So you have the US model Turbo Duo? You're missing out on some of those Japanese games that never made it to the US. Unless you have one of those Kisado converters?DaveC said:I was suprised to see how good the TurboDuo composite was. Definetly the best of any composite I have seen.