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[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: Scart issue]

If it came modded from Japan the supplied cable is probably Japanese RGB21.  Same connector as a Euro SCART but wired completely differently.  You shouldn't have much trouble finding a JP21->Euro Scart adapter on ebay and the like.

[Off-Topic / The “What-Did-You-Buy-Today?” Thread]

Been getting caught up on MSX Homebrew from all over the world:
Myths and Dragons game: Spain
MSX Slot-expander: France
RAM Upgrade: Japan
SD-HDD Interface: Europe (This was a freebie)
V9990 Graphics Chip: Brazil
OPL4 Music Cart: Korea

And it all works beautifully together.

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: The Official Pioneer LaserActive Player thread-]

Vajra 2 is still affordable in Japan.  It's not cheap, but compared to the big boys like TG and RB, its a fraction of the cost.  And one of the best exclusives on the system really.

Paolo is the most annoying game ever made.  The videos are so delightfully cheesy that I love the game anyway, but trying to play this game will have you punching holes in the wall.

[Off-Topic / Re: STATUS: Only 117 posts to catch up on...]

This one is for you estevez

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: Pricey games]

Bazzaru de Gozzaru no gemu de gozarru
teh TV Show

and I think you mean 1941, not 1942

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: Sapphire is underrated.]

Deadite, it's been a while! I hope you are doing well but it seems you're triggered over a mere thread unrelated to you. Sorry Deadite, we all got different opinions. Sapphire isn't bad at all but I prefer other pc engine shooters. I literally do not care about price.

If you really want to get nasty with me, go back to your doujin X68k shooters. I may not be the oldest member on the board, or live in a tiny apartment in Japan, but I've been playing pce for a solid decade now. I know what games I like, what games I love, and what games I don't care about at this point.

EDIT: Forgot to mention, you get some unconventional opinions from all types of people. Some people prefer Dracula X snes over Rondo on pce. But everybody has their tastes.

Hello.  Nice to meet you.
1.  triggered?  what does this mean, I don't speak facebook
2.  Old?  I ain't that old...yet... XD
3.  Japan? Yes.  Tiny apartment?  No.  My house has a garden and a 3 car wide drive way.

Were you the one that made a post about Sapphire being overrated?  I don't even look at names or listen
to what others have to say.  I made a topic about Sapphire because I like Sapphire.  What's wrong with that?  Oh and the single-malt I was drinking at the time helps too.
I'm not really sure what the X68000 has to do with this topic though.  Great system, but has no effect on the awesomeness of Sapphire.

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Sapphire is underrated.]

Whenever a Sapphire discussion pops up, it always ends up being a discussion about....
1.. prerendered polys? lol
2.. too expensive!
3.. oh no boots!
4.. it doesn't play like my favorite, but completely unrelated shooter!
If you are one of these people,
SHUT THE FUCK UP!

SAPPHIRE IS GAMING TRANQUILITY 
1.  Price of a game has no connection to it's quality.
2.  The art-style is fantastic.
3.  The animation is fantastic.
4.  The gameplay is fun.  (Good games are fun.)
5.  The music was clearly performed by ninjas stabbing great white sharks with whammy bars.
6.  Sapphire herself is hot.  Way hotter then what anyone reading this will ever get to bone.
She is clearly the type of cop to hold her cuban cigar between her boobies as she sits on Bruce Campbell's face with a twinkle of pure domination in her eyes.

If you think Sapphire is overrated, then please go play more Radiant Faggotgun.
Good-bye.

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: The Official Pioneer LaserActive Player thread-]

Let me in the club, got the Genesis and TG 16 addons for mine with original controllers.
Does anyone have the JB Harold Blue Chicago Blues game? I just want to know if some has it since I cannot find one.

I have both the MegaLD and LD-ROM2 versions.

[Off-Topic / The “What-Did-You-Buy-Today?” Thread]

Got my MSX MIDI-PAC2 in.  Fun little toy to play with.  Here's my first test:

[Off-Topic / The “What-Did-You-Buy-Today?” Thread]

MU2000 is fantastic.  Enjoy it.

Definitely going to be using it a lot.

It is flashed with the EX firmware already too. ^_^

Be sure to use the toslink output, as the internal DAC simply isn't good enough.

[Off-Topic / The “What-Did-You-Buy-Today?” Thread]

MU2000 is fantastic.  Enjoy it.

[Buy/Sell/Trade / Re: MSX Laserdisc game on ebay]

MSX LD games are generally always for sale in Japan, just depends on the cash.  Anyone seriously into this stuff should have no trouble using yahoo auctions to get them.

Now MSX VHD games on the hand are for the truly insane (and this is coming from me lol)

[Off-Topic / Re: So Todd Rogers got banned from Twin Galaxies....]

ROLF, probably self made drama just to keep Twin Galaxies from dieing from lack of interest.  They can't compete with Japanese records, so they just pretend they don't exist.  It's the definition of a faggy circle jerk

[General Gaming / Re: Suggestions for starting off for NES/Famicom?]

Get an FDSStick.  http://3dscapture.com/fdsstick/
The best way to play FDS.
If you are on a CRT, get yourself the 3D System, boot up Falsion, and be amazed!

[General Gaming / Re: Anybody got a FM Towns Marty?]

Besides the extra juice to run a few more games, the big advantage of a 2+ over a 2 is that 2+ units have the FM Music chip internally.  On an MSX2 you will need an FM cart for the huge number of games that use FM (MSX Music)

AFAIK GR8NET is only sold by the guy that makes them via the MSX group on Facebook.  There is also Carnivore and a few others.  I personally use the older MegaFlashRomSCC+ in conjunction with an SD HDD interface as it suits my uses better.

Metal Gear 1 is the real Metal Gear, much better then the NES version.  But Metal Gear 2 is simply amazing.  Metal Gear Solid is basically a soft-reboot of Metal Gear 2, new story, location, and names, but about 80% of the stuff that happens in Solid happened in 2.

[General Gaming / Re: Anybody got a FM Towns Marty?]

As long as you get a fully working MSX2+ you can run 95% of the library.  I have a Turbo-R myself, but they have become way to expensive, and not a good choice for a first-time owner.  A lot of people swear that the Sony units have better audio circuitry then the Panasonic models and sound nicer if you have a decent amp.  Flash cart wise there are a lot of options.  If you get a G8NET cart, you can plug straight into the internet and stream games directly.

I highly recommend Metal Gear 2, Aleste 2, and Undeadline.  Absolute must plays.

[General Gaming / Re: Anybody got a FM Towns Marty?]

I have 3 machines.  Fresh, UX20, Car Marty.
Generally speaking I do not recommend getting into Towns without extensive research.
The amount of good exclusive games is very low, but hey Rayxanber is rather awesome. 
The Marty is basically a barebones gimped PC, so it has the smallest library.  A lot of the stuff
online is flat-out false.  Splatterhouse for example is an excellent port for its time, but it is not "arcade
perfect" like most websites will claim.

If you want to get into Japanese computers, I'd say the X68000 has the best game library, but the hardware startup costs are high.  MSX is also a better deal the Towns imo, and probably the cheapest if you are happy with a flash-cart.

[General Gaming / Re: Need some dreamcast vga connection help]

VGA = analog RGB

[Off-Topic / Re: Spook-tober]

The bluray of The Mist includes the black and white version (the director never wanted it to be in color).
Black and white makes the crappy monster cg look a lot better then in color.  Really powerful movie.

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: I held a copy of Sylphia in my hands at a store in korea yesterday]

Man, I still remember buying my Coryoon in Osaka for 6,000yen.  This was about 10 years ago now though.

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: Best PCE Sega game?]

32X Afterburner will work with the Cyberstick, very simple to make an adapter cable for it.
The cyberstick is really more of a must own item for Japanese Computer fans.  The console games
are just a fun bonus imo.

As for this topic, I'd vote Cotton, but Cotton isn't a Sega game...

[General Gaming / Re: Let's talk about light gun games.]

Horned Owl was the first ps1 light-gun game.  In japan at least it was a boxed set with the justifier.  Die Hard 2 (Die Hard Trilogy) is damn good fun too.

[General Gaming / Re: Let's talk about light gun games.]

PLAY DUNGEON HUNTER!!!!

[Off-Topic / The “What-Did-You-Buy-Today?” Thread]

You can never have enough SmartMedia cards.

[Fighting Street / Jackie Chan, teh man!]

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: Tower of Druaga]

The real point of this game are the secrets.
There is a secret to find on every single floor.
This is why the Japanese love it.
Back when it was new in the arcades, it was a big community type of thing
as players compared notes to figure out how all the secrets worked.
Or competed to see who could find them all first.
Playing by yourself at home just isn't the same.

[Off-Topic / The “What-Did-You-Buy-Today?” Thread]

I can't wait to hear some info about the NEO SD, I'll be bothering you about it often in chat if you don't make a thread post about it here.

Also gypsy have you played NHL 94 CD before? That's a cherished gsme on my shelf that has more memories than most Sega CD games. Best version of the third best hockey game of all time, enjoy man!

Besides the fact that some of the Neo Geo games have very high file sizes and can take a few minutes to flash. The Neo SD is a breeze to use and is a must have considering the prices of AES games for anyone who owns an AES to play games rather than collect.

Hey dude, I actually do play my AES games....

[Off-Topic / Re: Exploiting fear and ignorance, Part ____ (does it matter anymore?)]

The copyright part is quite laughable.  Over here media rental shops are still huge.  And guess what, they rent audio CDs for a 100yen a week.  (This is why MD players were quite successful here)

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: "PCEWorks" finally bootlegs Magical Chase]

CTR>Mario Fart

[Fighting Street / Donut or Dognut?]

 

[Fighting Street / NOT ALL CUNTZ ARE CREATED EQUAL!]

JUST DEAL WITH IT!

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: PC Engine SD]

" full compatibility with PC Engine peripherals"

Except for you know, a CD drive!

[Off-Topic / Re: Sharp x68000 controllers]

The official Sharp controller was their X1 pad.  Which is just a famicom style pad with the MSX pinout.  There are hundreds of 3rd party controller available though.  A few later games do support the Run/Select buttons on the FM Towns pad, but generally just as a pause button.

Of course certain games use specialty controllers like Cyberstick, Pac-Land Pad, Libble Rabble dual-d pad, etc.

Tell me more about Pac Land Pad!

Thank you.

[Buy/Sell/Trade / Re: WTB FM Towns Marty]

Unz is decent enough.  In truth it isn't really a true emulator in the traditional sense.  At it's core its really just one big hack of TownsOS with emulated parts as needed (like the FM chip).  Most CD games are auto-boot, but some games require some really weird setups.  Some games are also really bitchy on the amount of RAM.

[Off-Topic / Re: Sharp x68000 controllers]

The official Sharp controller was their X1 pad.  Which is just a famicom style pad with the MSX pinout.  There are hundreds of 3rd party controller available though.  A few later games do support the Run/Select buttons on the FM Towns pad, but generally just as a pause button.

Of course certain games use specialty controllers like Cyberstick, Pac-Land Pad, Libble Rabble dual-d pad, etc.

[Buy/Sell/Trade / Re: WTB FM Towns Marty]

Hahaha! 

It's rather cheating to point to that game, that only runs on the super-expensive-and-rare 1990-released MSX Turbo-R as an indicator of MSX games! 

As a geek, I like the idea that you can run MSX stuff on an FPGA for far-less-cost than buying all of the original-hardware ...

https://www.msx.org/wiki/One_Chip_MSX
https://www.msx.org/forum/msx-talk/revival/one-chip-msx-improvement-project?page=95
http://retroramblings.net/?page_id=917

Just an example of what MSX games can be like.  99% of people just look at the old MSX1 Gradius games and go "Look at that choppy scrolling, screw that."  Honestly MSX Gradius 1 is more fun the NES Gradius despite the scrolling imo.

Also, these days I assume OP would probably try out MSX via emulation before buying one.  So the required hardware isn't all that important until he gets his feet wet.  In fact I think emulation should be a must for anyone interested in MSX, as pure MSX1s are really cheap, but a total waste of money.  2+ is what I'd generally recommend.  Though I do love my Turbo-R.

[Buy/Sell/Trade / Re: WTB FM Towns Marty]

I vote you get an MSX.   You've already got a PCE, so the 16bit era stuff is all set for you. 

MSX is from an earlier time and offers something completely different in the form of all those goofy early 80s style games.

I will look into this. I've only seen stuff here and there that looked interesting, like the Metal Gear games. Not enough to make a decision as to whether or not I should own the computer/console.

[Buy/Sell/Trade / Re: WTB FM Towns Marty]

X68000>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>MSX
MSX>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>FM Towns
FM Towns>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Amiha

Unless you are really into Euro-games, the Amiha has not aged well.
Towns at least has Rayxanber, and a dozen or so solid arcade ports.

[Buy/Sell/Trade / Re: WTB FM Towns Marty]

A Marty console is not worth it.  Get an FM Towns PC instead.
Though either way Towns stuff is costly.
An X68000 setup is a lot more fun.

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: how could some PCE games achieve parallax scrolling?]

There are NES games with multiple layers of parallax.  If the NES can do it, the PCE most certainly can.
And also the mighty NeoGeo only has one background as well.

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: Hey Everyone !! lOL Just Recently Scored On This Giant POS !!!]

Found some good pics.  I did mine the same, except I found tapping SYNC here weakened the signal too much and it gave me issues when playing my LD games.  So instead I just plug my sync line directly into the composite RCA jack.  I did mine the lazy way, I just fed the wires out the back through one of the holes the RGB board clips on to, and my amp is external.

http://bakutendo.blog87.fc2.com/blog-entry-266.html

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: Hey Everyone !! lOL Just Recently Scored On This Giant POS !!!]

Can't find a good pic right now, but it's rather easy.  The RGB board in the machine is clearly labeled, just flip it over and solder to the ribbon cable pins.  For sync I just use the extra composite jack.  5v is all over the place.

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: Hey Everyone !! lOL Just Recently Scored On This Giant POS !!!]

For a serious answer, most of us here have already RGB modded our LA units.  It's really quite easy, and works for all games except the actual LD games.  Once you do this, the LA is actually a very capable jack-of-all-trades.  Being a front-loader, you can stack stuff on it and it plays a tremendous amount of games with just one single power cable.  The LD games are just icing on the cake really.

[Off-Topic / The “What-Did-You-Buy-Today?” Thread]

Nice Dicer.

I just got some gud shit in myself. Including Castlevania Chronicles (the sharp remake of the first game ported to PS1) which is one of the few in the series I have never played.

Pro-Tip: Hold L1, R1, Start and Select when choosing a game mode to enable sound select mode. You can choose between FM synth and two MIDI options. They are all worth a listen but I feel the FM synth is the most "Castlevania Sounding" of the three. Be sure to hold those buttons down until the sound select screen loads.

Is the FM Synth the exact same as the vanilla X68k?

The FM/MIDI music isn't emulated, it's recorded off the real thing.  It does suffer a bit from compression, but most people won't know the difference.  Now the game itself though is a recreation, not a proper port of the original code.  Meaning some of the hitboxes are off from the original, making it harder then it was meant to be.  The lowered resolution doesn't help either (PS1 is 15khz, real deal runs in 31khz).  If you are used to the real deal, this port is meh, but if you aren't it's a good effort.  And when it was new it retailed for only $9.99 so hard to complain...

Original version had a few extra features like the hidden 4th Music Option (General MIDI), but they are rather minor.  There is even a fan patch that adds stereoscopic 3D (LCD shutters like MasterSystem/Famicom) support to the game, which is damn cool looking if you have the required setup to run it.

[Off-Topic / The “What-Did-You-Buy-Today?” Thread]

Dug a Hori Berretta out of Hardoff for 1,000yen today. Guncon clone, full metal, weighs about 3lbs. Best lightgun I've ever used.


4K: https://i.postimg.cc/W32t01V4/IMG-2291.jpg

[General Gaming / Re: Lunar(SCD) Vs. Lunar(PS1)]

SSSC > SSS
EB > EBC

Enough said.

[General Gaming / Re: Can anyone recommend a good source for a SCART cable for the Saturn?]

I got a POS 3$ one off ebay, and use a Euro to JP convertor that I got from RetroGamingCables.uk.duder or whatever.


Any "Saturn RGB cable" you find on eBay should work.

NTSC and PAL Saturns actually have a different pinout on the video out port itself.  So if you want a Euro SCART for an NTSC Saturn, you need a different cable from a Euro SCART meant for a PAL Saturn.  It's Sega's stupidity at it's finest.

[General Gaming / Re: Can anyone recommend a good source for a SCART cable for the Saturn?]

I'm perfectly happy with the official Japanese jp21 pin cable, but depends on your setup really.

[Off-Topic / The “What-Did-You-Buy-Today?” Thread]

That's cool, I wish I had an early HMD like that one.

It's more then just an HMD.  This actually has Head Tracking, though game support is unsurprisingly quite limited.

[Off-Topic / The “What-Did-You-Buy-Today?” Thread]

15 year old Playstation VR.