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[Off-Topic / Re: Your wet dream]

Hah!

THERES 4 YOU DUMBASS

[Off-Topic / Re: What do you depise AT THIS MOMENT, literally....]

and homo.

wait, fuck.

[Fighting Street / Re: PCE Titles: Porno Style]

meat and magic is fucking brilliant.

but how about

meat and mahdick.

lol.

[Off-Topic / Re: Billy Mitchell]

More like MILLY BITCHELL, MIRITE?!

I say that all the time.   Lol its funny as fuck to me.

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: Is the PCE craze over yet?]

I like how we live in a world where dumbfucks on YouTube influence hobbies this heavily.

It's hilarious to me people are incapable of finding cool shit to entertain themselves with unless YouTube things tell them to do it.

What did they do in the 90s?  Lick tree stumps?

[Off-Topic / Re: Game Sack]

Ah okay. I have no problem just buying the rom honestly, I've got floppies, good enough for me. Probably buying a Midi Pac too, we will see. Need to wait for the thing itself to come in first, before I start buying more shit.

You can't put the ROM on a floppy really, lol.

It uses an ASCII memory mapper and stuff.

But if you have a Megaflash cart that'll work

[Off-Topic / Re: Game Sack]

Speaking of which I need to buy Inferno, is the audio livable/playable w/o the pac?

Do they have a release date for the physical version yet? I don't know if I want to just buy a ROM to put on a disk if they are releasing a physical cartridge soon.

If you buy the ROM, I subtract the ROM price from the cartridge price when you buy the cartridge.

I am leaving for Japan in like 6 hours and will start putting more Infernos together when I get home in mid April.

The first 20 went to Japan. 

and I'll be ordering parts to make more.

I'm the developer for Inferno, btw. 

is the audio livable/playable w/o the pac?

No lol.  It's like PSG SFX + the portions of the song I layered in with PSG to make some leads sound better.

It's playable but it sounds stupid.  There are no drums, or bass.

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: What are some good PC Engine home brew titles?]

Atlantean sucks and the programmer is a cunt.

Facts only. 

Obviously, lol

I would say the best homebrew physical releases are:
Mysterious Song, Atlantean, Insanity, and oddly, I've always loved Implode.

Download only I really love:

Tongueman's Logic
HuZero
Refletron

Damn you can't even spell Reflectron right, lol.

cmonnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn

Nantettatte Engine is neat,  I hope.

[Off-Topic / Re: Game Sack]

Is something like this good/useful: https://www.ebay.com/itm/MSX-1024KB-RAM-Expansion-Musical-Memory-Mapper-for-MSX1-MSX2-MSX2-Turbo-R/183134020306?hash=item2aa3a362d2:g:2M4AAOSwjRpZUnwY

I would think that I would want extra memory.

That same amount would go better towards an FM expansion cartridge, especially if you're getting an HB-F1XD, it's internals are pretty great across the board.

Links please? I haven't been able to find too much available.

Sure

https://www.8bits4ever.net/product-page/fm-pak

Tyvm.

@Ark: Wow that Toshiba HX-34 looks incredibly cool to an old dork like myself.

I used an HX-34 and FM PAC to develop infernooooo


Also, those recent re-do FM-Pac swap ins are generally OK AFAIK, but I can't remember which one off hand had some sound issues.

It was either a recent one, or it might have been an oldddd one.   

I just stick to an actual FM PAC instead.   They used to be cheaper back when I got one. 

Unfortunately, with the MSX community's Euro-dipshittery, some of the more knowledgeable people about that bit of things basically sit on IRC only to share info, which is super counter productive.   I keep telling them to get on Facebook, but they keep saying no, Zuckerbergs an asshole and something about privacy.

It sucks.  They're missing out on an opportunity to help inform people of things outside of the shitheap that is MSX.org.

 

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: This is quite lovely]

Do the same thing on a SGX and I'll be impressed.

that was footage from battle ace

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: What are some good PC Engine home brew titles?]

Atlantean sucks and the programmer is a cunt.

[Off-Topic / Re: Game Sack]

^^This. But honestly even if I did know, I wouldn't have asked YOU because of your always-pissy attitude towards me or anything I do.

Actually, this delivery here, is part of why I don't like you.   You have always been a dicktip towards me, and I finally started returning the favor, years ago.

When PCEFX went down way back when, your dumb ass added me on FB.  You sent a friend request.

Then, in various posts, you were suddenly baffled that we were friends, and went "why do I have YOU on here", acted like a moron, and unfriended me.  Just like you did here.  Just like you tend to do.  I got tired of it, and your seemingly wanton obtuseness, and decided "fuck this guy".

So, stop blaming me like it's 100% my fault I'm an asshole to you.

You get what you give.

I truly do not believe you could be friendly towards me, especially if you knew your PCEFX peers knew about it. Hell, even if the episode was 3 hours long, included all of the info you presented and met the ALL standards of the elite collectors, any possible positive feedback you'd give the episode would surely be in the form of a backhanded compliment, at best. It's who you are.

Actually, I could, but the problem is, whenever I tried to, you continued being a dipshit.  It was like you'd never heard of these things called "fun" and "jokes" before and made an ass of yourself.   Other people even told you to calm the hell down before you ended up getting booted out of one of the FB groups over it.

Which is pretty much why a bunch of us laugh about it, and is part of how the whole YOU GOT GAMESACKED, BITCH thing even started.

Hey, at least you unblocked me.  That's a step in the right direction.  Don't trip.

Joe sucks, gamesack sucks, and people that enjoy Gamesack suck.  I'm not going to waste my time with 'em..... other than to troll this thread and tell everyone they suck.

LOL

Hell yeah. 

Thank you very much for teh info dump arkhan.

Ditto.

Ark, any advice for RGB? Just stick to ones with that 8-pin DIN?

And you're right about that blue 23J...very distinguished.

For RGB, if you get a Toshiba, you get to go on a magical adventure to make your own cable if you can't find one or get it with the machine. 

It uses a fancy Hirose connector that you can still buy, but is for like medical equipment.

Sony/Panasonic use DINs and are simpler.   Most people stick to those, and the cables are easy to find and/or make because the connector isn't 15 fucking dollars.

but, the Toshiba HX-34 looks 100% cooler.

[Off-Topic / Re: What happened to Nullity?]

yeah man we should really celebrate losing more members lol. totally.

[Localizations, Games, Apps, Docs / Re: Custom Made Portable PC Engine]

People already add controller ports, and video out to Expresses, in addition to better screens.

[Off-Topic / Re: Game Sack]

So, why didn't you helped him with the episode to make it more acceptable by your standards?
That info you just posted would have really helped.

He didn't ask.  He's probably not attentive enough to realize I even like or know anything about the MSX.  Or have developed a game for it.

We're talking about the dude who asked what Mysterious Song was AFTER it released, and had to ask us for ideas about ninja games like it's that hard to fuckin google "ninja video games" and figure it out, lol.

Am I supposed to watch them closely for their next move, and offer (free) assistance to two dudes who can't do their own homework properly for their paid YouTube channel / show?

Fuck that.

[Off-Topic / Re: Game Sack]

Arkhan, it's okay to let your opinion be dependant on others.
No need to form your own.
Everything's okay.
Hush.

Your gamesack apologist shit is kinda sad lol.   I'm pretty sure I've laid into Joe ITT. 

I've already formed enough of an opinion of Gamesack's (Mostly Joe's) quality from wasting time on their previous episodes, and getting into it with Joe on here about it to know not to waste my time on their crap anymore really.   They're like the "For Dummies" of game videos.   The people that pine for them typically remain dummies.

Having actual MSX people who were unfortunate enough to waste their time on the video (Because they aren't familiar with Gamesack) express my feelings just confirms that I indeed didn't need to spend 40 minutes.

Anyway,

Generally, MSXes from Japan for decent prices are fair to buy.

It's sometimes worth looking for the MSX2+ and paying a little extra.  With just an MSX2 alone, you need to buy an FM-PAC so you can get MSX-MUSIC capabilities (FM music).

Without it, you are missing out.

Shipping one here EMS generally runs around 110$ or so, depending on the model.  I've had some come for around 80$, and some for 110$.   Floppy drive ones cost more to ship, because they weigh more.

Models worth hunting for

All of these have disk drives.  If the belt was not replaced in the auctions you may find, getting a new belt and changing it isn't too hard:
Sony HBF1 series (MSX2: XD, XDmk2)   (MSX2+: XDJ, XV)
Panasonic FSA1-WX (MSX2+)
Sanyo Wavy PHC-70FD (MSX2+)
Toshiba HX-34 (MSX2)

All of these don't, and will require a floppy interface like a NoWind, or the new SCC MegaFlash ROM SD cart:
Sony HBF1
Toshiba HX-23
Sanyo Wavys of any variety (The blue Wavy23 is juicy)

You can also scope out a Sony HB-F700 or F900 (with digitizer unit) if you want to feel badass.

Do not buy a TurboR unless you find it cheap, or are into wasting money.   They're basically useless unless you are hardcore into MSX.

Any MSX2 will require an FM cartridge.  They range between 30-60$ usually.


There are some decent MSX groups on Facebook worth joining.  MSX.org is not so good despite being the only real forum.  It's not worth explaining in detail in this thread.   It's at least 15 years of self mutilation from a ton of Europeans who know each other IRL and can't sort their bullshit out enough to stop being cunts to each other, basically.

MSX Computer Fanland is my group.  I was trying to keep it stateside (since we need that, since MSX wasn't a thing here, and having mostly europeans around makes buy/selling a bit of a pain).

yeahbuddy

[Off-Topic / Re: Idiot of the month March 2018]

what the dicktip lol

[Off-Topic / Re: What happened to Nullity?]

I'm confused.  There wasn't even a sweet forum blowout, loldrama, arguefest or anything.

[Off-Topic / Re: What happened to Nullity?]

HES NULL.

HAH

AAAHAAAA

[Off-Topic / Re: Game Sack]

Didn't bother to watch

If the rest of them, and MSX fans going "???" are any indication, I saved myself 40 minutes.

lol

[General Gaming / Re: Secret of Mana Remake]

So, I listened to the soundtrack on youtube and, by and large, wasn't a fan.  There were some good renditions of the old tracks, Did you Hear the Ocean springs to mind instantly here, but there were some awful ones.

The boss theme springs to mind on that later list; it is one of the worst remakes that I've ever heard.

The original boss battle music was annoying too, lol.

[Off-Topic / Re: Idiot of the month March 2018]

as long as people stand to try and profit off their FB friends, FB is always going to be a shitshow of people chasing money instead of fun.

lol

but it's like self mutilation.   People do this shit to themselves

FREE GAME? WHATEVER MAYBE LATER


HOLY
FUCKING
SHIT

A 70$ REPRO OF A GAME I COULD PUT ON MY EVERDRIVE?  CAN I BUY 2?

[Off-Topic / Re: Idiot of the month March 2018]

FB groups have been quite disappointing in the last few years. Previously taboo subjects like PCEWorks, selling overpriced shit and extreme collecting are now acceptable. Still don't understand what started this shift

There's no sense of community in a Facebook group. Ironically something that has your real picture, name and life is less personal than a semi anonymous message board like PCEFX.

Yeah, and it's something where people share the shit they buy everyday and post endless pictures of their fuckin gamerooms.

But nope, not very community driven.

[Off-Topic / Re: Idiot of the month March 2018]

"PCEWorks are ok for people that just wanna play the games"

that was the idea at first and people were going to distribute for free but then it somehow turned into money again.

and then all the other repro shit exploded.

[Off-Topic / Re: Idiot of the month March 2018]

FB groups have been quite disappointing in the last few years. Previously taboo subjects like PCEWorks, selling overpriced shit and extreme collecting are now acceptable. Still don't understand what started this shift

people threw their integrity out the window to make money off their FB friends.

[Off-Topic / Re: Idiot of the month March 2018]

The FB groups are shit.

It's a bunch of wannabes trying to form a community that basically just wants to make money off each other.

Real world equivalent would be a Flea Market where everyone is BFFs as they trade back and forth all goddamn day and do nothing else.

[Off-Topic / Re: Game Sack]

Going in, I knew very little wrt the MSX. I didn't know quite what I was expecting, but to be honest, for me, this was a little underwhelming.

Are you surprised?  It's made by someone who doesn't know enough about the MSX to make a 40 minute video, but made one anyways.

lol.

Didn't bother to watch, but I saw others griping about the lack of exclusive game coverage, and lack of other Konami  titles.

and I assume they dropped the ball on MicroCabin, T&E, and hardware stuff.

Par For The Course.

If you want to know about the MSX, you need to find out about it yourself, and from experienced people.

Most of the western computing world / media was indeed underwhelmed when the MSX1 was announced, and Yamaha were left playing catch-up with their chipsets for the decade to follow.

I think he was underwhelmed because of the video content quality, not the actual computer.

[Off-Topic / Re: Idiot of the month March 2018]

I just remove people that block me.  lol

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

fixed it

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

lol, it'll go great with those NOS Palcom MSXes people were jizzing about.

[Off-Topic / Re: Idiot of the month March 2018]

For all the anti-Facebook old farts, there is a new arkanoid port on hucard. You'll have to buy it though, no rom.

You dudes probably could shoot him a Facebook message though.

So, Jodi (the person who made that) really isn't offering it as a free download even though he ported it? (It being, someone else's code and artwork)

You can only buy it?

Fuck that. 

That's literally the problem with the PCE scene now.

Assholes treating everyone like a profit machine.  Your FB friends are not an ATM machine to feed you.

Dude didn't interact with the dev community at large AFAIK, didn't post it in the other PCE groups, and sure as fuck didn't post it here.

Nope, it's apparently just in his TurboReproductions overpriced HuCard circle jerk group.

HEY JODI

IF YOU READ THIS

MAKE THE ROM FREE, OR GO FUCK YOURSELF.



Nobody should buy that HuCard or support bullshit like that. 

That's what it is.   Bullshit.

The newer PCE people have fucked everything up.

They took the torch we were all carrying, pissed on it, threw it on the ground, and limp biscuited it.

Fucking.
Dumb.

EDIT: Zach's handle is Rockabilly Paradise

[Localizations, Games, Apps, Docs / Re: Cross Platform development?]

If you are going to do multiplatform music, consider MML, and try writing it for NES first, and then bringing to PCE where you get extra channels and can expand upon it.

MML is a portable(ish) music language.  You won't have to do TONS of work when going from platform to platform.

There exists PPMCK, and HuSIC, in addition to Squirrel for MML.   I am sure someone has to have written an MML player for NES that can be used in a game project.


I don't do NES dev but I would imagine they have libraries available.  What you might want to try doing is gathering both PCE and NES C libraries, and creating a layer above them that is toggled at compile time to pick which library call to make.    Or, the messier and probably required approach (because of video hardware differences and such), would be #def'd blocks to pick which code is used at compile time.

Microcabin released games on multiple machines, and it seems they wrote an intermediate language and had interpreters for various platforms, similar to what you're suggesting Koei did.   

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

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

WE CONTINUE ONWARD

THIS IS THE SHOUTBOX BOX

[Off-Topic / Re: Idiot of the month March 2018]

To quote Palmer

*Whump*

as a fucking truck hits his fat ass.

aw yiss

[Off-Topic / Re: Idiot of the month March 2018]

So, uh, how about we calm the fuck down.  We don't need to make MORE people say fuck this forum and leave for nowhere, or worse, Facebook.

To paraphrase Barret Wallace:

"Huh? Didn't expect to hear something like that outta you. Yer just full of surprises."

and to quote Tifa

"STOP ACTING LIKE A RETARD"

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

[Off-Topic / Re: Idiot of the month March 2018]

What's killing all forums is Facebook. Don't let that divide the real shit against itself.

This.

Also, DoxPhile as a content site is pretty great.

The forum was created (or saw actual activity) when PCEFX went down ironically because of shoutbox abuse or w/e IIRC.

The forum/chat is unnecessary. Splitting the small community more is pointless.

Paul's chat became the goto, but the forum there as well was basically dead. 

What sucks is the peanut gallery heckle-fest that DoxPhile has encouraged, and not even for the spamming qualities that Nightwolve is losing his shit over.

It sucks for the fact that it has contributed to actual members leaving, some of whom have been around longer than any of the DoxPhilers.

This shit here isn't helping either.

Desh is a legit dude.
Cabbage is a legit dude.

The DPers in general are fucking fine when they aren't glommed together acting like a bunch of hillbillies.

So, uh, how about we calm the fuck down.  We don't need to make MORE people say fuck this forum and leave for nowhere, or worse, Facebook.

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

#MSXISGAY ARKHANS AFAG LOLFUCK OFF DO YOU EVEN LIKE PC ENGINE WHY ARE YOU HERE
#HURHDURHDR

#wherehaveallthecowboysgone

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

I just assume everyone's taking the piss because that's what DildoPhile's peanut gallery has broadcast for like 2 years or so now, lol.

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

lol.... Gredler, who you asked for sprites (why didn't you ask me? I know you hate/don't play/buy our games, but c'mon, lolol), gave you Atlantean and Yuki ones too.   So, it's obvious you skimped out just to take the piss.   You're not fooling anyone lol.

;)

I haven't sent you any sprites, but I'm gonna piss and moan that you haven't put them up for me.  Waaahhhh!

Yeah, so apparently Gredler actually gave him one along with the others. ... sooooooo.....



#whatthefuckhappenedtopcefx

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

if it wasn't for complaining we'd have no shoutbox, and I wouldn't have gotten upgraded to a google pixel 2 from a shitty moto phone for free.

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

With the fact we have 3 catastrophys and 2 yukis and no Aetherbytery, I can only assume you're doing it on purpose.

shoutbox sucks take it down.

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

we need to get an Insanity robot or something too. 

[General Gaming / Re: I think I may have just ruined my authentic turbografx experience.]

I love the PSX controller and pad, but that's because I've been using it for 20 years and I am used to how it hurts my fucking thumb so I just don't feel it anymore.

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

needs more homebrew emojis

LIKE ONES FROM THE GAMES FROM THE GUY THAT BITCHED ABOUT SHOUTBOX AND GOT IT BACK FOR US

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

FUCK YOUGGUHGIGOIGHOH

[Off-Topic / Re: Draw a game with MS Paint quiz]

lol it looks like a football player with his arms out and it makes me laugh.

[General Gaming / Re: Xbox One]

YS ORIGIN IS THE FIRST IN THE SERIES, THIS IS THE BEST NEW RPG SERIES SINCE ZERLDA

[General Gaming / Re: Xbox One]

shut the fuck up with that terrorism.

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ugh now a bunch of boxtards are going to be like YS IS MY FAVORITE.

DHUDRHDRRUDHDRUDD