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[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: Games that were first on the PC Engine and ported to SNES/SFC or genesis]

ah, good one!

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: Re: Le TurboDoodle: Xmas]

I've gotta say, I do find the cursor super distracting!

[Localizations, Games, Apps, Docs / Re: Bubble Bobble]

definitely looking good!

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: Merry Xmas! Giving away a Rondo of Blood Blu-ray (No Strings Attached!)]

I'll get in the raffle!

[PC/Console/Mobile Ports / Re: Gunhouse PS Vita / PS4]

wahoooo, cool to see it out in the wild! enjoy the PCE reference in the back of the manual :3

[Buy/Sell/Trade / Re: FO: PC Engine Duo RX]

definitely nice looking!

[Buy/Sell/Trade / Re: [Sell ir trade] Bikini Girls, Hawiian Island Girls and Local Girls of Hawaii]

oh yeah, I'm not trying to say you shouldn't sell them for the going rates, I'm just amazed at how the prices have shot up!

[Buy/Sell/Trade / Re: [Sell ir trade] Bikini Girls, Hawiian Island Girls and Local Girls of Hawaii]

it's crazy how expensive these have gotten. I used to have the two hawaii ones in the late 90s and I was like... what's the point? and traded them for peanuts

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: Biggest find ever]

you've got a 30 minute video there fella - maybe just tell us what you found?

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: Games that were first on the PC Engine and ported to SNES/SFC or genesis]

whoa, good call, I can't believe I forgot that one.

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: Games that were first on the PC Engine and ported to SNES/SFC or genesis]

yeah, I guess that's also a straight remake with the same maps and arranged music, so it probably counts.

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: Games that were first on the PC Engine and ported to SNES/SFC or genesis]

startling odyssey is *such* a remake that I might have to take it off the list, even the story and systems are the same though...

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

nice game gear find evilevo - jealous of that!

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: Games that were first on the PC Engine and ported to SNES/SFC or genesis]

yeah, those are good... though I don't think bonk 3 totally counts(!?) it's certainly debatable! I'll keep it out for now.
I was on the fence about GB Nectaris but I guess it uses the same maps, so that counts.
Gonna have to look into/compare contrast PCE fire pro and super fire pro!

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Games that were first on the PC Engine and ported to SNES/SFC or genesis]

I don't think this specific thing has been done before - I'm interested in looking at games that began their lives on the PCE and then got ports to other consoles. Most specifically I'm interested in games that were essentially "remixed" for another platform, ala rondo of blood vs dracula x, or valis iv vs super valis iv. But I'd like to talk about all of them I guess, so I can sift through? And this would be games that didn't start on other systems or arcades first, so the SNK games don't count, etc.

I'll start:
PCE: Rondo of Blood
SNES: Dracula X

PCE: Valis IV
SNES: Super Valis IV

PCE: Valis III
GEN: Valis III

PCE: Exile
GEN: Exile
(I'm counting this since it's a total remake/retelling of XZR II and doesn't have a pre-console equivalent)

PCE: Devil's Crush/Crash
GEN: Devil's Crush/Crash

PCE: Dungeon Explorer II
SNES: Crystal Beans

PCE: Lords of Thunder
SCD: Lords of Thunder

PCE: Startling Odyssey
PSX: Startling Odyssey I: Blue Evolution

(adding everyone else's)

PCE: Bonk's Adventure
NES: Bonk's adventure

PCE: Nectaris
GB: GB Nectaris
PSX: GB Nectaris

PCE: Bomberman '94
GEN: Mega Bomberman

PCE: Tokimeki Memorial
PS1/SAT/SFC: Tokimeki Memorial

PCE: Cosmic Fantasy: Bōken Shōnen Yū (1990)
Cosmic Fantasy 2 (1991)
Sega CD: Cosmic Fantasy Stories (1992, Sega CD)

any others you can think of?
It'd be fun to do this for all consoles forever, but that seems impossible

[Buy/Sell/Trade / Re: WTB Cotton Fantastic Night Dreams]

If anyone wants to sell me the PCE version I'll totally buy it

[Buy/Sell/Trade / Re: Re: PC Engine Magazines w/ Drac X guides, Sapphire booties]

those pc engine magazines sure do look neat! I'd probably read them, but also... I shouldn't have more stuff.

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: New Computer Express (UK) PC Engine 2 - Hudson, Namco 16 news (plus SuperGrafx)]

I wonder if that "namco 16" thing was them misunderstanding that Namco was making its System 16 arcade hardware??

[Localizations, Games, Apps, Docs / Re: Some basic music questions]

Thanks Chris!! That should pretty well cover it all!

[Localizations, Games, Apps, Docs / Some basic music questions]

Hey folks. I've got a friend who's interested in:
1) ripping music from PCE roms
2) isolating specific channels

Basically he wants to sample specific parts of specific music tracks for remixes and suchlike.
What are the tools people use for this stuff these days?

Sorry for the basic question!

[Localizations, Games, Apps, Docs / Re: Dead of the Brain I & II]

Total aside, but I recently got a game called Marine Philt (weird name) for the FM Towns. Where Dead of the Brain is Nightmare Collection I, Marine Philt is Nightmare Collection II - so I guess it's like a... not a sequel, but a spiritual successor? That's fun!

You can see some stuff about it here:
https://www.mobygames.com/game/nightmare-collection-ii-marine-philt

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: Screen artifact on Legend of Hero Tonma, normal?]

weird! at least it doesn't affect the game, but it'd be annoying to look at.

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: Screen artifact on Legend of Hero Tonma, normal?]

I'm no expert, but all vintage games/consoles have some sort of overscan to deal with variable tv sizes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overscan
what you're seeing is 95% likely to be something that is supposed to be cut off by a regular CRT border. As you can see from jperryss' photo, you're getting the same amount of active game pixels on screen, and the white line is extra data that goes beyond where the actual game display ends. this overscan stuff can vary by game depending on how they coded them.

So you're just paying the price of a white line for using an output method the console wasn't designed for!

[Buy/Sell/Trade / WTB Camp California manual]

Hey folks - this is a long shot, but I've had the disc and case for Camp California since like... 1994. but I never had the manual, and never bothered to get it! Now I feel dumb.
Anyone got a spare one floating around that I could buy for a reasonable price!? Let me know!!

 

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: Lost Sunheart and Zombie Nation connection]

I do like the lost sunheart!!! but I'd never heard of zombie nation. I'll give it a look, then. This floating head thing is odd!

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: It's been a long time... recent finds and collection update turbo duo & more]

that PSX trade is pretty nuts! did they just... really really want vanark!?

[General Gaming / Re: Sega CD advice ( model 1 vs cdx)]

I don't have a particular recommendation, but I use a CDX because of the size. I have no issues using my 32x with it, either.

[Buy/Sell/Trade / Re: WTB: Formation Armed F]

I sure thought I got a complete copy and thus had a spare loose one, but I can't find that complete one for the life of me, so maybe I never had it!!

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

Skrat if you like to grind for score, you probably want to go for the shooters with caravan modes. Here's a handy list of those: http://www.pc-engine.co.uk/?section=caravan

Unfortunately they're all expensive

As others have noted, most of the shooters on the PCE are good... I'm more into the ones on the CD, but you can't go wrong with the Soldier series, I also quite like aero fighters though it's rarely topping anyone's list, override, armed F, all quite good. I think the real issue everyone's having here is that this is a system known for its shooters, and because of that competition was quite fierce among developers to try to outdo each other. The dev environment also lent itself to shooters quite well. So it'd actually be easier to make a list of the shooters that aren't that good, versus a list of the best of them, because the "best" list is just all the ones that aren't the worst!

[General Gaming / Re: Limited Run Games]

Not through Limited Run, but we're definitely keeping options on the table there... we're gonna try to eventually do a physical switch version, but there's nothing set in stone yet. Our first option was a "X-in-1" indie game collection we'd be a part of, but that's a little less exciting to the collector. Our 2nd option is a new company looking to package physical switch games with vinyl soundtracks. I'm still into that idea, but I think they're waiting to see how our LRG sale pans out. I talked to LRG about Switch too, but they're also waiting to see how this PS4/Vita sale works.

So now you've got all the info I have

[Buy/Sell/Trade / Re: WTB PCE Works Pressed Discs]

download them and print out your own labels :3

[General Gaming / Re: Limited Run Games]

thanks!! I hope people enjoy all the extras we put in there...

[General Gaming / Re: Limited Run Games]

Basically I started writing stories for games in 2005, then quit my job and started a small company in 2012. that's pretty much it!

[General Gaming / Re: Limited Run Games]

wahoooo

[General Gaming / Re: Limited Run Games]

So before everyone comes in here to say how terrible the new Limited Run release is... it's mine!!! Ha ha. Now you may say it's terrible.

We're releasing Gunhouse through Limited Run with:
- two covers (one for each sku), each of which is reversible and references a different odd thing.
- 20 page manual. each features a different cover as well as different comics and illustrations inside.
- a 2" (I think) pin
- 8 trading cards
- a cassette ost from composer disasterpeace

I don't know if they're going to do a bundle for all the stuff, but it was pretty interesting putting it all together!!

[edit]: see the covers here!

[Buy/Sell/Trade / Re: FS: Dracula X & Shiawase Usagi 2]

it's fun how we're all talking about how good this deal is and how nice the game is, and now shiawase usagi 2 is in the mix as well

[Buy/Sell/Trade / Re: FS: Dracula X $150 shipped]

I hope whoever jumps on this really enjoys it!

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: Your favourite games no one talks about.]

I keep forgetting to get that game!! I'll pick it up this week maybe

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: Sapphire DEBUG mode & hidden things]

that's neat! I guess it's inaccessible through normal use?

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: Your favourite games no one talks about.]

Valid point on Nexzr, I suppose it might just be the "hardcore" who are aware and not so much the casuals.

are there any casuals in this particular hobby? how could there be, at this point? anyone new to the scene is coming in from youtube videos on the "10 rarest games" or whatever, and nexzr is gonna be mentioned in many of those!

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: First time in probably twenty years: a find in the wild!]

it's always great to find something like that!
hopefully the cord is fixable... I guess you'd have too replace it.

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: PC Engine featured in the Hi-Score Girl anime!]

nice! I'll watch this.

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: Your favourite games no one talks about.]

Yeah, blood gear isn't that bad - there are a couple points where you could get a bit stuck I thiiiiink, but hey, gamefaqs has a faq, so you're in the clear!

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: Your favourite games no one talks about.]

Blood Gear - RPG overworlds, nice mech design, side-scrolling action stages, nice cutscenes, extremely affordable, and a Hudson original. No idea why it's not up there with the top games people talk about for the PC Engine.

[Localizations, Games, Apps, Docs / Re: TurboFont]

woooo! do you know what the usage rights will be?

[Buy/Sell/Trade / Re: PCE Dev kits on yahoo auctions]

they sure look neat!

[Buy/Sell/Trade / Re: Turbo Express/PC-Engine GT Glass Screen with Logo Available Soon!!!]

got it! looks interesting indeed.

[Buy/Sell/Trade / Re: Turbo Express/PC-Engine GT Glass Screen with Logo Available Soon!!!]

are these for LCD screen mods or just to replace crappy screens in general?

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Another fun music similarity]

This one's almost certainly coincidence, but, the intro refrain for Ys:

has a lot in common with this dan siegel song

well... there you go

[Buy/Sell/Trade / Re: PCE Dev kits on yahoo auctions]

I thought they used HDs for the CDrom emulation stuff?? this thing is so compact, it looks pretty great!