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[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: May 2018 Game of the Month]

Played five games tonight and got an ok score.



Will have to play some more soon.

[High Score Records / Re: "Nantettatte Engine" High Scores]

193,375

Was trying to break 2 but then feka took over..will have to try again soon.

[High Score Records / Re: "Gunhed" High Scores]

Cleared Gunhed FX1 hack ..soo basically a 1 life clear.
Normal difficulty


I would have cleared it sooner but just got an everdrive this week.

Heres the patch encase you want to try. The changes are listed in the first post there.
https://www.pcengine-fx.com/forums/index.php?topic=20918.msg455888#msg455888

[High Score Records / Re: "Time Cruise" High Scores]

Not enough scores in here

24,197,100

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: [Obey - Brew] pairings and other silly things]

[High Score Records / Re: "Devil's Crush" High Scores]

Put about 4 hours into it tonight, still stuck in second though.. 

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Alien Crush secret glitch?]

I was playing some AC tonight and when I was in the bonus room with the sculls I noticed the ports that eject the ball were glitching a bit so I got the camera and this showed up.. it looks like the Gunhed ship with dark colors. I think it appears in the top hole but I was messing with the camera and didn't catch it very good. Any one else have this happen?
Here is the movie download sorry I don't have a youtube account (right click save link as if it doesn't play in your browser - It plays in firefox here)
http://www.ektophase.com/TG16/ACShip.MOV

Here is a snap from the video


I noticed I got an extra ball when I killed it.
Lucky I had the ipad next to me to catch the glitch, I thought my game was about to self destruct.  It played fine afterwards so not sure. I'm gonna try to get it to happen again here...

[Localizations, Games, Apps, Docs / Re: Correct PCE color values?]

I've updated Paul's palette sheet Gredler posted.

https://www.ektophase.com/TG16/PCEPalette_v2.png
Dark Version https://www.ektophase.com/TG16/PCEPaletteD_v2.png

So whats changed?
The image now only contains 512 colors, no anti aliasing text or absolute whites
Fixed one of the swatches that was incorrect I think it was 180 72 216 in the second row
Got rid of the duplicate color clusters
Rearranged and made the image smaller
Made a dark version

Also I made a swatch file for Photoshop

https://www.ektophase.com/TG16/PCEPalette_PsSwatches.zip
Go to your Photoshop folder then /Presets/Color Swatches. paste the .aco file

Let me know if there are any problems.

I noticed Ps can be a bit picky when you manually use the color slider, fill something than sample it again. it will alter the color numbers slightly( example 72 36 0) will change to 73 37 or something. I think this only happens in the default 8bit (rgb) mode and appears to not happen if you switch to 16bit or over to indexed. Anyone else have this problem?

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: TG16 PCE Wallpapers]

A retro-ish looking tg wallpaper I whipped up recently.

1920x1080

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: Can Pcenginefx beat all of the licensed TurboGrafx-16 games in 2016? (94/135)]

Time Cruise (emulated)

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: Can Pcenginefx beat all of the licensed TurboGrafx-16 games in 2016? (92/135)]

Number 93 Ghost Manor
Good thing I had the cam nearby and started snapping, the game doesn't pause in the ending at all and just goes back to the title screen.

After 25 years of this games music giving me nightmares..I can take it out back and destroy it .../put it back on the shelf

[Localizations, Games, Apps, Docs / Re: Xanadu II Translation Development Blog]

Now...if someone wants to make a 192x64 mock-up of "Xanadu - Legend of the Wind", that would be completely reasonable, too.

Here's a quick mock up using the same style in the second game.

[Localizations, Games, Apps, Docs / Re: Xanadu II Translation Development Blog]

Ok here is a version where the letters are cloned with a few slight tweaks

Then here it is with a pixel taller "The Legend of"

[Localizations, Games, Apps, Docs / Re: Xanadu II Translation Development Blog]

Here's my latest from yesterday.


Maybe I'll try a version where the letters are similar and more font like.
Will take a closer look at SamIAms mod and other input.

[Localizations, Games, Apps, Docs / Re: Xanadu II Translation Development Blog]

Interesting stuff, lucked out on the size.

yeah, I noticed a few goofy spots like the lower left end on the X could be better will try and touch it up some more.

I see you added the lower drop shadow like you mentioned on the options and falcom, looks good and goes with the light rays. 

Edit
This should look better

[Localizations, Games, Apps, Docs / Re: Xanadu II Translation Development Blog]

Hmm well it can easily go back in.

Ok here is a comparison for the outline.
1 is full outline
2 is thin outline
3 is a hybrid were we put one on top of the other and change the "full" to a darker shade. softens it up a bit
here is a DL with the original size and 2x. ektophase.com/TG16/XanCompare.zip





sorry for taking up a whole page lol

[Localizations, Games, Apps, Docs / Re: Xanadu II Translation Development Blog]

Quick mod darkened it up, added the J text from the ending graphic, raised it a little.

[Localizations, Games, Apps, Docs / Re: Xanadu II Translation Development Blog]

Some interesting views and opinions that are based on the game. My opinion having not actually played the game (yet) is more basic; that the cursive doesn't stand out too much to me, and compared to other rpgs doesn't bother me. When I briefly googled some rpg title screens (mainly SNES) about half seemed basic font like and the other half ranging from medium to heavily stylized. Also like I mentioned the cursive just seems rpg like imo for some reason.
Still like I said I can understand some of SamIAms views. But will let you guys discuss it since it seems more based on having played the game.

Good news on the 64 height  whipped up what I was thinking quickly in the past couple hours here. first one is kinda what I think of after reading SamIAms opinions though I could be way off.
made it kind of low contrast, glassy, basic/simple



Then did one with the cursive Xanadu higher contrast more like the J Title screen, side note I was able to make it fairly quickly since I originally traced the art with vector paths so just had to scale it up luckily.

[Localizations, Games, Apps, Docs / Re: Xanadu II Translation Development Blog]

I see what SamIAm is saying, and thats why I like his version as well. It has a simplicity to it.
Definitely something to keep in mind.

In a way I like BTs smaller logo better than the bigger one, maybe the big one is too big?, so is something in between possibly the answer like 48height? Not to make you guys do more work just theoretically

When SamIAms mention anti aliasing a few post back I was going to post that I was thinking the same thing that elmer was talking about later, the AA may deviate too far from the pixel shading look even though it has its benefits. About the extra colors on my last pic even though i added 4 colors, I didn't use some of the original colors so perhaps just picking some nicer shades is the key. Anyways went back to a pixel shading look.

I think this may be my final entry for 32 height as I'm pretty happy with it, though Im always down for changing stuff based on others input. The 2 was really bothering me and after I saw BTs version I thought I'd go back and take a look at the artwork again

see that little 2 thats the new plan 

Also reading what SamIAms was saying on his gradient and lighting he made a good observation, and his is looking super nice ..so I borrowed his Idea there O:). My outline is heavier than BTs so I defo need to have a nice color gradient. also added a drop shadow back in (the first one I posted had one) but also because SamIAms looks nice :- it can always be knocked out if its too much. Well, Im having fun and learning some techniques so don't quote me on this being my final entry. 


Edit: updated had a few odd pixels and had to lose the shadow because it was looking 3d

[Localizations, Games, Apps, Docs / Re: Xanadu II Translation Development Blog]

Another interesting concept, nice job on the font 

Well, I added 4 new colors to my concept and did some blending/anti aliasing with them was able to squeeze a little more detail out over my last pic also remade the 2 since the last one was a little jaggy.

[Localizations, Games, Apps, Docs / Re: Xanadu II Translation Development Blog]

Looks like all of them are improving 

I'm late, was just changing them to the palette  and trying the purple out.

[Localizations, Games, Apps, Docs / Re: Xanadu II Translation Development Blog]

That does look good, a few of the letters are a little sharp like the E. I'm curious how that would look not italic?


Updated the letter spacing, smaller II, also tightened the word spacing a little to get it to fit within the background tablet.
Are we just using the colors on the title screen or is there a palette? I think I used some colors from the original concept, and perhaps the outline is a little bright right now.

 
Side by side isn't too close, and it is turbo related heh. I also like that its clean and the tall text kinda gives it a chisel
look to go with the background tablet/stone. On the other hand you are right that it doesn't have any connection.

Well, all of them are interesting   

[Localizations, Games, Apps, Docs / Re: Xanadu II Translation Development Blog]

No problem, yeah its always cool to see different concepts.

Here is a certain font we all know(hint look at my avatar) but it actually looks kinda rpg like, kind of like final fantasy slim letters

[Localizations, Games, Apps, Docs / Re: Xanadu II Translation Development Blog]

ektophase.com/TG16/Xan2.png  -old
Here's a cleaner version no outer anti-aliasing, bigger word spacing, slight inner shadow. The II would have to be remade to match. Would take more work to add a bigger gap to the letters. I could work on it if you guys liked were it is going. but not sure if its gonna get too much better, its kind of an extreme cursive to do in the limited resolution.

Edit: cleaned slightly more and added a basic 2

[Localizations, Games, Apps, Docs / Re: Xanadu II Translation Development Blog]

I gave it a shot, tried to make it like the cover art.
Not sure how it would look on a tv could be too aliased?

[Localizations, Games, Apps, Docs / Re: Gunhed FX1 (romhack)]

Thanks for the info, I used tilemolester and tried to edit the xml, but couldn't figure out how to add interleaved in there. You wouldn't happen to still have your xml file for tm? There is an interleaved button in the editor menu but I'm guessing your mixing it with the 1bitplaner. I did make a new composite that uses three 1bitplanners (with plane order 0) and was able to get stuff to show up pretty good. This and using 2bit composite and 1bit planer I was able to mess around with editing stuff but its pretty hard to get the right colors you want with the different layers and all. So I'm not sure if I want to spend too much time editing many objects unless I could do it easier. I did find the ship and bomb icon and replace them with something smaller like I originally wanted to. but then I had to deactivate the gold ship in the hex because I couldn't find the gold ship tiles. But with zero lives I should have done that anyways. (Getting the power up will still pull a screen-clear of enemies).

Here's a before and after of the hud


I'll wait and see if there's any feedback on the original patch before I upload the new version encase I need to add any changes.

[Localizations, Games, Apps, Docs / Gunhed FX1 (romhack)]

Gunhed FX1 rom hack is a modified version of Gunhed/Blazing Lazers
It is modified to make the game more challenging and give people who played it many times something a little different.


Download GunhedFX1Patchv101.zip

The patch is easy to apply you just need the rom.
Instructions in the readme.

Don't expect a different game though this is my first rom hack. I just altered some things to give myself something different to play once in a while instead of the original.

Changes are:
Only have 1 ship/life
Disabled 1 ups
No continues
Ship and weapon colors changed
Slight modifications to hud
Some sound fx have been changed or muted if annoying(blue comets)
Power up behavior altered (no sway)
Only need to put the difficulty code in once for all difficulty settings to be available
Speed starts at level 3 instead of 2
Disabled sound test screen do to level select cheats
a few other small things possibly

Let me know if you find any bugs or problems, and let me know if it works fine on an everdrive (I haven't got around to getting one yet) I tested this in the three emulators and didn't find any problems yet.

If you don't need more of a challenge it may be fun to play through a few times and see how far you can get.

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: Can Pcenginefx beat all of the licensed TurboGrafx-16 games in 2016? (63/134)]

Knocked off an easy one, Sonic 3 and Knuckles.

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: Can Pcenginefx beat all of the licensed TurboGrafx-16 games in 2016? (33/134)]

Took down Ys this weekend 

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: Can Pcenginefx beat all of the licensed TurboGrafx-16 games in 2016? (31/134)]

Passed Blazing Lazers last night. I haven't played in a while but I managed to beat it without losing a life, This is the second time I've done that. default difficulty (34 divided by 2 plus 5.. 22 lives add 50 for the winning bonus)



(the end)

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: (12/12/2015 - 12/18/2015) Game of the Week: Sidearms]

I played about ten times last week and only made it to a moving downward technical cave. kinda wish this game had some text stating what level you are on. but that is one of the cool things about it is that it just turns into the next area.

I did confirm that the space suit icon is a 1 up its located in the blue downward cave after you go through the metal gates and its on the left side when you kill this dude on a cliff.

as for the dragon flies, these are weird I think they are for points but I'm not sure. I think you have to shoot them and then collect them. I cant figure out what spawns them but it may be shooting an invisible trigger. the first location you can get them is on the second level before the strawberry on the other side of this floating cave.

I managed to grab the ss but i didn't shoot these first so I failed to collect them. Its a mystery still I guess

Any one manage to pass this game last week?

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: Greetings and Salutations (Now with more scans)]

Nice scans!
This caught my eye lol WTF kind of advice is this?



The anime girl page is really cool, Something about the screen shots kinda bother me
maybe they should have just had Macross screen shots on the front there or some text with game titles or something
Its like what game is the babe in TTI? lol just nitpicking 

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: Turbopad Variants?]

Confirming what KC said a few post back
I checked the weird feeling pad and sure enough I picked it out of 5 others and looked inside
It looks like it was the HES model (large screw)(older one) that has the split dpad - pic



non HES


The HES pad has the odd d pad feel especially when pressing diagonal it feels wonky

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: Looking for the name of a TG16 / PC-E Game]

ok no effin way I think I got it lol and a it was released on super cd lol


Martial champion
http://www.arcade-museum.com/game_detail.php?game_id=8630
this was the cheesy arcade cab.. pure awesome




Meh guess this was a white dude (I wonder if there are alternative colors or something  )


Finally I can get some sleep at night

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: Best US huey (final round)]

[High Score Records / Re: "Gunhed" High Scores]

13,446,040 Super Mania aka  .. Very Hard mode (1cc)
(no boss trick or eyeball grinding, ultimate challenge rules basically but I don't have a cam set up atm)


And to prove its very hard mode we have the Super Mania ending music (contains some of the ending)

Its just the beginning music this time but its actually interesting because you never get to hear the whole thing at the title screen

up next gotta work on god of game mode. will try and get a full video this time...

[High Score Records / Re: "Gunhed" High Scores]

Kicked off Black Friday with some midnight Blazing Lazers
Could have probably done better on caffeine instead of turkey and beers

13,342,500 Hard Human aka Hard mode (1cc)
(no boss trick or eyeball grinding, ultimate challenge rules basically but I don't have a cam set up atm)


And to prove its hard mode we have the alternative ending music (contains some of the ending)

[Buy/Sell/Trade / FS: Ys Map Pack]

--Ys Map Pack Sales Thread--

The 4 items in the pack are:
- Ys Map -Clean version
- Ys Map -Worn version
- Ys Cover Art Print
- Ys Manual Jacket (new cover art on front and mini map on back)


(magnets not included)


--->See main thread for more pictures and info https://www.pcengine-fx.com/forums/index.php?topic=17485.0
(Maps are approx 10 3/4 x 13 5/8 and cover poster is 15 5/8 x 10 3/4 inches) (Note: not to be folded, these prints are not meant to be folded)

Ok finally got some of these boxed up and ready to go. Going to start out with 25 of them and will add more later (total will probably be under 40 30).


Price is going to be $20.00 (shipping included / free shipping) through paypal PM me and we will swap info.
(US and Canada)
Price is going to be $16.00 (shipping included / free shipping) through paypal PM me and we will swap info.
(US Only)

200+ post count please.
100+ post count please.
25+ post count please.

P = Payment Received
S = Box Shipped

01-  (raffle)
02- galam - P - S9/26
03- jtucci31 - P - S9/24
04- Jibbajaba - P - S9/29
05- Sadler - P - S9/24
06- elderbroom - P - S9/24
07- schweaty - P - S9/26
08- CrackTiger - P - S9/29
09- Ayce - P - S9/29
10- tggodfrey - P - S10/2
11- pceslayer - P - S12/2
12- roflmao - P - S12/5
13- hizaygizirlz - P - S7/25
14- esteban - P - S7/25
15- IvanBeavkov - P - S7/25
16- 780racer - P - S7/25
17- Johnpv - P - S7/25
18- Landis1255 - P - S7/25
19-  - P - S7/28
20- blueraven - P - S8/24
21- SavagePencil - P - S8/24
22- Marto_Jo-ing - P - S8/29

[Buy/Sell/Trade / Raffle: Ys Map Pack - WINNER IS...]

Here is the raffle for a Ys map pack 
The 4 items in the pack are:
- Ys Map -Clean version
- Ys Map -Worn version
- Ys Cover Art Print
- Ys Manual Jacket (new cover art on front and mini map on back)

For members with 150 + post count.
(US and Canada)


(magnets not included)


--->See main thread for more info and pictures https://www.pcengine-fx.com/forums/index.php?topic=17485.0

01- Black Tiger
02- jtucci31
03- syphic
04- BigusSchmuck
05- galam
06- HailingTheThings
07- EvilEvolX
08- seieienbu
09- schweaty
10- spenoza
11- wolfman
12- c0ldb33r
13- Sparky
14- toymachine78
15- Dicer
16- elderbroom
17- NightWolve
18- Nulltard
19- Bklyn4ever
20- reno5
21- Lost Monkey
22- xcrement5x
23- esteban
24- Tr0n
25- jelloslug
26- Ayce
27- Medic_wheat
28- o.pwuaioc
29- roflmao

The Winner is: spenoza

[High Score Records / Re: "Blazing Lazers" Ultimate Challenge]

Made a decent run last night, just wanted to post a shot to get things started



I have the video but its too big a file from the cam so will have to shrink it when I get time.
Will probably wait and see if I can do better since I made plenty of mistakes in the last half of the game.

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: Let's Talk About the Awesomeness Bloody Wolf]

This game reminds me of that SNK game POW on NES, which is probably why I remember liking it.

+1 on pow nes, got to get this game at someday ..go!



Whats with the general he looks like a high.. zombie.. psycho maniac.
Don't worry though according to his battle plan, he is planning to leave the planet soon.

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Ys Map Prints]

Here is an update on the Ys maps I was working on a few months back.
(They were discussed a bit in two other threads but wanted to start a main thread.)
Decided to finish my 8dp tg cover stuff first and that took a little longer than I thought but I got it wrapped up and worked on this recently.

Everything is printed now just have to test some cutting methods and cut them out. I made 50 of them.
I mentioned in the other thread I was working on 2 other Ys items.. check the pictures.



Here is a larger version ektophase.com/TG16/YsMP_01Large.jpg



Size compared to the original (The original is 8.5 x 11)





The 4 items that will be in the Ys pack are
- Ys Map -Clean version
- Ys Map -Worn version
- Ys Cover Art Print
- Ys Manual Jacket (new cover art on front and mini map on back) (white/nothing on inside)

These will be rolled into a box
They are all printed on pretty thick paper/cardstock  similar to a gift card or magazine cover.

Raffle thread https://www.pcengine-fx.com/forums/index.php?topic=17520.0

Sales Thread
https://www.pcengine-fx.com/forums/index.php?topic=17741.0

[High Score Records / Re: "Blazing Lazers" Champion Edition]

maybe I will go with champion edition ...very original



Now at least we have a cool logo

[High Score Records / Re: "Legendary Axe II" High Scores]

Figured I would start this thread since this is a good game for scores.



This is my first time beating this game back during game of the week in June.
Can't remember if I lost 2 lives or 1 during the play through.
Anyways if you can beat this game you can probably beat this score.

[High Score Records / "Legendary Axe II" High Scores]

---821,400 - lukester
---739,150 - Phase
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[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: Poly Case Cover Pack Released]

Yeah I would only make JP art in addition to the US Art. US art comes first.
Here is a picture of Sidearms that I mentioned.

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Poly Case Cover Pack Released]

Hey guys, I just released the first version of the TurboGrafx 16 Cover Pack for 8 disc poly cases over on the cover project.
http://www.thecoverproject.net/forums/index.php?topic=5101.0

I've talk about these before a bit, but now there are a nice chunk of them complete and ready to use.



It's a torrent so feel free to download and check em out.

[Buy/Sell/Trade / Re: WTB: Ys I MAP]

Small update,(don't get excited) got these today for this

Some boxes for mailing the prints rolled up. still have to take a closer look at em i suppose.

Trying to wrap up the my 8dp cover pack still, posted a small update over there
http://www.thecoverproject.net/forums/index.php?topic=5101.msg146553#new

[High Score Records / Re: "Devil's Crush" High Scores]

Played a few games today, getting warmer..



(just another pic regular angle)
http://www.ektophase.com/TG16/DCHighScorePhase02b.jpg

[High Score Records / Re: Air Zonk/PC Denjin High Scores!]

From AirZonk GOTW (March) 1cc spice world



(I'll go with my lower score since my higher score I let the game run by itself)