Quote from: AFGRAFXSTAN on Yesterday at 10:13 PMDo you know if you would get CDDA out of the Express when using a TED Pro? Thanks.Just in mono. That's the audio limitation (loss of genuine stereo). Unless you were using headphones you were always getting a mono mix anyway from the single speaker in that case [portable].
Quote from: NightWolve on 04/11/2024, 05:21 PMThere were other far more interesting ideas for custom/hacked system ROM firmware, like @dshadoff's "PC Engine System Card Translation Font Extension" which implements easy 8x12 English/ASCII font support. But the problem is if you tie your localization patch to depend on this, you'll need users to own a Turbo Everdrive in order to play it. Still, it's a more interesting/useful idea than what elmer did.
https://github.com/dshadoff/SYSCARD_TranslatefontQuoteIn this modification, the goal was to implement an extension which would cause
the least amount of disruption to the calling function, and yet satisfy the
translator's other requirements:
- use of ASCII for 1-byte character text
- font is included in the system card, not the game
- as little as possible adjustment to the print function
3) Set $FF in ZP to one of:
0 = 16x16 font (SJIS only)
1 = 12x12 font (SJIS only)
2 = 8x16 font (ASCII only) (**NEW**)
3 = 8x12 font (ASCII only) (**NEW**)
Many more PCECD RPG games could be localized without someone as talented as Supper[tails] or EsperKnight, but yeah, there's a catch: if you want to play it on real NEC hardware you'd need a Turbo Everdrive booted with this system firmware. I'm not a fan of creating more hardware dependencies, but I am a fan of seeing more localization projects so if that helps someone, I guess so be it.
There's actually ONE example that made use of it for the Magic and Magic localization, so you can already test it out:
Quote from: Tak-MK on 04/10/2024, 07:05 PMAnyway, I guess the alternative OS you want is TEOS (maybe Krikzz already patched his, but no idea):Yeah, Tak-MK provided the link you're looking for. I don't really know how useful that is nor why you're that "excited" for it seeing as you say you don't even own a Turbo Everdrive yet, but there you go...
https://github.com/jbrandwood/teosQuoteIt avoids the potentially damaging memory bus-fighting that occurs with Krikzz's OS when running the PC Engine (or TurboGrafx) Super System Card HuCARD on the Turbo Everdrive.
In this modification, the goal was to implement an extension which would cause
the least amount of disruption to the calling function, and yet satisfy the
translator's other requirements:
- use of ASCII for 1-byte character text
- font is included in the system card, not the game
- as little as possible adjustment to the print function
3) Set $FF in ZP to one of:
0 = 16x16 font (SJIS only)
1 = 12x12 font (SJIS only)
2 = 8x16 font (ASCII only) (**NEW**)
3 = 8x12 font (ASCII only) (**NEW**)