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

https://www.pcengine-fx.com/forums/index.php?topic=21152.15

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

Once you have the center post on the lower level its time to go for the extra ball. You want to max out the board and get into the alien mouth. From bottom to top I think there are 5 round lamps then a 7X then a 5000 then 9 eyes.

The center post you get by destroying the 2 sets of 3 aliens that pop up and down toward the top right and left. I can't remember 100% but you have to destroy nine or 3 sets or something.

[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.

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: Restarting Game of the Week (is there interest?)]

I thought these were a lot of fun. Helped to get discussion on individual games going too.

+1

What about 2 games a month? Perhaps a more common game or shooter and then a more random second game. People could play one or both.. not sure lol 

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: What Turbo game are you currently playing?]

Isn't Hard mode from Blazing Lazers the default normal in Gunhed?

Negative, they are the same.

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: What Turbo game are you currently playing?]

Interesting stuff, do you have any idea exactly how Gunheds rank system works? I haven't looked into it specifically but I think it just works off of your power up level. An easy setting for low power, a normal setting for in the middle and a hard setting for high power. The high power area seems to only kick in with certain maxed out weapon combos afaik. I've only really noticed it on the second level boss, most of the time he only shoots 1 triangle tracking-missile but with certain maxed out weapons like a II and F combo he will shoot two triangle missiles. I assume other stuff gets ramped up too, but not sure.

I wonder if it works like this..  non selectable Easy, Normal Dog(default), Hard Human, Super Mania, God of Game, non selectable Hardest and it just switches 1 up or 1 down depending on your power up level. If this is the case, it could mean we could hack in the two extra modes.  I could be entirely wrong..

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: What Turbo game are you currently playing?]

Yeah Blazing Lazers is a fun game to go for a one life clear. You can try this romhack if you have an everdrive, its basically a 1lc version of the game.    https://www.pcengine-fx.com/forums/index.php?topic=20918.0

Have you tried any of the higher difficulties yet? I usually play on Hard Mode (hard human) which seems more like Normal and how the game is suppose to be played, and Normal Dog seems like an easy mode..
After playing hard human most of the time, when you play normal dog its like playing in slow motion.

The game is pretty interesting in that it also has sub-difficulty levels (not sure what to call it) depending on your power up level while your playing. More noticeable on higher difficulties when you take a hit and all the sudden the enemy fire slows down. A neat mechanic though since it makes it easier to recover from losing a life or taking a hit compared to other shooters.

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: Turbo games you should like that you don't. My example (Forgotten Worlds)]

yeah I mean Sidearms isn't the greatest but its a decent game. I think a lot of people don't know you can switch weapons in the pause menu. Took me a while to figure that out bitd

[Localizations, Games, Apps, Docs / Re: PCE Pixel art tools?]

We use steps of 36 because it's "close enough". It would be closer to use 36.43 stepping, but I've never had a problem with the toolchain correctly converting colors in steps of 36 so I just stick with it. If you want to be dead-on, a closer list would be:

0 36 73 109 146 182 219 255

but these would be converted the same as doing steps of 36.

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[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: UpperGrafx/UperGrafx vs. Super SD System 3]

Upergrafx thread
https://www.pcengine-fx.com/forums/index.php?topic=20882.0

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: North American Releases that came with Inserts (Posters/Maps/Others)]

Shot both of you a pm with the zip 

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

Nice! 

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: North American Releases that came with Inserts (Posters/Maps/Others)]

I got RVs stuff backed up using RipMe
https://www.ostechnix.com/ripme-download-image-albums-bulk-popular-websites/
Also backed up the service manual pics he has.

[General Gaming / Re: Everdrive Black Friday sale (probably)]

Bump, looks like the 20% deal is on.

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

Well boys as you all are aware my lady has been holding her old top score for a few years now, happy to inform you all that tonight she absolutely crushed her last high score !! Soo Incredibly proud of my Lady Bird tonight !!!

Nice, how long did that baby take? ..that's crazy!

[Off-Topic / Re: That Tobias f--k went after Xak III and SO II as pressed CD-ROM releases!]

Thanks for the advise EmperorIng.  Yeah I may just not bother with a response on there.

[Off-Topic / Re: That Tobias f--k went after Xak III and SO II as pressed CD-ROM releases!]

Edit: Ignore

[Localizations, Games, Apps, Docs / Re: Graphic, Sound, & Coding Tips / Tricks / Effects / Etc. Tools for development]

Ok so Bonknuts posted about Nes Contra on the first page so I'll throw these in here, they seem interesting but are from the Genesis.

If you like these videos check out the coding secrets playlist here
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfVFSjHQ57zyxajhhRc7i0g/playlists

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: The story behind Keith Courage]

Hey I got an idea guys.. I like Kieth Courages art so much, let's make a pack in poster with KC and some other generic characters. Make sure we add Dick Tracy, Dinosaurs and the Devil! Kids love that stuff.. oh don't forget Baseball... have a player yelling sports for sports games. Bring the Kieth art down to two colors so he blends in. Add checkers and small screen shots from our games!!!

[Buy/Sell/Trade / Re: WTB: Turbo Express wrist strap]

Not sure if it would work but you could try a black wiimotes wrist strap?

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: How did Japanese developers create their artwork?]

Mainly sega stuff but still interesting. (This is part 2 of 3 videos)

[Off-Topic / Re: What are YOU watching on YouTube.com?]

Castlevania Retrospective
Short but Good quality videos. And Dracula X in part 2.

Links P1

P2

P3

[General Gaming / Re: Halloween Games]

Alone in the Dark (3DO)

Nice!

I'm gonna try and play these this month
Addams Family SNES (only thing Addams Family I ever liked)
Castlevania 4
Legendary Axe II
Castle of Illusion

[Buy/Sell/Trade / Re: Raffle: Mysterious Song]

Got it in the mail today 
Will be playing it next, once i get through the rest of Dragon Slayer

Thanks again to MNKyDeth 

[Buy/Sell/Trade / Re: Raffle: Mysterious Song]

Nice raffle, just bought a few tickets. 

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

[Buy/Sell/Trade / Re: Looking for a replacement PC Engine Duo Shell]

If you find a new shell, don't throw the old one out. I'd love to try a car paint job on it, if nobody else needs it.

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

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

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

It looks like she's still in first.  I haven't played this game in a while, maybe I'll take another shot at knocking her into second

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

uuhh yeah.. so back to the glitch. I think I figured out how it works you need to only have one skull left, no aliens
and make it in the left port. Also the chime that plays when the ship gets destroyed sounds  kinda like sound test 40 on Blazing Lazers, did Naxat use it in both games? ..it sounds slightly different. (have to turn up the sound to hear it in the clip). I'm trying to get a better vid here but it's not exactly the easiest bonus round.

[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?

[General Gaming / Re: RetroBlox : Another new Play-Everything "Retro" Console]

That tretro pi my friend brought over and the one they installed in a Arcade cab at work, both look like dog doo, like worse than RF on a LCD. They have to be setting it up wrong on the back end, because there were no front end available graphical settings. I just needed point sampling fod pixel scaling at a integer scale of 4:3.

I swear, half the games were 16:9 stretch, half 4:3, all were blurry as get out with graphical bugs and weird pixelated side bars, I was actually flabbergasted at how bad his was. The one at work is slightly better but I think it's because they just chose specific decently functional games.

It made me want a retro pi even more so I can make a package of config settings to give to my friend and whoever set up the work cabinet, because it's atrociously bad.

I am adding a fourth hope for this thing.

Crisp pixel perfect display settings for the person who is familiar with playing the games at 4:3 on a CRT out of the box.

Screw filters and smoothing and stretching, if they hide those in an optional menus then whatever, but just make the games (ROM or cart, ISO or disc) look good with little to no setup besides plugging the thing in.

I think the latest RetroPie builds default to crisp pixes but not 100% sure.
I had the same problem, its the resolution when in the emulator.
 go to... Retropie Setup_Confgig/Tools_Config Edit_CBasicEmuOpt_PCE_Render Res then set it to video output res
You have to do this in the other systems too afaik. After that there is also bilinear filtering you can turn off but the main problem is the resolution.
The RetroPies config menus are not very fun 

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: Controllers and D-Pads]

Here is the old thread as well, it has some pictures of the differences that Keith Courage is talking about.
https://www.pcengine-fx.com/forums/index.php?topic=19741.15

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

As far as I know, it's also the only PCE rom hack, unlike the SNES where mario world and super metroid hacks are a dime a dozen.

Gunhed 
https://www.pcengine-fx.com/forums/index.php?topic=20918.0

[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: Optimized "Friends List" for Air Zonk]

Here's my list from an old thread
1stage- tojo or dog(forget his name)
2stage- moo moo destroys everything fast..or dog is good
3stage- spike ree crab drop good for football bosses second form.
4stage- bubbleician
5stage- meh doesnt matter you only get a friend for short time

I feel like moo moo is the most powerful so I use him on 2 since he can destroy all that garbage.
who do you think is the best?

[Localizations, Games, Apps, Docs / Re: PC Engine Cheat Codes]

Make sure you have the proper roms, same name as the cheat, example
hexalter -i "Air Zonk (U) [h1].ips" 0x2B5B=0xA5 &:: Infinite Lives (20B2)
you need the rom Air Zonk (U) [h1].pce you need the (U) [h1] version
I think lunar ips will patch a rom successfully even if its the incorrect rom
otherwise you could try a different rom because some have a header and some don't
lastly you can manually apply the cheat in a hex editor but you still may need to account for weather or not the cheat was using a rom with a header.
If you want to let me know what game I can take a look.

edit: After a closer look, though your more likely to have a matching rom with the same version ([h1] in this case) its most likely just the header/no header issue.

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: Can Pcenginefx beat all of the licensed TurboGrafx-16 games in 2016? (95/135)]

Copy that, but rule 9 is a little iffy, Alien Crush has an ending/congratulations screen. Word on the streets is it takes around 40 hours to beat Alien Crush. So for rule 9 are we just going for beating the ingame highscore on pinball games?

[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: Obey!!!]

You know, you look like your head fell in the cheese dip back in 1957 

[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

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

I'd  love to get a set. Are their any left? If so could I get your PayPal info and final price. Thx

Hello Tegus93, I've got 4 left but you need 25 posts to be eligible. I can put one on hold for you for a few weeks if you like – shoot me a pm.

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

OMG!

I still have to frame the Ys cover art. What size is it? I have not opened the box you sent because I am STOOPID and because KIDS GET GREASE+CHOCOLATE  fingers on everything.

Kids cant resist deep fried chocolate 
Here we go, from the sales thread - Maps are approx 10 3/4 x 13 5/8 and cover poster is 15 5/8 x 10 3/4 inches

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

I did offer it to Canadians the first two years, so I did support Canadians 
I figured it would just be easier to exclude Canada at this point since the price is a bit high for shipping.
Shipping the box was about 9 bucks 2 years ago. Right now the pack is basically priced at 12.50+shipping. I don't mind shipping there but it would be 21.50, shoot me a pm if your still interested.

[Buy/Sell/Trade / Re: Free Game: Vigilante]

Count me in please.

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

Yearly Bump

Gonna drop the price to 16 bucks, now US only.
Lowered the post count to 25

Be sure and check out this thread for more pictures
https://www.pcengine-fx.com/forums/index.php?topic=17485.0

May throw some on evilbay at some point. (Takin up a bit of space)

Shoot me a pm