The PC-FX Holy Grail ...

elmer · 04/30/2015, 12:33 PM

With the very kind help of a friend ... the Holy Grail of the PC-FX world is finally in sight!

Now ... just praying that the seller didn't kill it with a jolt of static when he took it out of the box to take the photos.

Nazi NecroPhile · 04/30/2015, 01:04 PM

Nice! It's such a monster of a card.

16bitgium · 04/30/2015, 01:08 PM

I saw this same game in the superpotato in Akihabara.But didnt buy ot because it is incompatible with the regular pcfx.

elmer · 04/30/2015, 01:34 PM

Quote from: 16bitgium on 04/30/2015, 01:08 PMI saw this same game in the superpotato in Akihabara.But didnt buy ot because it is incompatible with the regular pcfx.

Well, I may have been very, very lucky that you thought that ... it might have been exactly the card that you saw that I'm getting! But I think that you may be wrong.

As far as I know, it will play any existing PC-FX game that's put in your PC's CD drive.

It may play a PC-FX image from its CD-emulation ... but only someone that has already got one would be able to say for sure.

I know that anything created with the GMAKER/GMAKER-PLUS development software was deliberately limited to not run on a real PC-FX ... but by using a recent GCC and liberis, and avoiding Hudson's old GMAKER libraries, I'm hoping that we shouldn't have that limitation any more.

Mednafen · 04/30/2015, 02:19 PM

Missing capitalization?

elmer · 04/30/2015, 02:59 PM

Quote from: Mednafen on 04/30/2015, 02:19 PMMissing capitalization?

??? Am I missing something ???

Mednafen · 04/30/2015, 03:26 PM

Probably, being cryptic is fun because it warps the other person's thoughts to match your own, but that's assuming they can figure out one's nonsense in the first place!

I was wondering if 16bitgium had encountered a loose copy of "Same Game FX", and not a full PC-FXGA.

Mednafen · 04/30/2015, 03:58 PM

In case you haven't seen this already: http://daifukkat.su/pcfx/download/fxload.html / http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA007898/pcfxga/download/fxload.html

elmer · 04/30/2015, 04:01 PM

Quote from: Mednafen on 04/30/2015, 03:26 PMProbably, being cryptic is fun because it warps the other person's thoughts to match your own, but that's assuming they can figure out one's nonsense in the first place!

I was wondering if 16bitgium had encountered a loose copy of "Same Game FX", and not a full PC-FXGA.

Hahaha ... Doh!

That's probably exactly what he meant. His broken English and my headache aren't a great combination.

16bitgium · 04/30/2015, 04:34 PM

Sorry guys, that is exactly what I meant!

elmer · 04/30/2015, 05:37 PM

Quote from: Mednafen on 04/30/2015, 03:58 PMIn case you haven't seen this already: http://daifukkat.su/pcfx/download/fxload.html / http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA007898/pcfxga/download/fxload.html

I saw it a few months ago on the original hp.vector.co.jp page when I was first researching programming for the PC-FX ... but I couldn't understand what it was for ... just that it only listed 4 real PC-FX games, and only 2 of them were fully working.

Is that the only/best solution for running PC-FX CD copies (rather than original discs) on the PC-FXGA?

I'm obviously going to have to read up on everything again in order to set up a working Win95 (or 98 if possible) system.

elmer · 05/10/2015, 11:24 PM

Wow!!!

Perhaps this should go in the "Turbo Gouging on Ebay ( r.i.p. - gouging much)" thread ... but I just got notification that this sold, and I can't believe it ...

http://www.ebay.com/itm/RARE-OFFICIAL-NEC-JAPAN-PC-FX-GA-DOS-V-ISA-BUS-GAMES-ON-IBM-PC-WORKING-AS-IS-/321049324004

Did someone really pay $456.78 for a PC-FX GA???

Arkhan Asylum · 06/03/2015, 01:41 PM

Quote from: elmer on 05/10/2015, 11:24 PMWow!!!

Perhaps this should go in the "Turbo Gouging on Ebay ( r.i.p. - gouging much)" thread ... but I just got notification that this sold, and I can't believe it ...

http://www.ebay.com/itm/RARE-OFFICIAL-NEC-JAPAN-PC-FX-GA-DOS-V-ISA-BUS-GAMES-ON-IBM-PC-WORKING-AS-IS-/321049324004

Did someone really pay $456.78 for a PC-FX GA???

Probably. People are absolutely retarded.

Good stuff though. Mine's a PC98 card, and I don't have the machine to hook it up to anymore, so I just pet it sometimes and leave it where it is.