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Chit-Chat / Re: teh "what did you buy today"-thread

« Last post by Necromancer on September 24, 2024, 09:12:51 PM »

Honestly I never thought I'd get one. I havent looked into many specific games, I know the library is mostly VN style, I think. Any games you'd recommend?

Unfortunately, the best and most gaijin friendly games are also the priciest.  Thankfully, though, most systems are good with CDRs.

Zeroigar - a pretty good shewty that has a great translation patch
Chip Chan Kick - a fun two player game akin to Parasol Stars
Zenki - a cool side scrolling brawler
Ruruli Ra Rura - a derpy platformer that feels unfinished but I still like it
Pia Carrot - a naughty dating game that has a translation patch

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Chit-Chat / Re: teh "what did you buy today"-thread

« Last post by tsuran on September 23, 2024, 11:47:23 AM »

Noice!  I have a few dupes laying around here.  Anything in particular you want?

Honestly I never thought I'd get one. I havent looked into many specific games, I know the library is mostly VN style, I think. Any games you'd recommend?

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Chit-Chat / Re: When did you stop playing installments of Ys, if ever?

« Last post by _joshuaTurbo on September 23, 2024, 10:21:23 AM »

I've never like "stopped" playing Ys games, but I've definitely slowed down on playing them like I did back in the day.

Like a few have mentioned, I've started a couple of the more recent ones, with intensions of picking them up again (Ys 8 being the best example), but obsessing over releases like I did 3 and Ys IV (PCE) is a thing of the past. I haven't completed an Ys game since Ys 6 on PSP either! 

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Chit-Chat / Re: teh "what did you buy today"-thread

« Last post by Necromancer on September 23, 2024, 12:53:39 AM »

Noice!  I have a few dupes laying around here.  Anything in particular you want?

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Chit-Chat / Re: teh "what did you buy today"-thread

« Last post by tsuran on September 22, 2024, 09:41:19 PM »

Finally part of the club! Found one locally. The box is super beat up, and It's really yellowed, but just excited to own this beast. Now I just gotta get some games for it! 

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TG/PCE Repair/Mod Discussion / Re: Turbo Duo dont Read CD games but read audio cds

« Last post by herr-g on September 18, 2024, 03:09:11 AM »

I've had a similar issue with a CDR-30 (suitcase CD-ROM drive) and had to tune the VCO pot.
Here's a nice summary of the Duo pot adjustments. I'd give that a try.

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Chit-Chat / Re: When did you stop playing installments of Ys, if ever?

« Last post by Paranoia Dragon on September 13, 2024, 02:11:30 AM »

Never stopped playing them. Never did actually play five, hard to get into so I'm waiting for a remake. I'll eventually get around to playing the original five though. My three favorite games in the series are Dawn of Ys, Oath in Felghana, and Lacrimosa of Dana(Ys . I don't mind the party system at all but I do generally usually prefer just playing as Adol.

Ys X: Nordics comes out October 25th so I'm very much looking forward to that! The party system is still kind of there but it's been narrowed down to just two characters, Adol and some chick whose name I forget at the moment. In the timeline, it's a sequel to Ys 2 . I think it happens something like 6 months later. I've been hearing a lot of great things about it so I'll likely love this game. I already picked up the soundtrack and I'm loving it as I usually do with any of these games aside from 5 which doesn't generally tickle my ears compared to the rest.

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TG/PCE Repair/Mod Discussion / Turbo Duo dont Read CD games but read audio cds

« Last post by Dsantos82 on September 12, 2024, 09:25:00 PM »

Good afternoon everyone, I have a problem, I recently imported a PC ENGINE TURBO DUO from Japan, the system reads audio CDs well but the games don't read at all, I did a full recap, tested it with the laser from another console that works well and have already replaced it ics 105-106 and 501 the problem remains, does anyone have any idea how to solve it, I would be very grateful for any ideas.

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TG-16/TE/TurboDuo Discussion / Rondo of Blood - English Subtitles while keeping Japanese audio?

« Last post by DissentKindly on September 11, 2024, 07:56:16 AM »

Hi everyone.

First off, I apologize if this was already asked or if I'm putting it in the wrong place, it's just the only reference to it
that I did find was from over a year ago and I did not want to "necro" that thread.

I recently acquired an RX after watching real PC Engine gameplay at a convention, where I saw Rondo of Blood being played in the original Japanese.
However, I sadly don't understand Japanese (yet?) and so I went to the English patch, which made me wonder if it was possible to keep both the English subtitles and the Japanese voice acting for both cutscenes and in-gameplay voices.

I have tried both bitcrunching and patching my redump-standard backup (cue+bins) which said the hash was incorrect, and another one of my backups which did work with the patcher but gave a load error when testing it in Mesen.

I know the patch keeps the original audio files, but attempting to introduce them and/or introduce wavs made from the original audio files in Audacity results in desynchronization and stuff like that.

Introducing the original audio files (tracks 19, 20, 21 iirc) to a ready-made patched instance works better cutscenes wise, but in the intro Death still talks in English, missing the point.

I am pretty much out of ideas at this point, and ripping with turborip is sadly no longer an option, so I registered to this forum hoping anyone could point me anywhere. (EDIT To reiterate: I am not asking for any rule-breaking files)

In short, I want to keep the English subtitles while maintaining the Japanese VA both in cutscenes and in game. The german can be original or PSP.

Thank you.

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PC Engine/SuperGrafx Discussion / Re: How Many Of You Own The Rom Rom Amp?

« Last post by herr-g on September 11, 2024, 04:47:40 AM »

I have both. While the Bose set gives a far better sound experience they're both not really practicable but really nice collector's items.
Speaker technology has evolved a lot since the 90s, especially regarding bass speakers. The bose satellites give some cool room acoustics though.