Hello Everyone,
I've been here for a few weeks now and so far I think it's a great community. I see a lot of love for the TurboGrafx/PC-Engine and it feels like it is constantly active with many members and projects, and it seems that many of the members here have known each other for years. It reminds me quite a bit of the forum community Ancient Land of Ys where I hail from, as well as the MSX Resource Center.
I used to be pretty heavily active in playing through many PC-Engine CD titles many years ago when Magic Engine was first released and being actively developed, and I was playing just about anything and everything I could get my hands on using that and something called MednafenX for the original Xbox which worked really well! Since I’m getting back into PC-Engine again after acquiring real hardware a few years back, this place really does have a wealth of information that is great for me to catch up on and read about. I’m also pretty excited to learn about new fan-translation projects such as Emerald Dragon, AnEarth, and all new PCE games such as Mysterious Song (which sadly I purchased but not have played through yet, for shame I know... Sorry Paranoia Dragon, and now a really cool Mega Man port with remixed music, Jungle Bros, and Aetherbyte’s Atlantean HuCard game. (Also I know Atherbyte through their MSX releases as well, so it’s cool to see they are still actively developing games).
It’s really all quite amazing and I love seeing new projects come about for classic hardware. It’s part of the reason that keeps me so interested in the MSX community, since there’s always new hardware and games, even entirely new machines being released for something that is considered to be a “dead system”. It’s wonderful because it shows that it continues to live strong even today.
Also I asked a friend “So what does “Obey” mean at the PCEFX community? And he replied with the following URL:
http://www.pcengine.co.uk/obey/obeypce.htm <== This is true gold right here I must say. I dare say that I may too be tempted to create a few Photoshop additions to this if you’ll have them as I eat this stuff up, for breakfast, with crushed up SNES cartridges for a good source of Fiber.
Here is my TurboGrafx / PC-Engine / Turbo-Duo Collection:
Larger PicIf you are interested in reading, I’ll tell you about myself a bit. I’ve been an avid gamer and collector for most of my life and I’m into many genres and systems, both new and old, though the PC-Engine TurboDuo is definitely one of my favorite systems, especially the CD-Rom games.
I’m pretty huge into Falcom and Microcabin games such as Ys and Xak, and many others, though my all-time favorite series is and will likely always be Panzer Dragoon.
I’m really into graphic design, website design and animation as well as making 3D models, although I haven’t had as much time for the latter two after college. I’ve run a few websites over the years, Suikocastle.net, (now gone) MiraiGamer.net (also now gone), Cavestory.org (was the original creator of the tribute site back when the fan-translation by AGTP was first released and later passed the torch) and I also made a
fansite for the Xak series, which really has a pretty bad design and could stand a facelift one of these days. I’m a HUGE fan of the Xak series and I got into that series through Nightwolve’s very own Xak III English translation. I guess you might say that Nightwolve created a bit of a monster here with that patch… haha.
I still hope to see the first two Xak games (Xak I&II) for PCE get a translation one day as well as Fray CD. It really is an incredible series and on Par with a few of the old school Ys games too in my opinion. (Watch out Adol… Latok Kart doesn’t mess around! He can lawn mow and stab with a sword with the best of them…)
Here’s my Xak collection if anyone is interested:
Larger PicNowadays, I mainly run 3 websites, which are not very active yet,
retro-type.com which is/was intended to be a gaming blog, which never quite got off the ground due to lack of time/interest on my part.
shantae.net which was another Tribute Fansite that I created during the Shantae Half-Genie Hero Kickstarter about a year ago. I’m big Shantae fan, it’s an incredible platforming series for sure and extremely enjoyable to play.
And along with a local MSX friend and collector, I run a startup MSX site called
USAMSX that was intended to be kind of an entryway/gateway site for Americans to utilize should they ever want to get into the MSX hobby with real hardware and for U.S. based MSX fans to have something to connect with, but unfortunately it hasn’t gotten too far in development either, but hey! At least we manage to do some kickass exhibits of our MSX machines at the Vintage Computer Fair Southeast. Last year we had 24 machines! That’s probably the largest MSX exhibit in America ever! We even had both of the American-only released MSX machines there as well.
Currently also working on a port and remix of Fix It Felix, Jr for the MSX with the same friend.
Here is our title screen so far:
More currently I’m assisting a Romhacking team for the translation of a Falcom PSP title called Nayuta no Kiseki which is pretty much all ready to go now aside from a few script corrections and errors that I’m discovering and fixing as I play through it. I mainly helped on that project with editing the original Japanese graphics, which I have to say was quite a challenge due to how many hoops you have to go through to get graphics to work correctly… Anyhow it’s a fun game if you enjoy the Ys Oath in Felghana, Ys Ark of Napistim, and Ys Origin’s gameplay style that had some fast paced action and tons of Jumping/Platforming, then this is definitely another great one to add to the list. The newer Ys games, while still good, are missing that jumping/platforming action that I feel really needs to be there.
Anyhow, it’s nice to meet all of you and I guess I better start reading through some threads!
-Thomas
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