Setting up a PC-FXGA

[elmer]

Drivers? There aren't drivers per se to drive the board. Everything runs in DOS mode using the exe you get on the floppy disk unless my memory is going blank you can either feed it cd games or EX files. There's a lot of explore and I've just scratched the surface, keep me posted on any findings, please.

The basic PC-FXGA comes with "fxgav.exe" on the floppy. That just lets you boot PC-FX games that are on your PC's CDROM drive.

The next step is "GMAKER" with the compiler and tools.

With that you have to install the DOS drivers PCFXPIO.SYS and TGFX.SYS.

I believe that they allow a program that you write to access files directly on your PC (through PCFXPIO.SYS), or to access a CD in your PCs CDROM drive (TGFX.SYS).

The final step is "GMAKER PLUS" which gives you NXSBPCM.SYS and an upgraded TGFX.SYS, that allows you to create PC-FX CD images on your hard drive and have your program read them just as if they were a real CD.

So ... I've got all the drivers loaded, but I haven't actually created a CD image to run.

Well, actually, all my programming has been in Mednafen at this point, and the PC-FXGA has just been a testbed for running burned CD-Rs. 

[sabre470]

Nice, you went much further than I did what have you got cooking?


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[sabre470]

I've got a copy of GMAKER on PC-98 and DOS/V one of the boxes has the manual I think. I'll check if there are any references to the above. Still trying to track GMAKER PLUS originals...


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[elmer]

Nice, you went much further than I did what have you got cooking?

Not too much ...

http://www.pcenginefx.com/forums/index.php?topic=18435.msg394979#msg394979

And you probably already saw this ... 

http://www.pcenginefx.com/forums/index.php?topic=19536.0

[sabre470]

Nice, you went much further than I did what have you got cooking?

Not too much ...

http://www.pcenginefx.com/forums/index.php?topic=18435.msg394979#msg394979

And you probably already saw this ... 

http://www.pcenginefx.com/forums/index.php?topic=19536.0

He He

Thank you very much for the Zeroigar translation and well done, I will definitely try it.

How did you overlay text on the cut-scenes BTW?

[elmer]

How did you overlay text on the cut-scenes BTW?

There's a bunch of detail in the development thread, if you're interested, that will give you more details on the video subtitling ...

http://www.pcenginefx.com/forums/index.php?topic=19055.0

As for the in-game speech, the original code is just doing a slow-teletype-style printing of ROM font glyphs into a bitmap area in VDC-B.

I hacked the original code to change the input data from SJIS to ASCII (plus a few other mods) and then used my own vwf font and code to print into the original VDC-B bitmap.

For the Sakuraigar Mode intros that didn't have any original subtitling, I just wrote my own system that basically does the same sort of thing as in-game subtitles, and uses the same print routine that I'd already written, and then hacked it all into place inside Zeroigar's original slideshow code.