ZEROIGAR RELEASE!

[16bitgium]

Just burned this to disc and finished the main game. Pretty fun! Thnaks for you guys hard and beautifull work.

[elmer]

Just burned this to disc and finished the main game. Pretty fun! Thnaks for you guys hard and beautifull work.

Congratulations! 

Finishing the main game should have unlocked the Sakuraigar Mode for you; I'm curious to hear what you think of that. 

We're up to 570 downloads on RomHacking.net ... which sounds pretty good to me for a game that's on the PC-FX instead of the SNES.

I wonder if we'll get any new "converts" joining here? 

[Pcenginefx]

Thank you so much for your hard work on completing this project!  With NightWolve's help, I was able to finally burn a CD-R to play in my FX.  I've always loved the FX, but found it unfortunate that I could never fully enjoy the games due to not understanding Japanese.

On a side note, I plan on live streaming English Zeroigar on my newly formed Twitch channel whenever I get a few hours to spare http://www.twitch.tv/pcenginefx/profile/past_broadcasts

[_joshuaTurbo]

Thank you so much for your hard work on completing this project!  With NightWolve's help, I was able to finally burn a CD-R to play in my FX.  I've always loved the FX, but found it unfortunate that I could never fully enjoy the games due to not understanding Japanese.

On a side note, I plan on live streaming English Zeroigar on my newly formed Twitch channel whenever I get a few hours to spare http://www.twitch.tv/pcenginefx/profile/past_broadcasts

Good to know!  I'll keep my eyes peeled and gave you a "follow".. 

[filler]

Thank you so much for your hard work on completing this project!  With NightWolve's help, I was able to finally burn a CD-R to play in my FX.  I've always loved the FX, but found it unfortunate that I could never fully enjoy the games due to not understanding Japanese.

On a side note, I plan on live streaming English Zeroigar on my newly formed Twitch channel whenever I get a few hours to spare http://www.twitch.tv/pcenginefx/profile/past_broadcasts

Did you ever get around to checking out Pia Carrot? 

[Dicer]

I had put this on the backburner for a while, got the latest mednafen the proper bios (I was using an older one apparently) and after fiddling with gui and controller I am playing this...


Most excellent work

I only wish mednafen had some better options for scaling and smoothing and stuff, it's looking a bit chunky unless I scale it down...

I really need to land a PCFX one day...one day

[esteban]

Not trying to spam, but since some folks won't be reading the "development" thread....

 

 

Share a pic of you LightScribe or slap a label on a CD-ROM.

[elmer]

Not trying to spam, but since some folks won't be reading the "development" thread....

 

 

Share a pic of you LightScribe or slap a label on a CD-ROM.

Those are beautiful! Thank you! 

[SamIAm]

The timing is right to share a couple more youtube videos with you all.

This is the first four stages of the translated game. That leaves three for you to uncover for yourself.

...and this is a preview of the unlockable Sakuraigar Mode. You'll find that the music, enemies, and of course the story have all been changed dramatically. It's quite a trip.

Enjoy!

[Arkhan]

My PC-FX died.   It caint even discs anymore.  lol

God damnf*ckingf*ck.

Need to get on that.

[elmer]

My PC-FX died.   It caint even discs anymore.  lol

God damnf*ckingf*ck.

Need to get on that.

Now would be the perfect time to get that PC-FXGA working! 

I'll be interested to hear if you try SamIAm's "pot-twist" fix ... I've still not done that on mine, yet.

[TailChao]

With all these failing lasers, have any of you tried to get the FX to boot off a modified BMP cartridge?
Some of the documentation out there indicates code can be run off these, might be a good long term solution.

[elmer]

With all these failing lasers, have any of you tried to get the FX to boot off a modified BMP cartridge?
Some of the documentation out there indicates code can be run off these, might be a good long term solution.

I certainly haven't ... since the PC-FXGA doesn't have a slot for the BMP cartridge, you'd need a working CD boot on the PC-FX in order to actually write a program to the BMP.

What I've started to wonder is whether we could just replace the CD mechanism with a SCSI drive, probably a CF-SCSI or an SD-SCSI. The PC-FX chips definitely seem to talk to the CD mechanism in SCSI format.

Here's the open-hardware/open-source SCSI2SD project ... http://imall.itead.cc/scsi2sd.html

If the correct signals come out of the PC-FX motherboard somewhere, then you'd just need to replace the SCSI2SD firmware with CD-emulation instead of HDD-emulation.

I guess that if it could work on the PC-FX, then it could possibly also work on the PCE.

[TailChao]

I certainly haven't ... since the PC-FXGA doesn't have a slot for the BMP cartridge, you'd need a working CD boot on the PC-FX in order to actually write a program to the BMP.

What I've started to wonder is whether we could just replace the CD mechanism with a SCSI drive, probably a CF-SCSI or an SD-SCSI. The PC-FX chips definitely seem to talk to the CD mechanism in SCSI format.

Here's the open-hardware/open-source SCSI2SD project ... http://imall.itead.cc/scsi2sd.html

If the correct signals come out of the PC-FX motherboard somewhere, then you'd just need to replace the SCSI2SD firmware with CD-emulation instead of HDD-emulation.

I guess that if it could work on the PC-FX, then it could possibly also work on the PCE.

I was thinking more along the lines of a new distribution medium, just in the BMP form factor.

As for replacing the CD-ROM drive with a SCSI emulator, it depends on whether or not the PC-FX has custom commands. I'll have to look at the Mednafen source.
The PCE's CD-ROM certainly does, but they're documented. The drive itself is identical to some of NEC's SCSI CD-ROMs with different software on the controller chips anyway.

[Djangoo2]

I think it would be cool to see something like the GDEmu on the PC-FX.