What the PC Engine scene is missing...

[Tatsujin]

Fletch is great. just rewatched it 2 weeks ago. will have a hear into that track at evening to re-confirm its trueness

[Necromancer]

BTW.....what is Y's?  I've heard of Ys, but, Y's doesn't ring a bell.....atleast, not on the Turbo anyways.

Do you have a copy of Dawn of Ys?  If you take a gander at the disc, you'll espy two misplaced apostrophes!

[touko]

I think a good tool,who's transforming pcx or bmp files to PCE tiles format with multiples palettes.

Ex a 256 colors bmp, to a 16-240 colors binary file for PCE ..

[Necromancer]

I think a good tool,who's transforming pcx or bmp files to PCE tiles format with multiples palettes.

Ex a 256 colors bmp, to a 16-240 colors binary file for PCE ..

A similar tool already exists.  I do not have a copy to share.

[Tatsujin]

i have two similar questions about photohop:

1. how to reduce colors of a picture specifically? f.e. you have a 256 color bitmap which you want to display in 128 or 64 colors, but without distorting/falsifying the base colors of the picture too much.

2. how to replace/recreate/display existing colors with dithering?

IN PHOTOSHOP CS2

thx

[touko]

A similar tool already exists.  I do not have a copy to share.

 
Ah, i think this is fragmare's tool ,right  

[Necromancer]

1. how to reduce colors of a picture specifically? f.e. you have a 256 color bitmap which you want to display in 128 or 64 colors, but without distorting/falsifying the base colors of the picture too much.

Posterize.

2. how to replace/recreate/display existing colors with dithering?

I don't know how to do that, other than to do it by hand (that's what she said).

Ah, i think this is fragmare's tool ,right  

Yep.

[sunteam_paul]

You could also try 'Save for web' choose GIF and mess around with the number of colours there.

[Vecanti]

http://soundcloud.com/gobantoba/ninjaspiritforest

First try...  :-"

[sunteam_paul]

That's great, there's some quite Iremmy sound in there as well. It would be cool if you could hack a PC Engine Rom and convert it to a CD game with all new audio, I wonder if that's possible.

Now, anyone fancy tackling some PCE exclusive tunes like Super Star Soldier? *wink*

[esteban]

http://soundcloud.com/gobantoba/ninjaspiritforest

First try...  :-"

Yay! I like it

And, may I say, this is a great track to have chosen, since it's very atmospheric. I like the tunes from Ninja Spirit, in general, and though this game wasn't exclusive to PCE... it wasn't ported to any other consoles, was it? Only computers, if I recall correctly.

If I may be so bold, may I suggest that you make a "SPOOKY* MIX" (a la New Order) of Ninja Spirit Forest, heavy on the SPOOKY** and the atmosphere? 

More, I say, more!



* OK, it shall thus be named the "Macabre Mix"

** As in "ghastly", not "goofy".

[Vecanti]

It's hard to remix when they sound so good already!!  One of my favorites:

http://soundcloud.com/gobantoba/keith-courage-end-theme

[Tom]

i have two similar questions about photohop:

1. how to reduce colors of a picture specifically? f.e. you have a 256 color bitmap which you want to display in 128 or 64 colors, but without distorting/falsifying the base colors of the picture too much.

2. how to replace/recreate/display existing colors with dithering?

IN PHOTOSHOP CS2

thx

 Here's a quick way. Posterize the image, then convert the image to index color (image->mode->index color) - choose "exact" setting for color choices. Go back into the mode menu, select color table (image->mode->color table), save the current palette to whatever filename you want. Close the image and don't save any changes. Then reopen the image, goto image->mode->index color. Choose "custom" from the pulldown menu, then it'll open some generic palette file, click load and load up the palette file you created previously, click "ok" after you load the file. You'll be back into the main palette conversion screen with the dither options near the bottom. Three dither choices to choose from, but only "defusion" has a parameter you can set. It will dither with only the legal PCE colors you made before with the posterize option. Enjoy

[Arkhan]

SUPA STAR SOULJA YOU SAY?!

Thats a coincidence, as i was just dipping around with my favorite song from that game earlier.

I made this happen.

It mostly started as a drum-machine tester since the beat is awesome.
http://www.aetherbyte.com/downloadables/sssdrumtest.mp3


using a roland DR-550 I found on craigslist!

[sunteam_paul]

It's hard to remix when they sound so good already!!  One of my favorites:

http://soundcloud.com/gobantoba/keith-courage-end-theme

That's weird, it sounds like there are 2 tunes playing at the same time.