Soooo....any real reason to own a PCFX other than collector braging rights?

[Mathius]

the PC-FX does look pretty darn cool.  I'd buy it just to look at it.

I gotta admit, that was a partial reason I bought a Neo-Geo. That thing is one sexy beast! .....so is the PC-FX.

[Arkhan]

Its got my favorite power button of all time, and the best like pre-game menu ever.

[Mathius]

Its got my favorite power button of all time, and the best like pre-game menu ever.

Are you referring to the start-up bios or whatever it's called? I have always been a fan of those. When I was younger, and got my Sega CD for christmas, I would just sit and watch the "SEGA" logo scale and rotate. I knew the Genesis wasn't capable of that, and I knew the SEGA CD was capable of it before I got one, and it ended up being the main reason why I wanted one. Too bad few actually good games took advantage of that tech back then. Anyway, I am getting off track. I have heard the Victor Saturn has a pretty cool start-up bios. I am watching one on eBay right now that is in Canada. Thinking about buying it.

[Arkhan]

no, thats pretty cool too, but I mean the screen with all the options and the cursor.

[Mathius]

no, thats pretty cool too, but I mean the screen with all the options and the cursor.

Ah, okay.

[_joshuaTurbo]

All in all, the PC-FX was a beast for FMV and did some pretty sweet late 16-bit/early 32-bit effects.  I would love to see someone take a stab at making a PC-FX homebrew title.

*nudges Arkhan*  ........... lol

[TheOldMan]

Maybe. If you can come up with 2 working PC-FX systems for us to test with :-)

[Arkhan]

Maybe. If you can come up with 2 working PC-FX systems for us to test with :-)

I already have one.  Duh?  

I was going to buy the devkit from this one store but they didn't pull through.

Gonna need to find us a crazed animator for a PCFX game....

Unless you guys want a spriteydoof game that might as well be on the Turbo....

[_joshuaTurbo]

I had the PC-FX back in 2005.  I kept it around for about 6 months, when I needed to drop some system weight, it was first to go.  I would need one back in my collection about as much as I'd need a Jaguar or a CDi.  I couldn't imagine someone having one and playing enough to make keeping it around worthwhile.

Not that I didn't have some fun playing it.  I had Sparkling Feather, Power League FX, and a few others that really were pretty entertaining.  I heard alot of hype behind battle heat and Team Innocent, so when I got on those and found that the games are less than "great" I decided to dump.

The other fun games are far too crazy priced and hard to find.  I'm not saying that I'll never own one again, but its not too likely.

watch me eat my words.

[nat]

Team Innocent is killer... but you have to "get into it."

[Arkhan]

I play my PCFX at least 8hrs a week probably.  more on weekends.   You just have to like the game styles presented. 


if you fap to shooters, you dont want a pcfx.

[Arm]

There is also Miraculum The Last Revelation, which is in my opinion one of the best game programmed for the PC-FX. Probably the best RPG on the system, made by Rayforce (creators of the Startling Odyssey series)

On another topic, if you need an animator for a PC-FX game, I guess I could fill the job, but it would take a lot of free time. (I work as a storyboarder and animator.) Concerning homebrew project, I've been the cutscene director and character illustrator of the game Pier Solar.

I'm currently trying to do a port of the first Lunar (with improved color/graphics) on the PC Engine but I'm not a programmer at all. So, for now I'm creating artwork/screenshots of the game for future reference, using as a base the Mega CD version, and improving the colors as well as creating new BG tiles and elements/portraits.

Here's a screenshot to give you an idea :

http://img830.imageshack.us/img830/5898/lunartss1pcedialportrai.png

[Arkhan]

those look great.  Lunar on PCE would've been awesome.

However.... and I mean this with no disrespect to anyone involved....

I think it's safe to say that doing homebrew RPGs is the worst kind of homebrew to get involved with.  They are the most work, and since we're all doing this for free.... real life, etc. get in the way and delay them.   PC-FX would be the ultimate "holy shit. this is alot of work" RPG project.... it would turn out awesome no doubt, but I'd guess it would take 5+ years to get finished. -_-

I would love to get involved in one, especially since I have one completely done except for actually coding it (resurrecting an old RPG Toolkit game).... but I just know something will come up and delay the shit out of it.

I'd rather stick to the action-y projects.  They are less of a burden.

[Arm]

I see, that's too bad.
Actually, I know I could handle everything related to art (tiles/artwork/etc) and sound (I already remixed the opening with additional sfx with soundforge and premiere) When it comes to graphics,  I know I can work rather fast.
When I have enough screenshots to show (I already created many of them), I shall create a new topic in the development thread about this. Thanks.

[Arkhan]

I see, that's too bad.
Actually, I know I could handle everything related to art (tiles/artwork/etc) and sound (I already remixed the opening with additional sfx with soundforge and premiere) When it comes to graphics,  I know I can work rather fast.
When I have enough screenshots to show (I already created many of them), I shall create a new topic in the development thread about this. Thanks.

If you really can bust out arts quickly, then that makes it quite possible.

us peoples at Aetherbyte generally have enough free time to code, but suck at art.

I can do music, depending on style, and sound effects. but art.... yeah.... thats a mess.   I think its the hardest part of games since people stare at that.  They dont stare at code.

we will have to see then.  Maybe the time when you have alot of promising art, and the time when we're not doing a project will coincide, and we can try to do this.