PC-FX Tome of Obey

[TGX16]

Pc-fx is not worth obeying.

Unless you wanna play countless graphic novels and dating sims (humongous Yawn).

There is one good shooter on this system, and that is unfortunate.

If this is your opinion ?
What are you doin here?

[Necromancer]

sweet looks like this thread should be moving to Fighting Street soon and possibly a spot in the PCFX hall of Shame!

I think he's already on Fighting Street.

[Arkhan]

sweet looks like this thread should be moving to Fighting Street soon and possibly a spot in the PCFX hall of Shame!

f*ck no.  My TOME OF OBEY does not belong in fighting street.

[Arkhan]

UPDATE: Insanity X should finally pass review and shit so now between Retrocading I am going to wack out the first few game pages and gather yo feedbacks n sheeet.

Also, Zeroigar f*cking rules.

Just saying.

[Arkhan]

snaps of Zeroigar, Yuna, Boundary Gate, Ruruli Ra Rura, and Team Innocent are taken.

Figuring out/f*cking the HTML files into working order.  Don't worry,I didnt design them.  A smart person did.

Once I get it sorted out and uploaded, pcfxtoo.com will go live with those 5 games to start.

also Protip: only one of them is a digital comic.  Suck on that, f*ckers.

[filler]

FYI: To capture screen shots from Magic Engine FX it's the backspace key.

Just going to put in my little plug for emulators here. MEFX is really pretty awesome. If you don't want to mess around with command line and finding a bios, it has a GUI and is easy to use. It costs less than $20. When people by the console for $100+ and games for $20-$60 or more, $20 is a pretty low barrier for entry into being able to emulate the system on your PC. If you're a little more adventurous, you can use Mednafen which despite my years of talking down about is an excellent PC-FX emulator. The problem is that you need to use a .bat file to run a .cue file for your game, and you need to get a PC-FX bios dump. There are no guis so things like controller setup is triggered with a keyboard command. If you can deal with these things it's also a great emulator and it's free.

I own a PC-FX console and games and I enjoy playing on it, but there is a place for emulation in PC-FX collecting too. Especially for things like grabbing screen shots.

[Arkhan]

I've been using Mednafen to grab screenshots.  I sort of forgot Mednafen does PCFX.


Its better than holding a camera up, but still not as nice as id like.

Oh well.

Update: The site is actively being worked on.  I don't want to make the real pages live til im sure theyre pretty awesome for starts.

I underestimated the following:

1) How long it takes to get screenshots that arent the title screen and first 5 seconds of a game
2) How much effort it takes to make a page, even with a templaate
3) My website skills.  Though, I should've just looked at Aetherbyte.com and went "Oh yeah, I suck at this"

[sunteam_paul]

1) How long it takes to get screenshots that arent the title screen and first 5 seconds of a game

I know that feeling.

[nat]

Indeed, one of my major complaints about PCECP and the like was that the screenshots always, and I mean ALWAYS, consisted of the title screen, and one or two other shots.... FROM THE FIRST FIVE LITERAL SECONDS OF THE GAME. In some cases with PCECP (RRR for PC-FX springs to mind), they didn't even get as far as the ACTUAL GAMEPLAY.

In my opinion, it's go big or go home. If you're going to do screenshots, you have to take the time to do them properly.

[Arkhan]

Yes, I made sure to play Boundary Gate all the way through the first boss battle for example.  That involves walking around, talking, exploring, fighting a bit, and then yknow, doing the boss battle!

Zerogiar has gameplay up to the first boss battle with some cutscene images (with hilarious health bar amounts because I was playing one handed and hovering over the F9 key to screen shot, lol)

Battle Heat, I just smashed buttons and hit F9.  I'll pick the best of the like 40 shots I ended up with.  Screen shots of that game are sort of worthless though.

So yeah, I am definitely making sure the screenshots are useful.  I don't even think I bothered with title screen shots actually, because I'll be blunt here:

Who f*cking cares what the title screen looks like.   A digitized version of the box packaging logos, with some menu choices is about as useful as a ripped condom.


 The only game series I have EVER given a shit about title screen wise, was Ultima, because from Ultima III thru V, funny stuff happened on the screen.

[sunteam_paul]

How do you define useful screenshots though?

If someone owns the game, then none of the screenshots are useful. If they haven't, then all of them are useful. As long as they are as varied as possible and show the game's strengths - I think that's the key.

[Arkhan]

The screenshots generally serve as a "for people who are curious about a game" tool.

So if you give title screen + first 5 seconds of game, you haven't given them much of anything to work with.

Useful and varied are about the same thing,

If you don't show capture gameplay elements in your screenshots, you've screwed up

[Arkhan]

Update:

I have not abandoned this shiznit.

I am still getting screenshots that I deem good enough.

This leads me to a new plan also.

If you play PCFX and have screenshots to submit go right ahead.

send them in a .zip to aetherbyte@gmail.com

Be sure to tell me what game it is, and if you want, a nice description of the game from your perspective.

If you give me a negative description, I will immediately delete it, but keep the screenshots.

There is no negativity on the PC-FX

Games I do not need from anyone:

Zeroigar
Boundary Gate
Yuna
Can Can Bunny
Ruruli Ra Rura
Team Innocent
Battle Heat
Sparkling Feather

Feel free to submit any other games.

Also, I don't want to see any f*cking title screens, or the 5 screenshots of the first 5 seconds of the game, taken rapid fire. 

There better be quality gameplay images afoot!

This should work out nicely, and I will be sure to credit you for your screenshots on the game page in question.

[nat]

Every time this thread gets updated, I keep thinking you've finally made the website live, but every time it's a "Don't worry! I haven't abandoned this!" message.

This is arguably worse than, say, actually abandoning it.

[Arkhan]

Well, I could pull a PCECP and produce pages with really lame screenshots.

The sites live! It's just a Yuna splash screen though.  ...


Here, have a teaser:



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also what was I thinking.  I suck at putting together websites.  At least someone else did the layout.. or we'd all be f*cked.

I think you can tell who, by the teaser.  I hope.