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rolan
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 Posted: Mon Jun 25, 2007 6:54 pm Post subject: Turbo grafx 16 emulation |
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Ive finally admitted financial defeat when it comes to pc/engine hardware and software as prohibitive price (for a duo anyway) and pal tv issues make it a bit impractical for me to get a machine thatll play all regions of software.
Does anyone know of a decent free tg16 emu? i dont really like the idea of paying magic engine any money when (1) its not really their product to sell in the first place and (2) id rather save the money up for an actual console eventually then pay for an emulator. |
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handofg0d
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| Posted: Mon Jun 25, 2007 8:07 pm Post subject: |
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HU-GO is probably the best free solution.
Grab it here: http://www.zeograd.com/ |
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anarchy99
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| Posted: Mon Jun 25, 2007 9:10 pm Post subject: |
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mednafen's about on par with magic engine, unless you (like me) can't stand emulators without a gui.
oh yeah, and ootake's supposed to be really good too, though I haven't tried it. |
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rolan
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| Posted: Mon Jun 25, 2007 11:53 pm Post subject: |
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thanks ill try them out in a while when i free up some hard disk space.  |
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rolan
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| Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2007 12:55 am Post subject: |
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| ok so i was impatient and downloaded them, ootakes seems cool and easy to use but i dont even know how to open metnafen or whatever its called... it seems to be for technically minded people only. or im being stupid... |
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kap
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| Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2007 1:09 am Post subject: |
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| Stupid. It's a command line application. |
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shawnphase
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| Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2007 1:15 am Post subject: |
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| were there actually any good tg 16 games? burnnnn. |
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Tongueman
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| Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2007 2:55 am Post subject: |
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Not a burn at all.
Not even a flame.
More like a pilot light in some rusty boiler from 1989.
Intelligent [original] jokes, please. |
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shawnphase
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| Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2007 8:34 am Post subject: |
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| sorry, didnt know you were a fan of jj and jeff. |
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rolan
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| Posted: Fri Jun 29, 2007 3:07 am Post subject: |
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| shawnphase wrote: | | were there actually any good tg 16 games? burnnnn. |
i say yes... but actaully most of the games i want to emulate are actually turbo cd games... but there are loads of quality games on the regular turbo grafx 16, any console that gives both sega and nintendo a headache (at least in japan...) is always gonna be home to some cool games. |
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Wonderbutt
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| Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2007 6:23 pm Post subject: |
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Hugo is an awful mess. Everything from his coding to his interface spells yuck.
Much better is the simple Yame. It is discontinued, and free. It plays HU Card and CD games, some that even Magic Engine cannot play. Yame plays SNES and NES games as well.
For Mac, I suggest TGEmu. This is also abandoned, and has no save states.
But it is simple and very compatible. No CD game work though.
| rolan wrote: | | shawnphase wrote: | | were there actually any good tg 16 games? burnnnn. |
i say yes... but actaully most of the games i want to emulate are actually turbo cd games... games. |
With Yame, you mount the CD or image of the CD in Daemon, Diskjuggler, Alcohol 120% etc. In the TG-16 options area, point to the real or emulated CD drive you have loaded the game in.
Then, load one of the Turbo Duo BIOS/Boot Rom/Card whatever they are via the File->Open menu (Like loading a SNES or NES rom) and the game should start.
I wish they kept this thing going. |
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neomerge
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| Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2007 9:39 pm Post subject: |
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| FRANK EDIT: Do not promote piracy of emulators in my forums. |
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neomerge
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| Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2007 5:43 am Post subject: |
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| neomerge wrote: | | FRANK EDIT: Do not promote piracy of emulators in my forums. |
I'm sorry I didn't know you worked on Magic Engine. |
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TheRedEye
The Internet's Frank Cifaldi
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| neomerge wrote: | | neomerge wrote: | | FRANK EDIT: Do not promote piracy of emulators in my forums. |
I'm sorry I didn't know you worked on Magic Engine. |
I didn't work on Magic Engine, I just don't want to promote the piracy of ANY supported software on my forums. If you can still buy it, don't talk about stealing it here. |
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rolan
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| Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2007 10:53 pm Post subject: |
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| is this just about magic "hey we dont own the rights but u have to pay anyway" engine or emulators in general? |
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ProgrammingAce
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| Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2007 11:21 pm Post subject: |
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I certainly don't agree with how they do things, but i'll fight for their right to do it as they see fit...
Besides, it's not as if they're the only game in town. |
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kap
Minister of Paranoia
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| Posted: Fri Jul 20, 2007 1:26 am Post subject: |
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| rolan wrote: | | is this just about magic "hey we dont own the rights but u have to pay anyway" engine or emulators in general? |
Software in general. Pirating actively developed and sold software is very bad juju.
The fact of the matter is ANY actively developed commercial software has the same legal rights and protections as a copy of Windows or Photoshop or whatever. Helping each other pirate shit on our forums is just going to get us sued and, for many of us, in trouble on a professional level.
And, hey, the Magic Engine people don't HAVE to own any rights regarding developing emulation software - ANYBODY can legally write some. The way you're whining about it, either 1) there would be no non-underground emulation because it would all be illegal or 2) you would have to pay for EVERYTHING because it would ALL have to be licensed with system manufacturers and/or game publishers. Fuck that.
What can all these tg16 emulators do that mednafen can't do anyway? It isn't exactly difficult to use, the command line isn't exactly the boogie man. And it's free, jesus christ. |
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etabeta
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| Posted: Fri Jul 20, 2007 9:33 am Post subject: |
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and if you really want magic engine, last time I checked if you don't pay you simply have to save and quit every 5 minutes...
since save/load feature was quite robust I never had any problem.
of course, now I use mednafen for my pce needs  |
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Ichiban Crush
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I really don't even bother with the command line. The way I had it set up was to just have all HuCard ROHM files associated with Mednafen. Double click a ROHM, blam, Mednafen runs it.
And honestly, it's just as good if not better than Magic Engine. |
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etabeta
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