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« on: March 20, 2006, 04:11:00 PM »

MednafenX-PCE - PCE/TG16 Emulator for XBox v1

http://mednafen.com/
http://xport.xbox-scene.com
http://necstasy.emunova.net/

Thanks to J-Red for an excellent skin!


Features :

 - Emulates PC-Engine/TurboGrafx-16/SuperGrafx/Arcade Card CD/CD/SCD

 - Excellent, stupendous, fanshmabulous compatibility - ported from Mednafen

 - ZIP support

 - Launch original PCEngine CDs from your XBox DVDROM drive

 - Loads of hardware/software filters and video options to tweak

 - Cheat system - Search/Create your own cheat codes (see notes)
 
 - Favorites list

 - Save states

 - Fast forward/throttle

 - Resizable game screen

 - Text file viewer

 - ISO9660, Relax, Samba support

 - Take in-game screenshots and display them on the game selection list

 - Record/Playback feature - record your gameplay in the emu and then
   play it back again.  Record up to 10 minutes of gameplay.

 - Every single in-game command is fully customizable on any of the
   four joypad controllers.

 - Map any emulator or UI command to a single button or a combination of
   two buttons.  (e.g. RTrigger+LTrigger = Save State)

 - Autofire capabilities for any emulator button on any controller

 - One-button combos (define a series of emulator commands to be played
   back when you press a user-definable XBox controller combination.)
   (E.g. Press RTrigger+LTrigger to execute the command string
   A,B,A,B,Up,Down,Left,Right)

 - Traverse any directory on any drive ( Continue selecting the parent
   directory entry on the file selection list to get the drive selection
   list.  Selectable drives are C, D, E, F, R, X, Y, Z, RLX, and SMB.
   R is the CDROM drive.  SMB is your samba share, RLX is your relax share.
   Press Y from any file-listing screen to go up one directory level.

 - All UI commands (save state, load state, screenshot, etc) can be
   invoked from the Options/Pause menu as well as in-game via your
   customized joypad mappings.

 - All the other standard features found in XPort ports.


Default ROM dir is D:\PCEROMS

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Important Notes
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If you like PCE, you're going to love this one.  Out of the 100+ CDs I tried
and the dozens of HUCard images, it played them all perfectly with just a
handful of ones with minor issues.

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Perfect CUE System
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Thanks to the great people at http://necstasy.emunova.net/, you should no
longer have to worry if your CUE sheet has the right indices, gaps, layout, etc.

The PCE TOC database is a compilation of verified TOCs from just about every
single PCE CD game in existence.  I have incorporated all of that data into
MednafenX-PCE.  The only thing you need to be concerned with is making sure
your CUE sheet points to the correct ISO/MP3 files for each track.  You
can still use CDDissect to rip your PCE games:

http://xport.xbox-scene.com/cddissect.php

As long as you have all the ISO/MP3 files and your CUE sheet points to them
correctly, you'll be all set.

Please note the following examples of CUE sheet "FILE" lines:

This is good:

FILE "dynastic_hero02.iso" BINARY


This is bad:

FILE "c:\pcecds\dynastic hero\dynastic_hero02.iso" BINARY

You should not have any paths in your FILE lines.  It should simply be the
filename.  

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CD Games
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To play a CD game, select the CUE sheet.  You will then be prompted to select
the name of the game so that MednafenX-PCE can load the correct TOC information.
If you are looking for a specific name but cannot find it, then load up
pcetoc_names.txt in notepad or some other text viewer and search for the name of
the game.  (Or some portion of the name.)  

The game you are trying to play *does* have an entry in the list.  You just have to
find it.

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US Encoded Games
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Almost all games will load without issue, but if you just get a black screen
then go to the game configuration menu for that game and toggle the "Force US"
option.  That will probably fix the problem.  If not, you most likely have a bad
dump.

Stella, Gnuboy, SMSPlus, FCEUltra, HUGO, NeoPop, DGen, Bochs, HUGO-CD,
FMSXBox, Bliss, WinSTon, Gens, Z26X, StepmaniaX, PCSXBox, XBoyAdvance,
DOSXBox, AtariXLBox, MirrorMagicX, KoboX, MaelstromX, MarblesX, Vice64X,
Vice20X, VicePETX, KegsX, XPired, AdamX, WonderSwanX, BeatsOfRageX,
PowermangaX, LynxBox, BlueMSXBox, GladiatorX, AmphetamineX, StarfighterX,
PachiX, BlobWarsX, OdysseyX, ArnoldX, X68000X, WinUAEX, MekaX,
MednafenX-NES, MednafenX-PCE, MednafenX-Lynx
what's next?

Enjoy!
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Nemo1985X

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« Reply #1 on: March 20, 2006, 05:07:00 PM »

X-Port is ON FIRE folks , Great job , I just tested it with iso mp3 and I have to say that I miss the hearing the full sound in cd games , legendary axe II works perfect and I don't get that lousy reset bug in ninja gaiden
anymore. Thanks again..

Edit:Ninja Ryukenden (J) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

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« Reply #2 on: March 20, 2006, 05:33:00 PM »

QUOTE(Nemo1985X @ Mar 20 2006, 07:14 PM) *

X-Port is ON FIRE folks (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

 (IMG:style_emoticons/default/muhaha.gif)

Again, thanks for the emulators

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« Reply #3 on: March 20, 2006, 05:29:00 PM »

I also thank you again for your Xbox ports of these emulators.
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« Reply #4 on: March 20, 2006, 06:10:00 PM »

Thank you
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« Reply #5 on: March 20, 2006, 06:19:00 PM »

QUOTE(Nemo1985X @ Mar 20 2006, 07:14 PM) *

...I just tested it with iso mp3 and I have to say that I miss the hearing the full sound in cd games...

I don't understand?  What about the sound isn't full, or is this a typo.
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« Reply #6 on: March 20, 2006, 06:30:00 PM »

(IMG:style_emoticons/default/ohmy.gif)   Man do I have my work cut out for me and making screenpacks....  Thanks and keep up the good work!!!
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pirichios

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« Reply #7 on: March 20, 2006, 07:43:00 PM »

great work xport
just curious does this emulate the "super cd-rom" format?
it seems from your read me that it does but since there are cd-rom and super cd-rom formats i was wondering if it emulates both. Also can anyone tell me how well Dracula X:chi no rondo runs(if it has super cd-rom emulation) if anyone has the chance to try it?
again thanks Xport your awesome
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Nemo1985X

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« Reply #8 on: March 20, 2006, 07:50:00 PM »

This emu supports all known CD formats
It also has full sound support in all CD games

This post has been edited by Nemo1985X: Mar 21 2006, 03:54 AM
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« Reply #9 on: March 20, 2006, 08:18:00 PM »

Hellz yeah!  Ths is the emulator that needed the compatibility upgrade the most.  Thank you so much.  The CD support is incredibl!
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« Reply #10 on: March 20, 2006, 08:50:00 PM »

Every Game i try to load locks up. Is there a a rom setting i don't have right?
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« Reply #11 on: March 20, 2006, 09:23:00 PM »

QUOTE(the-tyrant @ Mar 21 2006, 04:57 AM) *

Every Game i try to load locks up. Is there a a rom setting i don't have right?


OK I figured it out. It wont load a game in 1080i. I changed the settings to 720p and it works fine.

And by the way Xport you are amazing. All three new emulators are great. One of my favorite new features you haver added is the screen sizing. Being able to lock in the aspect ratio is great for people with 16x9 televisions. No more quessing. thanks alot for everything.
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« Reply #12 on: March 20, 2006, 10:21:00 PM »

Woohoo! I'm so glad my emulator request came through. I can't thank you enough. I played around with all three MednafenX emulators for a couple of hours, and everything looks great. I really appreciate all your hard work for the XBox emulation scene - playing 4-player Nekketsu games and Dungeon Explorer rocks. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

Two small questions:

1. How do you use turbo on Mednafen-PCE? I looked in the config and tried everything and couldn't figure it out. Am I just missing something really stupid? Normally I don't use turbo in emulators anyway but since it was part of the standard controller for the TG16, it makes games like Bonk 1 hard to play without it.

2. Is there any way you could add a volume control to the background music, at least in MednafenX-NES? I like the background music but it's considerably louder than the volume in the emulator itself. It's no biggie if you can't - I can always turn it off, after all - but I figure it couldn't hurt to ask.
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« Reply #13 on: March 20, 2006, 10:43:00 PM »

Wow this great stuff. Thanks for the goodies man!
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« Reply #14 on: March 20, 2006, 11:01:00 PM »

QUOTE(lenocinor @ Mar 20 2006, 11:28 PM) *

1. How do you use turbo on Mednafen-PCE? I looked in the config and tried everything and couldn't figure it out. Am I just missing something really stupid? Normally I don't use turbo in emulators anyway but since it was part of the standard controller for the TG16, it makes games like Bonk 1 hard to play without it.


Same way as in HuGoX.  What I did was define two new A and B buttons as Emu Button 28 and Emu Button 29.  Then set Emu 28 and Emu 29 to turbo.  Then set them to XBox buttons Y and B.  I also had to unmap the Option 1 and Option 2 buttons which were set to Xbox Y and B by default... I wasn't sure if the option buttons did anything in this emulator or not.  If they do, I'll map them to something else later.

Anyway, it can be a bit confusing to figure out the configuration, but just poke around a bit in the controller configuration menus and you'll likely get it.  If you need a more detailed explanation I can give it later, but I'm about to go to bed right now  (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

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Xport,

This emulator update is fantastic.  This PCE emulator is 10x better than HuGo.  It plays my favorite PCE game from my childhood (Legendary Axe II) while HuGo did not... and difference in the CD game accuracy is astounding.  No more tweaking CUEs just to get half the audio.  Thanks!

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