craiganderson Posted January 7, 2014 Share Posted January 7, 2014 I'm going to work on adding this system to my Hyperspin. I really love using MESS or Mednafen for the ease of gaining access to the settings and altering the controllers etc. What the best emulator for this system? The choices are in the attached image. thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trnzaddict Posted January 7, 2014 Share Posted January 7, 2014 I've always used Magic Engine ever since it came out. Mednafen I heard is pretty decent but let's face it if the author of Magic Engine is charging money for it you know he cares about the software and IMO it shows. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diddy702 Posted January 7, 2014 Share Posted January 7, 2014 magic engine!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DR9 Posted January 7, 2014 Share Posted January 7, 2014 OOtake works for me if yo don't want to pay. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bubsy54 Posted January 7, 2014 Share Posted January 7, 2014 OOtake works for me if yo don't want to pay. I agree...Ootake is fantastic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mesk Posted January 7, 2014 Share Posted January 7, 2014 I only play maybe 10 or so NEC-CD games and mednafen plays them all fine Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DamnedRegistrations Posted January 7, 2014 Share Posted January 7, 2014 I remember a similar topic to this and I'd like to repeat -- Mednafen by miles. Works perfect for every game I've tried. Charging users for an emulator is incredibly lame and a complete waste of money, especially with so many free, open-source and regularly updated emulators around today. You can also even rewind Turbo CD games with Medna. Not to mention all the other systems it accurately emulates. You could try RetroArch too with the PCE cores, probably works just as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
craiganderson Posted January 7, 2014 Author Share Posted January 7, 2014 these roms are hard to find not asking where to find them just making an observation.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trnzaddict Posted January 8, 2014 Share Posted January 8, 2014 I remember a similar topic to this and I'd like to repeat -- Mednafen by miles. Works perfect for every game I've tried.Charging users for an emulator is incredibly lame and a complete waste of money, especially with so many free, open-source and regularly updated emulators around today. You can also even rewind Turbo CD games with Medna. Not to mention all the other systems it accurately emulates. You could try RetroArch too with the PCE cores, probably works just as well. Who says we paid *Cough*UG*Cough* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brolly Posted January 8, 2014 Share Posted January 8, 2014 Mednafen without a doubt. Ootake is also good. Magic Engine while it should play most games perfectly fine is old, not really updated anymore and not as accurate as Mednafen. Just because someone charges money for something doesn't mean it's better than a freeware alternative Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nitussi Posted January 10, 2014 Share Posted January 10, 2014 Now if only I could get some decent pc engine scd themes for hyperspin, I have more than 130 cd, super cd, and arcade card cd's. For a long time the pc engine was my favorite console. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trailervert Posted January 12, 2014 Share Posted January 12, 2014 I have to agree with Brolly on this one. Women that charge money vs women that don't. BTW I use Mednafen. It works great with the ones I play. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dark13 Posted January 13, 2014 Share Posted January 13, 2014 My 2 cents: if you really care about your customers you would add mp3 support for pc-engine cd instead of babbling about piracy. No pce-CD game is still printed and games like sapphire or castelvania does have crazy prices. Some years ago I would say magic engine but right now I find ootake to be really good. Sadly no emulator supports iso+mp3 so a pce-cd collection is a bit space-consuming... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DamnedRegistrations Posted January 13, 2014 Share Posted January 13, 2014 Sadly no emulator supports iso+mp3 so a pce-cd collection is a bit space-consuming... I'm towards the end of a translated "Castlevania - Rondo of Blood" using Mednafen. The patched rip I'm using is cue + iso + wavs, and the folder size is only 489 MB. Not much larger than a regular bin + cue CD game. My "Beyond Shadowgate" bin + cue rip for example is 445 MB. Perhaps other games are larger though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dark13 Posted January 13, 2014 Share Posted January 13, 2014 Yes, tipical ISO romset space usage. But kega fusion uses iso+mp3 heart of the alien is 46,3MB and even silpheed is "only" 331MB. Most pce-cd games uses space mainly for music, as far as I remember pce-cd could not do full motion video Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gadget2k Posted January 14, 2014 Share Posted January 14, 2014 Mendafen is good, but I have a full version of magic engine(that I didn't buy). I like how easy it is to setup magic engine as apposed to mendafen. If you can sit through 7700 plus lines in mendafen config file then you are good. If I can recall correctly you don't have to mount ISO images with mendafen but you have to with magic engine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DamnedRegistrations Posted January 14, 2014 Share Posted January 14, 2014 Everything in Mednafen's config is easy to find, plus it does have a built-in UI for setting up keybinds. There's a third party GUI you can also use but I never tried it or needed it: http://forum.fobby.net/index.php?t=msg&th=924&start=0& Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
craiganderson Posted February 24, 2014 Author Share Posted February 24, 2014 magic engine!!! magic engine (pce) or magic engine (pcfx)?? than ks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
craiganderson Posted February 24, 2014 Author Share Posted February 24, 2014 Mendafen is good, but I have a full version of magic engine(that I didn't buy). I like how easy it is to setup magic engine as apposed to mendafen. If you can sit through 7700 plus lines in mendafen config file then you are good. If I can recall correctly you don't have to mount ISO images with mendafen but you have to with magic engine. is this true? thbanks craig Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bandit721 Posted February 24, 2014 Share Posted February 24, 2014 is this true?thbanks craig Yes, it's true. With ME you need to use DT Lite to mount ISO images, with Mednafen you don't. I used to use ME but the DT Lite config was always a little flaky so I tried Mednafen and have never looked back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alcoatjez Posted February 24, 2014 Share Posted February 24, 2014 Sadly no emulator supports iso+mp3 so a pce-cd collection is a bit space-consuming... True that no emulator supports it, but it's not really an issue with the current HD prices. I'm currently working on a complete set based on TruRip and .bin/.cue and it will be around 50 Gb 7zipped. Verstuurd vanaf mijn GT-I9300 met Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
craiganderson Posted February 24, 2014 Author Share Posted February 24, 2014 Yes, it's true. With ME you need to use DT Lite to mount ISO images, with Mednafen you don't. I used to use ME but the DT Lite config was always a little flaky so I tried Mednafen and have never looked back. i will not be looking back either....mednafen rocks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BamBam Posted March 2, 2014 Share Posted March 2, 2014 I'm going to work on adding this system to my Hyperspin. I really love using MESS or Mednafen for the ease of gaining access to the settings and altering the controllers etc. What the best emulator for this system? The choices are in the attached image. thanks Magic Engine Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fieldgoal00 Posted June 21, 2014 Share Posted June 21, 2014 I can't get Mednafen to run PC-ENGINE-CD roms. I installed the bios for it in the firmware folder and it won't run. All my PC-ENGINE games work fine on Mednafen but the PC-ENGINE CD system won't work. When I extract my 7z files for the roms, I'm left with img, sub and ccd file extensions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fieldgoal00 Posted June 21, 2014 Share Posted June 21, 2014 This is the error message I get when I try to launch a game through hyperlaunch for NEC PC Engine-CD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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