Pc Engine Cd emulation???

[demondude777]

One game I've tried that works great on PCE is r-type (complete cd version), again its got loada cool animations and mp3 sounds throughout the game... check it!

Yay,,,I was going to try that next! I also have Far East of Eden and Record of Lodoss War II. I may try those, but there is no translation patch for them...

[Arm]

To easily rip a PCE CD, you can you use a program called TurboRip which allows you to rip you PCE CD games in a format (iso+mp3+toc) that can be directly recognized by the PCEP 7.0 emulator.
You have to use the command prompt to rip the game

- Put the TurboRip folder at the root of C:

- Open a command prompt (from Start/Accessory)and type " CD TurboRip " to reach to TurboRip folder,

( No need to type anything else as the TurboRip folder is at the root of the C: directory)

- Then type " TurboRip /? " to make appear the different commands.

- Press enter to make appear additional commands like "PCEP"

- To choose a command, for example PCEP, type " TurboRip/PCEP "

- Then choose the number of the CD/DVD drive where the original game is found to rip the game.

I already ripped some games this way and it works.

However there will still be audio stutters during mp3 playback (it's due to the emulator)


turborip download

http://nick.serveblog.net/index.php?...rboRipV100.rar

[Baboon]

Easter Egg number two for Dracula X:

Try loading the game with the "Super CD-ROM2 System V2.00 (J).pce"...instead of the version 3.00 which normally runs the game in the emulator....

You will then be taken to an alternate Castlevania dimension...Enjoy!

I've just tried this, and your dead right that its another dimension! lol ...I thought it was a complete mini-game at first with the cute sprites and random backgrounds! lol

Any idea what the text is in the background at the end (or is it just saying get the newer system version)? ...or what the girl character is saying when you meet her? ....I've tried beating her with my whip (), but nothing really happens.

Nice egg.

[althena77]

Any idea what the text is in the background at the end (or is it just saying get the newer system version)? ...or what the girl character is saying when you meet her?

Not sure if you can call it an Easter egg as this "secret level" is quite famous
The text at the end means just as you already guessed, that for this game is a "Super CD Rom 2" game and you should "please" use the Super System Card. Normally games produced for the Super System Card would just show you this text when you try to play it with an older System Card, with a nice artwork, but Konami here had this funny idea to make this strange short level; maybe they hoped to shock some people with this

This girl at the end is Maria, the second playable character in the real game you can rescue in the second stage. I don't remember right now, what she was saying there at the end, but I can check this again later. I don't think it was something special, maybe just something like "Oh my god", "What a pity" or "Sorry."

By the way, how is the quality of the MP3s for you when you play Dracula X and R-Type in PCE? When I tested Dracula X and Ys I-II on PCE the audio tracks didn't work very gook. They were stuttering, didn't loop when finished ones and often when I entered a different location the music didn't change. Is it working better for you?

[althena77]

or what the girl character is saying when you meet her?

OK, checked it again and what she says is "gomenne" what means "Sorry!" and is a short and less formal version of "gomennasai" what you could translate as "I am very sorry!"

I think they let her say "gomenne" to let her look more like a little child she is that still doesn't know how to speak polite, because the text in the background is more formal, but maybe she is also not speaking to the player/customer but to Richter.

[Baboon]

Not sure if you can call it an Easter egg as this "secret level" is quite famous
The text at the end means just as you already guessed, that for this game is a "Super CD Rom 2" game and you should "please" use the Super System Card. Normally games produced for the Super System Card would just show you this text when you try to play it with an older System Card, with a nice artwork, but Konami here had this funny idea to make this strange short level; maybe they hoped to shock some people with this

This girl at the end is Maria, the second playable character in the real game you can rescue in the second stage. I don't remember right now, what she was saying there at the end, but I can check this again later. I don't think it was something special, maybe just something like "Oh my god", "What a pity" or "Sorry."

By the way, how is the quality of the MP3s for you when you play Dracula X and R-Type in PCE? When I tested Dracula X and Ys I-II on PCE the audio tracks didn't work very gook. They were stuttering, didn't loop when finished ones and often when I entered a different location the music didn't change. Is it working better for you?

The sounds for DrackX and Rtype sound spot on to me with PCE. I've converted em to: sample rate 44100 and Bitrate 128. All the mp3s seem to play fine without stuttering at all!

Thnaks for the egg info on DrackX.

[Apoklepz]

Not sure if you can call it an Easter egg as this "secret level" is quite famous

By the way, how is the quality of the MP3s for you when you play Dracula X and R-Type in PCE? When I tested Dracula X and Ys I-II on PCE the audio tracks didn't work very gook. They were stuttering, didn't loop when finished ones and often when I entered a different location the music didn't change. Is it working better for you?

Quite famous?...lol. Yeah, not everybody around here knows their PC Engine stuff as well as you and me, mate...Some might even think it's an emulator for PC games...That's why I labeled it "Easter Egg" in the first place.

Mp3 quality in the last version of PCE for PSP is quite frankly what you posted, I'm afraid...Stuttering tracks that don't loop when finished. This emulator is wailing for an update. You might also notice that the games run much smoother when the tracks stop playing, or if there's simply no BG music playing at all. The only tunes that play nice are in the rooms where you are about to face a boss, because they were built into the iso parts of the game.

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The sounds for DrackX and Rtype sound spot on to me with PCE. I've converted em to: sample rate 44100 and Bitrate 128. All the mp3s seem to play fine without stuttering at all!

Whaaa?! You crazy Baboon!...I hope you speak truth! I might have to check the bitrate on my tracks, but I do remember having them converted to a sample rate of 44100....That's weird .

[althena77]

The sounds for DrackX and Rtype sound spot on to me with PCE. I've converted em to: sample rate 44100 and Bitrate 128. All the mp3s seem to play fine without stuttering at all!

Wow, this sounds great, so no stuttering, the music also loops after finishing the track once and also doesn't fail to switch to another track when you enter another stage???

If it really works so great for you, please tell me:

- which version of PCEP do you use? 0.7 or an older version?

- what are your video/audio settings in PCEP? Did you change something there or did it work just with the default settings?

- which program did you use for creating the mp3s, cddissect or another one?

[Apoklepz]

OK, I managed to get the MP3 tracks to run crystal clear with Baboon's format description...still, they don't loop at all when the track is done...I used Audacity, since it's freeware...Good luck with this, althena77...use the default settings on the emu's last version 0.7.

[demondude777]

But for Drac X they only play for a while and then stop...no looping or anything. As I recall the songs loop in the game normally.