MagicEngine

Sean · Visitor Joined: 29 Nov 2002 Posts: 2

Check it out at www.billyjr.com.

Possibly programmed by the wscamp's author (Japanese).

Jabberwok · Posted: Fri Nov 29, 2002 6:05 am Post subject:

From www.magicengine.com 's news section :

Kaminari · Posted: Fri Nov 29, 2002 4:26 pm Post subject: Re: Another PC FX emulator..

Jabberwok · Posted: Fri Nov 29, 2002 11:40 pm Post subject:

Fake, perhaps. But 'this' machine never made it out here ( canada ). Tell me Kaminari, since you guys had the Japanese PC Engine/CoreGrafx, was 'this' machine released in France? Here, we were stuck with the TurboGrafx16, probably 1/2 empty, not to mention the CD-ROM add-on, as big as a house...
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Kaminari · Posted: Mon Dec 02, 2002 1:18 am Post subject:

Well, 'released' wouldn't be the exact word Wink

But yes, it was fairly well imported in France. This is all subjective of course. It wasn't as easily available as the PC Engine and was only sold for a couple of years. Since the PC-FX was released in Japan in late 1994, it wasn't very difficult to get one in France until 1996, when it simply dropped under the radar.

But you could say that it was much easier to get your hands on a PC-FX than on a Marty, for sure Laughing

Sean · Visitor Joined: 29 Nov 2002 Posts: 2

I just want to tell people there is another PC-FX emulator other than the one programmed by the ME authors, nothing more(many people knew it is a PC-FX emulator on the day he posted the news here at www.maginengine.com.)

Well, time will tell if this is a fake or not. If the only thing I could get is this screenshot, I wouldn't believe it either.

I shouldn't post the news here, I am very sorry. Embarassed

Kaminari · Posted: Mon Dec 02, 2002 5:01 am Post subject:

FagEmul · Member Joined: 19 Apr 2002 Posts: 68 Location: France

it's a bad fake and bad composed picture Laughing

same as all news from billyjr
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dmichel · Admin Joined: 04 Apr 2002 Posts: 1166 Location: France

Not sure if it's a fake, this could be true. This image is the last image of the PC-FX logo animation (when it breaks the screen), it's a JPEG movie, the artifacts you saw are normal, I get them in my emulator too, here's a raw screenshot :

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Kaminari · Posted: Tue Dec 03, 2002 9:25 pm Post subject:

Thanks for the clarification, David. I think I really need to go back and have a look at Dan's PC-FX Embarassed

Specineff · Elder Joined: 29 Aug 2002 Posts: 258 Location: Arizona

You know, if there's something I don't understand is how NEC expected this machine to succeed with less polygon processing power then the PSX, and much less 2d capabilities than the Saturn. Not to mention, that it was a STOOPED idea not to make it backwards compatible with the golden goose that was the Super CDROM sytem, IMHO.

Anybody know of a reason why they went ahead with this awkward strategy?

Not that I'm bashing them, but come on... not compatible with the little white Engine that could? (And I don't mean the Dreamcast. Razz

) No Bonk? Legendary Axe? No Devil/Alien Crush with rendered graphics? Sapphire Mk.2? Dungeon Explorer 3? Oh, just to think at how those games would look like... Crying or Very sad

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