Turbo Engine 16 emulator by AamirM
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Well, I guess I didn't really make it clear. But anyways, don't lose hope. You can still use 0.3, which doesn't require SSE2. You can get it from here. Thanks to EmuWiki for archiving these old emulator releases.Guess I didn't see the system requirements posted anywhere, figured I was missing something. Thanks.
Yeah, I guess I could do that.It could use a simple CPUID check on startup to alert the user that their system isn't up to snuff. Maybe.
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I've had some time to sit down and test a handful of my PCE/TG16 CDs. Tried them in BIN/CUE format and also playing from the original disc. I've experienced the same compatibility and bugs/glitches in both formats.
Just for the record, I'm running Windows 7 x64 RC.
One annoying bug in particular is an audio buzzing (and popping) found in certain CD games. The titles in which I have experienced the audio buzzing are: Altered Beast, Download 2, Last Alert, Ane-san, Final Zone II, Hellfire, Ys III, Psychic Storm, Puyo Puyo CD, and Star Parodia. I have other games that I haven't tried, but those are the ones I have tried so far and noticed the problem. It usually happens during fading screen transitions, but happens other times as well. For example, in Last Alert, once the gameplay starts, the buzzing begins and doesn't end until the stage end. Then once the next stage loads up, the buzzing begins again.
There's an odd bug in Altered Beast. When it comes time to meet the boss of Stage 1, he never appears.
The triple game disc with Gate of Thunder, Bonk's Adventure, and Bonk's Revenge will load up the initial menu, but will not load any of the games.
Loom complains about memory initialization upon loading. I used Tennokoe Memory Bank to initialize the memory (this method worked for Mitsubachi Gakuen) and then reloaded the game. Loom then just shows a black screen.
Prince of Persia gives a Load Error on the initial CD-ROM System screen.
A minor bug that I just happened to notice. When Redefining the keys, clicking the Cancel button will cause the program to crash.
Hope to get more time to try out the other games. Really enjoying the emulator and thank you so much for all of the great work!
Just for the record, I'm running Windows 7 x64 RC.
One annoying bug in particular is an audio buzzing (and popping) found in certain CD games. The titles in which I have experienced the audio buzzing are: Altered Beast, Download 2, Last Alert, Ane-san, Final Zone II, Hellfire, Ys III, Psychic Storm, Puyo Puyo CD, and Star Parodia. I have other games that I haven't tried, but those are the ones I have tried so far and noticed the problem. It usually happens during fading screen transitions, but happens other times as well. For example, in Last Alert, once the gameplay starts, the buzzing begins and doesn't end until the stage end. Then once the next stage loads up, the buzzing begins again.
There's an odd bug in Altered Beast. When it comes time to meet the boss of Stage 1, he never appears.
The triple game disc with Gate of Thunder, Bonk's Adventure, and Bonk's Revenge will load up the initial menu, but will not load any of the games.
Loom complains about memory initialization upon loading. I used Tennokoe Memory Bank to initialize the memory (this method worked for Mitsubachi Gakuen) and then reloaded the game. Loom then just shows a black screen.
Prince of Persia gives a Load Error on the initial CD-ROM System screen.
A minor bug that I just happened to notice. When Redefining the keys, clicking the Cancel button will cause the program to crash.
Hope to get more time to try out the other games. Really enjoying the emulator and thank you so much for all of the great work!
).I meant to mention in my last post... there is a graphic layer not showing in Last Alert. There's a Gameplay video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JihVbVMm7hc
Just skip to 3:30 to view the gameplay. In the video, you'll see a black bar at the bottom with energy, exp, weapon, etc. That bar does not show up when using Turbo Engine.
Thanks again!
Just skip to 3:30 to view the gameplay. In the video, you'll see a black bar at the bottom with energy, exp, weapon, etc. That bar does not show up when using Turbo Engine.
Thanks again!
I had some time to look at the problems you reported over the weekend. Here are the results (note that I only used BIN/CUE rips):
You are probably using Japanese version with USA bios or vice versa. Otherwise it works fine for me.
I couldn't check out Altered Beast. I will check that and Last Alert problem as well soon. Thanks for taking the time to find out these bugs
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They are working fine here. Make sure you have a good rip.The triple game disc with Gate of Thunder, Bonk's Adventure, and Bonk's Revenge will load up the initial menu, but will not load any of the games.
.Loom complains about memory initialization upon loading. I used Tennokoe Memory Bank to initialize the memory (this method worked for Mitsubachi Gakuen) and then reloaded the game. Loom then just shows a black screen
You are probably using Japanese version with USA bios or vice versa. Otherwise it works fine for me.
Again, this is working perfect here. Make sure you have a good rip.Prince of Persia gives a Load Error on the initial CD-ROM System screen.
I couldn't check out Altered Beast. I will check that and Last Alert problem as well soon. Thanks for taking the time to find out these bugs
.You're absolutely right. I retested these three games in my wife's laptop and they all ran perfectly. This is the 2nd DVD-ROM drive I've purchased for my desktop PC in hopes that I'd find one that would read a mixed CD properly.
Even IsoBuster said that those 3 games ripped properly with no errors. Argh. Guess I'll just need to rerip all of my games using the laptop.
Sorry for the bogus bug reports. I did retest Altered Beast to make sure that wasn't due to a disc read error and that bug really exists... the stage boss will not appear.
Even IsoBuster said that those 3 games ripped properly with no errors. Argh. Guess I'll just need to rerip all of my games using the laptop.
Sorry for the bogus bug reports. I did retest Altered Beast to make sure that wasn't due to a disc read error and that bug really exists... the stage boss will not appear.
Did you try the included CD ripper? Maybe that would've worked.LordFlux wrote:You're absolutely right. I retested these three games in my wife's laptop and they all ran perfectly. This is the 2nd DVD-ROM drive I've purchased for my desktop PC in hopes that I'd find one that would read a mixed CD properly.
Even IsoBuster said that those 3 games ripped properly with no errors. Argh. Guess I'll just need to rerip all of my games using the laptop.
Sorry for the bogus bug reports. I did retest Altered Beast to make sure that wasn't due to a disc read error and that bug really exists... the stage boss will not appear.
Tried ripping a couple of games using Turbo Engine's built-in ripper and couldn't get either game to play once it was ripped. Ended up with a cdrom.cue file, track1.wav, track2.iso, then several other track files for the game's audio tracks.
When I clicked Load CD-ROM and browsed to the cdrom.cue file for the game I ripped, it would give me a "Error while loading CDROM game. If you are using a physical CD drive, make sure there is a CD in it." box.
Speaking of which, you may want to have a "Game Rip Complete" dialog box or something to pop up after the rip completes. I waited awhile and wasn't sure if the rip was complete because I never got any kind of confirmation.
Here's the cdrom.cue file for Altered Beast if you wanna take a look at it:
http://users.nlamerica.com/dixiebai/cdrom.cue
Nothing much to see there. All files were in the same folder.
When I clicked Load CD-ROM and browsed to the cdrom.cue file for the game I ripped, it would give me a "Error while loading CDROM game. If you are using a physical CD drive, make sure there is a CD in it." box.
Speaking of which, you may want to have a "Game Rip Complete" dialog box or something to pop up after the rip completes. I waited awhile and wasn't sure if the rip was complete because I never got any kind of confirmation.
Here's the cdrom.cue file for Altered Beast if you wanna take a look at it:
http://users.nlamerica.com/dixiebai/cdrom.cue
Nothing much to see there. All files were in the same folder.
No. There is not even a Linux port right now. And the SSE1 capable CPUs aren't powerful enough anyway to run Turbo Engine.kick wrote:Is there a Linux build of Turbo Engine for older (SSE1 only) CPUs?
I am working on solving both of these issues (the Linux port and speed). And both of these should be solved in 0.4 release. However the 0.4 release will take a while since my current priority is Regen.
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Re: German Translation
Thank you very much. I have uploaded and linked it from Turbo Engine homepage.
first of all Aarmi, thank you for making this EMU, it has potential to EASILY be THE BEST turbo pcengine emulator out there. I have 2 issues though.
First as you have already heard, the sound issue on CD games, hopefully you can fix this on your next update. The sound on Ys 4 is messed up.
NUMBER TWO big issue GAMEPAD/JOYSTICK INPUT... the hucards work fine with my USB gamepad, but both Ys and Dracula X have been giving me problems with the gamepad.
Neither have the directional pad working correctly, and in Dracula X NOTHING works correctly as far as gamepad input goes.
I was playing the HuCard Strip Fighter2 and the response was a bit off. I could not do any "haduken" motion specials consistently only sometimes would they actually fire, where in Magic Engine all the specials work effortlessly. Something is wrong with the Joypad Input
Thank u, cant wait for the next update... YOU CAN MAKE THIS THE BEST EMULATOR OUT THERE for the TG16/PCengineFX I HAVE FAITH!!!!!!!!!
First as you have already heard, the sound issue on CD games, hopefully you can fix this on your next update. The sound on Ys 4 is messed up.
NUMBER TWO big issue GAMEPAD/JOYSTICK INPUT... the hucards work fine with my USB gamepad, but both Ys and Dracula X have been giving me problems with the gamepad.
Neither have the directional pad working correctly, and in Dracula X NOTHING works correctly as far as gamepad input goes.
I was playing the HuCard Strip Fighter2 and the response was a bit off. I could not do any "haduken" motion specials consistently only sometimes would they actually fire, where in Magic Engine all the specials work effortlessly. Something is wrong with the Joypad Input
Thank u, cant wait for the next update... YOU CAN MAKE THIS THE BEST EMULATOR OUT THERE for the TG16/PCengineFX I HAVE FAITH!!!!!!!!!
OK, well this was weird. Last night the joypad went haywire on all the games including HuCards. The joypad was not haywire in any other program only TurboEngine
I tried it today, i guess restarting the system fixed the bug, whatever made it go haywire it is not doing it today. DraculaX along with all the other hucards and CDrom games worked fine.
I suppose the only issue now is the response of the joypad in the fighting game, still could not get a special move off in stripfighter.
I tried it today, i guess restarting the system fixed the bug, whatever made it go haywire it is not doing it today. DraculaX along with all the other hucards and CDrom games worked fine.
I suppose the only issue now is the response of the joypad in the fighting game, still could not get a special move off in stripfighter.
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Yeah, I haven't released the fixed build yet. I am targeting on releasing the normal, debugger enabled and the Linux port all at the same time for the next release. Plus, Turbo Engine's priority is quite low on my list right now since its seen some releases and some other projects that I've started need my attention as well. So it may take a lot of time before the next release. So I've been thinking to do a small release fixing this, and maybe the controller bug.
What do you guys think?
What do you guys think?