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Post by Arjak on May 30, 2007 19:28:06 GMT -5
I am SO SICK of the insane prices of Turbo Duos on ebay! I don't have that kind of money!
I've made up my mind; I think I want to buy Magic Engine.
Does anyone have anything to say before I do so? Warnings? Praise? Comments?
In short, am I making a good decision?
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Post by Falcom Director of Fanservice on May 30, 2007 21:09:06 GMT -5
Well.
You're paying money for an emulator.
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Post by Arjak on May 30, 2007 22:12:09 GMT -5
Yes, I do plan to buy some CD games for it.
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Post by SkyeWelse on May 31, 2007 2:00:11 GMT -5
I play most of my emulated stuff via the MednafenX Turbo-16/PC-Engine emulator for the modified Xbox. It's great since it emulates most of the games fairly well and it allows you to play it fullscreen on your television just as though you had the original console hooked up. You don't have to fiddle around with your audio/wave sound setups so that it syncs up with Magic Engine, save states and screenshot grabs are a lot easier access on a controller, you have the option of booting a game directly from the original Super CD-Rom Disc and you can store quite a few PC-Engine games on the Harddrive to play at the touch of a button.
Also, though it might be a bit of a confusing process to convert them, Magic Engine save states and .srm save files are compatible with the MednafenX emulator and vice versa.
Magic Engine is a wonderful emulator, but as Capt'n said, you have to pay for it or it shuts down on you every 4-5 minutes and in my experience with it I've found it to be a chore to get the wave sounds such as voiceovers to sync with my computers audio hardware. MednafenX is just better and easier to use. Also if you put the games on the Xbox harddrive, MedX will read mp3 files, but Magic Engine will only read wave files, so the game directories become a lot larger than they need to be if you are planning on creating a directory of games.
-SkyeWelse
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Post by Arjak on May 31, 2007 18:15:13 GMT -5
I don't have an X-Box, and I never plan to get one. I hate them! I used to have one at a school I used to go to, and it always would fade in and out. Then we got a 360 and it broken within a month. Got the red semi-circle of doom. So, no. I don't think that's an option. Sorry.
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Post by SkyeWelse on May 31, 2007 19:02:15 GMT -5
Well, just throwing it out there. I'm not sure if you've ever had the opportunity to mess with an Xbox that has been modified but I would like to clarify that the original Xbox is a fairly cheap investment compared to purchasing Turbo-Duo/PC-Engine hardware and there is quite a substantial difference between just an 'xbox' and a 'modified Xbox'. The former is an adequate console system for playing a handful of interesting Xbox games, the latter includes all of that as well as becoming a mega-emulation machine/media center that you can customize like you would a computer. If it wasn't for all of the interesting open source programs that the Xbox modding scene puts out for mod boxes, I doubt I'd be interested enough to purchase an Xbox just for itself aside from a burning desire to play Panzer Dragoon Orta and Phantom Dust.
-SkyeWelse
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Post by Falcom Director of Fanservice on May 31, 2007 19:53:54 GMT -5
Modded Xboxes are pretty sweet, I should note. Skyewelse knows where his towel is, talking about that.
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Post by Red Hairdo on Jun 1, 2007 15:59:43 GMT -5
I suggest you get Magic Engine. My PCE broke (only the CD device though) years ago and I'm not crazy enough to buy another one.
The emulator is "perfect", I think the only game that doesn't run well is Snatcher....though I just heard that, it might be false ; )
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