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I've been looking at Cosmic Fantasy 2 at Working Design's web site for a while now. I'm close to making the plunge, but I haven't had a Duo in many years.
Can anyone confirm that Magic Engine can play Cosmic Fantasy 2? Are there any games that it cannot play? And are there any emulators better than Magic Engine that I should get instead?
Magic Engine is definately the best, I haven't heard of any compatibility problems either.
Yeah Magic Engine is great. The long awaited 1.0 version is supposed to be released in Nov. which will fix the XP audio probs.
Course, if you don't want to pay. There's always Yame.
I can never get Magic Engine to play in an unfiltered 15 kHz graphics mode....And yes, my PC card does 15 kHz and is connected to a 15 kHz monitor. It was such a pain in the ass that I broke down and RGB modded my PCEngine.
Most emus don't give me any trouble in this area. Anybody ever get sucessful Turbo emulation at 15 kHz unfiltered?
Mame is great I love it, but since getting the latest version I don't get audio from cd games.
Edit yea I meant MAgic Engine lol.
Magic Engine is good...but Yame is better :)
Can it read zipped files?Quote:
Originally Posted by FPM
I believe so....I havent used it in a while. All I know is that it plays Dracula X very nicely :)
Unfortunately, Yame has the same problem Magic Engine has in Win XP...no digital audio. You have to use an audio cable from your cd drive to your soundcard. Eh..I am not putting a cable in just for an emulator so I'll wait for the new Magic Engine coming out in november.
Surprised to see so little in regards to Turboduo/PC Engine CD emulation out there. Outside of Magic Engine, YAME and I guess Hu-Go! I don't see too much out there.
the new release of magic engine which is due in a month or two will have digital audio support. it's well worth the $18 or whatever it costs, IMO. just make sure you get the ROM images of the real system cards, because the ones that they made aren't 100% accurate.
BTW, cosmic fantasy 2 was fun at the time but it's unimaginably tedious and basic by today's standards. even back then, we were playing it mainly to see the cinemas, not to enjoy the gameplay. i have a hard time imagining it's much fun today.
Buy Exile instead.Quote:
Originally Posted by RoleTroll
I already played it and won it, back in the day. I want to play Wicked Phenomenon, but WD no longer sells it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Melf
I still need to play WP.
CF2 is really dated and tedious. It suffers from the "step and fight" random battle syndrome that older RPGs had. Gets really annoying after a while.
True, but I tried Spriggan on it recently and I had audio problems with syscard3.pce yet the MagicSystem driver played it perfectly. It can't be the only one, I bet there are some other games where ME's drivers work better.Quote:
Originally Posted by ferricide
I hardly ever use the emu anymore, since the only benefit it has over my Duo is a slightly better picture (relatively new VGA monitor vs. old RGB monitor). I'll check out ME 1.0 if they give me a free upgrade since I'm registered, but if not, meh.
my duo is starting to show its age and i don't want to spend $200 on a replacement, so i'm patiently waiting for the next version of ME that will allow me to play with CD audio under XP. then i'll be happy.
I bought Cosmic Fantasy 2 from WD and Exile 2 from Ebay. CF2 works great (though no sound), but Exile 2 only shows some initial text then returns to a black screen. Does the game not work with Magic Engine or do I have a bad disc?
Nevermind, figured it out, installed the real system card rom and it works just fine.
New version of Magic Engine is coming in mid-November. It'll have digital sound for XP users like me. Hopefully it'll clean up a few of the bugs (like the Dracula X color bug in one of the stages with Richter being totally blue).
Magic Engine is the only PCE emu worth it's salt, but it is very, very good. Probably why he can get away with charging for it.
I haven't played very hard core, and I won't until the new Magic Engine comes out. I just wanted to make sure the games played. I got Wicked Phenomenon for $20 on Ebay, but the seller didn't guarantee it worked. Happy to learn it works just fine.
As has already been pointed out, the sound effects work on the games, but the CD audio doesn't play at all. It's not fun watching cinemas without sound.