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elmer

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Re: Setting up a PC-FXGA
« Reply #30 on: June 07, 2015, 06:07:20 AM »
lol.   We can be the only two coherent PCFX developers.

Looks like you guys won the auction, congratulations!


Truth.

Anyway, I'll get my brother to help create live-action and old-skill frame animation for

BLODIA PC-FX

when you are both ready.

Blodia? ... Nah!  =;

We need Gomola Speed PC-FX!  :pray:

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Re: Setting up a PC-FXGA
« Reply #31 on: June 07, 2015, 08:08:32 AM »
I have many ideas for a PC-FX game

they are all similar to this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGy39OMyHzw
[Fri 19:34]<nectarsis> been wanting to try that one for awhile now Ope
[Fri 19:33]<Opethian> l;ol huge dong

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Re: Setting up a PC-FXGA
« Reply #32 on: June 07, 2015, 08:26:42 AM »
I have many ideas for a PC-FX game

they are all similar to this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGy39OMyHzw

Why do I keep getting the feeling that you have a lot of "ideas" running around inside your head that would get you arrested if they ever came out?  :wink:

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Re: Setting up a PC-FXGA
« Reply #33 on: June 07, 2015, 09:18:14 AM »
I have many ideas for a PC-FX game

they are all similar to this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGy39OMyHzw

Why do I keep getting the feeling that you have a lot of "ideas" running around inside your head that would get you arrested if they ever came out?  :wink:

because that's probably true.

;) lol.
[Fri 19:34]<nectarsis> been wanting to try that one for awhile now Ope
[Fri 19:33]<Opethian> l;ol huge dong

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Re: Setting up a PC-FXGA
« Reply #34 on: June 08, 2015, 04:24:50 AM »

lol.   We can be the only two coherent PCFX developers.

Looks like you guys won the auction, congratulations!


Truth.

Anyway, I'll get my brother to help create live-action and old-skill frame animation for

BLODIA PC-FX

when you are both ready.

Blodia? ... Nah!  =;

We need Gomola Speed PC-FX!  :pray:

Gomola Speed FX is even better. 

IT ALREADY HAS some ARPG elements, so incorporating a QUEST MODE with interactive FMV sequences  wouldn't be such a stretch.



 
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Re: Setting up a PC-FXGA
« Reply #35 on: June 08, 2015, 06:07:55 AM »
If there aren't titties, I'm barely interested.

How about Boobola Speed.

The thing can be a bunch of boobs instead of a snake thing.
[Fri 19:34]<nectarsis> been wanting to try that one for awhile now Ope
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Re: Setting up a PC-FXGA
« Reply #36 on: June 08, 2015, 07:30:30 AM »
If there aren't titties, I'm barely interested.

How about Boobola Speed.

The thing can be a bunch of boobs instead of a snake thing.

Haha ... you can do your Hentai game ... I'll see about doing something where you keep both hands on the FX-PAD!  :wink:

BTW ... the PC-FXGA DOS drivers are now fully in English, so you won't need to hunt up a Japanese version of DOS/Windows to run them.  :)

You'll still need Japanese Win95/Win98 if you want to run the SDK's graphics tools, but I might have a go at localizing those, too, if I get bored.

Those are easier to run in a virtual machine on your main development PC, anyway.

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Re: Setting up a PC-FXGA
« Reply #37 on: June 08, 2015, 07:50:26 AM »
That's useful.   I only ever dicked around with the PC-9800 stuff.   I hope its similar.  This was also about 5 years ago, maybe more.

Ok, it was 8 years ago.  So, I am sure it will be interesting re-remembering stuff.

I'm not going to mess with it until I finish these other projects though.   I'd rather not ADD myself into getting nothing done.

I know Mednafen did some stuff and had the GMAKER tools all sorted and working for us or something, but that was awhile ago too.   The PCFX is such a niche thing that nobody but about 3 of us got excited for it.
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Re: Setting up a PC-FXGA
« Reply #38 on: June 08, 2015, 08:29:12 AM »
That's useful.   I only ever dicked around with the PC-9800 stuff.   I hope its similar.  This was also about 5 years ago, maybe more.

You'll need a real Sound Blaster 16 card (an ISA one, and not a PCI one) in order to hear any CD audio from the emulated CD. A cheap Vibra16 should be OK, but it's not that expensive to get something nicer like an AWE64.

You'll also want a decent network card. The gigabit Intel PRO/1000 MT Desktop PCI card is cheap and rock-solid, with good DOS/Win98 drivers ... but don't get the "Server" version ... and don't get the newer GT version.

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Re: Setting up a PC-FXGA
« Reply #39 on: June 08, 2015, 08:30:26 AM »
Oh, I still have an ISA machine sitting on my floor.   So, I am all set.  It's some clunker tardass Gateway PC that someone threw out that I said "nope, this is mine", and took home.
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Re: Setting up a PC-FXGA
« Reply #40 on: August 12, 2015, 11:13:02 AM »
PM or email (sabre470atyahoo.co.uk) me, if you need help to set your GA, it's been a while since I've done mine but I'm sure I can dust off my memory ;)
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Re: Setting up a PC-FXGA
« Reply #41 on: August 12, 2015, 04:46:08 PM »
PM or email (sabre470atyahoo.co.uk) me, if you need help to set your GA, it's been a while since I've done mine but I'm sure I can dust off my memory ;)

Thanks, I've got the basic PC-FXGA working fine ... it wasn't as tough as I'd feared.

I still haven't tried making an emulated CD yet ... did you ever figure out that process?

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Re: Setting up a PC-FXGA
« Reply #42 on: August 13, 2015, 08:42:12 AM »
I've not looked into making cd images, not sure there is a program for that. I know you can create EX files. I believe though not entirely sure that you can send program to a PC-FX via the SCSI interface, I've not tried it though. Which dev kit are you using? GMAKER or GMAKER PLUS? I'll have  look at the programming guide see if I can find anything and let you know.


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Re: Setting up a PC-FXGA
« Reply #43 on: August 13, 2015, 09:57:55 AM »
I've not looked into making cd images, not sure there is a program for that. I know you can create EX files. I believe though not entirely sure that you can send program to a PC-FX via the SCSI interface, I've not tried it though. Which dev kit are you using? GMAKER or GMAKER PLUS? I'll have  look at the programming guide see if I can find anything and let you know.

I guess that making CD images is mostly for developer-types, and there aren't many of those around!

The tools are definitely there, FXGASYS2.TXT explains the process but, as-usual, google-translate is making such a mess of it that I can barely understand what it's saying.

I've installed the 2 drivers for the emulation (audio and cdrom), but I haven't actually fed them an image yet ... perhaps I should just try feeding them the Zeroigar files, and then see just what happens.

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Re: Setting up a PC-FXGA
« Reply #44 on: August 13, 2015, 10:04:02 AM »
Drivers? There aren't drivers per se to drive the board. Everything runs in DOS mode using the exe you get on the floppy disk unless my memory is going blank :) you can either feed it cd games or EX files. There's a lot of explore and I've just scratched the surface, keep me posted on any findings, please. :)


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