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FluBBa · Moderator Joined: 14 Feb 2004 Posts: 2047 Location: GBG

Thought I set this up before it gets too messy.
Check PC-Engine TOC DataBase for what games are CD-ROM / Super CD-ROM.

Working CD-ROM Games:
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Addams Family, The (U): Ok, fullscreen images flicker.
Altered Beast: Ok.
Cosmic Fantasy 2: Ok, the whole game won't fit though.
Download 2 (J): Ok.
Final Zone II: Ok, stops at the end of the intro if not skipped.
Golden Axe (J): Ok.
Hellfire S (J): Ok.
Macross 2036 (J): Ok.
MineSweeper (J): Ok.
Monster Lair: Ok.
Ranma ½ Datou, Ganso Musabetsu Kakutou-Ryuu!: Ok.
Rayxanber II (J): Ok, some palette problems, "Game Over" screen corrupt.
Red Alert (J): Ok (same as Last Alert (U)).
Road Spirits: Ok
Space Fantasy Zone (J/U): Ok
Splash Lake (U): Ok
Spriggan (J): Allmost Ok, crashed(?) after the 3rd level.
Super Darius: Ok, Same as the Hucard version?
Valis II: Ok, stops at the end of the intro if not skipped. Hangs after first Boss.
Ys Book 1 & 2: Ok.

Non Working Games:

Exile (U): Crashes at first fight. (V6.6)
Fighting Street: Locks up at fight.

Working Super CD-ROM Games:
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Cotton - Fantastic Night Dream (U): Ok
Double Dragon 2: Ok
Dracula X (J): Ok
Forgotten Worlds (J): Ok
Genocide (J): Ok
Gradius 2 (J): Ok
Image Fight 2: Ok
Lords of Thunder (J): Ok
Neo-Nectaris (J): Ok
Nexzr (J): Ok
Rayxanber III (J): Ok
Riot Zone: Ok
R-Type Complete CD (J): Ok.
Shadow of the Beast (U): Ok, some flicker in intro.

Non Working Games:

Conan (J): Only Intro working.
Loom (U): Flickering graphics.

Feel free to add more comments.
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Weaver1497 · Member Joined: 17 Feb 2004 Posts: 59

Valis III (J) works great a little glitchy at first but you can get in game.

darkturkey2 · Member Joined: 07 Jan 2005 Posts: 7

Valis 2 crashes after the first boss is beaten

errr i guess that was already there....

megid · Member Joined: 15 Feb 2005 Posts: 1 Location: alisaIII

Ranma 3 (Ranma ½ Datou, Ganso Musabetsu Kakutou-Ryuu!, CD-ROM2/Super CD-ROM2 compatible) seems to work great, and speed is very good.

Great work Flubba!

joeychizzel · Member Joined: 07 Feb 2006 Posts: 2

any chance of porting over neo-nectaris? Smile

FluBBa · Moderator Joined: 14 Feb 2004 Posts: 2047 Location: GBG

"porting over"?
I don't do ports I do emulators. Just tested Neo-Nectaris and it works allright, screen is too wide (320) but speed is very good.
The only problem is you need a EZIII flashcard (or maybe a SuperCard, but noone can tell me if the SC version works or not).
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nyuk1998 · Member Joined: 05 Nov 2005 Posts: 111 Location: oHIo

Is that Neo-Nectaris, or Nectaris? All I could find was Nectaris - and it does work on the supercard.

FluBBa · Moderator Joined: 14 Feb 2004 Posts: 2047 Location: GBG

nyuk1998 · Member Joined: 05 Nov 2005 Posts: 111 Location: oHIo

I've googled it with no luck. I can't find Dracula X either. But aside from that, I haven't had any problems with any other PCE games on the supercard.

FluBBa · Moderator Joined: 14 Feb 2004 Posts: 2047 Location: GBG

Koji · Member Joined: 11 Mar 2004 Posts: 738

I just picked up a copy of Dracula X. I'll try it tonight and tell you how it goes. Is that supercard version specific to CF or SD? Or either version will work?

-edit- Having problems tracking down a cd-system rom so it'll take little while.

-edit 2- Put the super CD system rom and gradius 2 into the builder, did the copy /b pcebuild+Track02.iso draculaX.gba and put it on my supercard and I got a purple screen. Though if I held down the L and R buttons the menu came up all right.

Thinking maybe this version reads directly from the supercard I put the .pce files in the root of the SD card. Still got a purple screen.

Remembering that homebrew often needs patched with the supercard software, I tried that with the same results.

Feeling frustrated I decided to download the non-supercard version to see if I could get that working with the gradius rom at least. I tried everything I mentioned above with this version with the same result each time (I didn't bother adding the ISO file to the non-supercard version. I was just trying to get gradius to work)

So now I'm feeling pretty stupid because I know I should at least be able to play at least the standard version... but whenever and however I load it, I can get the menu with L+R, but no rom menu.
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FluBBa · Moderator Joined: 14 Feb 2004 Posts: 2047 Location: GBG

I think you must patch it as the SC doesn't handle 3:1 waitstates in the ROM area, make sure you have a correct splashscreen/none at all, test it out in VBA first.
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Koji · Member Joined: 11 Mar 2004 Posts: 738

Same problem with VBA. I'm getting a blank screen so I'm obviously doing something wrong somewhere. I'll try messing around some more in a little bit.
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FluBBa · Moderator Joined: 14 Feb 2004 Posts: 2047 Location: GBG

Are you using the "encrypted" US bios? Or just US games? You need to check the tick box in the builder for those.
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Koji · Member Joined: 11 Mar 2004 Posts: 738

japanese CD-rom system and japanese gradius. Is it normal for encrypted roms to not even show up in the menu?

I tried running gradius in the version of PCE advance built into the supercard firmware (says "Powered by PCEAdvance, PCEAdvance V7.3 on NDS")
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