Farland Story FX Translation in Progress!

 Great news in the PC-FX scene!

Over at our little group on social media at We <3 PC-FX some amazing news came out about a guy working on a translation of one of the best RPGs on PC-FX!  Farland Story FX is being worked on for the English speakers dreaming to one day play through an FX RPG!

"Love to share with you guys first-hand something I've been working on. As a side-hobby I've been learning Japanese for the last two months and thought I could help the community with a English translation of Farland Story FX. I've been working on this for the past month and have reached a stage where I am comfortable to share it with others. If you would like to try it yourself, apply delta patch to your own CD ripped through TurboRip. "

The file is available within that FB group with encryption key. 

The Original poster mentioned; "I think I have spotted most of the text in the binary, I've played till stage 6 and all seems to be well. I will continue play it though to double check. I've also been able to replace some of the graphics tiles for the ingame menu words. However FMV remain untranslated, and the audio only dialogue still remains. Hope you like it!"

TurboGrafx16 mini, PCEngine mini, CoreGrafx mini Due out in March!

It's coming quickly and I am getting very excited! It's coming with 57 games already installed. They are taking pre-orders on Amazon for 99.99 without an adapter and 119.99 with an adapter.

The system uses a standard USB adapter and if your like me you have 10 of those adapters just lying around the house. So you wouldn't need an adapter. It also comes with the system and a controller.

Extra controllers and Turbotaps are sold separately for 24.99 and 29.99. I'm going to hold off on the extra controllers until I see if other USB controllers work as I have 4 of those as well.

But what a great deal. Basically getting the system all playable out of the box for about $1.75 per game. Plus if it's like the other mini systems, you will probably be able to load up every single game ever made for the system. We will talk about that later. It's just a great deal as is. Order your TurboGrafx Mini 99.99 Order your TurboGrafx Mini for 119.99 adapter included

Cosmic Fantasy 2 for 3ds using RPG Maker FES

Hello everyone. Windancer here. It has been a very longtime. I've been working on a 3ds version of Cosmic Fantasy 2 for 3ds using RPG Maker FES. So far I'm really happy with the way it's turning out. 

RPG Maker FES is a bit limited as you cannot make your own assets such as music and sprites. But it comes with quite a few sound files and sprites that I think will get the job done.

So far I have mapped up to where you meet Medoshi Darva and the game is actually playable up to where you fight against Wizda. I'm having a great time doing it so far and I think it's looking good. At my current rate the game should be available to download sometime in March.

If you own a 3ds. All you need to do is download the RPGMaker player from the Eshop, it's a free app. You can then login to the RPGMAKER servers and download many, many free fanmade games by some talented storytellers. There's alot of unfinished games but quite a few finished. Well worth the download. Hopefully if all goes well Cosmic Fantasy will be available in March. Happy Gaming everyone I'm back!

Lastly, I'm so excited to get my hands on the Turbografx mini which comes out in March. I pre-ordered 3 of them. 1 for me of course and the other 2 as gifts for my kids. Let the bomberman wars commence! Pre-order yours at Amazon today!

Pacland Chris Bucci Video of the month

Here is another great Review From Chris Bucci. Catch more great videos at Chris's Youtube page
Pacland is one of my favorites on TG16. Loads of fun to play with decent colorful graphics and tight gameplay.

Chris Bucci Video Review #63 Tale Spin

Chris Bucci Has been reviewing videos for quite sometime now on TG16. He has become well respected as a Reviewer and a person in the Community. He has an excellent Voice and seriously should be on Monday night football! LOL i've been telling him that ever since I saw his first video. I'm going to start posting a Chris Bucci video review Once a month until I die LOL No worries thats a longway off. But if I could review a reviewer Chris would get an absolute 10! The man is just that good. Thanks for doing these reviews Chris and I'm proud to have a guy like you in the PCengine community! I know that he has a video collection of his reviews that he sells I will try and get the link to that in the next post. He is the man with the golden voice.

Shout box removed

I removed the shoutbox it just wasn't being used. I will put it back up should we have another situation as we did at pcefx. For now use the the following chat provided by our froends at pcengine.uk :

The PCengine Forums and chatroom

Enjoy and spread the Joy of pcengine!
Windy

Back after a bit of a break

I'm back after a bit of a break. I've been very busy between work and doctors lately. I have had the sudden urge to get some new stuff posted to the blog. I have recently been going through Dynastic Hero since I got my hands on a Sega Arcade Dual Motion console and beat Wonder Boy in Monster Land which was patched with an english translation. Both games are just excellent! I do prefer the TurboGrafx version over the megadrive version. The differences between the 2 are pretty significant. First thing most people will notice is the difference in soundtrack. The TurboGrafx is pumping out cdrom quality music and the Genesis well um its ok but not close. Another thing you will notice, is the Genny has multiscrolling backgrounds which is really nice. However the TurboGrafx colors just popout at you compared to slightly lower amounts of color on the Genny. Like I said both games are excellent in their own right.

I have finished Dynastic Hero a few times now and love it each and everytime I go through it. Years ago when I got the game from TZD I was excited to pop it in and play it. At first I was, "What the hell is this!". I was told by a guy from TZD it was a solid RPG. Back then I was thinking that this was a sidescrolling action game. At first I had felt ripped off. It did not take long for me to realize, Dynastic Hero was in fact a solid RPG for my beloved TG16. The presentation of 2d sidescrolling RPG's had not sat well with me back in the day. This game changed all that for me. I had also not played YsIII yet.

The story presents itself perfectly and the game has a few very cool surprises for the gamer I consider to be innovative and fun. One example of this that I actually hear complaints about is the use of an Ocarina to open doors. I love the way this was implemented into the game. Most peole I talk too are annoyed by the use of the Ocarina but I think for the time it was a stroke of genius on the part of the programmers. Rest assured there are lots of other surprises awaiting you in Dynastic Hero.

Windy your nuts! I can't afford a few hundred bucks to plop down and play Dynastic Hero! There is no game worth a few hundred dollars! Well true that. But there are a couple ways to get your hands on a copy without shelling out a months rent for this game. First, if you own a Wii its available for virtual console. I also have a copy on virtual console and its good. Pretty cool playing it with a wireless controller for around 10 bucks. Second, get the imported version for around 15 bucks from ebay or a trusted importer of pcengine games and play the original. If you get the import version you will need to use a walkthrough. No way around that but still a cool way to go through it. Third, pick up a Sega Arcade Dual Motion and download the rom to an sdcard all for about 30 bucks wireless controllers included :) One drawback to the Dual motion is you cannot save games. You will need to leave the system on. Luckily Dynastic hero can be finished in 15 to 20 hours.

Whichever route you take to playing this excellent game you will enjoy the nostalgia of one of the best games to ever be released on TG16 or megadrive/sega genesis. It's just that simple. IT'S A MUST PLAY!

Spread the Joy of PCengine! Oh and Megadrive/ Genesis hee hee

Windy

PS. Good to be back! Hope I can get some content up for you guys