MagicEngine

Oops, yes - I meant "the batch file which was sitting in the project folder on my hard disk"... it was created by NightWolve.

As for how to extract the chiptunes, that's not my specialty. Perhaps somebody on the sites I listed previously could explain more.

For Ys4, I believe I have a list of 273 ADPCM items (plus maybe ...

I don't have any information on Ys 3, but I do have the information for Ys 4 on where the ADPCM stuff is located. But this is all based on an extract where the data track is separate (not just monoli ...

Looks like a nice publication...

The Flash-type interface looks sharp, but doesn't work in all situations (ie. iPad).

I'd actually like to grab copies to put on my portable reader; does it come ...

I hate to be so blunt, because most people won't read past the first sentence and simply recoil, but you must be playing with a bad rip.

The original game was actually mastered differently than all ...

MEFX v1.1.1 does have this problem - I just verified.

I also checked Mednafen, and found that those options appear OK and can progress further (although the sound in the opening cinema breaks up a ...

Your best bet is to disassemble the system card to understand the sequence of operations, and reconcile the hardware accesses against what an open-source emulator like Mednafen does when it encounter ...

MEFX v1.1.1 does have this problem - I just verified.

I also checked Mednafen, and found that those options appear OK and can progress further (although the sound in the opening cinema breaks up a ...

The system, being 8-bit, can only hold values from 0 to 255 in any one location. So, in order to create a value above 255, it needs to access 2 locations.

Normally, 2-byte values are stored in two ...

The author should have published the original article in a magazine called "Hardcore Piracy", as his goals are clearly not the same as the goals of MagicEngine.

MagicEngine (and in truth, ...

I say, once it's playable create a patch when you feel comfortable.

I'm not sure if you were stuck using 2-byte SJIS to encode your English text; if that's the case, then there's certainly going to ...

Oh yeah, also:

C-64 Archon (I know it was on other platforms, but this is the one I remember playing)

Atari/Amiga:
Time Bandit

C-64:
MULE

I'm really excited to bring more Tengai Makyou goodness out in English.

That's fantastic. Tomaitheous and I are helping out EsperKnt a bit with tools and locating and extracting text (and any ot ...

And you've proved nothing, except that you haven't played a real system.
"... or you wouldn't need MagicEngine."

I'm afraid the onus of proof lies with the lone dissenter making the outl ...