MagicEngine

belinus · Visitor Joined: 19 Nov 2002 Posts: 6

Whenever I play the game, it will not get off the CD Audio unless the track changes. If I go out of a town, when I re-enter the CDA of the overworld music still plays.

This also causes a lockup of the game in the beginning when the old guy comes to wake you during the night.

I've tried this with both ME's System Card and the PCE SysCard3 ROM. The disc is original.

System:

Dell Inspiron Laptop:
Intel Celeron 900MHz
Intel 32MB VDA
Dell Internal DVD-ROM
Windows NT 5 SP3 (Windows 2000)

Jabberwok · Posted: Tue Nov 19, 2002 2:39 am Post subject:

First of all, let me congratulate you on an excellent first post. If all first posts were like this Wink

...

While I don't know how a laptop's cd-rom is built ( no audio cable obviously ) I know that this might be a simple Windowz problem. You might want to try this first : Since Windowz sees PCE discs as audio discs check if you don't have autoplay on. My guess is that Windowz tries to play the audio off of it when you pop the disc in thus creating conflict with Magic Engine... Or you can pop the disc in, wait for it to start playing, stop whatever's playing it ( Winamp, Windows media player ect ) and THEN start Magic Engine.

Try this, this may do it. If not then, humm.......

BTW, what version if Magic Engine are you using?
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belinus · Visitor Joined: 19 Nov 2002 Posts: 6

Windows only sees Track 1 ("This is disc....") and nothing beyond 2.

It's Magic Engine v.98.

Also, the tracks will change between scenes like the overworld and caves and it does loop the track.

belinus · Visitor Joined: 19 Nov 2002 Posts: 6

I tested it with the disc on v.99ß5 and it works fine. I'm gonna try it with an image for .98 and see if it works cuz that 5minute limit thing is annoying.

Kaminari · Posted: Tue Nov 19, 2002 4:02 pm Post subject:

Your last post demonstrates why it's important to choose your words.

Every Magic Engine version has this 5 minutes 'annoying' limitation if you're not registered. This is called the demo mode.

Either you bought a valid key and you can then upgrade from your 0.98 version to the latest beta for free, or you're (hopefully not) using a cracked 0.98 - which doesn't entitle you to ask for help on this forum. This is the official ME forum here, not some freaking warez BBS.

belinus · Visitor Joined: 19 Nov 2002 Posts: 6

A friend gave it to me a while back cuz he no longer used it and knew I was into retro-gaming and wanted to play Ys and such again since Falcom's a bunch of bastards and not giving the US Ys Eternal.

I assume it's legal. I'll ask him next time I see him and if it's not, I have some extra money next week and will just purchase it on my own then.

Jabberwok · Posted: Tue Nov 19, 2002 11:39 pm Post subject:

You're right Kaminari. I can't remember how many posts we have answered only to find out that the person was using an old warezed version of Magic Engine. I mean, IT'S ONLY 15$ FOR CRYING OUT LOUD!!!!!!

Geez, how can one pay for his internet connection when he can't even pay a mere 15$?

If this 15$ were to go to a mega corporation I could almost understand ( I lied : I can't understand ) BUT, this famous 15$ goes to only one person almost slaving his butt working on an emulator & trying to cope with all of us...

The point of all this? : warez is theft, period. Stealing from a mega corporation is bad, BUT stealing from a dedicated fellow emulation/retrogaming fan is... I think there is no word strong enough to illustrate this.

belinus, I will give you the benefit of the doubt. maybe your friend gave you his version of Magic Engine. BUT unfortunately, truth is he did not give you HIS own personal Magic Engine, we have ways to know Wink

So here are your options :
1 : register Magic Engine & be entitled to support here
2 : stop asking for support, even if you change your name, an IP ban is so easy...

Regards, Jabberwok Very Happy

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belinus · Visitor Joined: 19 Nov 2002 Posts: 6

I only pay $18/yr for my OC-3 in 3 installments and the feds pay for it. You guys don't need to jump down my throat. I said I will check with him and I will correct if it does turn out to be warez. Ok?

And yes, I am aware of the warez scene. I regulary boot idiots who talk about them over on 3D Cafe, except we're talking about applications in which the cheapest is $2000.

I just decide to give my friend the benefit of the doubt as you would give your friends if they gave you a piece of software. Granted he should have told me and I should have asked, but I assumed the beta version was demo when I downloaded it because it was just that, beta like how Microsoft Betas have similar limits to them.

And as I said, I will be able to correct it if it does turn out to be an illegal version. Let me at least find out first before you start hrowing accusations.

Jabberwok · Posted: Wed Nov 20, 2002 1:05 am Post subject:

Kaminari · Posted: Wed Nov 20, 2002 10:03 am Post subject:

belinus · Visitor Joined: 19 Nov 2002 Posts: 6

I did your test and it failed.

I spoke to my friend about it and he didn't even know it was shareware. Someone in a chat room sent it to him when he asked about TG-16 emulation (he hates the web and uses it as little as possible, can't say I blame him either) and he assumed it was free like every other emulator is. He did not keep a copy and I have sense purchased a legal copy for myself (just waiting for the key to be e-mailed to me) since I found a way to sneak money off of my Discover card (which they dont take natively Mad

) and put it onto my debit card which is a Visa.