MagicEngine

sideshow

Ok, this might sound stupid but I'm having problems opening the new magic engine 1.0 program. Is it a GUI or dos prompt program? The old Beta was definetely a GUI.

mightymo · Guest

It's GUI, what kinda problems are you having? When you click on PCE.exe what happends?

sideshow · Posted: Wed Nov 24, 2004 12:19 am Post subject:

Well, when I click on the .exe I get a magic engine 1.0 window that pops up then it maximizes to full screen while being black the whole time. Then it just exits and nothing. I dont even get a main menu?

Alexsource · Regular Joined: 20 Nov 2004 Posts: 103

That probably means there is an open gl problem. Make sure your video card supports Open GL, and update your drivers.
Some old cards won't work, i think, but you can always give it a go Wink

I tryed to run ME 1.0 PR on my old p2@400Mhz box wich has a Diamond Monster Fussion 16, and i got nothing... BTW, if anyone has pointers on this, let me know Wink

Kaminari · Posted: Wed Nov 24, 2004 12:38 am Post subject:

Try modifying your PCE.INI file to run in Window Mode:

sideshow · Posted: Wed Nov 24, 2004 12:43 am Post subject:

Thanks Kaminari! The .ini modification worked!

Kaminari · Posted: Wed Nov 24, 2004 12:43 am Post subject:

sideshow · Posted: Wed Nov 24, 2004 12:47 am Post subject:

I also had another question. Can the new Magic Engine 1.0 recognize external USB DVD/CD drives? My internal drive has issues and I would love to run CD games off of my external drive instead.

Kaminari · Posted: Wed Nov 24, 2004 1:02 am Post subject:

You should try it out. Basically, ME scans all your available CD-ROM devices and uses the first one in which it detects the presence of a PC Engine CD game. That detection process can take quite some time; in my case, it needs about 15 seconds to detect my second drive.

Alexsource · Regular Joined: 20 Nov 2004 Posts: 103

I'll try to download and install those drivers, but i'm almost sure they are the same, or an earlier verion of the ones i have installed.
The only way i had to pull OGL at all, was to use mesa 3d drivers, which are some generic OGL drivers for old voodoo cards, sadly, they don't work with everything Razz

I'll see if i can find an updated versión of that and try as well.

sideshow · Posted: Wed Nov 24, 2004 1:48 am Post subject:

Ok, I figured out that the system cards have to be renamed as follows:

syscard1.pce
syscard2.pce
syscard3.pce

I'm using the japanese V1.0 cdrom card
I'm using the USA V2.01 cdrom card
I'm using the USA V3.01 cdrom card

What does the Game express card have to be named for magic engine to recognize it? And was there ever a Arcade Card rom? I dont see a Jap version of the arcade card?

Tomasz · Regular Joined: 29 Oct 2003 Posts: 89

ge.pce = game express

The Arcade Card was just a memory upgrade. The ROM microcode was the same.

sideshow · Posted: Wed Nov 24, 2004 2:03 am Post subject:

I dont think magic engine recognizes my laptops external USB CDROM drive? Maybe I have to configure the .ini? I have a hunch that the JAP V3.0 system card is the Arcade Card. Back in the day, I bought a Arcade Card for my Turbo Grafx 16 CDROM system. The Arcade Card menu was identical to the Super system card menu.

sideshow · Posted: Wed Nov 24, 2004 2:06 am Post subject:

Thanks Tomasz!

sideshow · Posted: Wed Nov 24, 2004 2:15 am Post subject:

Ok, it appears magic engine recognizes my drives but when I open up the program and choose boot cd my D: only shows up?

[CD-ROM INIT]
scanning drives...
- drive D: TOSHIBA DVD-ROM SD-R2102 (port=1, unit=0) [CDROM]
- drive F: AXV CD/DVD-ROM (port=2, unit=0) [CDROM]
found 2 CD-ROM drive(s)

I want magic engine to recognize my F: How do I do that?