CD32 emu is out

[XoreX]

Good news! Free CD32 emu made by WindowsKiller
Project32 v1.0 is out! For now it supports these games:

Alien Breed Special Edition '92
D-Generation
Dark Seed
Deep Core
F17 Challenge
Fireforce
Fly Harder
Frontier - Elite 2
Global Effect
Gloom
GunShip 2000
IK+
James Pond 2 - RoboCod
Jungle Strike
Mean Arenas
Project-X Special Edition '93
Qwak!
Roadkill
UFO - Enemy Unknown
Whale's Voyage

Excelent news!

[oldpx]

Where can it be downloaded from?

[XoreX]

Here (http://www.world-free.com/wk1/)

[RetroMan]

Hehe, I knew about this one before :) but anyway, it ROCKS :great

Akiko is dead, long live Project32 :D:D:D

[lilalurl]

Wow.

Yesterday Daemon Tools v 300 with analogic audio support.

Now a free and excellent CD32 emu.

CD emulation is taken to higher grounds.

[MethodGit]

A new Daemon Tools came out?! :eek

Be back with you in a moment!

*logs on to daemon-tools.com* :p

[Akira]

I am an ex-emulation user.... so, can anybody tell me wtf is Daemon Tools? I saw the news at an IRC chan yesterday....

[Paul]

Think this link I just found with google may help
http://www.daemon-tools.org/main800.htm

[Akira]

Is this for 'playing' crap like Dragon's Lair?

[oldpx]

Dragon's lair was not a good game because it was intended to be an interactive animation rather than a game. The man behind it is Don Bluth, one of the greatest animators ever,and in my opinion his movies kick disney's axx all the time :great but definitely his work is not exactly what the gamers are used to see :p

[RetroMan]

Daemon-Tools are used to mount an ISO file of any CD on a virtual CD Drive, in that way you´re able to, for example, read your fav. game CD with CLONE CD and make an ISO out of it, then mount in Daemon-Tools and use it from your HD as if it was a real CD .... nice for mounting CD³² ISO´s and play them in the Emu :D:D:D Daemon-Tools can even bypass some security code on CD´s like Safe-Lock and so on .....

[lilalurl]

Edit : looks like Retro-Man answered faster.

Many way of using Daemon tools especially with the new version.

To sum up, it allows you to use a CD image (Iso, Bin+cue, nrg (nero)) as it was a real CD.

First test the ISOs/Cue+bin you got. Instead of wasting one or more CD, you can run the images from the hard drive.

Then you can make a compilation of CDs. A game like The terminator : Future Shock only uses 98 Mb. So instead of using a whole CD, you can burn the Cue+bin image with other stuff on a cd. Then you'll select the cue file in dameon tools and your image will behave like the real CD would.
This might be useful when DVD-burner will be cheap.

And finally now that analogic audio has been implemented, you can run Dracula X : Rondo of Blood on Magic Engine.
The full image was unburnable (many people reported this) and ISO+mp3 just isn't fatihful enough.
So now you just have to run the image from your hard drive or a CD.

[Akira]

Originally posted by lilalurl

And finally now that analogic audio has been implemented, you can run Dracula X : Rondo of Blood on Magic Engine.
The full image was unburnable (many people reported this) and ISO+mp3 just isn't fatihful enough.
So now you just have to run the image from your hard drive or a CD.

Seems useful, but I disagree with this last bit. I had a copy of Dracula X PCE for a long time now, and it was not burned from an ISO+MP3 thing, it was copied from an original. A friend of mine gave it to me. It seems the ISOs out there, or something like that , ws fucked, and that made it unburnable. My copy works fine except for a slight audio desyncing problem.

Dracula X PCE is the only CDR I have, mind you. When I shit money, perhaps I buy it :)

[MethodGit]

When I try to run setup.exe after extracting the Daemon Tools zip, it complains that I don't have a USB supplement and therefore doesn't install. And I don't intend to use any USB-based device in the near future either. But I can simply bypass that restriction by running the installation program through the "Daemon Tools.msi" file. Is this the wrong way to do it?

[lilalurl]

I guess you have Win95.

On the online manual (http://www.daemon-tools.com/daemon.htm) you can read :

"Windows 95 is supported since version 1.03.
But notice that you need at least Windows 95B with installed USB Supplement and at least Internet Explorer 4.x."

USB supplement is just a piece of program added in Windows since W95 OS-R2. There is a link when you click the phrase "USB Supplement" to download it.

Doing otherwise might lead you to some unexpected behaviours.

[lilalurl]

Originally posted by Akira


It seems the ISOs out there, or something like that , ws fucked, and that made it unburnable. My copy works fine except for a slight audio desyncing problem.

Dracula X PCE is the only CDR I have, mind you. When I shit money, perhaps I buy it :)

Yep, it is unburnable and yet fully playable with Daemont Tools. I guess the cue sheet might lacks something about TG16 TOC system or something like that.

I think the desync problem comes from the emu. Unless you tell me you tried it on your friend TG16 with the same problem.

As far as buying Dracula X : Rondo of Blood, I'm not ready to spend thousand of €.
It's a very good game but so rare that the price on auction sites is overrealistic.

On alt.games.castlevania some people have suggested that after the recent Castlevania Chronicles, Konami will release Dracula X : Rondo of Blood as the next "updated" old Castlevania.

Let's hope so.

[MethodGit]

Thanks very much for the tip - I've managed to find the USB thing it wanted. :great

[Akira]

Originally posted by lilalurl
[quote]
I think the desync problem comes from the emu. Unless you tell me you tried it on your friend TG16 with the same problem.


Nope, I tried it only on CrappyEngine... I dont have a Duo yet. (planning to, DuoRX here I come :D)


It's a very good game but so rare that the price on auction sites is overrealistic.


This is not exactly true. You can see MANY Dracula X games for auction on eBay, what keeps its price up, is teh demand. The game can be found but there's such a big demand that the price does not drop.

I'd pay up to 150 dollars, not more.

[lilalurl]

I'd pay up to 150 dollars, not more.

That's still a kind of hellish price for a game. (Not counting shipping).

Even some Neo-Geo carts are cheaper.

100 € would be the higher price I would pay. Even after finishing it I'm still ready to play it for hours as I would if I got it for the first time.

Or 150 € for a pack : Rondo of Blood (TG16) and Nocturne in the Moonlight (Saturn) (I'm still looking forward to play as Maria).

[Akira]

It's not that much for a brill game. Its the max price Id pay for a top rare game. Radiant Silvergun and Sapphire might fall in the same category.

Oh, and Aldynes :D

Please talk dollars, I dont know what an euro is worth :D

[lilalurl]

Originally posted by Akira
It's not that much for a brill game.


Radiant Silvergun and Sapphire might fall in the same category.

Oh, and Aldynes :D

Please talk dollars, I dont know what an euro is worth :D

I agree that's it's brilliant game. But there are other, cheaper and as brilliant. The last I bought was Broodwar (I had a second hand English Starcraft and had to import Broodwat from England as the French digitalized voices didn't mix well with the English ones).

Radiant Silvergun :) :) :)

Every game made by Treasure is worth to spend some money (excepted Alien Soldier, a bit too strange for me and the horible McDo Treasure Land (Go José Bové, go and destroy even this game)).

As for $ and €, are you saying that the European Central Bank policy towards foreigners is a failure ? ;)

Just consider an € is between 0.9 and 1 $.

[Paul]

New version is out.

http://www.emuunlim.com/index.php#LLza13bRX6

[Twistin'Ghost]

Cool. How long before they make an English version, I wonder.

[lilalurl]

Originally posted by Twistin' Ghost
Cool. How long before they make an English version, I wonder.

I believe they say : "The german version 1.1 is available now. The english version follows tomorrow..."

So wait and see....

[Twistin'Ghost]

Oh, OK. I musta missed that. Cheers!

[lilalurl]

Well then let's give their URL once for all :
http://pj32.emubase.de/

[CodyJarrett]

The English version is available now...

[Twistin'Ghost]

Danke!

[Fissuras]

hey, it seems there is a brand new just released 2.0 version available... in german :(

[mazinraver]

Please somebody tell me: How do you burn this damn game of Dracula X anyway? I downloaded a folder from Demonoid.com that had 2 files: 1 mds an 1 mdf file. I tried burning those as an image with Nero and Alcohol 120%, and i only got a CD that when played on MagicEngine gives me a DISK ERROR message. I have burned a lot of cds like this one and i am about to throw in the towel. Do you know how to burn this files correctly step by step, and how to play them right? Thanks a lot.

[Photon]

Might get this... is Frontier much improved on the CD32?

[DamienD]

Hey mazinraver,

Hmmm, Alcohol 120% should be able to burn .mdf / .mds files...

Apparently MagicISO should also do the job, see http://www.yasasoft.com/press_release/burn_mdf_file.htm

Final suggestion, if that doesn't work you could try doing the following:

... Mount the files using Daemon Tools (hopefully it mounts without error otherwise I'd say your image is corrupt).
... Use any burning software to copy from the "virtual drive" to a CD-R.

;)

[Retro-Nerd]

Please somebody tell me: How do you burn this damn game of Dracula X anyway? I downloaded a folder from Demonoid.com that had 2 files: 1 mds an 1 mdf file. I tried burning those as an image with Nero and Alcohol 120%, and i only got a CD that when played on MagicEngine gives me a DISK ERROR message. I have burned a lot of cds like this one and i am about to throw in the towel. Do you know how to burn this files correctly step by step, and how to play them right? Thanks a lot.

When you have a broken image grab this one: It's a perfect working bin & cue, burn it with nero. Press on "HTTP" for the download.

http://download.team-sega.com/isos.php?iso=437

[Legerdemain]

And finally now that analogic audio has been implemented, you can run Dracula X : Rondo of Blood on Magic Engine.
The full image was unburnable (many people reported this) and ISO+mp3 just isn't fatihful enough.
So now you just have to run the image from your hard drive or a CD.

That sounds really odd. I have run DraculaX (three different rips, to be exact) with MagicEngine for ages with really old verisons of DaemonTools (and even older versions of MagicEngine) and it have worked perfectly. At times I've had problems getting it to run with CD-audio, though that seems to mostly have been depending on what version of Windows I have used and if I have used ASPI or no ASPI.

[Legerdemain]

Nocturne in the Moonlight (Saturn) (I'm still looking forward to play as Maria).

It is a shame that the conversion is drop dead lousy. The slowdowns are, according to me, extremely annoying, and also they have managed to scale the graphics of the game so that things at times look really odd (just like when running 800*600 on a TFT/Plasma screen with no blur, the pixel aspect ratio simply becomes a bit messed up). Though, even though somewhat flawed, it is of course still a very good game... but I prefer the PS version any day (even though it lacks the bonuses that the Saturn version has to offer).

[gizmomelb]

umm getting back on topic... does anyone know the current project32 website? I followed up the links above and they're all long dead.

[ma693541]

Where can i find this CD32 emulator by WindowsKiller? :banghead All links in this thread are long gone dead. Have a lot of CD32 games i want to fire up on this emulator.

[TheCyberDruid]

Why don't you use WinUAE ma693541?

[Retro-Nerd]

Use the latest WinUAE. Project32 was a tweaked/modified WinUAE, very outdated. :)

[ma693541]

Hi TCD. Yep, i use WinUAE, but i want a preconfigurated setup system ALA Project32 (Free) or Akiko (Commercial)

[TheCyberDruid]

You mount the image or insert the CD, start with the CD32 quickstart and that's it. For sure you find nothing more compatible with CD32 games on Windows than WinUAE. Also it seems both projects are long dead now.

[Retro-Nerd]

If your really need it (doubt it):

http://www.emu-france.com/?page=fichiers&idMachine=2

[MethodGit]

I did try out Akiko lately, and was quite surprised to see it included an NVRAM editor, not to mention an ability to save seperate game files into the Windows filesystem. Has WinUAE implemented anything like that yet?

[Retro-Nerd]

I've already linked to them. ;)

[Fingerlickin_B]

Ooops...

[MethodGit]

I've already linked to them. ;)
Er, I know. I was actually asking if things like editing the NVRAM or saving NVRAM saves to individual files was possible under WinUAE yet?

[ami_junkie]

I used to pay high prices like that for games but since I have been in Japan it is has brought me down to earth to see how cheap those games are really. Take a Neo Geo for example, a boxed Neo Geo in MINT condition, with two original controllers is about 20 quid here in the second hand shops! Games similarly are priced at around 5 quid :| its crazy the prices they put on import games.

[Retro-Nerd]

Er, I know. I was actually asking if things like editing the NVRAM or saving NVRAM saves to individual files was possible under WinUAE yet?

I replied to prowler. But he deleted his old post (one after yours) as it seems. :)

[TheCyberDruid]

Has WinUAE implemented anything like that yet?

No. Dunno if that's worth the 15 € though.

[Toni Wilen]

Er, I know. I was actually asking if things like editing the NVRAM or saving NVRAM saves to individual files was possible under WinUAE yet?

WinUAE emulates hardware and only sees bits read/written to NVRAM. Use some Amiga utility or something if you really want that.

That "cd32 emu" isn't emulator which is the reason it sees OS-level files (and it won't work with anything that hits the hardware, most cd32 games are system friendly = works)

ADDED: it can be done but 1) it is GUI programming 2) I am not interested.

[ma693541]

I did try out Akiko lately, and was quite surprised to see it included an NVRAM editor, not to mention an ability to save seperate game files into the Windows filesystem. Has WinUAE implemented anything like that yet?

Let's hope enough people need's it for their CD32 emulating in WinUAE so that Toni includes it in the future.