Turbo GraFX CD Emulator (now supported)

[rangel]

Anyone know of any good Turbo GraFX CD emulators that work with HS?
I know Magic Engine works, but as far as I know, it only works with the CD-ROM drive and won't work with CD images.

[SophT]

you'll have to mount the images with daemon tools. should be fairly simple as its already been done on other emulators.

[rangel]

Can you link to a post that would show how I would go about launching a game from HS to include it mounting and playing?

[SophT]

I haven't tested it, but I imagine it would look something like this:
**edit**
script removed
**edit**

see below for actual working script from Brian_Hoffman

[mighty1]

ootake perhaps

[j5350]

I haven't tested it, but I imagine it would look something like this:

;**********************************TurboGrafx CD********************************

else if (systemName = "TurboGrafx CD" && executable = "magicengine.exe")
{
RunWait, %DAEMONTOOLS% -mount 0`,"%romPath%%romName%%romExtension%"
hideDesktop()
Hotkey, %exitEmulatorKey%, CloseProcess
Run, %executable% , "%emuPath%", UseErrorLevel
}

Where exactly would this go?

[Dazz]

Actually using Magic Engine and Turbo CD is a bit screwy. I had to get Brian_Hoffman to take a look into getting ME running with TurboCD's.

I'll get him to post his findings here.

[j5350]

I've gotten Magic Engine to work fine with Mala, so I know it can be done. But that was with using batch files to mount image, then launch Magic Engine from the specified drive (all happens automatically.) I tried setting it to launch the same batch files in HS, but it didn't want to launch for some reason (maybe I was doing it wrong.)

[brian_hoffman]

Actually using Magic Engine and Turbo CD is a bit screwy. I had to get Brian_Hoffman to take a look into getting ME running with TurboCD's.

I'll get him to post his findings here.

Ill get them up later tonight. I just got it going.

[brian_hoffman]

Ok guys, there is a new hyperlaunch available, If/when I create system themes Ill post them. For now Everything is "Turbo Duo" as in system name and all folder name etc....

Edit the PCE.ini [cdrom] to look like mine below. Change the drive letter to the one you have deamon tools use.

[cdrom]

;
; CD-ROM driver
; --
; 0 -> auto-detect [default]
; 1 -> SPTI (WinNT)
; 2 -> ASPI
;

driver=0

;
; CD-ROM drive
; --
; 1 -> first CD-ROM drive [default]
; 2 -> second CD-ROM drive
; ...
;

drive=1

;
; CD-ROM drive letter
; --
; (Windows 2000/XP only)
;
; D:
; E:
; ...
;

drive_letter=J:

;
; CD-ROM disk speed
; --
; 1 (min) .. 99 (max) [default = 8]
;

speed=

;
; CD-ROM cache
; --
; y -> enable [default]
; n -> disable
;

cache=

;
; CD-ROM cache size
; --
; 0 .. 8192 KB [default = 512]
;

cache_size=


# ----
# cdda settings
# ----
#


The contents of the Hyperspin>Settings>turbo duo.ini looks like below (my rom is bin/cue)

[exe info]
path = G:\Turbo Duo\me113\me\
rompath = G:\Turbo Duo\BusterBros_Duo\
userompath = false
exe = pce.exe
romextension = cue
parameters =
searchsubfolders = false
pcgame = false
winstate = HIDDEN
hyperlaunch = true

[Dazz]

Excellent job BH. Now only if you can get Visual Pinball and Future Pinball added into HyperLaunch.

[brian_hoffman]

futue pinball already is. I need to do visual pinball :)

[j5350]

Where exactly does the first part go? the PCE.ini [cdrom]?

[brian_hoffman]

If you use magicengine you will have a PCE.exe, That EXE reads the PCE.ini, there is alot of data in that file, Look for the [cdrom] section and edit it to look like mine. One execption, change the drive letter (mine is J) to what ever drive letter deamontools mounts to.

[j5350]

Did exactly that, but all it does is load to the Magic Engine menu, than I can choose to boot the CD if I click it. I don't know if that is how it is supposed to be or if it should load straight into the game. I changed the options and have it loading my original batch files and it works like a charm. The only thing with doing that, is HyperSpin seems to freeze after I exit Magic Engine until I hit the windows key twice and then Alt.

[brian_hoffman]

Did exactly that, but all it does is load to the Magic Engine menu, than I can choose to boot the CD if I click it. I don't know if that is how it is supposed to be or if it should load straight into the game. I changed the options and have it loading my original batch files and it works like a charm. The only thing with doing that, is HyperSpin seems to freeze after I exit Magic Engine until I hit the windows key twice and then Alt.

It loads straight into the game.
I have a feeling something may be wrong in your config.

Any one else able to chime in that has tested this on thier setup?

[j5350]

Any chance you can check my ini's? I went through and put everything back, and I'm pretty sure I didn't miss anything; but it still goes to the menu and I have to choose boot CD. The link to my pce.ini and Turbo Duo.ini if you have a chance:
http://rapidshare.com/files/238053773/inis.zip.html

Thanks.

[Dazz]

Brain - I just tested this and everything works perfect for me. At first I forgot that I needed to change the path to Daemon Tools and re-compile the script. After doing that everything works perfectly as far as TD is concerned.

[brian_hoffman]

Any chance you can check my ini's? I went through and put everything back, and I'm pretty sure I didn't miss anything; but it still goes to the menu and I have to choose boot CD. The link to my pce.ini and Turbo Duo.ini if you have a chance:
http://rapidshare.com/files/238053773/inis.zip.html

Thanks.

Do you have a file called syscard3.pce in the same directory as the emu? If not that could be the issue.

[brian_hoffman]

Brain - I just tested this and everything works perfect for me. At first I forgot that I needed to change the path to Daemon Tools and re-compile the script. After doing that everything works perfectly as far as TD is concerned.

Sweet!

[j5350]

Do you have a file called syscard3.pce in the same directory as the emu? If not that could be the issue.

AWESOME! That fixed it. Works like a charm.

[JaronSenna]

I hope its ok to resurrect this thread, since I have a bit of a challenge getting this to run too. I have followed the tips mentioned here, but I guess I am either not understanding what to do, or I have messed something up:

Whenever I select a game to play from Hyperspin, the disc is mounted in daemon tools on F: (which I have set to be the cdrom drive in the PCE ini file as well), then a system startup screen is shown with flashing words " Press Run button". As soon as I do that, an image shows looking like a CD player. I am guessing I have to put the cursor on the play button and start or something, but I can't seem to get that done. And if I understand correctly, it should be possible to start the game immediately from Hyperspin, right?

Anybody a guess on what I am missing here?

[Boogieman_nl]

I mapped the start button of my xbox360 controller to the RUN button in the PCE emulator.
Each time start a new game from HS I need to press the RUN button.

Maybe you could try my HL2.13 launch script which works fine for me.
You can ignore or keep the "SayGameDescription:" routine, which I made to let my loquendo text to speech voice speak out some stuff.
(You need the xpath.ahk script and say.exe in your HS root if you want to play with that. I've put those on the FTP in Upload Here\Boogieman_nl)

The JoyScan routine is used for triggering "back" and "start" at the same time on my xbxox360 controller to end the emulator and return to Hyperspin.
This can be removed if you don't need it.

The only thing that I'm still trying to figure out is why the FadeOutStart() function doesn't work (yet).
This is an integral part of the Hyperlaunch 2.13 script, but doesn't seem to work for this script... hope someone can fix that.


;----------------------------------------------------------------------------
; TurboGrafx CD (aka PC Engine CD)
; Magic Engine 1.1.3
; by djvj, customized by Boogieman_nl (proper DTLite mount,xbox360 hotkey combo and TTS)
; 1.1
;
; Notes:
; Make sure your path_to_daemontools in Settings\settings.ini is correct
; Download and extract nomousy to the folder with this module from http://www.autohotkey.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2197 (it makes the cursor transparent, so clicks will still register)
; This is used to prevent the mouse cursor from appearing in the middle of your screen when you run Magic Engine
; xPadder/joy2key don't work, the emu reads raw inputs. If you use gamepads, make sure you set your keys in Config->Gamepad
; Set your desired Video settings below.
; In Daemon Tools Lite, rightclick the tray icon and goto Virtual Devices->Add SCSI Virtual Drive. It may ask to install some more files and reboot.
; After your reboot, you will have a DT Virtual Drive and a SCSI Virtual Drive.
; Set your CDDriveLetter below to the letter of your daemontools drive
; Make sure you have the syscard3.pce rom in your emu dir. You can find the file here: http://www.fantasyanime.com/emuhelp/syscards.zip
;
; You have to have xpath.ahk in you Hyperspin root folder it's needed to read xml data
; Say.exe is needed to use Text-To-Speech
;----------------------------------------------------------------------------
#Include xpath.ahk
Hotkey, Joy8, JoyScan
;----------------------------------------------------------------------------

Windowed = y ; y=Simulated Fullscreen mode, n=Normal Fullscreen mode - Simulated Fullscreen mode is preferred, it still looks fullscreen
WideScreenMode = n ; y=enable, n=disable
DesktopMode = y ; y=enable, n=disable - This is basically what sets fullscreen mode. Set to n to show emu in a small window
FullscreenStretch = y ; y=enable, n=disable - This stretches the game screen while keeping the aspect ratio
HighResMode = y ; y=enable, n=disable
Filter = 1 ; 1=bilinear filtering , 0=disable
TripleBuffer = y ; y=enable, n=disable (DirectX only)
Zoom = 2 ; 4=zoom max , 0=no zoom, use any value between 0 and 4
scanlines = 0 ; 0=none, 40=black, use any value in between 0 and 40
vSync = 1 ; 0=disable, 1=enable, 2=vsync + timer (special vsync for windowed mode)
vDriver = 1 ; 0=DirectX, 1=OpenGL
xRes = 1280
yRes = 1024
bitDepth = 32
CDDriveLetter = J: ; Drive letter of your Daemon Tools Virtual drive used for CD-based systems only. Letter should be followed by a colon :
DisplayRes = n ; Display screen resolution for troubleshooting
UseNoMousy = false ; Use NoMousy tool to hide the mouse. If false, will move mouse off the screen instead
;----------------------------------------------------------------------------

MEINI := CheckFile(emuPath . "pce.ini")
CheckFile(emuPath . "SYSCARD3.PCE")

FadeInStart()

; Now let's update all our keys if they differ in the ini
iniLookup =
( ltrim c
video, windowed, %Windowed%
video, wide, %WideScreenMode%
video, desktop, %DesktopMode%
video, fullscreen, %FullscreenStretch%
video, high_res, %HighResMode%
video, filter, %Filter%
video, triple_buffer, %TripleBuffer%
video, Zoom, %Zoom%
video, scanlines, %scanlines%
video, vsync, %vSync%
video, driver, %vDriver%
video, screen_width, %xRes%
video, screen_height, %yRes%
video, screen_depth, %bitDepth%
cdrom, drive_letter, %CDDriveLetter%
misc, screen_resolution, %DisplayRes%
)
Loop, Parse, iniLookup, `n
{
StringSplit, split, A_LoopField, `,, %A_Space%%A_Tab%
IniRead, tempVar, %MEINI%, %split1%, %split2%
If ( tempVar != split3 )
IniWrite, % split3, %MEINI%, %split1%, %split2%
}

Run, %daemonToolsPath% -mount 0`,"%romPath%\%romName%%romExtension%"
GoSub, SayGameDescription

Run, %executable% syscard3.pce, %emuPath%

WinWait, MagicEngine ahk_class MagicEngineWindowClass
WinWaitActive, MagicEngine ahk_class MagicEngineWindowClass

If ( UseNoMousy = "true" )
Run, %A_Scriptdir%\Modules\%systemName%\nomousy.exe /hide ;hide cursor
Else
MouseMove %A_ScreenWidth%,%A_ScreenHeight%

FadeInExit()

Process, WaitClose, %executable%

If ( UseNoMousy = "true" )
Run, %A_Scriptdir%\Modules\%systemName%\nomousy.exe ;unhide cursor

RunWait, %daemonToolsPath% -unmount 0

FadeOutExit()

WinActivate, Hyperspin

ExitApp

SayGameDescription:
;MsgBox, %romName%
gameName := romName
gameName := RegExReplace(gameName, "&", "&")
gameName := RegExReplace(gameName, "'", "'")
xmlPath := A_ScriptDir . "\Databases\" . systemName . "\" . systemName . ".xml"
;MsgBox, %xmlPath%
xpath_load(objXml, xmlPath)
desc := xpath(objXml, "/menu/game[@name=" . gameName . "]/description[1]/text()")
;Msgbox, %desc%
cleanedDescription := desc . " "
StringReplace, cleanedDescription, cleanedDescription, (, --, All
StringReplace, cleanedDescription, cleanedDescription, ), ++, All
StringReplace, cleanedDescription, cleanedDescription, 100 Star, 100 Percent-Star, All
cleanedDescription := RegExReplace(cleanedDescription, "'", "'")
cleanedDescription := RegExReplace(cleanedDescription, "&", "and")
cleanedDescription := RegExReplace(cleanedDescription, "--(.*)++", "")
cleanedDescription := RegExReplace(cleanedDescription, "(.*), The (.*)", "The $1 $2")
cleanedDescription := RegExReplace(cleanedDescription, "X-", "x-")
cleanedDescription := RegExReplace(cleanedDescription, " II ", " 2 ")
cleanedDescription := RegExReplace(cleanedDescription, " II' ", " 2 Accent ")
cleanedDescription := RegExReplace(cleanedDescription, " III ", " 3 ")
cleanedDescription := RegExReplace(cleanedDescription, " IV ", " 4 ")
cleanedDescription := RegExReplace(cleanedDescription, " V ", " 5 ")
cleanedDescription := RegExReplace(cleanedDescription, " VI ", " 6 ")
cleanedDescription := RegExReplace(cleanedDescription, " VII ", " 7 ")
cleanedDescription := RegExReplace(cleanedDescription, " VIII ", " 8 ")
cleanedDescription := RegExReplace(cleanedDescription, " IX ", " 9 ")
cleanedDescription := RegExReplace(cleanedDescription, " X ", " 10 ")
cleanedDescription := RegExReplace(cleanedDescription, " XI ", " 11 ")
cleanedDescription := RegExReplace(cleanedDescription, " XII ", " 12 ")
cleanedDescription := RegExReplace(cleanedDescription, " XIII ", " 13 ")
cleanedDescription := RegExReplace(cleanedDescription, " XIV ", " 14 ")
cleanedDescription := RegExReplace(cleanedDescription, " XV ", " 15 ")
cleanedDescription := RegExReplace(cleanedDescription, " XVI ", " 16 ")
cleanedDescription := RegExReplace(cleanedDescription, " XVII ", " 17 ")
cleanedDescription := RegExReplace(cleanedDescription, " XVIII ", " 18 ")
cleanedDescription := RegExReplace(cleanedDescription, " XIX ", " 19 ")
cleanedDescription := RegExReplace(cleanedDescription, " XX ", " 20 ")
cleanedDescription := RegExReplace(cleanedDescription, " XXI ", " 21 ")
cleanedDescription := RegExReplace(cleanedDescription, " XXII ", " 22 ")
cleanedsystemName := systemName
cleanedsystemName := RegExReplace(cleanedsystemName, "TurboGrafx", "turbow-graphics")
Run, say.exe "Starting %cleanedsystemName% game`, %cleanedDescription%"
Sleep, 3000
Return

JoyScan:
GetKeyState, State, Joy7
if State = D
{
Goto CloseProcess
}
Return

CloseProcess:
Run, Say.exe "Returning to Hyper-spin"
FadeOutStart()
WinClose, MagicEngine ahk_class MagicEngineWindowClass
Return

Esc::Return ; this prevents the quick flash of Hyperspin when exiting with fade on. You can still exit with Esc.

[JaronSenna]

Thanks boogieman_nl (nice to see a fellow dutchman here), i'll give your script a go as soon as I get back to the arcade machine (probably the weekend). THanks for sharing! I will keep you posted!

[Boogieman_nl]

Thanks boogieman_nl (nice to see a fellow dutchman here), i'll give your script a go as soon as I get back to the arcade machine (probably the weekend). THanks for sharing! I will keep you posted!

Same here 'Maatje'...
Well I have updated my script now.
In the mean time there've also been some discussions going on about Daemon Tools Lite and the new mount command that's used in several scripts.
Some people, including me were having problems with DT mounting.
That's why I've modified the mount command in my scripts.

I found out that the later versions of DT Lite have new DT drive support and the command line switches have changed.
I recommend upgrading to the latest version of DT first.

[JaronSenna]

Thanks Maatje :-) great tip on the DT upgrading, because I dont think I am using the most recent version indeed. Keep you posted!

[JaronSenna]

Hi Boogieman,

I tried your script, but modified it to remove the references to say and the stuff for the gamepad. Also, the xpath include was removed, because I am not using that so far.

Next, setup the script to point to the correct drive (had to make another scsi drive in DT Lite). Then ran hyperspin, but unfortunately no luck. It checks for the pce.ini file, but throws an error on startup on that very line. I verified the file exists, and even changed it to all capital and all lowercapital a couple times to see if that was it, but so far no luck. I am right to have that .ini file in the same dir as the pce.exe file?

[Boogieman_nl]

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