Getting PC Engine/Turbografx 16 CD games to run

[cereal_killer]

ok, so to play pc engine/turbografx 16 CD games on Wiimednafen or Wiiengine I need to drag the contents of a game (ISO and CUE files) to bincuesplit.exe but when I do that only .toc file appears in the folder and nothing else, no .ogg or some other files. I mean it shouldn't be that way, right?

 

[SaulFabre]

Why use WiiEngine in year 2022?

Jesus that emulator is soooo very very old, buggy and doesn't have many compatibility on TG-16 (CD) / PCE (CD) games like most modern emulators nowadays.

WiiMednafen (download here the latest 0.3-SNAPSHOT) can directly load TG-16 (CD) / PCE (CD) rom images on BIN+CUE, ISO+CUE, ISO+OGG+CUE formats without anything else than the PCE Super System Card 3.0 (Japan) BIOS (renamed as syscard3.pce).

Another option is using the Beetle PCE Fast core from RA-HEXAECO.

 

[Qaztab]

Also will recommend WiiMednafen. I use it exclusively for all my PC Engine/Turbografx games.

Took a peek at my PC Engine CD folder and it has all kinds of file extensions(cue, iso, ccd, img, bin, ogg). Some games are bin&cue, some are iso&cue&toc&ogg, some are cue& iso. They all work.

I'm not sure what bincuesplit.exe is or why you would use it to import images into WiiMednafen if you already have the iso and cue files.

I remember the biggest issue I had with setting Wiimednafen up was finding a syscard3.pce that booted everything I had. Make sure you put that file in the "\wiimednafen" directory. CD games won't boot otherwise.

 

[cereal_killer]

ok, got it, I didn't say that I wanted to exclusively use WiiEngine, I mentioned Wiimednafen as well. I just thought the procedure was the same for both emulators.

Now, I know and try the new version of Wiimednafen. I also found out that Retroarch was capable of playing PC Engine/Turbografx CD games. Is it the same as with Wiimednafen? I mean does Retroarch support all formats?

 

[Maeson]

RetroArch can play both HuCards/Turbo Chips (.pce format) and Super CD games (Bin/Cue), yes. The Core is Beetle PCE Fast, and I don't know if it's based on the same as WiiMednafen's, but it works really well, and properly set up it gives a cleaner picture. It also has a core for the SupeGrafx, if you want to play the... Five games, I think? It had.

You will need to have some special file, Syscard3.pce to have compatibility for CD games. It should be put in root/retroarch/system for official releases, or for HexaEco (An alternate version of RetroArch) root/private/other/system.

 

[Qaztab]

Wiimednafen supports SuperGrafx as well(yes, all 5! ha! )

Also, never had an issue with Wiimednafen being less or more clear than the cores in RetroArch.

 

[cereal_killer]

RetroArch can play both HuCards/Turbo Chips (.pce format) and Super CD games (Bin/Cue), yes. The Core is Beetle PCE Fast, and I don't know if it's based on the same as WiiMednafen's, but it works really well, and properly set up it gives a cleaner picture. It also has a core for the SupeGrafx, if you want to play the... Five games, I think? It had.

You will need to have some special file, Syscard3.pce to have compatibility for CD games. It should be put in root/retroarch/system for official releases, or for HexaEco (An alternate version of RetroArch) root/private/other/system.

can you tell me where I can find the Beetle PCE Fast core and the core for the SupeGrafx?

 

[SaulFabre]

can you tell me where I can find the Beetle PCE Fast core and the core for the SupeGrafx?

both cores are included on RA-HEXAECO (a mod of RetroArch Wii made by @SuperrSonic), cheers

 

[cereal_killer]

both cores are included on RA-HEXAECO (a mod of RetroArch Wii made by @SuperrSonic), cheers

thanx

 

[cereal_killer]

neither Wiimednafen nor RA-HEXAECO nor RetroArch play pc engine/turbografx 16 CD games. I have Syscard3.pce in the right folders but the games won't launch (Wiimednafen says sorry unsupported file format or something like that, RA-HEXAECO and RetroArch just reload when I launch games pc engine/turbografx 16 CD games, no matter what cores I choose). I got it to work with an old version of RetroArch but with a new one its just a black screen and then reload.

So, lets start from the beginning. How do I get pc engine/turbografx 16 CD games to work on Wiimednafen? I downloaded the latest version from the above link, my games are .bin .cue in the zip folders. Maybe my syscard3.pce is wrong? Anyway, what should I do?

 

[SaulFabre]

neither Wiimednafen nor RA-HEXAECO nor RetroArch play pc engine/turbografx 16 CD games. I have Syscard3.pce in the right folders but the games won't launch (Wiimednafen says sorry unsupported file format or something like that, RA-HEXAECO and RetroArch just reload when I launch games pc engine/turbografx 16 CD games, no matter what cores I choose). I got it to work with an old version of RetroArch but with a new one its just a black screen and then reload.

So, lets start from the beginning. How do I get pc engine/turbografx 16 CD games to work on Wiimednafen? I downloaded the latest version from the above link, my games are .bin .cue in the zip folders. Maybe my syscard3.pce is wrong? Anyway, what should I do?

1. Maybe your syscard3.pce file is corrupted? The correct one is called "PC Engine Super System Card 3.0 (Japan)", but you still have to rename it as syscard3.pce
2. Maybe you have a bad BIN/CUE for your games? Try getting good dumps of it, i recommend using the Redump ones (Internet Archive is your friend)

 

[cereal_killer]

1. Maybe your syscard3.pce file is corrupted? The correct one is called "PC Engine Super System Card 3.0 (Japan)", but you still have to rename it as syscard3.pce
2. Maybe you have a bad BIN/CUE for your games? Try getting good dumps of it, i recommend using the Redump ones (Internet Archive is your friend)

1. Thats exactly what's it called and I renamed it to syscard3.pce
2. That's exactly where I downloaded all my games.

Funny thing is I got them running on an old version of retroarch, but the one you suggested doesn't work at all. Maybe I am doing something wrong but I doubt that. I mean i will get back to the old version but the new version should work even better.

How do you load cores to retroarch? Can you just copy/paste .dol files into the retroarch-wii folder? Or it doesn't work like that?

 

[SaulFabre]

How do you load cores to retroarch? Can you just copy/paste .dol files into the retroarch-wii folder? Or it doesn't work like that?

Just copy the cores (.dol files) and paste them into "retroarch-wii" folder (if you're using vanilla RA Wii) or "RA-HEXAECO" folder (if you're using RA-HEXAECO mod).

If you're using the latest vanilla RA Wii, then you MUST copy the folder "info" from the 7z file of your downloaded RA Wii and paste it into "retroarch-wii" folder.
The "info" folder and its info files are now required nowadays, otherwise the cores just don't work, lol.

 

[cereal_killer]

Just copy the cores (.dol files) and paste them into "retroarch-wii" folder (if you're using vanilla RA Wii) or "RA-HEXAECO" folder (if you're using RA-HEXAECO mod).

If you're using the latest vanilla RA Wii, then you MUST copy the folder "info" from the 7z file of your downloaded RA Wii and paste it into "retroarch-wii" folder.
The "info" folder and its info files are now required nowadays, otherwise the cores just don't work, lol.

ok, what about games? can they be in the zip folder? I mean a zip archive containing BIN/CUE files? Or they should be extracted?

 

[SaulFabre]

ok, what about games? can they be in the zip folder? I mean a zip archive containing BIN/CUE files? Or they should be extracted?

BIN/CUE can be zipped and played as .zip (i think?), but for ensure that i won't have too many issues I prefer extracting the BIN/CUE files and open/load the CUE file on the RA Wii (remember, CUE file still needs all the BIN files because the CUE only reads them).

 

[cereal_killer]

ok, I'll try messing with retroarch once more, but how do you play PC Engine/Turbografx 16 CD games on wiimednafen?

I mean, I downloaded the latest version, following the link that you sent me but it won't load PC Engine/Turbografx 16 CD games, other stuff it plays well. I put syscard3.pce in the root/wiimednafen folder. But when I click on the game, it says all kinds of stuff, like "sorry, unsupported rom" "the file is to big" "this rom can't be played" or something like that. I mean I have like 50 games and none of them work. Maybe I should do some tuning up?

 

[SaulFabre]

ok, I'll try messing with retroarch once more, but how do you play PC Engine/Turbografx 16 CD games on wiimednafen?

I mean, I downloaded the latest version, following the link that you sent me but it won't load PC Engine/Turbografx 16 CD games, other stuff it plays well. I put syscard3.pce in the root/wiimednafen folder. But when I click on the game, it says all kinds of stuff, like "sorry, unsupported rom" "the file is to big" "this rom can't be played" or something like that. I mean I have like 50 games and none of them work. Maybe I should do some tuning up?

share screenshots of how you have your BIN/CUEs, and the root/wiimednafen folder

 

[cereal_killer]

some of them are BIN/CUE files, while others are CCD, IMG, SUB but someone above mentioned that it plays all formats

 

[SaulFabre]

some of them are BIN/CUE files, while others are CCD, IMG, SUB but someone above mentioned that it plays all formats

That could explain the probkem. WiiMednafen is problematic with zipped games, if the emulator detects that the zip file overpasses certain limit, then it won't load.

Try extracting every ZIP of your games. You should see only the BIN/CUE files of your PCE CD games and not the ZIP files. Then on the emulator, load the CUE file.

 

[SaulFabre]

EDIT: And your roms MUSTN'T be of BIN/CCD/SUB files, these won't work.
But if you only can get your roms at this format, mount the CCD file with DAEMON Tools Lite and rip the game as BIN/CUE using ImgBurn (these software are free).