27th April 2010, 7:20 PM
Quote:Actually, I want you to play these games and write about them, but since you didn't seem to want to do that I suppose I'll have to do it myself.
I wouldn't really mind, actually... I meant to reply to that. I think that you should play some too.
As for me though, I guess my issue would be writing for your blog... I mean, I could do it, but that post made me think of an idea we had a while back but no one followed up on, setting up a blog on Tendo City as one of our ideas for how to improve the site/make it slightly more relevant. If you want to do a blog, maybe those ideas could merge... that is, if you're interested. It's up to you. Otherwise I could do somethign for that blog, but somehow it does feel like it might be something of a lost opportunity... though the idea that TC might actually make something more of itself is probably pretty unrealistic, so it probably doesn't matter that much. It's just what I was thinking.
I am interested in doing some stuff either way, probably, but of course the other issue is that would be my opinions, not yours, and we don't agree on plenty of games so you couldn't directly compare those to your opinions on console games. If you don't mind that though, that isn't really a problem I guess.
Quote:Yeah, I know a site, but I can't find a good TG emulator that runs isos. I'll either have to mount the files with Daemontools or burn them to a disc and I rather not do either if there's an easier way.
That's one reason I like the Sega CD better than the Turbo CD, Kega will play ISO+MP3 cuefiles, so you can have an entire game often be like 70MB, while on the Turbo CD you need to use Alchohol or Daemon Tools (I use Daemon Tools) to mount the images, which means ISO+WAV files, and of course wave files are ten times larger than MP3s. It's annoying, and the result is that the games take up a lot of space and a bit more of a hassle to use than Sega CD games are.
Also, it's also true that neither MagicEngine or Ootake support ISO loading, so you do need to mount. At least with ePSXe you can load ISOs... they aren't alone, though -- for instance, the one good Sega Saturn emulator, SSF, also requires mounted images and doesn't support ISO loading or MP3 cuetables. It is a negative for that too.
But hey, at least we have Ootake now, a few years ago the only good TG16 emulator was MagicEngine, and it requires you to pay to get a version of it that actually works for more than five minutes... the timer resets when you hit quickload, making it semi-functional, but unless you find a cracked version it's a massive hassle. I'd also tried a few other emulators, but really they were even worse. I think that Ootake is by far the best.