Psychosis by Naxat.

Pixel_Outlaw · Post by **Pixel_Outlaw** » Wed Feb 27, 2008 3:08 am

Looks to be one of those unheard of shmups for the PC Engine. Is this game worth the points? I've never seen it mentioned here.

Ozymandiaz1260 · Post by **Ozymandiaz1260** » Wed Feb 27, 2008 3:39 am

Why don't you just play it in an emulator and find out?

EDIT: That sounds kind of bad now that I reread it... I wasn't trying to threadshit, it was a genuine suggestion. Maybe I should have said something more along the lines of 'you could play it in an emulator to see if you like it' or something....

Pixel_Outlaw · Post by **Pixel_Outlaw** » Wed Feb 27, 2008 3:47 am

I'm not going to pay for an emulator.

Ozymandiaz1260 · Post by **Ozymandiaz1260** » Wed Feb 27, 2008 3:49 am

Pixel_Outlaw wrote:I'm not going to pay for an emulator.

There aren't any free PCE emulators out there?

E: I just found like ten of them in the first link of the most obvious search terms... I don't think I can post links on here, but it isn't hard to find one...

iatneH · Post by **iatneH** » Wed Feb 27, 2008 3:58 am

I paid for MagicEngine, it's really good. Although if you want to go shady all the way, you can probably find a crack for the trial version without too much difficulty.

I also paid something like only $2 for my Paranoia HuCARD, it's the JP version of Psychosis. Cheaper than any VC title. It's one of the two PCE HuCARDS that I kept from my massive collection purge.

I quite like it for the atmosphere, with backgrounds and enemy designs that will weird you out. It is a very hard memoriser though,

Ozymandiaz1260 · Post by **Ozymandiaz1260** » Wed Feb 27, 2008 4:03 am

^^ I was reading a few articles about it and I saw that it was the only PCE HuCARD of it's size ever (6mb, don't know if it's actually true or not), I would have thought that alone would make it worth more than two dollars...

What's the other game that you kept?

The Coop · Post by **The Coop** » Wed Feb 27, 2008 4:24 am

Psychosis is an odd little game. It plays alright, and the graphics aren't too bad, but it's just... odd. Here's a review...

http://www.vc-reviews.com/games/tg16/psychosis

iatneH · Post by **iatneH** » Wed Feb 27, 2008 4:46 am

Ozymandiaz1260 wrote:^^ I was reading a few articles about it and I saw that it was the only PCE HuCARD of it's size ever (6mb, don't know if it's actually true or not), I would have thought that alone would make it worth more than two dollars...

I doubt this is true. I don't feel like downloading and extracting the ROM at this very moment, but I don't recall it being that big, possibly not even 512 KB.

What's the other game that you kept?

Coryoon. I have horrible taste, I know. Hey, it just occurred to me it's also by Naxat Soft.

it290 · Post by **it290** » Wed Feb 27, 2008 4:59 am

Mednafen is an excellent little emulator. It runs PCE games very nicely, better than Magic Engine in my opinion. I'm not sure if it would run Psychosis, but it's certainly worth a shot.

Ozymandiaz1260 · Post by **Ozymandiaz1260** » Wed Feb 27, 2008 5:01 am

iatneH wrote:I doubt this is true. I don't feel like downloading and extracting the ROM at this very moment, but I don't recall it being that big, possibly not even 512 KB.

You're right, it's less than 512, I don't know what that guy was talking about... do you know if the US, EU, & JP versions are different? The piece I read was referring to the turbografix version...

louisg · Post by **louisg** » Wed Feb 27, 2008 7:21 am

it290 wrote:Mednafen is an excellent little emulator. It runs PCE games very nicely, better than Magic Engine in my opinion. I'm not sure if it would run Psychosis, but it's certainly worth a shot.

Seconded.. Mednafen is very good and will also run CD games. There's also TGEmu.

ROBOTRON · Post by **ROBOTRON** » Thu Feb 28, 2008 1:01 am

I loved Psychosis and think it is underrated. Its extremely weird...which is why I like it.

TWITCHDOCTOR · Post by **TWITCHDOCTOR** » Thu Feb 28, 2008 4:33 am

Its a cool horizontal and it can be challenging. Its kind of short, but you're supposed to loop it anyway.
PLus, its not too expensive either!
If you enjoy PC-Engine/TG-16 shmups, you should get the game period.

FRO · Post by **FRO** » Thu Feb 28, 2008 2:16 pm

Every time I've played it I've ended up quite frustrated, but when a shmup is hard enough that I have difficulty finishing the 1st stage, it's not a game I go back to regularly. However, the atmosphere keeps me coming back occasionally. I need to pick this one up for my TG-16 at some point...

Lynx Winters · Post by **Lynx Winters** » Thu Feb 28, 2008 3:36 pm

Pixel_Outlaw wrote:I'm not going to pay for an emulator.

That's exactly what Virtual Console is.

Ozymandiaz1260 · Post by **Ozymandiaz1260** » Thu Feb 28, 2008 3:41 pm

Lynx Winters wrote:
Pixel_Outlaw wrote:I'm not going to pay for an emulator.
That's exactly what Virtual Console is.

I wasn't going to say anything about it, lol...

Pixel_Outlaw, have you played the game yet? If you have, what did you think about it?

FIL · Post by **FIL** » Thu Feb 28, 2008 4:15 pm

I use Ootake, its free and i'd say it runs as well as magic engine.

lgb · Post by **lgb** » Thu Feb 28, 2008 11:35 pm

louisg wrote:
it290 wrote:Mednafen is an excellent little emulator. It runs PCE games very nicely, better than Magic Engine in my opinion. I'm not sure if it would run Psychosis, but it's certainly worth a shot.
Seconded.. Mednafen is very good and will also run CD games. There's also TGEmu.

Possibly thirded. Thanks for the link. I'd been using this one emulator, I forget what it was called now. It seemed a good deal old though.

Paranoia is awesome.

PC Engine Fan X! · Post by **PC Engine Fan X!** » Fri Feb 29, 2008 6:26 pm

You might not know this but on the back of the NEC TurboGrafx-16 branded Raiden factory box, it states that it's a 6 megabit Hu-Card...

The PCE Hu-Card of Paranoia has some very interesting artwork -- can't say that of the USA release of Psychosis Hu-Card though...

PC Engine Fan X! ^_~

Ozymandiaz1260 · Post by **Ozymandiaz1260** » Fri Feb 29, 2008 6:41 pm

PC Engine Fan X! wrote:You might not know this but on the back of the NEC TurboGrafx-16 branded Raiden factory box, it states that it's a 6 megabit Hu-Card...

But do you know why? I mean, there's no way Raiden is that big, is there?

The Coop · Post by **The Coop** » Fri Feb 29, 2008 6:46 pm

Ozymandiaz1260 wrote:
PC Engine Fan X! wrote:You might not know this but on the back of the NEC TurboGrafx-16 branded Raiden factory box, it states that it's a 6 megabit Hu-Card...
But do you know why? I mean, there's no way Raiden is that big, is there?

The Genesis version is 8Mb, so it's very possible for the TG-16 one to be 6Mb.

PC Engine Fan X! · Post by **PC Engine Fan X!** » Fri Feb 29, 2008 6:50 pm

Ozymandiaz1260 wrote:
PC Engine Fan X! wrote:You might not know this but on the back of the NEC TurboGrafx-16 branded Raiden factory box, it states that it's a 6 megabit Hu-Card...
But do you know why? I mean, there's no way Raiden is that big, is there?

Unless NEC got their facts wrong on the Raiden Hu-Card cart size, it's been settled then...

wrdaniel · Post by **wrdaniel** » Fri Feb 29, 2008 10:15 pm

Raiden has 786 kByte and thats 6 Mbit.

No_not_like_Quake · Post by **No_not_like_Quake** » Sat Mar 01, 2008 1:09 am

I like it. It's a bit R-typeish with colorful visuals and decent music. I haven't played it in a while though.

Udderdude · Post by **Udderdude** » Sat Mar 01, 2008 2:22 am

I remember playing this way back when. Was definitely wierd .. didn't keep my attention for long though. Just being wierd isn't good enough.

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Psychosis by Naxat.

Psychosis by Naxat.

PCE/TG-16 ver. of Raiden Hu-Card weighs in at 6MB...

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Re: PCE/TG-16 ver. of Raiden Hu-Card weighs in at 6MB...

Re: PCE/TG-16 ver. of Raiden Hu-Card weighs in at 6MB...