PCE CD emulation

[Moniker]

If this doesn't pass forum legality standards, go ahead and lock.

Is there any way to emulate PCE CD games that doesn't involve making complex cfg files with track names/lengths/whatever else? It seems odd that other CD-based emulation doesn't require this BS and can be played from a single unextracted iso.

I wanna play Sapphire & Nexczyr (sp?) on my psp, dammit!

[Estebang]

You can actually play Sapphire legally on the PSP. It's part of the Ginga Ojousama Densetsu Collection.

[louisg]

You can actually play Sapphire legally on the PSP. It's part of the Ginga Ojousama Densetsu Collection.

That's true! No such luck with Nexzr, however. I own a legit copy, but in recent years, the price has been unreasonably inflated so I understand why someone might turn to the dark side on this one

Could I recommend mednafen? You'll need a BIOS image and some very mild configging (you need to point the program to the BIOS). The emulator, in general, runs very well. Though, I don't know what the status is on PSP- I just use it on my Mac.

[Specineff]

Magic Engine plus Daemon tools and an ISO should help. Though ME is not free.

[drauch]

I've always had problems emulating Sapphire...But yeah, Magic Engine and something like Daemon tools is what I've always used.

[Ex-Cyber]

IIRC, the reason that it differs from other CD-based systems is that at least some PCE-CD games (I think this is limited to System Card 3 games, but I'm not sure) use a trick to reduce average seek time: they duplicate the data track as both the first and last track of the disc, so you get a layout like:

<data track copy 1> <a bunch of CDDA tracks> <data track copy 2>

One problem with this is that pretty much every other mixed-mode standard or pseudo-standard (some of which are enforced in burner firmware) somehow encodes the assumption that there is a "data region" and a "CDDA region" with exactly one transition between the two. A secondary problem with this is that an accurate BIN/CUE image contains a redundant copy of the data track, which some people tried to remedy by only including a single copy of the data track in distributed rips. In principle, there should be no problem with this in BIN/CUE format (or similar formats like BIN/TOC), but it seems to have caused problems in practice.

[Skykid]

You can actually play Sapphire legally on the PSP. It's part of the Ginga Ojousama Densetsu Collection.

That's true! No such luck with Nexzr, however. I own a legit copy, but in recent years, the price has been unreasonably inflated so I understand why someone might turn to the dark side on this one

Not unreasonably, it's aces!

Still in the cheaper end of the spectrum for high end PCE shmups too.

[The Coop]

Magic Engine plus Daemon tools and an ISO should help. Though ME is not free.

Ootake is...

http://www.ouma.jp/ootake/