MagicEngine is a PC-Engine console emulator. The PC-Engine - also known as the TurboGrafx-16 in the USA, was a nice little machine made by NEC.
The first model came out in 1987 followed one year later by a CD extension that made the PC-Engine the first console to have CD games.
Magic Engine is quite an impressive machine, with good graphic capacities (16-bit video processor, 512 colors, 64 sprites) and a fast and powerful 8-bit CPU. MagicEngine also had a very good game collection, with unique and high quality games.
And even today some PC-Engine games are still without an equivalent on modern consoles. Of course if you only enjoy 3-D games, well, the PC-Engine may disappoint you a bit, but if you love good old 2-D games, especially shoot`em up, give it a try, it really has some excellent games!
But we are sure that you already know all that. Go find those PC-Engine CD-ROMs that you stored in a cupboard a few years ago, remove the dust on them, and go downloading MagicEngine!
Here are some key features of "Magic Engine":
· full HuCard emulation!
· full SuperGrafx emulation!
· full CD-ROM and Super CD-ROM emulation! (with a custom System Card - no BIOS ROM needed)
· full Arcade Card emulation!
· very accurate and fast emulation!
· game save/load feature!
· nice and easy to use graphical user interface!
· five players mode - fully configurable!
Limitations:
· The unregistered version is limited in time.Everything is fully functional, but after 5 minutes the game you are playing will be frozen. You can reset it to start again or you can load another game, but you can not play to a game more than 5 minutes.
What`s New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
· added a cheat engine
· added IPS patch support for ROMs
· implemented the `options` panel in the `load ROM` window
· added a new `PC-Engine` config menu to configure the PC-Engine hardware
· fixed a bug in the scroll bar of the `load ROM` panel
· moved the `fullscreen` option from the ratio menu to the zoom menu, like that it`s now possible to select fullscreen stretch while preserving the aspect ratio, this can be useful for exemple for those who have a 16:9 wide monitor
· implemented 16-bit support for fullscreen modes
· implemented missing effects in MagicSystem music player
· fixed a few bugs in MagicSystem music player
· ixed a bug in the PSG DAC emulation that was affecting some PC-Engine demos
· fixed Camp California bug
