Far East of Eden II Announced for DS

Hudson Soft proudly announces the release of "Tengai Makyo II: Manji-Maru" ("Far East of Eden II") for the Nintendo DS in Japan. The game was released Thursday, March 9, 2006 with a retail price of 4,800 yen. The original game was released in 1992 for the TurboGrafx CDROM and instantly hailed as a masterpiece by fans and critics alike. This newly enhanced version of the game takes advantage of the Nintendo DS stylus, enabling players to arrange their attacks by drawing various symbols on the touch screen. "Tengai Makyo" is Hudson's biggest RPG franchise, selling more than two million units. Can a US version be far behind?

Go here for more detailed info;
http://www.hudson.co.jp//corp/eng/news/bn2006/060317.pdf

Nintendo to bring older games to console

Nintendo to bring older games to console
Associated Press

SAN JOSE, Calif. - Nintendo Co. announced a partnership with former rivals Thursday intended to boost the library of downloadable classic video games for the company's upcoming Revolution console.

The agreement covers some of the more than 1,000 games made by Sega and Hudson Soft for the now-defunct Sega Genesis console and the TurboGrafx 16 system, Nintendo president Satoru Iwata said.

The Revolution's planned "Virtual Console" download service was already expected to also play older Nintendo-made games like "Mario Bros" and "Zelda."

"No one else can match the environment we're creating for expanding the game experience to everyone," said Iwata, speaking at the Game Developer's Conference in San Jose. "Our path is not linear, but dynamic."

He did not discuss pricing, availability or other details.

Long before Microsoft Corp. and Sony Corp. entered the console business, the Genesis and TurboGrafx 16 systems competed with Nintendo's Super NES for video game dominance in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

Sega eventually dropped hardware in favor of software. Hudson and NEC Corp. jointly developed the TurboGrafx 16, which had a strong showing in Japan but poor sales in the United States.

Sony unveiled its online strategy for its upcoming PlayStation 3 console Wednesday, saying it would offer new features ranging from video chat and voice communications over the Internet to the ability to purchase and download game or other entertainment content directly to the machine.

PC Engine Entity 2 is Back

PC Engine Entity 2 is Back!

Come one, come all!! Have you not noticed that the hub is back?! I am here to inform you, just in case you hadn't noticed we are LIVE AND FULLY FUNCTIONING!!! PC Engine Entity 2 has been online for about 4 weeks now, and there are still regulars that have not showed up to reclaim their spots to fame and shame. YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE! Check the news section under "News/NEC HUB Bulletin Board" for details. I look forward to seeing you all back.


HAPPY NEC'ing!!!!! = )

Project PC2E - No More Releases

For anyone who never heard of this PC2E emulator, and for those who have....this is a good/bad news update on the cool little emulator;

PC Engine Emulator Closed Note

[2005.10.13]

The executable and the source code is no more open to the public, because there is a webpage uploading commercial PC Engine games along with the link to my page.

THE PROJECT PC2E EXECUTABLE IS ONLY FOR USE WITH GAMES DUMPED BY YOURSELF!!!

I have shown the warning messages three times: before downloading, in the ReadMe.txt, and when the program is invoked. Despite of this, the webpage explicitly ignored my warning messages and handled the PROJECT PC2E in the absolutely unacceptable way. As to be in position of the author, I have to stop releasing PROJECT PC2E.

The webpage like that really makes me feel I shouldn't have released this software to the public. I'm quite disappointed.

I stated the "terms of use" thing on my emulator because of the legal background in my country. The recent case of "Winny" showed that a software which can encourage people to break the copyright law could also be considered illegal (very funny though).

So now that I've actually seen people uploading commercial PC Engine ROMs and providing a link to my page, saying "These games will work properly with an emulator such as PC2E," I had no choice other than to stop releasing my emulator.

Maybe I didn't have to stop, but it really got on my nerve because they should have read my "terms of use" message since they used my emulator at least once to check if their games work on my emulator. They also showed in a public place that they didn't care how PROJECT PC2E is intended to be used.

I personally think that the copyright laws are really outmoded scrap, but that doesn't make me think that we can ignore the rule.

Return to the "PC Engine Compatible Hardware Development Note"

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(C) Ki 2005

Shame on the abusers! This was GREAT up and coming freeware emulator!!!! Will be sadly missed.

HuGo! Update - More ports on the way!

Development for Hu-Go! have been quite slow, to say the least, recently. But the ports have been working nicely, with new working platforms like GameCube, Mac OS X (powerpc) and amd64. The GameCube port is done by Softdev and can be found on this page while the others can be compiled from the sources but have not been released yet.

 

From:

http://www.zeograd.com/

 

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NEO Power PC-Engin 64M flash cart

Play awesome amount of your favorite NEC games in one VERY stylish flash cart!!!
This is easily hands down more sleek and stylish than Tototek's flash cart(although
props go out to Tototek for being the first to introduce one), and comes at a decent price.

Description: NEO Power PC-Engin 64M flash cart (In stock)

Function: - support ALL PC-E and PC-E CORE console - support multi PC-E rom,and use switch to swap the game, one cart can store 63 PC-E games maximum - memory size from 64M up to 128M - use USB Slim Loader IV to burn, very easy

Head here to check it out and order one! Thanks goes to Grendelrt for this great find!
http://www.ic2005.com/html/2005/show-40.htm