Gooday Gaming Guests - NEC PC-FX

Episode Date: January 26, 2025

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All right, so for a afternoon system cartridge, we're going to do PCFX. It's a NEC unit, so let's do PC. And it came out, it had a short run. I think it came out after PC Engine, I believe, PCFX. There's CDs in those. CD boot code process. Let's see. Yesterday I did PC Engine.

So this is, I think this is one after that. It looks like a mini tower. I had one. You can see the videos. I have a hidden and unknown category that's got some of that in there. So we'll look at the PC Engine. Initialize has a breakdown. So again, these are CDs. I had a bunch of discs.

And the PC Engine also has some over 18 discs too. Japan weird things. Not sure. Alright, so PCFX came out. I'm not sure what it came out. We'll find out in a minute. Powered on. The system has a BIOS.

I also had the extra memory for it too. I've since sold it locally. So there was a memory. You always want to add any extra memory you can that was out there so then there was an expansion port in the bottom that was never used and then there was another expansion port in the back but i don't think that was ever used either we'll ask about that again uh the bios it does have a bios uh the cpu on this is an nec v810. It has RAM and a CD-ROM and a video audio subsystem. The system CD-ROM to check bootable drives.

It looks for specific boot sectors or boot codes stored on the CD. If it's not found, the CD contained requires the boots. You'll get a display. The boat code recognition. I believe these are all Japan. So I don't think there's really any region codes. Because there's just one place that they were. It may have been PAL ones.

I'm not really sure. We'll look here. Alright. So PCFX looks for a specific formatted record. On a CD. So it looks for. So it can play the CD ROMs CD ROMs like a a game and not a game but a music file systems executable loading the PCX uses a custom file system which is slightly different than the standard ISO 9660 format.

The main executable file, using a specific format compatible with the PCFX hardware, is located and loaded into the system's memory. So it doesn't read off. The CDs go into memory. So having that extra memory that I had helped the game play a little bit better. Actually, much better. After the main executable is loaded into the memory

the CPU begins execution CD-ROM continues to use the stream data such as video, audio and additional game assets as required by application CD copyright protection if applicable check for those. For instance there's a certain specific

patterns or data patterns on the CD that it uses. So we've seen a lot of that. Wobble Groove is the one that comes up the most. And there's other ones that have different sector sections. Every CD has some sort of way it tried to

prevent piracy But again as I always said they should just have not done any of that and just save the money They're gonna do it eventually Be dwelling into the PC fx boots repair for monitoring emulation. There are some mean things to new So these are debugging in reverse engineering the boot process. Oh, that was a different one. BIOS dumps. Obtain a clean BIOS dump from the PCFX to understand its initialized code. Emulators.

Use PCFX emulators like, oh, there's a Magic Engine FX. And med in the test and debug process. Develop tools. NAC providers. Provide tools for developers. Developed tools. NEC provided tools for developers. So hunting down these original dev tools available can insight into the structure. CD analysis tools. Isobuster can help analyze the file structure

and boot sectors of a disk. So what's... When was... When was PCFX out? When was it out? It came out December 23, 1994. It was the successor, as I thought, to the PC Engine.

But it had to compete with Sony PlayStation, Sega Saturn and N64 it lacked 3D graphics so it was a short span it could just continue to 1998 so 4 years game library

game library let's see what kind of game library only 62 games wow very very small all the systems that I've been doing PCFX is by far the smallest amount of games 62 officially

released games and they were anime style again a lot of them were over 18 they were dating sims, visual novels, or full motion video. There was one that kind of played like an early Zelda, but everything was in Japan, so there was no way I could read. So notable titles, Team Innocent, The Point of No Return. I think I had that one.

I had a nice little library that sold with the PC effects and if you go through my videos I'll see if I can put some more of those up you can see me testing the PC effects it's really cool sci-fi is one of the few action venture titles on the system. Chip Chang Kick, a single puzzle game. Der Langer FX, a strategy. Enhanced Port of Der Langer 2. Fairland Story

FX, a tactical RPG. Battle Heat. These are all the games from there. Battlegate, a unique full motion video fighting game Last Imperial Prince an action RPG Boundary Gate I had Daughter of Kingdom

first person like Doom style you go one screen at a time where you turn left right only one screen really hard time. Or you turn left, right. Only one screen. It was really hard to play. It was terrible. I did have that.

It was really expensive though. Kishin Duga Hapanula. 2D beat him up. So this had no 3D graphics at all. Princess Maker 2. A life simulator and parent game game where players raise a young girl to adulthood. That sounds weird. Fire Woman Matuga, a high school life simulation and dating sim. Somewhere it's going to show this in a minute. I know it is.

PC FX primarily consists of games in the following genre. Visual novels or dating sims. Many games were dialogue heavy, including branching storylines and animated inspired characters. Can Can Bunny FX. Nocturnal

Illusion. That's really weird. RPGs. Tactical and Dragon. Dungeon crawling RPGs. Were prominent. Again dungeon. Dungeon crawling is the one screen. Like a Doom style.

At a time left right. Forward to the next forward. You have to look for the next thing. Boundary Gate. And Fairland Story FX. Full motion videos. The PFE was heavily focused on full motion video. So

full motion video we see a lot in Sega CD. Also very heavy in full motion video. Battle Heat. Team Innocent. Simulator. Life and Dating Simulator Common, Princess Maker 2, and Welcome to Pi Carrot. Why was the PCFX library so limited? Failure to gain traction, had no 3D graphics hardware, high developer costs.

Full motion footage costs a lot of money to make. Collecting PC, FX because it's a small library. Alright, it says how many adult games were made? There's a few of them. I want to see how many there were. So the PC had a reputation including a significant number of adult-themed or mature-rated games, dating sims, and visual novels.

Of the 62 official titles, around 10 or 15 titles fall into the adult-mature category. And this is them. All right. So Can Can Bunny Extra DX. A dating sim with romantic and mildly suggestive themes. Part of the

series popular in its risque content. Welcome to Pie Carrot. A romantic simulation game set in a cafe with a light-hearted romantic themes and fan service. Ansang, a beat-em-up, featured a gang of biker girls. While primarily an action game, it featured suggestive dialogue and humor.

Dragon Knight Thar. A fantasy RPG themed and fan service. What is fan service? I mean, though toned down compared to its earlier entries of the PC. Power Dolls FX.

Strategy game with strong focus on female mecha pilots. First Kiss Story. A romantic visual novel with a heartful and occasionally mature theme line. And then

Rurala Ra Roo. So let's go to eBay. Okay. Let's see. Check out a couple of these. How much are these? I'm sure they're under the rare ones too. A quirky light adult humor and suggestion.

Why so many adult themed games, PFA, animated, visuals, developers were specified in dating games. They're trying to get to older teens and adults. Marketing system was in they were trying to get a niche out of it. None crossed into explicit. So none were anything you could do 15 to 17 up. None were actually of a

explicit adult. It was just a theme of it was kind of there. But it never really crossed over into any sort of weird anime nudity or anything like that from what I'm seeing here. Let's try this one. Dragon Knight 5.

Let's see if that one comes up on some PC. Now yesterday I had another buyer cancel an order. I was doing PC Engine. I saw a CD. I said, oh, cool. I'll get the CD. And within an hour,

he canceled the order. I mean, Ken, it's two. And I contacted him. I'm like, what is up with you guys? You're the second one this week that's canceled an order. Oh, I couldn't find it. And I had to send him a message saying,

could you leave me any message? Nothing. Just all of a sudden, the order got canceled. It was very small. So Dragon Knight 5 is, you can get that on Super NES software.

$190 bucks, $130. So that's kind of expensive. Yeah, so he canceled it on me. It was just a small little disc, but it was cool. I would have took it. So I sent him my message.

I'm like, what's up? What's going on? Why did you cancel my order? Oh, I couldn't find it. He didn't even let a buyer know. Second time this week. But of course he gets full five stars. Because I only do full five star feedback.

Super Fan Con is on $66 for the knight. Wait, Dragon Knight. Let's see what else we got here. Welcome to Parrot. We'll just cross-reference a couple of these games for fun. I had a few, but I didn't know what they were about. Everything was so heavily into Japan, you couldn't understand it. Sometimes you get lucky and you get some Japan games.

Welcome to Parrot 2 is on Sega Saturn, which I actually might have some of those. Just again, just animated cartoon. So, Sega Saturn must have some of that too as well. Alright, let's see what else we got here. Alright, so let's go to

there were three ports on the PC. Three EX ports. EX ports on... Oh, no. Let's just see if there's any rare games. Out of those rare games.

I think they're all rare, really. At this point. We'll look. Censorship. There's a rare. but we'll look censorship the rare so the Chip Chang Kick

Chip Chang Kick Team Innocent The Return The Point of No Return I might have had that one that one sounds familiar Zinco

FX Boundergate was expensive I've never been buying that for not that much the Miracle The Last Revelation. I could have bought an expensive one too. I gave it all away for a song.

But I just needed to move some stuff and do some stuff. Fairland Story FX. Pie Carrot, Hayashi. Can Can Bunny Extra DX. Power Dolls. Can Can Bunny. Extra DX. Power Dolls. Last Emperor Prince. Can Cha Cha. Tips.

So some of them are in the hundreds. Let's cross the reference a couple. I'm going to look at. I know I've seen some of these. I think I had these. This. America. Merakula? Kuna?

The Last Revelation. Let's look at that one. I had a nice library of these games. Yeah, I think I had that one. 100 bucks for that one. Yeah, but I do remember that one um yeah but do remember that one and um

bonders gate daughter of the kingdom right that's the one I said I had that one too I use copy and paste and I can just swap right over from one thing to another yep that's the one I had. It's not as expensive. $45. I thought I remember being more than that.

He's got a $250 over here. What was the other one I was looking at? Oh, no, Team Innocent. That's the one. Team Innocent. The Point of No Return. Survival. One, I didn't know what it was like.

Zelda, but I can't... I have no idea which one it was. Let's see what this one is. Team Innocent. Oh, yeah. I definitely had that. 100 bucks. Team Innocent.

Yeah. Alright, so let's see what else is there. So that's all there. So only 60 games on the PC-FX. So let me see. Let me see. It says there was three EX ports for what? It was three expansion ports, yeah.

So on the back of the console, which we'll break down. So this is what the memory backup was. It's called a PC-FX-BMP backup memory pack. That's the one I had. This port, it's an external backup memory port. This port was used for the external backup memory unit.

Sold separately. While the PC had internal memory, they saved it out of the backup, allowed users to store more files, especially with heavy, so it was just more of a storage I thought it was a keyboard port to connect the external keyboard I didn't know that primarily used for certain simulation education I didn't see released a dedicated keyboard

for the PC FX although it was a key for keyboard I didn't know that. The keyboard was used for Power Dolls FX or Studio Kintsuna. This feature strategy element for tools design. A modem port intended for the external modem to enable online conductivity. Peripheral

a modem was planned for release but was never officially launched. The details. This was a forward thinking feature of the 1990s imagine being online in 1990 uh unused potential uh while the three ports were invented and hinted expandability battery pack was the only procedure while we used that battery pack was there a bottom port a bottom port i think a bottom port? A bottom port? I think there was a bottom port. A port in the bottom. Yeah, there was a port. I know there was.

But it just never, I believe it was never used. Let's see what it is. So, let's see. Unused modem. We did that. Intended purposes. Oh, where is it?

The port in the bottom of PCX was the expansion unit connector. NEC included this port to allow the console to connect to additional hardware and upgrades. Like the other expansions of PCX, this port was never widely

utilized. Intentional purposes was design future peripherals and hardware expansion. Speculation suggested it might have been a potential hard drive unit. Additional RAM expansion. Also, I thought that expansion I put in there was a RAM expansion, but it's not. It was just storage. A video output upgrade module. Comparison to the PC Engine.

The included expansion port may have been inspired by the PC Engine with the Super CD or the CD card. Super System card. No actual usage. It was never actually used. Collectors note the bottom port while unused isn't interesting

to a hardware through these monitors yeah you could probably use it you could probably make your own little uh expansion port as you can do with anything now right so that's pretty good all right so that's we did a whole thing on just pcfx big fan very Very small library. All CD based. I thought that expansion model that I put in there was a memory upgrade. The PC-FX BMP. Which just now I know stands for Backup Memory Pack.

So maybe that's why I never played any better. I thought it did. But it didn't. That's why. So that was expensive. Actually that cost me to find one of those PCFX BMPs are really expensive. Sometimes they're more than just getting a PCFX.

But we've been there, done that. We've had it and there's videos of it so if you want to check them out. Alright so that's my system today and tomorrow I'm going to go on to, we're going to do Neo Geo. We'll start with the early Neo Geo CDs, cartridges rather, which I've never had. I never had a Neo Geo with a cartridge.

Those are really hard to find and really expensive. But I had Neo Geo CDs and then I had the Neo Geo X and I had a Neo Geo Color Pocket. Oh, I don't have any more, but I had them all at one time. So, that's my system for today I did some other uh one-on-ones I did my life in a double shave today so some more uh up-close videos me chatting if you want to check them out that's great all right so you guys have a good day and we'll see you in the morning all right bye