Okay, Looks like below is referring to the native running of ISOs. For example, KFUSION will boot Sega CD games without a virtual drive. Here's video proof you can use Dameon Tools to run CD games in Magic Engine. Now, you have to use advanced mounting as a SCSI drive. The video uploader has DT Ultra. Can you use SCSI natively in the free version?
https://youtu.be/b4bxWYIefv0
Good news there! If you have to pay for advanced mounting, I may be paying up.
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Well... a quick search revealed this. Bummer. No ISO loading for Magic Engine and Ootake.
There's another thing that might turn you off about MagicEngine (and Ootake). CD games can only be played via your CD-ROM drive. It does not support booting CD games from ISO. That really sucks because we don't really use CD-ROM drives anymore. Mednafen, a multi-system emulator, does allow you to boot CD games from ISO. That being said, that doesn't mean you should drop everything and marry Mednafen for all your TurboGrafx16 needs. It's not easy to use. MagicEngine is far better in the usability department.
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Booting a CD game
The first thing you need to do is download the BIOS syscard files. I have them right here:
PC Engine CD Syscards (429 KB)
Extract the BIOS files from their zip file and place them in MagicEngine's folder like this . Then open up MagicEngine.
Insert your TurboGrafx16-CD/PC Engine CD game into your CD-ROM drive. Give it a minute for Windows to detect it.
In the main menu, click or press Enter on Boot CD. You'll see your game pop-up in a little sub menu. Click or press Enter on it.
*If you're using an old version of Windows (Windows XP, Windows 98, Windows ME) and MagicEngine does nothing when you try to boot your CD game, try installing ForceASPI.
The first screen you'll see is the BIOS screen, prompting you to press Run to continue. Go ahead and do so. You will always see this screen when you boot a CD game. Then your game will begin. Enjoy!
Loading a CD game from ISO
I need to disappoint you: MagicEngine does not support running TurboGrafx16-CD/PC Engine CD games via ISO files. And the authors of MagicEngine intend to never add ISO support. It's a shame because MagicEngine is the #1 emulator. Anyhow, hope isn't lost. There are two workarounds you can try.
Workaround 1: Use Mednafen
The easiest way to play games from ISO is to use another emulator: Mednafen. This is a multi-system emulator. It's not the most user friendly, but it works and loads ISOs fine.
Workaround 2: Burn your CD games to CD
If you burn your ISO to a real CD (a CD-R disc), you'd have no problem playing your games with MagicEngine. I have burning directions below.
MagicEngine Tutorial
http://fantasyanime.com/emuhelp/magicen ... e-from-iso
I still need to try to load an ISO via MEDNAFEN on oXbox. Haven't gotten around to that.
Anyone confirm if this will work on or BizHawk?
@Mods/Nick, Should we maybe remove the "2013" from the thread title as we're 5 yrs down the road?