{
  "commit": "fbe5ba4e3e790ab07eddc5b57e0f45a02cbcd60e",
  "count": 1,
  "generated_at": "2026-10-24T00:06:47Z",
  "items": [
    {
      "id": "magicengine",
      "profile": {
        "author": "David Michel, Cedric Michel",
        "core_classification": "other",
        "core_version": "1.1.3",
        "cores": [
          "magicengine"
        ],
        "display_name": "NEC - PC Engine / CD-ROM / SuperGrafx (MagicEngine)",
        "emulator": "MagicEngine",
        "files": [
          {
            "description": "Super CD-ROM2 System Card 3.0",
            "hle_fallback": true,
            "name": "syscard3.pce",
            "note": "system_card_3, the card an automatic CD boot loads. Opened by the relative name unless the ini sets a path, read through the HuCard loader without a size or hash check. When it cannot be opened the boot uses the built-in Magic System 3.0.",
            "required": false,
            "source_ref": "pce.exe image 0x100118e7-0x100118f3 (default), 0x10007752-0x10007f65 (automatic choice and fallback), 0x10082630",
            "system": "nec-pc-engine-cd"
          },
          {
            "description": "CD-ROM2 System Card 2.x",
            "hle_fallback": true,
            "name": "syscard2.pce",
            "note": "system_card_2, loaded when default_system_card is 2 or the card is picked in the boot menu. Falls back to Magic System 3.0 when it cannot be opened.",
            "required": false,
            "source_ref": "pce.exe image 0x100118b8-0x100118de (default), 0x10007f2c-0x10007f65",
            "system": "nec-pc-engine-cd"
          },
          {
            "description": "CD-ROM2 System Card 1.0",
            "hle_fallback": true,
            "name": "syscard1.pce",
            "note": "system_card_1, loaded when default_system_card is 1 or the card is picked in the boot menu. Falls back to Magic System 3.0 when it cannot be opened.",
            "required": false,
            "source_ref": "pce.exe image 0x100118a7-0x100118c1 (default), 0x10007f2c-0x10007f65",
            "system": "nec-pc-engine-cd"
          },
          {
            "aliases": [
              "gexpress.pce"
            ],
            "description": "Games Express System Card",
            "hle_fallback": true,
            "name": "ge.pce",
            "note": "system_card_4, loaded when default_system_card is 4 or the card is picked in the boot menu. Falls back to Magic System 3.0 when it cannot be opened.",
            "required": false,
            "source_ref": "pce.exe image 0x100118f8-0x10011910 (default), 0x10007f2c-0x10007f65",
            "system": "nec-pc-engine-cd"
          }
        ],
        "mode": "standalone",
        "notes": "PC Engine emulator by David and Cedric Michel, distributed as a closed\nWindows binary. The build read is pce.exe 1.1.3, dated 17 June 2008, sha1\nb58461eca2614326bd776d12b01c4ab2e7d0f579, the copy RetroBat installs as\nmagicengine (version 0.08.06.17).\n\nRetroBat starts it as pce.exe \"<rom>\" with the emulator folder as working\ndirectory and runs it only for the pcengine and supergrafx HuCard systems.\nThe generator writes pce.ini (paths for cheats, screenshots and\nsaved_games, video, language) and the controller section, and sets no\nsystem ROM. A HuCard carries its whole program, so this route reads the\ngame file, pce.ini and the games.idx index the program keeps in its own\nfolder, nothing else.\nref: emulatorlauncher Generators/MagicEngine.Generator.cs:20-83,\n     retrobat system/templates/emulationstation/es_systems.cfg (pcengine,\n     supergrafx)\n\npce.exe is a loader. 0x426ec0, called from 0x401712, decrypts about\n1.2 MB held in .data at 0x4484c0 (0x2491e eight-byte blocks of a SAFER\nstyle cipher whose exp and log tables sit at 0x448220 and 0x448320),\ninflates it with 0x426b00 into a 0x1f8d50-byte buffer, applies the\nrelocation list that follows and jumps to offset 0x1000. That routine was\nrun under an x86 emulator to obtain the program image, and the addresses\nbelow are addresses in that image relocated to base 0x10000000. The pce.cfg RetroBat ships is the binary keyboard and\ngamepad layout (ME10CONFIG) and names no file.\n\nSystem cards are four paths of the [pce] section, system_card_1 to\nsystem_card_4, defaulting to syscard1.pce, syscard2.pce, syscard3.pce and\nge.pce (0x100118a7-0x10011910, setter 0x100094e0, getter 0x10008b00).\ndefault_system_card picks the card a CD boots with: 0 automatic, 1 to 4\none of the four files, 5 to 7 Magic System 1.0, 2.0 or 3.0, a system card\nBIOS built into the program. Automatic means the third path, syscard3.pce.\nThe chosen file goes through the HuCard loader (0x10082630, 0x10082250)\nwith no size or hash check, and when it cannot be opened the boot falls\nback to Magic System 3.0 (0x10007752-0x10007f79, 0x100826b0). A card\nnamed on the command line after -cd is loaded the same way without that\nfallback. The internal HuCard database names the dumps it recognises as\nsystem cards by CRC32: 3f9f95a4 (1.0), 52520bc6 (2.0), 283b74e0 (2.1),\n6d9a73ef and 2b5b75fe (3.0), 51a12d90 (Game Express), which drives the\ntitle shown and not the boot (0x10142e40-0x10143c20). arcade_card only\nturns the Arcade Card hardware on and loads no file. CD saves go to\nbackup.dat and backup.idx, written by the program.\nRetroBat does not route pcenginecd to MagicEngine today, so these files\nonly matter when it is run on a CD by hand.\n",
        "profiled_date": "2026-10-20",
        "source": "https://www.magicengine.com/",
        "systems": [
          "nec-pc-engine",
          "nec-pc-engine-cd",
          "nec-supergrafx"
        ],
        "type": "standalone",
        "upstream": "closed-source"
      }
    }
  ],
  "kind": "emulators",
  "schema_version": 1
}