How's your TurboGrafx 16/PC Engine Going on

[Tanooki]

I've been strongly considering fro awhile getting just a TG16 again and an everdrive.

I went and looked (ARGH) last night at my old system I miss the Duo. Sickening that they go for like $500+ depending if they're recapped or not as that's just insane. One dude reall recently was generous or screwed up, did a $300BIN on a recapped one and it was gone in moments. NO surprise as it was like a 50% off fire sale price.

I think a TG16 would be a best case scenario these days, then just find a nicely priced CD side unit and the system3 hucard for it as it would cost notably less.

[marurun]

If you're OK with emulating, there are some fantastic quality emulators out there. Maybe doing that to play a couple titles would put your urges to rest. Or maybe it would make them worse. Never can tell with that.

[BoneSnapDeez]

Got the PC Engine Duo out of storage. Battery was as dead as my sex life! Had to charge that fucker for a few hours, and now I'm good to go!

Been playing Exile. I love this game. Can't say there's any big advantage to playing it on the Duo vs. the Genesis though. Either port rules. I'd like to get to the sequel in the coming months, along with The Legend of Heroes. Got some Japanese stuff on deck as well.

[Tanooki]

If you're OK with emulating, there are some fantastic quality emulators out there. Maybe doing that to play a couple titles would put your urges to rest. Or maybe it would make them worse. Never can tell with that.

I'm not really sure how it stacks up anymore, but way way back in the day (90s) I was one of the early paying backers of Magic Engine for DOS/Windows. I still have my key after all these years and the latest update of that thing too. I can emulate, it's nice and all, but it's just not the same and it also gets me wishing it was on my TV with an original turbo pad.

I think in the end I just have to ignore it, or decide how to approach it. TG16+Everdrive with the occasionally not brutally priced legit HuCards, then later look into the TG16 and Sys3 card... or pray dumb luck hits and I can get a Duo around the price that one lucky SOB did for $300 a week ago on ebay (recapped no less.) Even that would bug me at that price, but at least I'd have access to it being all in one, and what I once had. Down around that price is closer/fairer than parting it all out original style.


The Genesis Exile is censored, removed parts of the game, plus if I recall the TG is a CD so you have superior audio sfx, visuals, color, and CD music too. I used to have a really fantastic turbo library.

[SpikeSlania]

I got my recapped Duo for about $300 plus shipping from Japan off Amazon. Though I think most people go the core grafx route, dunno if ever drives run on them

[Betagam7]

I got my recapped Duo for about $300 plus shipping from Japan off Amazon. Though I think most people go the core grafx route, dunno if ever drives run on them

They do. The Core Grafx is also so dinky and cute.

When I started looking at the comparative libraries of the TG16 and PC Engine, I really couldn't see any justification in getting the former. A limited library being sold at a huge price hike vs a much more comprehensive library that can be picked up far cheaper.

Unless Japanese text really bothers you or you're purely seeking a nostalgia kick then it seems a no brainer to go down the PC Engine route.

[Thierry Henry]

pray dumb luck hits and I can get a Duo around the price that one lucky SOB did for $300 a week ago on ebay (recapped no less.) Even that would bug me at that price, but at least I'd have access to it being all in one, and what I once had. Down around that price is closer/fairer than parting it all out original style.

I "stocked up" on the hardware side of things about 7-8 years ago. Kinda glad I did.
The prices then were still quite "reasonable".

I recall the one particularly good deal I got was for a total of $160 incl Japan Post EMS shipping, for a PC Engine Duo, Coregrafx system, and one of those Avenue 6 button pads. The seller threw in a loose Street Fighter II as well as a type of CD demo disc.

I recall he provided a Famicom power supply for the Coregrafx, and a Japanese Mega Drive 2 power adapter for the Duo. I actually didn't use the Duo for the longest time because I felt that it would do some damage using a power brick that was underpowered as far as the Duo's specs were concerned.

[alienjesus]

pray dumb luck hits and I can get a Duo around the price that one lucky SOB did for $300 a week ago on ebay (recapped no less.) Even that would bug me at that price, but at least I'd have access to it being all in one, and what I once had. Down around that price is closer/fairer than parting it all out original style.

I "stocked up" on the hardware side of things about 7-8 years ago. Kinda glad I did.
The prices then were still quite "reasonable".

I recall the one particularly good deal I got was for a total of $160 incl Japan Post EMS shipping, for a PC Engine Duo, Coregrafx system, and one of those Avenue 6 button pads. The seller threw in a loose Street Fighter II as well as a type of CD demo disc.

I recall he provided a Famicom power supply for the Coregrafx, and a Japanese Mega Drive 2 power adapter for the Duo. I actually didn't use the Duo for the longest time because I felt that it would do some damage using a power brick that was underpowered as far as the Duo's specs were concerned.

I paid £230 for a recapped PC Engine Duo R with 3 games a little over a year ago. Surely they haven't gone up that much in one year.

[Tanooki]

That actually Thierry sounds about right.

When I was in my condo for 3 years out in CA I saw the month, probably near to the week (or 2) the tipping point of when the stupidity kicked in. I had been sitting on a Bonk NES game and decided that while I liked it a lot I wanted the real one again. About a month or two tops before hand it got me looking at TG stuff. At that point you could bag the original CIB HuCard for Bonk's Adventure for like $20 (so this was 6-6 1/2 years ago.)

I then didn't bother looking again since that point, and I was able to sell that Bonk game at the going rate of $150 at that point. I figured I'd use the money to buy up Bonk and take a big chunk out of a new(used) Duo since they were like a couple hundred dollars. Once it sold I went online and Bonk was like $50 and I started mentally raging out and cursing out loud over it after checking the sales history on it, and then the Duo as well. At that point I gave up any illusions into now delusions of ever owning a Duo again outside of really dumb luck. Had I just sold the game on NES and not waffled 1-2mo earlier I'd have that stuff still and a nice library for it.

[BoneSnapDeez]

Anyone ever play that? I saw some video footage the other day and was seriously impressed. Looks like it got a Saturn port as well.

Loving all these obscure PCE RPGs.