TG16 help

[Mod_Man_Extreme]

Thanks for the info.

[Dakinggamer87]

Lots of great info on TG-16 system...

[Hatta]

Sounds like it's time for you to whip out the soldering iron and put a composite port in there.

[fast]

I will back the idea of a pcengine aswell since it is much easier to get controllers for it. And unlike most consoles, the controller ports are different between the consoles. Unless you are only going to be playing single player games on it.

[lost_within]

Mostly just myself will be playing the TG so its no big deal. More or less I just got it to play some of the weird games that I never got to play. I guess I will just let them pop it open unless i find a booster sometime between now and then.

[bacteria]

It isn't hard to make a TG16 / PC-Engine region free to play American and Japanese games, in a crude mod, you can use four 2P2T switches to alternate between the two states. It will involve clipping off 8 of the pins of the cart slot on the motherboard and rewiring them (my guide on my site might help).

The Japanese game collection is large and has some great titles.

[marurun]

For more information go here:

http://www.racketboy.com/guide/turbogra ... ine-guides

Start with this:

http://www.racketboy.com/retro/2007/06/ ... guide.html

[superlarz]

a few months ago we had a discussion about a guy who does cheap mods to consoles. you send it to him and he will install av or svid jacks on the back of the system. if you are looking for a turbo booster, good luck. lonewolf, if u want the email address of the guy who does mods, shoot me PM, ill find it for you.. or look for the thread.

[Dylan]

I would recommend getting a pc engine instead of a tg16. much bigger game selection. many times the japanese version of a game is cheaper than the US version(one example where the opposite is true would be splatterhouse, the jp version is usually more expensive. I'm guessing one reason is because it is uncensored while the US version is heavily censored.)

unfortunately you can't play US hucards on a pc engine without modding it. cd games are region free though. pretty much every game except RPGs you can get by without knowing any japanese.

if you are into shmups pc engine is your dream come true. there are several versions of the pc engine, i would recommend at least getting a core grafx because it has composite hookups unlike the original pc engine which only had RF and required an AV addon like the turbo. (geez that sounded like a sales pitch )

Yeah, the Turbo Grafix got much, much weaker game support than the PC Engine. This was because Nintendo rocked Hudson's dome with anti-competitive practices, threatening 3rd party developers in the US with what were known as "chip shortages" should they produce for anyone else. By the time this was ruled illegal, the TG16 had pretty much been castrated, and it was too late for the console. This is likely why the TG16 couldn't get any solid ground in the US. The 6,000 add-ons probably didn't help either.

[shallowgamer]

I would recommend getting a pc engine instead of a tg16. much bigger game selection. many times the japanese version of a game is cheaper than the US version(one example where the opposite is true would be splatterhouse, the jp version is usually more expensive. I'm guessing one reason is because it is uncensored while the US version is heavily censored.)

unfortunately you can't play US hucards on a pc engine without modding it. cd games are region free though. pretty much every game except RPGs you can get by without knowing any japanese.

if you are into shmups pc engine is your dream come true. there are several versions of the pc engine, i would recommend at least getting a core grafx because it has composite hookups unlike the original pc engine which only had RF and required an AV addon like the turbo. (geez that sounded like a sales pitch )

Yeah, the Turbo Grafix got much, much weaker game support than the PC Engine. This was because Nintendo rocked Hudson's dome with anti-competitive practices, threatening 3rd party developers in the US with what were known as "chip shortages" should they produce for anyone else. By the time this was ruled illegal, the TG16 had pretty much been castrated, and it was too late for the console. This is likely why the TG16 couldn't get any solid ground in the US. The 6,000 add-ons probably didn't help either.

Keith Courage didn't help, either