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Post by Sinistral on Aug 31, 2006 4:54:15 GMT
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Post by playgeneration on Aug 31, 2006 7:22:03 GMT
£40 is a bit expensive, for that amount you could easily get the Japanese equivalent of the console - PC Engine. Then you will have a far greater choice of games, and since the console was far more succesful in Japan than anywhere else, PCengine games are easier and cheaper to get. You can get a converter to use PCengine Hucards on a Turbografx, but these adapter cost £40 so its not worth it. Theres a couple of Turbografx games that were not released on PCengine, but they arent up too much.
The prices on the other two consoles, £100 for a Jaguar, and £200 for a 2600 are crazy. Theres probably New old stock of these three consoles in lots of different places, since they were over-produced in their time.
In fact nobody seems sure that the Turbografx was even released in the UK or not. They must have planned on selling it here, but there doesnt seem to be any evidence of it been sold in shops or anywhere else here.
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Post by playgeneration on Aug 31, 2006 7:39:25 GMT
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Post by Sinistral on Aug 31, 2006 16:26:53 GMT
So Pcengine games don't work on the turbografx without a converter? this is confusing.
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Post by playgeneration on Aug 31, 2006 16:46:28 GMT
thats correct you need an adapter like this:  as i said the best option is to just buy a japanese PCengine console, you can get the basic consoles for about £40 easily enough. The Duo consoles that have CD drives built in cost around £80-100, but i would only buy one of those if your really serious about PCengine collecting. Theres tons and tons of great games avaliable for Pcengine on Hucards, most of which never got released on Turbografx, and when they did they had famously terrible cover artwork. PCengine was massivley popular in Japan, far more so than Megadrive, and perhaps even Nes at one point. So theres some excellent games like Bomberman, PC Kid, Parodius, Splatterhouse, lots of wierd games, and if you like shoot-em-up games your really spoilt for choice. |
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Post by anagrama on Aug 31, 2006 18:09:50 GMT
You'll be able to get a decent boxed one with a few games from eBay US for less than £40, but I'd only bother with the TG16 if you want to collect the smaller US catalogie - a PC Engine is definitely the way to go if you want to get the most out of it.
It's best to get a CoreGrafx rather than the original white PCE since the white ones are (japanese) RF only, unless you want to hack the case up and mod it for RGB.
A Duo is the simplest way to enjoy the full library inc CD games without the confusing mess of system cards and what-not, but if yoiu ask me, the original white PCE & CD add-on in the briefcase set-up looks much nicer... :/
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Post by anagrama on Aug 31, 2006 18:12:35 GMT
Actually, is that a PAL unit in the first link? If so, £40 isn't too bad for a NIB one, thoug it's only worthwhile as a colection piece - I believe small numbers were sold in Spain, but definitely not in the UK as they mention. Almost all those you'll see online are from an Asian warehouse find a couple of years ago.
As a playing unit though, they're even worse than US ones thanks to the letterboxing and 17% slowdown.
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Post by Sinistral on Aug 31, 2006 19:51:49 GMT
Hmm, thats no good then. I don't "collect" for any consoles besides the SMS. I just wanted something to play and this looked a bit different. I think I'll give this one a body-swerve.
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Post by chaoticjelly on Aug 31, 2006 23:52:57 GMT
Im considering buying a few of these.
People keep going on about how they only play US games, and all the best games are Japanese, bigger library of games etc, which is all correct, however with a switch, and a bit of wire, its pretty trivial to turn it into a JPN/US unit, changing the region with a push of a button...
Also add 60hz switch... and mod for RGB output...
Pretty nice I'd say!
Reckon there'd be much demand for that?
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Post by RetroReserve on Sept 1, 2006 8:07:40 GMT
I got a new PAL Turbografx a few months ago and I'd be very interested in a mod to allow me to play Japanese games. There always seems to be more PC Engine games than TG-16 games on ebay so it could be a useful mod.
Any chance you'd be willing to do it CJ?
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Post by chaoticjelly on Sept 1, 2006 10:55:40 GMT
Not sure yet mate, I need to get some of the switches, they are basically one of those switches that stays in when you push it, and then when you push it again it comes out, but it has to be 8PDT (8 Pole Double Throw) The only ones I could find were from the states, and with customs charges etc, plus buying in bulk, they may be a little pricey. Im back at uni in a weeks time and ive got mods to do before I go... so I'll let you know ok Did you ever get the Neo Geo RGB sorted out?  |
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Post by anagrama on Sept 1, 2006 11:25:20 GMT
Not really sure if there's much point buying up these and modding them for 60Hz & JP games - you'd be able to buy a JP PCE or CoreGrafx and a few games for less than a NIB PAL unit would cost - I paid about £10 for a loose white PCE a few months back. Haven't got around to buying much else for it yet though :/
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Post by chaoticjelly on Sept 1, 2006 17:51:06 GMT
It wouldnt be multi region though, and it still wouldnt be RGB...........  |
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Post by playgeneration on Sept 1, 2006 17:55:51 GMT
It wouldnt be multi region though, and it still wouldnt be RGB........... Your really not missing out on anything by not being able to play the exclusive US Turbografx games, as far as i know they are all crap. If you could mod and sell them for a lower price than typical PCengine DUO consoles then perhaps its worth doing. Ive got the Darkwing Duck game if anyones interested, i cant use it on my Duo console. I had planned on getting a Turbografx myself at one point, but think the extra expense of a Duo console was definitly worth it. |
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Post by chaoticjelly on Sept 2, 2006 0:51:42 GMT
I think a region modded Turbografx GT would be cool?
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