pc engine get~

well, actually i bought it a couple of weeks ago, but it didn’t come with an av cable, which arrived today.
i have these games:

  • yokai douchuuki
  • fire pro 2
  • champion wrestler (which the ebay seller i got the above two games from added as a surprise gift :zeldaheart:)
  • dragon spirit

there was also a baseball game in the hucard slot when i bought it, but that doesn’t seem to work. never mind~

i’ve wanted a cute jp 8-bit with a rectangular two-button controller for some time now, and i guess i picked the most awkward to set up when i bought an original model pce. but that’s all out of the way now. (though a sega mark iii would probably have been the hardest to get games for)

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The PC Engine is just such a cute console!

I’ve been interested in the system ever since reading Magweasel’s I :heart: The PC Engine series, covering the weird and wonderful and boring games of the system’s launch years, the strange peripherals, the Sheer Balls of launching a CD-ROM game storage add-on for a console in 1988. It’s a system just powerful enough to do really interesting things, without losing the spirit of experimentation and limitations of that late-80s wave of home consoles.

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the briefcase configuration is my favorite


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Looking gorgeous with the LT :scream_cat:

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Ooh, PC Engine thread!

Checking in!

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I want to see every SBer’s PC Engine.

I have none so I will live through you all.

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Nice pvm setup!

Unfortunately my pc engine stuff is packed away atm, so no photos. I’ve got a coregraphx and a super cd dock, though when I last played a cd I noticed the sound wasn’t outputting properly, which I’ve read is a common problem with older super cd attachments. In hindsight I should have just bought a duo over a super cd add-on, but at the time a duo seemed superfluous since I already owned a coregraphx.

Also, @destructivecactus, did you mod your duo to work on the pvm? I replaced my CRT with a pvm recently, so now I can’t even play my coregraphx/super cd since they don’t have RGB output! Probably about time I just invested in an RGB modified duo…

@ben I did indeed mod my duo - although I modded it for component output instead of straight RGB. I did this so that I can still use it in decent quality with my big LCD TV for party times. I actually have it hooked up to my BVM with component AS WELL as composite since one of the drawbacks to component is that it’s a bit hard to get a color match. This way, I was able to A/B it by switching inputs on the monitor.

Here’s some mod pics!


Here’s a link to an A/B test I did while matching the color - huge jump in quality!

Oh yeah, here’s a little family shot (not all of these consoles are working):

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Yeah I like my PCEngine.


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i have a tg 16 does that count

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Who would ever want to willingly use the Xbox controller

Rudie here’s a better option, since Xbox can’t output 240p.

Softmod a Wii!

@u_u heck yeah it counts!

you assume I just have a SD TV hanging around. I can’t handle that Wii resolution.

The Xbox can put out 720p.

I played through Ys, Dracula X, Mad Stalker, all 3 Bonks, etc on my Xbox.

i just remembered this thread! i’ve since got ahold of a briefcase configuration and a super system card. i had to get a replacement gear for the cd drive online and replace it!

i have a nice little stack of hucards, highlights including galaga 88, sonson 2, final lap twin, cyber cross and some others. i only got the cd setup a couple of months ago, but i’ve got road spirits, crest of wolf, asuka 120% burning fest, panic bomber w and some oddities, like an issue of the weird discmag ultrabox, the world’s first cd videogame no-ri-ko and the rerelease of galaxy fraulein yuna that comes with an extra disc that just has a short fmv and a picture gallery on it. fnv on an 8-bit console! amazing!

a bunch of the above-mentioned discs will be on my blog eventually, too. please look forward to it~

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Late but here’s mine. Complete with a contemporaneously age-approprate and aesthetically complementing trinitron tv (KV-1370R)

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Fire Pro is great but the older games are really super hard.

How cool is this? All-in-one FPGA CD-ROM Unit, Super System / Arcade Card expansion, flash cart, memory backup, and RGB video output. You provide the core PCE system and it does everything else. On the pricey side though.

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that is really cool! i actually have a spare pc engine too, so i could keep my real cd setup in my room and put my spare with this thing on the tv downstairs, to show off cool games i can’t afford to buy, like rondo of blood etc. to my friends

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