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[Buy/Sell/Trade / Re: Raffle: TG16 cleaner]

Enter me please. And I want to be in on the raffle too.

[Buy/Sell/Trade / Re: On sale for a stupid price]

I ordered mine last night by actually reaching out and requesting one. It was already tracked and mailed by this morning. That, my friends, is customer service. I can hardly wait for this game to be in my grubby dick beaters.

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: Turbo Gouging on Ebay ( r.i.p. - gouging much )]

CIC Sapphire for $1500:

http://m.ebay.com/itm/252206516675?_trkparms=aid=222007&algo=SIC.MBE&ao=1&asc=20150831081715&meid=d8053ce41db2427abe7908060322d91b&pid=100520&rk=2&rkt=3&sd=291753406996&_trksid=p2349624.c100520.m4113&_mwBanner=1

I bought a NEW!/SE@LED! copy off eBay last year for $500 and it had already sat unsold for a while.

So we wait until they drop the price lol.

I have 200 pesos.

Mexican or Filipino?

[Buy/Sell/Trade / Re: WTB: PC Engine Duo R/RX CIB]

What if the manuals are missing the baggie that they came in?

What if the inserts ARE FROM ANOTHER SYSTEM ENTIRELY??????????

YOU SHUT YOUR FILTHY WHORE MOUTH!

Yeah? Well you should see the bruises he left on me when I got home later that day. I should know never to mention...collecting...

[Buy/Sell/Trade / Re: On sale for a stupid price]

Well SHIT. Sold out by the time I saw this.

[Buy/Sell/Trade / Re: WTB: PC Engine Duo R/RX CIB]

What if the manuals are missing the baggie that they came in?

What if the inserts ARE FROM ANOTHER SYSTEM ENTIRELY??????????

[Buy/Sell/Trade / Re: Looking For- NtscU TurboDuo recapped w/ regionfree, component video&jailbar mods]

The OP is obviously the same kind of guy that goes into a massage place, asks the non-english speaking ladies for a "FBSM" and gets pissed when there is nothing happy about the ending.

Seen it a million times...

[Buy/Sell/Trade / Re: Looking For Turbo Grafx 16 console]

An intro post asking to buy tends to be met with less than favorable results. Coming on here and expecting to get anything without some sort of establishing of yourself is a sure way to get shooed away.

Welcome.

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: Turbo Gouging on Ebay ( r.i.p. - gouging much )]

I just got my Express back from Keith Courage so it's recapped, in near mint shape and has the original box. Think I can get $500 on E-bay? Based on other comments, I can  take $10 off in case of an offer. Sounds about right. 

[Buy/Sell/Trade / Re: FS: PC Engine LT]

Shabba,

I showed this to my girlfriend and got the opposite response. She said go for broke and I did. Now I'm broke! But a very happy man. Thanks Flare! Arrived super fast and a great packing job. She is a beauty.

You lucky sob. Wow. My wife is pretty supportive so I shouldn't give her too much shit. I have a motorcycle hobby that works in tandem with my PCengine obsession to remove money from my bank account. Glad the LT stayed in the group though. I'm super jelly.

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: Turbo Gouging on Ebay ( r.i.p. - gouging much )]

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Ninja-Spirit-TurboGrafx-Turbo-Duo-Turboexpress-TG-16-TGX-PC-Engine-Duo-R-RX-CIC-/321702807669?hash=item4ae6fb4875:g:pFkAAOSwEeFVDoiy

...lol!

Sadder yet, 8 sold. I guess people like smoking butt crack.

Strange that there are a couple of other copies, one of which CIC, that are far less money than this one. I've bought from this seller before and their prices were pretty good (Devils Crush and Alien Crush) so this is sad to see.

[Buy/Sell/Trade / Re: FS: PC Engine LT]

I showed this to my wife and told her this would make an excellent fathers day gift. She countered with a divorce decree being a better gift. We all know who won that battle.

[Buy/Sell/Trade / Re: Turbografx-16 & PC-Engine Reproduction Hucards Available Soon!!!!]

This looks better and better each time I come back to this thread.

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: What PC-Engine Stuff did you get today?]

What do you think of Snatcher?

good I love the pce music tracks.

Excellent. Is it non-japanese playable? It looks great but I want to enjoy it as much as possible.

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: TurboFest Tour 2016 - First stop MGC on April 8th-10th!!]

... Anywhere on the east coast would be doable for me. Other places possible. Are there other meetings?

You go to MAGFest? Last year we started a museum area, with more focus on 8 and 16bit consoles and computers. Turbo representation might not be as large(we had 4 obey setups running last year) as Turbofest at MGC but we are getting a larger room for next year. I also bring a couple of turbob to Animazement. Retro section there is only about 18 setups, 2600 to PS1.

I'm familiar but have not gone. I need to do one of these -fest get togethers.

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: What PC-Engine Stuff did you get today?]

latest bunch of pce stuff

What do you think of Snatcher?

[Buy/Sell/Trade / Re: Looking for a few games]

I've done business with 780 and he is very much a stand up feller. I sent him an item, told him not to pay until he tested it, and he paid me as agreed once it had been tested. Honesty is nice.

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: TurboFest Tour 2016 - First stop MGC on April 8th-10th!!]

Next stop on the tour?   

No joke. I'd like to get in on something like this. Anywhere on the east coast would be doable for me. Other places possible. Are there other meetings?

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: Photos from MWC this weekend]

How much was the magical chase repro? And who sells it?

I must confess, we made these.

Where can we buy?

These will be available soon, maybe in mid may or so.

Do we need a thread signing up for them? I'm completely in for both.

[Buy/Sell/Trade / Re: Small stack of PCE games F/S]

Money sent. Thanks!

[Buy/Sell/Trade / Re: Small stack of PCE games F/S]

PM sent.

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: I'm a new Turbografx collector. Welcome Me !]

did anybody have Caldor?  i used to find games cheap there.  it was one of those stores that got the stock that didnt sell at other stores so everything was discounted.  it may have been a northeast chain.

That sounds a lot like a store we had down here in south florida called BEST

Interestingly, according to Wikipedia, Best was headquartered right here in Richmond and died off 2 years before Service Merchandise in 1997 (which actually lasted until 2001 before croaking at the very end of the year). I never knew.

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: I'm a new Turbografx collector. Welcome Me !]

did anybody have Caldor?  i used to find games cheap there.  it was one of those stores that got the stock that didnt sell at other stores so everything was discounted.  it may have been a northeast chain.

That sounds a lot like a store we had down here in south florida called BEST

We had those in North Georgia as well. Another one that I had forgotten about. Wow.

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: I'm a new Turbografx collector. Welcome Me !]

Nobody else got their games at Service Merchandise huh? Maybe that's a regional thing. I was always impressed that the games were sold next to jewelry.

I remember this place. We had to drive to Atlanta to one but my father bought several lenses for his Minolta camera in the late 80's at that place for good prices. I think he might have bought my original Nintendo there (but he really got it at K-Mart. That's a secret) as well as games for xmas. Neat place that got edged out by Wal-Mart/K-Mart who is now being edged out by Amazon. Funny how that goes.

Good call on Service Merchandise. I had forgotten that name completely.

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: I'm a new Turbografx collector. Welcome Me !]

I grew up in a bumble fuck town in Georgia named Rome. We had a Wal-Mart and a K-Mart. Every kid knew that you NEVER, EVER shopped at K-mart, even if you actually did, and that any toy you got for xmas or b-day was from Wal-Mart or Wilbro or, if it was a video game, KB Toys. I wore a pair of blue jeans to school in 1988, so about 8th grade, and because they were so blue (fucking blue, sooooo fucking blue), some kids asked me about them. They were Levi's and expensive so there was no questioning my parents taste...BUT I committed the forever sin of saying they got them at "JC Penney, right across the street from K-Mart". Those mother fuckers heard "K-Mart" and for the next 5 years, my hands never touched quality boobs.

I had a Redline bicycle in 1979, most bad ass bike in Fort Worth Texas. I left it out front of my home one day and it was stolen because 5 year olds are fucking irresponsible. My grandmother gave the police an apt description of a "colored guy" that made off with the bike, reinforcing the stereotype in my mind of a purple colored man stealing my things. When it was not recovered, and after I had sufficiently cried my eyes out for days, my parents bought me a Mongoose. I found out years later that it was a competition bike with a 3 piece pedal set and the frame was chromoly. I sold it to a dude in Australia in 2012, all beaten up and in shitty shape, for $900 bucks. True story.

I got fat after that and started playing video games. Fat dropped off, got some pussy, ruined for life and 20 odd years later, I'm on a website devoted to video games. Jesus H.

[Buy/Sell/Trade / Re: Complete PC engine Briefcase setups for sale. Plus Some DUOs :)]

LOL! Hey Keith I just saw this thread! Its funny I found you through other means. Now Im super stoked! Cant wait till some DUOs become available! You do great work!

That he does. I got my Duo-R from him and I love it. I was so impressed that I sent him my Express to recap. His work is fantastic.

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: New to the PC Engine Community]

Hello all I am new to this community and have recently discovered the PC Engine after being a NES and SEGA guy for the last 30 years.
I got a DUO RX from a Mom and Pop local retro store and this has quickly become my favorite system.
I am enjoying exploring what with system has offer and sad I missed it the first time around.

Welcome. For me (and apparently quite a few others), there has always been something about the TG-16/PC Engine that stood out over all the other offerings. It's hard to put down. I'm on my third go around owning this system.

You found an RX at a local place? Lucky you. I've never seen a Duo for sale, much less an RX, anywhere but on the internet.

[Buy/Sell/Trade / Re: FS: Magical Chase game box (Repro) ...]

I bought a box for MC and for KC which arrived yesterday. Excellent quality throughout. I hope I can now get $25,000 for my non-existent copy of MC now.

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: I'm a new Turbografx collector. Welcome Me !]

Badges. They have badges. I didn't know that. Wow.

I'm trying really hard to NOT say "badges? We don't need no stinkin' badges!"...but I just said it. Edit: goes back a page, and it was already said. Still.

Badges. Man.

There's badges and then there's badges.


One badge was for knot tying, another for fire building, and the rest for fucking bitches.




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There's birds and then there's BIRDS. With talons.

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: What PC-Engine Stuff did you get today?]

I just got these, fresh from Japan. Tasty.

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: has anyone played...]

What in the fuck is happening here. I love o.p. like an estranged internet brother, but dude you're like 15 aren't you? How can you call ppl out about age, dougie howser you're so smart you should be with the program.

15? Where on earth did you figure that? Where have I gone wrong to give such a horrible impression?

Boy, would I hate to tell my wife and employer that I'm actually just a kid. On the other hand, my doctoral committee would be thrilled to have awarded a Ph.D. to someone under the age 18. And you know, I was already thinking about my career in academia, how maybe I wouldn't want to be teaching at my college forever. So, perhaps it's good I'm suddenly 15.

 

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=http://m.imdb.com/title/tt0096569/&ved=0ahUKEwiT2rjZ3uHLAhVM7WMKHVr2BXAQFgjbATAY&usg=AFQjCNHyox5aKrrIfRXCnX_5GjZ9Dh-I7A&sig2=KCzxjI5FnkbCTZpP6kJw4w

It wouldn't be an interesting show if you were a realistic age.

My take from that? Dougie Howser was only on for 4 seasons? What the shit? I couldn't get away from that show as a teenager. I thought it was at least 19 seasons.

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: I'm a new Turbografx collector. Welcome Me !]

I REALLY wanted a Mongoose when I was a kid.  Got a Murray from K-Mart instead. 

That reminds me, when were razor scooters a thing?

I think that started in 2000.  That's when I first noticed kids zipping around the neighborhood on them. 

Seconded. Way after Mongoose, Redline and Schwinn Stings were cool. Fuck I'm old.

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: I'm a new Turbografx collector. Welcome Me !]

All of this Gen X on Millennial violence. When will it all end? Hopefully never because I hate the fucks. I grew up when games were 50-60 bucks and allowance was 5 bucks a week, if you were lucky, and Mongoose was a bike you DIDN'T buy from Wal-Mart.

Whipper snappers. Showing off all of your games and badges. Know how I won a badge in 1984? By winning the All-Valley Karate Tournament fighting the Cobra Kai. Put that in your pipe and...wait..vape on that.

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: has anyone played...]

14 years and 8 months. Thread revival win.

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: I'm a new Turbografx collector. Welcome Me !]

Someone newer than me! yay!

Don't feel bad. I've been on here for about 5 years now and average 15 posts per year. It can always be worse.

[Console Repair/Mod Center / Re: Fram Duo Mod]

Too many stickies! but seriously though this is very impressive work and I like the idea of never loosing a save. Plus you can play Wizardry with a lot less hassle now!

I would think, though, that with the mod section, stickies are kind of the norm, right? The whole idea of this forum would be great ideas, no?

[Buy/Sell/Trade / Re: SOLD!]

Finally! I thought it might never happen. Good on ya both.

[Buy/Sell/Trade / Re: Free U.S. Magical Chase (sealed)]

Am I too late for the free Magical Chase?

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: Turbob Xpress: Bringing affordable "gamer's" games to the community! Nearly Gone]

Find him on Facebook. He's active there.

[Buy/Sell/Trade / Re: WTS/T: Turbo Express, fully restored]

These threads are always funny.

Never understand why new people don't take constructive criticism and get all butt hurt right away.  I guess I have always been of the mentality that if I am in a new place you learn the way things work.  Not saying you have to be a mindless drone but just simple respect for a community.

The internet has been around for 30 years at this point, 20 of it for which we can get onto sites like this and talk to other like minded people. You would think (there's the punch line) that most everyone has, at one point or another, gotten involved with an online forum and seen these type of happenings.

But who am I kidding? Donald Trump might be the next president, and I never expected that.

[Buy/Sell/Trade / Re: WTS/T: Turbo Express, fully restored]

@780racer - Thought it was a Dec 15 post. Suggestion - lighten up, you'll live longer.

@CrackTiger - More like $300, but what's your point? Are you telling me that you don't look out for good deals?

Hey man,

You gotta understand. This happens a lot by a lot of people who could give two shits about us or the community as a whole. Cool, you made a mistake, But it was a mistake.

Glad you joined. Maybe make a welcome post, before immediately going to the FS section, and trying to get deals on our fine wares. Makes you look less like a dirty reseller, who wants to get a good deal and flip it.

Pro tip (We are pretty tight knit, and well, people who create an account and immediately go to FS generally are here just to leech off the good deals. Because that happens. A lot.)

Welcome,

~Ryan

This. And lots of it.

[Console Repair/Mod Center / Re: BRAM upgrade hack]

Little bump-er-oo...

Awesome. I was searching for ways to increase the saves on my Duo-R and it seems I found the best thread as to how to do this.

Is this something that might become a common mod like the av or region mods so many folks do to their systems?

[Buy/Sell/Trade / Re: WTS/T: Turbo Express, fully restored]

@780racer - Thought it was a Dec 15 post. Suggestion - lighten up, you'll live longer.

@CrackTiger - More like $300, but what's your point? Are you telling me that you don't look out for good deals?

Welcome to the group. Own your mistakes, you'll be around longer.

[Buy/Sell/Trade / Re: FS: Magical Chase game box (Repro) ...]

Thanks you Sparky. Nice chatting with you and I'm looking forward to the boxes. So is my wife who cannot understand the desire to own boxes.

[Buy/Sell/Trade / Re: FS: Component modded Turbo Duo-R w/ Avenue 6 Pad]

I'll give you a bump for a good deal. I can't believe no one has gotten this yet.

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: Production qty's]

I've googled this a lot in Japanese, but with very few results to show for it.

In PCE magazines, they released sales rankings with "scores" that were based on the actual sales number divided by some mystery variable. To make matters worse, every now and then, they even changed the variable. If we could find out some hard numbers for particular games and make up a database of all the "scores", we might start to get somewhere, but there just isn't a reliable enough source out there.

A lot of people do say that Tengai Makyo II was the best selling game, but even then, the numbers are all over the place. There was a magazine that said 500k. Hudson said 300k. The writer/director said 200k. And there's a sales records website that says 130k.

I personally think there is room to doubt whether TMII really was the top selling game. We know from multiple reliable sources there were about 1 million Japanese Duo owners, about 3.8 million base PCE owners, and that about 1 million of those base PCE owners had the CD expansion. That's twice as many people who can play Hucards as can play CDs. Personally, I wouldn't be surprised if the best selling game is one of the Hucards from late 1989/early 1990, just because that was the peak time for the system.

This chart came from a PCE magazine from 1993 (I think). The bars are base PCE systems (white) and CD-ROM systems (black) and the lines are total Hucard sales (red) and CD game sales (green). The left y-axis corresponds to the systems, and goes up to 4 million, while the right y-axis corresponds to game sales and goes to 6 million.

Fantastic info. Thanks for this.

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: Turbo Gouging on Ebay ( r.i.p. - gouging much )]

This is pretty fucking stupid:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/TG16-PC-Engine-Turbo-Duo-BEYOND-SHADOWGATE-SCD-Complete-Excellent-Condition-/191827031110?

Right brand new shrink wrapped yet its opened in the pictures.

I'm surprised eBay has not been on that. They are pretty specific about auctions noting the correct condition. Brand new that is not.

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: RGB SCART VS Component]

Shabba,

If all you need is S-Video here you go:

SNES Cable for less than $4
http://www.ebay.com/itm/S-Video-Cable-for-SNES-N64-Gamecube-NGC-Nintendo-64-NTSC-/251953120314?_trksid=p2141725.m3641.l6368

Saturn Cable for less than $7
http://www.ebay.com/itm/New-Gold-Plated-SAV-RCA-Video-Audio-Composite-Cable-for-Sega-Saturn-S-Video-AV-/300953394281?hash=item4612385c69:g:zO4AAOxym2BSF-e-

Thanks for that. I don't think I'm too worried about it yet but with the pending loss of my old TV, I'm just a little concerned about playing my old consoles on a newer TV. I'm fortunate that this Sony has S-video at all. But one day, I might not have this one either and I'd just like to have an option which is where the Framemeister comes into play.

Sorry for that long story. I was really just kind of talking out loud and got way off the original topic. To sum up all of my posts, thumbs down on the Panlong HDMI upscaler.

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: RGB SCART VS Component]

Ok I have been through the house, used all 3 TV's and hooked up the Duo-R, a SNES and a Saturn. Absolutely none of them work through this device on either of my modern HD televisions. The Sony I have here, my 40 inch, is a good bit nicer than my newer but bigger Samsung, a 52 inch. It shows as the TV supports 240p and will adjust for 4:3 automatically. The Samsung also supports 240p but has to be forced into 4:3. Regardless, none of the systems worked on the new tv's but looked the part on my old Samsung HDTV/SDTV tube telly, the one I used for years to play my stuff on. It's a 32 inch and I can watch TV on it right now in 1080i or 720p through component. My Sony is upstairs hooked to my desktop office/gaming computer and in the need for more space, I want to get rid of the old Samsung. My plan is to make my office space into my area where I can work, play games, beat off. My wife wants to make the 3rd bedroom into a, well, 3rd bedroom, so the old TV needs to go. Long story, sorry.

This Sony flat screen has s-video and it's perfect for my Duo-R. It looks as good as the old Samsung, but most of my consoles don't have s-video on them. My Duo-R has the mod from Keith Courage. It seems that the Framemeister is my only choice that will allow me the most flexibility.

Anyone have one for cheap? 

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: RGB SCART VS Component]

DANG. so what youre saying is now you'll be saving up for the framemeister then?

Yes.