The 2 different motherboards of the original PC Engine.

[Ergot_Cholera]

There are 2 different motherboard versions of the original PC Engine. The original uses 1206 size SMD components and the revision uses 0805. The revision board also has a different ground panel underneath.
The area on the casing above the controller port is different too.
I am the first person ever to make these observations.

[NightWolve]

No accompanying photos to prove your claims, help illustrate exactly what you mean ?? ;)

I noticed Aaron posted this picture today on our PCEFX Facebook page:



That would be the context of your thread I take it, that today is the 31st anniversary of the PC Engine ? And a day before Halloween, easy to remember, I didn't know that, heh.

Has it really now been 31 years since it began ? Feels hard to believe for some reason...

[majors]

I am the first person ever to make these observations.

https://www.pcengine-fx.com/forums/index.php?msg=374069

[Ergot_Cholera]

I am the first person ever to make these observations.

https://www.pcengine-fx.com/forums/index.php?msg=374069

Yes, just being a bit daft there. I was sure someone else must have spotted the difference in the 30+ years that they have been available.

I have just received another PC Engine (original) which has a chip instead of the oscillator. There is a footprint for the chip, but I have never seen one in place before, and I have bought and sold probably 25+ PC Engines.

[nectarsis]

No accompanying photos to prove your claims, help illustrate exactly what you mean ?? ;)

I noticed Aaron posted this picture today on our PCEFX Facebook page:



That would be the context of your thread I take it, that today is the 31st anniversary of the PC Engine ? And a day before Halloween, easy to remember, I didn't know that, heh.

Has it really now been 31 years since it began ? Feels hard to believe for some reason...

Def not Aaron's page ;)

[NightWolve]

Oh, I didn't know that. I kinda thought he occasionally posts on it and did create it. But looking at the About page, it looks like it's not his writing. Is it yours ?

EDIT: Hmm, if I had to guess, it's Paul... That would explain some things...

[nectarsis]

Oh, I didn't know that. I kinda thought he occasionally posts on it and did create it. But looking at the About page, it looks like it's not his writing. Is it yours ?

EDIT: Hmm, if I had to guess, it's Paul... That would explain some things...

What would it explain? Lol

Yup I started that page years ago when the forum crashed ambles down for I wanna say a week or 2 for a way for as many people as I could get to stay up on what was going on with the site