New user, old player.

[chapel]

Hi there.
I'm a diehard NEC fan. I bought my TG16 brand new at Child World on August 31, 1989. I loved it. We only had one console at a time. My parents weren't one to buy a Genesis, a SNES and a TG16 so it was up to me to pick. I picked the TG16 because my friends had Nintendos and Genesiseseseses... so I wanted something different.
We had all the great games. We even had a local place that rented imports with that purple adapter. It really was great.
My parents eventually bought my a TurboExpress in 1990 and then later a TurboDuo for Christmas in 1992.
Well, about 15 years ago, I lent my TurboDuo to a friend and never saw it again. We're still looking for it
Recently, I found my TG16, but no connector cables or AC adapter. I also found my TurboExpress

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Looking to rebuild my Library

[Arkhan Asylum]

What the fuck.

No China Warrior?

cmon guy.  Go get it.

[chapel]

HA! Yeah, no China Warrior. funny, someone else mentioned that too.
I had it as a rental, beat it, returned it.
Did that a lot
I'll tell you the one game I wish I had: Cosmic Fantasy 2
that's the only reason I want to find my TurboDuo...

[NecroPhile]

Welcome aboard!  That's a pretty good collection to bring out of retirement. 

If you're looking for a replacement AC adapter, head here if nobody here has an extra; and skip finding an RF cable, instead tapping a/v off the expansion bus.

[Arkhan Asylum]

CF2 is stupid easy to find.

Theres like 90000 copies sealed, floating around.

for cheap!

[chapel]

I'm actually trying to find a Turbo Booster. I'm crap at soldering. I saw people with hacked in RCAs.
As for CF2... yeah, I've found it a billion times for $20 or so... but without my TurboDuo, I can't do much with it except stare at it longingly remembering my first real JRPG

[Arkhan Asylum]

I'm actually trying to find a Turbo Booster. I'm crap at soldering. I saw people with hacked in RCAs.
As for CF2... yeah, I've found it a billion times for $20 or so... but without my TurboDuo, I can't do much with it except stare at it longingly remembering my first real JRPG

You can play it in an emulator on your computer in the meantime, duder.

[chapel]

oh yeah...
I guess we'll see how it stresses an 8 core Xenon with a GTX570 in it

it's just not the same though... plus I have no idea where to get ROMs...

[Arkhan Asylum]

you can use the real CD in your PC!

Ootake for windows can read from your CD drive and boot the game up

[Bardoly]

Just get yourself a region-modded from Keith Courage here on the forums.  Then you'll be able to play pretty much every Turbo game, including the massive PC Engine library.  (Get an Arcade Card with it, then you'll be able to play them all.)

[chapel]

How exactly do you tap into the expansion port to do the RCAs? I saw a video where a guy just wired it. Didn't realize there was two ways to do this. the one I saw had the RCAs on the side, but now I see someone with RCAs in the cover piece similar to a TurboBooster. Doesn't look like he soldered anything either

[chapel]

Just get yourself a region-modded from Keith Courage here on the forums.  Then you'll be able to play pretty much every Turbo game, including the massive PC Engine library.  (Get an Arcade Card with it, then you'll be able to play them all.)

how much will that run me?

[PCEngineHell]

In the system mod/repair section there is guides for adding RCA and also S-video support to the TG-16, and there are members here who can region mod the deck for you and also offer above video mods.

[chapel]

I need to start digging into this site...
So, this Keith Courage fella sells this stuff?
Last time I really looked at the market TurboZoneDirect still existed...

[chapel]

Ha. I remembered ART88. Listening to music mode now waiting for my train

[Bardoly]

I need to start digging into this site...
So, this Keith Courage fella sells this stuff?
Last time I really looked at the market TurboZoneDirect still existed...

Yep, he buys up Japanese Duo's, then region-mods them so that they can play both U.S. and Japanese-released HuCard games.  (The CD games are not region-protected, so they are already playable on either U.S. or Japanese systems, but the HuCards are region-protected, so you either need a $100+ adapter, a region-mod, or a console from U.S. and one from Japan to be able to play all of the HuCard games.)  You'll need to PM Keith Courage to find out what he has on-hand and for what price, but he has a very good reputation on this forum.  I personally bought a region-modded Duo from him for a very reasonable price.  He also re-caps the units, because most of these systems need it.

[CGQuarterly]

How exactly do you tap into the expansion port to do the RCAs? I saw a video where a guy just wired it. Didn't realize there was two ways to do this. the one I saw had the RCAs on the side, but now I see someone with RCAs in the cover piece similar to a TurboBooster. Doesn't look like he soldered anything either

http://www.cgquarterly.com/articles/tg16_cable.htm

Chris

[csgx1]

Well, about 15 years ago, I lent my TurboDuo to a friend and never saw it again.  We're still looking for it

Welcome!  Doesn't sound like a very good friend.  Did he forget to give it back after all these years?  He's probably hiding it from you and been playing it regularly all this time.  Well, I hope you eventually find it.

[chapel]

well, I lent it to him 15 years ago, asked for it back like 5 years ago and he had moved out of his parents house and left it there. His parents put it away somewhere and they're currently cleaning their house out.

thanks for the RCA links

[csgx1]

Well, that's good to hear, its just a matter of finding your Duo then.   I let friends borrow games before and I've ask for them back...sadly they don't even remember borrowing the games from me. 

[kazekirifx]

Hell yeah, CF2!!! Not my first RPG, but at least my first RPG where the characters had voices and animations - adds a lot to the depth of the characters.

I can see why some dislike it, but for those who enjoyed it back in the day, the nostalgia factor is through the roof!

[SignOfZeta]

Hi new guy. I hope you aren't crazy!

[chapel]

What's the policy on discussing Emulation and ROMs here?

[NecroPhile]

What's the policy on discussing Emulation and ROMs here?

Discussion is fine - just don't request or post links to roms/isos, and don't ask about the pros and cons of CDRs without searching first (trust me on this one). 

[chapel]

Have you guys ever had any luck using Virtual Drives to mount the CD Images for use with Magic Engine? I tried it with Cosmic Fantasy 2 last night and it wouldn't work.

[NecroPhile]

I use some old version of daemon tools with M.E. and haven't had any problems with it.

[chapel]

so, you just mount the ISO and load M.E and it works when you click 'Load CD' and choose the drive letter of your mount?
I use Virtual Clone Drive:
http://www.slysoft.com/en/virtual-clonedrive.html

[NecroPhile]

so, you just mount the ISO and load M.E and it works when you click 'Load CD' and choose the drive letter of your mount?

Yep.  Where are you running in problems?  Does the image at least mount okay?

[chapel]

I think it's mounting OK, but when I go to launch it it says Not PCE Game

[bartre]

what format is the iso in? i seem to recall that making a difference last time i messed with ME.

[chapel]

I wanna say the ISO is a BIN/CUE. so I have the BIN mounted.