Joined the Duo club.

[Bejita]

I'm very excited to say I received a original black PCE Duo from member Duo-R last week! He did a full cap replacement and purple LED mod on the system for me as a part of a trade, the system also had the RGB mod.
I was very impressed with the work that he did, very professional with clean solder points. I've always wanted to get into PC-engine games but I've just never had a chance. Ready to build up a collection, the first game I'm going to play through will be Ys this weekend! Thanks Duo-R!

[soop]

Lookin' good baby!

What other games are you excited to try?  I'd definitely pick up the 4-in-1 pack in.  Has to be the best value out there!

[Frank_fjs]

Sweet man, loads of fun to be had.

[Tatsujin]

I envy you

[PCEngineHell]

I envy you

pfffttt... Everyone knows you have like a gazillion Duos tucked away

[Tatsujin]

It's not about the DUOs exactly I envy him, but he still has the whole bunch of superior games in front

[soop]

I know what you mean Tats.  I often think back to the days when The PC Engine was some unknowable, mysterious console.  I knew of around 10 games back in the dat, like LoT, GoT, Ys and Spriggan.

[NecroPhile]

Welcome to the higher energy gaming system. 

[PunkCryborg]

Welcome and good  choice on the PC Engine duo!

[turbokon]

Welcome:)

[JoshTurboTrollX]

Power Up!! 

Congrats on the score, looks great!!  have fun and get an Arcade card!!!

[csgx1]

Congrats on getting a beauty!  Welcome to the club and enjoy it.  The purple led is a nice touch.

[jperryss]

Welcome!

What model is that controller from? I swore I'd seen every version of the PCE pad but I've never seen that one before.

[turboswimbz]

WELCOME!


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[roflmao]

Welcome!

[HercTNT]

welcome and nice machine. duo does good work

[NecroPhile]

What model is that controller from? I swore I'd seen every version of the PCE pad but I've never seen that one before.

That's a Battle Pad (clicky) - sold separately, not with a system. 

[Tatsujin]

we always called it "the banana-pad" back in the days

[Duo_R]

hey man just wanted to let you know that I just ordered you 3 more games to help you start your collection, they are on the way. Glad you are enjoying it! Let me know if you ever get good at Dragonball Z.

[futureman2000]

Congrats on the Duo! May it bring you years of joy...

[Duo_R]

Here is a pic of the RGB amp that I custom made, this was an earlier version but yours should be a little smaller:

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you can then get this converter (or a more expensive one):

http://www.ebay.com/itm/NEW-SCART-RGB-to-YUV-Component-Video-Converter-Scaler-/221156873851?pt=US_Audio_Cables_Adapters&hash=item337dfa167b



And all you will need to get is a RGB to Scart cable. I also modded your AV port to accept either a standard AV cable, or an RGB to Scart cable (if you look their are an extra 3 pins, one for Red / Green / Blue). This will allow you to get Component Video on your Duo!

Shoot me a PM for more details or if you need any help. PC Engine to Scart seem to be a little harder to find right now, so I can always help down the road if one needs to be custom made.

Enjoy the system!

[Bejita]

Thanks Duo!

With what little free time I had this weekend I got in a few hours playing the translated version of Y's IV. I haven't enjoyed a game like that in awhile.

I still havn't figured out the dragonball game, the most I can do for an attack is get in a few punches. I need to read a guide and figure it out!

[NightWolve]

Re: Joined the Duo club.
WELCOME!

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Special Thanks to @Tak-MK for figuring out how to get activated in this random Spanish forum (foromtb.com) to save/recover this particular "Club Duo" image (the LAST one!) that served as a "PCE Turbro" meme, so to speak, when @turboswimbz shared it!

This happened a few months ago when I wandered into this thread as part of my PCEFX image-recovery task/project which I believe has now saved/preserved 20,000+ PCEFX images from its ~20-year history mostly with Wayback, and a custom caching system for Photobucket and 2 other hosts (I'm considering caching IMGUR also before it's too late but I need a .webp image conversion layer)!

So the story around "Club Duo" is it was a night club in Munich Germany, but as best as I can tell it was closed during COVID-19 lockdowns and subsequently went out of business, so its websites expired and most of any shared images were lost. Another casualty of lockdowns... The image was shared from a general club website, link below, that showcased billboards/photos of many clubs in general, but it too was expired and Wayback didn't save the particular image:

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Anyway, as you can discern, it doubles in usage as a "Club [Turbo] Duo" in this context/forum, and with the extra work/help put into obtaining the ONLY copy of this image left on the Internet, I logged the story. I have manually rescued dozens of images like this when my automatic Wayback plugin can't help, so I don't bother to log the work, but this is the one I wasted the most time with waiting around for another forum admin to approve my account, and finally getting help (from Tak-MK who is Spanish) to make progress.

I can't believe I finally wrote this post, I really didn't feel like it, it's just one image, but it became something of a little hobby of historical excavation to find lost PCEFX history/images like this! Most forum archives/rebuilds have lost their images/assets, so I wanted to do a better job if at all possible with my PCEFX clone.

[Tak-MK]

I'm glad I could help! I didn't know it was of that much importance when I saw it a first