2/13/2025: Localization News - Cosmic Fantasy 3-4!

Rather earth-shattering news in the PC Engine / TurboGrafx-16 community: Cosmic Fantasy 3 & 4 has been officially localized to English by Edia 30 years later for the Switch! Hard to believe! I know their script quality is poor given the 1&2 port but still good to see.
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New PC Engine Duo owner

Started by squeeb, 07/12/2018, 11:16 PM

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squeeb

Hi all, new here.  Few months ago I decided I wanted to pull the trigger on a Duo, but to avoid the prices of a working system, I picked up a "broken" one.  Countless YouTube videos later, I learned much about the Duo internals and how to solder.  Here is an album of my restoration:

imgur . com/gallery/BDoGGXx

I'm proud of how it turned out; this was my first time attempting something like this.  It's nice to save a classic system from the junk pile.  See you all around on the forums!

NightWolve

Hiya squeeb, welcome to the forums! I activated your account sooner since you're in Japan.

I'm glad the full capacitor replacement job for your Turbo Duo was successful! I see you picked up a console5.com PCE/Duo cap kit to do it - there are better options nowadays (low ESR Panasonic capacitors) but understandable you went for that.

Anyway, enjoy your Dracula X play time! We're starting a PCEFX review section, and wouldn't you know Dracula X went up first. :)

squeeb

Quote from: NightWolve on 07/13/2018, 02:37 AMHiya squeeb, welcome to the forums! I activated your account sooner since you're in Japan.

I'm glad the full capacitor replacement job for your Turbo Duo was successful! I see you picked up a console5.com PCE/Duo cap kit to do it - there are better options nowadays (low ESR Panasonic capacitors) but understandable you went for that.

Anyway, enjoy your Dracula X play time! We're starting a PCEFX review section, and wouldn't you know Dracula X went up first. :)
Thanks, and I will look into those Panasonic caps!

Good to know about the review section  8)