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[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: I still call Ys WISE]

Heck why not? let me find that damn headphone mic first...

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: What Turbo game are you currently playing?]

I'm about to play Shape Shifter again but unfortunately I will use the infinite lives/gems trick because with a game this hard I don't have the kind of free time I had when I was younger  Still I play through it from time to time because I find it's atmosphere refreshingly old school & love it's corky story 

Of course if you find the game dead easy then kudos to you sir!

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: I still call Ys WISE]

Mispronouncing English words when you're natively English is pretty hardcore I must say... 

Seriously though, being natively French speaking I pronounce them a little different than you guys so who am I to judge? You'd laugh at how I'm saying Neutopia & Psychosis

[General Gaming / Re: The SNES (shitty nintenderp excrement system) Hate Thread]

Oh, and the drum beats of Gauntlet IV? try to beat that snessers... That one's personal I give you that, but no one can deny that those songs are really solid, they sound really drummy... comparable drum beats on the SNES always have that faint hissing analog sound that's somewhat out of place...

[General Gaming / Re: The SNES (shitty nintenderp excrement system) Hate Thread]

SuperNES's sound chip better? On paper it is. BUT... why does Genesis's Earthworm Jim sounds a million times better than the SNES one?

Conspiracy I tell you!!!!!!

[General Gaming / Re: The SNES (shitty nintenderp excrement system) Hate Thread]

Lol!!! so I did a typo 

But yeah, those... we could start those 'beasts' manually by putting the crankshaft lever in front of the car & turning like a madman...

I think we can start the SNES the same way correct? 

[General Gaming / Re: The SNES (shitty nintenderp excrement system) Hate Thread]

The famous Russian cars. Over here they were called Lada's but the more known name is the Hugo I believe... Those cars were less than 1/2 price of it's nearest competitor if I recall correctly & didn't like the heat... probably because they were made for Siberia... I mean they had a real, working crankshaft!!!!

[General Gaming / Re: The SNES (shitty nintenderp excrement system) Hate Thread]

But... isn't calling everything super lacking conviction? I mean why pat yourself on the back? no one was doing it Nintendo?

Then again I wonder if Super Nintendo is better than say NES-16 or Nintendo-thing-a-ma-jig? Or for the tech savvy out there the Nintendo-16-bit-cpu-based-on-an-8-bit-cpu-architecture?

Super? who knows... Good games? depends on who you ask. RPG's? yes please! Fast paced games? get away from me! Earthbound? fun game. Is it worth that much? to each his own, one man's trash is another man's treasure...

Seriously though, one's love (or hatred) for the system & it's games has nothing to do with the company behind it. I mean look at Volkswagen...

Personally for me the SuperNES is like a Ferrari with a Hugo engine inside it. Vast potential crippled with tiny power. Imagine the exact same system with say a 7MHz cpu... see?

So hummm yeah... that was a "Super" post, totally unNEScessary...

You guys are all "Super" btw... Enough with the superNESness... ess...

[General Gaming / Re: The SNES (shitty nintenderp excrement system) Hate Thread]

Earthbound had those trippin' scratch-&-sniff that smelled... nothing like they were supposed to... I miss those for some odd reason. Reminds me of my youth when scratch-&-sniff were popular...

[General Gaming / Re: The SNES (shitty nintenderp excrement system) Hate Thread]

Let's start the rumor that sports games are the next big thing for the truly serious collector that way the good games will drop in prices. This will trap the casual 'me too' collector...

Lol. The only thing those are good for as donation carts for repros.

True. Plus 99.97% of those shells are in top shape because they were barely used...

[General Gaming / Re: The SNES (shitty nintenderp excrement system) Hate Thread]

Let's start the rumor that sports games are the next big thing for the truly serious collector that way the good games will drop in prices. This will trap the casual 'me too' collector... 

[Fighting Street / Re: People will buy fucking anything]

Not for possessing a Harley or any kind of bike BUT Modifying the exhaust pipe so that it makes more noise... Then again by myself I can't do much but say to those same people to trade places with the residents they pester... Over here there are laws about noise levels on a bike but nothing against the shops that performs such mods... go figure... 

[General Gaming / Re: The SNES (shitty nintenderp excrement system) Hate Thread]

Mutant League Football was bearable however... Bribe ref FTW 

[Fighting Street / Re: People will buy fucking anything]

I live on a country backroad that is listed by the government as (hard to explain) let's call it a 'sightseeing tour' road where you can see pretty stuff all over. In the summer when they all get their bikes out, can you guess which ones I want to trow nails in front of their bikes? I mean when the muffler's sound is so loud & we feel it piercing our chests while inside the house, well... Now a stock Harley isn't so bad, I just hate the ones that modify theirs so they make more noise. So they have an inferiority complex? Good for them BUT they should stop "saying it out loud"

In short, if anyone of you have such a bike AND you modded the exhaust pipe ... I officially hate you now 
 

[General Gaming / Re: The SNES (shitty nintenderp excrement system) Hate Thread]

Hummm.... what about the fact that : Nintendo targets kids in north America, the reason why the US SNES looks like a toy (purple, seriously?) compared to the Japanese/European console. Also they way they tried to avoid moving CD mechanisms for the longest time, and the fragile CD medium. They also have Pokemon, a popular child's toy thingy stuff... ish. So yeah, Nintendo is for little kids!

On the other hand, The Genesis was targeted at a (slightly) more mature audience, or rather their big brothers. That's why it had more sports games for a while...

Personally, between Mario & sports games I choose... The TurboDuo of course... what did you expect?

[Console Repair/Mod Center / Re: Random reset issue]

Cleaned but since those resets are rare I'll wait a little & see but in the meantime I'll look at the task ahead & see if I'm capable of doing it. If not then I'll bug someone here 

Stay tuned!

[Fighting Street / Re: Do you hate them?]

Describe "toys" if you please, because I have a radio-guided cat's toy made by Sega/Takara that I use to amuse my cat so in a way Yes I play with toys too...

[Console Repair/Mod Center / Re: Random reset issue]

No recap yet & the connectors on the system have been cleaned to the best of my abilities without opening it but I think I'll open it up to check out the connector. Tips on cleaning it? If it's similar to the SMS's card connector it's gonna be hard to access 

[General Gaming / Re: The SNES (shitty nintenderp excrement system) Hate Thread]

Well a game on this system have a hold on me & that's Chrono Trigger. This game have it all : Graphics, sounds, gameplay but best of all... story! I mean time travel? CMON!!!

Other than that the SuperNES is a nice barebones system. What I mean by that is it was made with co-processor chips in mind inside the carts. That's like admitting you don't put an engine in the car you build... Oh & 3.58MHz? that's funny right there, I mean even if RPG's were the most popular genre in Japan at the time would the same system but with a higher clockspeed have hindered those games? nope. I still remember it's launch & the 'speed jokes'... But if I'm really honest with myself... I bought it on launch day because of Super Mario World...

Even if the sound samples comes out of a can.

[Console Repair/Mod Center / Random reset issue]

I've been getting this sporadic random reset issue with hucards recently. CD's are fine, only the hucards. What happens is at any point the game do a kind of soft reset, meaning the screen just gets back to the title screen, no fuzziness, no garbage, no screen flash. It just resets BUT the music continues (no sound effects though) without any hiccup. Then when the "new" music starts playing the game runs as if nothing ever happened. Then I can play for any length of time since the issue is so rare... Has this ever happened to any of you? If so, your thoughts and/or suggestions? I've cleaned the contacts with Isopropyl alcohol but the system (lol the US Duo btw ) is in top shape to begin with & I always made sure the humidity in my game room is okay so bad contacts are out of cause, besides all my other systems are fine so...

Admin it doc, it's a cancer right?

[Buy/Sell/Trade / Re: Christmas Nights into dreams US sampler]

The game has found a new home  But don't let that stop you guys... carry on 

[Fighting Street / Re: Lazy IT people Rant]

Yeah, I can't believe it either but school board = old people + computers... My guess is that it's not an isolated incident if you've read something similar. You'd be amazed how many old people think such nonsense, I got yelled at once for putting a shortcut to the printer on the desktop, I got accused of "breaking the cpu", not the PC, computer or whatever, but the cpu.

[Fighting Street / Re: Lazy IT people Rant]

I was IT for a local school board and got fed up setting up their desktop icons in such a way that they didn't block their kids faces in their desktop background photo... Call for for a real problem, not this! I wanted to cry every time I had to get out of a wall or suspended ceiling passing cables only to hear "can you make those thingies not block my grandson's cute little mug? Look at how cute he is! OH! & look at when he was 5! and this & that...". Wanted to die every time.

[Fighting Street / Re: Do you hate them?]

Size of Hudson? Yeah they were spitting out games like watermelon pits... humm... It's either they were a small army or they were geniuses... heck maybe even both.

[Fighting Street / Re: Do you hate them?]

Johnny Turbo? Thanks to you CrackTiger I will have nightmares again! 

Seriously though this was one of the final nails in the coffin for TTI... even back then this Johnny Turbo thing reeked moth balls... Oh I remember now the adds where they attacked Sega & their Sega CD. This was also juvenile from them but the TTI guys didn't even have time to empty their moving cartons & they had to pack again...

At any rate Black Tiger is a great arcade game that never got the attention it deserves. It's one of the games I play the most on my M.A.M.E. cab...

[Fighting Street / Re: Do you hate them?]

Hummm... brand loyalty is hard to describe really, think of it as rooting for you local (insert sport here) team... But you are right about the cross platform games issue Luke, good thing this is a thing of the past, excluding the titles made by Sony, Nintendo & Microsoft of course. Although when games did became cross platforms the 'new' argument was who has the best version... I still remember the Mortal Kombat discussions! Funny how in the end (back then) I chose the Genesis version (for the blood) because if this would happen right now I would choose the SuperNES version without a doubt.

And Roy, ever took a small plastic shovel to make 'roads' for the cars in the dirt?

[PC/Console/Mobile Ports / Re: Neutopia 3D ;)]

Working on this or not... Respect man 

[PC/Console/Mobile Ports / Re: R-Type iOS/Android]

A game like R-Type on these platforms? 

How arcade accurate is it? if it's 100% then it's 100% unplayable on these platforms. Even if they put an invincibility cheat so someone could even remotely think of making it to stage 2 I wouldn't buy it. R-Type on the go remains on the express...

[Fighting Street / Re: Do you hate them?]

I didn't even grow up during the 16 bit console wars...

So no Atari vs. Intellivision debate then. Seriously though since you weren't old enough to have lived the good old console wars days you can't understand the feelings & motivations we had. Brand loyalty was omnipresent back then, nowadays they are just companies, or rather names. Back then you had your brand tattooed on your chest so to speak. Heated debates were fun also, as opposed to the debates of this generation usually ending up in harsh language and/or promises of physical punishment.

You really missed the golden age of gaming Luke. I had a discussion with a teenager recently & he was unable to picture himself in a world without video games. I had fun trying to convince him that playing outside with trucks & action figures was really great...

But personally, I wouldn't trade my memories of the birth & the evolution of video games for anything you guys have...

[Buy/Sell/Trade / Re: Christmas Nights into dreams US sampler]

Only problem is I don't have a Saturn  I should emulate it though... hummmm...

Still the offer stands 

[Fighting Street / Re: Do you hate them?]

Well the majority of players wants what their friends and/or neighbors have, some even want "what is cool" at that moment in time. I personally wanted it for the games... I know I'm odd!!!

[Buy/Sell/Trade / Christmas Nights into dreams US sampler]

Anyone with a Saturn after this one? never played. If someone want it just send me something to put it in ready to ship, and no I will not sell something that was in a magazine free of charge... Those eBay prices make me cringe.

[Fighting Street / Re: Do you hate them?]

I remember reading it somewhere, the comment was from a rep from I don't remember which company but he basically said "The Turbografx-16 is powered by an 8-bit cpu". It was I think in EGM. Guilty for not remembering 100% a small comment I read some 20 years ago. Also, kudos to Hudson for designing those chips, I mean talk about effectiveness. Sega with it's "off the shelf" hardware, although good is nowhere near as efficient on a technical level.

And this topic was mainly a "who's with whom" thread. So now that you've shown part of your true colors, care to tell us for who you root for? I'm guessing Nintendo am I right? Me? Sega fanboy here.

[Fighting Street / Re: Do you hate them?]

Maybe I shouldnt comment, but it was really Hudson doing all the work. They made the pce, and they made the games. I'm not bitter at all though, NEC and Hudson put up a great fight, but poor marketing in the u.s. was their fault. I also find it extremely arrogant that you call nintendo and sega "Them", as they were also amazing innovators with high standards. Besides, Sega doesn't make systems anymore.

My fault I wasn't clear enough. One of the thing I remember from back then is how they made fun of the PCE being an 8-bit system at its core. This is what bugged me the most. I mean the SuperNES's cpu is a 65c816, a variant of the 65c02, an 8-bit cpu as well... What I mean is Nintendo & Sega were playing the numbers game... heck, the Sega Genesis cpu (the 68000) have a 32 bit data path so again, just numbers. Now don't get me wrong, I don't have anything against "them" but the way they pushed the newcomer aside, regardless of NEC's own incapacity to dent the market was juvenile.

Do I hate "them"? not a bit. I mean most of the best rpg's i played were on the SuperNES after all... And the largest collection I had was for the Genesis/Sega CD

Now we all know what a bit is but back then? no one had a clue. But they had more of that weird stuff! so it was better! besides, they had the market to themselves...

So yeah, I still love Sega & Nintendo even though they acted like they did... Picture yourself chairman of either of those companies back then, wouldn't you have done the same thing? Basic survival instinct dictates... We all would have! be honest...

[Off-Topic / Re: Best CD Jewel Cases?]

Ahhh gotcha... but a 100 for a mere 15 bucks?!? I mean 

[Off-Topic / Re: Best CD Jewel Cases?]

The ones that we want are an endangered species... Now all that is left are those nice  slim cases. So I keep all of my old cases to recycle, back then when we were buying CD-R's still in those jewel cases I kept them all & put my burned data (mostly *ahem*, "game cartridge backups" *cough* *cough*) inside empty CD-R towers I keep for this purpose... saves a helluva lot of space!

But to really answer your question hummm.... the 1 dollar stores are your best bet nowadays methinks...

[Fighting Street / Do you hate them?]

Nintendo & Sega I mean, do you hate them? for being responsible of the demise of NEC's place in video games. I for one am not sure, I mean there are way too much variables to consider. I mean yes big corporations are bloodthirsty sharks, the bigger they are the meaner they are. Take the automobile industry for example : of course the Delorean but anyone remember the Tucker?

So yeah, NEC got bullied... Only problem is can we blame them? No in the sense that this is how a market is shared. And yes because I find it extremely puerile & cowardly to hit on the small guy when he obviously don't want to create waves...

So now one of the bully was politely shown the door some 12 years ago & the remaining bully is being sandwiched between 2 titans spewing gimmicky contraptions that for the moment 'wii' use...

Lets face it, NEC is loved to this day because he was a martyr while the other 2 who are still in business will simply fade out & will be remembered simply as "them"... 

[General Gaming / Re: WHY THE FUCK DO I SUCK AT VIDEO GAMES!?]

I was gonna say that Aeroblasters is easy but... nowadays it isn't  I mean back then I breezed through it like a cakewalk but now it has the best of me  Also, back then R-Type was easy & could beat it effortlessly but now, I can only make it to stage 6 without dying  Have I gone soft? I mean I still remember all the patterns & timings!!!

 

On the other hand some games I could never finished back then due to short temper like the American RPG's (The old AD&D games from the late 80s) I can now finish with ease but the fact that I can appreciate such simple & slow games while taking my time & enjoying every detail no matter how insignificant is proof that a gamer evolves in his own way... Now I can actually enjoy content designed to be enjoyed as opposed to just "beating a game" as if I was trying to break a record...

A game I recently enjoyed is AD&D Pool of Radiance for the Commodore 64 : I bought this back then but never played more than 2 minutes as I thought it was painstakingly slow...

[Off-Topic / Re: people who use the word schump]

So basically, to clarify, a "shump" is a "Shure-im-puerile"?

Or...

Maybe "shump" stands for "chumps" as in friends? in which case he "plays his friends"?

At any rate, funny... in a weird, fuzzy kinda way...

[Off-Topic / Re: How would you handle this ebay situation that I'm in?]

At least the sellers who's practice was "leave-me-a-positive-comment-before-I-even-consider-to-do-anything-for-you" stopped, hated this back then... Now all that is left are the social inhibition-less weirdos 

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: What Turbo game are you currently playing?]

Y's IV these days but the games I always come back to are Legendary Axe, R-Type, Bonk, Splatterhouse & Ninja Spirit... Yes, Ninja Spirit 

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: The TG-16 looks amazing with a CRT tv!]

Suppose this post was a poll CRT or HDTV...

CRT for me. Hell even my emulation PC is hooked on the same CRT 

[Off-Topic / Re: Word association thread]

Lies.

[Off-Topic / Re: So many posts, I should have done this a long time ago...]

Final Zone II... Now I am 100% sure that I'm not the only one who is still haunted by the American version's opening song am I right?

[Off-Topic / Re: What are you currently listening to?]

Billy Idol... his 1st 4 albums rocked... er I mean rock  Especially Rebel Yell...

[Off-Topic / Re: So many posts, I should have done this a long time ago...]

Yeah the repair section is really interesting. But right now, It's my express that became silent but that repair is a little out of my league... But who knows? if I chicken out I'll ask for you guys help 

[Off-Topic / Re: So many posts, I should have done this a long time ago...]

Welcome to Pcenginefx!

Go ahead and introduce yourself a bit more for those of us who have never been active over on that other forum.  Tell us a bit of your Turbo history.

Lets see, My real name is Benoit, im 41 years old & come from the French part of Canada. I was the co-owner & chef of a pub for a good while. I also translate Steam indie games to French.

The history books don't clearly say at what point I loved my Turbografx-16. I remember seeing the TV & magazine adds. But I think I recall me passing by a local Radio Shack (they were Canada's official NEC distributor) in a mall  & seeing the system running live. I mean being used to 8 bit & my new Genesis (with it's Matchbox's truck load of colors) seeing something as sharp & colorful was amazing. Even it's higher pitched sound was amazing. The game's distinctive Japanese style was also a huge plus... I mean look at me rambling at how awesome the system is, you guys are all believers after all ;) Anyhoo that 1st 'encounter' led me to the Toys-r-us close by to buy one. I bought with it Legendary Axe, Splatterhouse & R-Type. The fun I had for a while... Then as time passed by I was buying a lot of Turbo games untill I saw the CD in stock so I decided to grab it with Valis II... today the following would make everybody laugh but when I hooked it up & started Valis II my jaw dropped when I heard voices & naration, "real" music, "videos" ect... To get the younger ones of you into context back in 1990 most of us was still using tapes & vinyls for music. I knew what a CD was but frankly I tought that it could only store "games" so to speak. Then when I got Ys book I & II everything fell into place... I then bought most of the US titles, plus a DUO, express plus other stuff.

Funny thing is, I recently sold a mint Neo Geo Gold plus the games, my Coleco, Intelivision & have sold my Super Nes & Nes a while back. But I kept my Turbo... the CD is about to die but the caps are fine so far. When this happens I will have to replace it because I still use it on a daily basis. Sure, I have a copy of Magic Engine but there is something special about playing on a real system even though I have a dedicated PC plugged on the same TV for emulators it's not the same...

[Off-Topic / Re: So many posts, I should have done this a long time ago...]

Are you a funny guy?

Welcome to teh obey

Yup I'm funny in a serious kinda way... wait... doesn't make sense... ish...

[Off-Topic / Re: So many posts, I should have done this a long time ago...]

Thanks all... This place is an amazing pool of resource although I could read for years & not see the end of it 

Still amazing though... And some of you seem funny enough so I think I'll like it here 

Stay tuned.

[Off-Topic / So many posts, I should have done this a long time ago...]

Yes, for those who know me I'm the same Jabberwok from the Magic Engine forums. I know I should have come here a while ago but you know  

There are so many posts in here it's not even funny  

So let's start having fun already!!!