This mission of mine dates back to early 2000 when a friend of mine was cool enough to give me his older brothers TG16 that had moved out years back. I received it with a few Hu cards. A year later a different friend of mine gave me a TG16 CD player only. At that point I was using TZD to order games. I shortly after that moved out of my parents house to pursue my skateboarding career. The next 3 years I didn't do much gaming besides purchasing my first Neo Geo Aes on ebay. Lol that dream ended quickly when I found out how expensive the games I wanted were even then. So I went back to playing my TG16 and keeping the CD player away in a safe place. I played my TG16 for a few more months then stored it away for the next 8 years. In that time frame I slowly got back into gaming and mostly collecting anything and everything retro from the early 90's which was my early teen years. In early 2012 I decided to pick up a bunch of retro consoles from my parents storage and found my TG16 the CD player a bunch of Hu card games and 2 TG16 Expresses I had obtained randomly over the years but did not even bother playing at the time. For some reason I was more excited about powering on the TG16 then ever and it all began again from that point. I found this site and it was on! I shortly found a TG16 CD docking bay on ebay for 50 bucks, asked a few question's on here about it and decided to find a Duo-R before trying to complete putting together my TG16 setup. Since then I have acquired a minty complete TG16 CD clam shell for 40 bucks and just over this past weekend a System Card 2.0 . It's finally complete! I about a year ago opened up the CD unit cleaned it out and re greased the CD rail with fresh lithium grease. When I tested it out with a CD game it seemed to play the audio tracks just fine. I powered it on Sunday night and it works just fine beside it loosing the games music at random times. I'm so excited even more so then when i scored on a fully modded Duo-R or the JP Duo that I purchased and soon resold. I have a TG16 Hu Card converter and I'm thinking about just leaving it stock and just obtaining a Arcade Card Pro to play all my SCD games on it. This is the system for me as it seems to bring me back so many great memories of all I have been through in the past 13 years of my life. All I need to do now is have it fully serviced and tuned nicely for it to be my ultimate TG16 dream machine.
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Personally, I'm with you for most of this. I only knew of Neo Geo AES and Turbografx through advertisements in game magazines. I was a nintendo kid, it wasn't until the last three or so years that I started pulling out old NES and SNES systems. I got introduced to AES, PC engine and Neo Geo Pocket and CD recently. All great consoles and handhelds. I hope your TG16 keeps chugging along.
Right on, thank you wyndcrosser. I can't wait to have my beloved TG16 CD fully tuned, upgraded with a Arcade card pro and running like a champ.
Glad to see you back. Seasons are passing, and I think nec.game might be starting to hibernate.
We'll see more of you now?
Time for some CD action! Good game choice for the pic, by the way; 'tis pwoof that Terraforming ain't no Super CD, no matter what the case says.
Looks awesome dude.
Quote from: Nec.Game.head on 11/14/2013, 12:00 AMThis mission of mine dates back to early 2000 when a friend of mine was cool enough to give me his older brothers TG16 that had moved out years back. I received it with a few Hu cards. A year later a different friend of mine gave me a TG16 CD player only. At that point I was using TZD to order games. I shortly after that moved out of my parents house to pursue my skateboarding career. The next 3 years I didn't do much gaming besides purchasing my first Neo Geo Aes on ebay. Lol that dream ended quickly when I found out how expensive the games I wanted were even then. So I went back to playing my TG16 and keeping the CD player away in a safe place. I played my TG16 for a few more months then stored it away for the next 8 years. In that time frame I slowly got back into gaming and mostly collecting anything and everything retro from the early 90's which was my early teen years. In early 2012 I decided to pick up a bunch of retro consoles from my parents storage and found my TG16 the CD player a bunch of Hu card games and 2 TG16 Expresses I had obtained randomly over the years but did not even bother playing at the time. For some reason I was more excited about powering on the TG16 then ever and it all began again from that point. I found this site and it was on! I shortly found a TG16 CD docking bay on ebay for 50 bucks asked a few question's on here about it and decided to find a Duo-R before trying to complete putting together my TG16 setup. Since then I have acquired a minty complete TG16 CD clam shell for 40 bucks and just over this past weekend a System Card 2.0 . It's finally complete! I about ayear back opened up the CD unit cleaned it out and re greased the CD rail with fresh lithium grease. When I tested it out with a CD game it seemed to play the audio tracks just fine. I powered it on Sunday night and it works just fine beside it loosing the games music at random times. I'm so excited even more so then when i scored on a fully modded Duo-R or the JP Duo that I purchased and soon resold. I have a TG16 Hu Card converter and I'm thinking about just leaving it stock and just obtaining a Arcade Card Pro to play all my SCD games on it. This is the system for me as it seems to bring me back so many great memories of all I have been through in the past 13 years of my life. All I need to do now is have it fully serviced and tuned nicely for it to be my ultimate TG16 dream machine.
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I know folks will say I'm corny, but it warms my cold, bitter heart to hear you finally got TG-CD working. :pcgs:
I've been playing since the console was released and I'm continually surprised by things (games I didn't care for 20 years ago are now rather charming). Plus, the vast sea of PCE games I have yet to play. :pcgs:
I'm digging the RC10gt!
awesome read, congrats on getting it all set up! I got a US Duo from a friend and sold my TGCD stup w/sys card 3.0 to retrogames way back when for like $140. Always regretted that move.
Thanks guys. Really enjoying the setup right now. I can't wait to obtain a Arcade card for it and have the issue with losing the music at times resolved. lol I just realized my RC10 GT is making a total appearance on the pic. That little nitrous powered beast loves to be seen! Feeling blessed by the Obey !!
Awesome man thought you'd stop obeying since you'd been gone, glad to see you were just busy setting up some major obey!
Its awesome you got the T setup going good!
Congrats on finally putting together a TGCD set. I agree, with an Arcade Pro card that's the "ultimate" CD setup.
PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion => Topic started by: Nec.Game.head on 11/14/2013, 12:00 AM