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[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / PC Engine flash cartridge question]

I'm looking to buy a PC Engine flash cartridge, but I have a question.  Which of the currently available flash cartridges(Tototek, NEO) support System Cards, more specifically, the Super System Card?  I found this picture on Tototek's website showing a PC Engine Duo-R running the System 1.0 card on the Tototek flash cartridge, but I'm wondering if that flash cartridge or the NEO flash cartridge can be used as a Super System Card?  Or am I SOL and have to import a Japanese Super System Card(I have a region-modded TurboGrafx with the TurboGrafx CD, so playing Japanese HuCards is not a problem, not to mention the US Super System Card is crazy expensive)?

[Console Repair/Mod Center / TurboGrafx CD gear keeps jamming - WTF?]

I'm starting to get incredibly annoyed by my TurboGrafx CD, and here's why: since I've gotten the add-on back in July, it has constantly caused me problems.  To start it off, I got the TurboGrafx CD with a jammed gear.  Okay, fair enough, I unjammed the thing, put some silicone grease on the gears and the laser's worm gear and it worked no problem.  Since then, the gear won't cooperate; it has jammed 5 TIMES since I got it, and what really pisses me off is that THE NEXT DAY after the gear has been unjammed, it's jammed again!  WTF?  Why the hell does that damn gear ALWAYS jam the next day after it's unjammed?!  In case you're wondering which gear it is, yes, it's the dreaded gear that disintegrates.  That gear is 100% intact in my TurboGrafx CD, but discolored to hell, and, as I said before, keeps jamming no matter how many times I unjam that thing.  Can anyone tell me why my TurboGrafx CD is acting up like that?

[Console Repair/Mod Center / Weird video problem with TurboGrafx CD Interface Unit]

I managed to pick up a TurboGrafx CD(after 3 years of searching), and sure enough, it didn't work.  While that notorious gear was still intact(but discolored to hell), I found out it was jammed(laser wasn't moving, no click, no nothing), so I had to loosen it a little bit and lubricated that gear, the neighboring gears and the sled for the laser with some silicone grease(will lubricant make the gear last longer?).  However, I noticed a very weird video problem that I just can't seem to figure out: when I plug in the Composite cables to the back of the Interface Unit, parts of the video output get wavy and it looks like the video's going to go out of sync.  Here's the very weird part: when I plug in an RF cable in the TurboGrafx's RF box, the waves go away.   I've never heard of such problems with the TurboGrafx CD Interface Unit.  I've already ruled out that the RCA connector on the TurboGrafx CD is not the source of the problem.  Is it a problem within the TurboGrafx, the Interface Unit, or something else?