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[Buy/Sell/Trade / Re: Ultimate Freebie: US Turbo Duo - OVER! FINAL WINNER CHOSEN! HERE IT IS!!]

[Buy/Sell/Trade / Re: Ultimate Freebie: US Turbo Duo - OVER! FIRST ROUND PICKS DONE! The suspense!!]

And here comes the winner in...

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

Blazing Lazers Ass to Mouth :

GOMOLA SPEEEEEEEEED

I love this game so much.   UPL owned.


Right now I'm playing Metal Stoker again.  Neither the graphics nor the music are outstanding but the style is perfect and keeps me coming back.  It's one of my favorite PCE games.

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: Turbo Gouging on Ebay ( r.i.p. - gouging much )]

Not a single LQQK or RARE!!! though seems like a massive improvement.  Guess you can only shill so much when all you have left are Sega power cables.

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: So whats the deal with the arcade card?]

What is this Lady Sword you speak of?

It's like Arcana but remove all the character classes and party dynamics and replace with boobs and ultra-violence.

Now, this isn't necessarily a bad idea for a game, but the game is just boring as hell without party members or a variety of weapons and equipment to play around with:

the entire game is this forever.

Chuplayer the worst thing about those Neo Geo releases on XBLA was the laaaaag ugh.   Also getting hate mail and a lot of ragequits cause I'd play Geese and just jump up and fire Shippukens a lot.  I mean if someone's going to stand on the far side of the screen and shoot fireballs straight ahead over and over and never even block or sidestep what do they expect?

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: So whats the deal with the arcade card?]

It's true, the US version of SNES Fatal Fury Special was re-balanced and many glitches in the Japanese game were removed too.  Fatal Fury 2 isn't really worth owning on SNES though it is notable for keeping almost all of the voice overs (though with much lower quality sampling than the Neo Geo of course).

The PCE CD FFS is the best though.  The sprites are slightly smaller than the Neo Geo version and the backgrounds are SLIGHTLY less detailed but other than that the controls and speed are outstanding, one of the best fighting game ports ever.

I like Art of Fighting on the PCE CD much more than the SNES/Genesis ports as well.  Unlike those the NEC system has some rad trickery that imitates the zooming in and out of the arcade version.  Also like Fatal Fury Special ALL the animation is there from the arcade version.  Great job.

Lady Sword...ugh.  It's not an AWFUL game but it's just you and the monsters.  There are people to talk to but you'll get sick of fighting monsters about half and hour in.

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: Pictures of your turbo/pc engine collection]

Man I remember lurking this thread ages ago before I registered, in this age it's great to see a single thread come up to the front page every few months.   Here's what I got:












Sorry this last one is so huge but it's the best cover I mean come on.  No pretty boy Alucards standing around just a dude flipping off Dracula 24/7.

[Buy/Sell/Trade / Re: FS/FA : TG16 / Turbo DUO Stuff... UPDATED! (12/13/2011)]

REQUEST: Tell me more about CAPTRON (it must have been regional because I never heard of them in the northeast).
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Captron actually did exist in the north east!  There were at least three I used to go to (Short Hills Mall, Woodbridge Mall and King of Prussia Mall) and surely more.  They had these awesome kiosks that the manager would always turn off out of annoyance of so many kids being there always at the exact moment that was about to try out Super Mario Bros. 3.

[Localizations, Games, Apps, Docs / Re: MSR is finished!]

I apologize if I missed this skipping through the thread, but is there a way to see if I already pre-ordered or not?  I'm PRETTY sure I did?

[Buy/Sell/Trade / Re: Amazon.com has turbo games]

There's nothing wrong with Amazon in general, but I would never spend more than like $20 on a single game just because I've been burned with re-seals basically 100% of the time.  I don't even know if burned is the right word since the prices were cheap, just, like, if the game is already in great condition why even try to fake it.

[Buy/Sell/Trade / Re: Ultimate Freebie: US Turbo Duo - ends December 16th -RULES UPDATED / RELAXED]

Please put my name on this also!  I sinned by not playing my PCE CD interface unit for a couple of months and just yesterday found out that it died, making me unable to play my precious Dracula X.  I will never ever sell a Turbo Duo because I'll be playing it til I die.   I'd be more than happy to donate my extra CD/interface/controllers and stuff if it's useful too.

[Localizations, Games, Apps, Docs / Re: What PCE games would you like to see translated?]

With the entire library at their disposal though, something like a retail Valis compilation isn't totally out of the question.

C'mon Vic, you've made shitty business decisions your entire life, just make one more and give us a Turbo CD of CF3.

Games I'd like to see translated?  Xanadu I and II by far!  After that the Xak/Fray games.

[Buy/Sell/Trade / Re: Meteor Blaster Signature Edition: Worth...money?]

Mine doesn't say have "PROMO" written on it either.

Years from now, what stops anyone from scribbling any old thing on their insert and saying it's a "signature edition?"  We gonna see faux-signature edition Mysterious Songs on Ebay after that game is released in 2034 (all in good fun you guys have done great work so far!)?

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: The New TZD.COM]

Oh man, apparently you missed the biggest debacle in NEC console history.

Looking at the posts after yours I can tell.  Damn shame.

People are finally wising up to the Wii "bundle" trick though, so I can't imagine them being too successful with any of the non-Turbo stuff.  But like The Old Rover said, anyone savvy to NEC's products likely won't bother with this site anymore, and I can't imagine them selling too much of their other newer product, since most all of it is overpriced compared even to Circuit City and other sites that tend to stock to the MSRP.

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: The New TZD.COM]

Looks like TZD has branched into bundle scam territory.  They've got Wiis for $400 because they're the "sports bundle" as if it has content not included with any Wii shipped from Nintendo.

Awful prices, also, Sherlock "Homes," are you kidding me?


It's not really worth starting a new thread over so I figured this would be the place to ask, but what happened here?  Even as recent as a year ago I'd get stuff from this site kind of regularly, now there's absolutely nothing on here I'd want to purchase (except possibly Sherlock "Holmes" part I since it would be cool to have complete, I'm a sucker for the few good FMV games out there).

After that lost the lease sale, is the company under different management?  Have the Power Golfs congealed and become self aware, hell bent on making everything else sell as badly as them?

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: The New TZD.COM]

Ys III is one of those games I hadn't even bothered to get the English version of yet since it was always all over the place.  Hopefully TZD doesn't set a bad precedent.  No way in hell I'm ever owning an English Valis now. ;)

Cosmic Fantasy 2 is a little tempting I will admit.

[Buy/Sell/Trade / Re: 50% Off EVERYTHING at TZD.com!]

Got my stuff, everything worked out fine after all.

[Buy/Sell/Trade / Re: 50% Off EVERYTHING at TZD.com!]

Maybe there was a labeling error like with the Forgotten Worlds incident and every part of the warehouse is actually filled with Andre Panza Kickboxing.

[Buy/Sell/Trade / Re: 50% Off EVERYTHING at TZD.com!]

So wrong you are,not everyone got their order,complete,partial,or at all. Plus,you're only thinking of the members who have posted on this thread,imagine the ones who didn't,how many there are out there who had problems too on this sham of a sale....

What happened anyway?  I was ordering stuff from them bit by bit all spring til the present with no issue at all.  From my own experience and what the majority of people say I can't believe they were always terrible.

[Buy/Sell/Trade / Re: 50% Off EVERYTHING at TZD.com!]

Looks like everyone's getting their order but me then.  The anticipation is painful.

[Localizations, Games, Apps, Docs / Re: Tongueman's Logic FINAL release in time for the PCE's 20th anniversary!]

Finally got around to downloading this, great job!  I haven't played a picross game in years but this has me hooked again.

Consider me first in line for the disk release.

[Console Repair/Mod Center / Re: Why do CD-R's Damage the Duo Lens?]

I can see why people would think this happens, since by definition anything with moving parts is going to eventually wear out, and in this case anything that makes a disk drive read media in a way it wasn't intended to is going to wear it out "faster" than normal.

Fortunately, nat is correct, and the "damage" this can cause on something like NEC's family of systems is not being an issue.*  The "makes the laser work harder" line of thought doesn't make sense for the NEC hardware because it's a CD-ROM drive to begin with.  It's not like running a CD-ROM (blue disk) game on a fat PS2 where a laser designed to quickly stream and load information off of DVDs has to read much more slowly to stream off the CD-ROM media.  The "working harder" issue with the PS2 is because it has to read at a SLOWER speed than intended for the blue disk games, most people automatically think "working harder" means working faster.

There's a reason we have 3DOs and Duos and SegaCDs and such from over a decade ago that work like a dream now while some of us same people are also on our third or fourth PS2/XBox/360/etc.  The system's that have the 1 or 2x CD-ROM drives in them by default can't exactly read any slower, whereas playing Virtua Fighter 4 on your PS2 or Eternal Darkness on your GC can actually result in dire consequences in some rare cases.

The zero position issue...honestly I haven't made or played a backup of any of these games for some time, doesn't this have more to do with the track layout and what the data the Turbo CD knows to look for first?  It's seems like something that shouldn't be a problem as more and more understanding of the systems's bios is achieved.  That said if your CD is opaque, don't even bother, in any system.


Either way it's definitely an issue exacerbated by people who think they're god because they sold their children to slavers to get their mitts on Darius Alpha. ;)




*With disk media there's always going to be the odd case where a particular item just will not load right, or just plain won't work on some systems and so on.

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: Masiya or Masna?]

With that pegasus star thing, maybe they wanted people to associate them with Saint Seiya.

"Saint Seiya - Opening Saga Santuario"

Alt: https://youtu.be/_6dbcQaOddk

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: what about working designs?]

Still any chance of telenet titles to be on the vc is impossible now.

Not impossible. I just realized-- Data East has been out of business for a number of years now. They went bankrupt in a similar situation in, like, 2003.

Yet somehow we have a bunch of Data East games on VC... The rights apparently were secured from a company I've never heard of called "G-Mode."

SOMEONE must be able to secure the rights to Telenet's library at which time VC re-releases wouldn't be out of the question.

I know what happen to dataeast afther they went bankrupt G-mode got there ips.

G-mode makes games for cell phones in japan.

I'm sure nintendo gave,G-mode some $$ so they could have there titles for the vc.

I would assume snkp would have to pay g-mode as well if,they want (Wind Jammers, Magical Drop 2&3,Karnov Revenge etc on the vc.

They can probably make it happen through SNK.  Data East's properties have been somewhat prolific in unlikely ways.  Trio the Punch: Never Forget Me got released as a standalone PS2 game.  There's a Fatal Fury vs. Fighter's History cell phone game, and Mizoguchi (the protagonist of Fighters History series and a few others) is a playable character in King of Fighters: Maximum Impact Rgulation A-2 (say it ten times fast).

[Buy/Sell/Trade / Re: PC Engine Mouse on ebay]

Brandish
Lemmings
The Atlas: Renaissance Voyager
Vasteel 2

Huh, I might actually want to get one of these then.  I had no idea it even existed until now.  I picked up Hiouden for the SFC recently just because it's one more game I can use the SNES mouse with.

[Buy/Sell/Trade / Re: Darius Alpha]

Darius bosses kick my ass all damn day, there's no way I'd spend ~$1,000 for a "game" that's nothing but a boss rush of such creatures.

I still run into people sometimes that assume it's an entire Darius game due to the high price.

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: Big Game Matchup SIX]

Dungeon Explorer all the way, though I do probably play Legendary Axe more overall.

[Buy/Sell/Trade / Re: 50% Off EVERYTHING at TZD.com!]

Sounds good.

I've never actually played It Came from the Desert before.  We all collectively hate FMV games for good reason, so I love any that's halfway competent (Sherlock Holmes, Dracula Unleashed, Killing Moon, Gabriel Knight II, etc.).  Can't wait.

I was nervous as I'm always neurotic about any "comments field" and what it may cause.  If we can get things for $19.99 that aren't listed on the current site maybe I should ask for a Magical Chase. ;)

[Buy/Sell/Trade / Re: 50% Off EVERYTHING at TZD.com!]

This is typed there:
"Lost our lease sale is on now! If you have signed up for our mailing list, check your in box or write for details. We just found a box of Splash Lake (regular price $29.99) and several copies of Battle Royale ($19.99) and It Came From The Desert ($19.99.) Simply add these to the comments section of your order, we will adjust the order total here. Sale prices OK! "

Is this update actually happening?  I'd love to get a couple of these but the main site doesn't reflect this yet.

[Buy/Sell/Trade / Re: 50% Off EVERYTHING at TZD.com!]

I'm glad I got what I could from TZD before the Ebay scourings began.  I know US versions of some of these games get a high price but there's no way they had a few of these (though there'll be a site able to sell us factory sealed Andre Panza Kick Boxing until the end of time).

I just got into the Turbo about two years ago and only started ordering from TZD regularly several months ago, but I still feel sad that they're running out of software.

I'd like to think gamers who are going to happily tear these out of the shrinkwrap and play them ASAP are getting them but there'll always be hoarders jumping on these kinds of sales.

Personally, I finally got the controllers and extension cables necessary to have Dungeon Explorer fulfill its true potential.


The aftermath of this sale will make me chuckle though.  I envision an Andre Panza/Power Golf 2 for 1 promo in the near future...

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Legendary Axe II rare?]

Replaying it on Magic Engine, it is a little easier than I remember it even without save states.  While not as hard as a GnG game it has that same deliberate pacing where you need to take your time through each level and know what each type of enemy does so you can react to it as soon as it's on the screen.  Fun stuff.

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Legendary Axe II rare?]

Does anyone know the story with Legendary Axe II?  It's so stylistically different that it seems it couldn't have possibly become a Legendary Axe game until much later in its development.  Cool game either way and yes it is fairly common.  Japangamestock as an example usually has it for right around twenty-three USD or so and it's ALWAYS available.

[Off-Topic / Good bye California, I can't wait to get back to New Jersey]

Man this is the first time I think I've ever seen anyone so happy to drive into NJ.  What a dumb state.  I'm like five minutes away from Red Bank so let me update you.  Events you've missed: NOTHING.

Where'd you enter the state from?  If you go east and take the Parkway up north I love how the toll frequency goes from once an hour to once every fifteen minutes.

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Nintendo Wii virtual console info?]

Well I would assume a download would be possible as well.  And I would say that in Japan the system has enough of a cult following that the feature would get some use.  I would never think of it as more than a bonus for the people that do have the physical disks.

[News / 08.18.06 - Pcenginefx Update - Turbo On The Wii]

They've added Saturn games to the Virtual Console library.

Really? OK, so what *can't* the Wii play now?

Yeah at this rate there'll probably be a Virtual Boy adaptor by the end of the year.

I made a post in the Wii Virtual Console discussion forum about how Turbo CD/Sega CD games could work on it.  Something I forgot to take into account though is how cheap storage is.  Memory cards are massive price gouge bait these days.  Specifically, the official Sony PS2 card, the 64 megabyte 360 memory unit, and any of the PSP memory sticks that are only now dropping down to prices that are "very overpriced for a memory stick" instead of "no way man this shit is insane!"

The onboard storage for the Wii is only 512 megabits.  About quintuple what could be on a DS game card uncompressed.  However Iwata has said that besides STANDARD SD cards (none of the encrypted PSP nonsense that makes you pay triple for it) "any storage will work."  He then further implies that you'll be able to take basically any portable storage, an external hard drive, an MP3 player, even your PC itself I guess (though this probably won't be officially possible at first) and use it as a massive memory card.

Looking around the area I'm in right now, I'm typing this on a machine that has a forty gigabyte hard drive, there's a ten gigabyte MP3 player to my left, enough SD chips to stock a casino on my right.  A few 400 megabyte CD games would be no problem, espcially with how cheap SD cards are now.

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Nintendo Wii virtual console info?]

It would be cool if Nintendo makes a firmware upgrade that allows Wii owners to play Turbo CD games and Sega CD games.

Why would they do that when they could just build it that way in the first place?

It would make sense if they did it that way.  In the earliest announcements about NEC/Hudson being involved they stated that CD games would be supported, but NOTHING has been said about it one way or the other since.  Due to the space issue, I would think some sort of build in emulation wherein you could just insert an actual SegaCD/Turbo CD game instead of downloading it would be ideal.

That would be the best root in general, and what Nintendo has historically gone with.  There's no emulation issues because the hardware is THERE, like the Gameboy Player, or the GB/GBC processor in the GBA and the GBA processor in the DS.  Even Sony did it this way, with the PS2's sound card basically doubling as a PS1, the rest of the hardware effectively being "off" when a PS1 game is playing.  It would also be, to me, the ultimate reward for fans of the companies that actually have a bunch of Turbo CD laying around.  You can be the coolest kid on the block again by being the only person who can run "that whys game with the red haired guy" in its full CD audio glory.