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[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: Hello]

Wow, I feel slightly less embarrassed since there may possibly be up to two other people out there who have melted their Turbo Duo, hahah.

Keranu: lol at the Tailspin thing. I love that game, I don't care what others say. I think I would like to track-down a copy of Darkwing Duck. I was a big fan of the Disney Afternoon.

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: Hello]

Wow, good info there.

It would be so nice to put a little larger LCD screen in there at a little bit higher resolution.

With this info, one could easily hack a TV out signal also. It would be killer to hook up an Express to a TV.

Now that I have a brand new Express I will be a little more emboldened to start soldering stuff to the old one, haha.

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Hello]

Hi all,

I am new here, but have been a long time Turbo gamer. I had a Turbo Grafx 16, a Turbo Express, and Turbo Duo. Today, I still have my Turbo Duo and Turbo Express but they are both in bad shape. Unfortunately, at college a lamp fell on my Turbo Duo and no one noticed for like 5 minutes. It melted the CD lid down to the case and I had to break it to get Dracula X out. My Turbo Express was a trusty companion for many years, but one day the screen just stopped working. All in all the system seems fine, I have had it apart, but the screen was just fubar. 

Anyway, last week I got a brand new Turbo Express from TZD. I have been playing a lot of Parasol Stars, Bonk, and Street Fighter 2 (with my US-Japan converter) and I am trying to track down the rest of my HuCard games (I am 27 and a lot of "stuff" like that is still at my parents house...I need to slowly introduce the fiance to my nerdery). Here are some of the games I know I had (if they have a star by them I know where they are now):

HuCard:
Splatterhouse
Bonk's Adventure*
Tailspin
Deep Blue
Parasol Stars*
Street Fighter 2 (Japan)*
Sidearms*
Victory Run
Fighting Street
Klax
Alien Crush

SuperCD:
Dracula X (Import, duh.)*
Martial Champion (Import)*
I know I had more American games, but I don't remember them off hand.

Dracula X, Tailspin, Splatterhouse, and Bonk were my favorite games...But I do love me some parasol stars.

Since I have my working-but-no-screen Turbo Express, I have been thinking of trying to hack a more modern LCD screen possibly larger and with a higher resolution as well as TV out. The Express seems to have the same chipset as home consoles. Does anyone have any pinout info from the Turbo Chipset? Does anyone have any information/schematics on what the inputs were to the original Turbo Express screens other than the power? Is it RBG?

Also, I would love to find a replacement top to my Duo. I think I am going to just need to find a broken Duo on eBay or possibly just break down and buy a used working Duo and sell the broken one for parts.

Anyway...sorry for the long first post. Looking forward to spending some time here.

-arkowi