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[Console Repair/Mod Center / Re: An alternative to region-modding your PC Engine]

When will these be available! I'm totally wanting one awesome work by the way, it's good to see and know that peeps are still making retro systems playability better and better!

[Buy/Sell/Trade / Re: FS: Keith Courage game box, never produced until now...]

You still have one you could throw my way?! I'll for sure buy one! Awesome work by the way!

[Console Repair/Mod Center / Re: RGB Amp design schematic! Hope it helps serve many amps to come!]

Is this the best RGB amp, would you say ? Is the DC offset filtered out by these chips ?

I'd like to know 2 things:

1) The best transistor-based circuit that you can build yourself with spare parts (caps, resistors, 2n3904 transistors, etc.).

2) The best op-amp type circuit, fully tweaked with confidence, yadda yadda, etc. should I ever choose to buy one of these custom chips and experiment.

I don't think this is necessarily the best RGB amp but I know it works really well, I have built and used the RGB amp using the ths7314dr chip and while that is a much smaller and simpler amp I don't find it to be nearly as effective. As for the DC offset (assuming your talking about alignment of the picture to the center of screen) I would say it is fairly perfect. I have used this amp in several NEC systems and it has yet to yield varying results, always a much brighter picture with more clarity and seems to be centered very well on the screen of choice.

1) I have never built a transistor based circuit out of spare parts. I do not claim to be, and I know I am not, as good as you and charlie and any of the other circuit guru's out there. I am simple man, that reads and researches a lot and figures things out on (mostly) a common sense based outlook. The audio circuits that I have discovered chips for to replace was all through tracing circuits back to the source with a multimeter and then trial and error.

2) I don't believe I would ever be building these to sell, that is why I made the "user friendly" schematic and put it out to the public. It is not my original work although I had considered at one time to design a board based around this circuit that would allow someone to just plug in the chips, solder the components and go. I would be more than happy to build and send you one of these amps for you to test out though.

[Buy/Sell/Trade / Re: (CLOSED) Turbo Everdrive Group Buy ORDERED!]

Dang I wish I would have been on board for this, I've been looking at getting one for mine aswell!

[Console Repair/Mod Center / Re: RGB Amp design schematic! Hope it helps serve many amps to come!]

I just wanted to give an update on the thread, I know its years old but hey I felt I should finish up where I left off. The schematic is edited into the first post as a PDF download. Thanks guys!

[Console Repair/Mod Center / Re: Turbo Duo game CD audio stops playing]

I will have to look around but at some point I had the correct settings for the pots, I gathered that info when I used to replace the laser and the adjustments I found seemed to work best all around. Although I would guess to say that your laser is most likely weak. Good news is the lasers can be had for about $30 (if I remember right).

Next thing I know is two chips that I found started becoming a trouble area on some consoles the one for Redbook audio would start to get extremely hot within seconds of spinning up the CD it was the BA6290A chip. Replace that and CD audio always seemed to come back to life. The other chip was the OKI M5205 but honestly I can't remember why I used to replace that chip. I wanna say it had to do with up-scaling the cd audio.

[Console Repair/Mod Center / Re: PCE Duo-R won't power on?]

I'll pass my multimeter over the voltage regulators just to double check em, if it stays working then I gots no clue other than the caps just needed to warm up or I was trying it out on a tv I was unfamiliar with and maybe just maybe I didn't even have it on the right input (it was a confusing tv if you can believe that).

Yeah I had to resolder the power input legs cause of that issue and the AV jack got replaced when I did the RGB mod but if I remember right it was also cracking too.

Thanks for the input! So who does console repairs around these parts nowadays? I might be interested in offering my services again. I still have tons of caps and chips from way back when I used to do it!

[Console Repair/Mod Center / PCE Duo-R won't power on?]

Well it's been a LONG time since I have been on here, recently I have gotten the itch back to try and pick up where I left off with my gaming collection. I pulled out my N64 and finished the RGB amp and got it going good. Went today to look at an old Sony Trinitron about two hours down the road and brought my Duo-R for a test subject and the dang thing would not turn on. It has been in a box since last I used it and has been moved from place to place about 6 times. Sat in storage (climate controlled mind you) and is finally going to have a room of its own. I already started with my multimeter to trace the problem but figured I would see if any of you guys have had similar issues with the Duo-R not powering on.

I don't know if any of the original guys are still here that I used to talk to but if you are I'd like to say hi and try to squeeze back in everyonce in awhile to see whats going on. Blueraven, nightwolve, charlie and a few others I can't remember ya'lls user names.

Thanks for any help and I hope for a slightly warm welcome, I know I left out of here in a hurry and never really showed back up.

EDIT: The dang unit ended up powering on when I tried it just now after testing the power caps to see if they were faulty. Maybe they just needed a bit of time to recharge or something. Played a level or Lords of Thunder! now time for bed....

[Console Repair/Mod Center / Re: REPAIR GUIDE - TurboExpress: Total capacitor replacement chart]

Nice to see this forum is still kicking! Whats up nightwolve, been a LONG TIME

[Off-Topic / Re: Where are they now? (Cook's Quest for M.I.A. Members)]

Im still around, I peek in every great once and awhile just to see whats going on...Life just hasn't let me get back into the old school gaming seen. Probably to be honest I wont be back in it for awhile either. I am about to be moving again and I have been going through all my old stuff. I have sold quite a bit of it off already to make room for my new place with my new (hopefully) future wife. Women can change you drastically thats for sure, mainly though work is the main reason I got out of everything. Glad to see the forum is still up and everyone I know on here seems to be doing well! Maybe one day I'll be back and things will be better than they were before!

[Off-Topic / Re: Attn: Smokers! E-Cig Intro *smoke healthier*]

Hey blueraven,

Long time no talk....Sorry about the spam my email addy has been hacked a few times. I have not had any body tell me they are getting spam in a long time. How has everyone been? To bad the chatbox was removed. I see alot of new faces on here. Also see someone finally made some modchips! Great job and news ;-) Hope everything continues well...I wish I still had time to mess around with these kinds of things but sadly my consoles and games just sit boxed up in my closet. Im hoping one day I will be able to bring the good stuff back out again and play all the favorites!

Robert

[Buy/Sell/Trade / Re: WTB: 17 copies of U.S. Magical Chase (Sealed or CIB MINT only!)]

I wouldnt mind having myself a copy but I kinda feel like necromancer on the subject...Although that is not to say if one was offered to me that was in minty fresh condition or somewhere around it complete, I wouldnt be willing to throw up an offer.

[Buy/Sell/Trade / Re: FS: PC Engine Duo RX - $85.00 Shipped]

Saweet! Hope chop can get er' going again!

[Buy/Sell/Trade / WTB: PCE Duo system or main board; working or not.....]

Just would like to find a system or board for a fair amount of money...Doesnt have to be working, the board is going to replace my boxed Duo with matching serials board.

Thanks,
override

[Buy/Sell/Trade / Re: FS: PC Engine Duo RX - $85.00 Shipped]

Did this ever get bought up? Im interested...Gimme something to tinker on!

[Console Repair/Mod Center / Re: RGB Amp design schematic! Hope it helps serve many amps to come!]

Sup Mah Peeps,

Life still isn't quite where I want it to be so I'm not back yet but found this post through a google search and figured I'd check it out....

The chips are NJM2267D

I haven't really gotten any furthur with anything system related since about a year ago or so...I pulled out incredibleharks system to finally finish it. He has waited patiently for quite a long time, and the system is long overdue for being repaired and sent back.

How have things been around here?

Oh and whats this I see about you having a game for me blueraven...?

I know I have said this time and time again but if I ever get settled somewhere, somehow then I will be putting some more effort into the Region Mod chips that me and Zeon had plans on making and I plan to make an RGB chip aswell that you can just pop the caps and IC's into and solder them down and bam its done. It would be awesome if I could make solderless chips...Dont see that happening tho.

[Buy/Sell/Trade / Re: PC Engine Duo - $85.00 Shipped]

I can get the laser reading again on this system...I am interested in buying. I finally just got settled into something a little more permanent so I do plan to pick up where I left off on here. If you have no takers by my next paycheck I will prolly pick this up. The only thing Im really interested in getting tho is the board itself.

[Off-Topic / Re: Attn: Smokers! E-Cig Intro *smoke healthier*]

There is no difference in the cape and heat system it's all the same thing. The rapid heating of the coil is what causes the liquid to vaporize. If you are interested in trying them out I would recommend checking vaprlife, puresmoker, innovapor, super t manufactoring, totally wicked e liquid USA. Also check out the ECF forums. Compared to real cigarettes they are alot different. Also flavors are not close to a tobacco I mean they had some that are but still not like smoking an analog. Personally IMHO I wouldn't want to smoke a cig flavored juice I can only imagine how horrible it would taste. I'm on my iPhone so I'm gonna cut this short. If u want more info just PM me.

[Buy/Sell/Trade / Re: Selling my video game collection]

ill keep an eye out!

[Off-Topic / Re: Attn: Smokers! E-Cig Intro *smoke healthier*]

Still have not smoked and cigarettes....Im using it less and less so thats a good thing!

Thanks for asking wmac...Hows that TG-16 I modded for you working?

[Buy/Sell/Trade / Re: Sweet Sweet Collections up for sale]

I put a bid in on it..$250

Dont want to pay more than that and Im sure it will go past it.....Hell I might bump it up and extra hundred to $350!

[Console Repair/Mod Center / Re: REPAIR GUIDE - TurboDuo: Sound Fix]

Duo_R your still messing with that duo?

Whatever happen to the two chips I sent you?

[Console Repair/Mod Center / Re: RGB Amp design schematic! Hope it helps serve many amps to come!]

Like I said pretty much the same with a few differences...Hope to see more of your work on the forums! Welcome aboard!

This is what mine looks like, this is my most recent one.....You should post up a comparison picture for us, I'd like to see what kind of quality the differences of your board and mine reflect!

[Console Repair/Mod Center / Re: RGB Amp design schematic! Hope it helps serve many amps to come!]

Nope not anything I bought that something was unmarked, I just have not had the time to really mess with anything system wise with the exception of what I have on hand that needs to be finished and mailed out.

It was my intentions to not make a schematic for the simple fact that most people cannot follow a schematic so well, including myself and want somethign they can look at and go "Oh so thats how it works". I had planned on making the picture of how to build the amp with the pad2pad program. I actually had the amp made up in the program but somehow lost, misplaced or deleted the files.

Thanks for the schematic post, mine is similar but far more smaller than yours! I give an A+! Looks like you got around to it while I was sitting here forgetting about it....lol

The only things I can see different are some of the caps are higher than the ones I used and I think there are a few extra's not necessarily needed. I would assume it shouldn't make that big of a difference tho!

[Off-Topic / Re: Attn: Smokers! E-Cig Intro *smoke healthier*]

I believe I almost went with the Red Dragon, its an M401 model correct? My EVO is aswell an M401 model! I love it, but can't wait to get me one of these!

[Off-Topic / Re: Attn: Smokers! E-Cig Intro *smoke healthier*]

No biggie! All this is not worth getting on peoples bad sides....Sorry if I offended any of you. No harm was ment to be done 

[Console Repair/Mod Center / Re: RGB Amp design schematic! Hope it helps serve many amps to come!]

Technically there wont be a schematic but more of a picture of the components and how they connect....As stated in the first post I will get the rest of it up soon.

Thanks for the interests!

[Off-Topic / Re: Attn: Smokers! E-Cig Intro *smoke healthier*]

Did you even bother to read the article linked by nectarsis?  If you had, you'd have seen that the FDA found E-Cigs to contain the diethylene glycol, which is toxic (ethylene glycol is equally toxic and not the same as propylene glycol).

I actually had no need to read the article, I have already read it in the past while spending about 2 weeks researching the e-cig before I made an initial purchase.

Did you even finish reading the first sentence in the article? after "toxic chemicals such as diethylene glycol" the sentence ends with "an ingredient used in antifreeze."

I was simply stating in my post back to you that DG,PG and EG are all forms of the same thing and have all been known to be used in antifreeze. As for the test that they claim to have found chemicals similar to some found in antifreeze, if I remember right it was like .02% of the chemical and it was tested on one form of e-juice from china. DG is not equally toxic to EG....Technically no PG is not the same as EG, but it is basically the newer EG...It was made as a substitute to be used for safer applications.

I dont understand why you want to argue something you have not studied on.....Anyone of you guys who would like to argue a point spend a week and half or so as I did and research the e-cig, you will find there is nothing left for you to make valid points. Here is a good place to start

Simple fact the e-cig is healthier than a cigarette! The FDA is making wild statements with not nearly enough testing done. READ THE FACTS!

[Off-Topic / Re: Attn: Smokers! E-Cig Intro *smoke healthier*]

Necromancer...

Yes I know diethylene glycol and propylene glycol are different chemicals...Both chemicals can technically be found in antifreeze. Ethylyne Glycol is what is most commonly used in antifreeze but diethylene glycol is derived from ethylyne glycol, although it is not techincally related.....Im not a rocket scientist so I can't break it down that well for you. Point is all three chemicals have a chance of being used to lower the freezing point in antifreeze.

The major difference here is that the FDA seemed to miss is that the Propylene Glycol used in the E-Juice is a Pharmacuetical Grade product that they deem safe for human consumption...

Yes I aswell don't have that wonderful of a sense of humor on this subject as nor do I have much of a sense of humor for anything I feel passionate about that someone trys to cut down.

WTF is a Barn Rasing? lol

[Off-Topic / Re: Attn: Smokers! E-Cig Intro *smoke healthier*]

Wow just post a link, and get a very dickish response.

Maybe you should go back to the "analogs" may cut some of that edginess ;)

Sorry If I came across "dickish", and my edginess has nothing to do with my "analog" habit. I somewhat took offense to the link you posted and comment you stated about the e-cig "may not be as great as you guys think". You obviously are uneducated in what your talking about on the E-Cig and it seemed as if you were bashing my thread.

[Off-Topic / Re: Attn: Smokers! E-Cig Intro *smoke healthier*]

http://www.fda.gov/NewsEvents/Newsroom/PressAnnouncements/ucm173222.htm

More than a few articticles on this.  May not be as "great" as you guys think.

I would prefer this not turn into an thread of arguing on whether these are safe or not....To be quite frank with you nectarsis everything in the article is a bunch of bullshit. Yes propylene glycol (used to cute the nicotine) can and is found in radiator fluid, but you also have to figure that the PG found in ratiator fluid is NOT FOOD GRADE or KOSHER. Pharmacuetical Grade PG or Vegetable Glycerin (Wiltons Glycerin) is all approved by the FDA as a safe to humans substance. They are used in Cakes, Snow Cone flavoring, Food Dies etc. etc. etc. So the FDA is simply trying to turn something around that is simply FALSE!

You figure that is the E-Cig is allowed (which it is not illegal or banned by the FDA) and say half the people in the USA quit smoking well, the government just lost 1.5 billion dollars in tax money funded by smokers. The FDA has proven that there are carcinogens, rat poisen, methenfedamens, Raid, and all the other 4800+ chemicals in a cigarette but still allow them to be sold. Not to mention cigarettes are a combustible and that in itself is bad for your health.

If there are such stated "carcinogens" found in the e-cig then what are they from? LorAnns hard candy flavorings? nicotine? or the PG/VG? Thats the only three ingredients used to make the E-Juice. Two of the three ingredients are approved by the FDA and deemed safe for human consumption. Nicotine is approved by the FDA as a chemical that will not harm you unless consumed in its raw form (which is then considered a poison) the amount of nicotine you actually take in from the E-Cig is only about 1.3% of what your actually taking in from a cigarette. Which a cigarette contains 9mg's of nicotine per cigarette, if you smoke 1 pack a day then your taking in 180mg of nicotine a day. The highest flavored nicotine juice sold is 36mg's.

On top of all this (and plenty more if I started throwing links of tests and stuff proven on the E-Cig) the E-Cig has been around since 2002 (if my mind serves me correct) and was originally produce in china. Have you ever heard of anyone dieing from an E-Cig? Have you ever heard of anyone getting cancer from an E-Cig? I think not, never has there ever been a report of someone who was hospitalized or became ill due to an E-Cig.

I rest my case, and as I said I would prefer this to not become a thread that we argue about whether it is healthy or not. I am simply informing people of a product that works, and is simply harmless, to help quit or cut down on smoking! If anything just from the way I already feel better etc already in the last 14 days I would deff say that the E-Cig is a smarter and healthier choice!

All I can say to anyone is do your research and find out for yourself...

I forgot to add, that yes at first the E-Cig companys were a little irresponsible with packaging and not specifing that these were for 18 and older only, the product is infact NOT sold to anyone under 18. Also the E-Juice and DIY nicotine all come with childproof lock caps and most are labeled that nicotine is poisonous when directly ingested.

[Off-Topic / Re: Attn: Smokers! E-Cig Intro *smoke healthier*]

Hey override,

Congrats.

BTW I went cold turkey; 10 years, 2 packs a day. I stayed inside for the first three days.

Kept gallon jugs of water, and replaced the cravings with yoga and workouts. After 1 month I started running.

It leaves me with so much more money for video games...
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Great to hear blueraven! My goal is not really to quit "smoking" but more or less to smoke healthier! Not to mention my girlfriend hates the way cigarettes smell and she has I guess you can say "allergy" issues when being around cigarette smoke. She is much happier with the E-Cig, since the vapor doesn't smell or contain anything harmful, it doesn't bother her to be around it. I am saving money just not as much as if I were to completely quit. Although the one advantage to the E-Cig is if I ever wanted to put down "smoking" all together I am confident that I can!

Override, congrats on finding a product that you like

In fact, based on your recommendation, I might try the Black EVOlution E-Cig.

I don't smoke (never have), but I've been trying to wean myself off of this goddamn Nicorette gum for a few years now.

Maybe the E-Cig will help me actually accomplish this.

The EVO is deffinetly a winner! Another great reason why I choose to go with the EVO is the fact that they were working on marketing a manual battery for them! Which I apparently did not realize was going to be released so soon. I was on innovapor.com last night about to order some more ECOpure Krystal to make my own flavoring and when the page refreshed (@ midnight) the manual battery and matching atomizer popped up on the page! So now you can actually get the EVO with automatic and manual batteries!

One thing I noticed about the website when I was surfing it last night to by my E-Juice is it was never down or under construction due to the updates they were performing! This tells me one thing....You should never have an issue with getting on the site even when they are updateing it and adding stuff, which made me super excited! 

Hope the product works for you....! If you decide to get one...

[Console Repair/Mod Center / Re: RGB Amp design schematic! Hope it helps serve many amps to come!]

Finished testing out the amp design thanks to incrediblehark! See First post for pictures....

[Off-Topic / Re: Attn: Smokers! E-Cig Intro *smoke healthier*]

Thanks for the congrats wmac~!

Glad to hear you were able to kick the habit yourself...

I personally didn't want to quit smoking because I enjoyed it, thankfully I found this product which allows me to still enjoy smoking (or atleast simulate the habit I had) whilst still feeding my nicotine habit. If my calculations are correct the amount I smoke on the E-Cig amounts to about 2 regular "analogs" a day so I have been able to greatly cut my nicotine habit down. I feel confident enough that I could put the e-cig down anytime I want to and not have to pick it up. 

[Off-Topic / Attn: Smokers! E-Cig Intro *smoke healthier*]

I just recently (about 11 days ago) bought myself a "personal vaporizer" from InnoVapor.com and am very please with the product! I'm sure many of you guys on here have heard of the E-Cig and what the FDA has to say about them or have formed your own personal opinions. Aside from all that I myself can say despite of what anyone says about the product whether it be good or bad, I have quite smoking "Analogs" since the day I got this in the mail. It has been a very different experience but I honestly enjoy it very much. I already feel better, breath better, sleep better, and can taste and smell much better. Not to mention I dont reak of cigarette breath and smell!

Before buying my first E-Cig, and I would recommend this to anyone who this catches there eye is, I did my research to find the best products on the market. My research lead me to innovapor.com which carry two of the most highly sought after e-cigs on the market. Not to mention the two best quality companys marketing the two products they sell. They are the JOYe 510 made by Joytech and the EVOlution made by Intellicig. Innovapor has GREAT customer service, I generally get a response within only a few hours after emailing them and they seem to respond at almost anytime of the day or night.

The EVO is an automatic with sealed battery and an awesome atomizer while the JOYe 510 is a manual with sealed battery and again great atomizers. I personally wanted to keep the smoking feel so I went with the automatic batteries. The difference is the automatic you just draw on the cig and a pressure switch is activated which kicks the atomizer on and vaporizes the E-Juice. The manual has a button to push which activates the atomizer while then you just draw the vapor produced. I have had a great experience so far with my EVO.

The E-Cig consists of a 100mah battery, atomizer and cartride. The atomizer is a small vaporizer which when the cartridge (contains the nicotine juice) is drawn on wicks the E-Juice to the atomizer bridge which then vaporizes the liquid and allows you to inhale and exhale a vapor mist.

The three main components in the E-Juice is PG (Food Grade Propelyn Glycol) or VG; Vegetable Glycerin (also know as Wiltons Glycerine), nicotine that is cut down from your choice of either 0 to 36/mg (can be higher but not recommended) of nicotine and flavorings such as LorAnns hardcandy flavorings.

All I can say to any of you that are smokers is to atleast try it...The initial starter kit that I got from innovapor.com was $90 and has already paid for itself (see the counter below), in my opinion (id like to say its a fact) this is well worth the $90 spent on it! I have quit smoking cigarettes and started smoking a healthier choice! There is tons of information to be had out there I personally recommend E-Cigarette-Forum for tons of useful information!

Here is a video review of the EVO aswell ---> Review of the Black EVOlution E-Cig

Also to top things off if you decide to go with innovapor.com you can use this code ---> 10offvape to get you 10% off any purchase. You can use it as many times as you want! Feel free to email or PM me if any of you guys have any questions. I also would like to say that I am in no way affiliated with innovapor.com or any of the products they sell. Im just one smoker trying to reach out to other smokers. 

Keep in mind that this product generally does contain nicotine, so if you are not a smoker I DO NOT recommend this product unless you get the ZERO Nicotine E-Juice and Mix your own liquid. I by no means want to get someone started smokeing who doesnt smoke. 

ENJOY!

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[Off-Topic / The “What-Did-You-Buy-Today?” Thread]

In the last few days I have been researching nothing but E-Ciagrettes. I am a pretty heavy smoker and have been for about 5 years. I smoke a pack to pack and a half a day. Although the FDA is trying to kill the E-Cig, I still bought one. For the price of two cartons (about $100) I got myself a very nice starter kit with the itellicig EVOlution E-Cig @ innovapor.com. I cant wait to get it in and put down those pricey, overly addictive "analogs" as the vaping world calls them.

I got a 10% discount and came out spending $95 for the kit, heres to quiting "analogs" and being healthier...

[Buy/Sell/Trade / Re: TG-CD with carrying case in box and 3.0 system card]

I would almost be willing to trade my Duo-R for this, it would take alot of thought tho.....I have really missed my TG-16 CD system since I sold it, Mine was in fantastic shape as your was minus the outside box, styrofoam etc...

Neways nice pictures and Very Nice looking system!

[Console Repair/Mod Center / Re: REPAIR GUIDE - TurboDuo: Sound Fix]

So i replaced the pre and post op-amp caps in my duo mentioned by Dean and Duo-R (4 10uF 16V & 2 22uF 16V) and restored sound to my US duo, but the sound is sratchy, especially when cd and adpcm is playing. would this be another cap issue? there was mention of some more caps to replace (100, 1000, 470, and 220uF caps) near the amp. any ideas about the scratchiness of the audio? i dont really want to replace all of the caps, i dont feel experienced enough to do it.

There could be a number of reasons as to why the audio is scratchy, read here for the cd portion of things....

The other could simply be there are more caps that need to be replaced, aswell since you say you dont feel experienced enough to replace all the caps, you could simply have a bad connection to the new caps you replaced. You want to make sure the legs of the caps are pressed down all the way onto the pads that your resoldering to, you dont want them floating in the solder. Bend your caps legs like this ][ on bottom and when you have them mounted straighten them up then reheat one side at a time while applying light pressure on top of the cap to that side. If they sink any then they are "floating in the solder", once they wont go down anymore then they have made solid connection with the pads!

As for the Duo goes all together, I would say if your gonna replace a couple caps then you may aswell replace all of them, its not that hard of a task, if you take your time and be careful as to not lift any of the pads from the board, you can have it done in a day I'd say. You could always hire someone from the boards to do the work for you, myself included! Red Ghost I believe is doing cap replacements aswell. Im not positive on anyone else, but possibly chop5 and blueraven.

[Turbo Memoirs / Re: PC Engine Promo Photograph (circa 1987) re-creation]

Thanks for the pics...Love the way it looks on my laptop! When I open the door to walk into my room, my eyes meet with the background, It almost throws me into a trance! hehe

Now all we need is a screensaver of random games being played! Preferably awesome shooters!

[Off-Topic / The “What-Did-You-Buy-Today?” Thread]

Got these little babies in the mail today! Brand New M5205 OKI and BA6290A chips for two seperate duos Im repairing! It took nearly a month to get em from the UK, bastards took forever to ship out....Atleast I got em' tho!

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[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: Arts and crafts time!]

Thats freaking awesome! Wish I had some cake!

[Turbo Memoirs / Re: PC Engine Promo Photograph (circa 1987) re-creation]

1280x800 would be wonderful! Nice Job BTW!

To bad they didn't originally have the longer cord...

[Console Repair/Mod Center / Re: TG-CD: Total capacitor replacement chart + useful info]

Override, I've looked at those before.  I didn't want to take the chance that they were manufactured at the same time and thus have the same gear issue.

Maybe the second time won't take so long I guess... and the kss-220a is only $30.

Personally I think the extra $15 you would spend on getting the NEC drive, would be worth it! Thats minus probably 5 hours of work, its straight pull out and drop in, and the guys that run that business have GREAT customer service, if you got a drive that had issues with the gears etc. they most likely would refund you every penny or simply swap you drives! Im sure another reason as to why they are charging $45 is cause it also comes with the CD power supply and the CD Interface that allows it to hoook up to the PC. You may get away with it cheaper if you were to ask them for the CD portion only.

All that said, Im glad to hear and see that you got it working! Im sure the pots need a little tweak such as the duo's do with the new hop-m3's...

[Off-Topic / The “What-Did-You-Buy-Today?” Thread]

Whats on the LoT VHS? That is one of my fav games!

Nice pick up on Ys, thats the first time I have seen the map....

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: Post pictures of your PC Engine and/or Turbo hardware here!]

may as well make my first post one showing my first PCE setup, never owned nor played one until last week.. i was always snes/md back in the day and bypassed the PC-Engine..

so here it is 

Very Nice Setup you have there! Im jealous...

[General Gaming / Re: Your Daily Dose of Gaming.]

Yesterday I recieved an email with a newsletter that Dungeons and Dragons Online: Storm Reach has a new addition! - DDO Online Unlimited...FREE TO PLAY FOR EVERYONE!

I got all giggley and hyper and read into it (looking for a catch22) and found out they are going to go through a point system like most of the MMORPG's online you may or may not always see.

DDO on the other hand seems for the most part to have done right on the situation:

You can still get loot, and in game chests with good rewarding items!
They still allow mail,auctions,trades and various findings in side quests.
You can still earn ingame money and shop at the inns for healing potions etc...

After getting in game and checking out the store it seems very basic and simplistic, yet for people who want something now (if they have the money/points) it is welcome to them.

Also noted that you can keep your older existing characters, and things that can be bought with "Turbine Points" can be unlocked just by simply playing the game. Ofcourse we all know MMORPG's take up your life, so maybe they are trying to incorporate a method into the game for normal people,like me, that can't just sit infront of a computer screen for 14 hours a day and play a friggin game!

With all that being said.....DDO Online Unlimited is going to be my current most played game!

With Tales of Phantasia (GBA) coming in second, and Random PCE time coming in third!

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: The differences in Duo consoles.]

Hey override... ya forgot the LaserActive w/ NEC PAC-N10.  ;-)

I just got a PAC-N1 in the other day... gonna region mod it... have a nice push button switch on the front.  It'll be sweet for someone, as these things can't take any of the usual region converters.  ;-)

Damn right I did, LOL

I cant believe I skipped over that one....Thanks Kattare, you should post a picture up of yours! BTW Nice Find, Im curious as to how much you paid for the dang thing....

[General Gaming / Re: Anyone bought/built a desktop arcade stick for MAME use?]

I was just recently checking out this guys thread for a mini arcade cab (I believe was MAME) and he custom built all of it, if I can find that website again he would be a good person to get with on where he got parts, he did 6 buttons, trackball, and stick for his controls setup. If I remember right he was trying to do a low cost build. Although it was a very sharp looking mini cab!

Ok after sometime of searching the web again, I found (if I remember correctly) the source site from what lead me to another forum, or possibly the same forum just a different guys build. This might get you started in the right direction as for what your looking for...I wish I could find the one Im talking about, the guy had a freakin sweet build and alot of useful info in his thread on parts etc!

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/75/video-games/itt-quadstriker-builds-arcade-machine-ongoing-tr-pics-450048/index11.html

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: New here.]

Welcome to the ride! Please keep arms and feet inside the safe zone at all times!

I just ran into a site the other day that had something to do with Robots and Radios....hmm

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: The differences in Duo consoles.]

Don't fuck with peoples minds.  That's an entirely different console, not a variation. 

Oh well, Im sorry, I consider it in the class of PCE stuff, even though it was released as a "next gen console" to compete with the 32 bit genre. I guess it would have helped to state that info, being that its not backward compatible.