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If you are getting things sent to you from Japan to the UK, you can send it quite cheaply with their SAL service. EMS (there quick service) claims to have insurance if a box goes missing, but I recently found out that this isn't applicable for the UK and there is no insurance. The SAL service takes about 1 week later, but is more than half the price in some cases.

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: PC Engine newbie]

Thanks for the advice Tasujin. I think I might leave it for now. I will try to go to Hard Off later on and dig out a PC Engine.

You wouldn't happen to know of any good used video game shops or hard off type shops in Osaka, Shiga or Kyoto would you 

I actually did a little walking trip from Minami-Urawa station yesterday to get some exercise and visit a Hard-Off.  Nothing much there (though there was a Duo-RX for pretty cheap.) but they did have a box with about 2 dozen PC-Engine games, even Hu-Cards in cases.  Unfortunately, they were almost all sports shit (Power Leagues, Fire Pro Wrestlings, etc.)  Blah.

That's because I have raped that Hard-Off regularly for about 4 years (second floor with a parking lot underneath, a KFC next to it and a lot of car dealerships on the road... I know it well!).  It's only about a 15-20 minute bike ride from my house (in Warabi/Kawaguchi)!  There are actually five Hard-Offs within an hour or 1.5 hours bike ride from there that I know of (seven if you count Higashi Tokorozawa and Fujimino, but those always took me over 2 hours to get to on my bike... Kawagoe Hard-Off is about 2.5-3 hours... I was hardcore!  If you can make it to Tsuragashima, Iruma or Kuki Hard-Offs on bike from Minami Urawa... you are completely insane).

Got a CIB AES system there in awesome condition for 5000yen.  Got my first CIB Duo there as well, I think it was also 5000yen.  Found a loose Duo there for 1000yen once, which was pretty sweet.  Do they still have those couple CIB 3DO systems on the edge of the isle?  I bought a couple, but there was also a couple left.  They were pretty good deals, actually.  Maybe 2000-3000 each?  Also got a Mega Drive 1 with a Master System Converter there for 2000yen, and picked up some pretty decent SMS games to go with it (Space Harrier, After Burner, a couple Alex Kidd games, etc.).  That was sweet.

Did you pick up the Duo-RX?

　

I still haven't picked up that Duo-rx but plan to this week. I found a shop that sells the cables for 400 yen. I just hope it is still there. I can never find enough time to go there will all my over-time.  Japan is a wonderful country to live in, but a 9 till 5 job is quite hard to come by.  If I pick it up I will let you all know.

Just wondering have you been to the Super Potato in Osaka, and is it quite close to Umeda?

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Ahh, alright. Thanks for the info. Maybe if I see a cheap Core Grafx I might get it.

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Thanks for the tips 

Just wondering, would a standard PC Engine cable be the same as the DUO-R cable? If so, I think I could pick up an old PC Engine (White one) for about 2,000 yen and would be able to use that cable for the DUO-R.

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: PC Engine newbie]

Thanks for the advice Tasujin. I think I might leave it for now. I will try to go to Hard Off later on and dig out a PC Engine.

You wouldn't happen to know of any good used video game shops or hard off type shops in Osaka, Shiga or Kyoto would you 

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Hi guys,

Well today I went off to that shop armed with the advice you all gave me. I pointed out the system for 5,000 yen and sadly got told that it has no cables with it  You guys were right in thinking that it was a bargain.

Just wondering, do you know what sort of cable the DUO system uses? Would another cable for a different console work for it, or is it a special cable just for that system?

If I could get a cable form somewhere I might pick it up before Nect beats me to it.

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Thanks for welcoming me welcome aboard guys!

Thanks for the advice Tatsujin. To be honest I didn't take the picture in my opening post, I wanted to make my post look more interesting, so I found a picture of the same model PC Engine that I saw at a shop in Osaka. Funnily enough the picture that I found is even cheaper than the one I saw.

I recently saw a black DUO-R for 8,000 yen and a Core Graphics (Orange and Black) for 8,000 yen. I think that that one for 5,000 yen must be a good price and I will try to buy it next week. Have you ever been to Super Potato? I would like to go one day, but not sure if they have a lot of PC Engine games.

That pcedaisakusen.net website is pretty interesting. By the way, what is your favourite game on the system?


Yeah, I agree with you ccovell. I'm not a big fan of those sports games either. When looking for Dreamcast games I nearly always come across some of those crappy wresting games.

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wow, that was a fast response.

Thank you very much for the advice. I think I will go for the white system. By any chance do you know if the Arcade Duo HuCards are quite expensive?

Thanks for welcoming me to the forms

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Hello there, this is my first post so please be kind.

I am really new to the PC Engine need some advice from the experts.

I'm looking into buying my first system and think that the best way to go is for the TurboDuo. As far as I know it can play both chip games and CD games. The only games which I think it can't play are the Super Graphics games. If I am correct, would you a white or black TurboDuo and is there any differences between the two?

I live in Japan, so the systems that I am looking at are the Japanese ones. They are about 5,000 yen each without a box which is about 60 US dollars or 35 pounds. I recently came across a small shop that sells the HuCard games without a box from 100 to 300 yen ($3). Is that how much they are normally sold for or are they sold for more?


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I picked up a boxed Bomberman 94 for 300 yen which I was quite happy with. I think it is meant to be one of the best Bomberman games on the system.

If there is anybody else who uses these forms who lives in Japan, do you know how much the PC Engine normally goes for at Hard Off? I don't live very close to one, but might take a trip to one if they have good prices.

Also does anybody have any tips for games to look out for which are pretty awesome?