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[Buy/Sell/Trade / Re: Bernie's giveaways: 8-2012= Jackie Chan pce]

Id like to get my name in the mix!

[General Gaming / Re: would this be a good arcade cab?]

Ok i worked on the cab then moved the cabinet across the room, the weird part is now the right side of the monitor has a blueish tint to it. Sort of like i took a magnet to the right side. Strange, think i might need a new monitor? Seems hard to change out.

thats not uncommon with the old stuff either, slight movements can cause adjustments to go out of wake, and or also jarring can sometime cause symptoms of dried out caps to rear their head. i would say at best the monitor needs recapped,of course a new monitor is the best route if you have access to a replacement, depending on how much burn in etc is on the one you have now.

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: Scan of PC Engine Feature from EDGE Magazine in 1993]

Awesome! thanks!

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: It came from the Desert glitch?]

I've never had such problems with mine either, so it definitely sounds like a bad rip and/or bad burn.

yeah im sure this is the situation, last night i was able to recreate the situation over and over at one spot in the game,  so im sure thats the case!

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: It came from the Desert glitch?]

I meant it in a good way, because it also might instant damage or accelerate the aging of your system (CD-ROM²). depends on its age and current condition.

plus that game is usually a super-cheapy, not? it would be a pity to damage your system, just because it saved you few bucks [/quote]
right, i see your point, i have read that some say playing copies can damage the laser, is this confirmed? i havent had alot of experience with the tgcd, but used to play alot of burnt cd's in the sega cd, saturn etc, never had a prob,.thanks for the heads up however! your right! it is just a cheapo,

[Buy/Sell/Trade / WTB .cheap system card 1.0]

as the listing says, loose is fine, just wanting to play some altered beast !

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: It came from the Desert glitch?]

granted i am playing a burnt copy.

don't play a burnt copy.

Wow, thanks for the advice lol

[General Gaming / Re: would this be a good arcade cab?]

which other ms pacman board are you referring to?

I knew after I posted that would be the question.
The mazes you play. If I can get a picture of all 4 of them, I can add them to Pyramind Plunder

ohh haha, yes, in a day or two i will get some pics to you, in private messege, so as to not further hijack this thread lol.

[General Gaming / Re: would this be a good arcade cab?]

thats interesting because I looked at a SFII cab a while back  that was missing the back panel and it had the same button you had to hold in for it to work

See if you can pull the plunger out. It should click into place. That's how you override it for maintainance mode.

the thing to watch for on the back of the monitor is a big red wire, one end has a suction cup on it

I remember those....Good Times. Welding screwdrivers to the monitor frame, roasting wires, etc. Those were the days

jc78_2005:

i have a ms pacman, and a ninja gaiden

You have a ms pacman? Can you post pix of all the game boards for me, Please

(I can find pix of the first two on-line, but not the rest.)

ahh yes  lol, i use wire, alligator clips and a nice long flathead screwdriver, the only boards im familier with is the main board and the daughter board? which other ms pacman board are you referring to?

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: It came from the Desert glitch?]

You have a corrupt image. 

ahh never considered that . thanks a bunch!

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: It came from the Desert glitch?]

Huh, I don't recall ever having that problem, & I played that game to death BITD(not that I've beaten it however).  It's a glitchy game, but that just doesn't sound familiar.  Is this on real hardware I assume?

yes on real hardware, the original tgcd setup, it has other glitches as well but so do the other fmv games i have played, but yeah this one seemed extreme. i was just wanting to know , because i actually plan to buy this game, and was wondering if others have had this experience. think i will fire it up right now and see if maybe its a time period thing?

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / It came from the Desert glitch?]

granted i am playing a burnt copy. at no paticular given time, or in any order, the game will just boot back to the system card screen.JUst a bad burn or a known issue with this "game"? , have several  other games play just fine.

[Buy/Sell/Trade / Re: Loose HuCards for sale]

received System card today! works great ! thanks again! And BUmp.

[General Gaming / Re: would this be a good arcade cab?]

the thing to watch for on the back of the monitor is a big red wire, one end has a suction cup on it, attached to the monitor tube, the other end plugs into a large capacitor known as a "flyback switch" there are safe ways of decharging these, to make them prefectly safe to work on, but as a note just in general that red wire and capacitor are what you DO NOT want to touch.

[General Gaming / Re: would this be a good arcade cab?]

Here is something interesting, the monitor only comes on if this cherry switched is pushed in, it doesnt stay pressed so  have to tape it down. Seems weird should i just permanently wire it in? It already has a rocker switch on the bottom for power so not sure why it is like this.

The volume pot works so the sound is good now. Here is a picture of the switch.

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yes that is a "kill" switch, so that the machine would power down when the back was removed for maintinace  the "flyback switch on those old monitors can carry alot of juice! congrats on your first arcade cab! i have a ms pacman, and a ninja gaiden

[Buy/Sell/Trade / Re: RAFFLE: Blazing Lazers HuCard and sleeve... WINNER DRAWN!]

Congrats!

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: Street fighter 2]

good criterion there

haha indeed

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: Street fighter 2]

Small detail.. but i do think that as for detail, i think only the pce version has both colors of puke lol. for what it's worth lol

[Buy/Sell/Trade / Re: FS: SuperGrafx system with box and 3 games]

dangit! why must i be poor? good luck on the sale!

[Buy/Sell/Trade / WTB. Arcade pro hucard]

for a decent price?cheaper the better. thanks!

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: Street fighter 2]

well again, the 6 button thing is not such a big deal to me( i have daily access to the arcade at my shop). what i mean by the hardware pushed, and again i may be technically wrong, its just awesome to me,to see an 8-bit machine produce results which rival more powerful systems, of course we can have our own favorites! yes lol the cps1(arcade) version is the best, but in my eyes the closest experience to the arcade is indeed the pce version! lol

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: Have TG-16 and CD, keep or get Duo?]

Ya know i struggle with this also. i have the Duo itch , but taking the advice of members here, i am holding out, and soo far, i must say im just fine, lol. of course mine is region modded , so i can get the cheap pc engine 3.0 card, which i have on the way to me.. if it wasnt modded,, i would have probably already gave in!

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: Street fighter 2]

Sorry but SNES is the obvious winner. And I like all three systems alot. But the SNES port was clearly the best. Best sound, graphics, and all around. For one it was the only system that "stock" had the controller for it. PC-Engine and Genesis are a joke without the 6 button controllers. I actually think that it would have been tolerable if the PC-Engine or Genesis version let you assign actions to the buttons as you wished, not forced you to use a shitty switch between punches and kicks. Think about it, wouldn't you rather just map Strong Punch and Strong Kick, and then another couple ones you might want to have based on your play style or character? That would be way better than the shitty switching system which atleast on PCE I don't recall ANY screen indicator of if you are set to Punches or Kicks.

Again I know this is a PC-Engine fan site, but it didn't get the best port. Now throw it on SuperGrafx with the Arcade CD-ROM and a good development team and definitely.

well i was never a fan of the snes, the graphics always looked stretched, blurry and just well.. bland to my eyes, as far as the controllers, i didnt mind at all the sega controls and i dont mind the turbo's now, of course it is better with 6 button controls, now sound and graphics, to me, the only place the snes wins is maybe in sound.the stock snes controllers to me, just sucked lol. but again all that is just my opinion !

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: Golden Axe sound effects]

haha right,right.

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: Street fighter 2]

Ya know, i have been playing with the standard turbopad, andi  really didnt have much trouble adjusting to it at all.

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Street fighter 2]

favorite and why? I Choose Pce, i dig how the hardware is pushed on the graphics and sounds,My only gripe would be there seems to be some collision detection issues from time to time,

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Golden Axe sound effects]

Wow, been playing this beast, and i dont mind the down graded graphics, i dig the animated cut scenes, but my god man! what the hell happened on the sounds effects???? for me they make a tolerable game,untolerable. just sad, i really wanted to like this game!!!

[Buy/Sell/Trade / Re: Loose HuCards for sale]

are the super system cards still avalable ?

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: TurboCd vs. Turboduo]

I know my Turbo Grafx CD unit will have to be serviced in the next year or so (running great right now, but doesn't hurt to get a tune-up!)

well yeah, just like a car, after a few thousand miles, she needs a lil care lol.

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: TurboCd vs. Turboduo]

Also the TG16/CD is in the shape of a "T"!

haha ya know it is pretty awesome looking, shaped like a T and all lol. i think i have decided to just stay with the Original setup, so far its worked great for me, audio and all, even with burnt games, no issues. that says alot. mine was manufactured in September 1989 and after some new gear grease, runs like a top. that say alot!

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

It came from the desert! more, watching it than playing it, but, its just awesome lol

[Buy/Sell/Trade / Re: Selling some of my TurboGrafx/Turbo CD games]

ohh if there are a few of these still around on Friday, i will take a few from ya! plus the tv sports games, i dont have them! great deal!

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: TurboCd vs. Turboduo]

If you already have a working tg16+cd there's no point in gettting a US duo. Save the money and get a PCE duo so you can play Japanese games and have a dependable system.

well i can play the JP games now my tg is region modded, wow i opened a can of worms didnt I? lol

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: TurboCd vs. Turboduo]

hmm soo ,if i get a duo, the black models, either us or jp is the way to go, just get a fresh cap kit.

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: TurboCd vs. Turboduo]

yes those duo-r's  are sure a sexy lil beast lol , i always thought the supergrafx is just awesome looking, however i cant say I like the looks of it with the supercd attached, so many options,, sooo little money.

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: TurboCd vs. Turboduo]

system 1 card as in 1.0?

thats it. you have to have it, in order to play altered beast properly. on cd.

so you're saying altered beast only works on system card 1.0?

Yes,it only works properly with system card 1.0, you can play it with others, as long as you dont want to turn into the beast lol, once you change into the beast the screen stops scrolling and you cant progress any further.

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: TurboCd vs. Turboduo]

system 1 card as in 1.0?

thats it. you have to have it, in order to play altered beast properly. on cd.

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: TurboCd vs. Turboduo]

ok, now that i have sampled a few games (few burnt cd games) im clearly going to stay with the tg/pce stuff, so the question is, how many stil luse the turbocd system vs the duo? i already have the itch for the duo set , its just soo sleek looking, however space ,nore funds allow for both,so at somepoint should i sell the cd setup and jump to the duo? im sure im not the first to face this diliema lol.

It's really a personal choice.    I personally like the Duo set-up, but am in the process of getting a TG-16/CD set-up as well.  Most likely I will mainly play on the Duo, just cause I like it.  It is certainly a space saver when it comes to US systems.  Now, should you sell the CD set-up?  I certainly would not.  Keep it man, cause you will probably regret selling it.  Just save your funds, and keep an eye out here in the forums for a decent priced Duo.  Trust me, they pop up.  I have bought a few right here in these forums in the past year. 

right, well it wouldnt be anything i would do right now thats for sure, im loving it! having both does for sure seems like the best option,speaking of decent prices, what is a decent price on an arcade card , and a system 1 card?

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: TurboCd vs. Turboduo]

haha right, well i like the looks of both, and yeah id be tied to system card 1( i actually like altered beast) and the arcade card at some point anyway lol

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / TurboCd vs. Turboduo]

ok, now that i have sampled a few games (few burnt cd games) im clearly going to stay with the tg/pce stuff, so the question is, how many stil luse the turbocd system vs the duo? i already have the itch for the duo set , its just soo sleek looking, however space ,nore funds allow for both,so at somepoint should i sell the cd setup and jump to the duo? im sure im not the first to face this diliema lol.

[Buy/Sell/Trade / Re: RAFFLE: Blazing Lazers HuCard and case]

i'd love to get signed up for it!

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: Game suggestions??]

...have you played the sequal? dragon sabre? im thinking i will get that one also

Spirit is a solid arcade port, Sabre just takes it up a notch on graphics and game play. Like roflmao says, the first one should be had on the cheap but the sequel might be in the $25-30 range. I enjoy both.

You have a CD system, Ys 1/2 is a great ride (I would even go so far as to say a must play for any Turbo CD owner).

Fighting Street is not worth the shipping IMO. Wait for a Super System card and get Flash Hiders if you want another fighter(Asuka and VG are other options). SF2' is the best mainstream 2d fighter you're gonna find on Turbo.

yes, looking into y's and valis also actually, lol i actually sorta like fighting street hard not for it to just turn into button mashing though lol

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: Game suggestions??]

Ah, well then you might want to keep an eye out for Dragon Spirit as well.  It's not quite in the same league as Blazing Lazers, but it's still lots of fun and the music is outstanding.  It should also be dirt cheap to pick up (I think I paid less than $5 shipped for my loose pce version earlier this year).

ahh yes, played this on the nes, and loved it, wanting it, and have you played the sequal? dragon sabre? im thinking i will get that one also

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: Game suggestions??]

I know you said you are mainly intrested in Platformers and fighters but it's worth grabbing a copy of blazing lazers, it's a great game.

oh yes, i plan on expanding into the shooters, blazing lazers looks great.

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: Game suggestions??]

Bloody Wolf is fantastic. Hunt it down with all speed.

haha will do post haste!

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: Game suggestions??]

really like the looks of bloody wolf! I have street fighter 2 on the way, and i do think i will give fighting street a go, i played the arcade version on mame, and actually liked it pretty well!

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: New guy saying Hi!]

Welcome, comrade jc78_2005.

Play TG-16/PCE...NOW.

That is all.

yes! i do believe i will!  and yes welcome to all us newbies!

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: Game suggestions??]

Vigilante and China Warrior!  If you have friends over and like fighting then get the Bomberman games.  Also, do you own a pc-engine or have a way to play pc-engine games?  there were a ton of platformers that were never brought over stateside.  The pc-engine softare bible pcengine.co.uk/ is a good place to start.

i have a region modded tg16 , so yeah pc engine games are fine, as long as they are english player friendly , as in i know zero japanese. vigilante and china warrior are on my to get list, and yes the bonk games, thanks for the suggestions!

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Game suggestions??]

If your bored and have a min? ok, so i got a few on the way(st2 and bull fight) and i already have keith courage, legendary axe, and alien crush. what are some suggestions, i typically like platformer's and fighters, i do have a cdrom but only a original system card, so no super cd games just yet.. thanks !!

[Buy/Sell/Trade / Re: 2 PC Engine Games FT]

consider any non pc/tg trades?  would love to snag ninja gaiden?