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[Buy/Sell/Trade / Re: null's Yard Sale ░▒▓█ TGCD / DUO-R █▓▒░ price reduced - 11/22/2015]

What this community really needs are more new guys to puff their chest and bloviate about what the community needs.

You're the nuub, you just try to hide it with your incessant posts.

If I can only get to 5000 posts they'll accept me

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You don't have to be a psychiatrist to see that you have these insecurities because you feel, as you well should, like the fraud you are; it's a well known fact that you didn't have a turbo as a kid! How dare you call me the new guy.

"TurboGrafx-16 HuCard Collection: 7.3% complete    7 / 96 titles"

Must be why you're only at 7%

What a short memory you have. The reason I wasn't able to further my collection, which unlike most of you, I have the *right* to do since I'm a true fan is because I tried to help kids like you get started.

Exhibit A
The picture I painstakingly crafted for jtucci when he won my KC raffle:

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I'm sure Stanley's nephew has long since flipped the Keith Courage I gave him, since he's a well known raffle abuser. In the very same thread he admitted he can't even keep track of all the raffles he enters:

I completely forgot i entered this. Oops! Thanks though. I'll make good use of it, I promise.

He thinly veils his true intentions.. he probably had it flipped before it was delivered to him.

[Buy/Sell/Trade / Re: For sale: Air Zonk. Loose game.]

Whoa, is a loose Splatterhouse really going for $55 pcefx? Not accusing you of gouging, but if so, prices have gone up a lot since I last checked.

[Buy/Sell/Trade / Re: null's Yard Sale ░▒▓█ TGCD / DUO-R █▓▒░ price reduced - 11/22/2015]

I've been away from the forums for a few months, unfortunately it seems that some things never change.

You know, part of the reason I had to leave, a large part of it actually, was because I couldn't stomach all the price gouging and collectard mentality.

The day when Nulltard and those like him are gone, and trust me all the insta full set collectors eventually leave, will be the day that this community can really thrive.

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: Turbo Everdrive 2 as a Super System Card]

Wow if that works that would be fantastic seeing how much the US system card 3.0 goes for.

US 3.0 card price is based on it being rar3z. This is just a convenience so that you don't have to take the TED out when you want to play CD games.

When it does the Arcade card, I'll lift my head up. Best solution ATM is one turbob with the everdrive in for Hu games and next to it another with an Arcade card for CD games.

And if you don't have 2 turbobs, you should go buy another or 7 right now. And/or not bother with Arcade games coz there's hardly any good games for it, and certainly not for cheap.

[Off-Topic / Re: Secret Santa 2015]

Heh, I won't remember a year from now....  I can barely remember what I had for dinner last night.

But you can remember when Secret Santa is, which is totez better than me!

[Off-Topic / Re: Secret Santa 2015]

gah, I've been away from the forums and forgot this    . Well I remembered about 5 times then forgot again before I signed up.

Unless there's another tardy student?? to pair me up with??

p.s.
Is it too early to sign up for next year's necro??

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: Road trip to NY need some Turbo games]

haha, I did Jacksonville to NY two weeks ago.

Long drive, but an easy one.

[Buy/Sell/Trade / Re: Vic 20 - Free to good home]

I've wanted an MSX for years. I can't get any more computers / consoles until I get rid of others. That's why I'm letting go of the Vic 20.

Good trade-off/compromise.  You'll be happy with the MSX.  Even happier with MSX2.

Yes, I'm gonna go for an MSX2, I haven't done enough research to decide on the model model yet.

Do you have an MSX(2)?

[Buy/Sell/Trade / Re: Vic 20 - Free to good home]

Ah. Ah, well.

If you believe in 2nd chances, are on the east coast and have $20, or on the west coast and have $30, that dream could come true.

System and PSU is 8lbs, with games, ram expansion, books it comes in at 11. PM me your zip code and I'll let you know how exactly how much shipping will be.

[Buy/Sell/Trade / Re: Vic 20 - Free to good home]

My wife would kill me if I adopted another ancient computer.

I've wanted an MSX for years. I can't get any more computers / consoles until I get rid of others. That's why I'm letting go of the Vic 20.

Waiting to hear back from schmuck, looks like it's his now.

[Buy/Sell/Trade / Re: Wonky Joystick FS]

Duo_R,

It's in good shape, unless you have OCD and obsess over minute scratches you'll be happy. I'm too lazy to take a picture.

sirhcman,

Do you mean NES advantage? A regular NES controller's membrane wouldn't fit.

[Buy/Sell/Trade / Vic 20 - Free to good home]

I've got a Vic 20 that's in pieces. I don't have the time to put back together, although it should work after reassembling the keyboard and making/buying an AV cable. I was going to drop it off at Goodwill, but seeing that it's in pieces they'll probably junk it, which is a waste.

The case is yellowed, but only minor scratches. There's some surface rust on the keyboard springs, and a colony of dust bunnies living inside of it. It comes with a couple games, some manuals/books, and everything it needs to run again sans AV out cables.

For the price of shipping it's yours.

[Buy/Sell/Trade / Wonky Joystick FS]

It's in pretty good condition, and everything works except for the 2 button. The board itself is fine, it's an issue with the membrane, the conductive part is damaged.

Since I haven't been able to find another one, it's useless to me. Combine it with your broke one to make a working one, or challenge yourself by going for a highscore without the 2 button!

Any reasonable offered accepted, or trade for a broken controller / controller giblets.

[Buy/Sell/Trade / Re: WTB TurboExpress Cap Kit]

Thanks for the links. From the console5 description:

Note: Due to size constraints, factory RF shielding may need to be altered or removed to install this kit.

I'm editing my original post, although at this point looks like I'm gonna have to pay through the nose for not buying tantalum caps in bulk.

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: rear plastic bus cover for core grafx?]

I don't think I've ever seen them for sale, and more often than not they're missing. If you really have to have it, you'll probably have to get a new Core Grafx with the cover and selling your old one.

Even rarer are the controller port covers, I've only seen them on the original PC Engine, and I can't even find a picture of one now. I'm not sure if they came on other consoles, or even all PC Engines, anyone know?

[Buy/Sell/Trade / WTB TurboExpress Cap Kit]

From a good manufacturer: Panasonic, Nichicon, etc. Preferably tantalum or ceramic caps.

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: Replacement Controller Membrane?]

Has anyone for replacements membranes for the Turbostick's large buttons?

[Off-Topic / PCEngineFX Clash of Clans Clan]

Anyone interested in creating a clan for forum members? There'd need to be at least 10 of us to be able to war.

[Console Repair/Mod Center / Re: TG-16 CD unit powers on.. gears not stuck yet no disk spin]

You need to regrease the worm gear.

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: How often do you find TG-16 and TG-CD in the wild?]

I bought my Turbo Duo new from the EB in Midland; Mi, also purchased there; Dungeon Explorer 2, Riot Zone; Sim Earth, Cosmic Fantasy 2, Lords of Thunder, Cockwing Fuck. From the Diehard Game Club in Waterford, Mi; Yuna 2, Startling Odyssey 2, Dragon Ball.

Oh, you mean in the last 10 years? Well, it happens. At the Midwest Gaming Classic there was actually quite a bit of Turbo and PCE. Working CD systems are always a problem, always have been, but basic games are not. Price is the issue. People always say, "I saw Blazing Lazers for $200" or whatever. This is because they wanted to actually have a Turbo thing in their store for a minute. If they charged anything like a reasonable price then it would be gone in seconds. As a store owner those are your choices; charge 8x what it's worth so it will be there, or charge a fair price and see the first customer who walks into your store by it.

There were plenty of Turbo games to go around originally. What happened was that now the power collector is the standard. Everyone who owns a Turbo feels the need, for some fucking reason, to own every game. They will NEVER play this stuff, they just want to own the "complete" collection before they inevitably dump the whole thing on a new generation of complaining noobs. With every system owner now hoarding 20x as much software as NEC manufactured, scarcity has been artificially made real.

You and my grandpop are cut from the same jib. He was a gas station attendant since way back when, even before Ike put in the interstate system, a real OG.

He did it all, wiped your windshield, checked your fluids, topped up your oil.. but there was one thing he really loved since before it was in vogue: pumping gas.

Back in his glory days he pumped em all hi-tess, lo-tess, midgrade.. he handled that nozzle like Clint Eastwood handles a six shooter in a spaghetti western.

You should see how the vein on his forehead swells up to the size of a prized wriggler when Rick Dale comes on the T.V. with his restored gas pumps.

And you can understand of course, those people are taking the tool of grandpop's trade, tarting it up, rendering it inoperable, and selling to folks who don't even have 1 day of fossil fuel jockeying under their belt. Even worse it's pricing real petroleum injection specialists like grandpop out of the market.

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: How often do you find TG-16 and TG-CD in the wild?]

there are no flea markets here in Spain.
besides it's difficult to find games in s&T forums, so...

For everyone in North America who think turbobs are hard to find, Spain is orders of magnitude worse. It's nearly impossible to find anything, even online. When you find something, generally the price is absurd, like this boxed NES for 275€.

I just searched loquo, Spain's craigslist, for "turbografx" and "pc engine", no hits for the entire country.

kike, have you ever been to RetroMadrid?

[Buy/Sell/Trade / Re: Turbo Everdrive FS]

I wanted to make sure there was enough meat on the bones so it could be flipped again.

[Buy/Sell/Trade / Re: FS: Magical Chase game box (Repro) ...]

Got mine yesterday. Thanks for doing these sparky.

[Buy/Sell/Trade / Re: WTB the following TurboGrafx Games]

Heh, I knew that was coming.

TurboGrafx, (nice name, surprised it wasn't taken) welcome to the forums.

These forums are more about general NEC enthusiasm and less about buying and selling. A lot, maybe the majority, of members don't like full set collecting.

That being said, most of the best deals are made on these forums. If you show passion for the turbob and that's your reason for wanting a full set, people here will help you. But it won't happen overnight, it  would probably take a couple years to source all those games here.

If you're just a general vidya game collector whose after a NA HuCard set because of the small library, you're probably better off on ebay.

[Buy/Sell/Trade / Turbo Everdrive - Sold]

I'm flipping this Turbo Everdrive with stylish halloween themed cover. New other than testing to check that it works.

$68 shipped. I know I'm a gouger, but I gotta eat!

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[Console Repair/Mod Center / Re: CDRom2 Middle Gear Replacement - Washer needed or no? Replacement sources?]

Regarding the losing little black ring, I had been suffered for this a long while. Evetually, I am able to find the good replacement.  What I found is Highland Barley paper 0.2mm is able to subsitute the black ring. What I did is cut the paper into circle shape, the use cutter to cut a very small hole in the center. Also, cut circle from the boundry toward to the hole to make the cicrle opened.
 Then try to put the circle back to the axis to see if it fits. If the hole is too small,  you can adjust a little bit until it fits.

For those of you suffer the same issue, and unable to find 0.2 mm or thinner highland barley paper, I can give some to you for free (yes, even you don't buy gears from me )

Just want to share the solution / happiness for finding the replacement.

Thanks
Jimmy

It's hard to find outside of Asia, maybe you could try thick paper?

[Buy/Sell/Trade / WTB IFU, Controller]

If anyone wants to sell:

• IFU in decent shape w/ the lid and both buttons.
• Controller, preferably broken, I need one of the turbo buttons and the plastic membranes.

please send me a pm.

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: The Struggle Of Finding Turbo Stuff..]

Does anyone know what the distribution of NEC products was in North America? Weren't the majority of US sales in the NYC metropolis?

Turbobs were rare here when I was a kid and they're rare now.

[Buy/Sell/Trade / Re: Lots of PC Engine Games f/s + other stuffs]

Not that he needs it, but BlueBMW's seller rep += 1.

Thanks for the deals.

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

Back 10-25 years and they were very common here back then.

I know virtually all TVs in Europe were SCART, but I thought, at least in Spain, that most only did composite?

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

I've wanted a 3DS for a while, but I kept waiting for the "new'" 3DS to be released. Last week I saw that the 2DS had been reduced to $100 and I impulse bought it. A couple days later I see the new 3DS announcement, haha.

I don't regret it though, I've been having a blast with Bravely Default. Any 3DS hidden gems (all genres)?

[Buy/Sell/Trade / Re: Yo Bro! its a Happy Birthday raffle!]

No case?

This conflicts with null's plan to get a complete CIC US set from raffles alone.

Happy birthday goat!

[Buy/Sell/Trade / Re: FS: Magical Chase game box (Repro) ...]

If you deem me worthy, please add me to the list.

[Buy/Sell/Trade / Re: Lots of PC Engine Games f/s + other stuffs]

I'm interested in: Browning, Cosmic Fantasy, Cosmic Fantasy 2, Where in the World is Carmen San Diego, the Tennokoe Bank, and Magical Dinosaur Tour.

PM Sent.

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: Question about controller adapter]

No, it was one I made.

If you'd like I can send you an adapter that I've tested working, if it works keep it and send me some $$ through paypal. If it doesn't you know the problem is in the controller and you can mail the adapter back to me.

[Buy/Sell/Trade / Re: Turbo Everdrive covers for sales]

Hey Jelloslug, any chance of getting one of these that hasn't been dyed?

+1
PM sent.

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: Question about controller adapter]

I have a Hori 6 button controller and it works fine on a TG-16 with an adapter.

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: The spine card market..]

What's the purpose of spine cards? Do they have any use (other than looking at them) or are they just part of Japanese game packaging?

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

Why are you trying to get your post count up?

I think he wants:

backstage access at the movie theaters

P.S.
my post count += 1

[Off-Topic / Re: Secret Santa 2014]

Better late than never,

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Thanks jeffhlewis, great choice. I've only had the chance to play for about 30 minutes, but I plan on using this game to introduce some of my friends to the turbo via co-op mode.

[Console Repair/Mod Center / Re: Slow load times TG CD]

Radio Shack 12v 1.5 amp power supply.

The newest system I own is a Dreamcast, so I'm not used to new gen load times ;)

I'm going off the longplay I linked to load times, plus the load times on a Duo (the Duo load times are in-between the longplay and the TG-CD).

Do different CD models have different load times?

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

I think this guy deserves some sort of award:
$3,999 Ys Book 1&2 NEW FACTORY 'd.
$4,999 Lords of Thunder PRISTINE GOLD LEVEL NEW FACTORY 'd.

and that's just the tip of the iceberg!

P.S.
What's a fair price for Ys Book 1&2?

P.P.S.
If anyone has a copy for sale PM me plz.

[Console Repair/Mod Center / Re: TG16 CD-Rom pot default values]

Usually the two black pots that are right next to one another are the ones to adjust. The white ones hardly ever need to be adjusted.

[Console Repair/Mod Center / Re: Slow load times TG CD]

So I just tried the same TG-16 and dock with another CD unit . I'm getting the same slow load times.

It appears to be a problem in the dock / power supply. I'll check the power the dock is getting and see if any of the caps are leaking.

[Off-Topic / Re: Secret Santa 2014]

The one I just sent is wrapped and includes a special disclaimer from St. Nick right when you open it up.

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[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: Best PC Engine / Turbografx controller: The Shuttle Controller]

Recently got the Hori Fighting Commander (CIB  ). My plan is to get the Fighting Commander for both the SNES and Mega Drive.

Same controller for every console of that generation, that way no controller would feel strange in my hand.

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: A realistic approach - Community driven pressed CDs]

I'm in awe of the back and forth mary kate & ashley bullshit that happens on all these projects.

Why doesn't any license their work? Or at a minimum communicate their wishes to each other during production and to the rest of the world at release.

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

This seller has seperated the box and tray from the game and manual. If you buy them both you can have a complete Neutopia II for the low price of $279.90!!

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: Metal Jesus ruins my faith in humanity]

I can understand why people don't like Metal Jesus, but I watch his videos sometimes. He's not my go to source for TG-16 information though. Content has to be dumbed down to appeal to the masses.

At least Metal Jesus isn't a complete set collector. I don't care if people collect entire sets, but I thought people bought games they liked and once they had those filled in the gaps with the junk.

The guy I linked to picked up 17 games of which ~5 he liked.

[PCE/TG-16|CD/SGX Discussion / Re: Metal Jesus ruins my faith in humanity]

If you like MetalJesus, then you'll *love* this guy.