Turbografx-16/Turbo Duo Collecting Reference

[RoyVegas]

So I have been looking to pick up U.S. boxes I need and have ran across 4-5 people with boxes for Legendary Axe (the first version).  So far the sellers I have talked to with it have told me the one they have is the one with the white bottom.  Just trying to confirm if the U.S. version of Legendary Axe came with the black background and big white lettering OR if it has a white background with a ton of small black print. Can anyone that has a box check theirs and see which one they have?

[Arjak]

Nice site, Roy! I don't know why you've been given crap about it.

I noticed something interesting, by the way. My Meteor Blaster DX Signature Edition doesn't have the sticker on the front of the manual. Still, I wouldn't call that a variation, due to the fact that I got it LONG after the offer ended by writing an e-mail to BT Garner, asking if he had any left, and he made up a small batch, just for me!

I guess that makes me a lucky bastard!

And besides, I actually like it better that way, cause I can see the cover art better.

BT, if you're reading this, thanks for giving a damn about me! I had just gotten into the PCE/TG, so I really appreciate what you did; it means a lot!

Thank you!

[Nazi NecroPhile]

I got it LONG after the offer ended by writing an e-mail to BT Garner, asking if he had any left, and he made up a small batch, just for me!

So what number is yours?

[RoyVegas]

My Meteor Blaster DX Signature Edition doesn't have the sticker on the front of the manual. Still, I wouldn't call that a variation, due to the fact that I got it LONG after the offer ended by writing an e-mail to BT Garner, asking if he had any left, and he made up a small batch, just for me!

I also got my Meteor Blaster DXs long after also by emailing him.  According to BT, he initially was going to sell 100 of them but he never actually sold all 100 of them.  When I got mine he said the last one he sold was number 56.  I have copys 57,58,59 and 60. 

It should definately be considered a variation.  Not just because of the sticker or signature but the things that are different in the game.  A few things that I can recall are that when you turn on the game the title screen has a personal message and the numbering of the copy you have (which should also match the numbering on the back side of the manual).  Also included in the sig edition are an extra ship to chose from, more audio that isn't in the original and a newer version of Loop if I'm not mistaken.

Here is a pic of the title screen so you can see what I mean.  You can see it says Roy's Personal Copy and in the upper right corner it says 60/100.

[Arjak]

My copy is #56, so I must've gotten my copy right before Roy.

[RoyVegas]

So I have been looking to pick up U.S. boxes I need and have ran across 4-5 people with boxes for Legendary Axe (the first version).  So far the sellers I have talked to with it have told me the one they have is the one with the white bottom.  Just trying to confirm if the U.S. version of Legendary Axe came with the black background and big white lettering OR if it has a white background with a ton of small black print. Can anyone that has a box check theirs and see which one they have?

Sill looking for an answer to this.  Anyone?

[hoobs88]

So I have been looking to pick up U.S. boxes I need and have ran across 4-5 people with boxes for Legendary Axe (the first version).  So far the sellers I have talked to with it have told me the one they have is the one with the white bottom.  Just trying to confirm if the U.S. version of Legendary Axe came with the black background and big white lettering OR if it has a white background with a ton of small black print. Can anyone that has a box check theirs and see which one they have?

Sill looking for an answer to this.  Anyone?

Mine has White background and black print.

[RoyVegas]

So I have been looking to pick up U.S. boxes I need and have ran across 4-5 people with boxes for Legendary Axe (the first version).  So far the sellers I have talked to with it have told me the one they have is the one with the white bottom.  Just trying to confirm if the U.S. version of Legendary Axe came with the black background and big white lettering OR if it has a white background with a ton of small black print. Can anyone that has a box check theirs and see which one they have?

Sill looking for an answer to this.  Anyone?

Mine has White background and black print.

Thanks for checking.  I did a comparison and it is confirmed the US Legendary Axe definately DID have a white bottom.

[esteban]

Thanks for checking.  I did a comparison and it is confirmed the US Legendary Axe definately DID have a white bottom.

I know this may be moot, but what precisely were you trying to verify?

It sounds like you are referring to the bottom cardboard flap. Were there variations in the packaging?

Clearly, I haven't been following this thread, but package variations are interesting to me.

[RoyVegas]

Thanks for checking.  I did a comparison and it is confirmed the US Legendary Axe definately DID have a white bottom.

I know this may be moot, but what precisely were you trying to verify?

It sounds like you are referring to the bottom cardboard flap. Were there variations in the packaging?

Clearly, I haven't been following this thread, but package variations are interesting to me.

The bottom flap is exactly what I was checking on.  Most U.S. box bottoms had a black background with big white writing for the name of the game.  There are a few that have a white flap and tons of small black writing.  I believe most of the French/Canadian boxes had a white bottom.  I just wanted to confirm the U.S. Legendary Axe had the white bottom.

[esteban]

The bottom flap is exactly what I was checking on.  Most U.S. box bottoms had a black background with big white writing for the name of the game.  There are a few that have a white flap and tons of small black writing.  I believe most of the French/Canadian boxes had a white bottom.  I just wanted to confirm the U.S. Legendary Axe had the white bottom.

OK, I never noticed that before. Interesting.

[BlackandBlue]

Plan on adding any hardware/systems to your site?

[RoyVegas]

OK, I never noticed that before. Interesting.

If you want a pic or 2 of examples so you can actually see the difference, let me know.

Plan on adding any hardware/systems to your site? 

I didn't plan on it.

[Dalder]

My us version of Legendary Axe box has white bottom.

And regarding Usa Turbo Duo system hu card pack in. Several years ago I heard that some people got loose Dungeon Explorer Hucard as pack in some of these were said that they were bought from Sears. But I have never seen Turbo stuff at sears myself so I cannot say that this information is accurate. I have seen Turbos at Montgomery Wards..Toys R Us..Software Etc. Waldensoft..Babbage's..EB Electronics Boutique..some small local video game stores...The Good Guys that is where I got my brand new duo in 1997 for only $50 am not kidding !...

anyways about Turbo Duo I have owned several boxed turbo duo systems I only got the loose Ninja Spirit with them I have not received Splatterhouse or Dungeon Explorer with my boxed duos now I only own 2 boxed Turbo Duos and 1 unboxed Turbo Duo...

[RoyVegas]

Curious as to what everyone thinks about adding Insanity to the site?  All of the packaging says PCE, not Turbografx.  This being the case, do you think I should add it to my site as a Turbo game or should it be considered PCE?

[hoobs88]

Curious as to what everyone thinks about adding Insanity to the site?  All of the packaging says PCE, not Turbografx.  This being the case, do you think I should add it to my site as a Turbo game or should it be considered PCE?

The walls in one of the stages in the game spell "PCE" and the packaging is in both English and Kanji (Japanese). Up until then I considered it to be a Turbo title. I think it is still safe to categorize it as one since it is not region specific. I am adding it to my own personal checklist as a Turbo title.

[Nazi NecroPhile]

Since it was conceived, programmed, produced, and distributed in the good ol' U. S. of A., I consider it to be a Turbo title.

[esteban]

Since it was conceived, programmed, produced, and distributed in the good ol' U. S. of A., I consider it to be a Turbo title.

Precisely.

[RoyVegas]

Ok, based on the responses so far, I listed Insanity on the site.  I listed it as 3 different versions, and here is why.

CCAG 2009 Lightscribe Version - 20 of these were made to be distributed at CCAG 2009.  It is on a Lightscribe disc and is numbered.

Preorder Version - Professionally pressed disc, it is not only numbered but it also comes with the Lightscribe soundtrack disc.

Regular Version - The professionally pressed disc released to the public.

Just a side note:  The CCAG version and the Preorder versions may or may not be signed based on what they buyer requested when you ordered them.

If any of this is incorrect please let me know so I can correct it.

[forsigmar]

The site is awesome.  Great job and thanks!  One request, can you post a pic of all the games together?  I just want to see what all of those games look like on a shelf,

[RoyVegas]

One request, can you post a pic of all the games together?  I just want to see what all of those games look like on a shelf,

Sure.

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[esteban]

No less than 2 copies of KLAX. Nice.

[Tatsujin]

nice one roy. made you das vegas rich?

[RoyVegas]

No less than 2 copies of KLAX. Nice.

That's because the top 2 shelves are my open stuff to play.  The bottom shelf are sealed ones. (Here come the flames).

nice one roy. made you das vegas rich?

Asks the man with the 700+ game pc engine collection?    We don't have to be rich to have a small collection of mostly $25 or cheaper games.

[Nazi NecroPhile]

(Here come the flames).

Anyone with two sealed copies of Takin' It To The Hoop deserves to be flamed.  Hell, you're practically begging for it!

[esteban]

(Here come the flames).

Anyone with two sealed copies of Takin' It To The Hoop deserves to be flamed.  Hell, you're practically begging for it!

Hahahhaahhahahahaa.

[RoyVegas]

(Here come the flames).

Anyone with two sealed copies of Takin' It To The Hoop deserves to be flamed.  Hell, you're practically begging for it!

Aww but one is the US version and the other is the Canadian version.  The boxes are different and I'm a sucker for variations. 

[esteban]

(Here come the flames).

Anyone with two sealed copies of Takin' It To The Hoop deserves to be flamed.  Hell, you're practically begging for it!

Aww but one is the US version and the other is the Canadian version.  The boxes are different and I'm a sucker for variations. 

You know, I like to have Canadian boxes as well, since I didn't even know they existed until a few years ago. It's neat to see how they squeezed all that text on the back .

All is OK.

[RoyVegas]

(Here come the flames).

Anyone with two sealed copies of Takin' It To The Hoop deserves to be flamed.  Hell, you're practically begging for it!

Aww but one is the US version and the other is the Canadian version.  The boxes are different and I'm a sucker for variations. 

You know, I like to have Canadian boxes as well, since I didn't even know they existed until a few years ago. It's neat to see how they squeezed all that text on the back .

All is OK.

Yup, usually the same pics will be on the back of the box but the upper 2 pics will have the US text and the lower 2 pics have the french text.  All of the text is super small.  It's pretty cool really.

[Sparky]

Asks the man with the 700+ game pc engine collection?    We don't have to be rich to have a small collection of mostly $25 or cheaper games.

ya some are $25 or cheaper...& Did you say we? cause your the true high roller here Roy

[RoyVegas]

Asks the man with the 700+ game pc engine collection?    We don't have to be rich to have a small collection of mostly $25 or cheaper games.

ya some are $25 or cheaper...& Did you say we? cause your the true high roller here Roy

If you consider having a collection thats worth a few thousand dollars a high roller then you need a better job my friend!

Love the pic by the way.  He is actually wearing a proximity suit, I have one in my garage.  I used to be a fireman.

[Tatsujin]

here comes the flame, nanananaaa.. here comes the flame.. and I say it's all right.

[Sparky]

Asks the man with the 700+ game pc engine collection?    We don't have to be rich to have a small collection of mostly $25 or cheaper games.

ya some are $25 or cheaper...& Did you say we? cause your the true high roller here Roy

If you consider having a collection thats worth a few thousand dollars a high roller then you need a better job my friend!

Love the pic by the way.  He is actually wearing a proximity suit, I have one in my garage.  I used to be a fireman.

haha..You throw out the richie line so i had to throw a little dig at ya, cause you are 1 to talk.. high roller
how much have you spent on your collection?... most expensive game? or multiple games?

I have a complete collection as well man equal to yours & i am proud to say i have spent very little, i think the most i spent was $120 for Bonk 3...
ya who cares but just called ya out from the line ya dropped at taters all good

[RoyVegas]

most expensive game? or multiple games?

Most expensive was Dynastic Hero: $400
Magical Chase $225
Super Air Zonk: $225 (was the last game I needed if I can recall, so I wen't a little higher)
M&M III : $150

Everything else was $100 or cheaper if I remember correctly.

Yeah, I know.  You probably got them alot cheaper.  May I ask what the most you paid was?

[Ceti Alpha]

The most I've paid for, so far, was $75 for Drac X. However, I realize that if I want to own some of the more rare games I'm going to have to dig deeper into my wallet. I'm in no rush though - slow and steady. 

[RoyVegas]

The most I've paid for, so far, was $75 for Drac X. However, I realize that if I want to own some of the more rare games I'm going to have to dig deeper into my wallet. I'm in no rush though - slow and steady. 

Probably a good idea.  It seems SOME of the prices have to come down a little on the higher end stuff. 

Actually this would make for an interesting topic.  Lemme make one.

[TR0N]

The most I've paid for, so far, was $75 for Drac X. However, I realize that if I want to own some of the more rare games I'm going to have to dig deeper into my wallet. I'm in no rush though - slow and steady. 

That's been my thing as well on old console lately. It is best to stick what you can buy then buy the expensive titles later on.I have been looking at maybe buying some pce games again,but then i see the price and i cringe and i slowly step away.

[Ceti Alpha]

(Here come the flames).

Anyone with two sealed copies of Takin' It To The Hoop deserves to be flamed.  Hell, you're practically begging for it!

Aww but one is the US version and the other is the Canadian version.  The boxes are different and I'm a sucker for variations. 

You know, I like to have Canadian boxes as well, since I didn't even know they existed until a few years ago. It's neat to see how they squeezed all that text on the back .

All is OK.

I'll take a look around to see what Canadian boxes I have.  To me the all English boxes are foreign. lol 

[esteban]

(Here come the flames).

Anyone with two sealed copies of Takin' It To The Hoop deserves to be flamed.  Hell, you're practically begging for it!

Aww but one is the US version and the other is the Canadian version.  The boxes are different and I'm a sucker for variations. 

You know, I like to have Canadian boxes as well, since I didn't even know they existed until a few years ago. It's neat to see how they squeezed all that text on the back .

All is OK.

I'll take a look around to see what Canadian boxes I have.  To me the all English boxes are foreign. lol 

Do that, and I'll take them off your hands.

I think we used to have a list here (or at magicengine) of all the verified Canadian releases.

[RoyVegas]

A while back in chat Zeon mentioned to me that manual scans would be nice.  Have manual scans for the US games been scanned already somewhere?  Would anyone find this useful?  It would be a fair amount of work (and I would have to buy a scanner) so if I would be wasting my time please let me know. 

Would anyone like to see it done?

[Nazi NecroPhile]

Have manual scans for the US games been scanned already somewhere?

Replacement Docs has quite a few, but by no means all of 'em.

Would anyone find this useful?

I personally wouldn't, at least not for the entire library, as I'd rather pay a few bucks and get the real deal.  Surely there's a lot of other peeps, though, that just want something to fill the case and would greatly appreciate quality scans. 

[esteban]

A while back in chat Zeon mentioned to me that manual scans would be nice.  Have manual scans for the US games been scanned already somewhere?  Would anyone find this useful?  It would be a fair amount of work (and I would have to buy a scanner) so if I would be wasting my time please let me know. 

Would anyone like to see it done?

A few years ago some dude (I want to say "Validus" but I don't think that's correct. OK, his name was "avatarloki" and you could download the manuals at avatarloki.com) over at magicengine.com forums scanned nearly all the U.S. manuals.

I thought it was a great idea, especially because I had scanned ~40 manuals on my own before getting tired. I had intended on hosting all the manuals at my site, but then I moved on to other projects...

...we could simply find the avatarloki's stuff and make it available again (the were OK quality scans).

I think it would be great to have all the manuals available.


TANGENT: We could also be crazy (I'm a perfectionist, at times). If you (we) did this, I would love to do it right:

A. Start from scratch. Create PDF's with high quality scans (Phase 1).

B. After getting that done, and making them available, I would like to embark on Phase 2: I have software that uses OCR to convert images to text, embeds the text, and then spits out a PDF. The original look and feel of the manual is untouched... AND...

Embedded text makes the PDF's searchable. I always thought this would be a wonderful resource (searchable scans), and I want to do this with my magazine scans as well. Of course, the OCR is not perfect and I have to manually fix any garbled nonsense generates.

Anyway, if you were willing to scan, I would be happy to help out with other stuff (hosting the files, working on OCR, designing a nice-looking page layout, etc. etc.)

[RoyVegas]

Oh sure esteban, take an already large possible project and turn it into an epic one.    Let's see if some more people are interested in the manual scans and we can go from there.  If there are people that want it done then I'll take you up on that offer.  I'd much rather it be up on your site where it can actually look nice.  My web skills are obviously nil lol.

[Sparky]

well, to add into the fuckery i have all the tg16 box scans for the fronts and backs.... i download these awhile ago i beleive from working designs site before it closed down
Anyway i was using them to make some custom inserts for myself before i went sticker crazy there are no water marks on them and there ok scans at 5x6 100dpi.
I have these individually or stuffed/zipped (35mb) if anyone has a domain to hold these for downloading.

just throwing that out there....

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[RoyVegas]

I wouldn't mind getting a copy of them Sparky (If you don't mind).  I have no clue how I can put them on my site but I'll give it a try.  I'll send you a PM.

[mrhaboobi]

i believe i still might also have that zip of images, but would have to find them.. Roy i lke the site, keen to help as much as i can and go through my gear as well..

now wouldnt it all kill us if there were magical chase variations ;)

[mrhaboobi]

Also a question, did you get around to seperating the French/candaian  and US boxes and manauls out?  I know i have a jackie chan that also has french instructions..   plus a few others..

[RoyVegas]

i believe i still might also have that zip of images, but would have to find them.. Roy i lke the site, keen to help as much as i can and go through my gear as well..

Helps never turned down and always appreciated.

Also a question, did you get around to seperating the French/candaian  and US boxes and manauls out?

I sure did take out all the pics with French/Canadian boxes and manuals.  I really hadn't paid that close attention to that when I took the pics the first time.  All of the pics up now are the US versions.

[mrhaboobi]

id be keen to know what you found out about the french / Candadian stuff.. i think its useful to have perhaps in an additional section?

[RoyVegas]

id be keen to know what you found out about the french / Candadian stuff.. i think its useful to have perhaps in an additional section?

I can't say that I really found anything out about the French/Canadian stuff yet.  I've mainly been focused on the U.S. stuff.  I don't really have enough of it to really add an additional section right now.