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Lovely system and I'm glad I own a Turbo Duo. Even the limited library we got in the US still had plenty of great games to play.
I picked up an RGB modded CoreGrafx II a few months ago along with a turbo everdrive.
Legendary Axe 2 is one of the best action platformers I've played. Splatterhouse is great too.
Hope to get an RGB modded Turbo Duo in the future.
I'm happy to see it, but yeesh they don't seem to be paying any attention whatsoever to properly translating the names.
Is doujindance selling them again? I thought about it, but Ootake seems to work well enough I don't want one more piece of expensive hardware to have to ship when I move.
Gotta love localization...
I have never played it so I have to ask what is wrong with the generic names of the NPCs?
Also a translation project for Legend of Xanadu I and II and Anearth Fantasy Stories.
There's a certain look to hu card games that no other system has. You can sometimes see Genesis looking games on the SNES and vice versa, but there's just a certain...look to base TG16 games that immediately denote that platform. Something in how it renders color maybe? I don't know.
I think one of the single most impressive games that have come from the PC Engine is Sapphire. It is a shmup from Red, the same people who made Gates/Lords of Thunder. The graphics absolutely blow my fucking mind.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFhbZrUFzo8
The PCE version is better than the PC98, SFC and X68k versions
It's also dirt cheap (paid 11$ shipped for mine 3 months ago)
It's very different. Basically, you have the "original PC versions" of Emerald Dragon, all of which are fairly similar, with the FM TOWNS version being the highest fidelity of all of them, and the X68000 version coming in 2nd. Then you have the "remake versions," which are the Super Famicom and PC Engine CD versions. These made several major adjustments, redid the graphics and music, redid the entire story presentation, etc.
I personally think that the PCE CD version is the sweet spot for the game. It retains a mostly seamless world (one of the cooler things about the game considering when it came out), but has VA and great visuals. The Super Famicom version is the only one currently available in English, and it's good, but the balance is wrecked by the addition of the dragon transformation system in battles, and the infinite item usage.
Were I to recommend the game to someone who can understand Japanese, it'd be in this order:
PCE CD > FM TOWNS > X68000 > SFC > all others
Note that my very first experience with the game was with the MSX version, which I don't recommend to anyone.
If you're using Ootake, you should consider switching to Mednafen. It's much better.
Most of the names in Emerald Dragon are Zoroastrian in origin. Just looking at their example shots, I see things like "Ulwan" which should be Urvan, and I see "Dulgwant" which should be Draugwand. I don't actually see very many names there that are correct.
How much better? Ootake saves games to my harddrive for me. : p
I know OP is focusing on the RPG and more cutting edge stuff, but considering just the games for this, I'm shocked it did so poorly. Bonk and Air Zonk alone are as good as any of the best Genesis or SNES titles not called Mario, Sonic, or FF.
I know OP is focusing on the RPG and more cutting edge stuff, but considering just the games for this, I'm shocked it did so poorly. Bonk and Air Zonk alone are as good as any of the best Genesis or SNES titles not called Mario, Sonic, or FF.
The TG-16 was amazing. Air Zonk omg. Never got into the cd addons.
In addition to having its intro removed instead of translated, "PC Denjin's" vulgar humor was seriously toned down for "Air Zonk". The computer brain encased in glass shown at the start of each stage was a sentient pile of manure, the fusion with the cow character would cause Zonk to grow breasts and shoot them at enemies instead of bottles of milk from his hands.
The PC Engine is far more common in Europe (especially France) than in the US since it was officially distributed for far longer since they were just giving us the japanese release with a piece of white paper thrown in wih basic instructions in frenchI myself, haven't never played any pc-engine games, but the awesome looking hardware and the games really interest me. Shame it's so expensive nowadays and I'd have to import it from the US or Japan.
When I was younger, my bro and I traded in our Sega Genesis to a funcoland to get this, with a few games. I loved it. I was extremely lucky, too, as a local game rental shop actually had games for it available. Every time we would rent a game, the clerk was always like, "now, this is for the TURBO..um...GRAFFIX 16, yea, are you sure you want this?" Since apparently lots of people accidentally rented them, thinking they were SNES or Genesis games. I remember a shoot em up of sorts, with a red or yellow ship. That game was boss. I loved that system, and I walls wanted the turboduo so I could take it all with me.
Edit- jut realized turbografix beat the Switch for console gaming on the go by like 20 years
I love the 90's anime style, so this console always fascinated me
When Anime Characters still had noses.
I've never seen one of these before, but I feel like I must have one now. LOLI had one of these as well, PC-Engine LT:
I was well chuffed with it. Still got it.
I've never seen one of these before, but I feel like I must have one now. LOL
This thread makes me feel ancient.
For all the non Japanese readers/speakers out there a translation project has appeared for Emerald Dragon.
https://twitter.com/NightWolve1975/status/555595460602527745
the PC Engine audibly has more semblance to the NES more than the Genesis or SNES
phenomenal chiptune music that's underappreciated
the PC Engine audibly has more semblance to the NES more than the Genesis or SNES
phenomenal chiptune music that's underappreciated
^ Sega Master System had cards too, but with almost cripplingly low storage capacity (32KB).
I've never seen one of these before, but I feel like I must have one now. LOL
How cow, this is incredible. A precursor to the GBA SP! Like the other gaffer said, i must have oneI had one of these as well, PC-Engine LT:
I was well chuffed with it. Still got it.
Just get an Interface Unit (suitcase) with a CD-Rom2 drive. The Core RGB output will also output the CD games. (i will be cheaper in the end)
Is doujindance selling them again? I thought about it, but Ootake seems to work well enough I don't want one more piece of expensive hardware to have to ship when I move.
I'll keep my eyes peeled, but they seem pretty pricey. I got the CoreGrafx II at a really good price, since it only came with the console and the SCART cable.
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I know OP is focusing on the RPG and more cutting edge stuff, but considering just the games for this, I'm shocked it did so poorly. Bonk and Air Zonk alone are as good as any of the best Genesis or SNES titles not called Mario, Sonic, or FF.