At last...

Pyongyang

Today marks a bit of a retro milestone for me. Since my SNES days back in the early 90's, I would read the pacges of Super Play and assorted magazines with heavy Japanese-focused gaming, anime and general otaku-friendly coverage and always, although very happy with my SNES, find myself wishing I had a PC Engine.

I finally bought one a couple of days ago and it arrived today. A CoreGrafx console with 3 joypads, a multitap, stepdown transformer and 19 games landed on my desk this afternoon.

I felt I had to share this one with you lot, it means quite a lot to me to finally have one.

Keen to hear from other PC Engine fans and/or owners for any advice, tips and memories of this great console.

Cheers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqkrjrs6YlU

Josey Wales

I no next to nothing about the PC Engine. What media do the games come on? They don't look like discs and seem oddly shaped for carts.

Retr0gamer

They're HuCards. Basically the Rom chips are embedded in the plastic and they are slightly smaller than the size of a credit card.

7sr2z3fely84g5

this-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_Sjnjamk2E

Pyongyang

Indeed SF2:CE was one of the pinnacles of PCE gaming. Lovely stuff.

honkytonk52

happy days... you got a good bit of stuff with it...sweet

CiDeRmAn

Congrats, they are a cracking machine, I have the US one, very good indeed.

One thing though, you seem to have a mix of media and regions there, is there a convertor there? I cannot play jap games on the us machine and vice versa.

7sr2z3fely84g5

Yeah there was afaik,console goods have one in stock,at that price,its best to have a gawk on ebay - http://www.robwebb1.plus.com/pce/pce.htm

Pyongyang

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

One thing though, you seem to have a mix of media and regions there, is there a convertor there?

Nope, no convertor sadly. If memory serves correctly, Turbo Grafx CD's will play in a Duo/R/RX but not in an NTSC-J Super CD or Super CD 2 and vice versa.

Super Grafx cards, like the one I have, will only work in a Super Grafx, Duo, Duo-R or Duo-RX machine. End of.

Hu Cards will work on a Turbo Grafx with a convertor but Turbo Grafx Turbo Chips will not work on any PC Engine console (as far as I am aware).

All highly confusing.

Atavan-Halen

Love the PC Engines myself and will hopefully pick one up soon!

Very very nice purchase dude!

Azure_sky

Veronica Creamy Hood wrote: »

this-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_Sjnjamk2E

I've heard that despite not having the hyper fighting edition the PC engine's version of Champion edition is more faithful to the arcade than the SNES and Megadrive versions. I noticed even the PC Engine still doesn't have the retreating stance animations. That and no moon on Ryu's stage really annoyed me as a kid when I had it for the SNES.

ondafly

in case you felt like spending more money on PCengine HUs

Theres a good few for sale on ArcadeOtaku

http://forum.arcadeotaku.com/viewtopic.php?f=41&t=16584

Pyongyang

I registered but can't view that link...

Steve X2

I have about 10 HuCards that I'll be sticking up on adverts or up here to trade in about a week or so. Clearing out loads of my doubles at the moment.

You might be interested in a few of them.

Andrew76

I'll keep an eye out too, Pyongyang has me thinking about getting a few more games myself.

Steve X2

I'll might have a SUPER GRAFX up for sale as well at some stage. I have 2 and I've been meaning to dump one of them but its hard to say goodbye

Pyongyang

Nice! Keep us posted.

o1s1n

Pyongyang wrote: »

I registered but can't view that link...

You need to have made a post over on the Arcade Otaku forums before you can view the trading area. It's worth it, great place to get stuff.

Steve SI wrote: »

I'll might have a SUPER GRAFX up for sale as well at some stage. I have 2 and I've been meaning to dump one of them but its hard to say goodbye

Hah, the man with two of everything. Is that so you can view your consoles and games stereoscopically?

Might be interested in that myself.

Steve X2

o1s1n wrote: »

Hah, the man with two of everything. Is that so you can view your consoles and games stereoscopically?

Might be interested in that myself.

I'm not to bad lately. Just bought the one Candy Cab, but then got 3 NES's

Just don't ask how many 3DO's I have and we'll be ok :eek:

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ghostchant

I'm planning on picking up a CoreGrafx when in Tokyo next week, since they're small and relatively easy to transport. (Will be sticking with HuCard media because I'm a cartridge whore) Would be interested to hear what (moderately-priced) HuCard games are essentials.

Steve X2

ghostchant wrote: »

I'm planning on picking up a CoreGrafx when in Tokyo next week, since they're small and relatively easy to transport. (Will be sticking with HuCard media because I'm a cartridge whore) Would be interested to hear what (moderately-priced) HuCard games are essentials.

Darius Alpha is one (or two) to have

Goes for between 300 and 1000 euro, but think of it as an investment.

Pyongyang

<gentlemensagreement>If your selling any Hu Card or CD SHMUP's I call first dibs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!</gentlemensagreement>

Andrew76

Pyongyang wrote: »

<gentlemensagreement>If your selling any Hu Card or CD SHMUP's I call first dibs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!</gentlemensagreement>

If only such a thing existed. :pac: