Last week's results for best homebrew game:
#1 - Atlantean (9 votes)
#2 - Reflectron (5 votes)
#3 - Cleopatra's Curse -Jesse Jaeger (4 votes)
Honorable Mentions- Mysterious Song, FX Unit Yuki, Space Ava 201, Vex, Hysteria, IMPLODE, and Insanity
NOW LET'S VOTE FOR THE BEST MASCOT PLATFORMER GAME ON TURBOGRAFX!!!
Games can only win one category, however the middle row (best gfx/soundtrack,story, and overall) is a free for all!!
NOTE: These votes are compiled from PCE Software Bible Forums ,fb, and here*
RULES ON VOTING:
These vote categories include HuCard, CD, SCD, ACD, and Supergrafx!!!
Voting ends next Monday at 10AM CST -
Hello. Today I received my Hyperkin Retron GX and wanted to share my thoughts, because I know there has been a ton of bad press for the device.
First, about me. Like most of us (I suspect) I have had a long love hate relationship with Hyperkin. I've owned a lot of their consoles and controllers over the years. Some good, some bad, most meh... okay.
I've also owned an Analogue Duo, and an OG TG16.
So far I love the Retron GX, it is everything I was hoping for it to be: a TG16/PCE version of the Retron 77. Yes, this dumps the rom like a Retron 5, software emulation.
So, to be fair I haven't played much yet, but I tried out 16 TG16 games and 3 PCE games (my entire collection) and they all worked. I share this because if you go on YouTube there's a lot of video hate for the early pre-release version.
The 16 Turbografx 16 games & 3 PC Engine games I tested (all loaded first time except for Bonk's Revenge, which I had to reinsert them it fires right up:
Air Zonk
Alien Crush
Blazing Lazers
Bloody Wolf
Bomberman
Bonk's Adventure
Bonk's Revenge
Dragon's Curse
Dungeon Explorer
Galaga 90
Legendary Axe
Neutopia
Ninja Spirit
Splatter house
Vigilante
World Class Baseball
Ninja Gaiden
Ninja Warriors
Shinobi
I hope Hyperkin doesn't kill this off.
It does load a little slow, that is one knock. It's like ColecoVision bios screen levels of loading.
I collect the Hue Cards, not the CD games so this is perfect for me. I know most of the best games are on the CD. Whatever.
We have our winner for Most Unique Experience in a Retro Game:
🥇- Seaman - 42 votes
🥈- Rez - 20 votes
🥉- LSD Dream Emulator - 18 votes
🏵️ - Kero Kero King - 10 votes
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!!!!PLEASE READ!!!!
RULES ON VOTING:
A game's votes will come from the comment with the highest number of upvotes. I will tally all of the responses and upvotes under each game's "comment thread" and use that to count the votes.
Spill-over comments of the same game will not be counted.
What this means is if you want to nominate a game and see someone else has already nominated it, reply to their comment so that it counts! All upvotes in that comment thread, including the ones you get, will be counted towards the tally.
Thank you!
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Games cannot win Multiple Categories, except for the Greatest of All Time! This may be superseded if a version of the game differs dramatically from a past winner.
Voting ends at 11am est tomorrow.
Today’s vote: Which Retro Game has the Best Box Art? Please include the console/system/pc the box art was made for
Comment your choice and the most upvoted game comment thread will win the spot! So, engage in the discourse and argue well for your choice!
An update and a question for you guys.
The update : I am struggling with the cd music. Lots of bugs, timing & memory issues. The rest seems to work fine. Hucards play fine, but that's not the point of the device. CD games play fine without the CD tracks but lots of instability when I add the music. I am using the equivalent of a pico 2 to run the board but I am thinking I might need to use an FPGA instead.
The question : On the mono vs stereo output, do you think you would actually hear the difference (as of today, playing cd games from the hucard connector limits the sound output to mono)? On what kind of setup do you play your original consoles ? I play them on a CRT with integrated speakers (also called .. a TV lol). There is a trick that would theoretically allow to get stereo out of the hucard, but at the cost of some quality loss, so I'm wondering how important is stereo & sound fidelity in your playing experience today.
Thanks for your feedbacks.
Hello! I’m kind of new to cleaning retro game cards, this one was in a sleeve and the sleeve has deteriorated a bit over time and left some residue. There’s also a sticker on it I would like to remove. Any help on how to do this without ruining the cartridge would be appreciated!
Found a unicorn yesterday! A working TG16 with FOUR controllers and a TurboTap at a Value Village (thrift store)
My old console died so I had been using the Retron GX but it's so nice to be back on the CRT!
Been loving getting replica controllers and using emulators to get a close to authentic feeling experience to those old consoles. The TurboGrafx is awesome at what it does feels like a "12" bit game console even tho I know that's not correct. I might even get 3 more controllers for 5 player Dungeon Master.
Im trying to finish the none jewel case master set and only one im getting conflicting information on is ninja spirit wether it was in a jewel or a plastic tray
I am working on a Hucard that would run CD games on a CD-equiped console (i.e. DUO, DUO-R, Super CDROM2, IFU-30..).
As of this morning I can boot and partially run games. Without any modification on the console : that's my #1 goal - no console mod.
The story behind it : big fan of the Nec consoles, after creating the Chronos Project for the PC Engine Mini, I got my dream console, the DUO, and couldn't play any CD-R burnt game. So I went on a mission to learn electronics and hardware and started a project to build a true Optical Unit Emulator, one that wouldn't require any soldering or destructive mod on the console, only to unplug the 3 connectors of the optical block and plug the device instead. I made excellent progress, but fried one of the console's chip during the dev tests (the RF amp - CXA1081) ... and didn't have a choice at that point but to have cd games launched through the Hucard slot.
So here we are. To my knowledge such a solution doesn't exist yet - one that would play CD games from a Hucard, on DUO type consoles, so I would have to make one :) . Known future limitations so far:
- sound will be limited to mono, as stereo has to come from the cd player
- some games will not be compatible with my solution, but at this point I haven't established yet which ones. I don't expect that number to be high, though.
So that's my summer projects. Stay tuned for updates. This is a personal research & fun project.
I’m kinda partial to Neo Geo and it’s always going to be one of my fave consoles of all time, especially the EPIC Metal Slug series.
I recently got into TurboGrafx-16 (I also never owned it as a kid like I did with Neo Geo CD, so picked one up not too long and while it’s no Neo Geo (and slightly older as well), it’s definitely got some great titles and this is one of them. Anyone else dig this game?
I stalked a scalper on eBay, he had the same listing up for about two years and originally had it listed for 500 bucks. I got it for less than it would’ve cost from Analogue after shipping. I messaged him every couple of months and let him know it was still available on analogue’s site. He caved and I finally got one. I got a hand full of games on the way from a trusted seller in Japan including, Devils Crush, VALIS 2-4, Dragon Spirit, Space Harrier and Rastan Saga 2. Splatterhouse and Bomberman have been sitting on my shelf for a while so I’ll actually get to play them. Any suggestions? I’m only mildly familiar with the library as my sole experience with the TG16 was 30 years ago when I borrowed one from a friend.
Edit: also got Image Fight. Cant believe I forgot that one.
Lately, I've been working on a port of Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge to the Sega CD.
Yesterday then, somebody suggested I target the TurboGrafx CD next.
While I haven't yet written any engine code for it, I just got done with the resource converter so I thought people might appreciate it if I showed some comparisons between what a Sega CD and a potential TurboGrafx CD version look like.
I created my own SCUMM v5/v6 interpreter written in portable C89 and currently I'm adding v3 support as well so I'll eventually be able to port Zak McKracken and Loom to Sega CD (and the former of the two to TurboGrafx CD if things pan out, since you guys already got Loom on your system).
