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NEC TG-16/TE/TurboDuo => TG-16/TE/TurboDuo Discussion => Topic started by: Pingu on September 20, 2005, 07:36:47 PM
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I was too lazy to pull out my old megadrive to test a third party cart for megadrive. Heck my laseractive is hooked up, might as well just change the expansion pack and try.
*Fizzle*
Well, now it won't work (just glad the PCE pack wasn't in it), smells bad as well. :(
Not wanting to throw myself on the floor and wail about my own stupidity just yet I wonder if anyone of you out there has any documentation on the machine.
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I was too lazy to pull out my old megadrive to test a third party cart for megadrive. Heck my laseractive is hooked up, might as well just change the expansion pack and try.
*Fizzle*
Well, now it won't work (just glad the PCE pack wasn't in it), smells bad as well. :(
Not wanting to throw myself on the floor and wail about my own stupidity just yet I wonder if anyone of you out there has any documentation on the machine.
Did you use a step up/step down transformer? I'm assuming you're living in the united states, correct?
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Nah I'm living in Sweden and I did use a step down transformer, a big one, 0,5KW so there shouldn't be any load problems. There was this little button on the cart called reset that I depressed, big misstake. The manual being written in Korean didn't make it that much better either. :(
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There was this little button on the cart called reset that I depressed, big misstake.(
What kind of cartridge was it? Was it a SMS/MarkIII adapter? I know those have a blue reset button.
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A Korean cartridge called megamate, a kind of ROM cartridge.
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The us pak for Sgea will play Mega Drive carts,but not Mega CD games,unless you switch the bios,which you have in your hands.
The US sega pak is cheap on ebay,and pops up often.You can use it on any model laseractive,even the Japanese NEC issued laseractive.
Good Luck.
Laseractive sucks!
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The us pak for Sgea will play Mega Drive carts,but not Mega CD games,unless you switch the bios,which you have in your hands.
The US sega pak is cheap on ebay,and pops up often.You can use it on any model laseractive,even the Japanese NEC issued laseractive.
Good Luck.
Err, yes and? I have both a genny pack and a megadrive pack as well as a pc engine one.
Laseractive sucks!
Go back to your little tg16 and your little cards, I can use hue cards, cd-rom2 and ld-rom2. :x
Well, I've dissasembled my unit, the laser is dead and apparently some board is also shot. Gritting my teeth and buying a new unit and now I'll have two genny packs, sigh. Will probably change the region setting and burn a new rom for it so I can use it for my European games instead.
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I am a heavy collector of laserdisc,and players,I can give you solid assurence that laser active players suck.They have the lowest laserdisc spec picturewise,and about the only thing that saves the audio is digital out,but no AC-3 so who cares.Its a low end LD player that can play Duo/Sega games if you swap a pak out.O and did I mettion its prone to electronic problems liek frying paks,haveing the power board blow,the laser eye dying after 300 hours of use on many many laseractive owners?All thi sand much more for only $500.00 ebay bucks!!!
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I have already stated all this on the other laseractive post on these forums,you should look it up.Sorry it died,but thats what the laseractive does,gamble gamble gamble DIE!!!!
They were not built to last by any means.Even the NEC clone player dies fast on low milage.
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Also what will you do when the LD-rom games die of laser rot?I have come accross alot that had heavy speckling as it is,which is why I stear clear of Laseractive.Its not worth the cash your blowing,even if the deck looks cool.
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http://pcenginefx.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=817
There ya go.
Also long ago Keranu and Stevek666 asked me about Laseractive,I pretty much told them the same thing.
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Whoa, a quadruple post. :shock:
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http://www.shacknews.com/extras/lncex/lncex7.x
quote from this review/preview
"But alas, the LaserActive wasn't meant to be. There were a handful of games released for it in both formats, and in Japan there was an additional pack released that let you connect it to your PC, but this one was pretty much dead in the water. The fact that a Sega Genesis + SegaCD cost less than the price of the Sega expansion alone didn't help things, but also standing in its way were reviews that said it wasn't even a particularly good laserdisc player to begin with. And since that was already a niche market...well, you can put the rest together yourself. "
wasn't even a particularly good laserdisc player to begin with,begin with,begin with,begin with........echo sounds here....
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BTW the standard useage life of a laserdisc player that is well kept should be 7000-12,000 hours of play.Sad the Laseractive doesnt begin to scratch 1000 for most owners before it breaks down.
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I did not buy my laseractive to play my laserdiscs (save the laseractive ones) and therefore I don't really care about it "being a waste of money" and "utter crap". It is a fun machine that I find incredibly versatile. I like it, you don't. That's all there is to it.
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a fun machine that breaks down on everyone.Sucks.And there are not many of the supposed fun games you talk about,unless you like rail shooters and over budgeted cg games that are really basic.The only thing I ever wanted to see on it was the JB Harold Murder club sequel,and the Myst prototype run.Its a collectable,but not worth the cash spent.Too many problems with the hardware,as you have just pointed out by stating yours died.For the cash spent you could end up with a couple reliable Duo-Rs,or Briefcase systems,and a Sega/Mega CD combo easy.But whatever floats your boat.How many laseractive decks are you willing to put cash out on?I will admit,long ago I had wanted one,untill I was offered 2 barly working units,then I reserched it a bit,and learned of all the breakdown problems it has,and how its very unrepairable for the most part,and that Pioneer wont touch the thing repair wise,even though they repair about any other LD player still.I was basically told by a Pioneer repair tech that if I get one,consider myself lucky if it works,and when it dies,to consider myself lucky too,and not buy another one.Its a catch 22 gaming system.If you lived in the US,you could get one easy,they go cheap on ebay,under 200 bucks,but shipping outside the US will kill you,and probably the player too.There is a ton of them floating in the Texas area,as the main distribution of them happened in Dallas early on.Id get them to sell on ebay,but Id have to do as is,because of how the shipping would prob kill the player or cause it problems.
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Well I happen to like some of those over budgeted cg games at least, some of those rail shooters I could do without though.
What I did state was that it died because I used a third party megadrive cartridge, that's what messed it up.
I've yet to have any problems with a laseractive and I am getting a new one. I might get your opinon later on though if I do experience the problems you are talking about, perhaps I've been lucky. Perhaps I'll stay lucky (, if I keep unofficial products away :p).