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NEC TG-16/TE/TurboDuo => TG-16/TE/TurboDuo Discussion => Topic started by: Supremo_Lagarto on January 06, 2012, 12:48:02 PM
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http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Turbografx%2016
Someone literally copy pasted the specifications for the Sega Master System from Wikipedia directly into the Urban Dictionary article.
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They could've at least used the N-word a few more times... urban dictionary my ass.
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The best selling game was Bonk's Adventure which spawned 2 sequels and weren't great. The good games on the system were all SHMUPs like Blazing Lasers, and R-Type. The reason why it looked inferior to Sega Genesis was the 8-bit CPU. It was the first console to use CD format in 1991.
I SO ROFLMAOLOL'd
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Legendary Axe 1/2 were an Alter Beast clones.
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Ah, thank goodness for the information age so we can sift through bad information all day and never find anything accurate or true.
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I thought that Juoki Hu and CD were the PC Engine's two Altered Beast clones. :wink:
The same author wrote an entry for the Playstation 4, complete with specs.
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I second Paul's assessment:
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I second Paul's assessment:
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That would make it
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Man, that's so crap I can't even give it a face palm. The whole article is a joke and some assclown out there is going to take it as gospel. :roll: Plus, to boot, when I see the word "Shmup" in an informational article, I just can't take it serious.
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Man, that's so crap I can't even give it a face palm. The whole article is a joke and some assclown out there is going to take it as gospel. :roll: Plus, to boot, when I see the word "Shmup" in an informational article, I just can't take it serious.
That's just Urban Dictionary. The Wikipedia page for TurboGrafx-16 has a section titled "Limitations in the 16-bit era", but the Genesis and SNES wikis don't.
The SNES wiki does have this as the second sentence of the second paragraph though:
The console introduced advanced graphics and sound capabilities compared with other consoles at the time.
While the TurboGrafx-16 wiki ends the intro with this sentence:
In 2009, the TurboGrafx-16 was ranked as the 13th greatest video game console of all time by IGN, citing a lack of third party support and the absence of a second controller port, and calling the console "straight-up underpowered".[4]
Both the SNES and Genesis wikis mention ongoing homebrew towards the end of their intros, making it sound as though there is still hardcore interest in them to this day. The TurboGrafx-16 wiki doesn't mention homebrew at all, even though it has the strongest homebrew production of the three consoles. I don't even know of any real homebrew SNES games.
It wouldn't seem so bad if they didn't stop people from trying to make the wiki sound somewhat neutral instead of negative and keeping all out all the extra info about the TG-16, while the other 16-bit wikis are overflowing with superfluous info.
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The TurboGrafx-16 wiki doesn't mention homebrew at all, even though it has the strongest homebrew production of the three consoles. I don't even know of any real homebrew SNES games.
Are you crazy dude? The Sega Genesis has more released homebrew games than the PCE. There is at least one SNES homebrew game in existence ( i saw it at the local shop and passed on it ), and the NES even has us beat.
We're a piddly trainwreck. It'll change soon, but we aren't better yet!
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While the TurboGrafx-16 wiki ends the intro with this sentence:
and calling the console "straight-up underpowered".[4]
I'VE ROFLOL'd HARDCAW!
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IGN stands for IGNorance!!!
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Are you crazy dude? The Sega Genesis has more released homebrew games than the PCE. There is at least one SNES homebrew game in existence ( i saw it at the local shop and passed on it ), and the NES even has us beat.
We're a piddly trainwreck. It'll change soon, but we aren't better yet!
I'll give you the NES (though many of those are about as advanced as Hump Ball), but what're all the Genny and SNES homebrew games? My ignorant ass needs some schoolin', as the only ones that I'm aware of are Pier Solar, some multiplayer fighting game on the SNES, and Frog Feast (ported to f'n everything).
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There's Legend of Wukong (though this may not technically count since it was just previously unreleased), Star Odyssey, Beggar Prince (Does this count too?), and I thought some other StupidFighter Team game. Maybe I am viewing it as "homebrew/newly released crap".
I should go back to the localshop and see if they still have that SNES game. I blew it off because its the SNES, and wasn't an RPG. The SNES may not have us beat, but the Genesis has more going on... for now. Even though the quality of the releases from SFT isn't that good (Their clamshell cases are frigging pathetic and break easy. It's like Family Dollar quality).
The Genesis has a better dev environment (the C support for the genesis doesn't suck!). I don't know about the community, but I'll assume it's a bunch of egotripping crabasses like every other dev community.
Someone who is Wikifriendly should add a turbob section.
As it stands, Aetherbyte and Frozen Utopia should be changing things to where PCE is the best homebrew scene for old consoles. Maybe Mindrec will re-form (with BT, not just Fragmare), and start doing stuff again.
Maybe Covell will come back and do some stuff. Maybe all the other nonsense floating around will get restarted/finished. There are a handful of people that I'd really like to know what happened to. DamageX especially.
The MSX will forever have us pummeled though. Even the Amigatards envy the MSX scene.
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SFT stuff doesn't count (except Zaku), as translating old Chinese games isn't the same as making an entirely new game.
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Well, I loosely count SFT anyways because the guys a tool.
but, if you don't count those games, we basically win.
MSX still pummels us though. Jerks.
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Well, I loosely count SFT anyways because the guys a tool.
but, if you don't count those games, we basically win.
MSX still pummels us though. Jerks.
Yeah, I love what SFT is doing and original rom creations like Tongueman's Logic are awesome, but I think that the physically published Turbo games are a big deal, in regards to what those wiki lines were implying. Implode, Meteor Blaster and Insanity aren't generic shovelware like Frog Feast. They reflect a passion for their console.
The Super Fighter Team releases do reflect the current interest in the Mega Drive, but not the same way as somethig built from scratch, even if it's based on a classic game. The SFT MD games were built from scratch back when the MD was still current.
Pier Solar is epic and a big deal, but Mindrec, Aetherbyte and Frozen Utopia/Eponasoft all being separate enities that are publishing games really represents the community aspect of the Turbo scene.
I just don't think that the Turbo should not get a mention of a current homebrew scene when the SNES and Genesis wikis do as part of glorifying them. But like I was saying, it's all part of the negative slant of the Turbo wiki.
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Monorisu will beat em all :)