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Title: Duo-RX rarity and price
Post by: richc on February 16, 2015, 06:03:21 PM
Sorry if this has been asked before, but how rare is the Duo-RX? Also, is about $500+ shipping the normal rate? Looking at getting one next month and been out of the loop for a few years. Looks like all the ebay sellers are about the same, didn't know if thats the going rate or if they are charging an arm and a leg.
Title: Re: Duo-RX rarity and price
Post by: Opethian on February 17, 2015, 02:11:51 AM
I wouldn't say they are rare but the premium you are going to pay for the RX pad isn't worth it. Id settle for a DUO-R if you have to have a boxed one.
Title: Re: Duo-RX rarity and price
Post by: Necromancer on February 17, 2015, 02:16:23 AM
I'm sure it's the rarest of the three PCE Duo versions, but it's not worth $500. That's ebay BIN pricing for boxed systems, available all day every day; actual sold prices are more in the $300-400 range, with the higher priced ones being boxed, bundled with games, and/or with new lenses and rgb mods.
I suggest you try getting a regular Duo or Duo-R from local guys like Turbokon or Keith. Functionally there's no substantive difference, and you'll get a good deal on a system you know has been fixed up right. You'll miss out on the RX's six button controller, but you're better off with a Avenue 6 anyway.
Title: Re: Duo-RX rarity and price
Post by: esteban on February 17, 2015, 02:41:37 AM
DUO-G.
Title: Re: Duo-RX rarity and price
Post by: SignOfZeta on February 17, 2015, 02:52:36 AM
$500 is a lot.
Title: Re: Duo-RX rarity and price
Post by: richc on February 17, 2015, 03:49:10 AM
That's what I was thinking, I'll keep searching around, but I do want a rx- I decided if I'm gonna come back I'm gonna come back hard. Thanks everyone!
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Title: Re: Duo-RX rarity and price
Post by: pixeljunkie on February 17, 2015, 05:36:09 AM
yahoo japan is a better place to look for one
Title: Re: Duo-RX rarity and price
Post by: Medic_wheat on February 17, 2015, 05:49:41 AM
Check out this video on YouTube:
I am just saying is all
Title: Re: Duo-RX rarity and price
Post by: BlueBMW on February 17, 2015, 05:50:09 AM
Why the RX? Is it the pad? The color scheme? I'm just curious. I've got an RX and Im pretty indifferent to using it or any other system. The OG Duos look better in my opinion, and that headphones jack!
Title: Re: Duo-RX rarity and price
Post by: shawnji on February 17, 2015, 06:02:00 AM
I just recently bought a Duo-R complete for $160 (no box), so I'd suggest going that route. $500 for an RX seems way high to me, even boxed. I'd pay $300-$350 at most and it'd have to be in really great shape.
Title: Re: Duo-RX rarity and price
Post by: rcantor77 on February 17, 2015, 10:01:48 AM
The definitely seems alot... I won't tell you what I paid for my minty boxed RX then.
I too prefer the orignal Duo for looks but for the price you are better off with a Duo-R.
Title: Re: Duo-RX rarity and price
Post by: BigusSchmuck on February 17, 2015, 03:47:47 PM
You know, if the RX had a built in arcade card (like I thought back in the day) it would be almost worth it. But seriously though, stick to a Duo-R. You won't regret it.
Title: Re: Duo-RX rarity and price
Post by: rcantor77 on February 18, 2015, 03:09:33 AM
Yeah, when it came out I always hoped it supported SuperGrafx games (although ArcadeCD games you would think would make more sense)
But no, just a 6-button pad instead... :(
Title: Duo-RX rarity and price
Post by: SignOfZeta on February 18, 2015, 03:16:58 AM
When it came out there hadn't been a single SGX release for, what, three or four years? Really, even the regular PCE releases were really slowing down. It was just a budget Duo, much like the "model 2" versions of SNES, SMS, or almost every other system ever made.
Title: Re: Duo-RX rarity and price
Post by: Dicer on February 18, 2015, 03:51:37 AM
SGX support wouldn't have been cost effective at all, would have been awesome though...
Built in ACD support should have been a no-brainer though.
Not really seeing why you think that and extra 2MB of RAM and a custom mapper would have been so much cheaper than 64KB of RAM and a 2nd VDC chip!
But really, as was pointed-out ... it was NEC's chance to get some attention for releasing a cheap hardware-refresh just before the Playstation/Saturn/PC-FX came out.
Cost was absolutely everything with the Duo-RX, and being able to play all the popular existing games ... thus putting in a 6-button controller for the fighting-game crowd.
Title: Re: Duo-RX rarity and price
Post by: Dicer on February 18, 2015, 07:29:31 AM
SGX support wouldn't have been cost effective at all, would have been awesome though...
Built in ACD support should have been a no-brainer though.
Not really seeing why you think that and extra 2MB of RAM and a custom mapper would have been so much cheaper than 64KB of RAM and a 2nd VDC chip!
But really, as was pointed-out ... it was NEC's chance to get some attention for releasing a cheap hardware-refresh just before the Playstation/Saturn/PC-FX came out.
Cost was absolutely everything with the Duo-RX, and being able to play all the popular existing games ... thus putting in a 6-button controller for the fighting-game crowd.
Simply based on direction of software at the time, SGX was all but dead...adding that bit of hardware would have been a waste, had the SGX gained more traction then it would have been a decision to make at that time.
I do like the OG duo, but I think I prefer my Duo-R's shape just a bit more, it's more...aero-dynamic :dance:
Title: Duo-RX rarity and price
Post by: SignOfZeta on February 18, 2015, 08:56:38 AM
The SGX wasn't all but dead, it was totally %100 dead dead dead. All SGX games were released between 89 and 91. The Duo RX didn't come out until...what, 93, 94?
It's fair to say that the AC was all but dead by then. The PCE itself was all but dead.
Title: Re: Duo-RX rarity and price
Post by: Necromancer on February 18, 2015, 09:17:39 AM
It's fair to say that the AC was all but dead by then.
Only if you say the Arcade Card was still born and never lived at all. Only three of the dozen AC games came out between the AC's release (March '94) and the RX release (June '94), and a similar ratio is found in release dates of AC enhanced SCD games.
Title: Re: Duo-RX rarity and price
Post by: esteban on February 18, 2015, 10:25:50 AM
It's fair to say that the AC was all but dead by then.
Only if you say the Arcade Card was still born and never lived at all. Only three of the dozen AC games came out between the AC's release (March '94) and the RX release (June '94), and a similar ratio is found in release dates of AC enhanced SCD games.
Obviously, still a work in progress, but this might help out the ACD timeline:
Title: Re: Duo-RX rarity and price
Post by: shubibiman on February 18, 2015, 06:25:58 PM
Unfortunately, the price of the Duo-RX has been sky-rocketting of late.
A new RX was sold 70 000 yens on Yahoo Auction a couple of weeks ago. :|
Title: Re: Duo-RX rarity and price
Post by: richc on February 19, 2015, 01:50:58 AM
Yeah I checked yaj and they are expensive there too. Checking sold ones on eBay are all over the place. Can't believe I missed one last month fully modded for 399.
Title: Re: Duo-RX rarity and price
Post by: elmer on February 19, 2015, 02:50:02 AM
Unfortunately, the price of the Duo-RX has been sky-rocketting of late.
A new RX was sold 70 000 yens on Yahoo Auction a couple of weeks ago. :|
Definitely a sign that retro-gaming is "cool" at the moment. I expect that it will pass in a year or two, just like every fad.
But still ... as horrible as that price is, a $700 new RX is IMHO a better deal than the $1,600 that I saw someone pay for a used MSX Turbo R on eBay last week!
Title: Re: Duo-RX rarity and price
Post by: geise on February 19, 2015, 02:19:42 PM
Why the RX? Is it the pad? The color scheme? I'm just curious. I've got an RX and Im pretty indifferent to using it or any other system. The OG Duos look better in my opinion, and that headphones jack!
There's no headphone jack on an RX?
Title: Re: Duo-RX rarity and price
Post by: pulstar on February 19, 2015, 09:17:29 PM
On the original Duo's have headphone jacks. It was removed on the Duo-R and Duo-RX.