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NEC TG-16/TE/TurboDuo => TG/PCE Repair/Mod Discussion => Topic started by: MNKyDeth on April 09, 2015, 02:43:34 AM
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Not sure if this has been asked before, I prolly could have put forth a better effort of searching.
But, is it possible to increase the size of the backup ram on the console for save games? Mostly just curious.
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Lol, that would be pretty amazing to own a Duo for a group of games just for the backup ram space. But alas, I believe I am going to limit myself to the one console and just get the needed items I want for it so it does everything that I want.
And... since you mentioned the tennokoe bank cards. I see there is the card and the bank 2. I seems the bank 2 fits on the back of a console correct? So I would be more interested in just the card itself.
Now, since it is a card does that mean I can only use it for cd-rom based games? Or does it allow me to backup my backup storage?
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Uhg, should have asked this in the last post but it was an after thought.
That is a PCE card so I would need to mod my US Duo to use it without issues correct?
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Yep, you'd need a region mod of some sort to use it.
It provides 3 memory banks plus has the option to swap the system's save ram with one of its banks...
It has four banks, ya f*ckin' noob!
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I might hold off for that then. The "Everdrive 2"... I was planning on buying an everdrive at some point so I would not need to swap out my HuCards.
I have a few extra 32Gig sdcards laying around here somewhere....
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Just FYI TurboED does not work with Tennokoe so you can't use it to swap memory out of backup RAM. You still need a physical Tennokoe PCE card (with chopsado, region modded TG-16 or Duo, or Japanese console) to use it to swap memory banks.
I have a few 8K SRAM chips that I've been meaning to hack in so I could have multiple banks inside. It would have to be manually switched but it would eliminate running out of space and needing Tennokoe or a System card to access the RAM and delete old saves.