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NEC TG-16/TE/TurboDuo => TG/PCE Repair/Mod Discussion => Topic started by: gtsamour on May 26, 2017, 09:52:57 AM
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My PCE white displaying either white (most of the times) or teal blue screen without a cart inserted.
When a cart, everdrive or arcade card is inserted everything seems to be working ok.
I'm a bit worried about the teal blue screen that I get sometimes without a cart inserted. Does it mean something is wrong with my console?
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If it ain't broke, fix it till it is!
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WTF? It's almost June 1st. You're two months late.
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Is this a PC Engine Duo R or something where you're expecting the system card screen to show up or a regular white PCE with no built in menu?
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If it ain't broke, fix it till it is!
LOL!!! that's a good one ;)
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It means nothing. The PC Engine just displays whatever code is in the video RAM as a color. It entirely depends on the make and model of the SRAM used as video RAM. The exact same thing happens with the NES and Famicom.
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Is this a PC Engine Duo R or something where you're expecting the system card screen to show up or a regular white PCE with no built in menu?
Its a white regular PCE, not expecting anything to show up without a card but a white screen. Its just that sometimes I get a light blue screen and I was wondering if thats an error color code of some kind. The console seems to be working fine though, everdrive, cds all ok.
Maybe I'm flipping the switch too fast, I noticed that if i turn it on, then back off and on again fast, a color screen shows up (light blue or green)...
It means nothing. The PC Engine just displays whatever code is in the video RAM as a color. It entirely depends on the make and model of the SRAM used as video RAM. The exact same thing happens with the NES and Famicom.
Thank you for the info, I appreciate it ;)
I got worried because I read somewhere that solid color screens are error codes.
So nothing to worry about right?
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Dude. No. It's fine. They all do this.