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Title: The ultimate DUO
Post by: shubibiman on February 08, 2008, 08:23:39 PM
You may know that many french are crazy about the PC Engine, here is an illustration of this statement :

http://kotomiblog.blogspot.com/

The ultimate RGB modded DUO, that can read both PC Engine and Turbografx Hucards.
This was an idea of a member of our french forums, Boby Jack, and was designed by Kotomi, a guy who tunes video gme systems.

Enjoy :P
Title: Re: The ultimate DUO
Post by: nat on February 08, 2008, 08:25:44 PM
Damn, that's pretty awesome. Thanks for posting.
Title: Re: The ultimate DUO
Post by: Keranu on February 08, 2008, 08:30:51 PM
That's pretty damn awesome looking.
Title: Re: The ultimate DUO
Post by: Turbo D on February 08, 2008, 08:33:30 PM
That is very good looking!  :clap:
Title: Re: The ultimate DUO
Post by: Tatsujin on February 09, 2008, 12:02:00 AM
That is pretty damn very awesome good looking.
Title: Re: The ultimate DUO
Post by: WoodyXP on February 09, 2008, 12:47:56 AM
Damn that is awesome.. looks very good.  8)
Title: Re: The ultimate DUO
Post by: SignOfZeta on February 09, 2008, 02:15:11 AM
Cool!

The Famicom built into a NES cart is pretty cool also.
Title: Re: The ultimate DUO
Post by: MurderDate on February 09, 2008, 02:17:35 AM
the PCE looks worlds better dressed up with a little bit of color !
Title: Re: The ultimate DUO
Post by: ceti alpha on February 09, 2008, 04:03:05 AM
Wow! I was just thinking last night what the US Duo would look like dressed up in white. This, however, takes that thought to a whole new level. I love it! He even went to the extent of dressing up the controllers. It looks fantastic.  :clap:

Edit: Duh, I just noticed the coolest feature of this Duo - the dual HuCARD slot. lol. I immediately watched the video and didn't notice the two separate slots. That is absolutely phenomenal.
Title: Re: The ultimate DUO
Post by: Game and Watch Kirby on February 09, 2008, 04:18:22 AM
Now, that looks pretty nifty! That's such a beautiful color of white for it, also :P.

Below, there was also a "Fami-cart", a switcher cable for the Mega Drive, a "Nintendo Nestation", and an "SNES Pete Rock" to be noted of.

Kotomi had done a great job with all the moderations he's/she's done.
Title: Re: The ultimate DUO
Post by: shubibiman on February 09, 2008, 06:35:11 AM
Edit: Duh, I just noticed the coolest feature of this Duo - the dual HuCARD slot. 

This actually is the main feature of this DUO as that was what Boby Jack -the owner of the DUO who got this idea-wanted. ;)
Title: Re: The ultimate DUO
Post by: ceti alpha on February 09, 2008, 10:40:26 AM
Quote
This actually is the main feature of this DUO as that was what Boby Jack -the owner of the DUO who got this idea-wanted. ;)

Yeah. I was just so enamoured with the paint job that I over looked it. hehe But You gave me a chance to practice my French. Reading stuff in French about Turbo/PCE stuff makes it a hell of a lot more interesting. lol

Thanks again for the link. That has to be the coolest Duo in the world.  :mrgreen:
Title: Re: The ultimate DUO
Post by: FM-77 on February 09, 2008, 12:09:54 PM
Nice. I would like to have a completely white Duo-R.
Title: Re: The ultimate DUO
Post by: Joe Redifer on February 09, 2008, 12:23:19 PM
I'm not fond of the paint splatters on the "ultimate Duo", but otherwise it is quite nice, being able to play US and JP cards as well as being modded for RGB.  But is it perfect RGB or is it the ol' standard "vertical lines" RGB?  Also can it play SuperGarfx cards?  It needs to.  That question is probably already answered, so I'll go read up more on this.

EDIT:  I can't read that since I don't speak French.
Title: Re: The ultimate DUO
Post by: Keranu on February 09, 2008, 12:29:31 PM
Whoa, didn't notice the dual HuCard slot until shubibinman mentioned it! That's pretty rad (shoulda went for triple!), maybe that's why they removed the HuCard door, aside from aesthetics maybe. Or maybe they just plain didn't have one.
Title: Re: The ultimate DUO
Post by: Odonadon on February 09, 2008, 04:42:12 PM
It's a great idea, but the controller and left side of the Duo look like Hudson vomitted on it.  I'll take my Duo plain-jane, thank you very much.

OD
Title: Re: The ultimate DUO
Post by: Odonadon on February 09, 2008, 04:47:05 PM
Looks like a WIP version is visible in this pic at the top:

http://kotomiblog.blogspot.com/2007_10_01_archive.html

OD
Title: Re: The ultimate DUO
Post by: nat on February 09, 2008, 04:48:09 PM
That thing looks out of place next to all those Nintendo systems.
Title: Re: The ultimate DUO
Post by: termis on February 09, 2008, 05:04:15 PM
I love the functionality part of it :mrgreen:, but not so much external mods :-s. 

Reminds somewhat of how people completely f*ck their cars up with out-of-place stickers, spoilers that look like shopping cart handles, etc. 

That NES-cart famicom system is pretty damn cool.

Title: Re: The ultimate DUO
Post by: Necromancer on February 09, 2008, 06:06:35 PM
Reminds somewhat of how people completely f*ck their cars up with out-of-place stickers, spoilers that look like shopping cart handles, etc.

Agreed - who wants a riced out Duo?  I'd also pass on the dual HuCard slots, as installing a region switch and keeping the HuCard slot door would look much cleaner.  Different strokes for different folks, I suppose; it's just nice to see people giving the ol' Duo some love.
Title: Re: The ultimate DUO
Post by: MissaFX on February 09, 2008, 08:34:56 PM
I love the guys NES in a cart though!  I wish I could buy one of those off ebay.
Title: Re: The ultimate DUO
Post by: FM-77 on February 10, 2008, 01:07:22 AM
I'm not fond of the paint splatters on the "ultimate Duo", but otherwise it is quite nice, being able to play US and JP cards as well as being modded for RGB.  But is it perfect RGB or is it the ol' standard "vertical lines" RGB?  Also can it play SuperGarfx cards?  It needs to.  That question is probably already answered, so I'll go read up more on this.

EDIT:  I can't read that since I don't speak French.
Vertical lines RGB? What do you mean? I have never seen vertical lines RGB, but I have seen vertical lines composite (my damn Famicom!). My Duo-R does not output vertical lines RGB, obviously from what I said a few moments ago.

And, that Famicom cartridge was really cool. I think I will steal his idea and make my own. :P Famicom clone pcbs are really tiny nowadays. Shouldn't be too hard to make one of those things. :)
Title: Re: The ultimate DUO
Post by: Black Tiger on February 10, 2008, 04:23:03 AM
I have an S-Video modded Duo RX and it has some very faint vertical lines.

That a cool Duo mod on its own, but I'd still prefer a region switch on my main unit.
Title: Re: The ultimate DUO
Post by: Joe Redifer on February 10, 2008, 07:36:24 AM
Yes, they are very faint and can't really be seen in all games.  I mostly notice it when the games scroll at a certain speed.
Title: Re: The ultimate DUO
Post by: FM-77 on February 10, 2008, 07:47:36 AM
Maybe you have the bad amp. Like the one at Gamesx?
Title: Re: The ultimate DUO
Post by: ceti alpha on February 10, 2008, 07:56:42 AM
Yeah, I didn't notice how thick the modded Duo is on the other pics. It doesn't look terrible, but I like my Duo slim.
Title: Re: The ultimate DUO
Post by: Joe Redifer on February 10, 2008, 08:14:28 AM
Quote from: FM-77

Maybe you have the bad amp. Like the one at Gamesx?


I use the same transistors as the GamesX one, but that's it.  I don't use any resistors or capacitors... literally just a transistor in each RGB line.  Anyway the vertical lines is a known issue (not just with that amp) and I think there is some mod you can do to the board itself (not the amp) to eliminate it.