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TG-16/TE/TurboDuo Discussion / Re: Game of the Month: April 2025 - Dynastic Hero

« Last post by lukester 3.0 on April 07, 2025, 12:04:44 PM »

great game! i played the genesis one first years ago before the pce version, so it was unfortunate to see the graphical downgrades, particularly the ocean stage. some of the new OST like the beach/tropical area was an improvement, but i don't really remember the genesis OST being noteworthy.
final boss wasn't nearly as frustrating though

pc engine version of dragon trap is still my favorite in the series. i would love to play a translated Blood Gear at some point.

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TG-16/TE/TurboDuo Discussion / Game of the Month: April 2025 - Dynastic Hero

« Last post by geise on April 06, 2025, 03:06:40 PM »

Dynastic Hero

Here it is! Dynastic Hero! One game I didn't pick up when I saw it at Babbages before they took the stock off the shelves. I passed and got Terraforming and a few other games. Was going to come back later in the month after pay day but sadly stock was already pulled. Then time passes and I never picked it up before stupid price kicked in. Anyways get your emulators or cd burners ready! The Dynastic Hero is a slightly re-branded version of Wonder Boy in Monster World for the Turbo Duo.The game features palette-swapped visuals, new insect-themed graphics for main characters (and insects' natural predators as bosses), a Red Book audio soundtrack which is completely different from the Wonder Boy original (I love it), and anime-style cutscenes at the intro and ending. Shion was renamed Dyna and was modeled after a Hercules Beetle, and the final boss was changed to a giant lizard king. It has been ages since I popped my cdr of this in my Turbo Duo. It stuck my cd laser to the side. I had to open my system and adjust the pot so the laser would better read the disc. Luckily it worked and every cdr now runs perfect. Luckily I don't use to many burned games. Anywho I hope you all can play this awesome game on something this month. It is really worth a play through if you've never experience it! Enjoy!

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TG/PCE Repair/Mod Discussion / Re: Card slot problem or ?

« Last post by HuDuo on April 06, 2025, 03:04:57 PM »

At this point, I think you'd have to look at either relegating this TG16 to a parts system, or possibly part out a PC Engine family system that has some issue like a broken case or something.

The main problem is the HuC6260, 70 and 80 are custom chips and the only source for them are broken consoles, or rarely sources like gamedoctorhk but yes there's no guarantee the chips are good when they are taken from non-working consoles.

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TG-16/TE/TurboDuo Discussion / Re: Game of the Month: March 2025 - Liquid Kids / Mizubaku Daibouken

« Last post by geise on April 06, 2025, 02:54:44 PM »

Pc-Engine port isn't really rare. Youtube made it a popular game since it's a good arcade port. Then the gotta have it syndrome kicked in.

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TG/PCE Repair/Mod Discussion / Re: Card slot problem or ?

« Last post by Lost Monkey on April 04, 2025, 07:25:27 AM »

I am also thinking there is a possibility the Hu6270 chip I put in is a dud.  It was purchased from gamedoctor.hk a few years ago and I see that there have been reports of him selling bad chips.

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TG-16/TE/TurboDuo Discussion / Re: Games you would like to see made for the Turbo?

« Last post by HuDuo on April 03, 2025, 11:34:43 PM »

On the topic of more realistic requests, I'd love to see a port of Prince of Persia to the Hucard format. Yes I realize a port exists on PCE/TG CD, but that's not the same thing as Hucard. Just about every possible computer, console and handheld of the 80s and early 90s got a port of Prince of Persia, except for the base PCE/TG16 system.

I mention all this because several years ago, the source code to the original Apple //e 128K version of Prince of Persia was put on GitHub by Jordan Mechner. If I knew anything about assembly coding, I'd do it myself... Problem is I don't. All I know is the only easy part is the CPU code could run on PCE nearly unaltered (HuC6280 is fully backwards compatible with the 6502 and 65C02), the big problem comes in with having to port over the graphics and sound which on Apple //e are CPU driven, would pretty much have to fully re-write all that to use the dedicated graphics and sound processors in the PCE.

Me, I wouldn't even mind if the port was basic and looked like the Apple II original, I'd just like to have POP on the last major platform of the era to not get a port (aside from the Atari 7800).

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TG/PCE Repair/Mod Discussion / Re: Card slot problem or ?

« Last post by HuDuo on April 03, 2025, 11:02:29 PM »

A HuC6280 is the CPU, so no that probably wouldn't help to replace. HuC6260 is the VCE or Video Color Encoder, could be the cause of your broken backgrounds and colors.

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TG-16/TE/TurboDuo Discussion / Re: Games you would like to see made for the Turbo?

« Last post by seieienbu on April 02, 2025, 06:32:01 PM »

I always thought that a more colorful Metal Storm would be badass on the Turbo.

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PC Engine/SuperGrafx Sales & Trades / Re: ISO Japanese variant of the Turbo Booster Plus

« Last post by Mathius on April 02, 2025, 01:39:25 PM »

You thinking "AV Booster"? There is also two "Backup Boosters" but the second one doesn't have AV out.

Yeah I'm looking for the one with both battery backup and AV out.

*Edit* Thanks for kickstarting my memory.

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PC Engine/SuperGrafx Sales & Trades / Re: ISO Japanese variant of the Turbo Booster Plus

« Last post by majors on April 02, 2025, 09:46:09 AM »

You thinking "AV Booster"? There is also two "Backup Boosters" but the second one doesn't have AV out.