Finally received my pc-engine flash card

[turbokon]

I ordered this was back in early february but just now recieved it due to chinese new years.  I opened it up, loaded the card into the usb slim loader, plug it into the usb port, installed the driver and the software.  When I opened up the software, it said the device is connect successfully.  I picked my games, selected tg16 and write but then it just hangs up.  I tried it a copy of more times and it still hangs.  I was starting to wonder that this device is defective.  Then I noticed that the card doesn't seem to be in the usb slim loader correctly and it is loose.  I pushed the card further into the usb slim loader very hard which made a clicking sound and tried it again and voila, it works to my amazement.  I'm very satified with it but I do wish it had more space.  I got the 64M which really should be labeled as 64Mbits.  I thought I was getting the 64MB (64Mbyte)  but they didn't make it clear.  64Mbytes would have been a bigger size since 8 bits = 1 byte.  The averge size for the turbo games are 4Mbits with Street figher being the biggest at 20Mbits.  With Street Fighter loaded and a few Mbits needed for other data, I can only fit a total of 11 games. 

[MissaFX]

I ordered this was back in early february but just now recieved it due to chinese new years.  I opened it up, loaded the card into the usb slim loader, plug it into the usb port, installed the driver and the software.  When I opened up the software, it said the device is connect successfully.  I picked my games, selected tg16 and write but then it just hangs up.  I tried it a copy of more times and it still hangs.  I was starting to wonder that this device is defective.  Then I noticed that the card doesn't seem to be in the usb slim loader correctly and it is loose.  I pushed the card further into the usb slim loader very hard which made a clicking sound and tried it again and voila, it works to my amazement.  I'm very satified with it but I do wish it had more space.  I got the 64M which really should be labeled as 64Mbits.  I thought I was getting the 64MB (64Mbyte)  but they didn't make it clear.  64Mbytes would have been a bigger size since 8 bits = 1 byte.  The averge size for the turbo games are 4Mbits with Street figher being the biggest at 20Mbits.  With Street Fighter loaded and a few Mbits needed for other data, I can only fit a total of 11 games. 

Yeah, it's Mbits, it actually user review data that claims Mbytes and not the place selling the card.  Still, that's at least 7.38MB of usable area.  More than enough for a few PC-E games.

[spenoza]

From which store did you order this and what did it cost you?

[turbokon]

From www.ic2005.com for $109 plus shipping.  I missed out on the group discount.  For 10 or more, I think the price was $69 each for the 64Mbits and $119 for the 128Mbits.

[nat]

Yeah group buys are definitely the way to go for these things.

[sideshow]

I bought this flash card like 2 years ago and it worked fine a couple of times but then all of a sudden my PCEngine would just give me a blue screen when turning it on.  I hope this doesnt happen to you.  It would be so much better if they could make a CD with all the PCEngine roms that you pop in that uses the Super CDROM memory to play.

[nat]

They already have that, although it doesn't have all the ROMs.

[turbokon]

I bought this flash card like 2 years ago and it worked fine a couple of times but then all of a sudden my PCEngine would just give me a blue screen when turning it on.  I hope this doesnt happen to you.  It would be so much better if they could make a CD with all the PCEngine roms that you pop in that uses the Super CDROM memory to play.

Did your pc-engine work after that with other hucards?

[sideshow]

Yes, my DUO-RX plays hucards just fine.  The flashcard just doesnt boot up anymore.  I tried doing the sandpaper thing on the PCEngine flash cart leads but still no go.  I would love to ship this flash cart to somebody to see if it works on somebody else's console cause its pretty much useless to me now.

[turbokon]

You can ship it to me.  I'll pay for the shipping cost.

[sideshow]

Check your PM turbokon.

[turbokon]

I've sent a PM back Slideshow.  Thanks.

[sideshow]

I believe you have the exact same flash cart that I ordered when it first came out about 2 years ago.  This will be great for you to test since its the same one I have. 

[Paisa49]

You can ship it to me.  I'll pay for the shipping cost.

Let me know what comes out of your testing. I'm having the same issues with my flash cart as well, except im using a TG-16 and a Turbo Express.

[turbokon]

Yes, these flash card does not have gold plated contact unlike the hucards which do.  Hope fully, mine doesn't give out too.