/vr/ - Retro Games

I'm playing Splatterhouse at the moment. It's pretty cool so far, but I'm stuck at the chainsaw guy.

Great system. I just got my T16 back from my dad's house where it's sat for years.

My favorite games would be Golden Axe, Bonk's Adventure, and Bloody Wolf.

Dawn of Ys is neat

Soldier Blade is my favorite shmup for PCE, and Nexzr is my favorite for the Turbo Duo.

The ports of Gradius and R-Type were superb.

Dungeon Explorer is my favourite game such a blast playing with friends, I've beaten it no deaths so many times. Motoroader is also one of the BEST multiplayer games too.

Maybe if the US version of the console looked like the Japanese one instead being a hideous black brick and if more of the top notch games had gotten a US release, it wouldn't have flopped as hard as it did. What the hell was their US marketing team thinking?

>>1155574

For simplicity sake, most people just call it PC-Engline. It helps that the Western name is awful 90's tryhard name and it completely failed.

>>1156213

Absolutely everything about the Western release is stupid. The name. The design of the console. The marketing.

Jonny Turbo. I think he was only featured in a few comics, so he's more known now than he ever was at the time. but just look at this guy. He's some fat fanatical crazy guy raving about how great the Turbografx is. Why would anyone think this is a good way to sell the system?

http://emulation-general.wikia.com/wiki/PC_Engine_%28TurboGrafx-16%29_emulators

Before anyone asks, here is how to emulate the system.

>>1155574
Is either the PC Engine/Turbografx region locked? Ive been wanting one for awhile, but im interested in a lot of the games thag didnt make it here. Especially when it comes to the cd addon.

>>1156213
>Maybe if the US version of the console looked like the Japanese one

No, if the Turbo looked identical to the PC-Engine, it probably would have sold even less. You know how the Famicom looked? Try to imagine NOA selling it as the NES. People would have never taken it seriously, even if it was marketed as a toy.

What WOULD have worked to it's advantage however would have been having multiple controller ports and a better pack-in title than Keith Courage in Alpha Zones.

>>1156218
>Turbo Engine >>>>>>>>>>>>>> Ootake
just sayin'

>>1156224
The cd add on is region free ,cartridges have different pinouts so a converter is needed it's just a physical lockout,you can get an everdrive and have the whole USA and jap library on 1 card like me

>>1156229
>>Turbo Engine >>>>>>>>>>>>>> Ootake
>just sayin'

I have never used either so I don't know the differences. I just use Mednafen.

I started playing games on the system when I got into the Ys series. So far, Dawn of Ys and the port of Dracula X are my favourite.

>>1156241
>Ys
You might also want to look into Dungeon Master and maybe even Neutopia I & II if you're partial to Zelda

Language barrier aside, is there any reason to get a TG16 over a PCE? I understand that the CD games have no region-lock and it seems like most games released on this system were Japan-devved. Are there a lot of noteworthy Japanese-only HU card games that makes it worth getting the Japanese hardware?

What would be the best version of the console to buy? I always liked how the PCE looked, but I remember reading about this PCE and CD combo, and how the old PCEs generally have capacitor problems. Someone linked to a thread that was entirely objective and gave no concrete recommendation.

>>1156272
>Are there a lot of noteworthy Japanese-only HU card games that makes it worth getting the Japanese hardware?

Not that many really. I can only think of this one as a good HU card only released in Japan.

>>1156340
U wot m8 ? Theirs loads ,the Japanese library blows the crappy USA one out of the water ,and no I'm not going to list games

>>1156375
>Japanese library

We are talking about HU Card games. When talking about HU Cards you should consider that 1/3 of the PC Engine games were localized. That's not the case with CD systems, only 10% of the library got released in America. Of course, there is the price advantage, getting some japanese releases is a lot cheaper than the american Hu Cards.

Why are these games so damn expensive?

>>1156234
Fuckin' neato. Thanks for the info.

Best way to go is either a pc engine duo or turbo duo and an everdrive ,then the whole library is open to you,the cd add on is way too expensive,rare and usually their broke.

Too bad the SuperGrafx failed miserably.

I'm pretty sure it was one of the worst console blunders ever, with 5 games you cannot get any worse.

http://www.mediafire.com/download/osdjjzj4r4pvzzr/retroarch-win64.zip

Win64 RetroArch download. It has the PCE Mednafen-Fast core.

>>1155679
save the shotgun for him

>>1156229
>No, if the Turbo looked identical to the PC-Engine, it probably would have sold even less
The white version maybe. The black CoreGrafx version definitely looked like something you could've sold in the West.

>>1156229
The European version of the SNES looked pretty much identical to the Japanese one, and it sold fine. I don't think the average US gamer actually insists on his game consoles having sharp edges and the dullest colors possible.

>>1156435
Because the US version was bought by like 10 people and nobody had ever heard of it due to lousy marketing, but now that people see it on the internet a lot of collectors have fallen in love with the thing. High demand, low supply.

>>1156272
There are no pictures on the Hu-cards, man. That absolutely kills it for me.

That and the fact PC Engine is a much better name than something as silly as Turbografx-16.

The best tennis game ever is Final Match tennis for this console.
It has the best tennis gameplay ever, the controls are very sensitive and it takes a while until you can be precise with your shots.
You have many different players (all real from the 80s, like Lendl, Edberg, McEnroe, Vilas) and they have different characteristics related to the real style of those players.

I recommend it a lot. You need to do the trick that lets you unlock the hard mode in order to trully enjoy this game. It is a gem.

from the wiki: "Final Match Tennis was awarded the "Best PC Engine Game in 1991" by the German computer and video games magazine Power Play on their February 1992 issue, scoring 91 out of 100 points. Video Games, another German magazine gave the game a 91 out of 100. The British magazine CVG gave the game 90 out of 100 points, complimenting the controls and the depth of the game mechanics. They also praised the game's multiplayer options and artificial intelligence. Comparing it with Kick Off II and John Madden Football, they called it a "truly stunning game" and "one of the finest computer sports simulations available on any machine.""

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OwLiZZ1zGg

>>1155574
No particular order:

Blazing lazers
Alien/Devils Crash
Bonks
Y's
Splatter house
Psychosis

There were other excellent games but mostly ports that you'd do better to play on MAME

>>1156975

I really wish I could shove a US SNES into a Super Famicom body. I love the look of the SFC much more.

>one of the best bomberman games ever made
>didn't come out in America except as a mega drive port
Why the fuck would Hudson not release their own games on their own console. It's like they WANTED this thing to fail in the US.

Legendary Axe is my game of choice at the moment. Bomberman is great multi, Blazing Lazers is fun, Air Zonk, Splatterhouse, Devils Crush and of course Bonk are all great games.

I really like the remake of Ninja Gaiden, I find it superior to the NES version in every way.

Ninja Spirit is pretty cool too

>>1157664
They are identical inside ,their is just a physical lock for the cartridges which can be removed so what your saying can be done but would be completely pointless.

>>1158550
>Legendary Axe
Never quite understood why so many praise that game, but to each his own...

>>1158559
>Turbografx Ninja Gaiden
It certainly had more detailed sprites, but the controls weren't as tight, the music was terrible, and any stage with parallax scrolling was straight up eye-cancer.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rj_nZdlr9bU&t=6m23s

>>1159162
>the music was terrible,

It's different and I liked it.

The SNES version has awful music.

>Demons defending earth against space aliens
OK, the premise of this game is cool as fuck. The battle/experience system is very interesting too. And the battle music is this wonderfully cheesy 90s techno:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-IuvOoXB_g
So all this was good enough to make me sit through an hour of grinding. But then the in-game clock hit the evening and my day-team was changed for my night-team, which has no experience at all yet, meaning even more grinding before I can get started with doing anything interesting. Fuck this.

>>1159276
>And the battle music is this wonderfully cheesy 90s techno

Ehhh, it's not so much techno as it is Eurodance

>>1159276
Is there an english version of this game?

>>1162760
it was never released outside Japan, but there may or may not be a translation hack for it somewhere out there.
There is also a sequel called After Armageddon for Sega-CD, which got rid of the ridiculous grinding and has better graphics. I haven't been able to find the game anywhere though.

Have a region modded Duo-R I got from china, surprisingly everything is legit and works great.

So I can play NA and Jap cards and, well the disc drive could already do that.

Have pretty much only played Bonk 1 and 2 so far however, as my backlog is just too massive.

Bonk 2 was pretty great.

>>1159162
>the music was terrible,

Woah, back the fuck up nigga.

It has a NEW soundtrack. For no reason. And it's totally badass.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rj_nZdlr9bU

Listen to that shit. Tell me it's not awesome.

>>1155574
Strip fighter 2.

But the slides they show look nothing like the characters. what the fuck?