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Always been interested in one of these, but what do I actually buy if I want a PC Engine? Looking on eBay theres about 20 different systems, some with CD, some which are only CD etc, but half of them are ass-rapingly expensive. Then theres stuff like CD-ROM2 and Super CD-ROM. Say for example I want to play both PC Genjin (card thingy) and Dracula X (CD), the hell system do I buy here?

I swear this thing has so many variants it puts the Mega Drive to shame.

>> No.534213

Buy a duo. If you get a turbo duo, you can play any cd based game - you don't have to worry about system cards, cd or scd, US or Japanese, they all work.

But it will only play US hu-cards. If you want to be able to play Japanese hu-cards, you need to get the Japanese duo, or get a converter for the hu-card slot.

The only other thing I can think of to worry about is the arcade card, which only plays a couple of games anyway. Sapphire probably being the only one of real interest because the other games are all playable in mame basically (stuff like Art of Fighting). I wouldn't even worry about the arcade card.

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537040

Original PC Engine (the white one in your pic,) Core Grafx an Core Grafx II are all the same, only significant difference is the original had RF output, the latter had AV out.

PCE Shuttle, don't know what the deal was with this one, skip unless it's cheap or no other models are available.

Super Grafx, a "super" PCE as the name suggests. backwards compatible, but only a few titles were made exclusively for it.

PCE LT, quasi-portable with a built-in screen, rare.

PCE GT, hand held version, shits batteries like the Nomad, Game Gear, and Lynx. Combined with the HU-Cards, arguably cooler than the Nomad.

CD-ROM2 & Super CD-ROM2, CD add-on. First one requires a system card to run it, the second one has it built-in.

Duo, Duo R, Duo RX, combined PCE & CD-ROM. The R removes a few features, the RX is a mostly cosmetic change.

For what you want to play, get one of the Duo systems, or any of the PCE/Core/Core2 models and either CD-ROM unit. If you're ok with the US release (I don't know if all of the PC Genjin games were ported,) then you could also get the American released consoles. The CD games aren't region locked.