I managed to see it by right clicking on the image, clicking image location and pasting the link in a new tab.
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Konami announces the TurboGrafx-16 Mini (UP: list of games revealed - see threadmark)
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Full lineup trailer.
From GSK tweet (can't seem to embed right now):
Tengai Makyou II MARU
Galaga '88
Dragon Spirit
Genpei Toumaden
Splatterhouse
Valkyrie no Densetsu
Seirei Senshi Spriggan
Spriggan mkII
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Surprised to see more games! Not having Splatterhouse was an oddity; I'm sure people are happy that it made it in.
Kanye West will buy two of those and release an album named after it. Could this be a collaboration
With this announcement, they've finally confirmed that M2 is working on this!
Nice additions! Still wish we got Legendary Axe, but this is a hell of a package.
Galaga '88 is my favorite Galaga game. Didn't Genpei Toumaden came to the US Turbografx under a different name? I know I've seen it.
Never was big on Dragon Spirit but that MUSHA style game should be awesome!
The exclusive sequel did. Samurai Ghost / Genpei Toma den Kannoni
Genpei Toma den - which has 3 different play mode!
Samurai Ghost / Genpei Toma den Kannoni
As a 33 year old man who never had this console, I'm beyond excited to play some of these games.
System cards gave the system more RAM, just like the N64 RAM pack.
If you tried to play a game that needed a system card, it would give you a cool warning screen alerting you about it. You also got a warning screen if your internal memory was full.
If you want to see all the warning screens (for Sega CD too), check this out :
This console had 3 different CD game formats.
Originally it was release just as a console in Japan 87 and had games in form of cartridges the size and shape of credit cards these were known as the HuCARD.
In the fall of 88 a year later they released an attachment that could play games stored on CD format as well as audio CDs. The console needed a system bios and RAM buffer to play these CD based games and the early bios cards only had a RAM buffer of only 64kilobytes.
So the first CD-Rom games had the CD-Rom² logo displayed.
There were several revisions of this earlier system card and one particular game Altered Beast CD could only be played on the first bios card!
In 1991 a beefier system card known as The Super CD-Rom² boosted the RAM Buffer to 2Megabits or 256kilobytes. This was compatible will all the older titles however all the newer games that required this newer system card could not be played on the older ones so a lot of these game companies put warning screens or hidden bonus games if you tried to load them using the older system card.
Before this super CD-rom² bios card appeared the console was generally sold as a standalone system with a CD-rom unit attachment plus an interface unit all bought separately.
Around this time they released an all in one system; "Duo" which had all the components: base console, CD-Rom unit, Interace unit, Super CD-Rom² as a complete package.
Some third party game developers released their own unofficial system cards too.
around 1994 a final CD-Rom bios card known as the Arcade Card boosted the Buffer RAM to 18 megabits or 2 Megabytes and again was backwards compatible with older super CD-Rom² and CD-Rom² however games made specifically for the Arcade Card were not compatible with these older system cards and again you might find those "Easter egg" warning screens. This Arcade card was released in two flavours; Arcade Pro which had 18 megabits plus the 256kilobytes of RAM for the much older CD-Rom system, and the ARCADE DUO for the "Duo" systems.
Games released exclusively for the ARCADE cards were much fewer. However some of the late Super CD-Rom² titles had enhancements when played with the ARCADE cards.
I hope this is all correct!! O_o
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I was beaten to it!
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This somewhat hidden and pointless vid is how I listen to my "chip" tunes
Parasol Stars originated on PCE so it's more fitting if you have to pick one.
Possibly some licensing issues since the pc engine version has an exclusive vocal audio track for it's ending
Song: A boy who crosses the rainbow / 虹を渡る少年. Singer: Takako Oota / 太田貴子.
Oh, that makes sense. Thank you guys.This console had 3 different CD game formats.
Originally it was release just as a console in Japan 87 and had games in form of cartridges the size and shape of credit cards these were known as the HuCARD.
In the fall of 88 a year later they released an attachment that could play games stored on CD format as well as audio CDs. The console needed a system bios and RAM buffer to play these CD based games and the early bios cards only had a RAM buffer of only 64kilobytes.
So the first CD-Rom games had the CD-Rom² logo displayed.
There were several revisions of this earlier system card and one particular game Altered Beast CD could only be played on the first bios card!
In 1991 a beefier system card known as The Super CD-Rom² boosted the RAM Buffer to 2Megabits or 256kilobytes. This was compatible will all the older titles however all the newer games that required this newer system card could not be played on the older ones so a lot of these game companies put warning screens or hidden bonus games if you tried to load them using the older system card.
Before this super CD-rom² bios card appeared the console was generally sold as a standalone system with a CD-rom unit attachment plus an interface unit all bought separately.
Around this time they released an all in one system; "Duo" which had all the components: base console, CD-Rom unit, Interace unit, Super CD-Rom² as a complete package.
Some third party game developers released their own unofficial system cards too.
around 1994 a final CD-Rom bios card known as the Arcade Card boosted the Buffer RAM to 18 megabits or 2 Megabytes and again was backwards compatible with older super CD-Rom² and CD-Rom² however games made specifically for the Arcade Card were not compatible with these older system cards and again you might find those "Easter egg" warning screens. This Arcade card was released in two flavours; Arcade Pro which had 18 megabits plus the 256kilobytes of RAM for the much older CD-Rom system, and the ARCADE DUO for the "Duo" systems.
Games released exclusively for the ARCADE cards were much fewer. However some of the late Super CD-Rom² titles had enhancements when played with the ARCADE cards.
I hope this is all correct!! O_o
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I was beaten to it!
That's because it's not coming to Canada. I ordered the superior PCE from Amazon Japan instead.
Interesting that they got two Working Designs localisations on this. Especially considering Victor Ireland has gone completely silent since Summon Night 6 released.
(Because I believe both Parasol Star and Cadash were not on either the Wii or Wii U virtual consoles?)
(Because I believe both Parasol Star and Cadash were not on either the Wii or Wii U virtual consoles?)
First time I've seen this system in action, except for the Hi Score Girl anime of course :P
So this was out at the time of the Famicom?
Must've been amazing, the graphics are really impressive.
Famicom: 1983
PC Engine: 1987
But yeah R-Type and Legendary Axe on PCE in 1988 had quite impressive graphics for the time.
Unfortunately it launched in the US when the Genesis did so it was compared to that and the SNES.
Famicom is from 1983, PC Engine is from 1987. So you can say that, yeah. The really impressive games are actually from the Turbografx CD.
At which point I still thought the TG16 was superior, although the gap widened as the generation moved forward and Genesis development matured. I had a SMS until Christmas 1989, so seeing the TG16 version was still pretty amazing (and shooter-wise, I think all the Genesis had was Thunder Force II and the SNES had Super R-Type, with its insane slowdown).
October 1987 was it's Japanese debut in a collaboration between Hudson Soft and NEC Corp.
It's certainly got a unique sound. but not overly distinct like Genesis or SNES
I'm surprised this game never made it in the games list
A kid in my school had a PC Engine from Japan. Going to his house to play Nectaris was mind blowing.
Is that a Turboexpress border?????
Also, M2 is really showing their attention to detail by including an option to load games with the wrong card. That means the Akumajyo Dracula Peke mini-game in Rondo of Blood is properly accessible.
It was also playable in that Castlevania Requiem collection, but still.
Also, M2 is really showing their attention to detail by including an option to load games with the wrong card. That means the Akumajyo Dracula Peke mini-game in Rondo of Blood is properly accessible.
It was also playable in that Castlevania Requiem collection, but still.
