The Wave of Turbo Grafx/PC Engine Homebrew Has Gun

[Keranu]

Not sure how many people here are aware, but homebrew development for the Turbo Grafx 16 / PC Engine has really began to pick up lately. Late last month, the first indie game for the system in five years was released, called Insanity by Aetherbyte Studios. It's also the first game since 2001 on the system to be professionally replicated instead of duplicated so it runs flawlessly on TGCD/Duo hardware. The big feature about the game itself is that it utilizes a new PSG player the creator wrote for it, creating quality PSG for the first time in PCE dev history!

 

Starting last week, another independent Turbo game by a different developer launched it's pre-order: Mysterious Song. This is the long awaited RPG that's been in development since 2005, complete with hand drawn cinemas and voice acting just like the old TGCD and Sega CD games used to have. Development is expected to be finished by the end of this year and is slated to be out of pressing and released on March 1st, 2010.

 

Insanity and Mysterious Song are only the beginning. MindRec, the developers of the first two homebrew games on the Turbo, are working on two highly anticipated games: Xymati, a classic vertical shooter inspired by games like the Star Soldier and Raiden series, and PC Gunjin, a run n' gunner in the vein of Contra, a genre the Turbo severely lacks. Frozen Utopia also has three projects deep into development (two of which will be revealed with the release of Mysterious Song) and Aetherbyte is currently working on a classic arcade compilation featuring wild remakes of games like Joust (called "Joustaroo", featuring kangaroos with jetpacks), Pitfall, and Jungle Hunt.

 

The future is bright, I'm excited!

[RayXambeR]

There is also a great game called Galaxian-Remix from Touko and a project called Thunder Force octology for chistmas 2010!

 

Yes the Pc Engine begins to have a great homebrew scene

[triverse]

Thanks for bringing this to everyone's attention, simply awesome to know that maybe someday, Neutopia III will be released (Mysterious Song looks awesome too).

[Jess Ragan]

When did all this happen? I had no idea there was still interest in this machine. It bombed pretty badly here, and it's hard to imagine even the Japanese looking back at it fondly after NEC screwed the pooch with the Supergrafx and PC-FX.

[Bill Loguidice]

Great news! It's definitely been too long between homebrew releases for these popular systems.

[nonner242]

Those all sound awesome....

Did I ever tell anybody how much I LOVE homebrews!

[carmel_andrews]

Something i think Jboy and mark will be VERY INTERESTED in