The Official Turbografx 16 Thread!

[CatPix]

We should see if Japanese gamers are ready to blow 240$ in that thing when they get the real hardware for cheap at home

But if you mean looking for hardware in US/Europe, that could be likely to happen yeah.

I was more thinking that prices on Yamatoku are higher because people want to gift themselves or friend with Japanese stuff

[Andromeda Stardust]

Hi guys,

 

Worth putting this on the TG-16 Thread.

 

For those that aren't aware, NeoSD, the ones that brought you the Neo-Geo MVS and AES flash cart has a new devices that will be to your liking. Have a look for those that are interested.

 

On neo-geo.com and NeoSD's posting.

 

http://www.neo-geo.com/forums/showthread.php?273291-PCE-Super-SD-System-3-Terraonion-New-Product-(Dec-2017)

 

 

Thread: PCE Super SD System 3 - Terraonion New Product (Dec 2017)

 

1. 12-07-2017, 01:47 PM #1
   neosd

   PCE Super SD System 3 - Terraonion New Product (Dec 2017)

   08-12-2017 - 00:20 IMPORTANT - PAYMENT SYSTEM ISSUE

    

   Hi guys, it seems we passed the per daily sales limit our payment system allows.

   We see every incoming transaction blocked now, its 00:20 here today and tomorrow is National party in Spain, i will call some friends that work at our bank tomorrow to try to get the limited removed so if you can´t purchase, just try in some hours please.

    

   Sorry about the inconvenience

    

    

    

   Hello Everyone

    

   So after NEOSD (AES and MVS), we came here today with our new product. Its called Super SD System 3

    

   

    

   Super SD System 3 is a 3 in one device for Pcengine.

    

   Its and ODE and a flashcart plus a AV Booster with RGB output using Mega Drive 2 video cables (both RGB and composite video cables are supported)

    

   So where is the magic on this new device ?

    

   It dosen´t requires ANY system card to play cdrom games and every game works.

   It dosent matters if this a cdrom2 game a super cdrom2 game or an arcade cdrom2 game.

    

   You just need the basic pcengine to play the entire pcengine catallog, and if you have a supergrafx you will be able to play the 6 released Super Grafx Games.

    

    

   Turgbografx 16 NTSC is also working but as today we are not totally sure if the shell fit there, thats why we are not directly anouncing it. We will know it next week or in 2 weeks, as soon as the final shells arrive.

    

   Here are the details about the device :

    

   

    

    

   Super SD system 3 will be shipped with a nice factory made cardbox

    

    

   

    

   

    

   This time shells will be made of black smoke transparent ABS plastic, at a different factory that did NEOSD shells.

    

    

   Purachse/production/shipping status :

    

   We launched the production of the pcbs in the first week of november, we expect those next week and the SMT soldering process should be done on the last 2 weeks of the year.

    

   Mould has been sent to polishment process last monday and we expect to have final pieces by 12th december of this year.

    

   We finished cardbox design yesterday and we will submit the design to printing by monday.

    

   Every pixel art there is done by AlienPDX (great guy !!)

    

   So we expect to have the final product ready to ship by the last week of december or the first week of january.

    

   We have opened sales and as before we will respect purchase order while shipping

    

   We are going to show the different bits while those arrive, so you guys get acurate shipping status.

    

    

   We did our best with this new product, our goal has been to build the definitive device for the pcengine to play any game faster and in a better confortable way the original hardware does.

    

    

   We will be happy to answer any questions you may have.

    

   In the meanwhile here are some videos :

    

   The 1st one done by Yodd, the review done by gadgetuk and the other one done by ourselves back in October.

 

 

 

 

Anthony...

Is there some underlying reason why the expansion port could not have been shaped to fit both the PC Engine AND the Turbografx-16? All I'm looking for is to play ISOs on my US Turbo. I've heard it is simple to dremel out a PC Engine Temokke or whatever the hell's name it is to work with a US turbografx.

[Tanooki]

The the reason Yamatoku prices are higher because he grossly inflates the shipping. Start a simple game at a dollar, then ask $20 for the shipping. And no he's not shipping them international priority or next day either, standard mail. I used to order from him until he did that. The stuff they peddle is fine, usually of really good quality and they are good with service but you get baked on the shipping so you have to roll that into the cost before bidding.

[CatPix]

I didn't count shipping in the PC engine price.

I might have been lucky but since his prices reached absurdly high prices, shipping got better.

Before that, I could wait 3/4 monhts. Last time I ordered, I received everything in 3 packages.. in 10 days.

Beign that Ebay/Paypal consider that a package is "lost" after 2 months, I suppose it make sense Yamatoky decided to crack up shipping. But as far as I saw, he pick up better shipping options.

A friend of mine says it's possible to contact him and haggle the shipping fees down a bit. I supose it's worth a try if you really made a good order.

[fdurso224]

Hi guys,

 

More regarding the Super SD System 3.

 

From the description,

"The pcb that will be shipped to customers will not be soldered by hand like the one one this video, it will be soldered by machine.

Last tuesday pcb factory sent the final panels to the SMT factory to get soldered.

PANELS :

http://www.neosdstore.com/news/wp-con...

We received two sample (panels) to verify everything was working fine, before smt factory solder the chips on the pcbs with the help of a pick and place machine and an owen.

So we soldered a pcb by hand (the one seen on this video) in order to verify everything was ok, and it was .

This video shows the final pcb (soldered by hand) with the current firmware version (that supports scrteenshots) among other things.

The pcb that will be shipped to customers will not be soldered by hand like this one, it will be soldered by machine.

We expect to ship the first sold units by first week of january (this is an estimated shipping date).

Super SD System 3 will come with a nice transparent smoke shell manufactured with injection mould techology and a nice cardbox manufactered in factory.

For more details, keep an eye on this neo-geo.com thread, as we update the seccond post on the first page with production info as soon as there are news.

http://www.neo-geo.com/forums/showthr...)

 

 

Anthony..

[juansolo]

Typical really. I have a fully recapped, de-jailbarred, RGB modded PCE Duo with a Turbo Everdrive, then this comes along. On the plus side, with the costs of those, if I sell it it should cover a PCE+SuperSD, the thing is, do I want to...?

 

Kinda... Probably... Yeah...

[NE146]

Typical really. I have a fully recapped, de-jailbarred, RGB modded PCE Duo with a Turbo Everdrive, then this comes along.

 

Yes.. I haven't been reading what this product is closely (too much text) but isn't the deal with it that you can play CD game images off an SD card (including stuff like Sapphire and Strider)?

 

You can't do that with an Everdrive.. although of course there's nothing stopping you from just burning cds and playing them if you have the cards.

[juansolo]

Mainly it's just a neater, tighter solution from what I can see. In it's favour, it looks like it can play anything from SD (including Hucard images), with on-board RGB also, in pure convenience terms it's a no brainer if you don't already have the Duo with all the mods already done. But yeah, you can't play CD images from the Everdrive, it's not a massive deal though putting a disc in.

[NE146]

It isn't a big deal of course..same as shoving in a hucard. Although loading from a single fully stocked menu of games is obviously more convenient (and why I get Everdrives in the first place)..

 

That said, currently my only way to play stuff like Strider or Sapphire is via emulator.. . so yeah, I'm debating on this one

[Eltigro]

I'd like it because I don't have a CD attachment or Duo or anything. So I can't just stick in a disc, because I'd have nowhere to stick it.

 

I've considered getting an Everdrive in the past, but have held off mainly because I'd like to be able to play disc games, too. Now I'll probably hold off on this one until there is one that mates nicely with a TurboGrafx instead of just a PCE. Always an excuse! lol

[Tanooki]

 

Yes.. I haven't been reading what this product is closely (too much text) but isn't the deal with it that you can play CD game images off an SD card (including stuff like Sapphire and Strider)?

 

You can't do that with an Everdrive.. although of course there's nothing stopping you from just burning cds and playing them if you have the cards.

Yes this is an everdrive+disc simulator rolled into one, and allows game save too which the everdrive lacks entirely. Get a large enough memory card, throw every HuCard made and any CD you ever cared about and then some on it, and toss it into this thing and even a lowly little core grafx from Japan could beat out a minty fresh looking duo with a recap on it and then some. Given the insane prices on the cards let alone many of the discs too and the system (fixed) this is like giving it away. You can get a complete core grafx setup from Japan shipped for under $100, then another $200~ on this thing and you're like 1/2 into a recapped Duo complete system with no games in comparison.

[+GoldenWheels]

I strongly support people buying this and avoiding physical games entirely so they are cheaper for me.

[Tanooki]

I'd be on board with that because the prices went straight to hell rapidly once people started seeing the problems with the NES spread into the SNES. It was freaky too as I was watching the prices one month, basically steady from years and years past and in a matter of like 2-3mo it went into orbit. I had planned to sell off my original copy of Bonk NES for the value it even had then ($300) to buy a Duo and the old Gate of Thunder disc which has bonk1+2+bomberman on there and suddenly the Duo was more than that alone and the CD was more than $50 and the individual complete cards were about the same which was a stunner. Then and there I gave up ever buying a Duo again or games.

[7800fan]

Wonder if I can get one without the EXT connector soldered in? If it plays everything, I could take the old card slot out of my PCE, remove rear EXT connector, connect the new board directly in there with pin spacer so the chips won't touch other chips, and keep it all inside the tiny console? Route the video out through the RF hole, make a slot for SD card, and I put a FS sign on my Duo-R console.

[Austin]

I strongly support people buying this and avoiding physical games entirely so they are cheaper for me.

 

The funny thing about devices like these (flash carts included) is the opposite can happen, heh.

[+GoldenWheels]

 

The funny thing about devices like these (flash carts included) is the opposite can happen, heh.

That's true but with Turbo I don't think it's an undiscovered/unpopular platform or anything that will blow up just because of a clone system...it's already blown up and the market is pretty pricey, so it's certainly not one for people wanting to jump into easy collecting unless they have some $$$.

[+GoldenWheels]

I'd be on board with that because the prices went straight to hell rapidly once people started seeing the problems with the NES spread into the SNES. It was freaky too as I was watching the prices one month, basically steady from years and years past and in a matter of like 2-3mo it went into orbit. I had planned to sell off my original copy of Bonk NES for the value it even had then ($300) to buy a Duo and the old Gate of Thunder disc which has bonk1+2+bomberman on there and suddenly the Duo was more than that alone and the CD was more than $50 and the individual complete cards were about the same which was a stunner. Then and there I gave up ever buying a Duo again or games.

Yeah you gotta hunt bigtime to find even a decent bargain it seems, or get in with some game traders etc. Even in the 6 or 7 years I've really been collecting it (my Turbo library was like only 4 games for several years prior to that) it's changed massively.

 

I still find some good PCE deals here and there but even that has changed a lot.

[Tanooki]

Yeah the fact there's a a device out there to allow roms to run it gets more interest if anything because it allows people to at least pony up for the hardware without being abused by the sticker shock of the games.

 

Golden -- In this area here it never pops up on facebook local, second hand retail, flea etc except extremely rarely. Location is god, seriously. Back out west where I'm originally from there was far far more of it, even after the prices started getting asinine around the time of that story of mine as i knew places with boxes of loose cards or shelves of the games (card or cd domestic and import.)

 

If you want TG/PCE in this area I know 2 places that rarely get the stuff, they price it as high or higher than ebay which makes it nothing but a mean tease and sucker bait for fools who don't check ebay on their phone for 5minutes tops. I'm thinking I may buy a core grafx and get the everdrive or this other device since it can do the CDs without the drive issues (plus it will save.)

[+GoldenWheels]

Oh man I haven't actually seen anything TG or PCE in the wild in almost 6-7 years (though I do live in the sticks). I think it was Dragon's Curse, for 130 bucks (I did NOT buy it). That was whack back then, I believe it maybe went for 60 or 70 on ebay at the time. Now? It does sell for 100-120. Crazy.

 

However anyone chooses to play Turbo is ok by me. Because everybody should play Turbo!

[Eltigro]

I actually have the receipt from the last Turbo game I bought locally. It was Ninja Spirit. Game only (it has a case, but not the original). For $19.99 ($21.64 after tax), on January 26th, 2014.

[Tanooki]

I should just pull the trigger. I know of a good looking core system that's complete, and with the gift card I have it would only set me back around $25~ out of my paypal pocket. One everdrive later and I'd be set. I think my stumbling block is I've done so much to offload systems but I'd be adding one, and would I use it that much? I'd like to think I would. Back in the 90s I played the hell out of a few dozen cards but also had a nice import and some domestic discs. That neosd device that simulates the CD (isos) off a SD card is like $300USD shipped converting euro to dollar. That at first seems like a kick in the teeth but when you see a CD add-on for the core grafx costs almost that much, or a recapped duo is nearly double it's not (and that's before eating it on games.)

[fdurso224]

Hi guys,

 

More videos regarding the Super CD System 3.

 

 

Anthony...

[Tanooki]

I've seen those, very good show off stuff without mindless commentary.

 

 

Now to those with a HuCard collection, suggestions are what I'm after. What is a great way in the smallest profile to store HuCards (loose) as i don't intend to buy expensive complete ones, or all that many in general either so a big old baseball card folder is a really bad idea.

 

What else would work? I'm poking around thrifts and related style shops now maybe hoping upon something long and thin that may have the right size, or even those trade card plastic snap cases if they have the right dimensions perhaps.

[Eltigro]

Tanooki, look up credit card holders. Not sure how many hucards you're looking to store or how much you're willing to pay, but... The hucards are about the same size as a credit card, but thicker (which may cause some issues)... They might fit in something like this...

 

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Credit-Card-Holder-Holds-Cards/dp/B00MVVKP38

Edited January 5, 2018 by Eltigro

[Tanooki]

Not bad, depending how they're cut that would either rip it or be snug would be my guess on that.

 

I've got 4 when all is said and done once it all arrives next week and I can see slowly bargain basement grabbing more, or JP lots of goodies as they show if they're not stupid pill priced. I don't see owning many as I'm going to get one of those kits in the end.

 

HuCards are exactly:

5.4cm x 8.5cm x 3mm

 

Credit cards are:

5.4cm x 8.56cm x .76mm

 

Basically the same though 1/4 the thickness

 

Baseball cards are:

6.4cm x 8.9cm x ?mm

 

So sports or credit card holders have the right dimensions on length/width to fit, just the HuCards are fatter.

Edited January 5, 2018 by Tanooki