Is there really no other reason to get one of these besides Castlevania: Rondo of Blood and a bunch of Shoot em ups? I'm really into collecting for Japanese Saturn and there seems to be a lot of overlap between people who collect obsessively Saturn and PC Engine for some reason? I went for a couple beers at a local Saturn collectors house and when saw his PC Engine I told him I was interested to play Rondo of Blood and he basically said that was the only reason he had a PC Engine along with a bunch of Shmups.
>Is there really no other reason to get one of these besides Castlevania: Rondo of Blood and a bunch of Shoot em ups?
What a stupid question, just look at that compact form factor. With one of these babies you could store an entire retro console collection in a Japanese apartment.
Adventure Island is fine
Tons of great games don't believe the memes. If your bud said that then he's an idiot.
Just a few
Splatterhouse
Military madness
Silent debuggers (console's 1st fps?)
>Splatterhouse
Garbage
Dragon's Trap and Final Match Tennis are also really good. Not much else aside from some OK shooters
>Is there really no other reason to get one of these besides Castlevania: Rondo of Blood and a bunch of Shoot em ups?
It has a large library of CD RPG's, unfortunately most were never ported so you have to know Japanese.
My PC Engine is mostly for RPGs, SRPGs, action RPGs, and character-raising simulations
Its got a handfull of platformers, not as many as other consoles but they are very high quality, stuff like JJ and Jeff.
Its got a couple of good beat em ups, probably a bit of a waste if you don't like shooters.
It got a fair amount of nonsense like board games and quiz games too.
The Supergrafx has the best home port of Daimakaimura
There are ports on the PS1, Saturn and probably best of all, Sharp X68000 that are basically arcade perfect. It's still the best home port when the game was relevant though, the Sharp ver dropped in 94.
Great YouTuber for this is Retro Core, he does a series where he compares all ports of older games, nothing extravagant, just back to back comparisons over gameplay footage. 511 videos on the subject.
Yeah, sorry, I meant best *conversion* of Daimakaimura.
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It's got a lot of great arcade ports, but assuming you can just emulate Arcade versions, the main appeal is shmups and Bonk. But if you do like shmups, the lineup is very solid
Ys Series, Valis series, some nice fighting games and arcade ports. They are very similar though imho the TurboGrafx-CD is actually way more interesting, mainly because many of its games are actually exclusive and not shared with PS1. The shmups themselves are also better imo
>the only reason
moronic
i have the complete retail library on my everdrive
even without the (godtier) cd library you still have a STACKED collection of around 330 hucards
not EVERY game is a 1010
but there are some killer titles that never got rereleased on other systems
if you liked the nessnesgenesis era
and didn't have a tg16 growing up its like another timecapsule library from that exact era
with the upside of tons of games that you likely havent played
recs:
Märchen Maze
new zealand story
liquid kids
Fushigi no Yume no Alice
new adventure island
parasol frickin stars
strip fighter
wonder boy
mega twins
Valkyrie no Densetsu
Forgot to mention some of the beat 'em ups, it has a very cool port of Double Dragon II, Kaze Kiri Ninja Action, Mad Stalker, and several others
Why don't you people emulate the consoles that are flawlessly emulated
I bought one a few months ago with a flash card. I have to say the library is a little disappointing without the CD addon. I really enjoyed the Bonk games, Neutopia 1&2 and Devil's Crush pinball though
>he basically said that was the only reason he had a PC Engine along with a bunch of Shmups.
He's a fricking moron, the PC Engine has an excellent library of games outside of Rondo and shooters. Ninja Spirit, Alien Crush/Devil's Crush, New Adventure Island, Jackie Chan's Action Kung Fu, Legend of Hero Tonma, Son Son II, Valis I - IV, Legendary Axe, Cadash, Exile, Dragon's Curse, Dynastic Hero, Ys I-III, Dungeon Explorer I & II, all great games that aren't shooters.
>Is there really no other reason to get one of these besides Castlevania: Rondo of Blood and a bunch of Shoot em ups?
Yes. Everything a moronic underage shitposts here is true.
>I went for a couple beers at a local Saturn collectors house and when saw his PC Engine I told him I was interested to play Rondo of Blood and he basically said that was the only reason he had a PC Engine along with a bunch of Shmups.
You don't remember what happened at that house and your butt is still aching.
>Is there really no other reason to get one of these
I found another reason
actually many reasons
>Bonk's girl transformation is there too
KEK
there has to be a higher res scan of this somewhere
Here's a slightly higher res one with SAMPLE on it
For me it's female bonk
The CD Ys games are kino.
What if you made a decision for yourself based on your personal preference instead of acting like a woman asking everyone else what you should do so you can feel important.
YS Book 1+2
YS 3
YS Memories of Celecta
Rondo is what gets you interested in the console, then you get to appriciate the library once you look into the catalog.
There's also Bomberman, pinball, Splatterhouse, Ninja Spirit, and a few others.
But yeah it's mostly shmups.
Lots of good non-shooter games for PCE. Parasol Stars, Mizubaku Daiboken, Dynastic Hero, Kiki Kaikai, Ninja Spirit, Legend of Hero Tonma, Beball, Splatterhouse, Devil/Alien Crash, Adventure Island, Marchen Maze, Bomberman, Bonk, Bloody Wolf, Gekisha Boy, Valkyrie no Densetsu, Legendary Axe, Cadash, Jackie Chan, Ys, Kaze Kiri. Those are off the top of my head. Tons of RPG’s but most are filtered by virtue of not being able to read Jap, myself included. This “Saturn collector” sounds like a bit of a moron.
Dungeon Explorers
I can't take this console seriously
Too cute and small with only 2 buttons
Was it made for babies?
Researching this topic has lead me to discover that a TurboExpress looks gigantic in the hands of a baby
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/pl4mUUDiElI
It's not that different from Famicom. The HuCards/TurboChips were a novel design though imo. Saves space and fits inside of a israeliteel case.
>I can't take this console seriously
>Too cute and small with only 2 buttons
The console itself and the physical cards are awesome. The games are the problem
read the goddamn wiki
https://vsrecommendedgames.fandom.com/wiki/TurboGrafx-16
It's impossible to choose a model. You have this console that you only get if you have autism. But just to troll, there are like 5 different models to choose from. This is a hell of Nec's creation.
Rondo of Blood is a CD game, so good luck trying to play it on that.
>downloadind all the CD games
>almost done with the S games
>155GB
Holy frick I didn't expect it to be this large. I'm just finally getting around to backup up games and this crazy. I'm probably just going to just download the rest by hand later since wget will go through the whole list if I move the folder around. My poor nvme 1TB... I just need to move these over to my external and internal HDDs so I can delete these off of the nvme.
and once you realize CD games exist and are even more stacked than the hu-card library
pce is basically one of the top 3 VR systems ever made
I hate jannies