To me it seems like most of the well regarded games for the PC Engine are CD games. How would you compare the PC Engine's HuCard library to it's CD/SuperCD library?
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To me it seems like most of the well regarded games for the PC Engine are CD games.
Most of the well regarded games on the system are shmups and the majority of those are not CD games.
The best ones are
Nexzr is worth buying a cd-eom. Could be the best shooter ever made
its up there brotha
Keio being here makes it even more based. Good looks anon
I will never not be pissed that AFAIK Galaxy Fraulein Yuna is never, ever, ever getting a proper English release. I watched the OVA ages ago and loved it and would really like to play the games but I'm pretty sure there's not enough people in the same camp to justify it.
Isn't there already a patch for that game? Several of them even
I think so, though I don't know about the final game in the series on the Saturn.
Aside from a few late HuCard releases, HuCard vs CD games are almost like different console generations. This is mostly due to the limited size of hucards and earlier developer skill/design being parallel to the Famicom era, resulting in the 8-bit-like character of most HuCard games. Some late HuCard games look like SNES games though and as good as any CD game.
There are a few solid HuCard titles. Most notably the Bonk games, Air Zonk, Coryoon, and some nice arcade ports (OutRun, Power Drift, Street Fighter II, Konami shmups, etc.) but you are correct that TurboGrafx-CD is the main draw of the console, at least for me. Like the SEGA CD, some of its games rival early Saturn/PS1 titles
There are quite a few really good Hu games, I’d add Soldier Blade, Devil Crash, and Parasol Stars to that list. Liquid Kids, Gunhed, and 1943 deserve a mention as well.
fricking bullshit
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tldr version:
hu-card @ normal turbo everdrive is what i've used for years
there are plenty of GREAT games & shooters especially like
mentioned
the cd addon is great and there are some excellent titles
however, the cd library is smallerthinner & cost of entry is quite high for normies
misterfpga runs the cd core just fine
so does the analogue pocket
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it is right up your alley and has a PLETHORA of titles that you likely haven't played
its a real treat
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I can't decide between getting a real CD-ROM2 unit for my PCE or a Turbo Everdrive Pro. I'm a real hardware purist most times and I love the look of the briefcase but factoring in the cost of the super system card+arcade card I'm not sure it's worth shelling out for the real thing
get the briefcase and then the everdrive
now you have both
if you want to just get a mister or even a pi3 it will run most of the titles just fine
i dont really like the look of the pi on my 75" though
also it overheats after 1 hour of use
Can the everdrive (not the pro) function as the various system cards?
Back then, I desired and played the CD/SuperCD games most since they were region free. The music and pixel art cinematics were what drew me to the system to begin with. While I enjoyed TurboChip games just as much with fond memories of road trips playing the TurboExpress which was TurboChip games only, I was primarily a home console player rather than portable so I still leaned more towards the CD-ROM games. However, only in the late 2000s, when I got a SuperGrafx, I started warming up to the HuCard/TurboChip games a lot more.
The Chinese one I have cannot do the Arcade cards, but it can do all the others.
That's no blog. You just provided a helpful description, not your personal journal entry. Relax, brotha!
Is that a legit copy of sapphire? Impressive if so. Do pretty much all duo’s need to be recapped at this point and is there any other maintenance needed in your experience?
>recapping 50+ caps
they make you earn it dont they
There's no need to recap a console. They are good for 100 years.
my personal library has 4 HuCards and 60 CDs, so I guess that's my answer
>nothing but RPGs or digital comics
well duh
100% of namco's pce games are on hucard (as well as like 90% of taito's games). that alone is enough reason to not disregard the hucard library
the comic discs are usually cheaper than shit like sapphire or pcenginegenjin or cotton or whatever
the heavy hitters are expensive
Where is the evidence that the PC-Engine was "successful" in Japan? Game sales reported by Famitsu put the games WAY below even that of the Megadrive.
The wikipedia source that claims it was "successful" is an EGM journo banting in a fan letter segment in 1995, with no numbers, no real source for his claims, just "trust me bro I'm an expert"
PC-Engine (base unit) = 3.6 million (most likely less if you exclude foreign units and the SuperGrafx).
Mega Drive = 3.58 million, and thats just the base units (Both Mega Drive models 1 and 2)
By that logic the Mega Drive did better in Japan then the PC Engine if you exclude foreign units and the SuperGrafx.
>By that logic the Mega Drive did better in Japan then the PC Engine if you exclude foreign units and the SuperGrafx.
Well yes. That's what all the numbers seem to indicate. Yet the common opinion is to think the contrary.
Who cares homosexual. If a console is good then it is good. You have semen in your ass if you worry about popularity
I wouldn't be surprised if most of the other model's sales were repeats from console collectors who stuck with the white PC Engine since launch and just bought new models whenever they came out.
Nintendo later did this with their handhelds.
>most of the well regarded games for the PC Engine are CD games
absolutely not.
overwhelming majority of the system's (good) sidescrollers are hucard
no one really knows with the famitsu data. it doesnt even have manjimaru as the #1 seller.
it also has oddities that make no sense, like super darius being the best selling shooter
but considering the pce came out in 87 and didnt kick the bucket till 96, it definitely had a solid run
>overwhelming majority of the system's (good) sidescrollers are hucard
Also Bomberman.
>but considering the pce came out in 87 and didnt kick the bucket till 96, it definitely had a solid run.
1997, with a surprise 1999 release.
>1997
96 only had 3 games
the game in 97 was this weird cancelled prototype that got a magazine only release
1996 had 7 PC Engine games.
1997 had 2 PC Engine games.
I like that it says INTERFACE UNIT on the interface unit. They could have left it blank but they didn't, and for some reason I like that.
I don't like how it's the colors of the Core Grafx but the CD unit matches the colors of the original PCEngine
Yeah would have been even better if they had an alternate white version interface. I wonder if it was a compromise so neither would look too out of place.
It also needed S-Video and RGBS support out of the box as well.
That looks pretty cool. I think I like that more than the white PCE+CD briefcase
Dunno why but I always used to think Bonk was some Chuck Rock eurojank shite but it's actually really fricking good
2 is my fav personally
tho that might be because i find 1 too ez to cheese with the turbo controller
isnt ninja spirit a card game?
thats like the best game
some other fun ones coming to mind
>legend of valkyrie
>all the star soldier games
>dungeon explorer
>legendary axe 1 + 2
>neutopia 1 + 2
>bonk games
tbh now that i think about, i feel the opposite, opie
there are some good CD ones, but i almost always play the hucard games
The hu card games are great, there're like NES games with more colour and less lag. My only issue is the lack of original games most of the best hucard games are just ports of classic arcade games like Gradius and tower of duraga, but there are some good original titles like the Bomberman games and soldier blade.