Recently covered by Nicole Branagan aka Nicole Express in an article on her website, the NEC PC-FX was a unique platform that never quite lived up to it’s potential. In 1994, NEC debuted the Japan-only successor to its super popular PC Engine platform. The new system boasted a 32-bit RISC processor, 16+ million colors, and […]
Nicole Express released a new open-source PC Engine CD space adventure puzzler, Space Ava 201: Quantum Field Theory. In addition to being a very interesting game, it also features lots of impressive technical wizardry under the hood. Space Ava 201: Quantum Field Theory is a single-player puzzle-adventure game for the TurboGrafx-CD. It features multiple turn-based gameplay styles, a huge array of […]
Konami just announced its game line up and release date for its upcoming mini console collection based on the PC Engine, CoreGrafx, and TurboGrafx 16. Regardless of the region or model you pick up. Customers will get the same games no matter which version of mini console purchased. Available on 19 March 2020, and links […]
Konami, IP owner of the NEC TurboGrafx-16 and PC Engine, has announced three new upcoming mini consoles, the TurboGrafx-16, PC Engine, and Core Grafx Minis. Each includes a controller and their own lineup of games. While I am normally dismissive of the plastic monstrosities that are mini consoles, if this is done well, it would […]
Someone mentioned a fabled R-Type TurboGrafx-16-to-SuperGrafx conversion in my Discord yesterday, so I asked Chris Covell if such a thing exists. It turns out, Chris was the person behind it. He started converting TurboGrafx-16’s R-Type to SuperGrafx in 2012, and made it to stage 4. The SuperGrafx’s extra hardware is used to reduce sprite flicker […]
I spent several weeks completely rebuilding Project Peacock from scratch, and it’s finally ready. PP is a list of every shoot ’em up, or shooter-element game for the PC Engine platform (minus active indie): PC Engine, TurboGrafx-16, SuperGrafx, PC Engine CD (all variants), and Turbo Duo. Actively sold indie games are purposefully kept off the […]
Artemio released updates to the PC Engine/PC Engine CD/TurboGrafx-16 and Dreamcast 240p Test Suites. PC Engine/Turbografx 16 Release 1.05 24/02/2019 (Super CD-ROM2, CD-ROM2 and HuCard) – Added 256, 320, 352 and 512 resolutions to Checkerboard – Added 352×240 resolution to Grid and Checkerboard (R-Type) – Added internal Horizontal resolution setup functions, skipping HUC defaults – […]
Ton-chi-ki.blogspot.com posted an overview of the PC Engine Mercurius, a PC Engine turned handheld. Functionally equivalent to a TurboExpress (AKA PC Engine GT), it features a 3D printed case, built in controller, and 4:3 RGB LCD (LCDDRV). With the exception of being extremely wide and probably very uncomfortable to use in practice, it is a […]
ElectronAsh just posted his initial open-source PC Engine & TurboGrafx-CD code for adding CD support to MiSTer’s TG16 core. This is important not only for PC Engine CD, but also Sega CD, Jaguar CD, Playstation, and other disc-based systems, because portions of the code to stream CD data will be similar across platforms. The work […]
