1988 NEC/Hudson Soft Interface Unit, PC Engine, CD-ROM2 & EverDrive Reviews, Repairs and Modern Mods
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Join me on this retro journey where we explore and repair the Japanese NEC/Hudson Soft Interface Unit known as the Briefcase, review the PC Engine Core Grafx, fix the CD-ROM2, review the Memory Base 128 and play some HuCard, CD-ROM2 and Turbo EverDrive games. 00:00 PC Engine and CD-ROM2 Introduction 00:32 Retro Relix Title 00:44 PC Engine Core Grafx Review 01:54 Inside the PC Engine Core Grafx 03:08 Joypad Cleaning Montage 05:04 Powering On the PC Engine 06:02 HuCard Game - Bomber Man 07:46 HuCard Game - Altered Beast 09:10 HuCard Game - Out Run 10:58 CD-ROM2 Review 11:54 CD-ROM2 Repair 13:34 Interface Unit Clean and Repair Montage 16:58 Interface Unit Testing 17:28 CD-ROM2 Super System Card 17:48 Game Save Functions 18:12 Memory Base 128 Montage 19:44 CD-ROM Game - Rally Championship 20:40 Turbo EverDrive Review 21:08 Turbo EverDrive Game - Pac-Land 22:02 Turbo EverDrive Game - Knight Rider Special 22:54 Turbo EverDrive Game - Darius Alpha 23:34 Turbo EverDrive Game - Chase HQ II 24:26 Turbo EverDrive Game - The NewZealand Story 25:00 End LINKS PC Engine CD-ROM2 Overview https://www.giantbomb.com/turbografx-cd/3045-53/?form=MG0AV3 NEC PC Engine Specifications https://www.videogameconsolelibrary.com/pg80-pc_eng.htm#page=specs PC Engine ROM Downloads and Emulators https://wiki.batocera.org/systems:pcengine Hudson Soft HuC6270 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hudson_Soft_HuC6270 Hudson Soft HuC6280 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hudson_Soft_HuC6280 PC Engine HuC6260 - CMOS Video Colour Encoder Manual https://github.com/MiSTer-devel/TurboGrafx16_MiSTer/blob/master/docs/HuC6260%20-%20CMOS%20Video%20Color%20Encoder%20Manual.pdf PC Engine Architecture https://www.copetti.org/writings/consoles/pc-engine/ PC Engine Game Roms http://www.magicengine.com/mkit/ NEC Turbografx-16 Unit Service Manual https://gamesx.com/wiki/lib/exe/fetch.php?media=schematics:turbografx-16_unit_service_manual_-_smtg16.pdf NEC Memory Base 128 Guide https://necretro.org/Memory_Base_128 TurboGrafx-16/PC-Engine: A Complete Analysis https://gbatemp.net/blogs/turbografx-16-pc-engine-a-complete-analysis.14972/ The Complete PC-Engine Guide Book https://archives.tg-16.com/COMPLETE_PCE_GUIDE_BOOK/complete_pce_guide_book_1993.pdf PC Engine Schematics https://wiki.console5.com/tw/images/1/15/PC_Engine_Schematics_r1.2.pdf Rally Championship ISO Download https://cdromance.org/turbografx-cd/rally-championship-japan/ Inside The HuCard https://www.reddit.com/r/TurboGrafx/comments/rneh4s/before_anyone_gets_mad_my_game_100_didnt_work_no/ MUSIC CREDITS Digital Voyage and Funky (Sting) by Twin Musicom. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... http://www.twinmusicom.org/ Press Fuse and Straight Fuse by French Fuse URL Melt by Unicorn Heads Elastica, Connection © 1994 Deceptive Records Developed on a Surface Pro 9 using PowerDirector 365 and Jasc Paint Shop Pro 8 Thumbnail background generated using hotpot.ai/art-generator #pcengine #cd-rom2 #NEC #hudsonsoft
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