Ah, very convenient, thanks!
If you want an infinitely long cord, there is now this:
PCEBT Bluetooth adapter
While I’m usually huge on using original controllers for all consoles as much as possible, frankly using wireless SNES and Saturn pads for all consoles (including PCE) just works better for almost everything.
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Thanks, I’ll look into that as well, where can you buy it? Are there any PC Engine style Bluetooth controllers that would work with that? I was looking at the 8BitDo PCE mini controllers but those are sold out and apparently aren’t Bluetooth.
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Looks like no stock of any colours right now…
Nope, not that I can find. I’ve been using a bluetooth SNES pad (8bitdo DIY kit and a Switch Online one) and while I love original pads for most consoles frankly it’s just better.
PCE BT supports six button mode which works perfectly for Street Fighter etc, allows setting extra buttons as auto-fire. It’s a really great product.
The main issue is it doesn’t fit on a Duo or R/RX without a small extension adapter, but they sell those for a couple of bucks.
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Nice, thanks again for the info.
How is Street Fighter II PCE btw overall as a port?
Not quite as good as SNES overall, but better than Mega Drive by far.
It’s incredible to see it running on the tiny 1987 system, or I assume on a GT (never seen one in real life). however.
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I have a Turbo Express, beautiful little system and incredible portable for its time. Sadly the capacitors on it died years ago, plus the screen now has two dead pixels (the capacitors dying wasn’t a surprise given the ones in most NEC consoles were cheap but apparently all GT/Express screens eventually accumulate dead pixels). I bought it brand new from Turbo Zone Direct (RIP) many years ago. I’m considering eventually getting it repaired and having a new LCD screen installed but I also plan on buying a Hucard adapter in the near future for my Analogue Pocket so I dunno if it’d be worth having the TE fixed at this point. Then again there’s just something about playing on original hardware…
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Ended up getting this one, 10 feet long and only $5.95, should be arriving next week and will be a good solution until whenever I get a BT controller adapter:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0002J1SIM?ref=ppx_pt2_mob_b_prod_image
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Good call. I was so surprised when I learned about these cables after putting up with ultra short PC Engine controller cables for years.
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Just as an aside, I got the adapter set for the Pocket. Excellent investment IMO. The Pocket is just so good as a display device. The only issue I’ve had so far is with Military Madness not displaying correctly, which may just be a dirty HuCard.
That said, if you can get your TE fixed, I’d do it.
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Looking to get an Arcade Card Pro for my Turbo Duo, does it need to be the Arcade Card Pro Duo (blue) or will the one below work (not sure if the orange card is only meant for the CDROM 2 attachment/briefcase system set up)?
The Pro will work fine but costs waaaaay more. Like three times more.
You can almost get a Turbo Everdrive Pro for that price, which functions as an Arcade card as well, plus can be used for CD games, though not in a Duo.
Arcade Card Duo is your best bet just for Arcade Card games on a Duo.
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not sure how much you know about the more technical side, but any chance you think someone may sort a workaround for duo systems to read ISOs off the turbo plus sometime? it kills me that i have this RGB modded duo-r and the setup prevents me from working around the disc drive, ugh
almost wish i could trade it out for a turbografx + CD setup and sort RGB modding that, at least then i’d have the option here
I understand it can’t be done, it’s a hack on the expansion port and Duo’s are already hijacking the function used.
Technically it could be done via major surgery on the system and adding a switch to completely disable the CD hardware, but it would be easier, cheaper and safer to just grab a core PCE as an extra system.
I’ve similarly been running an RGB modded Duo RX for a decade or more. Have now switched to White PCE + Briefcase for real CD usage when I want it, but mostly use the core and TEPro + RGB adapter thing.
My IFU isn’t modded so now I’m composite only for real CDs, but I’ll live with that for now.
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right then, think i solved my problem - picked up a SCART/RGB modded turbografx-16, looking forward to playing PCE-CD images off a turo everdrive pro down the road!
my only concern is reading how the hucard doesn’t put out stereo sound for disc images, hoping said SCART mod solves this issue for me? really hoping to have the best of both worlds here
The Everdrive guy has a no-mod RGB solution for that
https://krikzz.com/our-products/cartridges/edfx.html
I now use it as my main set up with a White PCE
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this is awesome! still wondering if my modded SCART RGB unit will suffice, or if i’m likely to need more modding to get stereo & RGB out of disc images from said turbo everdrive plus, hoping i’m good with it as it is
Does this have color correction for the RGB values to match the composite output? Raw RGB is a bit too punchy.
I don’t believe so, it just uses the system’s native output lines.
Personally I’ve been using that for many many years so am used it it. Just had a look, I got a modded PCE Duo in 2012.
It’s quite crazy these days having a digital record, I just looked it up and I got my original PCE Duo in 2005.
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