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NEC TG-16/TE/TurboDuo => TG-16/TE/TurboDuo Discussion => Topic started by: Mobius on April 01, 2008, 12:30:35 PM
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Okay, dumb question time... I'd say a third to half of the Duos I see in person or on eBay are missing the cover to the HuCard slot (especially loose systems). Did people take these off on purpose back in the day, or something? They don't seem that fragile, I can't imagine them breaking that easily.
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A lot of them where probally removed to use some sort of region adaptor.
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I always wondered that myself. I never see NES's with missing cart doors.
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yeah the purple barney converters will only work on duos with the cart door ripped off.
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It's such a shame that had to happen.
Duos look so sleek with the door in place. When the door is missing it completely changes the look of the console.
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yeah the purple barney converters will only work on duos with the cart door ripped off.
Are you sure? I removed the entire purple shell from my "Barney" converter and I think we even took the door off and the damn thing still didn't fit in a Duo. Perhaps I am remembering incorrectly, though.
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that damn cover is quite fragile! the holdingclip breaks easily at the one side and then goes lost, while putting it somewhere else.
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I always wondered that myself. I never see NES's with missing cart doors.
Never? I see NESes with missing cart doors all the time on eBay.
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I always wondered that myself. I never see NES's with missing cart doors.
Never? I see NESes with missing cart doors all the time on eBay.
I have never seen this!
Converters make some sense, but I find it hard to believe that many duo owners would have one.
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It comes off very easily. I bumped mine on accident once while changing hucards and it came off! It wasn't broken though, so I simply snapped it back into place. :)
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I always wondered that myself. I never see NES's with missing cart doors.
Never? I see NESes with missing cart doors all the time on eBay.
I have never seen this!
If you browse around eBay, you'll notice that there's a number of NESes missing the cart door. I'm pretty sure that if you put enough pressure on it, it would simply snap off.
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I have never seen this!
Converters make some sense, but I find it hard to believe that many duo owners would have one.
I think every person I've ever known with a Duo has had a converter. Even I have one. Everyone I know bought a Turbo Duo because of all the cool games featured in EGM and such...games that ended up never coming to the US, so importing eventually ensued. Importing is expensive, but the price of PC Engine games was cheaper than import SFC games by $40 or more, and if you could afford a Duo (three times the price of a SNES) then you could probably afford import games for it. Furthermore, even though people pay shit-loads of money for these converters now, they were often free with a game in the early 90s. They are just cheap pieces of crap after all.
As for the door; removing it won't allow the TV Game Computer Cartridge Converter (aka: Barney) to fit. It has to be physically hacked to pieces. It fits in an Express, PCE core (all three), or a TG-16 no problem. The door does get knocked off pretty easily, but it also snaps back into place pretty easily providing you didn't snap it.
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It's such a shame that had to happen.
Duos look so sleek with the door in place. When the door is missing it completely changes the look of the console.
Indeed; the combination of careless oafs and semi-fragile covers was bound to end badly. That seemingly minor change really ruins the look, much like an open door on a PC-FX or 'cube controllers connected to a Wii.
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Careless oafs should be banned from buying video game consoles.
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Careless oafs should be banned from buying video game consoles.
Indeed, it'll make things better for us collectors down the road.
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Careless oafs should be banned from buying video game consoles.
But I like 'em. :cry:
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I couldn't imagine my Duo without its HuCARD cover. It has come off on me before, but it's easy enough to put back on.
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If my HuCard cover ever comes off I'm going to write NEC for a refund.
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Barney converters need a hole cut or drilled in the lower-left corner to make room for the turbochip lock to slide out with the power switch on a Duo. Either that or saw off your turbochip lock.
The little piece of flexible plastic on the hucard cover of my first Duo broke upon contact with a flying SNES cartridge but I was able to very carefully super glue it back together.
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Barney converters need a hole cut or drilled in the lower-left corner to make room for the turbochip lock to slide out with the power switch on a Duo. Either that or saw off your turbochip lock.
The little piece of flexible plastic on the hucard cover of my first Duo broke upon contact with a flying SNES cartridge but I was able to very carefully super glue it back together.
I had to hack a great deal of plastic off the sides to accommodate the Duo's case. Otherwise the converter wouldn't slide in, not even when I threw SNES carts at it.
Maybe there is more than one version of the Barney? Everyone here calls it Barney because of the purple color, but personally I've never even seen a purple one in person. They have all been brown. Maybe with the color revision came a physical one as well?
Here is mine:
(http://homepage.mac.com/signofzeta/.Pictures/hcc1.jpg)
(http://homepage.mac.com/signofzeta/.Pictures/hcc2.jpg)
Note the Buy-Rite sticker on thing making it even crappier than it already is. Thanks Buy Rite!
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(http://homepage.mac.com/signofzeta/.Pictures/hcc2.jpg)
I've never seen one like that. ever.
Note the Buy-Rite sticker on thing making it even crappier than it already is. Thanks Buy Rite!
Indeed.
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Mine looks exactly the same as Zeta's. Mine even has void gum left from a buyrite sticker.
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I've never seen one like that. ever.
Do you mean hacked apart like that, or a converter like that in general? This was by far the defacto converter back in the day. I didn't see another model until TZD started selling diving boards in 1994 or whenever that was.
Looking at the purple onein this image:
(http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/b/b8/TurboGrafx_HuCard_adapters.png)
It almost looks like it was revised to work with the OG Duo. It looks like its already missing the plastic structure that I had to hack away on mine. Its the same sticker as mine has though.
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Wow, I've never seen the brown ones before. No sense in calling that thing a Barney converter...anyone have any name suggestions for the new "turd converters?"
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Well the sticker on these things (brown purple or otherwise) says, "TV Game Computer Cartridge Converter", and that rolls off the tongue so well I think we should just use that. Or "TVGCCC".
Also, "stupid piece of useless shit that came free with my $130 copy of Street Fighter II' and f*cks up when I try to use an Arcade Card with it".
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It doesn't f*ck up, you just need some skillz with an exacto knife and it will work perfectly.
Open 'er up and slice where indicated:
(http://www.joeredifer.com/crap/convertercard.jpg)
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I don't get it... Out of the box do those converters have those pins jumpered or something? Why on earth?
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Wow, I've never seen the brown ones before. No sense in calling that thing a Barney converter...anyone have any name suggestions for the new "turd converters?"
Nominating "turd converters"
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I nominate "barney turd".
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I nominate "barney turd".
Even better!
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I nominate "smoochy converter".
man all that hacking and slicing looks like a real pain in the balls to get a game flowing.
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Well Zeta, I assume you got the arcade card working 100% perfectly along with every other PC Engine game through the converter via my awesome picture? Well? Well?
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I haven't used this adaptor in years. Even after hacking it apart it still won't fit into a Duo R (much thicker than an OG Duo), and that's the only CD system I have now. Also, this Duo R has a region switch in it anyway.