Core Grafx II just died on me

[blueraven]

This thread makes me realize how much I've missed this forum.

The fuse might do that. It MIGHT. I've only seen one blown fuse in the entirety of my repair days. it was a glass tube-type and was blackened on the inside instead of just broken.

Makes me think he plugged it into a 220V outlet, which would be insane.

I'm also wondering about the Amp. thesteve is the guy to talk to on that one.

[BlueBMW]

aw yeah.  blowing all the fuses.

at least you aren't blowing all the guys.

 That's my job.


I'm not sure on the fuses.  I would assume yes, but you should probably find out from thesteve or BlueBMW to be sure.

I about died laughing when I read this post...  damn ark you crazy son!!

[scanline99]

Clearly you're all nutters, so I've found myself in the right place .

Blueraven, I think the fuse blew because I shorted out my amp on the controller port at the front. I've now got that coated in electrical tape and stuck a strip of foam to the underside of my amp. I wrote in another topic about the sync issue on the PVM and 1084 and about an hour later, managed to fix it myself by ensuring that pins 8 and 16 on the SCART end were both getting 5v, thus powering my LM1881 and allowing the signal to pass through. So in summary, we're firing on all 4 cylinders now!!

I'll add that despite what some may say about me, it's really not insane to plug the system into a 240v outlet here in the UK (why there's a 20v discrepancy between here and the rest of Europe, I don't know). It's perfectly safe as the transformer I'm using is rated for the correct output for the PCE, that's the beauty of DC! I've been using the same one on my Jap Neo Geo AES system for years without trouble, and that's a machine I really wouldn't want to risk blowing up!

Again, thanks for all your help and good spirits guys!

[Bardoly]

Welcome to Pcenginefx!

There are definitely a lot of great shoot-'em-ups to discuss here.  I'll start.  Have you yet lost your sanity trying to beat Zero Wing?

[scanline99]

Somewhat embarrassingly I didn't even know Zero Wing was on PCE. Played it a bit on the Mega Drive of course and was never that blown away - is it any better on PCE, Bardoly?

Been kicking back with some Final Soldier and Salamander at the moment. Had some friends over the other night and ended up blitzing our way into the second loop of Salamander, then things got ugly! I also have a copy of Super Star Soldier on the way which I'm very much looking forward to. Biding my time looking for a decent price on Gunhed as I really enjoyed it on Wii Virtual Console (which was basically my "in" to the whole TG-16/PCE scene if you like).

[Bardoly]

Well, I've never owned a Mega Drive/Genesis, and my play time is virtually nil, so I have no way to compare the different console conversions.  I just know that the PCE version is excruciatingly difficult!

I played Life Force (Salamander) on the NES a lot in my younger years, but I haven't been able to play much PCE Salamander yet.  I REALLY enjoy 2-player simultaneous shoot-'em-ups, though, so I'm planning on playing it with a friend before too long.  Do you get to play 2-player simultaneous shoot-'em-ups much?

[scanline99]

I've noticed it's a CD game anyway, so it'd be some time before I'd even consider it as a Super CD-Rom² unit seems to command the princely sum of roughly... one mortgage .

PCE Salamander gets my recommendation - I know it has arcade perfect ports on the Saturn/PSX, but it's damn good for the time and the music is "punchier" than the arcade in my opinion. Considering alot of the Gradius series is single player only, this was a refreshing change of pace. When it comes to me playing games with friends, they usually prefer to play modern/casual stuff, so typically classic co-op shmups are off the menu sadly, added to which, if someone agrees to play, I find it's better if you can start from the same level of skill (which is what happened with Salamander, we were both new to that game). If there's a large discrepancy between the two players, the balance of fun seems to be wildly skewed because someone is dying alot and/or some is hoovering up all the points and power-ups.