Author Topic: Anyone here know where I can get a converter for PCE to play the US games?  (Read 779 times)

nat

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This leads me to a question I have.  I was about to make a new thread, but I'll ask it here instead.

What is the best flash cart available? I only know of two-- the tototek one and the Neo one. The Neo one looks superior in every way, but I'd like to hear some "real world" testimony.

And maybe there are other options out there that I don't know about.

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I own the neo one, its ok. You have to download multiple versions of roms to see which one will work on the turbo grafx hardware. And it doesn't work on the turbografx+cd, but it does on the pcengine, turbografx, or turbo duo. everytime you add roms, it does a bank swap, so roms you throw on aren't permanent, the software is pretty easy to use. I had a hard time getting it because of the lousy service at ic2005.com that was the us distributer at the time and probably still is. I was going to get the tototek, but it was ugly and barely held any games, haha.

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This leads me to a question I have.  I was about to make a new thread, but I'll ask it here instead.

What is the best flash cart available? I only know of two-- the tototek one and the Neo one. The Neo one looks superior in every way, but I'd like to hear some "real world" testimony.

And maybe there are other options out there that I don't know about.

I have the neo one and it's excellent. I find it really easy to use, and with my white PC Engine, it's such a compact solution to the space problem that retro gaming fans have. I don't need to buy every game I want to play, and I can also try out JJ and Jeff and Military Madness on it, rather than the Jap versions. The advantage with games that rely on text is obvious. I think it's of good quality build too, and it looks great.
Don't even consider the tototek one. I got it and couldn't get it to work. It holds half as many roms and is unwieldy and extremely ugly.
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I have the tototek one and it works great, although like the GBA flash cart I have, I can only get the usb drivers to work on every other computer.

You have to use Malduci's program to pad sound rip files to get them to work and some roms don't work when the card has a bunch on it at the same time. But its quick and easy to use and I'm very happy with it.
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I'm interested in one mainly for some of the homebrew demos out there as well as the some of the fan-translated games (Wonderboy in Monster Land, Lady Sword, etc).

I think I'll go for the Neo one since I have a Mac and thus no parallel port.

Turbo D, what "service" problems did you experience with ic2005? They are still the distributor for the Neo cart.

EDIT: And why the f*ck wouldn't it work on a TG+CD? The HuCard slot is same slot that is used even if the CD-ROM isn't attached. How would the Neo even know it's there? I don't understand.
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Is the 128M Neo card available? I thought they hinted that it was coming back when the 64M was released...
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Wow that Neo flash card sounds neat! Where can I order it from?

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the problem i had with ic2005 is that they wouldn't ship it to me because the thought i didn't pay them. I had to email them multiple times showing them my paypal reciept. Maybe you will have better experience, idk. As far as the turbografx+cd, its beyond me why it didn't work,  I had to unplug the turbografx from the cd dock for it to work, weird huh.

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Wow that Neo flash card sounds neat! Where can I order it from?


This is where I got it from:
http://www.ic2005.com/shop/product.php?productid=26&cat=0&page=1

I got mine just four days after I ordered it, which was amazing since I live in the UK.
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Wow that Neo flash card sounds neat! Where can I order it from?


This is where I got it from:
http://www.ic2005.com/shop/product.php?productid=26&cat=0&page=1

I got mine just four days after I ordered it, which was amazing since I live in the UK.


Thanks man.