Offering my services for Turbo/PCE repairs/mods

[MotherGunner]

Hey Turbo, good luck man.  I spent quite a few drunken days in Savannah.  If you ever get down to the docks, do a shot at Wet Willy's for me!

[sdufore]

Turbokon did a wonderful job in fixing my Turbo Duo.  He did a full cap replacement and also solved a memory save issue with the system.  Turned out that there was a missing resistor that was never installed when the system was manufactured.  Turbokon was very diligent in debugging the problem and kept in constant communication with me so that I knew what he was working on.  Thanks to him I can now play my Duo games that use the memory save feature.  Now I just need to beat the high scores that he racked up and saved on my Duo while testing the system to make sure the memory save feature worked. 

Thanks again Turbokon.

[turbokon]

Thanks mother, you bet I will:)

No problem sdufore, shouldn't take you too long to beat my score:)

[tiptopjames]

grabbed a region modded duo of turbokon. the mod is discrete and slick, and functions flawlessly. definitely support his work!

[Komodos]

Are you still doing these mods?

[turbokon]

Sort of, I had to scale back since my move to Georgia. What do you need done?

[galam]

Another +1 for TK. Just got my tg back with PCE switch. PSYCHO CHASER!

[turbokon]

Added a picture of a duo I just modded:)

[turbokon]

Added some pictures of my component video modded turbografx-16:)

[MotherGunner]

Turbo that looks awesome.  Question, what is the benefit of this solution versus direct RCA plugs?

[turbokon]

Thanks mother

Are you referring to the video quality or the actual rca jacks versus this mini din? I'm going to assume both just in cause. Video quality is like day and night versus the usual RCA (composite, yellow) on a HDTV as this mod utilize the YPrPb input. Using the mini din is less work then trying to mount the RCA jack and I think is better looking too:)

[MotherGunner]

It was the latter but thanks!  It answers my question.  PM incoming.

[NightWolve]

rca jacks versus this mini din? ... Using the mini din is less work then trying to mount the RCA jack and I think is better looking too:)

The winning argument for me in sticking with standard RCA jacks versus a mini DIN is that a) you don't need a special, non-standard cable, and b) you don't have to worry about ever losing said special cable. I did lose my SNES Composite/Stereo cable, but that was after I upgraded to the S-Video cable so it didn't matter. Could've used it for testing purposes actually, but oh well.

It can look fine (click for full view), but yeah, it's harder/more work in drilling the holes properly, a guide helps, but even then it's tricky, plus there is a real estate issue or lack thereof (I had to do a few tricks to get 2 rows of jacks like that, plus S-Video).

[Keith Courage]

I actually went with a VGA port and a VGA to composite RCA cable

[turbokon]

Cool, yeah it's a matter of preference really. I just prefer the mini-din for the TG-16 & pce as they fitt nicely with the existing opening. I usually go with rca's for units like the duo.