Turbo Everdrive PC Engine / Turbografx 16 Flash Card Nearing Release

[turbokon]

Good question Joe, hopefully somebody can answer that.

Chris, you're right on.  I had to split the pce roms into two folders. 

All I can say is the everdrive is freakin awesome.  Every roms I tried loads up, doesn't matter if they are PCE's or tg16's and doesn't matter what region systems because it works on the my turbo express and supergrafx.  Even the supergrafx games loads fine (even the opening soundtrack of aldynes loads up on my express) where else before I could only get 1941 to work with the neo flash cart. No missing around with headers or anything. 

[Joe Redifer]

You've just gotta make sure you download good TEH ROMZ.  I had a lot of bad Turbo ones that I had to seek out replacements for.  I have a bunch of dupes in my PC engine collection because the titles of the games are so nonsensical and the same game may be titled two or three separate ways, resulting in dupes.

Also, is the PC Engine version of Twin Hawk really called Tiger Shark?

[meka]

No Intro Rom Sets are good rom sets, they only use verified roms.

[Jibbajaba]

No Intro Rom Sets are good rom sets, they only use verified roms.

Yup, that's what I use.

Chris

[Bloody Wolf]

Those peeps that had the older flash cards, are ya dumping those now?

[Necromancer]

I tried Populous, the only HuCard with a battery save and yet it saves to the internal RAM of my awesome TurboGrafx-CD Interface Unit.  What's the battery save for?

Are you new here?  

As has been discussed many times before, Populous does not have battery save on the huey; the RomRam logo refers to the onboard ram used ingame.

P.S. - the only HuCARD with battery save is the Tennokoe Bank.

[Joe Redifer]

What is the extra RAM used for?  And Populous wasn't really a game I would care to be much more informed about, so I probably overlooked those threads.  It's a good game, yeah, but I was always kind of indifferent to it until now.  Seems to run fine on the Everdrive from what I've played of it.

[Necromancer]

What is the extra RAM used for?

It needed room for all the stuff it has to keep track of - big, interactive maps with lots of people and structures.

Seems to run fine on the Everdrive from what I've played of it.

How far in did you play it?  Maybe it doesn't need the extra ram until some of the later levels.

[Joe Redifer]

Not far, maybe 3 minutes.

[KnightWarrior]

Will the prices for older flash cards goes down??

[Deletion]

Will the prices for older flash cards goes down??

A better questions is will the manufacturers of other flash carts improve their products to be more competitive with the TED?

[Drakon]

I seriously doubt they'd improve the products.  Prices may go down, or people will just stop buying them.

Will the prices for older flash cards goes down??

A better questions is will the manufacturers of other flash carts improve their products to be more competitive with the TED?

[thesteve]

having repaired a neoflash card, there is room for improvement

[Deletion]

Stone Age Gamer's has some updates on the Deluxe Edition. Apparently he has a good number of TEDs in stock for the folks who placed orders and are waiting for the Deluxe Edition and is holding off on selling any more units (Deluxe or Board Only) until the Deluxe Edition is ready for sale. His post reads:

"I am getting a lot of e-mails and messages about the Turbo EverDrive and when it will be in stock. We have decided to not stock any Turbo EverDrives on the site until the Deluxe Edition is complete OR the small chance it doesn't come to fruition.

The reason we are doing this is because we already have almost 50 people on hold who purchased a Board Only that are waiting for possible Deluxe Edition. From our experience from the people who ordered from us about 80% to 90% want to wait. We can not continue to build this ON HOLD list, by the end we may have 100+ waiting for the product that is not finished. This is something we do not want to do.

What about people who don't want the Deluxe? Well to prevent confusion we still do not want to list the Turbo EverDrive (Board Only) on our site until we are close to a finished Deluxe. We feel it may just become confusing and a lot of those people will buy in a panic instead of waiting for the choice of what versions. We have a good amount of "surplus" boards for Board Only and Deluxe that will be made available once Deluxe is finished.

The plastics company said they will be doing our small run tomorrow to allow us to finish prototyping. So we hope sometime next week we will have a small amount of cut plastic in to finish the product. We will obviously post pictures once we have something.

Lastly, if you are someone who bought a Board Only and are waiting for possible Deluxe. If you no longer want to wait please reply to your order confirmation e-mail and we will fill your order as-is."


Photo caption: Turbo EverDrive with smoke plastic circuit area cover. Board has not been coated in black vinyl coat yet, but I figured everyone would want to see something ASAP.

[Frank_fjs]

Wow, all this waiting and messing around for that? It looks rather simple, which isn't a bad thing but it really depends on the price. StoneAge do seem to charge an incredible premium for their deluxe editions, anyone know what they plan on charging for this? I wouldn't be a happy camper if I were waiting for an order to be fulfilled and I didn't want to wait for a $2 piece of plastic.