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WTB: Turbografx manuals
« on: January 04, 2017, 05:26:42 AM »
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Re: WTB: Turbografx manuals
« Reply #1 on: January 09, 2017, 11:20:33 AM »
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Re: WTB: Turbografx manuals
« Reply #2 on: January 20, 2017, 08:51:45 AM »

Here's the SNES test unit if anyone is interested





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Re: WTB: Turbografx manuals
« Reply #3 on: January 20, 2017, 09:11:20 AM »
Interesting little thing.  What does it do?
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Re: WTB: Turbografx manuals
« Reply #4 on: January 20, 2017, 09:20:22 AM »
Interesting little thing.  What does it do?

It checks & tests the diagnostics of a Super Nintendo if any got sent in for repairs. When booted up it plays a 16 bit rendition of the opening theme of Zelda 2 while showing some footage of a Super Mario world lvl. And then later on some random asian lady with short hair comes on the screen. And you need to push buttons on the unit itself to progress the test.

Penguin from Nintendo age made a youtube video about it, it's official name is the "Super Nintendo control deck tester unit"

Here's the video:

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Re: WTB: Turbografx manuals
« Reply #5 on: January 20, 2017, 09:52:22 AM »
Interesting little thing.  What does it do?

It checks & tests the diagnostics of a Super Nintendo if any got sent in for repairs. When booted up it plays a 16 bit rendition of the opening theme of Zelda 2 while showing some footage of a Super Mario world lvl. And then later on some random asian lady with short hair comes on the screen. And you need to push buttons on the unit itself to progress the test.

Penguin from Nintendo age made a youtube video about it, it's official name is the "Super Nintendo control deck tester unit"

Here's the video:


I have never seen that before. Interesting.

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Re: WTB: Turbografx manuals
« Reply #6 on: January 20, 2017, 10:10:40 AM »
Yarr, that's a neat machine.  Thanks for sharing.

PS - f*ck that youtube guy for saying she's ugly.
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Re: WTB: Turbografx manuals
« Reply #7 on: January 20, 2017, 11:27:41 AM »
Yarr, that's a neat machine.  Thanks for sharing.

PS - f*ck that youtube guy for saying she's ugly.

Yeah idk why he would say that. I'm sure he's no Ryan Reynolds

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Re: WTB: Turbografx manuals
« Reply #8 on: January 24, 2017, 02:28:32 PM »
First thought in my head when I saw it was that it looks something like a 32X for a Super Nintendo.  That thing seems pretty cool.
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Re: WTB: Turbografx manuals
« Reply #9 on: January 24, 2017, 03:18:11 PM »
That tester looks cool. I remember seeing one at an authorized Nintendo repair place when I was a lot younger. I brought my Gameboy in for a screen replacement and they were using a unit similar to that one to run diagostics on a SNES that was brought in for some type of service. They charged like $25 in 1994 to run the tests I remember.
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Re: WTB: Turbografx manuals
« Reply #10 on: January 25, 2017, 09:44:18 AM »
Its interesting, because each test cart has a slightly different animation set to test. I'm surprised it needs such a big housing, since it does nearly the same thing as the smaller test carts I have.
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Re: WTB: Turbografx manuals
« Reply #11 on: January 25, 2017, 10:08:27 AM »
Maybe the Super Famicom version does something more and has more stuff inside?
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Re: WTB: Turbografx manuals
« Reply #12 on: January 25, 2017, 10:55:22 AM »
Not to hijack the thread, but does are there any places that make reproduction manuals? Seeing another thread with reference to a manual that cost 4 figures has me wondering.

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Re: WTB: Turbografx manuals
« Reply #13 on: January 26, 2017, 07:22:02 AM »
That tester looks cool. I remember seeing one at an authorized Nintendo repair place when I was a lot younger. I brought my Gameboy in for a screen replacement and they were using a unit similar to that one to run diagostics on a SNES that was brought in for some type of service. They charged like $25 in 1994 to run the tests I remember.

Ohhh no way! I always thought these were just owned by Nintendo repair guys. You would send your broken stuff to their outlets and they would diagnose it / send it back. These units do look pretty user friendly, so that would make sense. I didn't think these were out in the open for people to see, thanks for sharing.


Its interesting, because each test cart has a slightly different animation set to test. I'm surprised it needs such a big housing, since it does nearly the same thing as the smaller test carts I have.


That's a good point. Because in addition to this 32X looking thing, there were other test SNES cartridges. Only one i can think of top of my head is the burn in cartridge, which is fairly common to find. and not expensive. The ones you have, are they the 5 or so yellow NES carts or a snes cart test cart?

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Re: WTB: Turbografx manuals
« Reply #14 on: March 09, 2017, 11:55:30 AM »
Working out an epic trade for the super nintendo test unit.

Found a guy who's parting with his TurboGrafx 16 kiosk, one of the big ass tall ones from Toy's R US, fingers crossed! Hoping for a straight trade