Author Topic: Why is the TG-16 way fatter than the PC-Engine? (Read 1417 times)

Keranu · « **Reply #15 on:** January 30, 2006, 03:28:08 PM »

Photoshop was my second option

, but I just actually believed it because I know Steve is crazy about Military Madness/Nectaris!

esteban · « **Reply #16 on:** January 30, 2006, 07:44:36 PM »

Quote from: "theoakwoody"

Sweet photoshop job. I'm surprised you didn't go with the Dracula X Hucard which I just happen to have in my personal collection. Unfortunately my digital camera is busted so I can't take a pic but it's incredible.

. No way! You have a Dracula X HuCard as well? Damn, I guess they made 3 prototypes after all, not just two of them.

I'd scan the Dracula X HuCard for you folks, but I'm loaning it to Black_Tiger at the moment

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theoakwoody wins the prize, by the way

TR0N · « **Reply #17 on:** January 30, 2006, 10:52:29 PM »

Quote from: "stevek666"

In fact, here is a working prototype that I own:

This jumbo-sized HuCard (short for "Humungous Card"), would have been packaged in the same jewel cases, thankfully.

Damn that is a phat hucard

Who would have thought, NEC of useing that design in the frist place.

Pcenginefx · « **Reply #18 on:** January 31, 2006, 09:21:09 AM »

I just happen to have taken recent gut shots of the TG-16...here are a few. If anyone would like high-res versions (over 2,000 pixels wide) let me know.

esteban · « **Reply #19 on:** January 31, 2006, 10:27:45 AM »

Beautiful shots, Aaron! What type of lighting did you use?

Pcenginefx · « **Reply #20 on:** January 31, 2006, 11:22:51 AM »

For any of my studio shots I use two NRG Versalite Professional lights w/150w lamps, and two 44" silver umbrellas as my diffusion.

http://www.nrgresearch.com

You could probably get a similar lighting effect with a cheap florescent lighting rig as well.

Here are a few pics from the same photo shoot of the PCE. I was going to put these up on the site but Assembler already has good shots of the innards.

Keranu · « **Reply #21 on:** January 31, 2006, 01:26:18 PM »

Very nice shots! I find it funny how the TG16 PCB is shaped just like the plastic core, haha.

TR0N · « **Reply #22 on:** January 31, 2006, 06:36:10 PM »

Fascinateing, Aron realy

esteban · « **Reply #23 on:** February 01, 2006, 04:18:34 AM »

Quote from: "Pcenginefx"

For any of my studio shots I use two NRG Versalite Professional lights w/150w lamps, and two 44" silver umbrellas as my diffusion.

You could probably get a similar lighting effect with a cheap florescent lighting rig as well.

Here are a few pics from the same photo shoot of the PCE. I was going to put these up on the site but Assembler already has good shots of the innards.

Aha! The photos really look nice, it's nice to know that the lighting wasn't super-expensive (I thought it would be over $300 worth of gear). Not that I'm gonna rush out and buy anything, though

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I used to make 16 mm (gelatin film) movies and I always had to improvise with lighting (I'd use cheap lighting rigs from hardware stores) ... but I've never done studio photography with a still camera. The pics you posted of PC-FX not too long ago were really nice as well, though they were intended to be more artistic and less clinical. Please do some "arty" shots of the TG-16 family of hardware as well! That would rock

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I know it isn't easy to devise an interesting compostion for a console, but I am a sucker for pictures that have one plane in sharp focus and everything else slightly out of focus. I don't know if this would look nice with a small console, though.

m1savage · « **Reply #24 on:** February 01, 2006, 07:29:30 AM »

And here's a look inside the PAL Turbografx -

http://nfg.2y.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=1306&hl=turbo

just for comparison purposes.

Keranu · « **Reply #25 on:** February 01, 2006, 08:49:05 AM »

That's a pretty cool link as well. NSG rocks hardcore still.

theoakwoody · « **Reply #26 on:** February 01, 2006, 02:22:02 PM »

So basically the TG16 is an "unstacked" PC Engine. It looks like its simplified to have one pcb instead of a mother and daughterboard. What about the socket for a rom chip, well at least that's what the nfg website said it was.

http://nfg.2y.net/games/pce/

I'd love to put ninja spirit or something on the board permanently but who knows if you could even get it to boot. I don't know why but I was under the impression that you could just toss the tg16 innards into a pc engine case but I guess with a little logic I could've figured that one out without even seeing these pics.

esteban · « **Reply #27 on:** February 01, 2006, 07:12:10 PM »

Quote from: "theoakwoody"

I don't know why but I was under the impression that you could just toss the tg16 innards into a pc engine case but I guess with a little logic I could've figured that one out without even seeing these pics.

Well, you can toss the innards of two PCE's into a TG-16

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theoakwoody · « **Reply #28 on:** February 02, 2006, 09:50:45 AM »

If you put two PC engines in one TG16 case does that make it 32 bit(8+8+8+8 ) ? Maybe it could even give the 32x a nice run for its money. MMMMM

FM-77 · « **Reply #29 on:** February 03, 2006, 07:11:29 AM »

Quote from: "Ninja Spirit"

The Famicom does look like a toy.

The Famicom is a toy.