PCE pet peeves

[HercTNT]

Nat, once again i stand corrected. I had no idea. Then again I never owned a three button pad. does that apply to the 6 button pads as well, or do you have to have the three?  thanks for the info, there is hope for me yet 

[PunkicCyborg]

No just the 3 button controller, it has a switch on it that switches either select or start to button 3. Makes Barunba playable.

[guyjin]

Nat, once again i stand corrected. I had no idea. Then again I never owned a three button pad. does that apply to the 6 button pads as well, or do you have to have the three?  thanks for the info, there is hope for me yet 

No, the 6 button pads work in a completely different way. select and run are unrelated to buttons 3,4,5, and 6 on the 6 button pad.

[nat]

Yeah, what these other guys said re: 6 button pads.

It's a real shame, I always thought they should have released a pad that combined the 3 and 6 button functionality so that you could put it in 6 button mode for the games that needed it, and 3 button for everything else.

[tggodfrey]

My pet peeve was always the Marketing.......system failed before it even began.
I didnt mind the short coard but I hated how stiff and heavy the cords were (compared to NES cords)

[T2KFreeker]

My pet peeve was always the Marketing.......system failed before it even began.
I didnt mind the short coard but I hated how stiff and heavy the cords were (compared to NES cords)

I agree with this. The ONLY heavy advertising I remember seeing for any of the Turbo systems was when the Turbografx FIRST came out and that was that for the console. Then there was the short ad spree for the Turbo Duo system with that creepy looking chick and the shite Duo with the speakers right before the Duo released. After that, zilch, well other than those terrible Johnny Turbo ads. "HARF!!!" 

[turbokon]

Not really a pet peeve but more of a wish list. What if the CPU was a Motorola 6800 instead of the 8 bit one! Imagine the gracphically possibilities!

[nat]

I'm not sure what difference a Motorola 68000 CPU would have on the graphics. I'm sure one of the technical people will correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems to me the only difference would be in the way the games were coded; transparent to the end user.

I'm pretty sure the dual 16-bit VDC/VCE chipset handles all the graphical duties.

[Arkhan]

The 68k would have made coding way easier, including homebrew.  The 68k is C friendly.

It wouldn't have changed much graphically for the PCE though, unless they made the VDC capable of more obnoxious shit to go with the faster/better CPU.


Now, the SGX, yeah, it could've used a better CPU.  Two VDCs is tricky shit with the CPU already inside... :-/

[HercTNT]

someone in these forums described the difference between the two. The motorola 68000 is supposedly a more general purpose chip that does alot of stuff really well. Like a z80. The

Turbo's cpu is said to be more specialized and actually runs at a higher mips than the motorola. Its my understanding that the Turbo is actually faster in this regard. Dont jump me as i read

this somewhere in these forums.  More importantly don't whip out the "blasted and processed" shtick about the genny.

[turbokon]

The two graphic chips can only do so much if the cpu cant handle it. Clock speed wise, the 6800 & The hu are about the same so i dont know how the 6800 gets its edge over the hu.

[soop]

Well. As far as it goes, I suppose my only peeve is the lack of battery saves.

But then I think about the thread "what would you have done differently etc" and the thread about what could have been and the original design of the PCE. There's a lot to regret, but all in all, it's a great system with some awesome games.

[Arkhan]

wait are we talking about the 6800 or the 68000.

There is a massive difference, lol

[DragonmasterDan]

My pet peeve was always the Marketing.......system failed before it even began.
I didnt mind the short coard but I hated how stiff and heavy the cords were (compared to NES cords)

And the controller pinouts were large and easy to snap and break. I went through quite a few controllers as a kid because one of the pins would get bent or snap.

[Arkhan]

I love the controllers.  Especially the 3 inch long cables.

Gives me an excuse to sit right against the TV and melt my face.