Playing Bonks adventure, I noticed that the spin wasnt working as good as i expected. After opening and cleaning (some white stuff, but pretty much no dirt), the buttons stopped working at all.

After testing, I found out that the problem was o the turbo controls. They werent pushing hard enought, and the signal of the A/B buttons wasnt reaching his destination.

Ended up solving it adding some fluff to make it push harder. Now is working fine, but is obvious that the buttons arent in good shape haha.

Any button replacements do you recommend me to buy?

The crappy controls, the awful transcripts, 1001 ways to die…. I love it 😍

So a couple of weeks back or so I posted my refurbished and modded out Turbo Express. I decided I was going to do one last thing to the TE because the controller board was starting to be faulty. Several years ago now I discovered a guy on a forum with the handle turbokon, made a limited batch of replacement controller boards, one of which had the option of adding a PC Engine controller port in place of the TV tuner port on the TE. I was lucky enough to find the eBay store of the creator through some internetz sloothing who goes by the handle captain.tawy, had a handful of these boards left over and is selling them currently. I snatched one up instantly and it is indeed a nice piece of kit. The art on the board almost made me not want to install it. It works like a charm, even with my Avenue Pad 6 and Horii 6 button pads. Though I will say I can only cycle through the Everdrive game menus in 2 button mode with either pad for some reason, but I can switch in game with things like SF2 and it recognizes the 6 buttons without issue.

Is there anything like this available? I don't want to go through the hassle of getting adapters for the original controllers. It doesn't need to be perfect, just the best available. If the sliders aren't available then at minimum I'm just looking for a decent controller that is similar shaped with 4 buttons so that I can atleast assign two buttons as turbo buttons.

I usually use one of these but recently found out using an improper adapter can brick your mini. I think the black one is stronger than the white... I'm not sure which one is better. Does USB cable matter (2.0 or 3.0?)

A problem that could have been avoided if Konami didn't cheap out and just included this stuff...

Wouldn’t it be neat if Konami released a Turbo Duo mini that had more CD games on it, and a few HuCard games that they missed on the TG16 mini, like Legendary Axe?

Hey y'all! Just got a core grafx in the mail and everything is amazing with it.... Except it has that old electronics PCB smell. And it's very strong. I checked the board and washed it with alcohol. No caps are leaking or bad. It has no jailbars. Besides the smell it's perfect. Is there a way to get rid of the smell or is it doomed? Some of my childhood consoles I pulled out of storage have the same smell... A kinda sour smell with a little bite. It's not pee or anything it's the board itself I think. Any advice or knowledge on this would be greatly appreciated.

No regrets. None. Doesn’t irk me ever. Not even a little. Barely remember doing that. Water under the bridge. Chalk it up to just another poor life choice. How was I suppose to know? It looked like a freakin little girls game in the magazine! I love cute’em up’s. It wasn’t my fault. It wasn’t. I swear.

Listening to some old Japanese jazz fusion, I came across this track:

Asia - Minoru Mukaiya (1985) - YouTube

I'm sure that little melody that comes in in the beginning is in a TurboGrafx game I have, but I can't remember exactly what...

I recently picked up a Turbografx-16 with a controller, a few games, and an r/f connector, the only thing missing is the power adapter. On the console itself it says it takes a 10.5v AC adapter, center pin negative. I was hoping someone here could point me in the right direction, just looking for a reasonably priced adapter that won’t destroy the console itself. Thanks!

Also any other literature that came with this? Trying to make a complete in box Turbo Express.

I was playing Military Madness today, and couldn’t get past the Galios stage after a few tries. So as a break, I played Bonk’s Adventure, since it’s an easy play.

Anybody else ever do this? Just to take a break and get the vibe of winning back?

Now that I type it out, it sounds kind of lame…LOL

I finally got around to finishing my Turbo Express upgrade and servicing. I've replaced the caps, went with the LCDDRV screen, modern larger glass lens, new button membranes and setup a recharging circuit and USB-C port along with an internal battery.

So I was lucky and got a pc engine duo r for Christmas. It came with the japanese power supply, so apologies if this is obvious but I couldn't find an answer. Can I use a normal travel converter and plug it in that way, or do I need a custom made plug?

Hi there, so I just played and beat Air Zonk and LOVED it. First game I've ever played on the Turbo. What other games would you guys say are essentials? I love all styles of games, not just shmups, so feel free to recommend any and everything you think is worth playing :) thanks!

Available soon in limited quantities.

Supergrafx

Bought this Supergrafx a couple of weeks back for $130 untested and with nothing included.

It’s in nice condition and works, but it looks like someone has been into the console before as the rf shield is missing along with the clear piece of plastic that goes near the extension port.

The motherboard was held down by black torx self tappers, and the case had Phillips self tappers.

Some of these screws don’t tighten down, so I want to repalce them with ones that are the same/similar to the factory fasteners.

Does anyone know the sizes I need?

My dad has been a pretty big fan of Castlevania and the TurboGrafx 16 for many years now, and saw this as the perfect gift to get him this holiday season. Likewise, I’m also a fan of both and quite happy we have it in our collection now. I’ve really gotta hand it to the person who made the game case really official looking, and visually impressive as if it was released in America. I do wish the CD looked better, but besides that I love this a lot and thought it was worth picking up. Overall a good product and an amazing game.

Like it says above. Will the turbovision work after a LCD upgrade? After a GG LCD replacement the TV tuner no longer works. So curious about the turbovision.

Growing up my uncle had a TurboGrafx he used to let me play. I vividly remember playing "Cratermaze" and Bonk, I really want to be able to play these again but I see the systems and games are quite pricey. Is there a less expensive option?