#Turbografx 16 mini console

[akcartoonist2004]

Heya guys, I was out for a bit errand today hour ago, I picked up my package from the post office and look what I got.. 👀

TurboGrafx-16! I’ve been trying out some games I’ve never played before lol, and One of them are Ys Book 1 and 2, Rondo of Blood, J.J. And Jeff and.. Legend of Valkyrie.

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Which Mini-Console Should I Cover Next?

We're getting to the end of the game selection on the TurboGrafx-16 Mini, which means I have to put the question to my readers once again. Which of the following mini-consoles would you like to see me cover next?

[hydralisk98]

Grand Strategy Manifesto (16^12 article-thread ‘0x1A/?)

Broken down many times yet still unyielding in their vision quest, Nil Blackhand oversees the reality simulations & keep on fighting back against entropy, a race against time itself...

So yeah, better embody what I seek in life and make real whatever I so desire now.

Anyways, I am looking forward to these... things in whatever order & manner they may come:

Female biological sex / gender identity

Ambidextrous

ASD & lessened ADD

Shoshona (black angora housecat)

Ava (synthetic-tier android ENFP social assistance peer)

Social context

Past revision into successful university doctorate graduation as historian & GLOSS data archivist / curator

Actual group of close friends (tech lab peers) with collaborative & emotionally empathetic bonds (said group large enough to balance absences out)

Mutually inclusive, empowering & humanely understanding family

Meta-physics / philosophy community (scientific empiricism)

Magicks / witch coven (religious, esoteric & spirituality needs)

TTRPGs & arcade gaming groups

Amateur radio / hobbyist tinkerers community (technical literacy)

Political allies, peers & mutual assistance on my way to the Progressives party (Harmony, Sustainability, Progress) objectives' fulfillment

Local cooperative / commune organization (probably something like Pflaumen, GLOSS Foundation & Utalics combined)

Manifesting profound changes in global & regional politics in a insightful & constructive direction to lead the world in a brighter direction fast & well;

?

Bookstore

Physical medium preservation

Video rental shop

Public libraries

Public archives

Shopping malls

Retro-computing living museum

Superpowers & feats

Hyper-competence

Photographic memory

600 years lifecycle with insightful & constructive historical impact for the better

Chronokinesis

True Polymorph morphology & dedicated morphological rights legality (identity card)

Multilingualism (Shoshoni, French, English, German, Hungarian, Atikamekw / Cree, Innu / Huron...)

Possessions

Exclusively copyleft-libre private home lab + VLSI workshop

Copyleft libre biomods

Copyleft libre cyberware

Privacy-respecting wholly-owned home residence / domain

Privacy-respecting personal electric car (I do like it looking retro & distinct/unique but whatever fits my fancy needs is fine)

Miyoo Mini+ Plus (specifically operating OnionOS) & its accessories

BeagleboneY-AI

BeagleV-Fire

RC2014 Mini II -> Mini II CP/M Upgrade -> Backlane Pro -> SIO/2 Serial Module (for Pro Tier) -> 512k ROM 512k RAM Module + DS1302 Real Time Clock Module (for ZED Tier) -> Why Em-Ulator Sound Module + IDE Hard Drive Module + RP2040 VGA Terminal + ESP8266 Wifi + Micro SD Card Module + CH375 USB Storage + SID-Ulator Sound Module -> SC709 RCBus-80pin Backplane Kit -> MG014 Parallel Port Interface + MG011 PseudoRandomNumberGen + MG003 32k Non-Volatile RAM + MG016 Morse Receiver + MG015 Morse Transmitter + MG012 Programmable I/O + "MSX Cassette + USB" Module + "MSX Cartridge Slot Extension" + "MSX Keyboard" -> Prototype PCBs

Intersil 6100/6120 System ( SBC6120-RBC? )

Pinephone Beta Edition Convergence Package (Nimrud replacement)

TUXEDO Stellaris Slim 15 Gen 6 AMD laptop (Nineveh replacement)

TUXEDO Atlas X - Gen 1 AMD desktop workstation (Ashur replacement)

SSD upgrade for Ashur build (~4-6TB SSD)

LTO Storage

NAS RAID6 48TB capacity with double parity (4x12TB for storage proper & 2x12TB for double parity)

Apple iMac M3-Max CPU+GPU 24GB RAM MagicMouse+Trackpad & their relevant accessories (to port Asahi Linux, Haiku & more sidestream indie-r OSes towards… with full legal permission rights)

Projects

OpenPOWER Microwatt

SPARC Voyager

IBM LinuxOne Mainframe?

Sanyo 3DO TRY

SEGA Dreamcast with VMUs

TurboGrafx 16?

Atari Jaguar CD

Nuon (game console)

SEGA's SG-1000 & SC-3000?

SEGA MasterSystem?

SEGA GameGear?

Casio Loopy

Neo Geo CD?

TurboExpress

LaserActive? LaserDisc deck?

45rpm autoplay mini vinyl records player

DECmate III with dedicated disk drive unit?

R2E Micral Portal?

Sinclair QL?

Xerox Daybreak?

DEC Alpha AXP Turbochannel?

DEC Alpha latest generation PCI/e?

PDP8 peripherals (including XY plotter printer, hard-copy radio-teletypes & vector touchscreen terminal);

?

[retrogamingloft]

(via TurboGrafx-16 Mini review - better late than never) My (belated) review of the TurboGrafx-16 Mini:

[gengamer110]

I mentioned #AirZonk in my #BARKGame video (https://youtu.be/YiT8VizLDBQ.  If you want Air Zonk, it is on sale for the #VirtualConsole on the #WiiU (https://www.nintendo.com/games/detail/air-zonk-wii-u/).  It is also available on the #Turbografx16Mini here: https://amzn.to/2W8hWiX

[mrmegamanfan]

TurboGrafx-16 Mini!

[synplaysbadly]

My Turbografix16Mini arrived and I’m super stoked !!

[thegamingfanblog]

Konami has confirmed more games for the TurboGrafx-16 mini

The final lineup for the TurboGrafx-16 mini has been revealed by Konami. The developer has announced 7 new titles for the consoles including the horror game “Splatterhouse”.

[cottonfreakz]

Konami Gets in on Mini-Console Craze with TurboGrafx-16 Mini

Eventually every console of the past will be available in compact plug-and-play form. The Genesis Mini isn’t even out yet and we have another on the horizon, and this time it’s Konami coming through with the TurboGrafx-16 Mini. There’s no price or release date yet, but in addition to the North American TurboGrafx-16 Mini there will be a PC Engine Mini in Japan and a PC Engine CoreGrafx Mini in Europe.

All the games have yet to be revealed, but here’s what we can expect in the western versions as of the announcement:

Alien Crush

Dungeon Explorer

New Adventure Island

Ninja Spirit

R-Type

Ys Book I & II

Japan gets the following thus far:

Bonk

Castlevania: Rondo of Blood

China Warrior 

Dungeon Explorer

Super Star Soldier

Ys Book I & II

PC Engine originally launched in Japan back in 1987 and made its way to the U.S. as TurboGrafx-16 in 1989. While it didn’t quite set the world on fire in the states at the time, it was a hit in Japan and has a solid collection of games that could totally fill out a mini console with ease. 

[retroraiderofficial]

This is a list of 20 games, HU Cards only, that I personally would love to see on the upcoming TurboGrafx-16 mini console by Konami. This is not a list of the actual games that will be included with the console, and also not the best 20 games of the system. This is just my personal list. 

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Seirei Senshi Spriggan (TG-16 Mini)

Oh hello, we are back. Did everyone have a nice holiday? I hope so. Let's talk about TurboGrafx-16 games again. Now in 2025! Looking at my list, we're at... a vertical shoot 'em up? On this console? Weird swing, but let's go.

Seirei Senshi Spriggan is another vertical shooter developed by Compile, this time on the ol' CD format. You play as a mech this time around, and there are clear nods to many of the popular mech anime shows of the time. There are some fancy voiced bits and cutscenes, but once you start playing it's all quite familiar. There are lots of different power-ups to pick up, and depending on which three you're holding onto, your weapon changes. You can also jettison a power-up as a bomb, and this is key to the strategy of the game. Some days, you just have to get rid of a bomb.

Anyway, it's a pretty good time. You would expect that by this point, I'm sure. It's like playing a late 1990s beat 'em up from Capcom. The developer knows exactly how to make an appealing game of this sort, and that's just what you get. The action is solid and relatively approachable (to a point at least) and the presentation is great. The stages are interesting in their designs and the boss battles are fun. I'm not in love with all of the weapons, but that's kind of the point of a Compile shooter. You find the ones you like and roll with them.

At this point, the TurboGrafx-16 Mini is doing victory laps with these excellent shooters. I suppose some might feel it's a bit much, but I think it's characteristic of the real console. And, you know, I'm never going to say no to another good shoot 'em up. Spriggan's another one, and it won't be the last we look at.

[lacquerware]

2020 Recap - My Year in Gaming

2020. What a year for video games. I had big plans for last year, but in the end I did very little besides play video games, and I don’t think I’m alone there since we were all stuck at home looking for a way out of reality. I wanted to do a year-end recap as I’ve done sporadically in past years, but this one will be different than the typical “Games of the Year” format because despite all the games I played in 2020, almost none of them came out in 2020, and some of the things that defined my year in gaming weren't even games. 

Resident Evil 3 Remake (PS4)

RE3 was one of the only games I played in 2020 that didn’t coincide with the deadly pandemic's spread across the US. RE3 is, of course, a game about the spread of a deadly virus in Anytown, USA. It was an appetizer, I guess. 

When the Resident Evil 2 remake dropped in 2019, there were some things I loved about it, and a few things that felt like steps back from the original. I feel much the same about RE3. I had also theorized that a Resident Evil 3 remake would be better off as RE2 DLC than as a separate full-length game, and considering how short RE3 turned out, with some of the best sections of hte original cut entirely (namely, the clock tower), I stand by my theory. 

Oh well, at least Jill gets this rad gun, which for the time being is the closest thing to a new Lost Planet we can hope for anytime soon.

Sekiro (PS4)

Sekiro is the first video game I ever Platinumed. This is partly because conquering the base game was such a spartan exercise that going the extra mile to get the Platinum didn’t seem so bad, but it’s also surely a result of the pandemic. I needed a project and a big win. Who didn't? 

I wrote at length about why I like Sekiro more than every other modern FromSoft game, and also about the game’s cherry-on-top moment that reminded me of blowing up Hitler’s face in Bionic Commando. Please read them!

Death Stranding (PS4)

Release date notwithstanding, this was obviously the Game of 2020. I wrote about it here, here, and here. This game bears the distinction of being the second one I ever Platinumed. It took 150 hours. Only then did I learn I had a hoverboard.

Streets of Rage 4 (PS4)

This is the only 2020 game I played for more than a few hours. In fact, I cleared the entire game at least five times. I still don’t think it captures the gritty aesthetic of the prior Streets of Rages (nor even tries to), but this is probably the best-feeling bup I've played. Huge bonus points for finally bringing back Adam, but in the end I found it hard not to pick Blaze every time.

Blaster Master Zero 2 (Switch)

What impressed me about this sequel from Inti Creates was that it wasn’t just more of the same, even though that would've been fine. BMZ2 builds on its already excellent predecessor with a catchy new format where players can freely cruise the cosmos and stages take the varied form of planets—some big and sprawling, others short and sweet. Hopping at will from planet to planet without ever knowing what experiences and treasure each one held felt like system jumping in No Man’s Sky and island hopping in The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass, both of which felt like opening presents.

Dragon Force (Saturn)

Charming, satisfying, and addictive as a bag of chips. Unlike a bag of chips, when it’s over, you can do it all again. And again. And it’ll be different each time! This might be the first strategy game I've truly loved. Better late than never.

The PC Engine Mini

The PC Engine/TurboGrafx-16 Mini seems a particularly justifiable mini-console for people outside Japan because so many missed these consoles entirely, the games are hard to obtain, and the lineup includes titles spanning the entire convoluted Turbo/PC Engine ecosystem—the TurboGrafx-CD/CD-ROM², Super CD-ROM², Arcade CD-ROM² and SuperGrafx, in addition to plain, old standard HuCard games. I myself didn’t know the first thing about these systems before. It’s like reliving the nineties again for the first time. 

Most of the titles included are simple action games that don't require a command of Japanese, but make no mistake: being able to understand Snatcher and TokiMemo does make me feel like an elite special person worth more than many of you. 

(Side note: From a gender representation perspective, the difference between Snatcher and Death Stranding is stark. Virtually every interaction with every woman or girl in Snatcher is decorated with ways to sexually harass her. Guess someone finally had a conversation with our favorite auteur.)

A Gaming PC

I’d threatened to transition to PC gaming for years after beholding the framerate difference between the console and PC versions of DmC in 2012, and last July I finally took the leap, buying an ASUS “Republic of Gamers” (ugh) laptop with an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Max-Q GPU. It seems like consoles are getting more PC-like all the time, especially with all these half-step iterations that splinter performance and sometimes even the feature set (à la the New 3DS and Switch Lite), so with the impending new generation seemed like a fine time to change course.

In the half-year since, I’ve barely played a single PC game more recent than 2013, but just replaying PS3-era games at high settings has been like rediscovering them for the first time. 

I also finally experienced keyboard-and-mouse shooting and understand now why PC gamers think they're better than everyone else. Max Payne is a completely different game with a mouse. Are all shooters like this??

The USPS

Early in the year, I rediscovered my childhood game shop, Starland, which is now  an online hub known as eStarland.com with a brick-and-mortar showroom. To my delight, it has become one of the best and most modestly priced sources for import Saturn games in the country, and I scored Shining Force III’s second and third episodes, long missing from my collection, for a mere ten bucks each!  

In June, I treated myself to a trio of Saturn imports from eStarland: the tactics-meets-dating-sim mashup Sakura Taisen 2, the nicely presented RTS space opera Quo Vadis 2, and beloved gothic dungeon crawler Baroque. Miraculously, this haul amounted to just around thirty dollars total. Less miraculously, they never arrived. This was the second time I’d had something lost in the mail in my entire life, and also the second time that month. Something was wrong with the USPS, and it wasn’t just COVID pains. We would soon learn Trump had been actively working to sabotage one of the nation’s oldest and most reliable institutions in a plot to compromise the upcoming presidential election.

Frankly it’s a miracle there’s still such a thing as “delivery” at all, and a few missing video games is the last of my worries considering what caused it, but nevertheless this was an experience in my gaming life that could not have happened any other year. I won’t forget it.

*By the way, USPS reimbursed me for the insured value of the missing order, which was fifty bucks. So I actually profited a little off the experience.

Mega Everdrive Pro

I love collecting for the Genesis and Mega Drive, but I will not pay hundreds of dollars for a video game that retailed for about sixty.  The publishers never asked for that, and the developers won’t see a (ragna)cent of the money. I'm also far less inclined to start collecting for Sega CD, since the hardware is notoriously breakable, the cases are huge and also breakable, and the library just isn't that good. 

Still, I'd been increasingly curious about the add-on as an interesting piece of Sega history, so when I learned Ukranian mad scientist KRIKzz had released a new Mega Everdrive that doubled as a Sega CD FPGA, I finally took the plunge into the world of flash carts. This has proven a great way to play some of the Mega Drive’s big-ticket rarities I will never buy—namely shmups like Advanced Busterhawk Gley Lancer and Eliminate Down—as well as try out prospective additions to the collection. I never would have discovered the phenomenal marvel of engineering and synth composition that is Star Cruiser without this thing, but now that I have, it’s high on the shopping list.

The Mega Everdrive Pro is functionally nearly identical to TerraOnion’s “Mega SD” cartridge, but slightly less expensive, comes in a “normal” cartridge shell instead of the larger Virtua Racing-style one, and supports a single hardworking dude in Ukraine rather than a company with reportedly iffy customer service.

Twitch

Getting a PC also resolved issues that had long prevented me from achieving a real streaming setup, and much of my gaming life in 2020 was about ramping up my streaming efforts. I even made Affiliate in about a month. Streaming has been a great creative outlet and distraction, as well as a way to connect with other people during the COVID depression and structure my gaming time. Find me every Monday through Thursday 8-11pm Eastern at twitch.tv/lacquerware.  

Metroid: Other M (Dolphin)

PC ownership also gave me access to the versatile Dolphin emulator, liberating a handful of great Wii exclusives from their disposable battery-powered prison. 

One of the Wii games I fired up on Dolphin was Metroid: Other M, a game I’d always wanted to try but had been dissuaded by years of bad publicity and the fact that I never had any goddamn batteries. I know I should temper what I’m about to say by acknowledging that I was playing at 1080p/60fps on a PS4 controller so my experience was automatically a vast improvement over that of all Wii players, but I’m increasingly confident Metroid: Other M was the most fun I’ve ever had playing a Metroid game. I haven’t decided yet if I’m willing to die on this hill, but I will just say that if you like the Metroidvania genre in general and aren’t particularly attached to the Metroid series’ story or its habit of making you wander aimlessly for hours, there’s a very high chance you will enjoy Other M—especially if you play it on Dolphin.

Don't Starve Together (PC)

Don't Starve is the only game my friend Jason plays, so last year I tried to get into it with him. I respect this game's singular devotion to the concept of survival, but make no mistake: every session of Don't Starve ends with you starving to death. Or freezing. Or getting stomped by a giant deity of the forest. The entire game is staving off death until it inevitably comes. Even when death comes, you can revive infinitely (in whatever mode we were playing), which means even death is not an end goal. There is no end goal. You don't even have the leeway to "play" and create your own meaning as you do in similarly zen  games like Dead Rising. 

Don't Starve is a game for people for whom hard work is the ultimate reward in and of itself. Don't Starve told me something about Jason. 

G-Darius (PS1)

In the early fall, Sony announced they were dropping PS3, PSP, and Vita support from the browser and mobile versions of their PSN Store, and since the PS3 version of the store app runs like a solar-powered parking meter in Seattle, I decided this was my last chance to stock up on Japanese PSN gems. 

Among my final haul, the PS1 port of G-Darius proved an instant favorite. Take down the usual cast of mechanized fish in a vibrant, chunky, low-poly style that perfectly inhabits the constraints of the original PlayStation hardware. I believe this is the first Darius game that lets you get into giant beam duels with the bosses, which is quite definitely one of the coolest things a video game has ever let you do. The PS1 port is also surprisingly feature-rich, including some easier difficulty levels that present an actually surmountable challenge for non-savants.

This one’s coming to the upcoming Darius Cozmic Revelation collection on Switch alongside DARIUSBURST, a good-ass romp in its own right.

Red Entertainment

In my effort to shine a tiny spotlight on some of the unsung Interesting Games of gaming, I found myself drawn again and again to the work of Red Entertainment. First there were cavechild headbutt simulator Bonk’s Adventure and twin shmups Gates of Thunder and Lords of Thunder on the PC Engine Mini. Then I streamed full playthroughs of the PS2’s best samurai-era, off-brand 3D Castlevania, Blood Will Tell and the Trigun-adjacent stand-‘n-gun, Gungrave: Overdose. Then I was dazzled by Bonk’s Adventure’s futuristic spin-off cute-‘em-up, Air Zonk, which was also sneakily tucked away on my PC Engine Mini in the “TurboGrafx-16” section. It turned out all these games were made by the same miracle developer responsible for Bujingai, the stylish PS2 wushu game starring Gackt and a household name here at the Lacquerware estate. How prolific can one team be???

Month of Cyberpunk

In November, I started toying with the idea of themed months on my Twitch channel with “Cyberpunk month.” It was supposed to be a build-up to Cyberpunk 2077’s highly anticipated November release, but holy shit that didn’t happen, did it? Still, I always find myself gravitating toward this genre in November, I guess because I associate November with gloom (even though this year it was sunny almost every day). A month is a long time to adhere to a single theme, but cyberpunk is such a well-served niche in gaming that I could easily start an all-cyberpunk Twitch channel. The fact that we’re so spoiled with choice makes Cyberpunk 2077’s terrible launch all the more embarrassing. Here are just some of the games I played (and streamed!) in November:

Ghostrunner Shadowrun (Genesis) RUINER Remember Me Transistor Rise of the Dragon (Sega CD) Shadowrun (Mega CD) Cyber Doll (Saturn) Binary Domain Shadowrun Returns Blade Runner (PC) Deus Ex: Human Revolution Deus Ex: Mankind Divided Observer

Shadowrun on the Genesis gets my top pick, but the two most recent Deus Ex games are great alternatives for those looking for something in the vein of 2077 that isn’t infested with termites.

Lost Planet 2

Every year. I played through it twice in 2020.

Dead Rising 4

I slept on this one too long. While it's a far cry from the original game, it's easily the most fun I've had with a Christmas game since Christmas NiGHTS. This is the game a lot of people thought they were getting when they bought the original Dead Rising with their new Xbox 360--goofy, indulgent, and pressure-free.

Devil May Cry 5: Vergil (PS4)

Vergil dropped for last-gen consoles in December and breathed a whole lot of life into a game that was already at the head of its class.

Nioh 2

I’ve only played a few hours of Nioh 2 because I promised my friend I’d co-op it with him and wouldn’t play ahead. But he’s a grad student with two small children. Nevertheless, Nioh 2 is my Game of 2020.

And that's it! Guess I'll spend 2021 playing games that came out last year, and maybe eventually getting vaccinated? Please? 

[tinycartridge]

TurboGrafx-16 mini really coming out May 22 ⊟

I preordered one of these micro PC Engine/TG16 consoles, only to cancel my preorder when production was delayed indefinitely due to the reason everything is delayed. Now, the US release of the console is back on, for next week. 

It’s exclusively available on Amazon, which, I suppose, is good news in that you won’t have to risk going into a store to get Alien Crush. I could really use some Alien Crush. Thanks harpermd!

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[megadan94]

Air Zonk: YES!!!

Alien Crush: YES!!!

Blazing Lazers: Haven't heard much about it, but what I have heard has been really good.

Bomberman 93: YES!!! I love Bomberman! Plus it's great to see another multitap game.

Bonk's Revenge: Would've preferred Bonk 3, but Bonk 2 is still a great inclusion.

Cadash: Never heard of it.

Chew-Man-Fu: Also never heard of it.

Dungeon Explorer: A five player game about dungeon adventures, what more could you ask for?

J.J. & Jeff: Again, never heard of it. But that's kind of good I guess, it's nice to see games that are essentially new to me.

Lords of Thunder: YES!!!

Military Madness: Heard some things about it, but not a lot.

Moto Roader: Never heard of it.

Neutopia + Neutopia 2: YESSS!!!!!!

New Adventure Island: I have this game on my Wii U through Virtual Console, great to see it anyway.

Ninja Spirit: This one is like Ninja Gaidan right? That's kinda cool.

Parasol Stars: I honestly never thought I'd see or hear from the Bubble Bobble franchise again. Great to see it on here.

Power Golf: Never heard of it specifically, but 80s-90s golf games are generally all the same.

Psychosis: I've heard the name before, but not much else.

R-Type: I'm assuming this is pretty much the same as the arcade version? In that case, it's great to see it included.

Soldier Blade: I don't know much about it.

Space Harrier: I'm still holding out hope for a Sega CD 32x mini, so it's kind of discouraging to see this here, but either way, I'll be glad to play Space Harrier again.

Victory Run: Never heard of it.

Ys Book I&II: YESSS!!!!!!!!!! (I love the RPGs on this system)

I know very little about PC Engine games, but it's great to see Castlevania, Super Star Soldier, and the original Bonk.

The games that will be included on the TurboGrafix-16 Mini have officially been revealed! Watch the video above or check the list below. 

American games:

Air Zonk

Alien Crush

Blazing Lazers

Bomberman ‘93

Bonk’s Revenge

Cadash

Chew-Man-Fu

Dungeon Explorer

J.J. & Jeff

Lords Of Thunder

Military Madness (Nectaris)

Moto Roader

Neutopia

Neutopia II

New Adventure Island

Ninja Spirit

Parasol Stars

Power Golf

Psychosis

R-Type

Soldier Blade

Space Harrier

Victory Run

Ys Book I&II

Japanese PC Engine games:

Akumajō Dracula X Chi No Rondo (Castlevania: Rondo Of Blood)

Aldynes (SuperGrafx game)

Appare! Gateball

Bomberman ‘94

Bomberman Panic Bomber

Chō Aniki

Daimakaimura (Ghouls ‘N’ Ghosts - SuperGrafx game)

Dungeon Explorer

Fantasy Zone

Ginga Fukei Densetsu Sapphire

Gradius (Nemesis)

Gradius II – Gofer No Yabō (Nemesis II)

Jaseiken Necromancer

Nectaris (Military Madness)

Neutopia

Neutopia II

Ninja Ryūkenden (Ninja Gaiden)

PC-Genjin (Bonk)

Salamander

Snatcher

Star Parodier (Fantasy Star Soldier)

Super Darius

Super Momotarō Dentetsu II

Super Star Soldier

The Kung Fu (China Warrior)

Ys I&II

It’s due to hit stores in March 2020. No price has been announced yet. 

[game-boy-pocket]

Even though I already have a massive backlog of games both new and old to play, against my better judgement, I bought a turbografx 16 mini.  I mean at this point i’m basically collecting these things, and I think I finally have all the high profile ones, unless there’s one I’m missing. Not interested in the cheaply made ones like the old Sega minis that used to be on the market before this latest one. idk anything about the ones based on consoles from before the third generation, nobody really talks about those.

Anyway, this one is such an odd ball, for starters, it’s actually pretty big. Probably as big as two of the other mini consoles next to each other, though it’s still pretty slim. Then There’s this huge chunky cover on the back, which might have been a feature on the original console... I should mention I’ve no nostalgia for this console, I never even heard of the turbografx until the Wii shop channel made it part of the virtual console library, and even then I only played the Bonk games and Air Zonk.

The strangest thing about it is that you can swap it to the japanese version of the console. And this actually does change the games on the console... but there’s a lot of text heavy games on there that aren’t translated, and some of them I know for sure have official english translations.  Castlevania: Rondo of Blood is Japanese only? Also the first Bonk game but not the second?  And this thing is crammed full of SHMUPS... 

Unfortunately, so far this thing has not yet been hacked.  People are working on it but it’s not publically available yet. It can’t come soon enough though, I’ve got to add some gems and translations

[adoroos]

Ys Series Game Catalogue JP/NA

With so many different versions it can be hard to keep track of them all. I’ve compiled a list to hopefully make it a little clearer. Under a read more because of length.

Ys: Ancient Ys Vanished/Ys: Ancient Ys Vanished - Omens

PC-88

JP Release: 06/21/1987

Sharp X1

JP Release: 06/26/1987

PC-98

JP Release: 08/28/1987

FM-7/77 & FM77AV

JP Release: 10/08/1987

MSX2 & MSX2 HB-F1XD

JP Release: 12/10/1987

Famicom/NES

JP Release: 08/26/1988

MS-DOS

NA Release: 1989

Sharp X68000

JP Release: 07/19/1991

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Ancient Land of Ys

Apple II

NA Release: 1989

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Ys: The Vanished Omens

Sega Master System

JP Release: 10/15/1988 | NA Release: 1988

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Falcom Classics (Included Alongside Dragon Slayer & Xanadu)

Sega Saturn

JP Release: 11/06/1997

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Ys Chronicles I

Mobile

WW: 04/29/2015

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New Ys I -3D-

Mobile

JP Release: 03/22/2005

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New Ys I -3D- Gaiden

Mobile

JP Release: 12/19/2005

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Ys II: Ancient Ys Vanished - The Final Chapter

PC-88 & PC-98

JP Release: 06/24/1988

FM77AV & Sharp X1 Turbo

JP Release: 07/1988

MSX2

JP Release: 1988

Famicom/NES

JP Release: 05/25/1990

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Falcom Classics II (Included Alongside Tombs & Treasure)

Sega Saturn

JP Release: 10/29/1998

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Ys Chronicles II 

Mobile

WW: 02/2016

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Ys I & II / Ys Book I & II

PC Engine/TurboGrafx-CD

JP Release: 12/21/1989 | NA Release: 1990

TurboDuo

NA Release: 1992

Wii Virtual Console

JP Release: 10/16/2007 | NA Release: 08/25/2008

PC Engine Mini/TurboGrafx-16 Mini

JP Release: 03/19/2020 | NA Release: 05/22/2020

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Ys Eternal / Ys Eternal VE

Microsoft Windows

JP Release: 1998

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Ys I & II Complete

Microsoft Windows

JP Release: 06/28/2001

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Ys I & II Chronicles

Microsoft Windows

JP Release: 12/24/2009

PSP

JP Release: 07/16/2009 | NA Release: 02/22/2011

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Ys I & II Chronicles +

Microsoft Windows

NA Release: 02/14/2013

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Ys I & II: Eternal Story

PS2

JP Release: 08/07/2003

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Ys I & II DS / Legacy of Ys: Books I & II

Nintendo DS

JP Release: 03/20/2008 | NA Release: 02/24/2009

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Ys DS/Ys II DS Special Box

Nintendo DS

JP Release: 04/18/2008

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Ys I & II Pachislot

Arcade

JP Release: 2017

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Ys III: Wanderers from Ys

PC-88 & PC-98

JP Release: 07/28/1989

MSX2

JP Release: 10/20/1989

Sharp X68000

JP Release: 03/24/1990

PC Engine/TurboGrafx-CD

JP Release: 03/22/1991 | NA Release: 1991

SNES

JP Release: 06/21/1991 | NA Release: 01/1992

Famicom/NES

JP Release: 09/27/1991

Sega Genesis

JP Release: 11/01/1991 | NA Release: 1991

PS2

JP Release: 03/24/2005

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Ys: The Oath in Felghana

Microsoft Windows

JP Release: 07/04/2005 | WW Release: 03/19/2012

Mobile

JP Release: 12/22/2005

PSP

JP Release: 04/22/2010 | NA Release: 11/02/2010

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Ys IV: Mask of the Sun

SNES

JP Release: 11/19/1993

Mobile

JP Release: 01/30/2006

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Ys IV: Mask of the Sun - A New Theory

PS2

JP Release: 05/26/2005

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Ys IV: The Dawn of Ys

PC Engine

JP Release: 12/22/1993

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Ys: Memories of Celceta / Ys: Foliage Ocean in Celceta

PS Vita

JP Release: 09/27/2012 | NA Release: 11/26/2013

Microsoft Windows

WW Release: 07/25/2018

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Ys: Memories of Celceta - Kai / Ys: Memories of Celceta Timeless Adventurer Edition    

PS4

JP Release: 05/16/2019 | NA Release: 06/09/2020

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Ys V: Kefin, The Lost City of Sand

SNES

JP Release: 12/29/1995

PS2

JP Release: 03/30/2006

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Ys V Expert

SNES

JP Release: 03/22/1996

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Ys VI: The Ark of Napishtim

Microsoft Windows

JP Release:09/27/2003 | WW Release: 04/28/2015

Mobile

JP Release: 03/22/2005

PS2

JP Release: 03/10/2005 | NA Release: 02/22/2005

PSP

JP Release: 01/16/2006 | NA Release: 02/28/2006

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Ys VI: Online The Ark of Napishtim

Mobile

JP Release: ??/??/2021

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Ys Fortune

Mobile

JP Release: 08/01/2006

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Ys Seven

PSP

JP Release: 09/16/2009 | NA Release: 08/17/2010

Microsoft Windows

WW Release: 08/31/2017

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Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of Dana

PS Vita

JP Release: 07/21/2016 | NA Release: 09/12/2017

PS4

JP Release: 05/25/2017 | NA Release: 09/12/2017

Microsoft Windows

WW Release: 04/16/2018

Nintendo Switch

JP Release: 06/28/2018 | NA Release: 06/26/2018

Stadia 

WW Release: 04/01/2021

PS5

WW: Q4/2022

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Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of Dana - Super Price 

PS4

JP Release: 06/20/2019

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Ys VIII: Mobile

Mobile

JP Release: ??/??/????

---------------------------------

Ys IX: Monstrum Nox

PS4

JP Release: 09/26/2019 | NA Release: 02/02/2021

Nintendo Switch

JP Release: 09/09/2021 | NA Release: 07/06/2021

Microsoft Windows

WW Release:  07/06/2021

Stadia

WW Release:  07/06/2021

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Ys X

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Ys Origin

Microsoft Windows

JP Release: 12/21/2006 | WW Release: 05/31/2012

PS4

WW Release: 02/21/2017

PS Vita

WW Release: 05/30/2017

Xbox One

WW Release: 04/11/2018

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Ys Strategy

Nintendo DS

JP Release: 03/23/2006

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Ys Freecell Solitaire

Mobile

JP Release: 07/10/2006

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Ys Heroines

Mobile

JP Release: 11/15/2006

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Ys Online - The Call of Solum

Microsoft Windows

JP Release: 12/25/2009 - 10/01/2012

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Ys vs. Sora no Kiseki: Alternative Saga

PSP

JP Release: 07/29/2010

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Ys I & II - Seven Set (Includes YsC & Ys Seven)

PSP

JP Release: 03/18/2010

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Ys Super Price Set (Includes Ys Seven, YsF & YsC)

PSP

JP Release: 03/26/2011