Region mod help please for TurboGrafx

Discussion in 'PC Engine / Turbografx Discussion' started by bacteria, Apr 4, 2009.

  1. bacteria

    bacteria I am the Bacman

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    Hi - help please!

    I have made an 8P2T switch and wired my US TubroGrafx in accordance to the diagram below - it plays US games fine, but refuses to work with my Japanese games.

    What else do I need to do to make this work please?

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    As you see from below, I am at the last stage of the wiring for the system; I have already successfully rewired most of the game pins as I had to make the board smaller to fit into my case:

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    As you see, I am hardly a noobie!

    So, help please - I have a few Japanese games I want to play on this!
     
  2. bacteria

    bacteria I am the Bacman

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    Turned out I had some gunk in the switches which stopped some of them making proper contact. Sorted this out.

    I got this to work, I can play US and Jap games now fine on the system.
     
  3. Arkanoid

    Arkanoid Gutsy Member

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    Can you show your custom case? I'm really interested now.
     
  4. bacteria

    bacteria I am the Bacman

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    Sure, same vacuumed case as I used for the PSone system (as per my sig and site).
     
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    Arkanoid Gutsy Member

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    Very nice! Hey do you happen to have any controllers laying around? I just got a Turbografx off ebay and the freaking thing didn't come with controllers. They're virtually impossible to come by in my area and Ebay is out of the question as I don't have a credit card/checking account.
     
  6. bacteria

    bacteria I am the Bacman

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    Wow. If I ever come across a broken NEs controller. This will be on my to-do list.
     
  9. bacteria

    bacteria I am the Bacman

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    I have some spare NES controllers. If anyone needs some, let me know.

    I spent a long time doing what research on the TurboGrafx / PC-Engine I could, came up with lots of interesting stuff.

    I have a proper TG-16 controller, which I will use in my project, however the link I gave above (pleased you liked it darkportrait) will be useful to people who don't have one, as they can adapt their own controller.
     
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