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[ Nov 3 2005 ]

A few new updates

I did a comparison of all three of Namco’s Galaga ’88 ports: PC Engine, X68000 and Arcade. If you like, you can click here. I picked up PacPix and Meteos for Nintendo’s DS yesterday, and there’ll be a review of both very soon. Initial impressions: PacPix is really well done, challenging and varied, but so […]





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[ Apr 13 2005 ]

The NFG/GameSX Wiki

I’ve activated a wiki for GameSX and NFG Games. A wiki, if you don’t know, is a publicly editable page. Wikipedia is based on this concept. In theory, since anyone who can click a mouse can completely erase a page, no one does. There’s no street cred with teh homies for wiping out a page […]





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[ Jan 21 2005 ]

Two rare things for your enjoy.

Recently someone auctioned off a prototype PC Engine modem on Yahoo’s Japanese auction site. This is the second one I’ve seen, but the first with software. The PCE modem was never released, and according to this auction only one hundred units were made. Check out this image of the modem and a black PC Engine. […]





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[ Dec 5 2004 ]

Korean TurboGrafx 16

Unknown to more or less everyone, I give you the Korean Vistar, a recycled TurboGrafx-16. As far as I know this is the first bit of information about it in the western world.





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[ Sep 10 2004 ]

GameSX.com update

After a long time of no substantive updates I completely reworked the PC Engine RGB mod page. All new pics, all new text, and gobs of new links. Check it out.





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[ Sep 8 2004 ]

New DariusDX for Vodafone

Taito‘s finally put up some screenshots of their newest DariusDX for Vodafone in Japan. One of their deluxe 256k Applis, costs four hundred Yen to download and looks as good as the PC Engine version, I’d say.





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[ May 10 2004 ]

PC Engine CD ROM Mod: Done!

I spent the greater part of my evening putting together a PC Engine CD (with case) system that I could call my own. I pulled out all the stops, with a white (not yellow!) PC Engine system, the cleanest CD ROM I could find, RGB amp, LED swap and region mod. It turned out great, […]





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[ Mar 8 2004 ]

Cellular Nectaris

Hudson, now a division of Konami and past purveyors of all things PC Engine, have released everyone’s favourite future military sim Nectaris for Vodafone cellular phones in Japan. Check it out. This is in addition to several NES and PC Engine releases like Adventure Island, Star Soldier, Lode Runner and Bomberman. NTT DoCoMo’s i-mode on […]





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[ Feb 1 2004 ]

101 Secrets of the PC Engine

A bit of a trivia collection for you: 101 Secrets of the PC Engine! Includes pics + diagrams!





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[ Jan 26 2004 ]

Soldier Blade Time Attack Guide

SiK and I, along with some of the #shmups denizens, have put together a preliminary guide to the Caravan stages of Soldier Blade for the PC Engine. Have a look if you’re into that.





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