General PC Engine Appreciation Thread

[TruxtonTatsujin]

That's the route I went in, only after a few years of owning my PC Engine since game prices substantially risen. Ended up buying (2) Everdrive one for GEN/MD, and PCE (also own a flash cart for NDS). Playing on actual hardware is the best especially paired with a suitable old television. The problem I had, at the time, was playing ripped CD games since I didn't want to wear down my lens of my system- while I did end up playing a handful of bootlegs, I preferred to play the CD games on emulation instead.

Collection building took a back seat for me, since I decided to put my focus on finishing games I enjoy (in the past and what I recently discovered) that and waiting for the prices to ease up- which I don't see happening any time soon unfortunately.

Translation patches are also worth going through like you mentioned, many Hu-Card games don't necessarily need them but for CD games Tengai Makyou: Ziria is truly helpful. I've completed Ginga Ojousama Densetsu Yuna and have been playing through Madou Monogatari I: Honoo no Sotsuenji until I decided to take a break.

Translations Patches - Fan Made English, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese... - RGT Repository

This is our full list of fan made translations of non-English games (mostly Japanese). All roms & isos are already pre-patched.

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Translations Patches - Fan Made English, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese... - RGT Repository

This is our full list of fan made translations of non-English games (mostly Japanese). All roms & isos are already pre-patched.

retrogametalk.com

The new fancy, expensive as all hell PCE Everdrives are able to play CD games, no attachment needed. I do like to do a bit of collecting for fun, but playing is always my priority. You can still find some decent deals on the Japanese auction sites if you dig deep enough.

Lot of great translations have come out the past few years, but I also ain't afraid to dive into some of the more text heavy untranslated stuff. Was playing a lot of the Princess Maker 1 port and was able to get through it with relative ease. Helps that I can read a bit of Japanese. Zero4 Champ was looking to be a challenge though, glad that got a patch recently.