At 01:24 PM 2/20/2002 -0500, you wrote:
> >>and TurboChips (US; with the reverse Kaseido adaptor).
>
>Actually I don't believe you can run US Hu-Cards on a PC-Engine / SGX
>system. The US TG-16/Duo has a little hardware chip that (AFAIK) all of the
>US cards check for before they will run. Since the PCE never had this
>hardware, the US cards won't be able to find it.
There is a modification on the turbo-list fileserver which details how to
modify a Japanese system to allow the usage of US games with a converter.
The USA games had a piece of code to detect the value of a hardware bit,
which had a reverse sense (high versus low) on the Japanese version from
the USA version. No Japanese code ever tried to detect this value. It is
not as complex as an extra chip. Just one tiny wire to be changed.
The USA system can run all Japanese HuCards with a converter, but since the
converters are so expensive these days, you'd be better to get a second system.
Both systems can run the overseas versions of CDROMs and Super CDROMs if
you have the correct hardware, except for about 5 exceptions:
Altered Beast CDROM requires a Japanese system 1.0 card to play effectively
A few other games require Japanese version of the Super System Card - going
from memory they are: (only about 4 of them)
Bonanza Brothers
Super System RPG sampler
A III Take the 'A' Train
Alshark
If you have a USA system with converter, either a Super System Card 3.0 or
and Arcade Card Pro will be effective.
There are many different configurations that could handle 'everything', but
I would suggest:
Japanese Duo, and Arcade Card Duo
USA TG-16
(which still won't play Altered Beast or SuperGrafx games)
If you insist on playing these, get the SuperGrafx, System Card 1.0, Arcade
Card Pro, CDROM system and RAU-30 (or Super CDROMROM2 instead of CDROM
system and RAU-30). Also, USA TG-16 for USA HuCards.
- Dave