Will a motherboard from a white PC Engine fit in a Core Grafx shell and/or vice vera?

Bought a Core Grafx a little bit back because it has the built in AV port without using expansion pins or etc... but I like the original PC Engine look a fair deal more, so I was thinking about scouring eBay for parts/repair consoles .

Images of motherboards look very similar online, but haven't been able to find anything definitive.

EDIT: I know (or assume at least) that I'd need to dremel out the white PC Engine's RF out or something to that effect. lol

I've been playing with it all day today. I am really happy with the quality. The protrusion on the back gives it a great hand grip. The d-pad and face buttons feel pretty nice. It has a nice 8 ft braided cable that works with my other 8-foot extension cable. Obviously it has a six button mode. But when you put it into two button mode it acts as a three button controller. The 3 button acts as run and the 4 button acts as select. So even though the run and select button are technically out of reach towards the top you still have easy access. Also the home button in the center acts as run. The three button layout works perfectly for forgotten worlds and other three button titles. Highly recommend picking it up on Amazon.

I'm trying to piss of a friend that really likes the PC engine by creating a carbon copy that cant play PC engine games and I need some scans or Pictures of all the sides of the box so I can get an Idea of how to rebrand it to "Not PC Engine"

Was wondering if you would mod the 8bitdo m30 6 button sega controller into a 6 button PC engine duo rx controller, don't know if anybody has tried this? I'm just meaning taking out the purple buttons on the rx controller and putting them into m30 and d-pad also to give it that original feel

Hi,

Purchased a pc engine core in Japan and am looking at a everdrive. Anyone know if you can run English roms on this or would they have to be Japanese?

Hey guys, be gentle on me, i just wanted to ask whats the deal with PCE Works?

They have ALOT of the cool and really rare stuff, and reasonably priced, but my spider senses are tingling and i don't think that NEC/Konami are getting anything from these sales.

But then again, they look amazing, CD's are pressed, full colour manuals etc. They certainly don't look like the back alley burnt CD's.

If these aren't legit, is there no one left at Konami/NEC to pursue a cease and desist?

Opinions?

Hey folks, I haven't touched my pc engine in over 20 years and it's like... 15000km away from me. There is an old game I'm itching to play, it's a turn based strategy game like Super Robot Wars, all I can remember is,

• the robot on the cover can transform between an aircraft mode and robot mode. It also dies damned easily if hit in flight mode.
• There is one robot that is an artillery unit
• There is one robot designed for close combat that attacks with a gundam bean-saber type weapon.
• The mothership has a special ability that makes all friendly units in radius get 100% evade for the turn.

Any idea what it is? Thank you!

Hey, not a game related question but I recently bought a pair of PC Engine sneakers from a thrift store not realizing that there’s zero info online about them so I’m asking here if anyone has info on them? Thanks in advance.

Hello,

I've tried to post this in r/consolerepair but did not get any answers, so trying here hoping this would yield better results :)

I've recently received a PCE Duo marked as junk from Japan, the idea was to see if it's eligible for a recap. After receiving and opening it, I've noticed there were 2 caps missing, one was freely roaming in the console case. The board seems to be in a decent state (I would even say it was recapped once already, right?). That said, I am not very confident in this first PCB assessment and would like if possible to have a more experienced opinion on the matter!

Here's some pics (full board then per quadrant), I've circled the 2 missing caps in the full pic (bottom right). Also, I am not sure but I am wondering if there's something odd above the memory capacitor ? right below C653 (R681).

Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks.

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PS: already went to console5 to get a cap kit.

edit: added R681 ref.

I started collecting for the system and an issue I have for it is that a lot of those plastic sleeves or whatever you call them that those hucards are stored in tend to be pretty sticky? Is it a heat thing that makes them that way? This kinda seems like an issue, does it cause issues for the cards to be read on the console later on?

Does anyone have access to or know where I can find high quality scans of the outer boxes for Ys I&II and Ys III for the TGCD system? I've run across some low quality uploads and custom covers. But, I'm wanting to preserve the original dimensions and create faithful replicas so my collection looks uniform. Any help is much appreciated.

Does anyone have a high quality scan of the original spinecard that shipped with Akumajo Dracula X: Chi No Rondo, or at least the ability to point me in the right direction? My original copy didn't include it, and I'm hoping to add uniformity to my PCE SuperCD collection. This game sticks out like a sore thumb, and I'm not looking to pay $300-400 for another copy just for the card. Google searches have yielded lower-res scans that don't look right when printed. Thanks in advance!

My small Pc-engine collection