PC Engine (TurboGrafx-16) emulators
The PC Engine (PCE) was a 16 bit system released by NEC in 1990. It is known in the west as TurboGrafx-16 .PC Engine CD (PC-CD) was a CD addon.
The PC Engine 2 (PCE2) was an upgraded version of the PC Engine that could also play PCE games. In the west it was known as the SuperGrafx. Only 7 games were released for it.
Emulators
Chart
Name | Operating System(s) | Latest Version | PCE (TG16) | PCE-CD (TG-CD) | PCE2 (SG) |
Accuracy Rating |
Recommended |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Ootake | Windows | 2.69 | ✓ | ✓ | ? | Mid | ✓ |
Mednafen | Multiplatform | 0.9.28 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | High | ✓ |
RetroArch (Mednafen) | Multiplatform | 0.9.28 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | Mid | ✓ |
MagicEngine | Windows, OS X | 1.1.3 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | Mid | ✗ |
BizHawk | Windows | 1.4.1 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ? | ✗ |
HuE | PlayStation Portable | 0.70 | ✓ | ✓ | ? | ? | ✓ |
Turbo Engine | Windows | 0.31b | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | High |
✓ |
Comparisons
Ootake is okay for general purposes.
Mednafen is great. Command line only though. It has PCE-Fast, and PCE-Accurate. It can also has a PC-FX core.
RetroArch can run Mednafen's PCE-Fast core. . GUI and other things.
MagicEngine only has a free demo available. To get the full version costs €15 EUR. There is no reason to buy it when there are better free options available.
TurboEngine is probably your best bet overall as you don't have to manually mount isos for the CD-ROM² /Turbo CD