PC Engine (TurboGrafx-16) emulators

From Emulation General Wiki
Revision as of 01:03, 12 April 2017 by 73.51.66.116 (talk) (Emulators: Merging tables using colspan and removing redundant information to make it neater. All vital information will be fine.)
Jump to navigation Jump to search
The PC Engine (Japanese Model)

The PC Engine (PCE) was a 16-bit system released by NEC in 1990. It is known as TurboGrafx-16 in other regions outside of Japan. 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

The PC Engine SuperGrafx
Name Operating System(s) Latest Version PCE-CD (TG-CD) PCE2 (SG) Libretro Core Accuracy Recommended
PC
Mednafen PCE Multi-platform 1.32.0-UNSTABLE High
Mednafen PCE-Fast Multi-platform 1.32.0-UNSTABLE Mid
MAME Multi-platform 0.264 ? High
BizHawk Windows 2.9.1 High
ePCEngine Windows 3/18/2017
Final Burn Alpha Windows 0.2.97.39
higan Windows, Linux, OS X v110
Hu-Go! Windows, Linux 2.12
MagicEngine Windows, OS X 1.1.3 Mid
Ootake Windows 2.79 ? Mid
pcejin (Mednafen 0.8.x) Windows GitHub Mid
Turbo Engine Windows 0.32 High
Console
Virtual Console Wii n/a High
HuE PlayStation Portable 0.70 ? ?
Mednafen PCE-Fast* Multi-platform 1.32.0-UNSTABLE Mid

*Only available on consoles as a libretro core (e.g. RetroArch).

Comparisons

  • Mednafen is great, it has two PCE cores: PCE-Accurate and PCE-Fast, its operated by command line. pcejin is based on an older version of Mednafen's PC Engine core but with a GUI. Linux users should use Mednafen with a GTK GUI[1].
  • RetroArch uses Mednafen's PCE-Fast core.
  • MagicEngine only has a free demo available. The full version costs €15 EUR. There is no reason to buy it when there are better free options available.
  • Ootake is okay for general purposes.