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{{Infobox console|title = PC Engine (TurboGrafx-16)|image = PC-Engine-Console-Set.png|image2 = SuperGrafx-Console-Set.jpg|imagecaption = '''Above''': The PC Engine.<br/>'''Below''': The SuperGrafx.ette was eventually made mathematically and with some extra tweaks from the PC Engine's RGB to YUV lookup table|developer=[[FileNEC]], [[Hudson]]|type=[[:Category:PCengineHome consoles|Home video game console]], [[:Category:Handheld consoles|Handheld game console]]|generation = [[:Category:Fourth-generation video game consoles|Fourth generation]]|introductory price = {{Inflation|USD|199.99|1987}} <br> {{Inflation|USD|399.jpg99|thumb1989}} (CD Add-On)|The release=1987 (PC Engine )<br/>1989 (Japanese ModelSuperGrafx)<br/>1990 (PC Engine GT / TurboExpress)|discontinued = 1994|successor = PC Engine SuperGrafx, [[PC-FX emulators|PC-FX]]|emulated = {{✓}}}}The '''[[gametech:TurboGrafx-16/PC Engine|PC Engine]]''' ('''PCE''') was a 16-bit system released jointly by [https[wikipedia://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nec |NEC]] and [[wikipedia:Hudson Soft|Hudson Soft]] in 1990Japan on October 30, 1987 and in the US on August 29, as 1989. It had a collaboration between Hudson Soft HuC6280 8-bit CPU at 7.16 MHz and 1.79 MHz with 8KB of RAM and 64KB of VRAM. The CPU was teamed up with a 16-bit graphics processor and NEC16-bit video color encoder chip, both built by Hudson Soft. It saw When it came time to seek other potential markets, the two companies eventually caved to a limited US American release as in 1989 under a completely different model and name: the '''[[gametech:TurboGrafx-16/PC Engine|TurboGrafx-16]]''' and support dwindled soon afterwards. Europe only got imported power-converted The European versions of either varied throughout the countries, being the US (western version in Spain, UK) or and United Kingdom and Japanese models (in Benelux regions). It could run HuCard cartridges.

The joint venture, formed in North America as TTI, made an add-on called the '''PC Engine CD''' (PC'''PCE-CD'''), also known as the / '''TurboGrafx-CD''' in the US, was an add('''TG-on to the PC Engine system CD''') that could run CD-based loaded gamesfrom discs instead, much like the Sega CD but better supported in Japan. The '''PC Engine Duo''', also known as the / '''Turbo-Duo''' in the US, was another hardware revision that combined the original PCE and PCadd-CD hardware in one on into the unit with more RAM, as yet another failed attempt to relaunch the failing console in the West.

When it first launched in North America, the TurboGrafx-16 was largely seen as a failure blamed on poor marketing by the manufacturers. The '''PC Engine GT''', or the '''Turbo-Express''' in on the USother hand, was a very rare handheld model of the original PCE hardwarewhole different story, in beating out the same vein as [[Nintendo Entertainment System emulators|Famicom]] when it first came out long enough to compete against [[Super Nintendo emulators|its rival's own successor]] and gave little focus for the [[Sega Nomad (Genesis emulators|Mega Drive]] who was instead posing more of a portable Sega Genesis / Megadrive). It did include some exclusive features like the TurboLink multiplayer feature (used threat to Nintendo in a flight sim called ''Falcon'') but wasn't widely supportedNorth America.

The NEC planned to enhance the system was to receive an enhanced model with true 16-bit hardware back in 1990further, originally called announcing the "PC Engine 2" that would later become the '''PC Engine 2SuperGrafx'''. It However, it was eventually rushed to the a 1989 market only in Japan as the lacking much of its promised features with only seven titles exclusively made for it, ending up a commercial failure to be binned and discontinued not long after. The '''PC Engine SuperGrafxGT''' / '''Turbo-Express''' lacking much was a very rare handheld model of the promised featuresoriginal hardware, and was in the same vein as the Sega Nomad (a commercial failureportable [[Sega Genesis emulators|Sega Genesis / Mega Drive]]). It was backwards compatible, and only 7 did include some exclusive features like the TurboLink multiplayer feature (used in games were released for itsuch as the flight sim called ''Falcon'' and ''Bomberman 93'') but wasn't widely supported.

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|style="text-align:center;"|[[pcejin <small>(Mednafen]] PCE0.8.x)</small>|stylealign="text-align:center;"left|{{Icon|Multi-platformWindows}}|style="text-align[https:center;"//github.com/TASVideos/pcejin git]|[{{MednafenURL✓}} |releases/|{{?}} ||{{MednafenVer✗}}]|style="text-align:center;"|✓Mid |style="text-align:center;"|{{✓}} |style="text-align:center;"|{{✗}} |style="text-align:center;"|High|style="text-align:center;"|✓{{✗}}

|style="text-align[https://web.archive.org/web/20071206014650/http://www.dridus.com:center;"|[[Mednafen80/~nyef/darcnes/ DarcNES]] PCE-Fast|stylealign="text-align:center;"left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS|Multi-platformFreeBSD}}|style="text-align[https:center;"//segaretro.org/DarcNES 9b0401/9b0313]|[{{MednafenURL|releases/✗}} ||{{MednafenVer?}}]|style="text-align:center;"|✓{{✗}} |style="text-align:center;"|✓Low |style="text-align:center;"|{{✓}} |style="text-align:center;"|Mid{{✗}} |style="text-align:center;"|✓{{✗}}

|styleNeco|align="text-align:center;"left|{{Icon|[[MAME]]Windows}}|style="text-align:center;"0.11|Multi-platform{{✗}} |style="text-align:center;"|[http://www.mamedev.org/release.html {{MAMEVer?}}]|style="text-align:center;"|✓{{✗}} |style="text-align:center;"|✓Low |style="text-align:center;"|?|style="text-align:center;"|High{{✗}} |style="text-align:center;"|✓{{✗}}

|style="text[http://takeda-align:center;"|[[BizHawk]toshiya.my.coocan.jp/ ePCEngine]|stylealign="text-align:center;"left|{{Icon|Windows}}|style="text-align:center;"|[http://tasvideostakeda-toshiya.my.coocan.orgjp/BizHawkcommon/ReleaseHistoryindex.html 12/21/2020]|{{BizHawkVer✓}} ||{{?}}]|style="text-align:center;"|✓{{✗}} |style="text-align:center;"|✓? |style="text-align:center;"|{{✗}} |style="text-align:center;"|High{{✓}} |style="text-align:center;"|{{✗}}

|style="text-align:center;"|[http://takeda-toshiya.my.coocan.jp/ ePCEngine[FinalBurn Neo]]|stylealign="text-align:center;"left|{{Icon|Windows|macOS}}|style="text-align:center;"|[httphttps://takeda-toshiyabuildbot.mylibretro.coocancom/nightly/ libretro core]<br/>[https://github.jpcom/finalburnneo/FBNeo/releases/commontag/indexlatest nightly]<br/>[https://github.html 8com/12finalburnneo/2017FBNeo/releases/latest stable]|style="text-align:center;"{{✓}} ||{{?}} ||{{✓}} |style="text-align:center;"|✓? |style="text-align:center;"|✗{{NC}} |style="text-align:center;"|{{✓}} |style="text-align:center;"|{{✗}}

|style="text-align:center;"|[[Final Burn FinalBurn Alpha]]|stylealign="text-align:center;"left|{{Icon|Windows}}|style="text-align:center;"|[http://www.fbalpha.com/downloads/ 0.2.97.3943]|style="text-align:center;"|{{✓}} |style="text-align:center;"|✓{{?}} |style="text-align:center;"|{{✗}} ||? ||{{NC}} |style="text-align:center;"|{{✗}} |style="text-align:center;"|{{✗}}

|style="text[http://zeograd.com/ Hu-align:center;"|[[higan]Go!]|stylealign="text-align:center;"left|{{Icon|Windows, |Linux, OS X }}|style="text-align[http:center;"//zeograd.com/hugo_download.php 2.12]|? ||{{higanVer?}}|style="text-align:center;"|{{✗}} |style="text-align:center;"|? |style="text-align:center;"|✗{{✓}} |style="text-align:center;"|{{✗}} |style="text-align:center;"|{{✗}}

|style="text-align:center;"|[http://zeograd.com/ Hu-Go!]|stylecolspan="text-align:center;10"|Windows, Linux|style="text-align:center;"|[http://zeograd.comMobile /hugo_download.php 2.12]|style="text-align:center;"||style="text-align:center;"||style="text-align:center;"|✗|style="text-align:center;"||style="text-align:center;"|✗ARM

|style="text-align:center;"|[[MagicEngineMednafen]]<br/><small>mednafen_supergrafx_libretro</small><br/><small>mednafen_pce_libretro</small><br/><small>mednafen_pce_fast_libretro</small>|stylealign="text-align:center;"left|{{Icon|Android|iOS|Linux|Windows, OS XPandora}}|style="text-align:center;"|[httphttps://wwwbuildbot.emuparadiselibretro.me/emulators/filescom/usernightly/Magic-Engine_1.1.3-952.rar 1.1.3libretro core'''s''']|style="text-align:center;"{{✓}} ||{{✓}} |style="text-align:center;"|{{✓}} ||styleCycle<ref group="text-align:center;"N name=mednafenAccuracy></ref> ||✗{{✓}} |style="text-align:center;"|Mid{{✓}} |style="text-align:center;"|✗{{✓}}

|stylePCE.emu|align="text-align:center;"left|[[Ootake]]{{Icon|style="text-align:center;"Android|WindowsPyra}}|style[https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id="text-align:center;"|com.PceEmu {{.emuVer}}]<br/>[httphttps://wwwpyra-handheld.com/repo/apps/82 1.ouma5.jp46.02 Pyra]<br/>[https:/ootake/ 2github.85com/Rakashazi/emu-ex-plus-alpha git]|style="text-align:center;"|{{✓}} |style="text-align:center;"|{{?}} |style="text-align:center;"|{{✗}} |style="text-align:center;"|Mid|style="text-align:center;"|✗{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}}

|styleWonderDroid Ultra|align="text-align:center;"left|{{Icon|Android}}|[https://githubplay.google.com/TASVideosstore/apps/pcejin pcejin] (Mednafen 0details?id=com.atelieryl.8wonderdroid 5.x)|style="text-align:center;"|Windows|style="text-align:center;"|5][https://github.com/TASVideoswilliehwc/pcejin GitHubwonderdroid-x git]|style="text-align:center;"|{{✓}} |style="text-align:center;"|✓{{?}} |style="text-align:center;"|{{✗}} ||? ||{{✓}} |style="text-align:center;"|Mid{{✓}} |style="text-align:center;"|✗{{✓}}

|style="text-align:center;"|[[Turbo Engine]]|style="text-align:center;"|Windows|style="text-align:center;"|[http://aamirm.hacking-cult.org/www/turbo.html 0.32]|style="text-align:center;"|✓|style="text-align:center;"|✓|style="text-align:center;"|✗|style="text-align:center;"|High|style!colspan="text-align:center;10"|✗Console

! colspan|[[Mednafen]]<br/><small>mednafen_supergrafx_libretro</small><br/><small>mednafen_pce_libretro</small><br/><small>mednafen_pce_fast_libretro</small>|align="8"left|{{Icon|PSP|PS3}}<br>{{Icon|Wii|3DS|WiiU|Switch}}|[https://www.retroarch.com/index.php?page=platforms libretro]|{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||Cycle<ref group=N name=mednafenAccuracy></ref> ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||Mobile{{✓}}

|style="text-align:center;"|[[MednafenVirtual Console]] PCE-Fast|stylealign="text-align:center;"left|{{Icon|Wii|Multi-platformWiiU}}|style="text-align:center;"N/A|[{{MednafenURL|releases/✓}} ||{{MednafenVer?}}]|style="text-align:center;"|✓{{✗}} |style="text-align:center;"|✓High |style="text-align:center;"|✓{{✗}} |style="text-align:center;"|Mid{{✗}} |style="text-align:center;"|{{✓}}

|style="text-align:center;"|PCE.emuTemperPCE 3DS|stylealign="text-align:center;"left|{{Icon|Android3DS}}|style="text-align:center;"|[httphttps://www.jeodrivegithub.com/downloadbubble2k16/pce-emu-v1-5-34temperpce_3ds/ 1.5.34releases git]|style="text-align:center;"{{✓}} ||{{?}} |style="text-align:center;"|?{{✗}} |style="text-align:center;"|✗Mid |style="text-align:center;"|?{{✓}} |style="text-align:center;"|{{✗}} ||{{✓}}

|HuGo!colspanGX Unofficial|align=left|{{Icon|Wii|GCN}}|[http://www.gc-forever.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t="8"1208 2.12.1]|{{✓}} ||{{?}} ||{{✗}} ||Mid ||{{✓}} ||{{✗}} ||Console{{✓}}

|style[https://dcemulation.org/index.php?title="text-align:center;"|[[Virtual Console]PCECast PCECast]|stylealign="text-align:center;"left|{{Icon|[[Wii]]DC}}|style="text[http://dcemulation.org/1-align:center;"|nnewsdump/emulators/pcecast/pcecast.zip 06/01/a07]|style="text-align:center;"? ||✓{{?}} |style="text-align:center;"|{{✗}} ||Mid |style="text-align:center;"|{{✗}} |style="text-align:center;"|High{{✗}} |style="text-align:center;"|{{✓}}

|style="text-align:center;"|HuE|style="text-align:center;"|[[PlayStation PortableHuE]]|stylealign="text-align:center;"left|{{Icon|PSP}}|[httphttps://filetripwww.net/psppsx-downloadsplace.com/homebrewresources/downloadturbografx-16-hue-for0-psp-070-f2831270.html 240 0.70]|style="text-align:center;"|✓{{~}} |style="text-align:center;"|{{?}} |style="text-align:center;"|{{✗}} |style="text-align:center;"|?Mid |style="text-align:center;"|{{✓}} ||{{✗}} ||{{~}}

|style="text-align[https:center;"|[[Mednafen//www.gamebrew.org/wiki/NitroGrafx NitroGrafx]] PCE-Fast*|stylealign="text-align:center;"left|{{Icon|Multi-platformNDS}}|style="text[https://emutopia.com/index.php/item/815-nitrografx-0-align7 0.7][https:center;"//github.com/FluBBaOfWard/NitroGrafx git]|{{✗}} ||{{MednafenVer?}}|style="text-align:center;"|✓{{✗}} |style="text-align:center;"|✓? |style="text-align:center;"|{{✓}} |style="text-align:center;"|Mid{{✗}} |style="text-align:center;"|✓{{~}}

<nowiki/div>*<references group=N /nowiki>Only available on consoles as a libretro core (e.g. [[RetroArch]]).

* ;[[Mednafen]] is great:Much like its other original cores, it has does very well, even having two PCE coresprofiles: "PCE-Accurate " and "PCE-Fast, its operated by command line". pcejin is Despite being CLI-based on , a fork of an older version that has a GUI has emerged called pcejin. [[RetroArch]] uses the PCE-Accurate and PCE-Fast cores for its beetle fork.;Mesen:After a discontinuation of both Mesen and Mesen S, SourMesen resumed developement of both in 2023 and combines them into a single Mesen. The re-release of Mesen also brought emulation of Mednafen's PC -Engine , SuperGrafx and CD-ROM²/TG-CD;[[BizHawk]]:Uses "Nymashock" core but with a GUI. Linux users should use Mednafen with a GTK GUIfor PCE emulation ([httphttps://sourceforgegithub.netcom/projectsTASEmulators/mednafenfeBizHawk/blob/master/waterbox/nyma/pce.cpp ported from mednafen to Bizhawk by zeromus]).* ;[[RetroArchOotake]] uses Mednafen:It's PCE-Fast coreokay for general purposes.* ;[[MagicEngineMAME]] only has :Has a <code>pce</code> driver <small>(and a free demo availablechild driver called <code>tg16</code>)</small>. In all revisions it emulates, MAME reports it as working and the graphics as okay, but the sound is imperfect. The full version ;[[MagicEngine]]:Unfortunately trialware that costs €15 EUReuro. There is no reason to buy it when there are better free options availablefor free.;NitroGrafx:Is a DS TurboGrafx emulator for Nintendo DS. It is included with [[TWiLight Menu++]]. ==Peripherals== <div style="overflow-x:auto;width:100%">{|class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;width:100%"|- style="font-weight:bold;"! Name! Mednafen! ares! Mesen! BizHawk! Higan|-| [[#PCE-CD|PCE-CD]] (TG-CD)| {{✓}}| {{~}}| {{✓}}| {{Y}}| {{~}}|-| [[#GE-CD|GE-CD]]| {{✓}}| {{N}}| {{N}}| {{?}}| {{N}}|-| [[#Arcade Card|Arcade Card]]| {{✓}}| {{?}}| {{?}}| {{?}}| {{?}}|-|}</div><references group=N2/> ===PCE-CD===:''[[Wikipedia:TurboGrafx-16#Add-ons|TurboGrafx-CD/CD-ROM² and Super CD-ROM²]]''SuperGrafx is also compatible with the CD-ROM² and Super CD-ROM² System add-ons, allowing it to play any CD-ROM² format game with the required System Card. No SuperGrafx-specific CD-ROM² titles were produced. The addition of the CD-ROM peripheral adds CD-DA sound (Audio CDs), and a single ADPCM channel to the existing sound capabilities of the PC Engine.[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC_Engine_SuperGrafx#Audio_capacity] *See [[Home_Media_Player#Emulators|this dedicated page]] for more information about home media playback support for emulation softwares.* See [[Ripping_games]]. ===GE-CD===Games Express CD Card, Bootleg System Card. This was released by Hacker International for play of unlicensed Games Express CD games. The GECD Card is essentially a dongle; a BIOS v3.00 based machine (like a Duo or a Super CD-ROM²) is required for running those games. ===Arcade Card===On March 12, 1994, NEC introduced a third upgrade known as the Arcade Card, which increases the amount of onboard RAM of the Super CD-ROM² System to 2MB. This upgrade was released in two models: the Arcade Card Duo, designed for PC Engine consoles already equipped with the Super CD-ROM² System, and the Arcade Card Pro, a model for the original CD-ROM² System that combines the functionalities of the Super System Card and Arcade Card Duo into one.[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TurboGrafx-16#Add-ons] ==Emulation issues=====Color palette===[Ootake[File:PCE_TG16_Composite_RGB_Palette.png|thumb|250px|An example of the color inaccuracy with the regular RGB color palette when compared to the Composite palette. Take note of the second blue gradient in the sky in both images.]] The color palettes generated by the PC Engine for Composite and RGB actually differ due to its own color tables being non-linear. This can result in colors ending up looking wrong or blended when the system is emulated or played in RGB. A composite palette was eventually made mathematically and with some extra tweaks from the PC Engine's RGB to YUV lookup table after its HuC6270 video chip had been decapped. This palette is okay used by default in the PC Engine core for the [[MiSTer]]<ref>https://www.retrorgb.com/pc-engine-palette-improvements-the-amazing-people-behind-the-technology.html</ref>. It [https://github.com/Kitrinx/TG16_Palette can be downloaded] for general purposesuse in other emulators and devices. ==References=={{Reflist}}

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