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{{Infobox console
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|title = PC Engine (TurboGrafx-16)
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|image = PC-Engine-Console-Set.png
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|image2 = SuperGrafx-Console-Set.jpg
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|imagecaption = '''Above''': The PC Engine.<br/>'''Below''': The SuperGrafx.
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|developer = [[:Category:NEC consoles|NEC Home Electronics, Hudson Soft]]
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|type = [[:Category:Home consoles|Home video game console]]
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|generation = [[:Category:Fourth-generation video game consoles|Fourth generation]]
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|release = 1987
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|discontinued = 1994
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|successor = SuperGrafx, [[PC-FX emulators|PC-FX]]
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|emulated = {{✓}}
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The '''[[gametech:TurboGrafx-16/PC Engine|PC Engine]]''' ('''PCE''') was an 8-bit system released jointly by [[wikipedia:Nec|NEC]] and [[wikipedia:Hudson Soft|Hudson Soft]] in Japan on October 30, 1987 and in the US on August 29, 1989. It was retailed for {{Inflation|USD|399.99|1987}}. It had a 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 16-bit video color encoder chip, both built by Hudson Soft. When it came time to seek other potential markets, the two companies eventually caved to a limited American release in 1989 under a completely different model and name: the '''TurboGrafx-16'''. The European versions varied throughout the countries, being the western version in Spain and United Kingdom and Japanese models in Benelux regions.
  
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The joint venture, formed in North America as TTI, made an add-on called the '''PC Engine CD''' ('''PCE-CD''') / '''TurboGrafx-CD''' ('''TG-CD''') that loaded games from discs instead, much like the Sega CD but better supported. The '''PC Engine Duo''' / '''Turbo-Duo''' combined the add-on into the unit with more RAM as yet another failed attempt to relaunch the failing console in the West.
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== Adding links to more content pages on the main page ==
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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, on the other hand, was a whole different story, beating out the [[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 Genesis emulators|Mega Drive]] who was instead posing more of a threat to Nintendo in North America.
  
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I think it would improve the wiki and make it more accessible to everyone, if we added links on the main page to more content pages that don't have a link yet. I can't do it myself though, so I'd appreciate if someone else considered doing it. I have looked up all content pages at https://emulation.gametechwiki.com/index.php?title=Special:AllPages&hideredirects=1 and I have made a list of most of the ones that aren't yet linked on the main page, excluding all that focus on specific emulators and a few more that I thought were better off staying inside other links. Also, there's at least 2 pages on this list that aren't linked from any other page, [[GPD_XD_Devices]] and [[Thread_template]]. Here's the list:
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NEC planned to enhance the system further, announcing the "PC Engine 2" that would later become the '''PC Engine SuperGrafx'''. However, it was rushed to a 1989 market in Japan 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 GT''' / '''Turbo-Express''' was a very rare handheld model of the original hardware, in the same vein as the Sega Nomad (a portable [[Sega Genesis emulators|Sega Genesis / Mega Drive]]). It did include some exclusive features like the TurboLink multiplayer feature (used in games such as the flight sim called ''Falcon'' and ''Bomberman 93'') but wasn't widely supported.
  
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==Emulators==
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*[[Apple IIGS emulators]]
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*[[Apply ROM Hacks and Translations]]
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*[[Building RetroArch]]
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! scope="col"|Name
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*[[Commodore]]
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*[[Comparison of Emulator Frontends]]
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! scope="col"|Latest Version
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*[[Decapping]]
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! scope="col"|PCE-CD (TG-CD)
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*[[Discrete Circuitry-Based Arcade Games]]
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! scope="col"|PCE2 (SG)
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*[[DualShock 3]]
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! scope="col"|[[libretro|Libretro Core]]
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*[[DualShock 4]]
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! scope="col"|[[Emulation Accuracy|Accuracy]]
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*[[Dummies Guide: RetroArch]]
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! scope="col"|<abbr title="Free/Libre and Open-Source Software">FLOSS</abbr>
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*[[Dynamic recompilation]]
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! scope="col"|Active
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*[[Emulator Problems FAQ]]
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! scope="col"|[[Recommended Emulators|Recommended]]
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* <s>[[Emulators on Switch]]</s>
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|-
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*[[Famicom Color Palette]]
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!colspan="10"|PC / x86
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*[[Flash]]
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|-
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*[[GB/C Tests]]
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|[[Mednafen]] <small>(PCE-Accurate)</small>
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*[[GPD XD Devices]]
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|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS|FreeBSD}}
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*[[Game problems FAQ]]
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|[{{MednafenURL|releases/}} {{MednafenVer}}]
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*[[GoodTools]]
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|{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||High ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}}
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*[[Libretro]]
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|-
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*[[Licensing]]
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|[[MAME]]
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*[[Overscan]]
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|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS|FreeBSD}}
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*[[PS1 Plugins]]
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|[http://www.mamedev.org/release.html {{MAMEVer}}]
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*[[PS1 Tests]]
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|{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||High ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}}
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*[[PSP Eboots]]
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*[[Port Forwarding Guide For Netplay]]
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|[[Mednafen]] <small>(PCE-Fast)</small>
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*[[RDI Halcyon]]
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|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS|FreeBSD}}
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*[[Recommended Emulators]]
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|[{{MednafenURL|releases/}} {{MednafenVer}}]
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*[[SCP Driver Package]]
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|{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||Mid ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}}
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*[[Save Disk Space for ISOs]]
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*[[Scaling]]
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|[[BizHawk]]
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*[[Sega Pico]]
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|align=left|{{Icon|Windows}}
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*[[Source code]]
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|[http://tasvideos.org/BizHawk/ReleaseHistory.html {{BizHawkVer}}]
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*[[Thread template]]
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|{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✗}} ||High ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}}
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*[[User Settings and Configs]]
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|[[higan]]
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|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS|FreeBSD}}
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|[https://github.com/higan-emu/higan/releases {{higanVer}}]
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|{{~}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||? ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{~}}
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|[[Turbo Engine]]
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|align=left|{{Icon|Windows}}
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|[http://aamirm.hacking-cult.org/www/turbo.html 0.32]
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|{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✗}} ||High ||? ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}}
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|[[MagicEngine]]
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|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|macOS}}
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|[http://www.emuparadise.me/emulators/files/user/Magic-Engine_1.1.3-952.rar 1.1.3]
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|{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✗}} ||Mid ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}}
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|[[Ootake]]
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|align=left|{{Icon|Windows}}
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|[http://www.ouma.jp/ootake/ {{OotakeVer}}]
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|{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✗}} ||Mid ||? ||{{✓}} ||{{✗}}
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|pcejin <small>(Mednafen 0.8.x)</small>
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|align=left|{{Icon|Windows}}
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|[https://github.com/TASVideos/pcejin Git]
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|{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✗}} ||Mid ||? ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}}
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|[https://web.archive.org/web/20071206014650/http://www.dridus.com:80/~nyef/darcnes/ DarcNES]
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|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS|FreeBSD}}
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|[https://segaretro.org/DarcNES 9b0401/9b0313]
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|{{~}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||Low ||? ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}}
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|Neco
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|align=left|{{Icon|Windows}}
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|0.11
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|{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||Low ||? ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}}
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|[http://takeda-toshiya.my.coocan.jp/ ePCEngine]
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|align=left|{{Icon|Windows}}
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|[http://takeda-toshiya.my.coocan.jp/common/index.html 8/12/2017]
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|{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✗}} ||? ||? ||{{✓}} ||{{✗}}
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|-
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|[[FinalBurn Alpha]]
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|align=left|{{Icon|Windows}}
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|[http://www.fbalpha.com/downloads/ 0.2.97.43]
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|{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||? ||{{✗}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✗}}
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|[http://zeograd.com/ Hu-Go!]
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|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux}}
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|[http://zeograd.com/hugo_download.php 2.12]
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|{{✓}} ||? ||{{✗}} ||? ||? ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}}
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!colspan="10"|Mobile / ARM
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|[[Mednafen]] <small>(PCE-Fast)</small>
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|align=left|{{Icon|Android|iOS|Linux|Pandora}}
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|[{{MednafenURL|releases/}} {{MednafenVer}}]
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|{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||Mid ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}}
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|PCE.emu
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|align=left|{{Icon|Android}}
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|[https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.PceEmu 1.5.43]
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|{{✓}} ||? ||{{✗}} ||? ||? ||{{✓}} ||{{✗}}
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!colspan="10"|Console
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|[[Virtual Console]]
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|align=left|{{Icon|Wii|WiiU}}
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|N/A ||{{✓}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||High ||{{✗}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}}
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|[[Mednafen]] <small>(PCE-Fast)</small><ref group=N>Only available on consoles as a libretro core (e.g. [[RetroArch]]).</ref>
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|align=left|{{Icon|PSP|PS3}}<br>{{Icon|Wii|3DS|WiiU|Switch}}
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|{{MednafenVer}}
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|{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||Mid ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}}
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|Hu-Go! GX
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|align=left|{{Icon|Wii|GCN}}
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|[https://www.emutopia.com/index.php/emulators/item/285-nec-pc-engine-turbografx/327-hugo-gx 2.12]
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|{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✗}} ||Mid ||? ||{{✗}} ||{{✓}}
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|[https://dcemulation.org/index.php?title=PCECast HuCast]
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|align=left|{{Icon|DC}}
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|[http://dcemulation.org/1-newsdump/emulators/pcecast/pcecast.zip 06/01/07]
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|{{✓}} ||? ||{{✗}} ||Mid ||? ||{{✗}} ||{{✓}}
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|-
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|HuE
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|align=left|{{Icon|PSP}}
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|[http://filetrip.net/psp-downloads/homebrew/download-hue-for-psp-070-f28312.html 0.70]
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|{{✓}} ||{{~}} ||{{✗}} ||Mid ||? ||{{✗}} ||{{✓}}
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|-
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|[https://www.gamebrew.org/wiki/NitroGrafx NitroGrafx]
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|align=left|{{Icon|NDS}}
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|[https://emutopia.com/index.php/item/815-nitrografx-0-7 0.7]
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|{{✓}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||? ||? ||{{✗}} ||{{~}}
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|}
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===Comparisons===
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;[[Mednafen]]:Much like its other original cores, it does very well, even having two profiles: PCE-Accurate and PCE-Fast. Despite being CLI-based, a fork of an older version that has a GUI has emerged called pcejin. [[RetroArch]] uses the PCE-Fast core for its beetle fork.
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;[[Ootake]]:It's okay for general purposes.
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;[[MAME]]:Has a <code>pce</code> driver <small>(and a child 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.
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;[[MagicEngine]]:Unfortunately trialware that costs €15 euro. There are better options available for free.
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;NitroGrafx: is a DS TurboGrafx emulator for Nintendo DS. It is included with TWiLight Menu++
  
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:Thanks. I'll start adding some. -[[User:Jpx|Jpx]] ([[User talk:Jpx|talk]]) 05:52, 17 April 2020 (UTC)
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Revision as of 00:56, 31 July 2021

PC Engine (TurboGrafx-16)
PC-Engine-Console-Set.png
SuperGrafx-Console-Set.jpg
Above: The PC Engine.
Below: The SuperGrafx.
Developer NEC Home Electronics, Hudson Soft
Type Home video game console
Generation Fourth generation
Release date 1987
Discontinued 1994
Successor SuperGrafx, PC-FX
Emulated ✓

The PC Engine (PCE) was an 8-bit system released jointly by NEC and Hudson Soft in Japan on October 30, 1987 and in the US on August 29, 1989. It was retailed for $399.99. It had a 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 16-bit video color encoder chip, both built by Hudson Soft. When it came time to seek other potential markets, the two companies eventually caved to a limited American release in 1989 under a completely different model and name: the TurboGrafx-16. The European versions varied throughout the countries, being the western version in Spain and United Kingdom and Japanese models in Benelux regions.

The joint venture, formed in North America as TTI, made an add-on called the PC Engine CD (PCE-CD) / TurboGrafx-CD (TG-CD) that loaded games from discs instead, much like the Sega CD but better supported. The PC Engine Duo / Turbo-Duo combined the add-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, on the other hand, was a whole different story, beating out the Famicom when it first came out long enough to compete against its rival's own successor and gave little focus for the Mega Drive who was instead posing more of a threat to Nintendo in North America.

NEC planned to enhance the system further, announcing the "PC Engine 2" that would later become the PC Engine SuperGrafx. However, it was rushed to a 1989 market in Japan 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 GT / Turbo-Express was a very rare handheld model of the original hardware, in the same vein as the Sega Nomad (a portable Sega Genesis / Mega Drive). It did include some exclusive features like the TurboLink multiplayer feature (used in games such as the flight sim called Falcon and Bomberman 93) but wasn't widely supported.

Emulators

Name Platform(s) Latest Version PCE-CD (TG-CD) PCE2 (SG) Libretro Core Accuracy FLOSS Active Recommended
PC / x86
Mednafen (PCE-Accurate) Windows Linux macOS FreeBSD 1.32.1 ✓ ✓ ✓ High ✓ ✓ ✓
MAME Windows Linux macOS FreeBSD 0.264 ✓ ✓ ✓ High ✓ ✓ ✓
Mednafen (PCE-Fast) Windows Linux macOS FreeBSD 1.32.1 ✓ ✓ ✓ Mid ✓ ✓ ✓
BizHawk Windows 2.9.1 ✓ ✓ ✗ High ✓ ✓ ✓
higan Windows Linux macOS FreeBSD v110 ~ ✓ ✓ ? ✓ ✓ ~
Turbo Engine Windows 0.32 ✓ ✓ ✗ High ? ✗ ✗
MagicEngine Windows macOS 1.1.3 ✓ ✓ ✗ Mid ✗ ✗ ✗
Ootake Windows 3.04 ✓ ✓ ✗ Mid ? ✓ ✗
pcejin (Mednafen 0.8.x) Windows Git ✓ ✓ ✗ Mid ? ✗ ✗
DarcNES Windows Linux macOS FreeBSD 9b0401/9b0313 ~ ✗ ✗ Low ? ✗ ✗
Neco Windows 0.11 ✗ ✗ ✗ Low ? ✗ ✗
ePCEngine Windows 8/12/2017 ✓ ✓ ✗ ? ? ✓ ✗
FinalBurn Alpha Windows 0.2.97.43 ✓ ✓ ✓ ? ✗ ✓ ✗
Hu-Go! Windows Linux 2.12 ✓ ? ✗ ? ? ✗ ✗
Mobile / ARM
Mednafen (PCE-Fast) Android iOS Linux Pandora 1.32.1 ✓ ✓ ✓ Mid ✓ ✓ ✓
PCE.emu Android 1.5.43 ✓ ? ✗ ? ? ✓ ✗
Console
Virtual Console Wii Wii U N/A ✓ ✗ ✗ High ✗ ✓ ✓
Mednafen (PCE-Fast)[N 1] PSP PlayStation 3
Wii Nintendo 3DS Wii U Switch 		1.32.1 ✓ ✓ ✓ Mid ✓ ✓ ✓
Hu-Go! GX Wii GameCube 2.12 ✓ ✓ ✗ Mid ? ✗ ✓
HuCast Dreamcast 06/01/07 ✓ ? ✗ Mid ? ✗ ✓
HuE PSP 0.70 ✓ ~ ✗ Mid ? ✗ ✓
NitroGrafx Nintendo DS 0.7 ✓ ✗ ✗ ? ? ✗ ~
  1. ↑ Only available on consoles as a libretro core (e.g. RetroArch).

Comparisons

Mednafen
Much like its other original cores, it does very well, even having two profiles: PCE-Accurate and PCE-Fast. Despite being CLI-based, a fork of an older version that has a GUI has emerged called pcejin. RetroArch uses the PCE-Fast core for its beetle fork.
Ootake
It's okay for general purposes.
MAME
Has a pce driver (and a child driver called tg16). In all revisions it emulates, MAME reports it as working and the graphics as okay, but the sound is imperfect.
MagicEngine
Unfortunately trialware that costs €15 euro. There are better options available for free.
NitroGrafx
is a DS TurboGrafx emulator for Nintendo DS. It is included with TWiLight Menu++
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