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{{Infobox emulator
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{{Infobox console
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|logo = gbe_plus.png
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|title = PC Engine (TurboGrafx-16)
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|logowidth = 120
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|image = PC-Engine-Console-Set.png
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|version = [https://github.com/shonumi/gbe-plus/releases {{GBEVer}}]
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|image2 = SuperGrafx-Console-Set.jpg
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|active = Yes
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|imagecaption = '''Above''': The PC Engine.<br/>'''Below''': The SuperGrafx.
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|platform = Windows, Linux, macOS <small>(untested)</small>
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|developer = [[:Category:NEC consoles|NEC Home Electronics, Hudson Soft]]
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|target = [[Game Boy/Game Boy Color emulators|Game Boy/Color]]<br/>[[Game Boy Advance emulators|Game Boy Advance]]<br/>[[Nintendo DS emulators|Nintendo DS]]
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|type = [[:Category:Home consoles|Home video game console]]
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|developer = [https://github.com/shonumi Shonumi]
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|generation = [[:Category:Fourth-generation video game consoles|Fourth generation]]
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|website = [https://shonumi.github.io/ Shonumi's website]
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|release = 1987
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|source = [https://github.com/shonumi/gbe-plus GitHub]
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|discontinued = 1994
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|license = GNU GPLv2
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|successor = SuperGrafx, [[PC-FX emulators|PC-FX]]
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|emulated = {{✓}}
 
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'''GBE+''', full name '''GB Enhanced+''', is an open-source [[Game Boy/Game Boy Color emulators|Game Boy/Color]], [[Game Boy Advance emulators|Game Boy Advance]], [[Pokémon mini emulators|Pokémon mini]] and [[Nintendo DS emulators|Nintendo DS emulator]] with the goal of having all possible enhancements for these platforms. Main features are [[Texture Packs|tile replacement]], for custom sprites in games, or coloring Game Boy games. Later Shonumi (Named D.S. Baxter) turned his attention to obscure peripherals and has made many of these and titles that need them emulated for the first time. Nintendo DS emulation is a possible future feature. The emulator is a continuation and rewrite of Shonumi's previous project - GB Enhanced, which was deprecated due to the core not being robust enough. You can find the released version of this software below.
 
  
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The release version of 1.0 Beta came after 2 years of progress and rewriting. Released on the same day as the original GBE, April 1st.
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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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[[File:GBE+_texture_pack_beta_by_GregoryMcGregerson.png|thumb|250px|An unfinished texture pack for Super Mario Land by GregoryMcGregerson]]
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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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Here is a list of things that were pioneered in emulation by GBE+ and are mostly exclusive to it:
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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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* [[Game_Boy/Game_Boy_Color_emulators#IR_Transmitter|Game Boy Color IR link]]
 
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* [[Pokémon_mini_emulators#Infrared|Pokémon mini IR support]]
 
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* [[Game_Boy/Game_Boy_Color_emulators#Mobile_Game_Boy_Adapter|Mobile Network GB]] - incomplete
 
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* [[Game_Boy/Game_Boy_Color_emulators#4-Player_Adapter|4-Player Adapter]]
 
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* [[Game_Boy/Game_Boy_Color_emulators#Barcode_Boy|Barcode Boy]]
 
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* [[Game_Boy/Game_Boy_Color_emulators#Barcode_Taisen_Bardigun|Barcode Taisen Bardigun]]
 
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* [[Game_Boy/Game_Boy_Color_emulators#Full_Changer|Full Changer]]
 
  
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==Download==
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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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{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
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|-
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! scope="col"|Name
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! scope="col"|Platform(s)
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! scope="col"|Latest Version
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! scope="col"|PCE-CD (TG-CD)
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! scope="col"|PCE2 (SG)
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! scope="col"|[[libretro|Libretro Core]]
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! scope="col"|[[Emulation Accuracy|Accuracy]]
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! scope="col"|<abbr title="Free/Libre and Open-Source Software">FLOSS</abbr>
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! scope="col"|Active
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! scope="col"|[[Recommended Emulators|Recommended]]
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|-
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!colspan="10"|PC / x86
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|-
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|[[Mednafen]] <small>(PCE-Accurate)</small>
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|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS|FreeBSD}}
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|[{{MednafenURL|releases/}} {{MednafenVer}}]
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|{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||High ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}}
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|-
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|[[MAME]]
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|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS|FreeBSD}}
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|[http://www.mamedev.org/release.html {{MAMEVer}}]
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|{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||High ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}}
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|-
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|[[Mednafen]] <small>(PCE-Fast)</small>
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|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS|FreeBSD}}
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|[{{MednafenURL|releases/}} {{MednafenVer}}]
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|{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||Mid ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}}
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|-
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|[[BizHawk]]
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|align=left|{{Icon|Windows}}
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|[http://tasvideos.org/BizHawk/ReleaseHistory.html {{BizHawkVer}}]
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|{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✗}} ||High ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}}
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|-
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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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|-
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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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|align=center|{{Icon|Win-big}}
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|[[Ootake]]
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|'''[https://github.com/shonumi/gbe-plus/releases Official releases]'''
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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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|-
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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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|-
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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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|[[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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|-
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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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|-
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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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|-
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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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|-
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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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|-
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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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==Resources==
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===Comparisons===
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* [https://github.com/shonumi/gbe-plus Official GitHub]
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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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* [https://shonumi.github.io/index.html Shonumi's Blog]
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;[[Ootake]]:It's okay for general purposes.
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* [https://m.youtube.com/user/Shonumi/videos Shonumi's YouTube channel]
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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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* [https://twitter.com/shonumi_ikuzumo Shonumi's Twitter (obsolete)]
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;[[MagicEngine]]:Unfortunately trialware that costs €15 euro. There are better options available for free.
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=== Old threads ===
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;NitroGrafx: is a DS TurboGrafx emulator for Nintendo DS. It is included with TWiLight Menu++
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* [http://www.emutalk.net/threads/55007-GB-Enhanced Emutalk thread] (Started April 1, 2014. Not much updated.)
 
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* [https://www.reddit.com/r/emulation/comments/4cwj4u/gb_enhanced_10_beta_released/ /r/emulation 1.0 Beta thread] (Fri, April 1, 2016.)
 
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[[Category:Consoles]]
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[[Category:Windows emulation software]]
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[[Category:Home consoles]]
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[[Category:NEC consoles]]
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[[Category:Custom Assets]]
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[[Category:Game Boy/Game Boy Color emulators]]
 
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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 0.265 ✓ ✓ ✓ 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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