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PC Engine
(TurboGrafx-16)
Emulator

PC Engine Overview
PC Engine

The PC Engine is a home video game console released by NEC Home Electronics in October 1987, this home video game console was NEC's first entry into the video game market. In some regions, it was released under the name "Turbo Grafx 16".

After the PC Engine was launched, as many as nine models were released: Shuttle, CoreGX, SuperGX, GT, CoreGX2, Duo-LT, Duo-R, and Duo-RX.

The media was also complicated with five different types of media: HuCARD/CD-ROM2/SUPER CD-ROM2/Super CD-ROM2/SuperGRAFX/Arcade Card.

  • Website:Wikipedia
  • CPU/GPU:HuC6280 7.16MHz/HuC6260 + HuC6270
  • Resolution:512x240/481 colors
  • Price:24,800 yen
  • Units sold:10 million
  • Number of titles:658
PC Engine Emulator Overview

The emulator is highly complete and can run most games. Also, even integrated graphicss can play without problems.

To run CD-ROM2, many software programs require a BIOS.


PC Engine Emulator list
Feature MagicEngine Mesen npce Ootake pcejin
Save State × × × × ×
Gamepad × × × × ×
Video Filter ×
Fast forward × × ×
Netplay × ×
Screenshot × × × ×
Audio Recording × × ×
Video Recording × × ×
BIOS required no yes yes yes yes
Platform WindowsMac WindowsLinux Windows Windows Windows
Recommended ranking 3rd place 1st place 4th place 2nd place 5th place
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MagicEngine screen

This PC Engine emulator supports HuCARD/CD-ROM2/SUPER CD-ROM2/SUPERGRAFX/Arcade Card and is highly complete, running almost all games.

The key point is that it does not require BIOS and is MAC-compatible, which is not the case with other PC Engine emulators.

This product is shareware for 20 US$ and can be played for 5 minutes in its unregistered state.

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Mesen screen

It offers a range of useful functions and supports HuCARD/CD-ROM2/SUPER CD-ROM2/Super CD-ROM2/SuperGRAFX/Arcade Card.

It is the only one of the major PC Engine emulators that supports filters, and setting the "Video Filter" to hq4x or xBRZ 6x will smooth out the contours.

In addition to functions such as speed UP/Down, rewind, rapid fire, etc., hotkeys for each function including these can be assigned to gamepad buttons.

For save/load states, you can see the screen at the time of state save at [File]>[Load State]>[Load State Menu], so it is easy to see where the state was saved.

Microsoft's ".NET 6.0 Runtime" is required to start Mesen. The download URL will be displayed at the first startup.

Mesen supports the NES, GameBoy/Color, and SNES as well as the PC Engine.

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npce screen

PC Engine emulator developed in Japan, compatible with HuCARD/CD-ROM2/SUPER CD-ROM2.

There are many additional features such as netplay, screenshots, movie recording, etc.

It is a very old emulator, but it functions and works fine.

  • Updated:2002/05/23
  • Version:0.10+0.08
  • Platform:Windows
  • Website:none
  • Download:emu-portal
  • Compatibility List:none
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Ootake screen

PC Engine emulator compatible with HuCARD/CD-ROM2/SUPER CD-ROM2/SUPERGRAFX/Arcade Card.

As indicated by this software's concept of "sound quality/picture quality/operability/fine accuracy," it is rich in menus and can be customized in various ways.

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pcejin screen

PC Engine emulator compatible with Hu Card/SG/CD-ROM2.

The menu is simple and easy to handle.