1988 NEC/Hudson Soft Interface Unit, PC Engine, CD-ROM2 & EverDrive Reviews, Repairs and Modern Mods

Join me on this retro journey where we explore and repair the Japanese NEC/Hudson Soft Interface Unit known as the Briefcase, review the PC Engine Core Grafx, fix the CD-ROM2, review the Memory Base 128 and play some HuCard, CD-ROM2 and Turbo EverDrive games.

00:00 PC Engine and CD-ROM2 Introduction
00:32 Retro Relix Title
00:44 PC Engine Core Grafx Review
01:54 Inside the PC Engine Core Grafx
03:08 Joypad Cleaning Montage
05:04 Powering On the PC Engine
06:02 HuCard Game - Bomber Man
07:46 HuCard Game - Altered Beast
09:10 HuCard Game - Out Run
10:58 CD-ROM2 Review
11:54 CD-ROM2 Repair
13:34 Interface Unit Clean and Repair Montage
16:58 Interface Unit Testing
17:28 CD-ROM2 Super System Card
17:48 Game Save Functions
18:12 Memory Base 128 Montage
19:44 CD-ROM Game - Rally Championship
20:40 Turbo EverDrive Review
21:08 Turbo EverDrive Game - Pac-Land
22:02 Turbo EverDrive Game - Knight Rider Special
22:54 Turbo EverDrive Game - Darius Alpha
23:34 Turbo EverDrive Game - Chase HQ II
24:26 Turbo EverDrive Game - The NewZealand Story
25:00 End

LINKS
PC Engine CD-ROM2 Overview
NEC PC Engine Specifications
PC Engine ROM Downloads and Emulators
Hudson Soft HuC6270
Hudson Soft HuC6280
PC Engine HuC6260 - CMOS Video Colour Encoder Manual
PC Engine Architecture
PC Engine Game Roms
NEC Turbografx-16 Unit Service Manual
NEC Memory Base 128 Guide
TurboGrafx-16/PC-Engine: A Complete Analysis
The Complete PC-Engine Guide Book
PC Engine Schematics
Rally Championship ISO Download
Inside The HuCard

MUSIC CREDITS
Digital Voyage and Funky (Sting) by Twin Musicom. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence.
Press Fuse and Straight Fuse by French Fuse
URL Melt by Unicorn Heads
Elastica, Connection © 1994 Deceptive Records

Developed on a Surface Pro 9 using PowerDirector 365 and Jasc Paint Shop Pro 8

#pcengine #cd-rom2 #NEC #hudsonsoft

[RetroRelixRestorer]

Hi Everyone. This time Retro Relix reviews the PC Engine, peripherals, performs some repairs and plays some HuCard, CD-ROM2 and Turbo EverDrive games. Also, if anyone can update or correct me regarding the SAVE GAME RAM issue I experienced, please let me know. Enjoy, Mark.

[retrorobbins]

Great video so I presume that the CD player is centrepin negative as well ? I must admit this was enjoyable to watch a strange amalgam of retro Gaming and repairs, loved the montage of the clean up and repair of the main base in the middle 🎉 however getting all that memory and needing a card in order to use the CD Rom was a lot of messing around 😂 .. however it was good to see something that I don't own in action some great games played, did you know that the best version of R-Type ever released was for the PC Engine ... great video their Mark really enjoyed it ...👍👏👏

[Chris-Courage]

It can take a little bit of time for the internal super cap for game saves to charge up once the docking station is powered on. Especially if the system hasn't been used for a while. Once you've had the entire setup on for a bit, you'll probably be fine just reformatting the internal memory and all should be fine. No need to replace the supercapacitor for game saves as I've never come across a bad one. They last forever. The capacitors in the white CD-ROM drive though are a different story. A number of those typically go bad causing CD read issues.

[TheTrainstation]

Did you ever try hydrogen peroxide for rebbrightening the plastic?

[sma]

I have the full briefcase with white PC Engine.

I got it with the cog fix done, but later the CD-ROM2 stopped working.
I think a UK person who runs a 'retro' museum had the same issue, I think that it's a potentiometer, that he shows how to adjust. I've been putting it off as I have an AliExpress knockoff Everdrive, but I miss playing my Vulcan Venture CD.
Folks have been using Sony Discman drives as donors in the past.

Have you found out about fixing the RAM issue ?