PC Engine Duo-R
NEC’s 1993 HuCard-and-CD machine from Japan, modded for RGB and for the American TurboGrafx library.
The Duo put the PC Engine and its CD-ROM² drive in one white case, and the Duo-R was its 1993 revision. In Japan the PC Engine was a major platform; in America, sold as the TurboGrafx-16, it stayed a cult machine.
Two mods make it the one PC Engine the room needs. A region mod lets it run American TurboGrafx HuCards, which are wired differently from Japanese ones, and an RGB mod brings out a picture the stock console only offers as composite.
A spare laser pickup for the Duo family sits on the shelf for the day the drive needs it.
What it puts out, and how it gets to the glass
- Stock output
- Composite
- Modifications
- Region mod · RGB mod
- Video out
- RGB over SCART
- Into the chain
- RGB SCART → switcher → breakout → PVM / BVM
- Media
- HuCards and Super CD-ROM² discs
- Spare
- Duo-family laser pickup
Work log
What has been done to it.
- Region mod — Runs American TurboGrafx HuCards as well as Japanese ones.
- RGB mod — RGB out to the SCART chain.
- Family
- PC Engine — NEC and Hudson, 1987 in Japan
- Revision
- Duo-R — 1993
- Status
- In service — Wired into the RGB chain.
The console mod table lists every machine’s path to the monitors, and The Signal Chain walks it box by box.