PC Engine related clone... It is that much odd that I cannot put a right title

[andoba]

Well, this is the oddest thing I have ever seen in my life...

It's a PC Engine arcade board made in Spain. It has a standard JAMMA connector, it is a quite big board which has an original Coregraphx board in one corner, and four cartridge connectors which are cardboard boxes with enormous black pot chips inside.

Here are some photos:



Well that is the actual board. At the top is the Coregraphx board, and at the bottom the cart slots, and all the other stuff just look like glue logic chips and EPROMs... :shrug:



Closeup of the Coregraphx board with all the ports desoldered.



Here's the... "cartridge" itself. It's quite odd how, instead of 99% of cartridge, instead of having the pins in one face making it all stright, it has the pins at the bottom. There's the info of the manufacturer too (don't try calling or something; it possibly doesn't exist anymore).

And well, you could think, that sure is a chinese clone sold by an arcade supplier in Spain...



Made in a rented jail cell? NO! Made in Spain. C:

Good: it's odd. And PC Engine. And very, VERY OBSCURE.
Bad: it doesn't work with actual Hu Cards so it's quite useless.
Ugly: you will never find one in your life. I doubt that they did manufacture more units that the ones you can count with your fingers. And in Spain there is a law that says, when the machine license expires, it has to be destroyed. So good luck.

Source: pocket_lucho in ElOtroLado.NET.

[123lkik]

what the hell is this? anyone know

[Kami68k]

haha, what the hell is that red box for?

[Yakumo]

This was posted here on ASSEMbler a few years ago. back then we had no idea what it was however we finally found out some information about it. Maybe if you do a search the topic will come back up?

Yakumo

[Adol]

It's the Tourvision.

[andoba]

haha, what the hell is that red box for?

If you read the text that are with the photos, you'll see that it's the cart. :)

[devzone]

TourVision is a system made in Spain to play PC Engine games on jamma

[Yakumo]

great pictures, devzone. So in those little red boxes are just normal hacked Hu Cards. Man that would look really cheap in an arcade I can imagine.

Yakumo

[devzone]

great pictures, devzone. So in those little red boxes are just normal hacked Hu Cards. Man that would look really cheap in an arcade I can imagine.

Yakumo

Actually it looks pretty good except the board generated credit and remaining time overlay :-(

[andoba]

Poor HU Cards. :(

Still, great one!

Btw, a pic of it running:

[devzone]

nice

[123lkik]

nice one, we now know what it is

[Micjohvan]

That cab has lots of purty girls on it....

[ASSEMbler]

To think the lengths they went to conceal the fact that they are hu cards.

[Jamtex]

The cabinet artwork is from Jun Tsukasa (司淳) he who did lots of artwork for Psikyo and especially one of my favourite mahjong serieses (Taisen Hot Gimmick Cosplay Mahjong).

http://www7.big.or.jp/~abura/TSUKASA_INDEX.HTML

Here is a website he is involved in (WARNING : NOT WORK SAFE OR CHILD SAFE OR EVEN OTHER HALF SAFE)

[Tatsujin]

in fact it not even can be called a clone, since it uses all the original hardware to run the game. though there're much easier ways to do that as we've seen a lot in the net / 'bay etc.

[ASSEMbler]

jamma converted systems have been around for ages. I can't think of many consoles that weren't hacked into a jamma cab.

[WaSTeD]

There is some info about the card in The Guru site:

http://www.mameworld.net/gurudumps/oldnews.html

1st August, 2004

The cabinet artwork is from Jun Tsukasa (司淳) he who did lots of artwork for Psikyo and especially one of my favourite mahjong serieses (Taisen Hot Gimmick Cosplay Mahjong).

Very interesting artwork indeed.. :110:

[Tatsujin]

I can't think of many consoles that weren't hacked into a jamma cab.

yeah..that's coz the system was so damn nice and "almost" arcade acurate at its time:nod:

[Druid II]

The cabinet artwork is from Jun Tsukasa (司淳) he who did lots of artwork for Psikyo and especially one of my favourite mahjong serieses (Taisen Hot Gimmick Cosplay Mahjong).

http://www7.big.or.jp/~abura/TSUKASA_INDEX.HTML

Here is a website he is involved in (WARNING : NOT WORK SAFE OR CHILD SAFE OR EVEN OTHER HALF SAFE)

Jun Tsukasa is cool only till you realize that he is a broken hack copy of Range Murata (who he was "influenced" by when they worked together on games like Wachenroder).