NEC TurboGrafx-CD
English-friendly titles in this collection: 186
Tested with the Beetle PCE (1.29 3d91a94) core in RetroArch
File size (uncompressed): 46.32 GB
Format: .chd
The TurboGrafx-CD (called the PC Engine CD-ROM² in Japan) was a TurboGrafx-16 with the world’s first console CD add-on unit (way back in 1988!), boasting the beginning of discs as a storage medium for videogames! As a bonus feature, you could use the unit itself as a clunky discman and listen to your music CDs with headphones... as long as it was still plugged into the wall.
The discs were not region locked and could be played on any console region.
NEC eventually released a combined unit called the TurboDuo that included both card and disc game ability and featured expanded RAM and an updated BIOS.
Special items included: Unreleased titles, prototypes, English-patched translations, and titles not in English that are easy enough to play without being fluent in another language.
Items removed: Non-working dumps, duplicates, prototypes or demos of games that eventually saw a full release, homebrew titles, games that require proficiency in another language to play, and hacks.
Please note - Recommended patches: These are optional copies of titles that exist in the Champion Collection, but are altered in ways that make them more stable and fun to play (in my opinion):
Cosmic Fantasy 2 (Un-Worked Design Patch by Lipemco! Translations) - Removes the odd changes that Working Designs applied to the English version of the game, including imbalances, enemy stats, and censorship.
Down Load 2 (Audio Remaster Patch by Dark City Productions) - All music has been remastered in a modern way.
Exile (Un-Worked Design Patch by Lipemco! Translations) - Removes the odd changes that Working Designs applied to the English version of the game, including enemy stats, Sadler's "warp" being disabled, and gold amounts.
Exile II (Un-Worked Design Patch by Lipemco! Translations) - Removes the odd changes that Working Designs applied to the English version of the game, including enemy stats and text glitches.
Fantastic Night Dreams - Cotton (Audio Remaster and Music Mashup Patch by Dark City Productions) - All music, sound effects, and cutscenes has been remastered in a modern way, and the soundtrack is now a mashup from several different Cotton games on various systems.
Lords of Thunder (Audio Remaster Patch by Dark City Productions) - All music has been remastered in a modern way.
Mugen Senshi Valis - The Legend of a Fantasm Soldier (Hilarious AI English Dub by Sideside) - An attempt to add automatic English dubbing to cutscenes via AI with super funny results because of word choice and inflection.
Valis IV (Hilarious AI English Dub by Sideside) - An attempt to add automatic English dubbing to cutscenes via AI with super funny results because of word choice and inflection. Even more hilarious than the other one.