The PC Engine (Japanese Model)
The PC Engine (PCE) was a 16-bit system released by NEC in 1990. It is known as TurboGrafx-16 in other regions outside of Japan. PC Engine CD (PC-CD) was a CD addon.
The PC Engine SuperGrafx was an upgraded version of the PC Engine that could still play standard PCE games. Only 7 games were released for it.
Emulators[]
| Name | Operating System(s) | Latest Version | PCE (TG16) | PCE-CD (TG-CD) | SG |
Accuracy Rating |
Recommended |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mednafen | Multiplatform | 1.21.3 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | High | ✓ |
| pcejin
[1] (Mednafen 0.8.x) |
Windows | SVN | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | Mid | ✓ |
| Turbo Engine | Windows | 0.32 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ? |
✓ |
| Ootake | Windows | 2.75 | ✓ | ✓ | ? | Mid | ✓ |
| RetroArch (Mednafen) | Multiplatform | 0.9.28 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | Mid | ✓ |
| MagicEngine | Windows, OS X | 1.1.3 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | Mid | ✗ |
| BizHawk | Windows | 1.5.2 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | High | ✗ |
| HuE | PlayStation Portable | 0.70 | ✓ | ✓ | ? | ? | ✓ |
Comparisons[]
- Mednafen is great. It has two PCE cores: PCE-Fast and PCE-Accurate. It also has a PC-FX core. Its main version is command line. pcejin is a version of Mednafen's PC Engine emulation for Windows with GUI. Linux users should use Mednafen with a GTK GUI[2].
- Ootake is okay for general purposes.
- RetroArch can run Mednafen's PCE-Fast core.
- MagicEngine only has a free demo available. The full version costs €15 EUR. There is no reason to buy it when there are better free options available.