NEC TurboGrafx-16 (312 Games) + SuperGrafx (5 Games) (No-Intro) (No Duplicates) (No Hacked ROMS) (Extras)

Hello everyone! I always am looking for romsets that are meant to have only a single rom for each game, rather than a lot of different versions of it, but never am able to find them. I finally managed to make this for myself and thought of sharing it, for people like me.

I never had even played TurboGrafx in my life, but it seems I am not the only one. After looking through some videos, I decided I really wanted to add this to my collection. What's more, I am actually shocked about how awesome the games on this one is. AVGN mentioned it that the reason this console has less games that suck, is that because not many 3rd party companies got in the game, so it's games are actually generally good. I played some of them and I have to admit, I was attracted to the games!

I mean look at the screenshot! Who would not want to play .. ... .... Body Conquest II....... oops, wrong screenshot!

Jokes aside, there are many awesome games. I even suggest to people to get the Japanese Romset, even if the do not want Japanese games. The main reason is that it has a lot of games that have this awesome arcade feeling and they actually play well. Would you care what it is written in a sidescroller shooter or a fighting game? Nope!

Anyway, this Romset is meant to be one that does not have any duplicate games in it and it is NOT for collectors, but for people that want to just get the roms and play, without having 5-6 different versions of the same game. My target is to keep a single game out of all the different releases, meaning that there should be only a single rom for each game.

I have gotten these roms from Emuparadise and thus decided to share them packed all together, rather than each one separate. If you want to play only some games and not download them all, then visit Emuparadise and get them from there.

This Romset is made from the large romset offered at Emuparadise and updated with the latest No-Intro (no hacked games) pack from Emuparadise.

I have tried my best to not have duplicate games, but even so, there might be a couple left that I did not detect. If you find any duplicate game, please do report it in comments.

Always though first test the game to see if it is a duplicate, rather than just considering it a duplicate because of the name! There are quite a few roms that have the same exact name, but they are different games! Always test them first!

Main ROMSet
There are 96 American roms and 211 Japanese roms, in the main pack. I also included the SuperGrafx which has just 5 Japanese roms, since it could not really have it's own pack. Keep in mind that these games play with the same emulator, so you can just put these 5 roms with the rest.

The priority of the roms I chose is USA, and then Japan making as always sure to keep an English release over anything else.. This time I made sure to update all the roms and remove any possible duplicate rom, even if the roms had different names.

Even if all roms are meant to be clean working roms, there might be some rare exceptions. I have not tested them all and sometimes emulators can give problems. From all the games I tried though, all worked perfectly!

There is a Japan rom in the USA Romset, namely Ninja Ryuuken Den. The game includes English, so it did not matter to me it was from Japan and I included it in the USA one.

Extra
I have also included some separate extra packs of roms, which are either pirate or hack games and some other oddities.

BIOS might be important for Turbografx, since it seems some emulators need them. Just pointing that out for people that just get the main Romsets and nothing else.

I have included 3Multi-Game Carts that contain a couple different versions of the rom. Remember that the ones marked with are bad dumps and the [h] hacked ones.

If you wonder what are the Public Domain roms, you can look it up in wikipedia, since you will understand it much better, than me trying to explain.

Games List
I have compiled a list of the Main Romset games in different formats, from normal text, to rtf and two different type of excel formats. The txt and rtf obviously can be read by the default Windows document readers, Notepad and Wordpad. The txt is simple where the rtf looks like a nice list in boxes, looking like an excel.

The Excel ones, ods and xml, are for either OpenOffice or Microsoft Office and they have filters to filter out versions and regions. If you download more than one of my romsets, you can always combine the Excel pages, by copying them all in a single Excel file. Just suggesting that for people that do not want to have a lot of different excel files.

I am only suggesting the Emulator and Frontend. I do not include them in the pack!

Emulator
For these I use Ootake. It does not seem to be the most famous around, but the most famous, which is Magic Engine. Magic Engine is NOT a free emulator though and if anything, the last version came out on 2008, but Ootake's last update is last month (March 2016).

The main reason I think people do not like Ootake, is because the main site is in Japanese. Not only that, but also to use it, you need to install it on your PC. On top of that, you have to download another thing for it (an unzip dll) to play games in zipped form, which is again found through Japanese links AND it needs installation.

For this reason I decided to pack the emulator and share it.
http://s000.tinyupload.com/i...file_id=00283723854872487334
Also a virus total for this, for people that worry
https://www.virustotal.com/e...cc282ce/analysis/1460927012/

Keep in mind this is version 2.77, so if you download this in the future, it might be an old version and they might have released a new one. I have tested moving around the folder in my PC and it works jsut fine, meaning you can place it wherever you want and it will work. The interface is in English. There are some weird characters, but ignore them. To start a game either drag and drop the game on the emulator, or from the main interface use the Hu-Card Game button. Also keep in mind that the CD-ROM button, does not play ISOs you can download. Ootake for now only plays actual physical copies of CDs or mounted ones (I am not sure if it plays mounted, but I am guessing it does).

Frontend
Finally I want to suggest LaunchBox. Launchbox is a frontend for multiple emulators and if anything it is the best I have found out there. It is easy to import games in it's interface, it suggests the best emulator to get when for each console, when you try to add an emulator and it has the best interface I have found. Weirdly, I like the free UI it offers (LaunchBox) and not the paid one that people that buy it can get (BigBox). The LaunchBox UI shows every game in a list with a picture of the cover or a screenshot from in game and that is really nice for me. The paid UI it offers just shows a list and only when you choose the name you can see any pictures of it. It can automatically look into picture databases and download pictures for a lot of the games. You can check the screenshot to see what I mean.

You can follow this tutorial, which will help you combine the ultimate emulator, with the ultimate frontend :D This Video might be for RetroArch, but it has a quick tutorial about Launchbox in it too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oeozvnb_-eI

Retroarch is more or less a multiplatform frontend, that can internally use emulators from all systems out there. It is a bit intimidating, but if you combine that with Launchbox, you will have a single Emulator (with made different internal ones) and a really nice free frontend for it :)

Personally I use separate emulators and Retroarch only when it is about using emulation for older systems, like atari for example.