TurboGrafx

The TurboGrafx emulator
This is Mednafen. It emulates TurboGrafx 16 and TurboGrafx CD games. I’ve configured Advanced Launcher to switch the SHIELD to 60Hz refresh rate if your TV supports it. So you should stick to NTSC (US) games to ensure perfect smooth scrolling.

Select: Select
Start:  Run
NVIDIA: Toggle RetroArch menu

For TurboGrafx CD support you will need the CD BIOS file:

syscard3.pce

The BIOS file must be placed in the RetroArch system folder on the SHIELD:

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Mednafen supports roms and cd images in the following formats:

  • .pce
  • .zip (zipped .pce files)
  • .bin/.cue with support for .ogg audio tracks

For a quick guide to bin/cue files with compressed audio scroll to the bottom of this page.

You need to place the games in the pcengine rom folder on the SHIELD. You should name the files the way you want them to be listed in SPMC:

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When you’ve added games to the pcengine folder you must do a scan of the folder in Advanced Launcher:

You are now ready to play TurboGrafx 16 and TurboGrafx CD games!

TurboGrafx CD games with compressed audio
The reasoning behind using compressed audio is to save space without any detectable loss of quality. As an example, Lemmings CD takes up about 450MB in regular bin/cue format. If you compress the audio files it only takes up about 55MB. The process is fairly technical though, so if you don’t care about the extra disk space then don’t bother with it.

You need to do the following:

  1. Use a CD ripper to rip the data track and audio tracks from the bin/cue
  2. Compress the audio tracks into .ogg format (.mp3 is not supported)
  3. Update the cue file to use the compressed audio files

There are guides for how to do this if you Google it, so I won’t go into details with that here. I’ll provide this example of the .cue file for Lemmings CD for inspiration:

FILE "01 Lemmings (J).ogg" OGG
 TRACK 01 AUDIO
 INDEX 01 00:00:00
FILE "02 Lemmings (J).iso" BINARY
 TRACK 02 MODE1/2048
 PREGAP 00:03:00
 INDEX 01 00:00:00
FILE "03 Lemmings (J).ogg" OGG
 TRACK 03 AUDIO
 PREGAP 00:02:00
 INDEX 01 00:00:00
FILE "04 Lemmings (J).ogg" OGG
 TRACK 04 AUDIO
 INDEX 01 00:00:00
FILE "05 Lemmings (J).ogg" OGG
 TRACK 05 AUDIO
 INDEX 01 00:00:00
FILE "06 Lemmings (J).ogg" OGG
 TRACK 06 AUDIO
 INDEX 01 00:00:00
FILE "07 Lemmings (J).ogg" OGG
 TRACK 07 AUDIO
 INDEX 01 00:00:00
FILE "08 Lemmings (J).ogg" OGG
 TRACK 08 AUDIO
 INDEX 01 00:00:00
FILE "09 Lemmings (J).ogg" OGG
 TRACK 09 AUDIO
 INDEX 01 00:00:00
FILE "10 Lemmings (J).ogg" OGG
 TRACK 10 AUDIO
 INDEX 01 00:00:00
FILE "11 Lemmings (J).ogg" OGG
 TRACK 11 AUDIO
 INDEX 01 00:00:00
FILE "12 Lemmings (J).ogg" OGG
 TRACK 12 AUDIO
 INDEX 01 00:00:00
FILE "13 Lemmings (J).ogg" OGG
 TRACK 13 AUDIO
 INDEX 01 00:00:00
FILE "14 Lemmings (J).ogg" OGG
 TRACK 14 AUDIO
 INDEX 01 00:00:00
FILE "15 Lemmings (J).ogg" OGG
 TRACK 15 AUDIO
 INDEX 01 00:00:00
FILE "16 Lemmings (J).ogg" OGG
 TRACK 16 AUDIO
 INDEX 01 00:00:00
FILE "17 Lemmings (J).ogg" OGG
 TRACK 17 AUDIO
 INDEX 01 00:00:00
FILE "18 Lemmings (J).ogg" OGG
 TRACK 18 AUDIO
 INDEX 01 00:00:00
FILE "19 Lemmings (J).ogg" OGG
 TRACK 19 AUDIO
 INDEX 01 00:00:00
FILE "20 Lemmings (J).ogg" OGG
 TRACK 20 AUDIO
 INDEX 01 00:00:00
FILE "21 Lemmings (J).ogg" OGG
 TRACK 21 AUDIO
 INDEX 01 00:00:00
FILE "22 Lemmings (J).ogg" OGG
 TRACK 22 AUDIO
 INDEX 01 00:00:00
FILE "23 Lemmings (J).ogg" OGG
 TRACK 23 AUDIO
 INDEX 01 00:00:00
FILE "24 Lemmings (J).ogg" OGG
 TRACK 24 AUDIO
 INDEX 01 00:00:00
FILE "25 Lemmings (J).iso" BINARY
 TRACK 25 MODE1/2048
 PREGAP 00:03:00
 INDEX 01 00:00:00

If you are using compressed audio files you usually end up with 10 or more files for just one game. You can place the files in a subfolder in the pcengine folder instead of mixing them with regular TurboGrafx 16 roms:

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