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December 2016 Pickups.
redsox2012:
Stopped at Retro Games Plus tonight. The Gameboy is very clean and in great condition so I grabbed it for $25. Got Urban Strike for $4 - it's quite an uncommon game and is worth $60+. The employees say that I'm the only customer that buys Game Gear stuff there, and this was there for several days before I bought it tonight.
Too Beaucoup:
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--- Quote from: Too Beaucoup on December 14, 2016, 03:42:10 AM ---What a steal on that Turbo! I've been wanting to grab one off Ebay for a while, but the bad capacitor issue has made me hesitant. Anyone who has a unit which has been re-capped is always asking some insane amount of money for it. But, I don't want to buy one that isn't re-capped because then I'll just have to pay someone to do it anyway, as it's not a task I feel comfortable undertaking.
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Just to clarify the standard TurboGrafx 16 units don't have capacitor issues.
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Is that so? I hadn't heard that. What's the difference between the units? I know next to nothing about TurboGrafx.
wiggy:
--- Quote from: Too Beaucoup on December 14, 2016, 03:42:10 AM ---What a steal on that Turbo! I've been wanting to grab one off Ebay for a while, but the bad capacitor issue has made me hesitant. Anyone who has a unit which has been re-capped is always asking some insane amount of money for it. But, I don't want to buy one that isn't re-capped because then I'll just have to pay someone to do it anyway, as it's not a task I feel comfortable undertaking.
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That's because re-capping is a LOT of work and is quite tedious :-\
redsox2012:
It's the Turbo Duo console that has capacitor issues. The Duo is a combination CD/HuCard unit.
TDIRunner:
--- Quote from: Too Beaucoup on December 18, 2016, 12:17:36 AM ---
--- Quote from: Ektophase on December 16, 2016, 06:54:21 AM ---
--- Quote from: Too Beaucoup on December 14, 2016, 03:42:10 AM ---What a steal on that Turbo! I've been wanting to grab one off Ebay for a while, but the bad capacitor issue has made me hesitant. Anyone who has a unit which has been re-capped is always asking some insane amount of money for it. But, I don't want to buy one that isn't re-capped because then I'll just have to pay someone to do it anyway, as it's not a task I feel comfortable undertaking.
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Just to clarify the standard TurboGrafx 16 units don't have capacitor issues.
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Is that so? I hadn't heard that. What's the difference between the units? I know next to nothing about TurboGrafx.
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I'm not aware of any Hu Card only systems that have cap issues. That would include PC Engine, CoreGrafx, CoreGrafx II, TurboGrafx-16 and SuperGrafx.
It's just the Duo and Super CD ROM systems. And even then, only the earlier ones. The Duo R is much more reliable.