RGB : Information For White Pc Engine Machines & The White Cd Rom & Interface unit.

Other versions of the Pc Engine details below also.

If you have an original white Pc engine Hu Card machine (these are Japanese machines only) then you will notice that on the side of the machines is a small port where you plug in an RF lead. Later Pc engines like the Core Grafx II for example had the AV port on the side, but the original white Pc engines just had this RF port. As this machine is from Japan you cannot plug in a standard RF Ariel lead and try to tune it in to get the picture unless you have a multi standard system TV, (please note that this is different from a TV that can accept an NTSC signal) and even if you did have a multi standard system TV the RF picture is very poor. 

So what you need to do to get the machine up and running in full colour is get the machine converted to Rgb scart which is the best picture you can display. Even if you have a core Grafx II or any other version of the Pc engine machines that have the AV outputs we still recommend you get it converted to Rgb as the picture quality is so much better then AV or RF. All you then need is a TV or monitor which has a scart socket (also called a euro socket) that can expect Rgb (most TV's have this socket).

We offer two different conversions for this original white machine.

CONVERSION NO 1 DETAILS : If you just have the standard white Pc engine machine and you are not using it with the Cd rom & interface unit this is a simple conversion that costs £34.99 (prices for the other versions of Pc engine are at the bottom of the page). The Rgb scart lead on this conversion neatly comes out the side of the machine and you can then plug it into any TV's scart socket and it will then display in full colour even on non NTSC compatible TV's.

 

A Pc engine converted by us, as you can see the scart lead comes out of the side. If you go for the scart conversion NO 2 for the white Cd rom & interface unit (details below) the lead is the same but comes out the back of the Interface unit rather then out the side of the Pc engine machine as above

CONVERSION NO 2 DETAILS : If you have a white Pc engine as above (straight from Japan RF out or even if it is already converted to RGB scart as above) that you want to use with the white Cd rom & interface unit you need to know a few things first about obtaining the full Cd music sound.

Firstly you have to come out of the Cd roms interfaces audio out ports on the side of the interface and then go into an amp or the TV'S audio inputs to get the Cd rom games music because only sound effects from the Cd rom games outputs from the RGB scart lead above if its plugged into the Cd rom & interface unit. If the Pc engine is being used for just HU card games when plugged into the Cd rom & interface unit (or unplugged and used on its own) that's ok, this is only when using Cd rom games that you need to come out of the Cd roms audio out ports to obtain the full Cd music sound for the Cd rom based games (you can also ouput the Cd music sound out from the Cd roms head phone socket if you wish).

But with the conversion NO 2 we offer you can get the FULL complete music sound all coming through one lead ! This conversion gives the same picture quality as conversion NO 1 and the only difference is the scart lead now comes out from the back of the Cd roms interface unit (not actually from the Pc engine machine itself like pictured above). This conversion costs £49.99. Also the audio out ports on the Cd roms interface unit can still be used if you wish to take the Cd sound from there to an amp etc.

One further item we sell to enhance all of the above is a Pc engine colour booster cable, this brings up all the colours on ANY Rgb scart conversions we do for all the Pc engine machines. This cable simply plugs onto the end of the scart lead and enhances the picture quality. Please don't be put off by the conversion without this booster though as the conversions as they are are 80% better then an RF picture and at least 30% better then the standard AV picture.

 

This is the Pc engine colour booster

We will give you an example of what the booster does :

The Rgb conversion as it is is very sharp and as stated above its much better then the RF and AV

pictures you can get from various Pc engine machines (no SVHS output is available for any machines by the way) but some games like Pc Kid or Legendary axe for example the characters are slightly more red colour then say a true flesh colour when played through the standard Rgb conversion, but with the booster connected the character then becomes a more true flesh colour which does look better and a tad brighter overall. If you have not seen a Pc engine running through a colour booster you would probably not know there was a slight lack of colour.

As there is so little room inside the Pc engine machines this lead cannot be incorporated into the standard Rgb conversions so the booster has to be sold separately, saying that it can be incorporated inside all the different model of the Pc engine Duo machines due to the size and the internal room the Duos do have.

We hope the above information helps you and any other information you need please feel free to contact us. Please see list below for all prices.  

* All our RGB conversions output Stereo sound.

Postage is £6.50 for white / core grafx machines 

Postage is £10.00 for Duo's, Cd roms. Supergrafx & TG16.

Postage is £1.50 for the colour booster cables

Postage overseas please contact us

Check out the stock list below or e mail us at

info@ravengames.co.uk for any other info you need regarding Pc Engine.