#super system card

[fuzzyghost]

[posthumanwanderings]

[contac]

[posthumanwanderings]

screens you will see if you try playing various PC-Engine games that require to be played only on a PC Engine SuperGrafx or with a Super System Card.

tons more here: http://www.vgmuseum.com/features/warn2/

[smbhax]

CD-ROM2 Super System Card Ver.3.0 and Arcade Card Duo (PC Engine)

The "CD-ROM² Super System Card Ver.3.°" card is a BIOS needed by the PC Engine to run games from CD-ROM; the "Duo" combo systems have the BIOS on a chip, but regular PC Engines with external CD-ROM, CD-ROM², and Super CD-ROM² drives attached need the Super System Card for the BIOS.

For a similar reason, the Arcade Card Duo, a hardware RAM expansion rather than software, required by a small number of memory-hungry CD-based PC Engine games--the "Arcade Card Duo" games such as Fatal Fury Special and Kabuki Ittou Ryoudan--can ONLY work in a Duo: running from CD, the games still need the CD-controlling BIOS, but the RAM expansion takes up the HuCard slot, so the BIOS has to come from a mounted chip, which only the Duo systems have built in.

Thanks @lunaticobscurity for pointing out that there was also the Arcade Card Pro, which had both the BIOS AND RAM expansion, and so could run the Arcade Card games on non-Duo systems.

[contac]