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PIONEER LASERACTIVE TIME GAL SOFTWARE

PIONEER LASERACTIVE TIME GAL SOFTWARE

Notice that it can open the CD or LD trays from software just by selecting the option with the controller this is actually the only tray-loading CD system for the PC Engine family of consoles, so it’s the only one with this feature. With it installed, though, we get this nice screen. Without the PAC installed, the LaserActive boots to a black screen and waits for you to do something. (TurboGrafx card games are region-locked, but CD games aren’t) Let’s turn this sucker on! Thankfully, Pioneer didn’t region-lock games. I’ll give some more details on that later, first let’s get this thing booted up and see how it works as a PC Engine.Īs an aside, there was a release of this in the US, but as the TurboGrafx was a bit of a flop, they’re very rare. Today we’ll be taking a look at the PAC N-1, which allows one to play PC Engine games, and “LD-ROM 2” games, which is a Laserdisc derivative of the “Super CD-ROM 2” system. Both Sega (manufacturers of the Mega Drive/Genesis) and NEC (manufacturers of the PC Engine/TurboGrafx-16) were convinced to allow Pioneer to create add-ons that would make their CD-based game systems into Laser game systems. Unfortunately, manufacturers is indeed plural there. Instead, they decided to work with the existing manufacturers. See, when they decided to turn the Laserdisc into a video game format, Pioneer realized it’d be silly to try to release their own console. Without anything installed in that slot, this really is just a low-end 1993 Laserdisc player. But this is what makes the LaserActive… active. That came with a cover originally, of course, but as is common when buying second or third-hand electronics, it’s long lost. You’d be even more disappointed by the fact that it has a giant hole in the front, though. If you were just expecting this to be a regular laserdisc player, you’d probably be a little bit disappointed. No double-side play, no Dolby, and not even a screen on the front. But a closer look will show that it’s also not particularly high-end. The Pioneer CLD-A100 is quite a good-looking machine, as all Pioneer Laserdisc machines are. How on earth do you make this into a video game format? The Pioneer CLD-A100 LaserActive

Composite only (240p or 480i, essentially always 480i).

(You’ll sometimes hear this called PCM, or pulse-code modulation, but that’s not quite right– it’s an entirely analog process, there is no digital-to-analog converter involved) Instead, an analog, composite video signal is stored, with stereo audio track stored using FM encoding, similar to how it’s broadcast over the air. Digital video compression technology of that time was basically non-existent! But that didn’t matter, because Laserdisc is essentially an analog format though there are “pits” and “lands” like the later CD, DVD, and Blu-ray formats, they vary widely and don’t store zeros and ones. It was the first mainstream optical disc format being released in 1978, though on the market it was always well behind VHS, before finally being killed off by DVD in the late 1990s. The LaserDisc, also known as LaserVision, DiscoVision, CD Video (not to be confused with Video CD), MCA DiscoVision, or the Reflective Optical Videodisc System, is a video system that stores movies on 12-inch plastic reflective optical discs. (Johnny Turbo did not pay me to write that) But what happens when the two combine? Well, uh, not much. That’s objective coolness in my book.) The TurboGrafx-16/PC Engine is one of the coolest game consoles. (It’s huge, shiny, and has “laser” in the name. The LaserDisc is one of the coolest media formats out there.