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SEGA’s Megadrive* (Genesis), released a year later, found itself apparently technically surpassed even before it made it to market and barely made a dent in the PC Engine’s position (At odds with what transpired in the West with the TurboGrafx-16, but that’s’ another story!) and with the release of a CD attachment in 1988 (A first for a Console) it went on to be the leading platform in Japan until the Super Famicom (SNES) appeared in 1991. Released in Japan in 1987 the diminutive White Console (14x14x3.8cm) was a revelation, quickly surpassing the Famicom as the number one seller. Hudson then approached NEC (Who were eager to get into the Console Market) who in partnership produced a standalone Console using the Dual GPU, along with an 8-bit HuC6280 CPU (A modified WDC 65C02 core with several additional registers and functions including sound generation) and “HuCARD” ROMS that were Credit Card sized. One memorable advertisement quoted Jeff Minter (Famous 80’s Game Programmer) who proclaimed “It’s not an expensive Console, it’s a cheap Arcade Machine! In 1986 Hudson Soft (Of Bomber Man fame) designed a Dual GPU chipset (One 16-bit HuC6260 Video Color Encoder (VCE), and one 16-bit HuC6270A Video Display Controller (VDC), the original concept being an additional Module for the Famicom (NES), which Nintendo rejected. nestopia).As regular readers of my “Guides” will no doubt have guessed by now, I’m rather fond of the PC Engine, it kick started the “Grey Import” market in the UK and I purchased one myself in 1988 after being “Astonished” witnessing R-Type I running on the little White Marvel.

Libretro itself is a well defined interface to handle the communication between a frontend (Kodi with RetroPlayer) and an Emulator Core (e.g. The Game API in the Kodi Game branch has a Libretro wrapper which is 1:1 compatibility with the libretro API, so all libretro cores are valid game add-ons. Main pages: Libretro and Porting Libretro cores to game add-ons