The PC Engine RPG Gallery
The first CD console, and the widest gap in the Library.
The PC Engine CD-ROM² was doing voice acted, animated, CD scored RPGs in 1989, years before the format won the industry. Its American twin, the TurboGrafx-CD, sold a fraction as well, and the difference between the two markets is written across this whole shelf: two of these four games crossed over, one crossed only as half of a pair, and the biggest of them all never crossed at all.
Japan only games get single cover treatment here, with the absence stated on the tile. Nothing on this page pretends a Western edition exists where none was made.
YS BOOK I & II
Falcom and Hudson Soft · PC Engine CD-ROM² · 1989
YS IV: THE DAWN OF YS
Hudson Soft · PC Engine CD-ROM² · 1993
Japan · 1993
The only cover this game has: the winged goddess and the Ys IV sigil on gold, Super CD-ROM² banner at the corner. Japan only, stated on the tile as it is stated on the history page.
America · No edition exists
There is no American cover because there was no American release. The absence is documented on the history page, with the 2004 fan translation and the announced modern ports as the only doors in.
TENGAI MAKYOU II: MANJI MARU
Red Company and Hudson Soft · PC Engine Super CD-ROM² · 1992
Japan · GameCube remake · 2003
Manjimaru with his sword under twin dragons, Far East of Eden spelled out in English on a Japanese box. This verified file is the 2003 remake's box, labeled as such: the remake is pictured because it is the cover that could be verified.
Japan · 1992 original · Cover gap
The 1992 Super CD-ROM² box could not be verified at the Library's working size in this build. No Western cover exists in any version: every edition of this game is Japan only.
