RAU-30
From NEC Retro
| ||||||||||
| RAU-30 | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Made for: PC Engine SuperGrafx | ||||||||||
| Manufacturer: NEC Home Electronics | ||||||||||
|
This short article is in need of work. You can help NEC Retro by adding to it.
The RAU-30 is an adaptor that allows consoles such as the PC Engine SuperGrafx to connect to a CD-ROM² system.
Unlike the original PC Engine and many of its hardware revisions, the SuperGrafx is too bulky to fit into an Interface Unit, and thus communicate with the CD-ROM². The RAU-30 solves this problem by acting as a glorified connector cable, albeit one whose connector is PC Engine-sized. It is considered an inelegant solution to the problem - the Super CD-ROM² is designed in such a way that neither a RAU-30 nor a Interface Unit is needed to play CD games on a SuperGrafx.
Physical scans
| PC Engine, JP |
|---|
 Cover
|
References
| PC Engine |
|---|
| PC Engine (1987) | CoreGrafx (1989) | CoreGrafx II (1991) X1 Twin (1987) | PC-KD863G (1988) | Shuttle (1989) | GT (1990) | LT (1991) |
| Add-Ons |
| AV Booster (1988) | Interface Unit (1988) | Ten no Koe 2 (1989) | Backup Booster (1989) | Backup Booster II (1989) | Ten no Koe Bank (1991) | Memory Base 128 (1993) |
| CD-ROM² systems |
|---|
| CD-ROM² (1988) | Super CD-ROM² (1991) | Arcade CD-ROM² (1994) |
| Hardware |
| CD-ROM² (Interface Unit | RAU-30) (1988) | TurboGrafx-CD (1989) | PC Engine Duo (1991) | Super CD-ROM² (Super CD-ROM² Adaptor) (1991) | TurboDuo (1992) | PC Engine Duo-R (1993) | LaserActive (1993) |
| System Cards |
| System Card | Super System Card | Arcade Card Pro/Duo |
| Games Express CD Card |