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NES/Famicom Appreciation Thread

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BocoDragon

or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Realize This Assgrab is Delicious
D.Lo said:
Early 90s, 93 I think, versions were released for all active consoles, and Famicom was still alive. So semi-contemporary, even though the Fami was ten years old at that point.
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That's cool. I didn't realize Micomsoft was an older company.
 
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RadarScope1

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D.Lo said:
Early 90s, 93 I think, versions were released for all active consoles, and Famicom was still alive. So semi-contemporary, even though the Fami was ten years old at that point.
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Good info. I had wondered because it really looks light years ahead of most sticks made during the mid-80s boom years when both the Fami/NES and arcade games were big in the market.

I recently bought the Super Fami version for much less (about $75 shipped) mainly just to check out the quality and find out if I might actually want to get the Fami version one day. I can't remember if I posted a pic in the SNES thread ... (I'm old and forgetful).

EDIT: I did post it - http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=171589511&postcount=12562
 
D.Lo

D.Lo

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So I made a reproduction retail copy of Goonies for Famicom Disk System:

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Goonies and Twinbee were official Konami releases, but only via FDS re-write kiosks. So I made them a retail box to match all the other other Konami FDS games.

More info here.
 
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RadarScope1

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Great work, D.Lo. It looks really nice, and you can feel good about it being nearly official since it was an actual kiosk release. And that pic of all the disks in cases is mouthwatering!
 
D.Lo

D.Lo

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RadarScope1 said:
Great work, D.Lo. It looks really nice, and you can feel good about it being nearly official since it was an actual kiosk release. And that pic of all the disks in cases is mouthwatering!
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Thanks!

With this I have now completed my Konami Famicom Disk collection. I'll post a pic f the full set sometime soon.

I'm 11 games from a Full Konami CIB Famicom cart set. So close but so far.
 
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RadarScope1

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That is awesome. One thing I've learned (or maybe relearned) in my most recent retro revival these last few months: just how incredible Konami was in the 8- and 16-bit eras. I mean, I always knew, but it's a fuller understanding now. I think the re-realization was amplified when they cut ties with Kojima and committed fully to being a mobile turd factory. It really being the contrasting history into sharp relief. Your posts in this tread and posts by some others have convinced me that a I need to be going after all Konami NES games .... and Famicom games whenever I finally jump on that train. And yeah, I can see FDS in my future, too.
 
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Mzo

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I have and love Akumajou Dracula, Bokutte no Upa, Almana no Kiseki, and Ai Senshi Nicol, most from D.Lo's recommendations =D

Got a great deal on Almana brand new and now I'm a little bummed because some of these Konami games brought trading cards and I want them all! But they're hard to find! It's not that important but it's cool.

Protip: if you're looking for Getsu Fuuma Den, try searching for maden =P
 
D.Lo

D.Lo

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Mzo said:
I have and love Akumajou Dracula, Bokutte no Upa, Almana no Kiseki, and Ai Senshi Nicol, most from D.Lo's recommendations =D

Got a great deal on Almana brand new and now I'm a little bummed because some of these Konami games brought trading cards and I want them all! But they're hard to find! It's not that important but it's cool.

Protip: if you're looking for Getsu Fuuma Den, try searching for maden =P
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Awesome to hear my evangelism working ;) Konami were Nintendo's equals at that time IMO.

I have 19/20 of the games with collector cards, with one card each ;)

Only one I'm missing is Exciting Boxing.

EDIT: Sneak peek at my card set
 
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Triple Dash

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Finally started to work on my bucket list now that there's a break in Amiibo waves. Picked up Vice: Project DOOM and Bubble Bobble the other day.

The former wasn't high on my list, but I found myself hooked just by playing through the first level and was impressed at how good the cutscenes were compared to even Ninja Gaiden. The latter I enjoyed after a couple levels, but it's a tad more stiff/sluggish than I would have originally thought.

Also got a copy of Gargoyles Quest 2 for a decent price on ebay. Was the first auction in forever that I've won. Sniper apps take all the fun out of bidding. :p
 
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OnPoint

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Triple Dash said:
The former wasn't high on my list, but I found myself hooked just by playing through the first level and was impressed at how good the cutscenes were compared to even Ninja Gaiden. The latter I enjoyed after a couple levels, but it's a tad more stiff/sluggish than I would have originally thought.
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I was initially put off by the lack of polish in VICE as well but I stuck with it and it's relatively enjoyable if you can just kind of accept that it's not quite as good as it could be. Also the last level is a little bit ridiculous compared to the rest of the game, but it's definitely no where near the unfair levels some NES games reach.
 
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Valcrist0

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shanafan said:
NES Blinking Light Wins product - 72 Pin connector and loading tray replacement

http://youtu.be/RVlHS5vGEr8
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I love mine, every game I've tested has worked flawlessly other than two games.

Batman works about 50% of the time, but I'm pretty sure its my copy. It was very flakey before I installed it as well.

My Game Genie however only works like 10% of the time, which is strange as it was the only thing that was rock solid before.
 
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OnPoint

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I'm pretty pleased with my BLW so far, even if it death grips carts at random. A working NES is better than a non-working one, even if I have trouble getting the games out occasionallyi.
 
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Triple Dash

Neo Member
Didn't the creators of BLW also say they're working on a Pin Converter for Famicom games?

Am curious as I'm tired of opening up my Gyromite/Excitebike and spending a half hour trying to figure out how it all goes or if I need to clean something again.
 
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Peagles

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A Black Falcon

A Black Falcon

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sixteen-bit said:
Are these available for general sale yet, or it is KS-only?
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The guy finally actually managed to ship out most of the kickstarter ones, after some delays, so maybe it'll actually be up for sale soon, yeah. Apparently he hired some people so that they'd actually ship out on a reasonable pace, though they did arrive four months after the kickstarter said. I backed the kickstarter, and mine arrived only 5-6 days ago. Of course most gaming kickstarters do end up delayed, it's to be expected.

So, how is it? I installed it later that day.. and it works! There is one drawback, but the thing does its job great as far as playing games goes. Games actually work with this thing as they never have in this Nintendo, and with the good picture quality composite gives you on a NES. None of those awful vertical lines through the picture here, unlike my NES 2! The drawback is that getting games OUT of this thing is hard -- it has a death-grip on the cartridges, unfortunately. I do understand that the way that NES carts are so easy to remove from an actual pin connector, one of the features of the "ZIF" connector, is the problem that causes NES connectors to fail -- ie, the bendy pins make putting carts in and out easy but also fail easily. So, there may be no way to have a reliable and also easy-to-remove original NES cartridge connector, but if there is, this definitely isn't it. Still, it's far better than what I had before, so I'm happy with it. The only other issue is that there's no real way to play my Japanese games with this, because if I put my Honey Bee Converter in there I'll probably never get it out... so it's the NES 2 for those, I guess, until/unless a Famicom converter for the BLW is made. I'd probably get one if it is.
 
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Zing

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What's the point of the "Blinking Light Win" if it has the same deathgrip as the generic 72 pin replacements we have had access to for a decade?

I have a NES cart that I received and cleaned the other day. I couldn't figure out why the connector wouldn't come completely clean. I looked more closely and the metallic commections are actually scraped down where the pins would touch. I suspect a deathgrip connector did this.

I boiled my connector about five years ago and it has worked almost flawlessly since.
 
A Black Falcon

A Black Falcon

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Zing said:
What's the point of the "Blinking Light Win" if it has the same deathgrip as the generic 72 pin replacements we have had access to for a decade?
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The NES I put it in previously HAD a 72-pin replacement in it. It didn't really work either with the original or replacement pin connector. I'd never been able to use this NES properly since getting it in the late '00s and was stuck with only the NES 2 and its awful vertical lines for a functioning NES. For instance, there ware some games I could never get the NES to actually start up before (Kabuki Quantum Fighter, for instance), or they'd crash constantly (Conquest of the Crystal Palace...). And it's not just the carts, because the NES 2 could play those games just fine. With the BLW in my NES 1? Those games not only work, I can leave them on overnight and they're still running the next day!

So yeah, the death-grip is annoying and getting games out is hard sometimes, stuff like Tengen carts particularly, but it's far better to have a working NES than to not haveo ne.
 
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pirata

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RoryDropkick said:
Went to Classic Game Fest yesterday. Was a glut of overpriced sellers. I managed to walk away with Wai Wai World for $14 at least.
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I was there too. Most of it was overpriced, and there was even some price-gouging that seemed to be designed to dupe people (someone had a loose Metroid Zero Mission cart marked for over 70 dollars, and the dude tried to tell me that "Metroid is shooting up in price." Gross.).

However, there were a few smaller vendors who had reasonable prices and good inventory, especially the people from Tulsa...some of it wasn't in the best shape, but there was a good selection at or below EBay prices---managed to snag some cool NES games (Ghosts and Goblins, Dragon Warrior, etc). Also, if you came in the morning on Saturday, the clearance booth was amazing before everyone completely picked it clean of all the good games. I managed to find almost 30 loose ps2 and ps1 disks of great games (Tekken 3-5, RE4 and Code Veronica, etc.) for one dollar each. I fully expect less than half of them to work, though, heh.

Also, I got my first-ever boxed NES game---Startropics! It doesn't come with the copy-protection letter, but it looks really nice, and the cart is pristine. I haven't seen an NES cart look as new as this one since I opened the NES games I got as Christmas presents when I was either three or four years old (at the tail end of the NES's life).
 
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RoryDropkick

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I was there too. Most of it was overpriced, and there was even some price-gouging that seemed to be designed to dupe people (someone had a loose Metroid Zero Mission cart marked for over 70 dollars, and the dude tried to tell me that "Metroid is shooting up in price." Gross.).
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Yeah those guys, they sucked. I was not at all happy with their attitude even. They seemed to be very rude and condescending to people.

However, there were a few smaller vendors who had reasonable prices and good inventory, especially the people from Tulsa...some of it wasn't in the best shape, but there was a good selection at or below EBay prices---managed to snag some cool NES games (Ghosts and Goblins, Dragon Warrior, etc). Also, if you came in the morning on Saturday, the clearance booth was amazing before everyone completely picked it clean of all the good games. I managed to find almost 30 loose ps2 and ps1 disks of great games (Tekken 3-5, RE4 and Code Veronica, etc.) for one dollar each. I fully expect less than half of them to work, though, heh.
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With that, I did get lucky last year and managed to find In The Hunt out of the discount bins, it was very lightly used and I just had it resurfaced and it worked like new. Those bins a few years back were even less organized <I used to work for GOVG> and even had imports tossed in there, so you really could find a good deal at one time before they finally realized what was in those bins :)

Overall, I'm glad they are expanding next year, it needs the space, and hopefully more vendors will be willing to come. I'd like to see Windy Gaming show up for example, or maybe even someone like Warp Zone. I might consider asking my friend who is friends with Windy Gaming to talk to them, and I can talk to Warp Zone about showing up.
 
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Khaz

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Does anyone have experience with the clone cartridges? Stuff that was made for the Dendy and sold in Russia, China and wherever. What ROM did they usually put in, US, Euro, Jp?

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D.Lo

D.Lo

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Heaps of variety in clone carts, no simple answer. It could genuinely be anything.

Generally they use the Japanese ROM, but there are clone carts that had NES-only games (I've seen Rollergames and Contra Force on Fami carts)

The Russions and Chinese did a bunch of their own coding too, so there are plenty of Famiclone exclusive releases.
 
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RadarScope1

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The 30th anniversary of the U.S. NES release is coming up in about 10 weeks. I would love to be a part of organizing something special around it. I'm sure we'll have the usual memories thread, which I'm sure many of us could contribute to, but it would be great if there was something more. For my part locally I will try to get some people together to play, but ... what else could we do? Mass streams (no capture device here) ... a hashtag ... a contest on GAF where one user who's never owned an NES gets a console and a few carts donated by the community ....... ?
 
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SkyMasterson

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So how is the NES version of Paperboy?

Had a craving to play it recently and remembered it was pulled from XBLA, so I was stuck playing the trial version over and over haha :(
 
Kawika

Kawika

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SkyMasterson said:
So how is the NES version of Paperboy?

Had a craving to play it recently and remembered it was pulled from XBLA, so I was stuck playing the trial version over and over haha :(
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I haven't played it in 20+ years (even though its still in my gaming room). I remember it not being as good as the arcade but still pretty enjoyable. I can pop it in tonight and give it a go but its likely someone's memory is better than mine.
 
cantona222

cantona222

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2 days ago I was randomly going through my NES collection to play short sessions of different games. I played a little Galaga then I tried Danny Sullivan's Indy Heat . I was not expecting much. Heck I was wrong. I really enjoyed the game. Soon I will try to play the 2-player mode with a friend. I love going through my library and discovering something great like this that I didn't know about. It is a top-down-view racing game. Did anyone play it?

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RadarScope1

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cantona222 said:
2 days ago I was randomly going through my NES collection to play short sessions of different games. I played a little Galaga then I tried Danny Sullivan's Indy Heat . I was not expecting much. Heck I was wrong. I really enjoyed the game. Soon I will try to play the 2-player mode with a friend. I love going through my library and discovering something great like this that I didn't know about. It is a top-down-view racing game. Did anyone play it?


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Huh. Can't say I've really known about this one before. Looks like Super Off Road with a pit stop element. Looks like it could be fun with 3 or 4 players for sure.
 
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Snatch1414

Banned
I bought the CoolBoy 198-in-1 and 400-in-1 multicarts from someone overseas on eBay and they're great purchases. It's fun to try a bunch of different random games, and there's some good NA games that I was just never going to purchase the actual cart due to price.
 
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Mzo

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As much as I dislike Pat the NES Punk's shows and whatnot I often find myself listening to the Completely Unnecessary Podcast because I like Ian.

Danny Sullivan's Indy Heat is a running joke on there, is my point. Decent game!
 
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