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How difficult is it to modify an SFC cart to house an SD2SNES? I originally got my SD2SNES in an SNES cart, but I'd like to swap it into an SFC shell. I've never used a dremel before and am generally a mess with "handy" projects, but I'm hoping it's a pretty easy fit.
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Agrias120 posted:How difficult is it to modify an SFC cart to house an SD2SNES? I originally got my SD2SNES in an SNES cart, but I'd like to swap it into an SFC shell. I've never used a dremel before and am generally a mess with "handy" projects, but I'm hoping it's a pretty easy fit. It is no harder than a normal SNES shell. It probably took me like two minutes total Also again sorry to people who got a NES cart but Fami donor PCB or the other way around 
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Dec 18, 2013 05:10
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I thought it was funny :p
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Dec 18, 2013 05:15
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I barely know what I'm doing and what I'm trying to do is likely much more trouble than its worth. That being said, I bought a Zelda DX GBC cartridge off craigslist for peanuts, with the understanding it was likely fubar. I picked it up hoping to fix it, and learn a thing or two fixing it myself. I cleaned it with a qtip, and opened the casing open, nothing looks dirty/broken/ect. When I boot on a GBC, I get the Nintendo logo, the ding, then nothing while the power light stays on. Its a known good GBC. On my Super Game Boy, it boots to some random garbage on the screen. Whats likely broken on it, how do I fix it, and do I need any special tools?
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Dec 18, 2013 05:21
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I'm assuming none of your other games do this? Have you tried booting it without a battery attached
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Dec 18, 2013 05:25
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Other GBC games work fine on both setups. I haven't tried battery removal yet.
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Dec 18, 2013 05:55
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So I had signed up to be a Turbo Everbro, with the intention of picking up something to play it on over the next few months. Then I happened to check doujindance's ebay page, and they had a newly listed Duo-R. 
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Dec 18, 2013 06:20
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There's something horrifically wrong with the concept of importing Top Gun. We should be trying to get as many copies of that out of the country as possible and into some third world toxic waste dump. d0s posted:Oh yeah. So Rad Racer II is one of my favorite racing games, I know that's kind of weird but whatever. This is kind of a long shot but I've heard this specific game is one of the very few NES games that is incompatible with some NES>FC converters, from what I've heard it's the kind where the cartridge faces the opposite way when you plug it into the FC. I ordered one of these because the cart faces forward and that's apparently how "good" NES>FC converters are but it's really hard to tell what constitutes good with grey market stuff (pics from ebay auction, nothing has arrived yet): I've got one and it has worked perfectly with everything for me. Haven't tried Rad Racer II specifically, but I think you'll be okay. And at $10 (which is what I paid for mine) it was pretty reasonable.
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Dec 18, 2013 06:23
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Random Stranger posted:I've got one and it has worked perfectly with everything for me. Haven't tried Rad Racer II specifically, but I think you'll be okay. And at $10 (which is what I paid for mine) it was pretty reasonable. Does that adapter bend or seem wobbly at all? It seems like since it's just a thin PCB that it would lean over and possibly bend the pins in the Famicom's cartridge slot. I'd much rather have something with a case, so it's always straight up, but those seem to be a fair bit more expensive.
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Dec 18, 2013 06:29
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Keyboard Kid posted:Does that adapter bend or seem wobbly at all? It seems like since it's just a thin PCB that it would lean over and possibly bend the pins in the Famicom's cartridge slot. I'd much rather have something with a case, so it's always straight up, but those seem to be a fair bit more expensive. I can't say I like the feel of it and being able to put more pressure on the pins than is really healthy, but it's such a simple thing and I haven't had any problems yet.
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Dec 18, 2013 06:44
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Random Stranger posted:There's something horrifically wrong with the concept of importing Top Gun. I actually bought this lot from a guy in Arizona, and it looks like he might have gotten it all in one package deal too, or might be the original owner who came here from Japan. Other pictures show a lot of the games and disks have writing on the backs in Japanese in the same blue marker and handwriting. Taken as a whole it looks like a really typical set of games that a "casual" Japanese gamer would have owned during the Famicom boom (why the hell was Formation Z so popular??). I'm probably going to end up giving most of those games away as silly gifts, I see them as a bonus since the whole set didn't cost much more than a Twin Fami imported from Japan would have with shipping. Seeing what's on those bootleg disks is gonna be interesting though- the writing all over them suggests their original programs have been overwritten probably a few times.
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Dec 18, 2013 06:45
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Chances are it got mentioned but the OP should be changed to not mention the Xbox1. 
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Dec 18, 2013 06:50
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Random Stranger posted:Don't be absurd. Why be a nerd if you can't fight over what is better. I know which version is better! I'll even give you a hint!
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Dec 18, 2013 06:56
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d0s posted:Oh yeah. So Rad Racer II is one of my favorite racing games, I know that's kind of weird but whatever. This is kind of a long shot but I've heard this specific game is one of the very few NES games that is incompatible with some NES>FC converters, from what I've heard it's the kind where the cartridge faces the opposite way when you plug it into the FC. I ordered one of these because the cart faces forward and that's apparently how "good" NES>FC converters are but it's really hard to tell what constitutes good with grey market stuff (pics from ebay auction, nothing has arrived yet): A Yolo Wizard posted:Send all the retro video to the flat screen, and to the crt, simultaneously. Entertain friends and loved ones in the back of the room with your old video games. d0s posted:Yeah, I've seen that link before, but that looks like a different converter, mine's probably gonna have the same problem though. Random Stranger posted:There's something horrifically wrong with the concept of importing Top Gun. We should be trying to get as many copies of that out of the country as possible and into some third world toxic waste dump. I own that exact converter for my Sharp Twin Famicom. Haven't seen any issues here.
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Dec 18, 2013 06:56
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d0s posted:(why the hell was Formation Z so popular??). Serious answer: it came out shortly before Super Mario Bros and featured a giant transforming robot. Basically, right place for the Famicom explosion, early enough that there wasn't competition from good games, and had a theme guaranteed to separate innocent Japanese children from their money (much like Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles did over here).
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Dec 18, 2013 07:01
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Random Stranger posted:Serious answer: it came out shortly before Super Mario Bros and featured a giant transforming robot. Basically, right place for the Famicom explosion, early enough that there wasn't competition from good games, and had a theme guaranteed to separate innocent Japanese children from their money (much like Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles did over here). Wait, Super Mario Bros wasn't a launch title for the Famicom? What were the launch titles?
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Dec 18, 2013 07:04
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Random Stranger posted:Serious answer: it came out shortly before Super Mario Bros and featured a giant transforming robot. Basically, right place for the Famicom explosion, early enough that there wasn't competition from good games, and had a theme guaranteed to separate innocent Japanese children from their money (much like Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles did over here). Wow that actually makes perfect sense! Farecoal posted:Wait, Super Mario Bros wasn't a launch title for the Famicom? What were the launch titles? Donkey Kong, DK Jr., Popeye. In 1983. It was a WHILE until SMB. EDIT: Here's a set of articles I wrote about those very early days of the Famicom and the rationalization for the games that -always- appear on multicarts that some people in the US wonder about (I forgot to look into Formation Z!) http://route-20.tumblr.com/post/69340584805/ http://route-20.tumblr.com/post/69361193888/ TL;DR: A good multicart is cool because it's like a greatest hits compilation of the first wave of popular Famicom games, most of which either didn't come out here or came too late to have any real impact because they were released alongside "better" (more advanced) games. d0s fucked around with this message at 07:11 on Dec 18, 2013 |
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  On to Super Mario Bros 3 Farecoal fucked around with this message at 08:58 on Dec 18, 2013 |
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Turns out I'm dumb! I thought the card port on the Fami N8 was Mini SD, which I didn't have, but it was Micro SD, which I have tons of!  It works great! I loaded it up with ROM hacks and went to my friends house to play on his big rear end TV. The romhack winner was something called Mario Blackman. It was Mario 2, but all the characters palate swapped to be black, all the bad guys are klansmen, and above the character select screen are the words "Please Kill Whitey". It was pretty fun. Mostly because SMB2 is fun. Also something happened that was pretty cool, when I was loading more ROMs onto the cart, the TV was on channel 95 static, and the Famicom started acting like an antenna and picked up some radio station playing really old jazz. It sounded clearer if I messed with the position of the controllers. It was really creepy and awesome. One of my friends took a video. I'll post it later if it's not terrible, and you can actually hear anything.
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Dec 18, 2013 09:43
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So I'm finding that PAL UK games are absurdly expensive on places like eBay. Like it's ridiculous how expensive they are. I can't seem to find many other places to buy stuff online since almost everywhere caters for NTSC, are there any non-obvious places I should be looking? (Gumtree is a pain since I don't drive.) I actually think it's probably cheaper for me to just import NTSC games and consoles, and if that's the recommended route then so be it.
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Dec 18, 2013 12:35
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StellarX posted:
Hooked up to a CRT, I'd recommend: NES, SNES, Genesis, Gamecube, Wii (if you had an HD CRT I'd say there instead), TG16, PS1, Saturn, N64. For a flat screen HDTV I'd recommend: PS2, XBox 1, Dreamcast (if the TV has a VGA port). This is just my humble opinion when it comes to retro consoles. I'd actually recommend an XRGB Mini simply because the steep $500 price-tag is justified by being able to use something bigger than a 36" TV, and also not needing to keep a gigantic CRT in the house. d0s posted:Yeah, I've seen that link before, but that looks like a different converter, mine's probably gonna have the same problem though. I have a real copy of Rad Racer II at home, and this exact converter. As soon as I get home from Christmas vacation I will check it out for you.
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Dec 18, 2013 13:06
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My RGB modded Japanese 3DO has arrived! Indeed, I am now a proud(?) owner of copies of The Daedalus Encounter AND Night Trap.  Most of the games this thing came with are FMV and multimedia junk, but at least there's the copy of the original Need for Speed aka OverDrivin' that more than makes up for the general lack of quality here (the Virtual Stadium J-League soccer game should be decent as well, as it basically seems to be the 3DO version of FIFA International Soccer with Japanese teams, but I didn't try it out yet). Besides, if I remember correctly the 3DO doesn't have any region locking or copy protection, so it shouldn't be a huge problem to grab Road Rash, Return Fire and some of the other classic games.
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Dec 18, 2013 14:18
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Babby Sathanas posted:So I'm finding that PAL UK games are absurdly expensive on places like eBay. Like it's ridiculous how expensive they are. I've been doing this. I have an NTSC Nes and I'm planning on modding my SNES to run at 50/60 Hz with a switchless mod. Which systems are a problem? Many of them can play imports, NES is the only difficult one.
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Dec 18, 2013 14:47
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:Nesticle owned, and besides being super easy to use, super accurate, and super named after balls, it was most peoples first foray into emulation, so was extra cool because it ushered us into the next generation of emulation via balls and a severed hand. I totally had to look at both the cursor and the icon again just to be sure. I remember playing this on my 486 wrecking some Bubble Bobble and Mega Man 2 with the keyboard and eventually going on super future high tech and getting a 2 button controller. What's that, playing Top Gun or Golf with a cheapo joystick? You know it. That was also the first time I was introduced to game "hacks" such as KKK Mario Bros and naked Balloon Fight.
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Dec 18, 2013 15:09
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d0s posted:Yeah, I've seen that link before, but that looks like a different converter, mine's probably gonna have the same problem though. Its the same. The one you bought was just a clone without a case. The fix should be the same. Its possible they actually fixed it, but from what I saw they still warn you on the ebay page, and noone here has specifically mentioned they played CV3 on it without issue.
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Dec 18, 2013 15:23
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the wizards beard posted:I've been doing this. I have an NTSC Nes and I'm planning on modding my SNES to run at 50/60 Hz with a switchless mod. Which systems are a problem? Many of them can play imports, NES is the only difficult one. I haven't noticed any that are a problem, just checking that it is the best method to go money-wise. Why is NES the only difficult one? Looks like you only have to pull a pin away from one of the chips and you're well away to play imports.
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d0s posted:Wow that actually makes perfect sense! When I was researching the Game Center CX book I came across another case of this with Space Hunter. Apparently it was infamous in Japan for suckering kids into buying it because of the artwork on the box:  Peenmaster posted:Also something happened that was pretty cool, when I was loading more ROMs onto the cart, the TV was on channel 95 static, and the Famicom started acting like an antenna and picked up some radio station playing really old jazz. It sounded clearer if I messed with the position of the controllers. It was really creepy and awesome. One of my friends took a video. I'll post it later if it's not terrible, and you can actually hear anything. This is the reason that televisions in the US didn't go up to 95 usually. The high end of the UHF band bumps into what engineers refer to as "the dead zone". Tune a television that far and when the atmospheric conditions are just right you'll hear voices tempting you to sit closer to the television, faint echos of newscasts both past and future, and early twentieth century music. Japan being Japan just went right ahead and put their main television broadcast signal right in the heart of the dead zone. There's some people who say that this explains everything. Random Stranger fucked around with this message at 15:53 on Dec 18, 2013 |
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Dec 18, 2013 15:50
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Retro love! http://kotaku.com/nintendo-announces-nes-remix-for-wii-u-and-its-out-1485636756
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Dec 18, 2013 15:57
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Babby Sathanas posted:Why is NES the only difficult one? Looks like you only have to pull a pin away from one of the chips and you're well away to play imports. The NTSC and PAL NES PPUs are different enough that you can't do a 50/60Hz mod, so games from the wrong region can run at the wrong speeds.
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Ambitious Spider posted:I finally played Chakan:The Forever Man. That game isn't very good. There was an effortpost in here about Chakan a while back. It was a real page-turner.
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Dec 18, 2013 15:58
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midge posted:Retro love! The Super Mario Bros challenges they put in there look pretty cool. I can't wait for a review to see what the remix of The Legend Of Zelda is.
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midge posted:Retro love! I'm torn on how to feel about this. On the one hand, yay for a game where you just do minigames and weird versions of classic stuff. On the other, the parts where you play as a character not in their traditional game format just feels like a riff on Super Mario Bros Crossover, which was in and of itself a riff.
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Miyamotos RGB NES posted:I have a real copy of Rad Racer II at home, and this exact converter. As soon as I get home from Christmas vacation I will check it out for you. I may already have it by the time your vacation ends, it's on it's way to me from HK now. Thanks anyway though! Random Stranger posted:When I was researching the Game Center CX book I came across another case of this with Space Hunter. Hah, I was playing a ROM of that last night it's awful. I didn't know there was a GCCX book and a goon(s?) worked on it, got a link to where I can get a thing like that? I only just started reading this thread again for the first time in years. EDIT: A Yolo Wizard posted:Its the same. The one you bought was just a clone without a case. The fix should be the same. Its possible they actually fixed it, but from what I saw they still warn you on the ebay page, and noone here has specifically mentioned they played CV3 on it without issue. Yeah this is what I expect as well honestly.
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the wizards beard posted:The NTSC and PAL NES PPUs are different enough that you can't do a 50/60Hz mod, so games from the wrong region can run at the wrong speeds. Ah I see, well that's no problem really. I have a PAL NES and an NTSC NES is only a reasonable one-off cost so I can happily have both! Thanks for the info.
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d0s posted:Hah, I was playing a ROM of that last night it's awful. I didn't know there was a GCCX book and a goon(s?) worked on it, got a link to where I can get a thing like that? I only just started reading this thread again for the first time in years. The book is available on Amazon. Space Hunter is a really interesting game to me. My personal theory is that it's a quicky attempt to cash in on Legend of Zelda without really getting the concept. It's nearly impossible to play unless you have at least some basic information laid out for you (I recall you pretty much have to visit the rock world first and then go the cave at the far left or you're stuck with an unusable weapon). Kemco published a lot of terrible Famicom games...
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Hogscraper posted:William Gibson retweeted TheRedEye today. That's kind of bad rear end. To put this into perspective: the guy who wrote Neuromancer pressed a button to instantly show all of his fans a picture I took of an unlicensed Nintendo game. https://twitter.com/frankcifaldi/status/385084302897057792
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TheRedEye posted:To put this into perspective: the guy who wrote Neuromancer pressed a button to instantly show all of his fans a picture I took of an unlicensed Nintendo game. William Gibson wants to make sure people know to touch all booty upon waking.
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Random Stranger posted:This is the reason that televisions in the US didn't go up to 95 usually. The high end of the UHF band bumps into what engineers refer to as "the dead zone". Tune a television that far and when the atmospheric conditions are just right you'll hear voices tempting you to sit closer to the television, faint echos of newscasts both past and future, and early twentieth century music. Well we looked it up at the time because we're a bunch of curious nerds, and the frequency that channel 95 is on US TVs is well into the FM range. We were picking up a radio station somewhere around the frequency 93. It was still pretty fun and spooky.
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Dec 18, 2013 17:33
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This was so awesome. The Genesis had such a gnarly sound.
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Peenmaster posted:Well we looked it up at the time because we're a bunch of curious nerds, and the frequency that channel 95 is on US TVs is well into the FM range. We were picking up a radio station somewhere around the frequency 93. It was still pretty fun and spooky. Like I said, "the dead zone". NPR often broadcasts there...
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