I found photos on interesting famiclone may be from Korea in late 80's :)
The company is definitely from Thailand. Maybe the machine was built for Thai region
the interesting thing is that it is NTSC and even show you the frequency and channel on the bottom :)
here you are pictures inside :)
I have no idea about frequencies in Thailand, frequencies in Korea, and frequencies elsewhere in the world; however, my lack of knowledge in those areas still does not change the fact that Family was a Thai company producing and distributing games and clones in Thailand. The logo is indeed the same.
This is a Famiclone released by a Thai company as mentioned. It has no connection to Korea since Korea is (was) a NTSC-exclusive country similar to Japan in that regards that they were NTSC-exclusives compared to for example Thailand/Phillipines and other Southeast Asian countries which primarely used one or the other, but the reason why there is a switch is because that those countries ocassionally had an influx of televisions which were NTSC or PAL (China was a PAL country while Taiwan was primarely not).
Cool find anyway :)
the 50/60 switch is fake :) notice the PCB only hols, it look's like it used to be a channel switch :gamer:
This is really cool
The US and South Korea both use Channel 13 at that frequency and both use NTSC color decoding at 3.58MHz. Thailand is a PAL country (color decoding at 4.43MHz) and does not appear to use a Channel 13 at that frequency. I think that the Thai company made this console for South Korea and would have swapped out the RF module PCB for a PAL one for its own territory.
Quote from: Great Hierophant on November 28, 2017, 07:08:36 am
The US and South Korea both use Channel 13 at that frequency and both use NTSC color decoding at 3.58MHz. Thailand is a PAL country (color decoding at 4.43MHz) and does not appear to use a Channel 13 at that frequency. I think that the Thai company made this console for South Korea and would have swapped out the RF module PCB for a PAL one for its own territory.
Maybe the Thai company made it for the US? The producer is from Thailand, either way.
The 50/60Hz switch is what the official HK FC has. Maybe this was copied from the HK design, and would therefore not be end-80s. In fact some chips indicate 1993, which hints that they did get their inspiration from the HK FC which wad 91-93 approximately.
Quote from: Flying_Phoenix on November 30, 2017, 04:52:47 am
The 50/60Hz switch is what the official HK FC has. Maybe this was copied from the HK design, and would therefore not be end-80s. In fact some chips indicate 1993, which hints that they did get their inspiration from the HK FC which wad 91-93 approximately.
Cool ,can someone post pictures of the Hong Kong version guts ? to see this switch ;D
Quote from: fcgamer on November 28, 2017, 08:05:53 am
Quote from: Great Hierophant on November 28, 2017, 07:08:36 am
The US and South Korea both use Channel 13 at that frequency and both use NTSC color decoding at 3.58MHz. Thailand is a PAL country (color decoding at 4.43MHz) and does not appear to use a Channel 13 at that frequency. I think that the Thai company made this console for South Korea and would have swapped out the RF module PCB for a PAL one for its own territory.
Maybe the Thai company made it for the US? The producer is from Thailand, either way.
Unlikely, the cartridge connector is a 60-pin slot. 60-pins had no presence in the US but a big presence in South Korea.