I'm curious how many people here collect both.
I've played both for a long time, but I'm thinking of giving up on NES and focusing on Famicom, selling my NES stuff except for the NES-exclusives I've got (nd maybe buying NES-exclusives in the future). I realize some games have differences, but aren't the Famicom versions typically better and harder?
i collect NES and Famicom
i would have to say i have a even amount of NES and FC games
I was just beginning to collect NES stuff when I ran across a famiclone at a Goodwill store. After finding out about all the cool stuff that was only available for the Famicom (mostly from this site), I slowed my NES collecting a lot until it eventually came to a halt. My Famicom collection is WAY bigger than my NES collection, although I have many more NES controllers than Famicom controllers.
I find that I end up playing my NES games very little and when I do, I play them on one of my Famicom's with a converter and sometimes Game Genie. I've found that a lot of Famicom games work with the NES Game Genie with the same codes.
For some reason, I do prefer the NES controller, though. Probably since it's the one I am familiar with from childhood.
I plan on keeping my NES stuff but only accrue things that are interesting or that I played as a kid.
I have a pretty big nes collection ( mostly all loose carts.) I only have a few famicom games though; mainly disk too :) I am however looking to expand my famicom collection! My biggest game collection
I collect Famicom and NES equally but lately I have been collecting Famicom more. I do have way more NES stuff than Famicom in terms of accessories since I find them pretty much everywhere when I go to the flea market. I'm starting to think that I may be stopping famicom collecting for a while and focus more on my NES collection.
I used to collect both, up until about a year and a half ago. Then I took all my NES stuff into a Austin game store called Game Over Games (http://gameovervideogames.com/) and got rid of them, along with my Genesis stuff and a few LCD games. But here I am now wanting to play stuff like Jackal or Rush 'N Attack and don't particularly want to have those games on a FDS, having to wait... and I understand the NES versions were a bit tweaked... Soooo, looks like they'll be the occassional title I'll purchase/collect for NES to be played on the Famicom via adaptor. But for the most part I prefer having all straight up Famicom. Kind of miffed to learn that there was indeed a "Dirty Pair" and GAL-FORCE game on Famicom but only on FDS. So I'll probably end up with an FDS before long too.
I started collecting NES stuff mainly for the blog I've been doing (see my sig) but after a while I was really tempted to get a Famicom just to see what some of the games would be like from Japan. My main interest being in games that used the sound chip.
I won't sell my NES games, but I also won't actively collect more.
I like both of course. They're basically the same.
I don't really collect for either.
I collect both, but I try to get only the games I'll actually play.
Its only been a few days since I posted about why I started collecting but I've been really surprised with the Famicom. The range of different games in comparison to the NES is astounding. It seems like a whole new world over in Japan.
I collect both almost about equally. Overall I have way more NES stuff. I've been collecting NES games longer, and it's easier to just grab a bunch of NES games for cheap at thrift stores etc. But I love the small size of the Famicom carts and console, the NES is huge in comparison. I just wish the famicom had longer controller cords like the NES.
I've been collecting NES stuff long before I finally got a Famicom. I have quite a few gems in my collection too. ;D
I collect NES games. I have a respectable number of Famicom games, but not really enough to say I "collect" them.
I think collecting doesn't have so much to do with numbers.
If you keep stuff you like it's collecting. :)
When I was young, in Brazil, I used to play NES games. A NES cartridge brings a lot of good memories to me. In the early of 90's I came to Japan and started to buy Famicom games and forgot about that pretty grey carts. Now, many years after, I started to buy NES games again. Even playing in a AV Famicom with adaptor I could bring that nostalgic feeling back.
Today I have more than 300 complete Famicom games and just 10 or something NES games (all complete :D) but I really love that lovely grey cartridges like I love the small ones.
Both! Well mostly Famicom, and only the games I like to play.
For the NES, USA only like StarTropics II, games with passwords like Faxanadu and Gaurdian Angel (it's realy NOT done to enter Japanse characters..... well entering is not the problem, hate it to note them ;) )
RPG's like Final Fantasy ... both; cartridge only for USA NES; for the dialogs, and the full boxed version Japanese Famicom; I like the art!
Hey, I do both as well as some others.
Quote from: DLX on December 01, 2008, 07:52:47 am
For the NES, USA only like StarTropics II, games with passwords like Faxanadu and Gaurdian Angel (it's realy NOT done to enter Japanse characters..... well entering is not the problem, hate it to note them ;) )
When I'm too lazy to note down passwords I take snapshots of them with my digicam. That works quite well.
Here's a question for you, manuel...how big is NES collecting in Japan? I'd imagine it's much like Famicom collecting in the US -- small crowd of NES collectors, not very many with big NES collections, collect mostly Famicom but have some NES stuff, too. I wonder if there's a Japanese NES forum.
I have never even heard of something like that. My guess is the crowd collecting NES in Japan is very very VERRRRY! small in comparison to Famicom collectors around the world.
There are bound to be some guys doing that, but not very many I guess.
Probably is because almost all of the best "NES" games is from Japan :D
I've seen a few NES games selling on YHJ so it exists, however small the community is.
I collect both -- though neither of them are high on my collecting priority list, due to money concerns. It sucks, since two years ago it was easy to find cheap Fami carts, but not anymore...
Well, until Christmas all I have is NES stuff (not much, just the toaster, a controller, gold cartridges of zelda 1 and 2, and other classic nes games). I don't collect too much of any game, I just get the good stuff... or random stuff. For example, Eventually I'll get a Disk system with Zelda 1 and 2, and also get that game with Santa Claus in it.
At some point, I will find time... and money.... to collect both and beyond.
For every Famicom game, I have 2 NES games. And I own 25 Famicom games.
I collect both but, as 99% of my nes carts come from flea markets, I only have 2 famicom carts: Rockman 5 from ebay, and a Namcot's Star Wars cart that I found at a flea market one sunny saturday morning. On the nes side, instead, I have about 260 carts (I think about 30 boxed, some with manuals, a couple sealed). Besides that, I have some pirates (for nes and famicom) and 2 fds games from ebay (smb2j and zelda). I don't own an actual famicom, but I have a lot of nes and famiclone consoles, a mint boxed fds without manuals/inserts or power supply and broken belt (fixed already, used an Atari XC12 tape recorder belt, fits perfectly and lasts decades) that I got for arround 15-20 bucks (I'm the luckiest guy on earth, I know). I also got a Nes Test Station some months ago (exchanged it for..... a Sonic & Knuckles cart!!!); a friend of mine have it in another city and, as I don't have a car and the thing is heavy as hell, I still haven't been able to even see it (they say it powers up but shows nothing but noise, I'm dying to see if I can fix it!!!).
I've been making some nes eprom carts like Secret Ties, Earthbound and a socketed nrom I use to run SMB hacks and other stuff ("The Grey Box" anyone?). I'm planning to build a "megacart" with some 4mbit eproms and dipswitches.
Just as a curiosity: The Flintstones 2 cart is quite common here!. I have two and have seen quite a few more. ¡I even got it borrowed when I was a kid!.
Quote from: Walky on December 27, 2008, 08:17:08 am
Just as a curiosity: The Flintstones 2 cart is quite common here!. I have two and have seen quite a few more. ¡I even got it borrowed when I was a kid!.
If you've got licensed NES Flintstones 2 carts, you can sell the for around $100 each. If they're pirates, don't bother trying.
Quote from: JC on December 27, 2008, 09:46:17 am
Quote from: Walky on December 27, 2008, 08:17:08 am
Just as a curiosity: The Flintstones 2 cart is quite common here!. I have two and have seen quite a few more. ¡I even got it borrowed when I was a kid!.
If you've got licensed NES Flintstones 2 carts, you can sell the for around $100 each. If they're pirates, don't bother trying.
Yes, they are both licensed (¿are there any pirates of this game?). I thought about selling one of them at some point long time ago, but I never did it. I decided that I don't want to progressively turn my hobby into a business, so I'd rather trade it for other nes stuff.
BTW, I finally got Bubble Bobble Part 2 on a flea market last week! Patience pays, they say... ;D
I think every game has been pirated, with very few exceptions. You'll find nearly every game (both licensed NES and Famicom) has a Famicom pirate, while it's harder to find NES pirates of NES and Famicom games.
Yes, I know, but i'm not sure if this was released in japan or not (I think the first one was, but I can't find any sign of this one being released there), so maybe it was a little less likely to have been pirated (it's not that it wasn't likely, anyway). Besides, this was one of the latest games to be released on the NES ;D
Anyway, I'm talking about single-game carts of that time (nowadays you can find almost anything in those X-in-1 carts, that are still being made as far as I know)