What's the Purpose of Controller II's Microphone?

[Nintega]

the disk version anyway. I dont have the cartridge re-release. I'd be interested in knowing if the cart has it too or if it was esstintally a Japanese version of the NES game.

I do have an original Famicom, an NES-to-Famicom adapter, and the US cartridge versions of these games. I'll let you all know if the voice recognition works in these versions as well.

[Nintega]

Crap. The mike won't work with my US Kid Icarus cart. I guess the haggling only works in the Japanese disk version.

[keiffer01]

That sucks...I really wonder why Nintendo ever decided to take the microphone option off when they released the NES over here.

[Doc]

Crap. The mike won't work with my US Kid Icarus cart. I guess the haggling only works in the Japanese disk version.

Yup, that's how it was set up unfortunately.

I can confirm that yelling kills the Pol's Voice in Legend of Zelda. I went "OMGOMGOMG" and it did the trick, WAY back...

[vealchop]

you can still do the kid icarus trick by some button combination on controller 2. Maybe it was A and B at the same time? I forget exactly but I definitely remember doing it.

[Jedi Master Baiter]

I think Nintendo was hoping for someone to see the high prices in the shop & yell What, MF? really loud & have it work.

The prices can go up, too, right?

[Doc]

I think Nintendo was hoping for someone to see the high prices in the shop & yell What, MF? really loud & have it work.

Hell, that's what I'd do.

[keiffer01]

you can still do the kid icarus trick by some button combination on controller 2. Maybe it was A and B at the same time? I forget exactly but I definitely remember doing it.

Yeah it's A and B at the same time, but it's just not as original as in the japanese version.

[satoshi_matrix]

I think the mic is what makes the Famicom unique. As unimportant as it is though I'm still glad its there.

[JC]

I was playing my Famicom on my PC and noticed that I can talk through the mic into the PC speakers. I should record podcasts with my Famicom mic, nuh?

[xyzzy32]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2UtC_SwAfY
For those who don't own the zelda famicom disk.

[son_ov_hades]

Haha that's awsome.

[Sirdjorgo]

Also there was a project for a game that was going to be called "Donkey Kong Karaoke" that was planned to be released for the Fc. Just like it sounds it was a Karaokegame with Donkey kong that had the function that you could sing songs with that monkey.

More information about that besides that it was planned to have use by the second controllers microphone i do not have. It was an early project and there is almost no information about it...

Anyone else heard about this thing?

[RR1980]

I had a SD Kamen Rider game and one of the mini games in it is you have to blow air into the mirocphpne on the second control to get a windmill to spin.

[JC]

Hey, that's a great use of the mic. The rest have an auditory effect on the screen, that one's a physical effect.