TEA4TWO Famicoms

[Romeo]

I just read about these, does anyone have one? Can you review how well their mods are?
How can someone in the US get their hands on one of these?
Their website is all in Japanese (http://www.tea4two.jp/), maybe someone with hook-ups there can hook up the Yanks and anyone else who is interested?

[L___E___T]

I ordered some stuff from them via a trusted contact but not an actual famicom. 

But saying that - it's the next step as I'm sending my AV mod to get the works done on it next month.

[Epicenter]

For what those things cost, and what you're going to pay to get it shipped over here (which will probably be difficult since they don't seem to ship out of the country at all) ... you'd be better off investing in an HVC-101 ("AV Famicom") from another seller in the States, Canada or Europe, that is in good shape. I'm impressed if they're able to de-yellow the cases that much, I know a method to do it to old Macintosh computers with a combination of bleach and a lacquer to restore the original shine, but haven't tested it. However, why bother spending over $100 + shipping + the cut of whoever is shipping it to you, for a modified HVC-001 when you could get an HVC-101 so much cheaper, and it has composite video/audio out already built in? Better yet, spring for a Sharp Twin Famicom if you can afford one, you'll probably end up paying not much more, and you get FDS capability as well as a much snazzier looking case.

What's this talk about "3D Surround" audio? The RP2A03 outputs mono audio, period-- I hope they aren't referring to the old mod to put different waves on the Left and Right channels. That's not going to provide a stereo audio experience, it'll just mean you're hearing square waves in one ear and triangle/noise/PCM in the other. It sounds like it'd be more distracting than anything and prevent the music's channels from 'blending' properly.

Just my two cents.

[133MHz]

I agree with you that fully separating both CPU audio channels to get stereo would be quite distracting and even downright annoying. However, using a dual 10k potentiometer to mix a variable amount of the standard mono audio signal into each separate channel actually provides a rather pleasing pseudo-stereo effect. It can be done with fixed resistors. but I like to be able to tweak the separation level to suit my taste.

...I wouldn't go that far to call it 3D Surround, though.

[nintendodork]

When I bought my Famicom, Carl said he sent it somewhere to be modded, and the result was very nice.  I believe he said the mod was $60.  Considering I got it CIB, and a few games for $130, I'd say these are a bit of a rip. (Especially if they put those ugly TEA4TWO stickers on them.)

[Epicenter]

Speaking of which, what the crap is with that name? ...

My personal recommendation is to find the best-looking BROKEN Famicom you can, then transplant the PCB into its shell. That approach did wonders for some of my Japanese Saturn systems. Though personally, I think the black shells look a hell of a lot better. And they'll never look like someone pissed on them.

[Romeo]

Thanks for comments guys, I was just interested in it, yeah it doesn't seem worth it.
I already have a Famicom AV.

[shoggoth80]

With some of the above comments, I HIGHLY recommend a Sharp Twin Facmicom. They look good, are very well presented, and have the FDS in the same case. Can't go wrong. If you can get one with the box, even better, as the whole unit plunks away neatly for storage on your gaming shelf (if you own enough consoles to rotate). I have had mine for a couple years now, and have had no issues with it at all.

[senseiman]

Just to add my 2 cents - after looking over their website I notice that the prices that Tea4Two charges for its Famicom carts is about 3 to 4 times what the average retail price of those games is in Japan.  That is a big red flag for me.