Do you collect NES...and Famicom?

[corisco]

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  ) but I really love that lovely grey cartridges like I love the small ones.

[DLX]

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!

[PatMan33]

Hey, I do both as well as some others.

[manuel]

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.

[JC]

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.

[manuel]

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.

[corisco]

Probably is because almost all of the best "NES" games is from Japan

[son_ov_hades]

I've seen a few NES games selling on YHJ so it exists, however small the community is.

[Doc]

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...

[Rob64]

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.

[NintendoKing]

For every Famicom game, I have 2 NES games. And I own 25 Famicom games.

[Walky]

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!.

[JC]

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.

[Walky]

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... 

[JC]

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.