Finds (Famicom/FDS)

[JC]

Does that one even have a cartridge slot?

The cartridge slot is on the bottom. HERE

Raditz: Nice find. I've been wanting to pick up that Castlevnia. I've got the top cart as well...decent game, iirc. I haven't played it in a while, though.

[MattyD]

I've bought a few boxed Famicom games recently, the first one, Guardic Gaiden (AKA The Guardian Legend) just turned up yesterday:



As you can see from this second image it's complete with the... whatever it is, that looks like a small poster. It feels kind of felty but it's stiff to the touch. I think it's supposed to be an iron-on t-shirt transfer or something.



It's a really nice game although I can see the passwords being a problem as they're over 30 chars long and all in Japanese rather than roman letters and numbers  I'll probably devise a number system for the characters and write them down as numbers.

[FamicomFreak]

Sweet stuff yeah it does have the cart slot on the back. The games played great even if your fingers bump into them they won't mess up like the NES does. I brought it to my job the other day to have all the customers awe in front of it wanting to play. I was talking to my boss about trying to make money out of this lol. The TV overthere is not doing anything anyways.

[nurd]

Cool.

What is your job?



Also, does anybody know how to make a timer, that  will turn off anything plugged into it if 25 cents are not put in?

[FamicomFreak]

That would be a great idea. It's a restaurant. We do have a timer but it won't turn everything off. We use it for baking bread lol but something like that would rock.

[133MHz]

Yeah, I wanted to make some pay-to-play NES system ages ago, I was thinking on rigging the START button to the coin mech, but that would invalidate multicart selections since you'd need to press START twice, but then you could devise a way to let a coin make two START button presses with some logic circuits.

The time idea is also good & easier too. Just use a 555 timer in monostable mode driving a relay, this relay could turn off the entire machine or just the +5V to the controllers rendering them dead until a new quarter has been inserted, and a second 555 could count 10 or 15 seconds before resetting the system in the case the player doesn't want to play anymore. Also you could devise a way to push START before killing the controllers, as a courtesy to the player (imagine if your controller dies in the middle of a game!).

Interesting idea In fact I could sketch up some circuits if there's enough interest.

[FamicomFreak]

Wow that's great. We have to make a partnership and start our own business lol!

[nurd]

Heh, my family is having a garage sale in like a week, and I thought I could make some money by letting people play nes/famicom for like fifty cents for 5 minutes.

[FamicomFreak]

Here are my latest finds. The 1050 in 1 has a lot of interesting games around 70 complete games and the rest are repeats so still pretty good. The 32 in 1 has many of the basic multi-cart games. I also got my first Super Famicom boxed game and it's a pirate lol. The games that came with it are Mario World, Smash TV, Gradius 3, and Super Tennis. I like Gradius 3 the most! Great stuff!

[nurd]

Pirate SNES/SFC games?

Does it have a weird cartridge, I've never heard of that. Except for that Wisdom Tree game.

[133MHz]

I had some back in the day. Most of them looked like SFC carts and they didn't need to piggyback on some original cart's CIC chip like Noah's Ark 3D. The majority had no menu (push reset to change the game). Only one that I remember had a pretty bland menu, and it had games that required battery back-up & no battery on the cart itself. That sucks

[MattyD]

I'm not normally interested in pirates but that one does look nice

Here's my latest purchase, a complete and boxed Super Contra:




I can't wait to get into this tonight!

[FamicomFreak]

The cart looks just like a super famicom cart with english wording and stuff.....The games are selectable when you reset the SNES. I used to have another pirate back in the day called Captain Tsubasa 3 and it was in spanish!!! Man how I wish I still had it.

[MattyD]

Aaaand another box game arrived today. I've been waiting ages for this one to arrive!

[nurd]

I got four games in the mail today.
Is there any reason Kid Dracula has a hole in it?

Are you supposed to make a keychain out of it?

EDIRTS~

I bought a famicom disk drive belt.

That's cool and all, but I just realised that I payed like 22 dollars for a rubber band