Finds (Famicom/FDS)

[lobdale]

You dare subject yourself to Doraemon!!!

[Pikkon]

Yes I dare,also the cool thing about the store were I bought the games in that I have 7 days to return any game and get my money back.,

[Oreanor]

It's not a recent find indeed, but only yesterday I finished with the "special edition" making 

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[MasterDisk]

This looks awesome ! Really good job making this !

[Waltergol]

Great finds!!!!

That "SPECIAL EDITION" looks really amazing!!! It`s a piece of art!!! Congratulations!!


This are my finds of the last weeks



Pirate Atari 2600 game



Gamecenter CX book season 2 




Some Fdisk games






Lot of Famiclon games. Some of them are rare, like Super Mario Systers  Its a Super Mario Bros 3 hack 




Regards

[Parodius Duh]

WOW! those are some awesome pirate cartridges! 

[lobdale]

My current stash of Konami carts, with several I just got from manuel!

[manuel]

Konami carts are awesome. They really stand out. 

[senseiman]

Nice, Lobdale.  I also love those Konami carts with the big label across the top.  Functional and great looking.

[tappybot]

Konami carts are awesome. They really stand out. 

Gotta love that weird hole in the top left.


Even though I have a lot of these games, my heart still starts racing when I see awesome gets like these. 

[MWK]

- and it's already in English! Polite Pirates

[manuel]

Gotta love that weird hole in the top left.

Does anybody have an idea what that hole is for?
You could put it on a string and wear it as a necklace, but that's probably not the reason... 

[NintendoKing]

Very nice, MWK! You always find nice pirates.

[Xious]

Gotta love that weird hole in the top left.

Does anybody have an idea what that hole is for?
You could put it on a string and wear it as a necklace, but that's probably not the reason... 

I'm pretty sure Konami toyed with the idea of including a power LED on their games from Day-One, but never actually did that on any finished game. Other manufacturers did, as the FC lacks a power light, and there were even little devices that went between the console and any game that added a power indicator lamp.  If you put a basic LED on the left-side of the PCB on any game, the light would have shined through the hole easily.

The only other reason would be as a bizarre aesthetic design feature, to distinguish their games from everyone else. Note that some later Konami titles have normal FC shells. 

[lobdale]

There seems to be little that distinguishes what exactly caused Konami to choose a basic Nintendo cart or one of their special ones--they mixed the two pretty equally throughout the system lifespan.  Their first games were all the "Konami cart," though mid-way through they started to mix them up.  It is definitely the case that all of the "special chip" games are in Konami's own special housings.