Finds (Famicom/FDS)

[stealthlurker]

Oops I did it again! 

Won another sweet FDS to cart, complete custom!



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[L___E___T]

That looks really great.  You sure these are one-offs? You must be burning through cash to get them!

[Parodius Duh]

Does that Metroid Cart have a save function?


My awesome new find: Gyruss FDS port to cartridge, This is one of the rarest FDS cartridge ports out there!

[FamicomFreak]

It's Doki Doki time!!! A game I have had my eyes on for a while is finally in my collection! AWAAAAA!

[Parodius Duh]

is that the full version or does it lock up around level 4-5-6?

[stealthlurker]

is that the full version or does it lock up around level 4-5-6?

I was waiting for you to ask that! lol


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[FamicomFreak]

It's the full version! Got to world 7 lol

[Parodius Duh]

It's the full version! Got to world 7 lol

Awesome, this will make #14 that I know of in collectors hands which is the complete version! What country did this come from? does it have the top label intact still? sorry for all the questions Ive just been trying to figure out how many complete versions are in collectors hands.

[FamicomFreak]

There is no label on the top so I'm guessing no lol. It came from Spain ^_^ The car was broken but nothing some crazy glue can fix. Apparently it got damaged during shipment because the seller said it was put together....gotta thank that post office treating packages so bad..... oh well the inside is what matters!

[MWK]

My awesome new find: Gyruss FDS port to cartridge, This is one of the rarest FDS cartridge ports out there!

 

[MasterDisk]

Nice!
Also CaH4e3 got one recently. Is it really that rare?

[Oreanor]

Nice!
Also CaH4e3 got one recently. Is it really that rare?

me too
seems it was rare until now 

[133MHz]

Yesterday I found a keyboard Famiclone at my usual flea market for $2, after ages of not finding anything Famicom related.



It's a Gold Leopard King GLK-6303, but the Chinese hilariously translated everything to Spanish, even the name which now renders as "King Of Leopard". "New type of computer" "Entertain and study, Study and entertain". Who could resist?

Of course it's not complete without pictures of games which aren't for this system on the sides of the box:



I noticed a price tag on the side of the box, it's from a local department store chain, I didn't know these were sold in such places until now, at about 20 US dollars according to the tag (CLP$ 9990). It must've been from 2005-2006 or so.



This is what it came with, not too shabby for $2. Yes that is a random LG cell phone car charger.


I like it because of its reduced footprint. Other keyboard clones come with an absolutely useless numeric keypad, this one is just right in my opinion. No Windows key though, well you can't have everything!





It claimed to have an RF out port on the back, but as you can see above (and below) the RF modulator circuit is completely unpopulated!




I've added a jumper wire to convert the useless RF jack into another audio output, so I don't have to use a splitter when connecting it to a stereo TV or receiver.
The lack of solder on the unpopulated pads tells me that these are assembled and soldered by hand by Chinese women and children in sweatshops, if it was done on a wave soldering machine even the empty solder pads would have solder in them.
That 'voltage regulator' is simply a joke. It's a textbook example of a zener-pass transistor regulator but using the crappiest components they could find, that puny PNP transistor can barely handle 100mA. If I were to plug in the FDS RAM adapter into this clone, that regulator would blow up in less than 20 seconds, and even in normal conditions it runs way too hot because of that power wasting resistor. I intend to use this clone for tinkering so I replaced that joke of a regulator with a real 7805 equipped with a small heatsink:



Works much better and gets barely warm now.

Overall it's a pretty good clone. Video quality is more than decent: color saturation is about right and minimum jailbars. Sound doesn't have the swapped duty cycle bug, but the triangle/noise channel is a bit too loud and distorts a little - I guess both sound channels are bridged together inside the NoAC without mixing resistors, I haven't really checked that. Will test problematic games later.

[MS-DOS4]

Keyboards are always a favorite. 

Too bad it didn't come with a mouse though.

[Parodius Duh]

Nice!
Also CaH4e3 got one recently. Is it really that rare?

is all of your guys the actual FDS port or the US "Ultra" games version? Id still say its that rare. that only makes 15 documented carts I know of  and only 5 FDS version(If in fact everyone posted here is the FDS version, the ultra games version is super common...both versions have the same label). Please post a title screen pic of urs Oreanor & MWK