Technical and Repair Assistance

Started by b3b0palula, September 10, 2006, 01:08:43 am

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Nightstar699

Ive tried every combination. Two of them feel very loose when i put them in.
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Nightstar699

Um a nes rf would work with an old 1st famicom right?
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nintendodork

Yes.  Just not an NES power supply. :P
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MS-DOS4

Hey, I have a question. I received a multicart from a friend here. It does not work, but he gave me pictures of it working before purchase, so I know it was not a scam. Problem is, when it arrived, the first game (Pokemon Yellow) on the cart didn't boot. The second game, Pokemon Red had messed up graphics but played fine. The third game, Ferrari some visual garbage and horizontal lines at random. The final game, Harry Potter, which is the worst game on the cart ironically works just fine.

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I cleaned the contacts, but they simply weren't dirty. How could shipping screw up a cartridge? It's glob top so the chip shouldn't become magically unsoldered.
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ericj

Are you trying it on official hardware? Some pirate games only work on clones, so try that and see if it works if you haven't done so already. Globtops sometimes go bad, too.

Nightstar699

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MS-DOS4

My famicom blew a gasket so I had to try them on my Power Joy 3 and my YoboFC. Both pirates gave the same glitches.
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ericj

I have a few carts that did the same thing. The globtop is probably messed up; I don't know of any way to fix it. Maybe it'll work okay on a real Famicom.

cubelmariomadness

Quote from: Nightstar699 on November 07, 2009, 11:30:30 pm
Whats a globtop?


It's a little chip under a glob of epoxy. They can squeeze lots of games in those.
Sorry folks.

UglyJoe

This is more of a TV question, but it does impact my Famicom enjoyment!

The picture on my TV looks like it's shifted to the right, such that there is a vertical black bar on the left and the far-right part of the picture is unviewable.  Is there a way to get it to move back to the left?

Here's a pic:



Most games were designed to compensate for the edges of the screen being unviewable, so games are still playable.  Still, the fact that it's off-center is bugging me.

133MHz

The Famicom's video output is shifted by one tile to the right - the reason for this is still unknown to me, but that's how it is, perfectly normal behavior for any Famicom system on any standard TV.

Ironically it looks skewed because your TV is perfectly centered. Since it's an old TV you could open it up and mess with the internal H. CENTER or H. PHASE adjustments to displace the raster to the left as a way to compensate for the Fami's skewed video output, but then your other consoles' video output would display shifted to the left. ::)

Remember this? :P  http://www.famicomworld.com/forum/index.php?topic=2984.0

UglyJoe

Interesting.  If it's already correct, I'd rather not mess with the TV's horizontal settings (although there are two holes in the back of the TV that I suspect are for doing just that).  Thanks!

Quote from: 133MHz on November 18, 2009, 07:51:51 pm
Remember this? :P  http://www.famicomworld.com/forum/index.php?topic=2984.0


Haha.  I remember talking about the iNES headers, but I forgot what the thread was actually about :P

133MHz

Just for extra clarification (since one of the comments on that old thread was that I didn't explain myself clearly) I've taken a screenshot from a very accurate emulator to prove that the video frames are being generated like that on the PPU itself.



Nintendulator (as most emulators do) displays the full 256x224 frame buffer, and so the missing tiles can be clearly seen.
It depends on the game how obnoxious it is - i.e. with a black background you won't even notice it. In games like SMB3 it's really annoying.

orbitmint4

does any one here no how to get a famicom pirate that looks like a famicom but with plug in controllers working. it does nothing when i turn it on it doesnt look like it is powering on

MS-DOS4

Take some pictures. Maybe it's a faulty power switch or a loose cord.
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