xdaniel Posted April 19, 2012 Author Share Posted April 19, 2012 *borrows images from auction* Just bought a Famiclone on eBay, and (to me anyway) all signs point to it being an old-style clone that actually contains a cloned Famicom mainboard, CPU and PPU! Modern clones, like those Super Fun Joy III Whatevers, are based around those crappy "NES-on-a-Chip" one-chip designs. And if it really is such an old-style system (and if the chips are socketed like on the one I linked to...) I'll try to get some original FC chips to turn this into a 100% 99% FC-compatible system that even does Disk System and Castlevania III, and also has Composite AV out (...99% because the clone's second controller doesn't appear to have a microphone.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xdaniel Posted April 25, 2012 Author Share Posted April 25, 2012 Alright, the "Family Game" arrived! And please excuse the relative mess around the system. Anyway, the thing works perfectly fine and it actually is an old-style Famiclone with cloned FC board, chips and all, and if I've read the data on those chips right, they've been manufactured in mid to late 1992. That should place this clone somewhere in 1993, I suppose. There's, however, two problems with it: First, I'm not 100% sure if the sound is correct on this unit. My Tristar 64, which contains a standard modern NOAC, seems to have wrong sound effects and such in ex. Super Mario Bros., but I can't really tell if that's also the case on this clone here... I have several different SMB cartridges, or carts containing it (one standalone PAL SMB, one official PAL SMB/Tetris/Nintendo World Cup multicart, two different XX-in-1 pirate multicarts), but they all sound a bit off from an emulator running the US ROM in NTSC and also (if I recall correctly) my actual PAL NES. One thing that's off is the speed, which might tie into the second problem... ...which is the fact that this machine is a PAL-N system - that's a PAL signal that uses NTSC's color subcarrier frequency and channel width and is only used in - get this - Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay, according to Wikipedia! And if you don't understand this, don't worry, I only get half of all that either. But anyway, running this machine with a TV that doesn't support PAL-N thus results in... ...ugh! And that happens no matter if I use composite or RF - in fact, RF is even worse because there I get a weird moving rainbow pattern across the whole screen! Now I need to figure out how to fix this, preferably without buying a new TV that might support PAL-N... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zeth Ryder Posted April 25, 2012 Share Posted April 25, 2012 Picked this up on E-shop today! Love the classics! And this for the SNES! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xdaniel Posted April 29, 2012 Author Share Posted April 29, 2012 It was flea market time today yesterday by now, and I picked up... Game and Watch Gallery 2 (EU, GBC, loose) Sonic Pinball Party + Sonic Battle (EU, GBA, loose) Pokemo- ARGH!! "A wild ZUBAT appeared!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xdaniel Posted May 6, 2012 Author Share Posted May 6, 2012 Results of a rainy flea market day: S.O.S: Sink or Swim (SNES, PAL, loose) Super Adventure Island (SNES, PAL, loose) Duke Nukem 64 (N64, US, loose) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Conker Posted May 23, 2012 Share Posted May 23, 2012 I made a purchase which I am really excited about, as I have coming in the mail to me now, these wonderful gaming gems: PS1 Console PS1 Dual Shock Controller Syphon Filter 1 - 3 (PS1) Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver (PS1) 007: The World is Not Enough (PS1) Crusaders of Might and Magic (PS1) Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire (N64) Star Wars: Rogue Squadron (N64) Quest 64 (N64) Jak and Daxter (PS2) Jak 2 - 3 (PS2) Jak X Combat Racing (PS2) Metal Gear Solid 2 (Xbox) I simply cannot wait until all of these come in the mail! This is going to help start my game collection, too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fiction Posted May 24, 2012 Share Posted May 24, 2012 Diablo 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blaine Earhart Posted May 24, 2012 Share Posted May 24, 2012 Skyrim. It's the only game I need. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadow Fire Posted May 25, 2012 Share Posted May 25, 2012 I was going to buy Skyrim, but then I took an arrow in the knee. Instead, my most recent game purchase was: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xdaniel Posted May 30, 2012 Author Share Posted May 30, 2012 Purchased two games on eBay earlier today, and especially one of them is something very nice indeed... nothing special or rare or anything, just something cool to have. Will post photos and such (and say what they are) once they've arrived Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Conker Posted May 31, 2012 Share Posted May 31, 2012 I made a purchase which I am really excited about, as I have coming in the mail to me now, these wonderful gaming gems: PS1 Console PS1 Dual Shock Controller Syphon Filter 1 - 3 (PS1) Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver (PS1) 007: The World is Not Enough (PS1) Crusaders of Might and Magic (PS1) Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire (N64) Star Wars: Rogue Squadron (N64) Quest 64 (N64) Jak and Daxter (PS2) Jak 2 - 3 (PS2) Jak X Combat Racing (PS2) Metal Gear Solid 2 (Xbox) I simply cannot wait until all of these come in the mail! This is going to help start my game collection, too. I finally got it all in the mail! Pictures in the spoiler below. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LEepicPOULET Posted May 31, 2012 Share Posted May 31, 2012 Ahh, I remember Shadows of the Empire. I used to play that every day after school. Good times. I miss the late 90's 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Conker Posted May 31, 2012 Share Posted May 31, 2012 Ahh, I remember Shadows of the Empire. I used to play that every day after school. Good times. I miss the late 90's Me too, man. Me too. Also, xdan, I eagerly look forward to your pictures. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Conker Posted June 4, 2012 Share Posted June 4, 2012 I just joined GameStop's PowerUp Rewards Pro, and got a bunch of cheap PS2 games from them: Metal Arms: Glitch in the System Ever Grace Full Spectrum Warrior: Ten Hammers Medal of Honor: Frontline 007: Nightfire Stretch Panic Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy(need an extra, just in case) Time Splitters: Future Perfect Project: Snowblind Gauntlet: Seven Sorrows i-Ninja 007: Agent Under Fire Hell yes! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Conker Posted June 5, 2012 Share Posted June 5, 2012 Raided GameStop of some PS2 games again: Sly and the Thievius Raccoonus Sly 2: Band of Thieves The Getaway The Getaway: Black Monday The Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver 2 Time Splitters 1 Vexx Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith Destroy All Humans! Legend of Alon D'ar Reign of Fire My game collection is looking better and better every day! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xylaphone Posted June 5, 2012 Share Posted June 5, 2012 I got humble bundle V so I got: Psyconauts Amnesia: The Dark Desent Limbo Super Brothers: Sword & Sworcery EP plus their steam codes and sound tracks all for 2 bucks (thats all I had to my name at the time) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Conker Posted June 5, 2012 Share Posted June 5, 2012 Care to share the link of your bundle with me? :3 (has no online cash to spend, so cannot even give a penny to Humble Bundle even if he wanted to) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeathBasket Posted June 5, 2012 Share Posted June 5, 2012 Perfect Dark Zero, not a bad game but very much disappointing compared to Perfect Dark. Also Halo Reach and WSC real 2011. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Conker Posted June 7, 2012 Share Posted June 7, 2012 Once again, I have raided GameStop for its PS2 games. Huzzah! The Hobbit Shadow of the Colossus Maximo: Ghosts to Glory Wolverine's Revenge The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring Star Wars: Starfighter SOCOM II: US Navy Seals Tribes: Aerial Assault The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers Primal Hell to the yes, guys. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xdaniel Posted June 9, 2012 Author Share Posted June 9, 2012 (edited) Relevant to this thread are the two things on the left. Especially the top one~ <3 The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time - NTSC-J! Boxed (with the awesome cover art), with the manual and controller config sheet, a bunch of flyers, and a sheet of C- and A-button stickers for noting down Ocarina songs or something! (Also Cyber Troopers: Virtual On NTSC-J for Saturn, and unrelated to the thread: A Certain Scientific Railgun book 4 and Puella Magi Madoka Magica DVD 3) Also, two things of note: 1) the price sticker saying 6800 Yen (close up below). According to Nintendo's Japanese website for the game, the game launched for 6800 Yen, so I'm guessing this sticker is at the very least from when this copy was new. Also, 2) see the flyer for Link's Awakening DX above, and the date of December 12th? The game launched December 12th 1998, a few weeks after OoT's launch on November 21th of that year. All this makes me wonder if this was a launch copy of the game, although I'll probably never be sure about it, short of finding a receipt from late 1998 in the manual or something. Still need to dump the cart, or at least try some codes ex. the language changer, to confirm the ROM version - here's hoping it's v1.0, mainly for the "coolness factor" I guess, tho I wouldn't mind v1.1 or v1.2 either. See below! Oh, and before I forget, there's a saved game on the cart: player "Kabamaru" who has died 5 times... and has just gotten the Hylian Shield. EDIT: Oh man... you know how there's "notes" sections in manuals for you to write passwords down and such? OoT has this: This is where the missing C-button stickers went. This copy of the game has a physical history of having been played. To me, something like this is almost better then having a rare game or something... Ah, and the ROM dump is done, let me just move it over to my PC here... *grabs USB stick and goes to copy* ... *old laptop's slow USB is slow* ... Alright, looks like it's v1.2 according to the header. A wee bit disappointed, but then again all three versions were compiled before the game even came out, so whatever. Guess it's from early to mid-1999 then? Edited June 9, 2012 by xdaniel 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Conker Posted June 9, 2012 Share Posted June 9, 2012 That's pretty cool! Also, when I saw the DX thing, this is the first thing that came to mind, oddly: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xdaniel Posted June 10, 2012 Author Share Posted June 10, 2012 The artwork for LA DX is kinda... ugh. "Imma in ur izland slayn ur oktorokz!" or something. The original LA's Japanese boxart looked better, despite being in the same style. Also, a short trip to a flea market earlier netted me an official PS2 Memory Card for 3€. Had nothing else of real interest there, tho... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Conker Posted June 10, 2012 Share Posted June 10, 2012 Nice find. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xylaphone Posted June 13, 2012 Share Posted June 13, 2012 Picked up pokemon rumble blast new because I had money to burn and wanted a brand new pokemon game and couldn't afford buying a sealed soul silver honestly I haven't played much of it but it should have added a lot more for the 20 extra dollars compared to the wii ware version, but its a good portable pick up and go game so I can't complain Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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