I've had a red Sharp Famicom Twin for a few years, but I can't find the power supply and I have been procrastinating about replacing that belt forever, since it obviously disintegrated long ago. I have my old Analogue NT Mini for Famicom carts, but the Famicom itself is such a wonderful Object. Idk, it felt weird to have been collecting games this long and never had a normal Famicom.
While picking up some Video Essay Research Material in a proxy order, I stumbled across a YAJ seller who had a composite-modded Famicom in pretty decent shape, with a freshly restored FDS drive. And it was Very Cheap. I didn't have high hopes, but the output is great (much cleaner than composite from a stock NES or my fc twin) for being composite, the FDS drive works, everything's good to go!
Something about the Famicom is just so fun and inviting. I love slapping a cart in there and playing Contra, But The Trees Move or whatever. Then you press the eject button and it CHONKs out like a SNES, it's great. It was also kinda surreal to pop in the Zelda 1 diskette and hear the start screen music with that extra channel's melody.
Anyway!
I only bring this up because for a forum called Famiclub, largely made up of people who met through Famicase, we sure don't actually talk about the Famicom on here a lot lol.
So I Finally Bought a Famicom
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andrewelmore
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breakfastcowl
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That's so cool. I didn't even know about that extra audio capability, too
Emulation is likely my only route for it... which seems like it'd be quite a lesser (and maybe pointless?) way to experience it. Interacting with it in the round, as Object, that's the way
Emulation is likely my only route for it... which seems like it'd be quite a lesser (and maybe pointless?) way to experience it. Interacting with it in the round, as Object, that's the way
