Famiclub

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.

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

Looks beautiful. I think the Twin Famicom also looks amazing.