Finding a famicom adapter

[ulera]

So after digging through the boxes at all the local pawn shops and retro game stores searching for an elusive 60-72 pin adapter, I just simply can't find one. Is anybody here gifted enough to look at a game on ebay and deduce it has a converter inside? If so please link me to the auction.

[fredJ]

or you can just buy a honeybee 

[Parodius Duh]

Yeah you can find adapters incredibly easily if you just ask, and for super cheap too. No need hunting one down out of an old Stack Up cart.....

[ulera]

Cool... but where?

[Parodius Duh]

the buy/sell/trade forum is probably a good place to start

[ulera]

Did... it's almost on page 2 with no leads. Any actual store I could buy one from?

[fredJ]

I see them on gamedoctorhk sometimes, but they are sold out at the moment. Also on ebay sometimes but seems to have sold there too.

[jpx72]

Did... it's almost on page 2 with no leads.

page 2 of buy/sell thread? I know of active selling topics on page 4 or 5 too. Not that I ever saw an original adapter for sale, only that you should search a bit deeper, if you're serious about it.

[ulera]

Thanks. Ill keep looking.

[garyptaszek]

Anyone know where to get a decent Famicom to NES converter? I want to play NES games on my Famicom (not the other way around).

[Frank_fjs]

Anyone know where to get a decent Famicom to NES converter? I want to play NES games on my Famicom (not the other way around).

http://www.tototek.com/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=1_35&products_id=147

I have one and it works well, For the price I can't complain, only downside is that it doesn't come cased.

[garyptaszek]

Anyone know where to get a decent Famicom to NES converter? I want to play NES games on my Famicom (not the other way around).

http://www.tototek.com/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=1_35&products_id=147

I have one and it works well, For the price I can't complain, only downside is that it doesn't come cased.

Yeah I've seen some of these on ebay for about the same price, wasn't sure on the quality though. Would prefer a cased one but might just get one of these for now.
Seeing as you're in Australia your NES games are PAL right? and they play on your famicom with no problems I'm hoping?

[Frank_fjs]

Yep, our games are indeed PAL.

They do play without problem with one exception: PAL optimised games (don't know how many there are, but most if not all Nintendo produced games seem to be) run faster than they should.

I actually made a video depicting it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixQO4aHohQM

This isn't a fault of the adapter though, it's a timing issue of playing a 50Hz game on a 60Hz machine. The opposite situation when playing NTSC games on a PAL console, which I'm sure you're familiar with.

[garyptaszek]

Yep, our games are indeed PAL.

They do play without problem with one exception: PAL optimised games (don't know how many there are, but most if not all Nintendo produced games seem to be) run faster than they should.

I actually made a video depicting it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixQO4aHohQM

This isn't a fault of the adapter though, it's a timing issue of playing a 50Hz game on a 60Hz machine. The opposite situation when playing NTSC games on a PAL console, which I'm sure you're familiar with.

yeah that's fine I expected as much. When I was playing famicom games on my SNES Tristar they felt a little slow, but then again so do the PAL versions of the Castlevania series. I think the PAL version of Super Mario Bros was altered as the original NTCS-J version would've been too slow on the PAL NES... I could be wrong though...

[Terpor]

I played Time Lord Pal-A version on both of my US Nes and Twin Famicom, and the results were the same

Time Lord on US Nes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vt26lU5dHJ0&feature=plcp
Time Lord on Twin Famicom
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDlLjkwtW4w&feature=youtu.be