FamiFun: 52 Reviews spread out over a year

[Protoman]

FamiFun #65 - Front Mission Gun Hazard

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1aEx3Txg-4

[Protoman]

FamiFun #66 - Miracle Girls

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vPJ8FQq5lk

[Protoman]

FamiFun #67 - Esper Dream 2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72u4T7hgeXw

This will be the last for a while now, I need to make more reviews. I have plans to get to #100 though

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Great review!  Another one I need to play through!  pretty sure I have a translated cart kicking around somewhere as well

[Protoman]

FamiFun #68 - Umihara Kawase

https://youtu.be/4S73NK9kqJc

It's back!

[Protoman]

https://youtube.com/watch?v=VEtnBWnGfDQ

FamiFun #69 - Pokonyan! Henpokorin Adventure

[Protoman]

FamiFun #70 - Popeye Ijiwaru Majo Seahag no Maki

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1hPx6ezjRU

[Protoman]

FamiFun #71 - Magic John (Totally Rad)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jr_vqDwMJIg

[Protoman]

FamiFun #72 - Santa Claus no Takarabako

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGS5992T5jw

[UglyJoe]

FamiFun #72 - Santa Claus no Takarabako

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGS5992T5jw

Oh man, the sprite editing thing has the weirdest controls.  I hacked it into disk-kun a couple years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gnghiKdGqg

[Protoman]

To whom it may concern:

FamiFun

73 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shkJU1qMbzs The Great Battle IV
74 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHhyYCqCqGY Harley's Humongous Adventure
75 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XooP5eoZ89o Hi no Tori
76 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kf9Td9OKJsk Mazinger Z
77 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzQ1BWbg3J0 Shodai Nekketsu Kouha Kunio-kun
78 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVV1bmmedPo Banana Prince
79 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3wdtUPKJmA Shounen Ashibe
80 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HU4dMmvX7N4 Mujintou Monogatari
81 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCjsjjUr0cI Cosmo Police Galivan
82 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dU_8V9hfUM Ganbare Goemon 3
83 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Os0agbXRP0s Hyper Iria
84 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crhXPi2bbV0 Yume Penguin Monogatari
85 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWbFPlKvbSQ Adventure Island IV
86 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vO_lLcf-p68 Gunple Gunman's Proof
87 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B07u4cHHcI0 Arumana no Kiseki
88 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YU_zlUDZ6g8 Family BASIC
89 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPdk3f4YF_c Kaizou Choujin Shubibinman Zero
90 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wYbuKrikLw Gekisou Sentai Car Rangers
91 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSyiiAyQLbU Majuuou
92 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yez_39jkhzE Getsu Fuuma Den
93 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFkrGkk-ycM Shuushoku Game
94 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhG-VCuMQEY Time Zone
95 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iG3_AkWJeE Gokinjo Boukentai
96 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T93ooQC9Cws Marvelous Mou hitotsu no takarajima
97 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTVrskcYH3c BUSHI Seiryuuden
98 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnD-GGdoM80 Nazo no Murasamejou & Youkai Yashiki
99 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roWcIVkewpQ Rendering Ranger R2

Episode 100 will the Top 100 Japanese Exclusives, spread over FC SFC and FDS.

[P]

Nice videos, I saw several very interesting games I hadn't seen before.

I checked the one with Family BASIC and I want to point out a few details:

Though the keyboard is indeed only supported by Family BASIC and Family BASIC V3, the data recorder portion of the keyboard is supported by a number of games that can save levels made in the level editor to tapes.

Family BASIC V1 was released. It seems to be a bit less common than V2 and V2.1A but it does appear now and then. AFAIK you can't tell if the black Family BASIC cartridge is a V1, V2 or V2.1A unless you start up BASIC. V3 of course is a different title altogether and has a red cart shell.
There is also a V0 found in a prototype version of Playbox BASIC for the Sharp C1, which predates Family BASIC. The fortune teller in Family BASIC is what remains of the Biorhythm Board found in Playbox BASIC which was removed in favor of the Message Board if I recall correctly. So the fortunes are based on the biorhythmic algorithms used by that board from your birth-date that you enter.

The quite expensive data recorder is indeed just a normal tape recorder. You can use any generic audio equipment that can record sound. UglyJoe recorded some tapes from magazines. You can find them in the Family BASIC Super Thread. It might be easiest to load them in an emulator that supports Family BASIC tapes.

There are USB adapters that supports the keyboard among other Famicom peripherals. One here and one here. Not sure if they can act like a keyboard, but they can be used in emulators like Mesen (probably not the data recorder part though).