When did you get your Famicom?

[kite200]

cleaning yellowness: no, buy a new famicom : /
short wire: buy a third party controller.

[The Ancient]

^- Thanks for reply. I scratched out the yellowness rant because it's not that bad.

[satoshi_matrix]

Glad to hear the story of another new Famicom owner!

1. White plastic undergoes a chemical change over the years. Its not dirty, its just literally been transformed into that colour. Unfortunetly its a one way street; once a Famicom is yellowed it can't be restored.

2. Well sure you can! The Famicom controllers are kept together by standard phillips star screws and are very similar the NES controllers actually. Just make sure your system is unplugged while you do it and keep the screws in a safe place.

3. Thats not a question! The Original 3' cords of the Famicom were short because living spaces in Japan are generally small, so users can't be far from their systems anyway. EVen the AV Famicom, which came out later with a better design and AV outputs, still had the 3' cords thought they could be easily swapped for the 6' cords from the North Amercian and European versions. I find the Famicom's use of sort cords troublesome. The Famicom BASIC, a keyboard attachment for the Famicom has a cord that's at most 1.5', so your quite literally tethered to the system.

The two games you got are pirated versions of  Chip and Dale Rescue Rangers and Ninja Jajamaru-kun. The latter is a common pirate; one multicart I have has nearly 50 versions of it. It's a pretty stupid game imo.

[The Ancient]

Question:

What is that thing in front of the Famicom? It's like the red thing you can take out.

[satoshi_matrix]

Its a cover for the Famicom's Extention Port. The port is used to connect add ons such as other controllers such as the Famicom version of the NES Advantage or Hudson Turbopad, the Famicom BASIC keyboard, Famicom Lightgun, kareoke mic etc etc.

You're pretty lucky to find one that has that tab intact because once you take it out its pretty hard to find again. 

[The Ancient]

Thanks for the answer! 

[kite200]

or you can buy an extra tab on the internetz

[JC]

or you can buy an extra tab on the internetz

Still not the easiest thing to come by, imo.

And Ancient...cool that you got your Famicom. When I got mine, I didn't end up having a good TV or the proper converter to use it. But after a few months, I finally got it up and running.

[The Ancient]

Oh Crap! I've noticed something. 

I think my Famicom is pirated. Because the label is different.



See the Japanese/Chinese character on top of the Nintendo logo? In some site even Ebay doesn't have that kind of logo. So is mine pirated? 

[kite200]

Yeah I think it is but man thats a good looking pirate, almost like the real deal

[satoshi_matrix]

I'd need to see some clearer photos/discriptions of it to judge if its pirated or not, but heres how to tell if its pirated:

The front red label should say FAMILY COMPUTER TM with Nintendo along the right. Above the Power and Reset buttons should be two stickers of warnings about each in Japanese. The Connector should have a red trap door hinge. The cartridge connector shoudl be light blue. Controller 2 should have a Mic inplace of start and select buttons. On the back of the system you should see AC Adaptor, TV < > Game switch, CH1 <> CH2 switch and the RF port. If you have AV support its either a pirate or a custom mod.

On the bottom of the system there should be product code (H1367xxxx) and beneith that it should say:
HPC-001
(c) Nintendo Co,Ltd 1983
                MADE IN JAPAN

[The Ancient]

On the bottom it said:

Family Computer
*Chinese characters* 4W

Random Characters (HVC-002TPE)

HT153331

HVC-001
Nintendo Co. Ltd 1983
Made in Japan

And the front said:


FAMILY COMPUTER with Chinese logo on top of NINTENDO logo.

On the Back, There's no channel change or other else.

[JC]

Wow. You just might have the first reported siting of a TPE Famicom. We've seen the Hong Kong version (HKG). I have a TPE AC adaptor for some weird reason, but no TPE Famicom or Disk system. I think the TPE is Taipei, but I could be very wrong. It looks legit to me, but certainly not the Hong Kong or Japanese versions.

Also note that the power requirements are likely different from the Japan version.

[kite200]

this is interesting

[The Ancient]

So uh.....

what kind of AC does Taiwan takes?