Do you own a Famicom?

[speedmike]

I have a square buttoned Famicom with a smooth bottom. The mobo, however, is from 1984.

[Blue Protoman]

Now I have an Educational Computer Professional, which is a keyboard.  The power cord is laughably short.  I've eaten meals bigger than it.

Those power adapters are a joke. Be careful, they might spontaneously combust (happened to me - it was sitting there plugged in, not being used and it suddenly started smoking and the plastic melted down).
If possible, throw it away and get a proper one.

What!?  I gave one of those to my cousin!  Is there an adaptor you recommend?  I refuse to experiment, for fear of breaking my console.

[133MHz]

Is there an adaptor you recommend?

Anything is better than those POS adapters. A Famicom/Super Famicom, Sega Genesis 1 or TurboGrafx 16 adapter will work fine. Also look for old cordless phone/tape player/etc power adapters with 9V DC and negative tip output. Universal/generic adapters also work OK if properly set.

Seriously, anything is better.

[speedmike]

This is the current status of my Famicom. 

Don't worry the NES controller is only temporary. I'll get the proper controller back on it this weekend.
I hate how the NES controller feels compared to the Famicom one.

[LocalToast]

That is one white Famicom.

Actually, I don't think a Famicom would look that bad with 2 NES controllers, but then again, it's not nearly as cool as 2 square-button controllers.

[shoggoth80]

As far as an official product, yes... I have a Sharp Twin famicom... black one with red small parts (cart slot cover, and a couple other bits). I still have the box for this thing, so it tends to get babied a bit.

[robcfg]

I have a red and white Famicom and a FDS, Two gray spanish NES and a couple of chinese clones.

You can check some pictures of my Famicom and FDS here: http://picasaweb.google.com/robcfg/RetrocomputersCollection#

The gray NES's do work as it does the FDS and one of the clones. The Famicom doesn't show any reaction so I don't know wether it is broken or simply I cannot get it to be seen on my tv. The second clone also seems not to work but I'm not quite sure yet.

[133MHz]

Since you're from Spain, I'm betting that your TV can't tune into the Famicom's NTSC-J signal.
Even if you have a Multisystem TV, those usually only support NTSC through the AV inputs and not through the antenna.
You'll have to AV mod it to get it to display on your TV (and if your TV is PAL only, you will only see a rolling, B&W picture).

[MattyD]

Since you're from Spain, I'm betting that your TV can't tune into the Famicom's NTSC-J signal.
Even if you have a Multisystem TV, those usually only support NTSC through the AV inputs and not through the antenna.
You'll have to AV mod it to get it to display on your TV (and if your TV is PAL only, you will only see a rolling, B&W picture).

The problem with original model Famicoms and European / British TV sets isn't NTSC incompatability per se. The tuners in European TV sets just aren't capable of tuning into the right frequency. My CRT takes all my other Japanese consoles through composite, S-Video etc but when I try it with an original Famicom it just won't have it

[133MHz]

The tuners in European TV sets just aren't capable of tuning into the right frequency. My CRT takes all my other Japanese consoles through composite

That's exactly what I said.

Since you're from Spain, I'm betting that your TV can't tune into the Famicom's NTSC-J signal.
Even if you have a Multisystem TV, those usually only support NTSC through the AV inputs and not through the antenna.

[MattyD]

I was just pointing out it's not the fact that the signal is NTSC that causes the incompatibility, per se. The sets are capable of displaying NTSC, but their tuners can't tune into the required radio frequency. If you could transmit an NTSC signal over a frequency the TV could receive it ought to work.

[robcfg]

Since you're from Spain, I'm betting that your TV can't tune into the Famicom's NTSC-J signal.
Even if you have a Multisystem TV, those usually only support NTSC through the AV inputs and not through the antenna.
You'll have to AV mod it to get it to display on your TV (and if your TV is PAL only, you will only see a rolling, B&W picture).

You're right. I cannot tune my famicom on any of my TV's, sooooo, I just tried the FDS with a chinese famiclone which has AV out and it worked. So at least the FDS, which is the most rare of the two systems, works.

Just waiting for my Castlevania to arrive... 

[Nintega]

I have a Twin Famicom AN-500B

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Mz3HfcW9G4

This video is from my other channel before I reopened my original one after a hacker closed it.

[Zeloz (akaBill)]

I've got a famiclone. Still looking for an original famicom. They're not very easy to come by...

[namzep]

I own a twin famicom (red and black model).