Famiclones

[Tetouani85]

I've just cleaned up and repaired the sound on that mini NES clone I found the other day.

Before


After


Quite the difference!

I had to replace one of the 74HC368 chips to get the sound working correctly. These seem to go bad on discrete clones for some reason, leading to severely distorted sound which varies with temperature. It works perfectly now, though audio and video performance isn't really stellar, that's something to be expected from a clone system.



Discrete NES clone, UMC UA652x chipset, built in games soldered onto the motherboard. Two different game menus (20 in 1 and 22 in 1) selectable by powering the system on and off.

Games list:

20 in 1:

• Super Mario Bros.


• Twinbee


• Mach Rider


• Duck Hunt


• Bomberman


• Star Force


• Wild Gunman


• Baseball


• Pinball


• Galaga


• Urban Champion


• Battle City


• Macross


• Circus Charlie


• Excite Bike


• Hogan's Alley


• Exerion


• Pacman


• Joust


• Mario Bros.

22 in 1:

• Family Computer Othello


• Ikki


• Super Arabian


• Road Fighter


• Dig Dug


• Yie-Ar Kung Fu


• Lode Runner


• Nuts & Milk


• Chack 'n Pop


• F1 Race


• Donkey Kong Jr.


• Popeye


• Ice Climber


• Front Line


• Mahjong 4 (Four Penis Mahjong)


• Balloon Fighter


• Formation Z


• Championship Lode Runner


• Millipede


• Tennis


• Antarctic Adventure


• Lunar Ball

Good Job
By the way, puedes ayudarme para saber la melodia de este Menu de "22 games" ? quiero decir, en que juego de famicom este melodia ha aparecido ? yo tambien tengo este cartucho.

[BaconBitsKing]

Milk and Nuts instead of Nuts and Milk?

[fcgamer]

Milk and Nuts instead of Nuts and Milk?

Yeah, many Famicom bootleg carts list it as such.

As for what the tune is on that multicart, I'm not sure, but I have several copies of that same multicart.   

[AlexRUS]

Most of you might have watched my video of Famicom consoles collection, including Famiclones, but I will post it anyway, in case you've missed it!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WktK4qr5CAM

Although, that video is a bit outdated.
I got rid of following Famiclones, shown in video:

• Dendy Classic 2 (aka. Micro Genius IQ-502, but with NOaC technology)
  
• Magic Classic Deluxe (the worst Famiclone I've ever used >_> Reversed duty cycles sound problem, terrible built quality)


• Simba's Junior (mediocre Famiclone, it had bad DPCM channel, and dark picture)

Got the following Famiclones after this video:

• Famulator (not bad Famiclone, at least build quality is not a piece of shit, but the colors are off, and reversed duty cycles sound problem is presented)
  
• Dendy Junior-2 (imo it's equally as great as Video Game System Liko KL235)

I will post their pictures a bit later

My most favourite Famiclone of all of these that I have is Video Game System Liko KL235. It plays all of my bootleg cartridges perfectly fine, also plays VRC6 soundchip from Akumajou Densetsu very well for a clone system. It runs at PAL speed, but it's not a huge problem to me.

[Oreanor]

AlexRUS, you have the papers from the Classic in your Classic 2 box, do you know?

here is as it must be:

[AlexRUS]

AlexRUS, you have the papers from the Classic in your Classic 2 box, do you know?

here is as it must be:

Yeah, Oreanor.
The papers that were included in Classic 2 box are actually from Dendy Classic 1 Famiclone.
The thing is that I originally bought a fake copy of Dendy Classic, that ran on NOaC that is used in many other Famiclones (three boards, connected with ribbon cables, and with glob on the middle board, known as NOaC), and I got that one with instruction manual and other papers that originally came with it.
You posted that one on your website
That Famiclone sadly died, and I didn't even get a chance to play a game for more than 10 minutes ;_;

I got this Dendy Classic-2 without any papers, just the box, console, controllers, 300-in-1 multicart, power adapter, and other wires, so I decided to put these papers from Dendy Classic 1 there just because I felt like it.

Although, I don't have this Famiclone anymore, as I sold it to one person from Kinamania VK group (who posted it for sale for 8500 roubles X_X).

[mario_bro2065]

Just found a Power Joy at my local thrift. No light gun... also since the second contrller port fits alot of my contrllers. After some...- MWAHAHAHA- expiramenting... I learned that if you press the button on the 2600 controller the game crashes. It's like detonating a bomb. It also blasts the volume, I pranked my friend by having him play a famicom horror. Then right at the jumpscare i pressed it. Iexpected the video to glitch up... but it froze. The volume still blasted. But the picture froze  At scariest momment in the game. My friend's reation was so hilarious

friend : so... oh geez! OMAYGAHDLOUDAHAAAAASTAHPHOMY! F*** YOU! W... Why was it so loud?!

... I am mean

[number47]

NOoooo that's not a good idea to put Atari 2600 joystick to 9-pin famiclone port and press trigger. The pinout is completely different and by pressing Atari trigger you are shorting ground and 5V in the famiclone which could seriously damage the unit.

For the busted "bootleg Dendy" I would pay maximum 850 roubles (10€). Actually they are really easy to fix.

[Dendy]

Finally got my "real" Dendy Famiclones last week. Was looking pretty long for those baby's!

Jr. was in bad condition so I had to replace ejector. Both work well, and I'm very happy to have them. Still looking for the Classic...

[cieniu71]

I found (in Poland at auction!) this Famiclone console (from Hong Kong)









game screen (I think so... is good quality)

       

This famiclone have Antene (WTF ?)...

has anyone ever seen this version? What does this antenna? For a wireless connection to a TV?

Thank's for help, and best regards !

[Oreanor]

I believe so. And there must be another antenna for a tv set

[cieniu71]

Yeah!

It works wireless connection via an antenna

[Retrospectives]

Yeah basically you can put that into the RF slot of any Famicom or clone system (or any other system for that matters that uses RF) to get a wireless thing going on. Saves up a lot of space if your TV is far away and saves the eyes if you to sit too close to the television 

[M-Tee]

Boss setup. I always liked keeping consoles closer to the couch than the tv. In one of my homes, many years ago, we had consoles in the coffee table with wiring run under the carpet. It was a nice setup.

[Turok3000]

Is MainSuper a manufacturer of connectors or something?

Yes, just like Foxconn. I've seen the Main-Super brand on the expansion connectors of old PC motherboards too.

Hello my friend, Other day I find a famiclone pcb just like yours, but unfortunately the brown pcb with the av conectros is missing. now I will try to make an av mod on it.   I need two informations. first one: the transistor installed on the heatsink is an 7805? second one: the av signal to the av conectors, comes from which I.C pins? can you post a picture of the botton side of the brown pcb? thanks!