How many carts of Famicom do you have and which?

[casino]

It looks awesome, i would love have something like that.
Is the native resolution such a big deal? Can't you hook up Wii with rpg cable to it ?

Edit : And what about 31Khz signal while pc is booting. Can't it damage you monitor?

[stealthlurker]

It looks awesome, i would love have something like that.
Is the native resolution such a big deal? Can't you hook up Wii with rpg cable to it ?

Edit : And what about 31Khz signal while pc is booting. Can't it damage you monitor?

There are RGB SCART cables for the Wii, but I believe you have to do some tricks to get it to work on a North American Wii (No problems for other regions). That's what I was intending to do. Had the RGB cables and did the tweaks on my Wii, but the non native res thing bugged me.

It's preference I suppose. It bugs me... but then again there are people who are fine with composite or s-video. If I was fine with that, I could have just used my modded xbox... also tons of other emulation devices. But you really can't beat the flexibility of a PC. Not to mention the more up-to-date, feature rich emulators and other software.

That's the purpose of the ArcadeVGA card, it only outputs a 15khz signal the entire time to keep your monitor safe.

[casino]

Ok, i just spend the whole day reading about scanlines, pvms, crt, and shit.
The cheapest and easiest soultion seems some hi-end consumer grade Sony Trinitron with component input and Wii with component cable.

[egg_sanwich]

I used to be strongly against emulation - it was always about the real thing with real controllers on original hardware. But damn, that PVM setup with crisp scanlines sure looks good.

I've also made a pretty big change this year, I move houses (and countries) regularly for work so by necessity can't have a big collection anymore. It's kind of liberating as the past few years I'd been quite into quantity collecting - always envisioning that bookshelf simply covered in games and accessories. Now I can take my time and pick the pieces I really want to play and enjoy.

I've also had to get over regret, which is powerful as a game collector. It's so easy to regret selling pieces or regret not buying something one time at that special price. But at the end of the day, you're no more happier with or without it and something else just as cool will come along. It's kind of the thrill of the hunt that is just as exciting.

Ramblings aside, I probably have around 250 FC carts and 100 FDS disks at home in Canada that will stay a part of the collection for a while to come.

[DDCecil]

I was in a picture-taking mood tonight and decided to snap all of my currently owned FC games:

47 Originals, 1 Unlicensed, and 2 Multis.

[MasterDisk]

What's on that poor loose PCB?

[L___E___T]

That's exactly what I was wondering   nice sprawl of carts though, loads of great titles in there and fancy labels

[DDCecil]

It was this:

18-in-1 which has:
Adventure Island
Tengen Tetris
Super Mario Bros. (w/ Mario 2 (JPN) Graphics)
Bomberman
Battle City
Pac-Man
Galaxian
Ice Climber
Star Force
Yie ar Kung-Fu
Exerion
Lode Runner
Championship Lode Runner
+ faster versions of Galaxian, Pac-Man, Battle City, Bomberman, and Star Force

Pic of what the cart probably looked like:
http://www.retrology.com/multi18in1.htm

[Shumi Nagaremono]

As of today, 173 unique carts.  Debating if I want to just bite the bullet, go down to Book-Off and just scoop up all the baseball/pachinko/mah-jong, and fishing carts to get me up to an even 200 (and just get them out of the way).

[Nightstar699]

I personally would advise against that, because then your collection would be tainted by a large portion of unappealing crap. But if you're planning to go for a complete set, then yeah, you might as well.

[L___E___T]

Nightstar said it - quality over quantity Shumi!

[UglyJoe]

Save your money and buy a lot or two at auction.  You'll get all of your kusoge and maybe some good ones while you're at it.

[Shumi Nagaremono]

Save your money and buy a lot or two at auction.  You'll get all of your kusoge and maybe some good ones while you're at it.

Thanks for all the input, guys.  It's great to get advice from other fans.  I've thought about going the auction route.  I prefer to buy from actual stores, though.  It shows that there's still some interest in Famicom titles. 

I am going for a full set, so I know I'm going to have to pick these titles up eventually.  Better to do it now at 108 yen each than later at two or three hundred (or more).  Especially when going up to the register with 10-20 carts will *absolutely* get the store employees talking about "Hey, we sold a ton of carts today, let's put more out".

It's not the disposable sports titles that I'm worried about, long term.  Because I know I'll be able to write an article or two comparing different baseball games, or talking about games that work with the pachinko controller.  They'll wind up being well-worth the 108 yen each.  It's the absolutely *rubbish* titles that I dread collecting.  Titles like a Week with Garfield or (almost) any visual novel-like carts. 

Ah well, the light and end of the tunnel is Gimmick, and that game is freaking *fantastic*! 

[P]

Lol what's wrong with visual novel?

I agree that games like a Week of Garfield generally have less value to me than those sports and mahjong games.

[Shumi Nagaremono]

Lol what's wrong with visual novel?

I agree that games like a Week of Garfield generally have less value to me than those sports and mahjong games.

They were just never my cup o' tea. 

The mahjong games are an interesting subset.  *Most* of them are dirt cheap.  I think I got my gray boxed mahjong for like 8 yen at Book-Eco in Shingu.  Even the ones that come with a controller/gimmick can often be picked up for only a few hundred yen.  But then you've got those *other* mahjong games that I'd be embarrassed to OWN, let alone be seen buying...and those ones aren't cheap.