72-60 pin converter for TF?

[Parodius Duh]

funny story about the link cpix posted.........guy selling those use to own "Ultimate Video Game club" or something to that effect in my hometown of Old Saybrook, CT.....they closed up shop after the owner was busted and did jail time  for bootlegging cd games! Now its a pool supply store. His auctions are weird to, some list the location as VT and others as CT....

[Xious]

Just don't buy the Yobo junk adapters. The 'Family Converter' is out of production for a few years, and those black adapters are the only ones on the market that work with 99.9% of titles and are well worth their $30-$50 price tag. I use one regularly on Twin systems.

Nah. I have the black adapter, and that needs modding to fix a game breaking crash in Castlevania 3.

I think it needs one line corrected for a couple MMC5 titles, but there are only a couple games out of the entire NES library that cause any problems. 'CV-III' is one, though I never play the NES version, preferring the superior FC 'Akumajou Densetsu' in every way.

Still, this is better than not supporting them at all, and it works perfectly with the PowerPak as well as some other gear that I own. The Yobo adapter is pure garbage, and the Family Converter is no longer being made. I did start working on an adapter design, but I put it aside while I catch up with other things... I need to source some parts, namely a double-ended set of female connectors (60F/60F and 72F/72F) so that I can do things the 'Nintendo way'.

Otherwise, I'll need to do inline soldering on standard connectors, and that is a huge pain in the bum. Other than tnat, the designs are 99% ready to go. I need to prototype them and verify my pin spacing and all of that, but it looks correct both on paper and as a 3-D model...

I know there's a demand for them, even as bare PCBs, and I figure I'll make both versions (NES-->FC and FC-->NES) so that people can have their pick of systems using new technology. I want to ensure that they also fit inside cart cases so that people can self-case them or make custom enclosures, or custom games using them with no question of them fitting rightly. I'm a perfectionist, so things I do tend to take forever to complete.

One distinct thing is that I want to ensure that cart labels always face the front of the system, as this always bothered me: Making the converters 'straight-through' is the easy/lazy way, and most companies did this, which is why the labels always face rear/down. It requires more routing to avoid this but it's worthwhile. I'm also building 'Extra Sound' hardware directly onto the NES version so that with only a small mod (or an adapter) on the system, you'll be able to use Famicom games with special sound hardware, and of course, the sound features of the PowerPak both on the NES and Famicom... 

[Cmonster]

I would definitely be interested in an adapter like that.  Just got into the famicom scene.  Only have 4 carts thus far and have been using a yobo adapter for my NES collection thus far.  Its not that great of an adapter but after cleaning all my games most of them have started working on the first try.

Im thinking of getting a powerpak soon and an adapter that would alow for the extra sound channels to be used would be awesome.  And id def pay for one.

[Lum]

Just don't buy the Yobo junk adapters. The 'Family Converter' is out of production for a few years, and those black adapters are the only ones on the market that work with 99.9% of titles and are well worth their $30-$50 price tag. I use one regularly on Twin systems.

Nah. I have the black adapter, and that needs modding to fix a game breaking crash in Castlevania 3.

I think it needs one line corrected for a couple MMC5 titles, but there are only a couple games out of the entire NES library that cause any problems. 'CV-III' is one, though I never play the NES version, preferring the superior FC 'Akumajou Densetsu' in every way.

Still, this is better than not supporting them at all, and it works perfectly with the PowerPak as well as some other gear that I own. The Yobo adapter is pure garbage, and the Family Converter is no longer being made. I did start working on an adapter design, but I put it aside while I catch up with other things... I need to source some parts, namely a double-ended set of female connectors (60F/60F and 72F/72F) so that I can do things the 'Nintendo way'.

Otherwise, I'll need to do inline soldering on standard connectors, and that is a huge pain in the bum. Other than tnat, the designs are 99% ready to go. I need to prototype them and verify my pin spacing and all of that, but it looks correct both on paper and as a 3-D model...

I know there's a demand for them, even as bare PCBs, and I figure I'll make both versions (NES-->FC and FC-->NES) so that people can have their pick of systems using new technology. I want to ensure that they also fit inside cart cases so that people can self-case them or make custom enclosures, or custom games using them with no question of them fitting rightly. I'm a perfectionist, so things I do tend to take forever to complete.

One distinct thing is that I want to ensure that cart labels always face the front of the system, as this always bothered me: Making the converters 'straight-through' is the easy/lazy way, and most companies did this, which is why the labels always face rear/down. It requires more routing to avoid this but it's worthwhile. I'm also building 'Extra Sound' hardware directly onto the NES version so that with only a small mod (or an adapter) on the system, you'll be able to use Famicom games with special sound hardware, and of course, the sound features of the PowerPak both on the NES and Famicom... 

The carts do face the front on mine. I'm just not all that good at requesting mods yet. Tossing around a 'to-do list' for modders to comment on, and actually convincing someone to take up a project, are very different.

[Xious]

P.M. the list of mods you want to see done to me and I'll look it over and see which I may be able to get around to doing in the near future.