My tabletop famicom

[hippy dave]

Thanks, yeah I don't know anything about different types of crystal, I just googled the frequency and found the easiest place to buy one on its own, so I got it from here - the fact that it says "suitable for NTSC Famicom System" was reassuring tho
It arrived today after all, not much to look at - it's very short, height-wise, compared to the existing crystal. No markings except for the frequency on the top, so it doesn't matter which way around it goes?

[Megadisk]

Thanks, yeah I don't know anything about different types of crystal, I just googled the frequency and found the easiest place to buy one on its own, so I got it from here - the fact that it says "suitable for NTSC Famicom System" was reassuring tho

Yo are good to go with that one  

It arrived today after all, not much to look at - it's very short, height-wise, compared to the existing crystal. No markings except for the frequency on the top, so it doesn't matter which way around it goes?

Any side is fine. Don't forget about the possible jumpers behind the current xtal  

[hippy dave]

Yo are good to go with that one 

Good to know, thanks!

Don't forget about the possible jumpers behind the current xtal 

Yep for sure, will have a good look when I crack it open again, hopefully tomorrow if the switch arrives.
Post Merge: September 12, 2015, 07:21:30 am
Update: no other jumpers behind the crystal, just the one big ground square. Gonna have a play and see what happens...

[hippy dave]

Another update, got it working can switch between pal and ntsc, but annoyingly out of the three televisions in the house, only the tiny one in the spare room displays ntsc in colour. Doesn't look like there's any way to get pal60 out of this thing, and certainly no rgb, so will have to make do. It doesn't bode well for my plan to get a real famicom at some point, but then again we are wanting to get a new tv when we can.

Thanks again for all the help!

[Megadisk]

Another update, got it working can switch between pal and ntsc,

Cool, congrats! so what did you do in the end, closing all of the jumpers?

but annoyingly out of the three televisions in the house, only the tiny one in the spare room displays ntsc in colour.

I'd say that's important, having a multi system TV or one that's NTSC compatible 

[hippy dave]

Yep closing all the jumpers worked perfectly. Hm now I can't help wondering what the three jumpers do individually, and if that could lead to pal60. Not sure I can face further experimentation tho, at least not any time soon, this was a stretch of my extremely amateur soldering skills..

[Megadisk]

Yep closing all the jumpers worked perfectly. Hm now I can't help wondering what the three jumpers do individually

If I'm not mistaken , closing one or two jumpers may give a different variation like NTSC 3.58, NTSC 4.43 or even PAL/60Hz.

[hippy dave]

If I'm not mistaken , closing one or two jumpers may give a different variation like NTSC 3.58, NTSC 4.43 or even PAL/60Hz.

Arg, guess I might have to play with them some more then 

[bbking]

hi Just following joining point of noac famiclone but all pictures is gone.Could you please upload a pictures of joining point.