What's going on with this Toploader NES?

[Breetai]

I used to have an AV Famicom (and Disk System). I prefer the look of the original Famicom better, despite the short cords. Just buy a Hudson Bee controller (same as the original Nintendo ones, but with PC Engine style turbo sliders) and you're set to go. AV mod it if you must.

The Disk System is definitely cool, though. You just have to worry about the rubber track inside getting old and frail... and take care of those floppy disks!

[flamepanther]

A friend of mine has an AV Famicom with an FDS hooked up to it and it looks exactly like that icon.

The Disk System is definitely cool, though. You just have to worry about the rubber track inside getting old and frail... and take care of those floppy disks!

Tototek sells replacements for that part, evidently. Alternatively, the PowerPak handles most FPS games pretty nicely

[nathan]

Here some pics of my stuff, for reference:


Famicom and Disc System in a Hudson System Rack. The black thing in the cartridge slot is the RAM Adaptor, which is how the FDS drive communicates with the Famicom console.


Famicom Disk System disk


A/V Famicom


Sharp Twin Famicom, which is a Sharp produced and Nintendo licensed console with both a Famicom and Disk System built in together.


Sharp Turbo Twin Famicom, internally it's the same as the regular Twin, only with Turbo switches on the controllers, and a power LED, as well as a slightly different case design.

[Ngamer]

Memory lane..

[Ziggy]

I used to have an AV Famicom (and Disk System). I prefer the look of the original Famicom better, despite the short cords.

Yeah, I'm not too fond of the appearance of the AV Famicom or top-loader NES. Especially the dog bone controllers!

But yeah, those attached controllers were a bad idea. I can almost deal with the short wire, but the fact that it goes into the side of the controller (and not the top) is just too much. It makes controller 1 really annoying to hold! I opened up my Famicom and disconnected them.

Just buy a Hudson Bee controller (same as the original Nintendo ones, but with PC Engine style turbo sliders) and you're set to go.

I almost got one of those controllers. They look great. Not too common to find on eBay though, and not too great of a price either. I ended up making an adapter that you plug into the front controller port on a Famicom that will allow you to use two regular old NES controllers. Dead simple to make. Just need a Famicom or NeoGeo extension controller wire and one or two NES controller extension wires. All you really need to do is twist together the appropriate wires.

My adapter: http://www.racketboy.com/forum/viewtopi ... 25&t=25087

AV mod it if you must.

I read so many horror stories on how bad the video quality is with the original FC. Yeah, it isn't that great, but it's nothing unplayable. From what I read, when I picked up my FC I thought I was definitely gonna have to AV mod it. Turns out, I'm perfectly fine using the RF with it.

The Disk System is definitely cool, though. You just have to worry about the rubber track inside getting old and frail... and take care of those floppy disks!

For sure, the FDS is awesome. But if they're only half as unreliable as said on the Internet, then I still don't want one.

Tototek sells replacements for that part, evidently.

Yep, they carry replacement belts.

Alternatively, the PowerPak handles most FPS games pretty nicely

I didn't know this when I bought my PowerPak, so I was very happy when I found out. I think they only FDS it can't currently play is multi disk games. But I'm sure they'll get that taken care of some time. The community made FDS playable on the PowerPak in the first place.

But if you wanna play FDS games on real hardware, but don't want to get a Famicom and FDS, the PowerPak is the way to go. I played through the FDS Castlevania on my PowerPak (a game I've played through dozens of times on the NES) and it was perfect. I also played a lot of Doki Doki Panic and a little of Metroid, they both play great.

The only thing is that the FC FDS had some extra sound channels. When they made the NES, the routed these pins to the bottom extension connector on the console. Luckily, some one found out that by simply adding a single resistor between two pins on the bottom connector you can get the extra sounds from FDS games when using the PowerPak (which would otherwise be missing sounds).

[ApolloBoy]

I have an AV Famicom and I think it's the best NES/Famicom variant out there. You can use all Japanese accessories with it like the FDS and external controllers, but you can use NES controllers with it (including the Zapper with a small modification), and it plays all NES games with a converter. The fact that it has the same AV out as the SNES and N64 makes it even better.