Tanooki wrote:I can see it on cracked systems, but yellow can be fixed with some retrobrite.
The truth is that there's an abundance of of Famicoms in the world. Would you buy a yellowed one and retr0bright it when you could just buy a non-yellowed Famicom? Making retr0bright isn't exactly cheap. What will happen to all these unsold Famicoms? Yellow ones aren't getting any whiter. They eventually make their way into the garbage.
fastbilly1 wrote:The original famis are also RF out only, and are a medium difficult to mod to composite out - unless you are familiar with desoldering resistors.
They're not hard to mod at all, you don't have to remove anything from the board (if you don't want to). You just have to tap a pin on the PPU for composite out, tap 5v and ground, and build a small circuit. For audio, you just have to tap a single pin and add a cap or something IIRC. But you don't have to remove anything.
The bigger problem with the Famicom composite mod is jailbars. Apparently it's because the Famicom board is just an awful design. That being said, taking a yellowed or cracked Famicom and harvesting the parts to make ANOTHER FAMICOM that doesn't suck gets a pass in my book. This is coming from a guy that frequently talks about preservation, and loses sleep over the thought of retro games and consoles making their way into a landfill. But in the end, there's isn't one less Famicom in the world. There's the same amount, only some are far better than others now.
I'm not totally agreeing with the design and price, but my thoughts have already been posted in this thread and others.
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