An unknown famicom system (clone)

no heatsink but a shielding .. meaning Quality Check

 

ok thank all !!
i must search more peraps contact directly konami

 

Konami isn't likely to have any information on an unlicensed clone made by a third party company.

That would be like someone writing "Kaori30" on the outside of a PS3 and then calling you and asking "Kaori, when did you produce an official PS3 system?"

-hl718

 

i try to see this in a very simple way. if it really was an OFFICIAL KONAMI product, we would have seen appearing much more of 'em in the past. especially within japan. but this is not the case.
and in my opinion, it would make zero sense that konami produced that just for the market outside japan (kaigai) e.g. china, korea or where else.

and if this really was official, wouldn't then just someone knew about? especially on a place like here?

anyway, it's a nice catch since this seems to be not just a quite rare, but also a nice looking clone.

 

Uh, how is this a "quality" clone? Nothing about it matches an authentic Famicom in terms of quality because it was molded from Famicom parts so it loses minor details and uses inferior plastic... This is how all early clones were made so it's really a dime a dozen, I actually have two like it I scrapped for parts on my floor. The only thing different about this clone is that it's badged by "Konami", so unique console and controller decals, wow... As far as the PCB, it's NOT professional looking at all, even for a clone. Some clones actually have a discrete RF/power PCB because they copied Nintendo's layout down to the silkscreen! This one looks like crap, was hand soldered and not cleaned afterwards, it uses more common connectors, switches and passives than an authentic Famicom (plus a poorly self-manufactured DA-15..) and it has non-Japanese semiconductors (well Nintendo sometimes used TI); not a thing indicates it's licensed.

 

Calpis telling the world what side of bed he got out of today

It's still a better looking board then the dime a dozen NOAC boards.

 

I agree with that statement. Cause the NOAC is to me pretty boring. And it is like cheap way of making a clone.

 

You don't think that a NoaC is an impressive technical feat?

-hl718

 

-hl718:

Both yes and no. It is an impressive technical feat, that they have made the NOAC, but since the NOAC clones comes out all the time, and real clones are very rare in comparison. Then the NOAC becomes boring and stale. Just like the MOAC/GOAC and SMSOAC clones which Tectoy now uses in their machines. So the technical feat is impressive, but the clones are not. I would rather enjoy getting a clone like the one we have seen on the picture, than one of run of the mill clones. We see all the time.

 

you tell it's a clone ! it's not my opignon

 

like you know i have a lot of system ( 1500) it make 10 years i look on the web all differente version !
but i discover unknow system often
we do not know everything and i can show you a lot off system you never seen before

 

i give you right in certain points, but here we talking about a famicom made by super world famous konami and not about the 23rd table top version of scramble made by some infamous electronic manufacturer from the early 80s.

we're well aware of PCEs built-in in monitors by NEC, built-in PCEs in sharp comupters, megadrives in desktop PCs and even much rarer japanese products from the last 25 years. if there really was an official famicom made by world famous konami, would we really not know about its existence? the chance to not know about is negligible low.

 

If there was really an official Konami Famicom, we could buy it for 690'000 Yen at Super Potato right now.

 

Kaori30, it's time to face facts; it's a Korean/Chinese/Taiwanese Famiclone. Real Famicom units, even ones licensed to Sharp, etc, have "RPC2A03" on the CPU and "RPC2C02" on the PPU. They are official Nintendo parts.

 

That should be enough to prove it's a clone. Anyway there're some more things that don't have much sense in case this was an original console.

In first place, there should be at least a Nintendo logo or a "Licensed by Nintendo" label somewhere. Knowing Nintendo's licencing policy (and even more in those times), they never would let another brand to release a console without a single Nintendo logo, at least printed in the board.

Besides that, I really doubt Nintendo would ever let another brand to release a Nintendo console with the same design and features of the original one. For example, the Sharp Twin Famicom was a Famicom / FDS combo (something Nintendo never released), the NES TV and SF1 TV were TV / console combos, and coming to more recent times, the Panasonic Q works as a DVD player.
These licensed consoles were sold as Premium consoles and at higher prices, focusing on a different market. I don't think Nintendo would want different brands competing for the same exact console, when it can make a higher profit by being the only one selling it.

 

So much fuzz over a typical famiclone :katamari:

The main parts are indeed functionally equivalent components by Unicorn Microelectronics, and thus enough proof its a clone.

I would like to aquire one of such clones using the UMC chips...

 

Someone sent me a link to this strange looking clone a while ago:

 

Looks like a tumor-ailed boombox with a disfigured Genesis controller attached to it.

 

could some one make sense of the maybe Cyrillic writings on it ?

 

I'm not really sure if those writings on the top are actually Cyrillic, it looks more like randomic characters if you ask me.

Also, whatever it says on the cart slot seems to be in Chinese... This is probably one of the strangest looking clones I've ever seen.