I finally got one of these as I collect famiclones, I must have near 30 clones by now. All I have to say is this: even though I only paid $5 for it, the FC games console is a huge smoking turd. It's so flimsy it makes a soda bottle seem stiff, it won't work with many games even the shittiest old clone could play. The controllers are so cheap the screws will pop out, and if you put in a cart, the whole machine bends like it's made out of plastic cups. So I would rate it 2/10 , the 2 being for the looks and famicom ripoff colors. So in short, avoid this and pretty much anything made by yobo as it's just going to be a dog turd painted a nice color.
And for those who want to know, this is the crap ASSEMbler is talking about - http://www.famicomworld.com/Pirated/Yobo.htm Yakumo
The thing I say to everyone: get the real deal. A loose Famicom / Super Famicom / Mega Drive / whatever isn't that much expensive and is going to last a lot more than a clone.
I just went to search for the famiclone with s-video I chanced over on ebay the other week, only to find it's a NES/SNES combination unit and the s-video only works on the SNES part. Ho hum.
That's because the NOAC doesn't output RGB. If you find a Famiclone that outputs S-Video it would be converting the Composite to S-Video and wouldn't look any better. I hate the pirate garbage and I hate that people buy this shit and encourage them to make more. I'd feel different if they actually made a real clone that functioned exactly the same.
I was hoping that they'd created a new NOAC with a more capable PPU element - a long shot, but not impossible. I would've been interested to see if they'd fixed anything else at the same time, but eh. Same old trash.
Wow, i actually see these all the time at a store called CD/Game Exchange up the street from my house. Ive actually considered buying one a couple of times, but not now. ( My Nintendo made NES died a few months ago). Oh well, I guess ill just wait until someone trades in an offical NES.
Is it too much to ask for an FPGA based system, with a "universal" cartridge port, that can dynamically reconfigure itself depending on which system you want to play at any given time?
Meh, good engineering and mass production could keep the cost decently low. I'm not saying that it would be comparable to a Famiclone, but why would it be?
If you want a Famicom that uses s-video, buy a Titler by Sharp. They're expensive, but they've got it -- plus, you can add text to your home videos.
What I want to know is why you guys are too lazy to pay a few bucks for a NES. Why is it people would rather pay so much more for a fresh turd? The NES isn't that hard to find. It's not expensive. Hell plenty of them have probably been victim to the garbage and tons to garage and yard sales. Things like the Yobo aren't even good enough to wipe your ass with.
I'm working on a "NOAC" for non-volatile FPGAs that will output 240/480/720/1080p. Right now all I've got is 75% of the PPU, no audio or accurate CPU of my own, but they'll come eventually. I hope to find a TQ100/144 NV FPGA with enough resources and a flexible PLL so a common 3.58MHz crystal can be used instead of the rare 21.47MHz making for the ideal clone.
Yes, many Famiclones from the late 80s to late 90s, with discrete CPU and PPU chips were for all intents and purposes fully compatible with every original NTSC game, they just may have very slight inaccuracies in audio/video, but they still outperform even the best software emulators. The common audio inaccuracy is from a mistake in the implementation and poor mixing, and any video inaccuracies may be from incomplete reverse engineering of the PPU, most likely in the NTSC DAC. The only reason why many Famiclones today aren't fully compatible with all game software (inaccuracies aside) is a pathetic one--the manufacturers consistently miswire the cartridge connector.
So if i were to get a famiclone what would my best bet be? As I am in the market for something that can play both NES and Famicom carts
If you must have a famicom clone then get one of the older ones from the early 90's or better still something from the 80's. Yakumo
The best Famiclone out there is called the Nintendo Entertainment System. If you want to play Famicom Cartridges on it, buy an adapter. If you want expansion audio, you only need to solder maybe 1 wire. If you want to use the FDS, you may as well get a seperate NES and solder connections to it or guts/modify the NES to fit it better.
