I found this famicom at a flee market for $5 model HK-386 made in Taiwan it didn’t include a AC adaptor and all is says is 4W Looks like a mostly bootleg including the system any info you could lend me would be helpful :smt045
Ah, nostalgia... Man... you struck gold. Some years ago, these clones were very common down here in Mexico. Now, with all the new "ps kid" famiclones, and ugly Famiclone carts, you no longer see this variety. Your carts, most of them, look like the older, better quality, famiclone carts, that didn't have those ugly hacks or "9999999 in 1" poorly made ripoffs. I know it's not the "real thing", but when I was a kid, down here, it really was the real thing. About monetary worth, I don't know much. Your lot, looking at the state of your carts and all, could be had for some 40 dollars in Mexico - where this stuff used to be VERY common in the early 90s, but now is all but gone. I remember seeing tables full of this type of carts and systems (some with more interesting shapes, but your system is pretty cool) Some of your carts are oddly shaped. I'd love to have a closer look at them, if you have any chance for it to happen. Also, you have two boxed ones! that's like VERY rare. and stuff. For actual info on famiclones, you should check out Hawanja's site (http://hawanja.com), which is pretty cool, made by a member of this board, and has lots of info on famiclones. Actually, I think "THE famiclone", another famiclone site (http://famiclone.emucamp.com/) is made by another member of this board. Tomorrow morning I head to the black market, and I'll get info on the actual price of carts and a machine like that, if I find one. About the AC Adapter... I'll look around to see if I can find any info on it. You need that, right? Anyway, you got a pretty good deal. I'd love to find a deal like that, for sure.
The adapter you need is a 9-12vDC center negative adapter, must be 800mA+ You can use a Mega Drive / Genesis (model 1) adapter if you have one or Atari or PCE/TGX. You got some nice games with the system, did you get ALL that for $5?
That's a very impressive buy you got there for $5. It looks to be in pretty good condition too !! Yakumo
Are some of those legit copies of games? The boxed Devilman and Highway Star look pretty decent, and maybe some others, but I don't know - I grew up with pirate Famicom carts so don't really know how to tell!
Yeah, the middle 3 in the second picture look somewhat like legitimate cartridges, don't they? The blue one and the two boxed ones. The Hokuto no Ken one in the bottom of the picture too, and "mirakuru robitto" on the first picture, too. I can't tell for sure, but those look the closest to the legitimate thing, even if they might be pirates. But the rest are difinitely pirates, which is also pretty cool, especially since many are not very common anymore. All this for 5 dollars... that's just pretty rad, dude.
The big bulky looking carts with the protectors on the bottom are Jaleco or Sunsoft made games. There are quite a few different shaped Famicom original cartridges. Yakumo
There appears to be one bulky game that's legit, the other is Super Mario 3. Jyuoki (aka Altered Beast) appears to be original. The game on the bottom is actually Hiryu no Ken II, still it's better than Hokuto no Ken II. The good games he's got are *blah blah (I forget)* Metafight (Blaster Master) Boku Draculakun and most importantly Getsufumaden one of my favorites I'm surprised because I can't remember seeing pirate Getsufumaden or Boku Draculakun, it must have been difficult for the bootleggers to copy since Konami's hardware is pretty different than Nintendo's.
Okay. Back from the old black market. Checked around for prices. Didn't find any famiclone of the nature of yours, but most famiclones (the PS-Kid variety. Ick) are between the 10-15 dollars range, with one cartridge. Every pirate cartridge is between 1 and 3 dollars, but I'm sure your boxed ones could go for 8 on Mercadolibre, and the originals are probably a bit above that. Multicarts can go up to 11 dollars, too. Which means, dude, you made a killing there!
That’s what it came with a saga adaptor but is was no good and yes 5 bucks, still looks like I win :smt033
Some of them do look authentic, although the multi-carts are a sign that some of it may be bootleg. Also, can you take a picture of the controllers?
