whats the best fami-clone (post pics)

Generation NEX is no different then the other clones on the market, and has many of the same exact issues.

 

Hmmm I have heard some of the first/early famiclones were not just NOACs, and the sound was good, since it didn´t come from the NOAC.

But anyway, I am not a professor in that field.

 

Right, early clones (the ones that actually look like Famicom) have discrete components but really they more or less have the same accuracy as NOACs. There are probably only a handful of actually different cloned chips altogether and maybe all from the same source.

Anyways, the biggest problem with compatibility in modern NOAC systems is not the NOAC at all; it's how the maker decided to connect the cart to the NOAC. The NOAC itself supports everything the original FC does (including the "expansion audio" in Akumajou Densetsu). Clones do mainly have minor problems with their audio "processor" circuit, but I don't think anything that will break a game, just sound slightly off.

The clones that don't connect the signals correctly to the cart connector won't play some of the most advanced games which make use of the disconnected signals. The designers of the clones maybe never came across these games so they chose to use the extra pins to do things like detect the cartridge so they can include built in games and stuff like that..

 

Couldn't you rewire it then to get those games to work? And I heard the NoaC interprets the square waves duty cycles incorrectly, hence the sound oddities.

 

Yep, you can rewire the pins and get compatibility up, this might not be so easy though. And right, according to a guy on NESDev the duty cycle register bits need swapping. I have heard that DPCM also is somewhat broken too though.

 

Can anyone tell me, if a pirate famicom cart which is bought in an NTSC country would work with my pal country famiclone ?

devilredeemed: yes, it is such a famiclone I have gotten my hands on. But could you reqoute my message please ? (in your old message) , since I have added a word I forgot to write the first time.

 

It depends on the game, some games can cope running at 50hz, some cannot, none will play exactly the same as they will on a 60hz system.

 

People, here is the review of the PC KID III

 

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A nice site with some pics: http://jza80sz.hp.infoseek.co.jp/pachi.htm

 

None. Get a Famicom for some bucks.

 

I won one at CGE last year and it is really nice looking and the wireless controllers are very nice but like stated above it has the exact same issues as all the others out there. Plus I think that it is $60 (US) which seems like way too much for what they are offering to me.

 

Retro Duo hands down.

 

Ive found the megajoy/powerjoy/superstar to be pretty accurate

It has a famicom cartridge slot on the underside and if you open it up you can alter the links and swap the 4.43mhz crystal for a 3.58mhz to change it from pal 50hz to ntsc 60hz