I remember first seeing this exact video when it was new and instantly made the modification to my moms snes that I kept all these years and now only just got myself a few sfc carts to play. Thanks for such great instructions a literal 13 year old could make sense of.
@randomcrazyvids101 Yes some old original releases with 5 screws (5 screws holding the game cart together instead of just 3) have Famicom adapters inside. But they can be rather hard to find even when you know the game. I found 4-5 copies of Gyromite (a game known to have it) all 5 screw copies and none of them had it inside.
@@afriend9428 no I was in a pawn shop and I knew the owner I asked him if I could check them while I was in there because I would buy them if they had it inside but none of them did
This is very cool! I didn't know that any adapters like these were made. Early gyromite and stack up NES carts will actually have the guts of the Famicom cart inside with a built-in adaptor to make it work. You can crack it open and make use of it, that is if you don't mind opening up your carts. Your adapter is obviously superior to that method, I hope I can score one sometime. Thanks a lot for sharing this!
glad I watched this again. I just got one of the exact same adapters as you have in this video and I've been picking up some famicom carts on ebay of games that never appeared in north America like mappy and pooyan. I remembered this video and how you said it had to go in a certain way and it looks like the famicom cart has the same basic shape as a nes cart which helps when putting the famicom cart on the adapter the correct way.
Fun Fact: A lot of early NES games were made from unsold famicom stock, so a lot of games have a famicom adaptor built into them. If you crack one open you can use it on any famicom game! You can tell which ones have them by their weight, and the most common game to have it is Gyromite.
yea if i look around i might find one theres quite a bit of privately owned game shops like gamestop but they have all old school games like i got power adapters for nes and snes from a local place
@TripleCCC05 Most people seem to call it by the system you want to play it on to the game cart. So a 60 to 72 pin is usually to play NES games on a Famicom since 60 pins is the system you want to 72 pins is the cart. So 72 to 60 pin would be to play Famicom games on an NES. But I guess people could mix that up and call em the other way around. So always check the picture to be sure. You need to tune in Ch 95 or 96 for those Japanese systems on our TV.
@@MN12BIRD thanks! I thought it could sega cd music, but when I searched for it the sega cd 2 music came up and I didn’t realize sega cd 1 had different music lol
Looks like your NES slot loader needs a new 72-pin connector. It's amazing how fucking hard it is to find new Famicom-to-NES adapters, considering how piss easy it is to find NES-to-Famicom ones...
I use a Famicom A/V version which looks like the NES toploader. The power supply that came with it is the same thing as an SNES power supply. I bought a special power supply that has 2 connectors at the tip. It works with Nintendo, Super Nintendo, Famicom, Super Famicom, SEGA models 1-3, and SEGA CD.
Oh my god! Not only did you go back to the Sega CD music, you made it the model 1 theme like I'm used to with my Sega CD! Thank you! I love Famicom games, but I much prefer to play them on my Famicom, since it makes me feel elite. Infact, I would love to find a converter to play the American games on it too. First things first though, I really need to A/V mod my famicom, RF is impossible to go back to!
Not all copies of Gyromite have the adapter. Not even all 5 screw versions of Gyromite have it. Only the very earliest of them have it. I opened 3 or 4, 5 screw copies of Gyromite in a pawn shop (I explained I was looking for something specific and would buy a copy if it had it) and not a single one of them had the adapter inside! There's a way to tell by the weight but in order for that to work you would have to have one with it and one without and you can tell the difference.
Been trying to find one of these lately as there are a few famicom carts I wouldn't mind getting that never came out on the NES like Galaxian, Dig Dug, Mappy, Pooyan and Exerion. Great video Jake. I remember seeing this one but glad I could check it out again. :)
Here's a tip: I found a Famicom adapter inside my Excitebike cartridge, and I noticed that between my Gyromite cartridge with no adapter and my Excitebike cartridge, there is one major difference: the warning label at the back of the cartridge. I don't know if it's the case in your part of Canada, but where I am(Montreal), cartridges with no converter have a bilingual(English/French) warning label, while the warning labels on cartridges with converters are English only.
@Luigi84289 A way I found a FA copy of Hogan's Alley was noticing that the (orange-)red was just a little more red and some FA Gyromite have a slightly lighter-colored label. Not all 5-screw Pinball copies have a converter! I have a hunch that over 82,000 copies of Gyromite have a converter. Hope the info helps at least a little.
You can use the DC power adapter on the NES just fine but you do NOT want to use the NES AC power adapter on systems that normally take DC such as the Genesis or Famicom. I've used a Genesis DC power adapter on my NES for years. Even though the NES came with an AC adapter everything in the NES runs on DC, the rectifier in the NES converts the AC into DC as soon as it comes in the back. But using the NES AC power adapter on other systems will fry something fast!
Anthony Thomas Salvador Sorry. My TV broke somehow. first I had to dig in my TV and find the button and the other time I tried to put my TV on and it was pitch black just to play my NES classic
@sonypsp05 look for one inside one of the Five Screw NES games that game out at the launch in 1985. You'll need to adapt the cart shell to use it. There are videos with more details.
the famicom cartridges have the power in mirror on the left and right end pins. put it backwards and the power will go the same. but the rest of the pins will be mirrored, obviously. but nothing will do to the cartridge
Simon McDowell I know this comment is four years old but.... Around 2012 (damn it was a long time ago) I plugged my famicom in with an nes power cord and fried the console. I dissected the console and learned that there’s a voltage regulating chip (If I remember correctly) that I had fried. I knew this guy that repairs arcade machines so I called him and he soldered a new chip on it. That console still works to this day. Boy was I lucky. Wish your comment existed back then
I use a Super 8 to play my Famicom games on my SNES. The only problem there is that sometimes you have to play with the A/V connector in the back to get sound. Most times you don't though.
@newkillergenius I am aware of that. I just don't wanna destroy a good SNES console by taking out the pins in the cartridge slot, or drill holes in the SFC cartridges. Thank you for the suggestion, though.
I bet it also works with Dendy cartridges which are basically Chinese bootleg Famicom cartridges originally made for the Russian market in the early 1990s.
I subbed after AdamKoralik gave a shout out to you in his Commodore Amiga video! Great channel, I love youtube gaming channels, and yours looks old school!
The lines you are getting on the frontloader NES is because of weak contacts on the 72-pin connector (on the address bus for the Character ROM to be precise). This is because the contacts in the controller is bent by the impact caused by pushing a game down, and in worst causes it'll cause the lockout chip to enter reset-mode. To fix the problem you'll either have to manually unbend the pins yourself, or you'll have to buy a new connector if you don't bother unbending your curent one.
I've actually been curious about this for a while. Last year, the Game Grumps played a Japanese Transformers game, and during the intro, Dan put the cartridge into Arin's NES. I know that they eventually used an emulator, but since then, I've been curious if that would actually work.
@MN12BIRD yes, only two 9-pin ports, my famicon is a famicom clone with psone shape (like the polystation brands) and not have the 15-pin port, I want to conect a NES zapper because the mine not works as should be, for example, I playing hogans alley, appears a gang and a police, I target the gang and pull the trigger but nothing happen, just the shoot noise or the shoot falls in the police, thats why i want to put a nes zapper, and here in mexico is difficult find original zappers for famicom
@Xskills16 yeah I thought the same thing but I checked it out - the NES has ten extra pins for the expansion slot at the bottom, four for the lockout chip. But hey, 72 minus 60 equals 12 but I said there are 14 extra pins! Indeed 2 pins on the Famicom were for sound I/O where unfortunately Nintendo of Gaikoku decided we would never need better sound than the NES but we would need to connect something to the bottom one day (what, a CD rom drive? ha)
I had a clear Xbox back here in the UK, my wife brought it me for christmas 2005. they called it a "crystal xbox" they were a bit more expensive but no better, other than I think possibly they had a bigger hard drive.
luv the closest thing to that is retro duo it plays all nes and snes games but 1 percent , but it dont support the original zapper it will though support the super scope and snes peripherals as they made the -ports like snes
@MN12BIRD Interesting, I thought the reason they made them like that was due to copyrights and stuff. Still, it'd be awesome if they made a two in one, for NTSC and PAL, with a dipswitch to change the settings. But I also suppose such a thing is almost impossible since you'd need two computers, unless the NES 2 can run BOTH with no problems, such as speeding up or down.
If you put it backward it wouldn't work but I think it won't be damage because I encountered some Famicom games that wouldn't work and I discovered that the chips inside the cartridge are reversed probably the owner dismantled it and accidentally reversed it. When I reversed it back it works without any sign of damage or corruption of data.
I have a couple questions I wanna ask you, cause I'm itching to get a Super Famicom one day. First, what's the difference between a 72-60 pin and a 60-72 pin converter, and which one plays Famicom games on NES? What channel does an american TV have to be on if I wanna play the Famicom or Super Famicom on it? Thanks
Just curious. I just found one of these at Value Village, but the ribbon is missing. Have you taken yours apart? There are no screws but I'm wondering how it's held together before I attempt to rip it in half. lol
letting you know that converter is found in really old games (originals of originals as in fucking originals of originals basically it was a temporally usage just to quick release the games before they got the us design fully done more or less a experiment.)
just go spend 2 bucks on a 5 screw cart of Gyromite and you have an adaptor for 2 bucks and its a legit nintendo adaptor product... thats what i did and i just cut the gyromite cart in half removed the label a lil hot glue went a long way and made a custom adaptor for my FamiCom carts
***** this is true but if your local retro game store is real cool they'll either allow you to disasemble the cart or allow you to inspect the pins to see if there the correct pin set that may have the converter
think i heard on famicom dojo that you should never use the nes power adapter on a famicom. the voltage is only 10 volt off but the wattage is different.
Does it really work with every Game? To my knowledge the Famicom supported In Cartridge Support Chips (like the SNES) but the western NES didn't hat any Expansion support. Some late Games had special coProcessors and Sound Chips. The Western version of some (not many) Games had less impressive graphics and sound. It was a way to get enhanced NES capabilities to people without Famicom Disk System. The FDS was impossible co convert. For the Same Reason. The Dropped Extension Support .
You shouldn't use the same adapter for an NES on a Famicom. While they are the same size The system takes AC current. The NES has a converter on the inside to convert DC to AC. The Famicom had no such converter and would fry your system.
I have a question, I have a famiclon (chinese famicom) and I want to play it using nes controllers and zapper, exist a controller converter or something for that? I saw in youtube a gadget with that effect, but is just conect to the port in front of original famicom, and my famiclon ports looks like serial ports of mouse sorry for my bad english
is the famicom cartridge really in a backside position when putting in, on a converter? or it is ok to put it in face position or front, kinda awkward bcoz it backward position, cool video btw. planning to buy it soon on super potato. :)
@ZeldaMario24 Ubetcha! i gues and hope it is a working fine square controller button one with japanese spelling in the front label! this one is very collectible and more fuschia than red!;D thankies!
you actually got it wrong in the name because the Famicom is 72 pins and the NES is only 60. When the NES was designed, the FM synthesis module from the Famicom was removed. This can be best demonstrated by the fact the Japanese version of Castlevania III has superior sound over its US counterpart.
+Nintendo Era Some of the adapters have a ribbon attached to help pull it out of the original nes. Reminds me of the game genie and how that is pulled out.
I think it would be impossible to use the FDS on a toaster if an NES cartridge goes in all the way. If a little more than 4/5 of an NES cartridge sticks out, then you may be luck. Hard for me to tell since I have neither a toaster nor an FDS
i have a honeybee adaptor..... unfortunately the strap often gets pulled out (mine had that done to it) so it won't work with the "toaster style" NES (it at the magic position, part of it's pin life) and the fc twin..... 3rd party adaptor+ 3rd party machine= varied success...... won't play my japanese mario 3
You know, it'd be cool if one of those lazy pirates could make a perfectly functional Famiclone that can run both NTSC and PAL with compatibility with most peripherals for the NES and FC. However, such a thing would not only be expensive, but also potentially illegal, too. That's why most Famiclones can't play like 50 games out of the entire library, correct?
Since the converter seems really snug, do you find yourself wiggling the Famicom cart to get it off the converter, or is it okay to just slide it right out? I have a converter as well, but I don't want to wiggle the cart off haha.
Just to clarify your theory, MN12BIRD, if you put the cart on the converter the wrong way, it just gives you a glitched up screen. Nothing more. Nothing is damaged. :)
i got a adaptor , a EU NES1 that has been modded to play US games and a famicom cart. and i put it on the wrong way.(I didnt see this movie before i tryed) and it wont work. is it becouse i put it on the wrong way or is it becouse its an EU NES?
I remember first seeing this exact video when it was new and instantly made the modification to my moms snes that I kept all these years and now only just got myself a few sfc carts to play. Thanks for such great instructions a literal 13 year old could make sense of.
@rod1014 Yes any clone system should be able to play Famicom games with this or a similar adapter.
Oh my god, this video is old; that nostalgia doe! My old channel has been around since 2006 but DAMN, this is an OG gaming video.
why the hell is the intro 2 minute long
Lol, you can't do the math, it's 0:58 Seconds long or rounded to the nearest 10, 1:00 Minute. oof
Get out brian
True Why?
@randomcrazyvids101 Yes some old original releases with 5 screws (5 screws holding the game cart together instead of just 3) have Famicom adapters inside. But they can be rather hard to find even when you know the game. I found 4-5 copies of Gyromite (a game known to have it) all 5 screw copies and none of them had it inside.
MN12BIRD *Boo who you bought 5 copies of Robo Gyro Did you return them back to the shop for your money back?*
@@afriend9428 no I was in a pawn shop and I knew the owner I asked him if I could check them while I was in there because I would buy them if they had it inside but none of them did
This is very cool! I didn't know that any adapters like these were made. Early gyromite and stack up NES carts will actually have the guts of the Famicom cart inside with a built-in adaptor to make it work. You can crack it open and make use of it, that is if you don't mind opening up your carts. Your adapter is obviously superior to that method, I hope I can score one sometime.
Thanks a lot for sharing this!
glad I watched this again. I just got one of the exact same adapters as you have in this video and I've been picking up some famicom carts on ebay of games that never appeared in north America like mappy and pooyan. I remembered this video and how you said it had to go in a certain way and it looks like the famicom cart has the same basic shape as a nes cart which helps when putting the famicom cart on the adapter the correct way.
My aunt has that adapter well i dont know how it works but this video is like a toturial
Fun Fact: A lot of early NES games were made from unsold famicom stock, so a lot of games have a famicom adaptor built into them.
If you crack one open you can use it on any famicom game!
You can tell which ones have them by their weight, and the most common game to have it is Gyromite.
yea if i look around i might find one theres quite a bit of privately owned game shops like gamestop but they have all old school games like i got power adapters for nes and snes from a local place
@TripleCCC05 Most people seem to call it by the system you want to play it on to the game cart. So a 60 to 72 pin is usually to play NES games on a Famicom since 60 pins is the system you want to 72 pins is the cart. So 72 to 60 pin would be to play Famicom games on an NES. But I guess people could mix that up and call em the other way around. So always check the picture to be sure. You need to tune in Ch 95 or 96 for those Japanese systems on our TV.
What song is playing in the beginning?
Sega-CD model 1 intro/system BIOS music IIRC. Model 2 had different music.
@@MN12BIRD thanks! I thought it could sega cd music, but when I searched for it the sega cd 2 music came up and I didn’t realize sega cd 1 had different music lol
Looks like your NES slot loader needs a new 72-pin connector.
It's amazing how fucking hard it is to find new Famicom-to-NES adapters, considering how piss easy it is to find NES-to-Famicom ones...
Yuko Asho
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its very easy to find new fc to nes adapters
I use a Famicom A/V version which looks like the NES toploader. The power supply that came with it is the same thing as an SNES power supply. I bought a special power supply that has 2 connectors at the tip. It works with Nintendo, Super Nintendo, Famicom, Super Famicom, SEGA models 1-3, and SEGA CD.
Yeah, thanks. My old intro (this video is from 2009) was WAY too long. I eventually went to a much shorter one.
I have the same 72-60 pin converter as you!
Oh my god! Not only did you go back to the Sega CD music, you made it the model 1 theme like I'm used to with my Sega CD! Thank you! I love Famicom games, but I much prefer to play them on my Famicom, since it makes me feel elite. Infact, I would love to find a converter to play the American games on it too. First things first though, I really need to A/V mod my famicom, RF is impossible to go back to!
Not all copies of Gyromite have the adapter. Not even all 5 screw versions of Gyromite have it. Only the very earliest of them have it. I opened 3 or 4, 5 screw copies of Gyromite in a pawn shop (I explained I was looking for something specific and would buy a copy if it had it) and not a single one of them had the adapter inside! There's a way to tell by the weight but in order for that to work you would have to have one with it and one without and you can tell the difference.
Been trying to find one of these lately as there are a few famicom carts I wouldn't mind getting that never came out on the NES like Galaxian, Dig Dug, Mappy, Pooyan and Exerion. Great video Jake. I remember seeing this one but glad I could check it out again. :)
Here's a tip: I found a Famicom adapter inside my Excitebike cartridge, and I noticed that between my Gyromite cartridge with no adapter and my Excitebike cartridge, there is one major difference: the warning label at the back of the cartridge. I don't know if it's the case in your part of Canada, but where I am(Montreal), cartridges with no converter have a bilingual(English/French) warning label, while the warning labels on cartridges with converters are English only.
@Luigi84289 A way I found a FA copy of Hogan's Alley was noticing that the (orange-)red was just a little more red and some FA Gyromite have a slightly lighter-colored label. Not all 5-screw Pinball copies have a converter! I have a hunch that over 82,000 copies of Gyromite have a converter. Hope the info helps at least a little.
You can use the DC power adapter on the NES just fine but you do NOT want to use the NES AC power adapter on systems that normally take DC such as the Genesis or Famicom. I've used a Genesis DC power adapter on my NES for years. Even though the NES came with an AC adapter everything in the NES runs on DC, the rectifier in the NES converts the AC into DC as soon as it comes in the back. But using the NES AC power adapter on other systems will fry something fast!
The NES power adapter doesn't work on the Famicom - I tried it on my friend's famicom and I started to smell burning, and the Famicom broke.
Anthony Thomas Salvador Sorry. My TV broke somehow. first I had to dig in my TV and find the button and the other time I tried to put my TV on and it was pitch black just to play my NES classic
*You should have used a GENESIS adaptor then it would work you fried your Famicom because you used a AC instead of DC kiddo*
That's a big oof there. Use DC next time.
Very nice! I need one of these adapters, but to my Famicom to run NES games!
some games with the 5 screw carts have the adapter but good luck trying to get it in or out of the front loader if you take it out
@sonypsp05
look for one inside one of the Five Screw NES games that game out at the launch in 1985. You'll need to adapt the cart shell to use it. There are videos with more details.
the famicom cartridges have the power in mirror on the left and right end pins. put it backwards and the power will go the same. but the rest of the pins will be mirrored, obviously. but nothing will do to the cartridge
"Actually may be able to use the same power adaptor on a Famicom" - *Me shouting at the screen* NOOOOOOOO!
I'm just glad you didn't try it.
Simon McDowell I know this comment is four years old but....
Around 2012 (damn it was a long time ago) I plugged my famicom in with an nes power cord and fried the console. I dissected the console and learned that there’s a voltage regulating chip (If I remember correctly) that I had fried. I knew this guy that repairs arcade machines so I called him and he soldered a new chip on it. That console still works to this day. Boy was I lucky. Wish your comment existed back then
I use a Super 8 to play my Famicom games on my SNES. The only problem there is that sometimes you have to play with the A/V connector in the back to get sound. Most times you don't though.
@newkillergenius I am aware of that. I just don't wanna destroy a good SNES console by taking out the pins in the cartridge slot, or drill holes in the SFC cartridges. Thank you for the suggestion, though.
I bet it also works with Dendy cartridges which are basically Chinese bootleg Famicom cartridges originally made for the Russian market in the early 1990s.
"NES systems" ... Nintendo Entertainment System systems.
no shit sherlock
DecibelAlex
you're an idiot
ah yes, he should be calling them "NE systems" or just "Nintendo Entertainment System(s)", very good.
I subbed after AdamKoralik gave a shout out to you in his Commodore Amiga video! Great channel, I love youtube gaming channels, and yours looks old school!
@GeniusRKO39 ummm.. before it was square but they were easily wear off so they changed it to circle (tlking about the controller here!)
The lines you are getting on the frontloader NES is because of weak contacts on the 72-pin connector (on the address bus for the Character ROM to be precise). This is because the contacts in the controller is bent by the impact caused by pushing a game down, and in worst causes it'll cause the lockout chip to enter reset-mode.
To fix the problem you'll either have to manually unbend the pins yourself, or you'll have to buy a new connector if you don't bother unbending your curent one.
I've actually been curious about this for a while. Last year, the Game Grumps played a Japanese Transformers game, and during the intro, Dan put the cartridge into Arin's NES. I know that they eventually used an emulator, but since then, I've been curious if that would actually work.
@TripleCCC05
Not sure if you are aware or not, but a US SNES can play Super Famicom cartridges as well..
Not sure just dirty contacts on the original NES or a loose 72-pin connector.
@MN12BIRD yes, only two 9-pin ports, my famicon is a famicom clone with psone shape (like the polystation brands) and not have the 15-pin port, I want to conect a NES zapper because the mine not works as should be, for example, I playing hogans alley, appears a gang and a police, I target the gang and pull the trigger but nothing happen, just the shoot noise or the shoot falls in the police, thats why i want to put a nes zapper, and here in mexico is difficult find original zappers for famicom
No I wish that was a 27" that has since been replaced with a 37" LCD but I still have it around as a backup!
@Xskills16 yeah I thought the same thing but I checked it out - the NES has ten extra pins for the expansion slot at the bottom, four for the lockout chip. But hey, 72 minus 60 equals 12 but I said there are 14 extra pins! Indeed 2 pins on the Famicom were for sound I/O where unfortunately Nintendo of Gaikoku decided we would never need better sound than the NES but we would need to connect something to the bottom one day (what, a CD rom drive? ha)
I'm pretty sure the top-loader plays them anyway. The AVGN used it for Famicom games, I think.
Will the 60 to 72 adapter work in reverse?
basically: NES to Famicom
yeah you just need to buy the reverse (what side is male vs female) but they exist.
It is possible with the super converter 60-pin adapter
I like the white race car in the background at 3:29. Looks like a 1/12th or so scale Lola or something.
No, the adapter in the Gyromite cart is to play Famicom carts on an NES, not to play NES carts on a Famicom. You need another adapter to go that way.
I had a clear Xbox back here in the UK, my wife brought it me for christmas 2005. they called it a "crystal xbox" they were a bit more expensive but no better, other than I think possibly they had a bigger hard drive.
luv the closest thing to that is retro duo it plays all nes and snes games but 1 percent ,
but it dont support the original zapper it will though support the super scope and snes peripherals as they made the -ports like snes
you find them in copies of hogans alley and gyromite with 5 screws in the back
@MN12BIRD Interesting, I thought the reason they made them like that was due to copyrights and stuff. Still, it'd be awesome if they made a two in one, for NTSC and PAL, with a dipswitch to change the settings. But I also suppose such a thing is almost impossible since you'd need two computers, unless the NES 2 can run BOTH with no problems, such as speeding up or down.
that,s just incredible.
imagine running a fds system on a nes2 toploader by using the 60 to 72 pin converter just awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If you put it backward it wouldn't work but I think it won't be damage because I encountered some Famicom games that wouldn't work and I discovered that the chips inside the cartridge are reversed probably the owner dismantled it and accidentally reversed it. When I reversed it back it works without any sign of damage or corruption of data.
wow this is very cool.
I really need to seek one of these out because my Retro Duo plays Super Famicom games but not original Famicom because of the pins.
@KedViper OH, never mind. I don't know why I thought that. But is there a reason to get a Super Famicom other than collection value?
I have a couple questions I wanna ask you, cause I'm itching to get a Super Famicom one day. First, what's the difference between a 72-60 pin and a 60-72 pin converter, and which one plays Famicom games on NES? What channel does an american TV have to be on if I wanna play the Famicom or Super Famicom on it? Thanks
What brand adapter is this?
Cool review.
@TripleCCC05
Just to say, I have done this to my SNES and it is absolutely fine!
It would be awesome to connect a Famicom Disk System to an NES to play SMB
Just curious. I just found one of these at Value Village, but the ribbon is missing. Have you taken yours apart? There are no screws but I'm wondering how it's held together before I attempt to rip it in half. lol
This is a perfect example of why the top loader NES/Famicom was way better than the NES box.
wow an adapter u=if they where mass produced during the time i don't think it would have sold well
letting you know that converter is found in really old games (originals of originals as in fucking originals of originals basically it was a temporally usage just to quick release the games before they got the us design fully done more or less a experiment.)
i know this is an old video but do you remeber where you bought your adapter cause i need to get one
just go spend 2 bucks on a 5 screw cart of Gyromite and you have an adaptor for 2 bucks and its a legit nintendo adaptor product... thats what i did and i just cut the gyromite cart in half removed the label a lil hot glue went a long way and made a custom adaptor for my FamiCom carts
Not all 5 screw Gyromite carts have the adapter in there I've opened a few myself and none of them had it.
***** this is true but if your local retro game store is real cool they'll either allow you to disasemble the cart or allow you to inspect the pins to see if there the correct pin set that may have the converter
think i heard on famicom dojo that you should never use the nes power adapter on a famicom. the voltage is only 10 volt off but the wattage is different.
Does it really work with every Game?
To my knowledge the Famicom supported In Cartridge Support Chips (like the SNES) but the western NES didn't hat any Expansion support.
Some late Games had special coProcessors and Sound Chips.
The Western version of some (not many) Games had less impressive graphics and sound.
It was a way to get enhanced NES capabilities to people without Famicom Disk System. The FDS was impossible co convert. For the Same Reason. The Dropped Extension Support .
RFTL *NO!*
You shouldn't use the same adapter for an NES on a Famicom. While they are the same size The system takes AC current. The NES has a converter on the inside to convert DC to AC. The Famicom had no such converter and would fry your system.
i think that goes to the middle pins on an nes
How does the adapter sound with games that have special sound chips like the famicom version of Castlevania III which has extra sound channels?
Have you by any chance neen able to use game genie with the converter? because for some reason it scrambles the Famicom games...
I tried it backwards and it does not matter much. it perfectly worked when I put it back the right side.
I have a question, I have a famiclon (chinese famicom) and I want to play it using nes controllers and zapper, exist a controller converter or something for that? I saw in youtube a gadget with that effect, but is just conect to the port in front of original famicom, and my famiclon ports looks like serial ports of mouse
sorry for my bad english
if u open up a 3 screw gyromite cartridge, there's one built in
i Got one from a fleet Market the guy had like 20 of them here where i live in Canada
Skip to 1:40 if you want to see what is described in this video.
Can you do the RF adapter on the VCR?
is the famicom cartridge really in a backside position when putting in, on a converter? or it is ok to put it in face position or front, kinda awkward bcoz it backward position, cool video btw. planning to buy it soon on super potato. :)
Haha and mine is still attached nearly 20 years later! I saw it in the closet the other day!
please give us a link to buy the adapter, i want to start importing
@ZeldaMario24 Ubetcha! i gues and hope it is a
working fine square controller button one with japanese
spelling in the front label! this one is very collectible and
more fuschia than red!;D thankies!
you actually got it wrong in the name because the Famicom is 72 pins and the NES is only 60. When the NES was designed, the FM synthesis module from the Famicom was removed. This can be best demonstrated by the fact the Japanese version of Castlevania III has superior sound over its US counterpart.
Thanks god, here in Poland, in early 90's we had the best famiclones ever - Pegasus ;).
no just a clear fable version it might have been a canadian exclusive
How would you play Famicom Disk System games on the toaster?
+Nintendo Era Some of the adapters have a ribbon attached to help pull it out of the original nes. Reminds me of the game genie and how that is pulled out.
I think it would be impossible to use the FDS on a toaster if an NES cartridge goes in all the way. If a little more than 4/5 of an NES cartridge sticks out, then you may be luck. Hard for me to tell since I have neither a toaster nor an FDS
Can you please tell me where you buy this... its really annoying that I can't find it on the web or ebay. Thanks...
So nostalgic
i have a honeybee adaptor..... unfortunately the strap often gets pulled out (mine had that done to it) so it won't work with the "toaster style" NES (it at the magic position, part of it's pin life) and the fc twin..... 3rd party adaptor+ 3rd party machine= varied success...... won't play my japanese mario 3
whats the difference between the two NES systems you used ?
You know, it'd be cool if one of those lazy pirates could make a perfectly functional Famiclone that can run both NTSC and PAL with compatibility with most peripherals for the NES and FC. However, such a thing would not only be expensive, but also potentially illegal, too. That's why most Famiclones can't play like 50 games out of the entire library, correct?
Since the converter seems really snug, do you find yourself wiggling the Famicom cart to get it off the converter, or is it okay to just slide it right out? I have a converter as well, but I don't want to wiggle the cart off haha.
Isn't it true there's in a few games a famicom adapter imma just twke it out and attach a wire to play famicom
say where can i get that adapter for famicom games, im want to start importing
where can i get 1 and where can i get a famicom game without ebay?
Just to clarify your theory, MN12BIRD, if you put the cart on the converter the wrong way, it just gives you a glitched up screen. Nothing more. Nothing is damaged. :)
ya his videos rock
Does anyone know if the adapter will work with Zapper gun games like DuckHunt?
Not sure game should run but Japanese light gun plugged into the extra port since the controller's were hardwired.
i got a adaptor , a EU NES1 that has been modded to play US games and a famicom cart. and i put it on the wrong way.(I didnt see this movie before i tryed) and it wont work. is it becouse i put it on the wrong way or is it becouse its an EU NES?
i seen those loads of times.. who still got a 31 in one or 42 in one game???
It didn't work I got mine and the Famicom game wouldn't fit IN the Converter. Please help me!!!!!!!!