Famicom AV Mod vs Twin Famicom 

tomoya97 If you could do a video or upload a few images, with side notes, that would be very helpful. Since I do plan on importing a famicom and everdrive n8, becase PAL games are expensive. It would be greatly appreciated.

Casey Williams I Have not done this yet, here is the link of a forum where they touch this topic: forums.nesdev.com/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=10554

tomoya97 thank you

Roxie ღ wha?

***** It's a silly, dumb joke relating to the fact that Vinnk forgot to send him everything for the Famicom. In that he sent something from Japan(a grenade) and he forgot the pin.

Roxie ღ dang

I think that was the PC engine nerd

Atsuko Kagari the twin famicom turbo is like the ps4pro or xbox scorpio

***** Aren't you on UK power, though? This one doesn't go up to 220V (and needs a plug adapter).

Famicom Dojo I am, Like all my import consoles, I use it through a step down converter.

***** Oh, duh, of course. Which I would have realized if I'd thought about it for even two seconds. :S

Famicom Dojo I fried my Japanese Dreamcast once not using one :(

+Larry Bundy Jr Rip Larry's Jp Dreamcast.

WhyDoIHave ToUseMyRealName? It's just mono to dual-mono. I'm pretty sure I picked it up at RadioShack.

ShinRockman Sadly that is long gone. I still do some sales on Gamegavel and Facebook but not nearly as much as I used to. Go to www.japanretrodirect.com and you can find me.

TBustah That all depends on whether or not the pins on the NES-style port on the AV Famicom connect to the main board in the same way, AND of that hardware even exists o the AV Famicom main board. Even if you could, it sounds like more trouble than it's worth -- although I'm general I would LOVE to have a Famicom controller that I could plug into any NES-style port.

Ooh! What is the GPM series, and what gives this one away as one of them?

The ([VCI]) sticker on the bottom does. when you opened it up, the one-piece construction did as well. If you were to open it up fully and look at the board revision, it'd probably be an HVC-CPU-GPM-02 board.

***** GameTechUS kevtris in that case, maybe will be better to wait for the HDMI NES board and will be no reason to have any AV famicom. (well, except for the microphone thing)

And the disk system. Currently there is no physical way to connect the ram adapter to the front loader

***** There are, you just need to chain adapters together.

I know that you can use a gamegenie then a nes to famicom adapter and then the ram adapter but it just looks ugly . Someone should make an nes cartridge style ram adapter i think it wont be that hard to reverse engineer how the ram adapter works

***** already has, and once I get a spare RAM adapter, I will too.

If you are using AV cables, yes. If you want to use RF for some reason then the famicom is better, the twin famicom can do RF but the cable is harder to find but the base famicom need to be modded for AV.

Michael Vaught This depends on the TV. Some have an EXT, AV (or AV1, AV2), or INPUT "channel" below Channel 02. Otherwise you need a remote to access the AV input mode.

Ok. But you don't have to put it on channel 95 or 96 right? My TV sadly doesn't go that high. Stops at 69 and I really want a Nintendo Famicom.

Michael Vaught Set it to Cable mode instead of Antenna mode

Yup, it's just a regular GameCube controller. Enjoy!

Thanks.

Of course! That's how we captures our original footage for the show. However, the RF interference is still there, so it's not a good way to side-step the underlying problem.

OK, another thing. Did Vinnk finally send you those replacement bands?

Game-Runner Spoilers!

Famicom Dojo To be fair, you did kind of spoil it in your podcast.

The Pixel Polygon Yeah, I have the replacement bands now.

the av famicom isnt modded

+OchaTime He mentions it in the video. I've heard from conflicting sources that the Genesis Model 1 may or may not do the same thing with the headphone jack.

The headphone jack does send true stereo, but the av output does not.

And then have to hunt down a TV to play it...? Enh...

Not necessarily; a PVM is just the best screen for 240p/480i sources in my opinion. There are RGB to HDMI upscalers that work for HDTVs, but I would only recommend one: the XRGB Framemeister. It comes at a cost of $300, but what you get with it is simply amazing, especially if you have never seen a console output true RGB before. There are cheaper alternatives available on Amazon, but their process of converting the analogue signal involves multiple steps of post processing, which of course just oversaturates/sharpens the picture and introduces more input lag to your HDTV that will already have it. There is also the Hi-Def NES modkit I mentioned in my OP which installs a HDMI FPGA board into the console to internally encode the analogue signal to digital and output directly through HDMI to your HDTV without any scaler. This also introduces zero input lag and looks great with proper adjustment of the scaling options. It's also relatively cheaper than the XRGB depending on what an installer will charge. I'd recommend My Life In Gaming or Phonedork on here (youtube) for more detailed information if you're in any way curious. Obviously I think it's worth the money if you're a big enough retro gaming fan that doesn't want to bother with emulation.

As other commenters have said, there is a way to clean up this mod so it looks as nice as the Twin, so I wouldn't totally wrote this off.

Is that this guy? ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-q5K_V7I1eTQ.html

NERO HIROHITO Nope.

:(

Mygingerguy am ten actually shortcuts m8

You're free to get one from a retro shop in Japan like I did. ;)

That's Orange OK

+That's Orange super potato well...

+kamiotokonoko You got 2 grand to spare for a Famicom Titler. That is how much they are going for on eBay right now.

+kamiotokonoko In case you're wondering, the Famicom Titler has easily the best video output. It has an entirely new PPU and support s-video output.The only way to get better than that on real hardware is to RGB mod a Famicom/NES.

The titler is also the easiest to mod for RGB support, it's PPU actually outputs RGB and it uses a converter to change to S-video. So if you find the RGB signal points you can port those signals to the outside of the case, you can tap into ether composite video or S-video's Luma for sync

That difference in perception by Western consumers is precisely the reason the NES and SNES got redesigns in this hemisphere.

Well, I'm from europe, I like how the super famicom and PAL SNES look, i think that it's better than the american one, but i do prefer the western NES design more than famicom for the previous reasons, the famicom looks cool too tho.