We were super lucky to live in Japan in 1985/86 (I was 10) and my Dad bought us Famicom and Disk System which I loved. Somewhere along the way they broke down or got lost but I remember being the envy of all my friends when we brought it back to Australia because the NES hadn't released here yet. So much nostalgia now playing those Famicom games on my Nintendo Switch!
Is this why i can't get my famicom to work? :( just got it on ebay works in Japan i told seller if he can send me the RF when i buy something else. .. he told me to try sega Rf but doesn't work
@@segagirladventurespico It's made for Japanese TVs, and while Japan uses basically the same composite video format as the US, their channels are different so a US TV probably won't be able to tune to Japanese RF. However if you have a newer analog TV that can tune to channels 95-97, those correspond to Japanese channels 1-3. In the US these channels were only used on cable, never broadcast.
Famicoms arent worth that much, it was likely a reseal which is pretty common, mine was a reseal as well(Its still in the shrink because I bought 3 $10 junk systems) I got my complete in the box system for $60
That's cause you can't use a VCR. You have to use a retro crt tv to get video signal. Cause Japanese use different RF signals. So u have to tune your tv to 95 or 96.
nostalgic. I remember having one and playing super Mario bros for the first time. we weren't allowed to use it on the color TV and so me and my bros only played it on black and white
Man, this brings back so many memories. I still have my original Famicom from back then and it still works. :D I have over 200 games for it. I have some 5 in 1, 10 in 1, 100 in 1 and my biggest 1000 in 1 game cartridges. The dance floor pads, the boxing game suite. the zapper gun and some many other peripherals made for it back then. My Famicom thought I painted it black so it would be unique. Those were the days. :D
I actually saw you at toomanygames spawnwave you were by the smash tournament next to the Mario kart speedrun. I should have said what's up but I missed the opportunity
I too picked up a Famicom about a year ago along with a disk system (for the complete package) and as I held it in my hands I couldn't help thinking about what little Japanese kids once sat in his parents livingroom playing Mario, Zelda, or Dragon Quest on it.
@@ultimatums1 pretty sure that's only if the channel sets it to mark it as spam. I've posted multiple links on videos that's never been marked as spam.
Protip: if you ever intend to hook it up to an old CRT, you'll need to set it to channel 98/99 due to that being the frequency equivalent to Japanese channel 1/2.
Whenever you see something janky about the Famicom, like the side cord on controllers or the really loud power button, you have to remember that when they made this system, nobody knew it was going to be successful. It was essentially the equivalent of your TV plug-and-play games, but it had a catridge port. The cartridge port allowed extra chips to be contained in the cartidge itself, and things just kind of spiraled upward from there.
Spawn that isn’t a official famicom RFadapter. Those were white and had those screw holes in it. I’m sure that put the nes one in there for US compatibility
Japan and the US have the same plug. Japan was making pretty much all the electronics for the US for a few decades. But it is a different plug. The original was black with a small silver rectangle with red writing in Japanese.
To preserve my old childhood NES, I use a pin adapter on my Twin Famicom to play my NES carts. The Twin Famicom still has wired controllers, so if the controllers work, the cart port part of the system usually does as well. It’s the disk drive that falls apart.
I literally have one from my father, who played it as a kid. It was still functional, so that was cool. Sadly, he lost most of the games when he moved into Shenzhen, and all that remained were the Super Mario and The Legend of Zelda. Kind of sad he lost Contra.
Here in Argentina, we get the original from japan or a clone from that same model, we got that famicon look and the toploader system, was my childhood console, I love it and I also love your video!
This is interesting: the european design! European NES = the US design European SNES = the JP design (not the US design) European machines are PAL. Not sure how they did in France. France got SECAM instead of PAL. Japanese Zelda 1 on FDS (Famicom Disc System): those LOADING TIMES when Link walks into dungeons! Crazy! Glad that Zelda 1 was released on cartridge in US/Europe! "No" loading times! Exactly like PlayStation 5 :-) Sometimes I think about the different audio/music in Zelda 1 for NES and FDS. Which version is best? I think I prefer the NES version. Have also seen comparisons for Zelda 2 on NES and FDS. Zelda 2 is really really better on NES! I wish the japanese market could get the NES versions of Zelda 1 and 2!
Riley European Nintendo customers are so lucky! They got the best edition (from US vs JP). But it's 50 fps and not 60 fps in Europe. PAL you know. Not NTSC. So the music and games are often 10-20 percent slower in Europe, if the games are developed for NTSC and quickly ported to PAL. I've read the "some games" (no idea which ones) that had been ported to PAL has also been adjusted for the 50-60 Hz "thing/problem". But notice the gamepads for Famicom! Gamepad 1/A got select and start. Gamepad 2/B doesn't have that. European/JP SNES looks sooooooo good!!! Also love Nintendo 64! Finally same console design in all regions! I would say that Nintendo 64 is the best looking Nintendo console of all time! But the N64 Gamepad is horrible. A dream: the N64 chassi and Switch's internals and possibility for crazy much storage! No big need for 4K gaming graphics. Better to focus on good framerate for 1080p!
@@cjeelde That's probably because they added a lot of QoL features during the FDS to NES conversion. Same thing with the transition from Doki Doki Panic to Super Mario Bros 2. Lol
Oh such sweet memories of my old SMB3 edition NES, the many many many long hours and getting told off cos not wanting to turn it off after cycling SMB1 god knows how many times and everything is like super elite mobs. What is a cracking game from that time is Solstice, abs huge maze puzzler with a cracking bgm too and even now I can hear the plaintive wailing of the main char when he expires.
Oh god, I remember those! My friend had chinese version of famicom and I got Sega master system II (our first consoles). Then we visit vendor and it was like suprise (becuse bootleg games) what we get. Good times.
Now you have to get the AV Famicom, it's what Nintendo of America took and replaced the AV with RF jack o3o which they must had realize was a mistake as later versions do use AV out. And even rarer is the version that has both AV and a RF jack.
To hook it up just get a cheap VCR with a coax antenna input on the back and composite output. Then go to channel 98 on the VCR or whatever it is the Famicom displays on. That is what I do for all my systems stuck on RF so it should work.
Look on your local facebook marketplace for an older TV. People give them away for free all the time rather than pay to recycle them. I actually just picked up a nice 32 inch with an RF port and 2 sets of RCA/AV ports.
I know a lot of people already said the RF switch isn't original, but I'm pretty sure the power adaptor also isn't the original one that came with the unit.
if you see the earlier commercials for the North American NES you can see they hold their controllers from the bottom maybe thats why the cable came through the side, also the NES controllers in NA have it on the top left...by the time the Super Nintendo came out it had it in the middle because it looks like people adapted to grab the controller with the palms...its something I've always been curious about how to properly grab your controller since the NES controller looks like a TV controller...also if you can see the Genesis controller has three buttons and they are called triggers which fits your three biggest fingers properly like if it was meant to be hold from the bottom like this theory I have with the NES controllers...just something to think about.
The controller cables are short because Japanese houses are notoriously small and there wasn't so much space to begin with. Also, it's not like in the 80s there were 80 inches TVs in their living rooms :D
I don't understand why so many people say there's no way to hook up an RF console with today's TVs. Your TV is more likely to have a Coax in (for the antenna) than a Composite in....so I don't understand this logic.
I looked through the comments and no one has mentioned it, so I will! The copyright date on the motherboard said "1989 Nintendo". Was this a later release/revision?
I have one on my shelf but it's more of a decoration as the moment. I really need to get it RGB modded, maybe some sort of controller extension mod as well.
Why do you keep going on about the game bit driver being "annoying"? You have one, so how is it different than using any other screw driver? I have a full driver set, so when i'm taking a console apart, i just use whatever driver is required and don't give it another thought. Otherwise, i really enjoy these videos. Cheers!
@@DylLit - When i'm taking stuff apart, i'm switching between tools all the time-- what difference does the type of tool make, and how is that annoying? And these days, these driver bits are available on Amazon super cheap. For someone who takes stuff apart as much as Spawnwave does, and who has all the appropriate tools, i just don't see how it could be so annoying that you complain about it every time.
Famicom is not a weird console to me as in Malaysia and most South East Asian Country in the late 80s and early 90s, Famicom are sell everywhere like hot cake. The NES is very hard to find back then to be honest in my country generally. Showing this Famicom really bring a lot of nostalgic moment when i still a kid.
He should've got the AV famicom, has AV built in and detachable controllers, too bad it wasn't at toomanygames probably otherwise he would've bought it
I have about 30 famicoms. Channel 1 is 95 and Channel 2 96 on U.S. televisions. Tv's channel frequencies vary though so some TV's have lots more interference than others. You need to use a nice shielded subwoofer cable (shorter the better) and the Coaxial to RCA adapter and actually you can get a great picture that way. If their is buzz it's generally the mic on controller 2. Simply take the controller apart and use metal polish to polish the slider contact and use rubbing alcohol to clean the board it slides around. If the black electro coating material is worn off simply use a pencil to remark it thick and use a toothpick to bend the little slider springs out for better contact.
I had a famicom growing up never knowing it was a Japanese version of the NES, my brother had the NES and I was pissed thinking it was some bootleg console lolol
They released these in 2012 because they saw Wii U failing, and weren't ready to release Switch yet (why that didn't launch until 2013), so this was a measure to fill in the void that Wii U left due to being a commercial failure, only selling 135,600 systems worldwide in its lifetime.
It's important to remember when the Famicom was released. In 1983 RF was really the only way to hook up a video game system (or VCR for that matter) on the majority of televisions at the time. A few systems at that time period had their controllers hardwired. Probably the most prominent of them was Mattel's Intellivision. Although they did release a revision that had detachable controllers in the latter half of 1983.
It may seem curious for US people, but here in Argentina famicoms and its knock-offs were the standard back then. Almost no one bought the NES as it was way too expensive and cardriges barely available. On the other hand, most japanese games were quite easy to find. I still have a couple of Dragon Ball RPG games and a collection of Kunio-kun games (yes, we were used to menuing and copying passwords in japanese °_°).
this is exactly the same as in the middle east, I remember seen the US NES in a gaming store and it was just too darn expensive, it was hocked to one of the TV running Super Mario World in demo mode, I told they guy working on the store what's the difference between the Famicom and the NES as both play the same games but the NES is far more expensive? and he replied that the NES is more powerful lol! only the rich kids in the block used to have the NES back then 😂
Boo for an incomplete boxed system. It should be mentioned that the RF adapter is from a US NES. The real Japanese RF adapter is a screw type UF adapter. where you needed to use a screwdriver to connect it to your tv. Also, keep in mind that the Japanese analog NTSC system differs from the US system such that RF signals from the Famicom channel 2 or 3 correspond to North American analog channels 95 and 96. Not all TVs are even capable of tuning into channel 95 and 96, so check before you get a Famicom or else you'll need to also get a new tv.
Damn! Sounds like something my folks would have done! Lol! And Lord forbid if it somehow broke while being applied to that ass! Would have been even worse!
I always foun it ironic that Nintendo fed the controller wires through the back of the console, but they plug in up front, effectively losing about two feet of overall cable length on cables that are entirely too short. Why not just have those grommets feed through the front? Such a superior design over the ugly top loader they gave us here.
@@SumDumGy of course. But that's what they chose to roll with. Reminds me of dumb automotive designs like needing to drop the transmission because one bolt can't be reached to change a timing belt.
