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| HyperHacker Posts: 854/5072 |
How much it's worth depends who you sell it to. The local secondhand stores want $60 for one with no games, controllers, or in some cases even cords... but I picked up one still in the box with all original wrapping for $20 out of town.  |
| Yoronosuku Posts: 156/1239 |
Mmmhm! They were in alot of games, actualy. I don't remember all of them, as I've always used Gyromite for my connector needs (I'm not kidding, I bought at least 5 Gyromite games for about 12 dollars at this one yard sale years ago just for that  ) |
| Cynthia Posts: 1048/5814 |
Those were in old NES games, Yoro.  Basically they needed to manufacture a lot of games for the NES launch so to save time, they used Famicom converters and put them in games that were to be released in North America.
If your cart seems heavier than most, then odds are the converter's in it and can be taken out if you're in need of it. |
| drjayphd Posts: 177/1170 |
Originally posted by Yoronosuku Yeah, mine has the port too. It isn't even covered up or anything. I thought I saw someone pointing out that it could but the people selling it didn't know or didn't want to believe it.  |
| Koitenshin +∞ Posts: 223/873 |
Yeah sorry about the table stretching, I just don't like how ebay has to use such long urls. But I think I read somewhere about smashing one of their games and doing that with the converter, might that have been your site?  |
| Yoronosuku Posts: 154/1239 |
I own one of those pirate systems...in the N64 controller. You know, with a little bit of elbow grease (just some rewiring and soldering), you can make it run Japanese Famicom games. From the cartridge! You know in certain NES games, they have converters, which take the Japanese game board and make it so it works in an NES cartridge slot? Gyromite is one I always used. Well it is really a makeshift Famicom cartridge connector my next goal with this "toy" is to figure out a way to add on support for an actual controller. If I can disable built in controlls and make my own circuit to an original controll port...a pseudo-portable Famicom, anyone? ^^;
Edit: Oh, and, Matt! If you don't own an NES, don't sell that!! Keep it  there are so many great games for it that you can play. And the games are cheap, too! You just need to look in the right place.
Edit edit: Who streched the tables? |
| Cynthia Posts: 1037/5814 |
Usually those systems/"controller systems" only have 30-40 unique games on them, and they usually have very similar lineups to pirate carts.
You can always count on those to have games like Battle City, Mario Bros., SMB, Contra, Star Force and other small games like that loaded in. |
| drjayphd Posts: 167/1170 |
Originally posted by NSNickOriginally posted by RPG Eater Those places were the only good thing about working at Yankee Candle two years ago. Pop in there during lunch, play some Contra, go back to slingin' candles. Coincidentally, Contra was the ONLY good game on those. That's why you look for 'em at thrift stores; got mine for $3. |
| NSNick Posts: 381/2228 |
Originally posted by RPG Eater They've been around the past few years. I remember seeing them in mall gondolas. Actually, the ones I saw were even cheaper. They didn't take carts, they just had like 200 or 6000 or however many games hardwired in. The controllers also looked amazingly like shitty N64 controllers. And I think like 80% of the games were SMB clones. |
| Xeruss Posts: 98/309 |
Wow that NES shown was awesome, but the controllers looked more like SNES than NES, anyway the NES you're talking of probly will go for $40 - $50.
Offtopic: I got my NES free when I was 5! |
| Tatrion Posts: 360/2467 |
Gah, this reminds me of a crooked video-game store where I bought a NES from. They sold me the dang thing for 50$, only when I got home, it didn't work. So when I took it back, they said they'd repair it for 20more dollars  The crooks... needless to say, I never went there again. I ended up giving that NES to one of my friends. 50 bucks down the drain
On topic, I've also never heard of those illegal pirate NESes. How recent are they? |
| Cynthia Posts: 1032/5814 |
So much for people actually reading my post. I have even less hope for people now.
I would suggest you tone down remarks like that around here. And I've seen illegal NES units sold on SHOPPING CHANNELS around here... they vanished pretty quickly though. |
| Zem Posts: 421/1097 |
Your previous post did not say "they make now"
Apparently you were actually referring to some cheap knock-off they make now which nobody has ever heard of and then you pointed out that people would rather buy an official nintendo than one of those so when you said "one of those ugly piece of shit unofficial toploaders" it was natural to assume you were talking about the toploaders everyone knows about, not some random thing nobody knows about basically, you need to l2p |
| Koitenshin +∞ Posts: 216/873 |
So much for people actually reading my post. I have even less hope for people now. I said unofficial meaning the ugly ass toploaders they make now. Here's a link so maybe you can understand just what it is I am talking about.
http://cgi.ebay.com/TOP-LOADER-NES-NINTENDO-SYSTEM-NEO-FAMI-FAMICOM-INDIGO_W0QQitemZ8251583824QQcategoryZ62054QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem Basically a pirated NES |
| Cynthia Posts: 1022/5814 |
That was when they positioned the NES as a budget system.
Ironically, they'd do something extremely similar with the SNES during its last days. Go figure. |
| NSNick Posts: 376/2228 |
The toploaders were made by Nintendo. They were the second model of the NES. |
| Koitenshin +∞ Posts: 213/873 |
Definitely go for ebay. You would not believe how much people will pay for an official Nintendo instead of one of those ugly piece of shit unofficial toploaders. |
| Cynthia Posts: 1009/5814 |
Mine's still in my garage and still works as far as I know.  
Then again, it's not like I could make much money off it... I know there was a pawn shop around here that bought NES units/games for $5/$1 each. No thank you. |
| Ziff Posts: 384/1800 |
You could sell it to me for 50 bucks. Mine broke this week  |
| drizzt do'urden Posts: 49/57 |
I would shove it in your closet for about another 5 years then sell it on Ebay 
You never know you could try Ebay now and proboboly get a good price for it |
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