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Nintendo Entertainment System
Models
Family Computer
ファミリーコンピュータ or ファミコン (Famicom)
Twin Famicom
Made my Sharp. Single unit incorporating Famicom and the disk drive. Have mono composite out.
Two main versions. Original has that nice curved bump on top, and no power light. Disk drives in these have no write restrictions, so are good if you want to write full games to disks. Revision has turbo-fire on the controllers.
Audio
All the NES waveforms are a bit wonky, but my favourite NES sound is the triangle wave. Nice bassy, airish, 'bah' sounds.
Video
- Why Is Your NES A TV Station? (That's Weird) - Video by Cathode Ray Dude on the NES's RF output.
Hacking
Playing ROMs
Flashcarts
- Everdrive - Expensive. Can do basically anything you'd want from a flashcart. Can do disk games too. Lots of iterations. Versions for NES and Famicom.
- PowerPak - Another FPGA cart, also plays FDS.
- KrzysioCart - Cheaper cart, less mapper support than Everdrives.
Disk
- FDSStick - popular, cheap little drive emulator that connects to a PC via USB. With some DIYing you can use it to write ROMs to disks too.
- Magic Wild Card
- FDSKey - Open-source hardware alternative to FDSStick.
Storage
Regular-sized Famicom carts are about the same size as an audio cassette, so racks and cases made to hold those are great for storage.
Trivia
- Diskun yellow is (CMYK) M30%, Y100%. So Hex #FFB300.
See Also
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