/vr/ - Retro Games

>third world general
Yikes.

>>5777452
I think /vr/ is majority third world/eurofag.

>>5777493
for about half the day it is
just like /sp/

>>5777436
There were famiclones even when the NES was as current gen console. I liked one named NASA, it had slots for both NES and Famicom cartridges.

Whenever I see people talking about these bootleg consoles they always seem to be Brazilian.

>>5777616
I'm from Mexico

>>5777616
Only if it's a Master System.

I grew up in America with a Nintendo Entertainment System™ compatible with Nintendo Game Paks™ bearing the official Nintendo® Seal of Quality.

But I did watch the Dendy Chronicles on youtube, so I can pretend.

>>5777616
>>5777624
>>5777626
There's very little point in trying to distinguish between one shithole from another.

>>5777639
Fair point.

>>5777631
My god he's greasy..

My aunt gave me an NES clone shaped like penguin that came with a Famicom styled multicart that had like 100 NES games on it. It was sick.

>>5777436
I remember having an N64 controller that hooked up to the TV and had over 9000 games on it. I only remember playing Super Mario and Circus Charlie. Fuck Circus Charlie.

>>5777698
The evil penguin Famiclone is a beloved one because the red light eyes. /vr/ used to have quite enjoyable Famiclone threads. There's an awesome racecar one and everybody used to live keyboard ones with expanded functions but back then it was largely ironic or we actually appreciated and had an interest in the contributions of our third world anons. Now they just seem like a plague, it's sad.

>>5777712
What happened?

>>5778010
Their population reached a tipping point where they became emboldened

I had a Polystation with Circus Charlie and that pink submarine game

I have a Polygame Master but all my carts are original

>>5777436
No, we had a PC.

>>5777436
although I had a real NES as a kid from my brothers, I still ended up getting one of those Power Joy N64 controller looking things
really wished I had some FC carts to use on that back slot when I had it

I did play a fuckton of Contra, SMB1, F-1, and Sky Destroyer on it. Good fun.
Didn't know that the last two were never released on NES in the west, only on FC.
The AC adapter broke (overheated IIRC) when I was visiting family in Trinidad, so we ended up using batteries.
When the batteries ran low, the colors would go crazy. The color RAM would get corrupted or some shit. Played a fuckton of the last level of Contra like that with my cousins because it looked cool as hell.

russian /vr/ had it rough.

>>5777710
Circus Charlie is a good game once you get good at it.

>>5777436
i had something like this when i was a kid

>>5777616
I might be wrong, but I think it was due to the flux of products, China > Paraguay > Brazil. They were cheap, we were poor, what could we do? The games are most likely the same, so glad I had one and engaged in retro world.

bumpo

>>5778010
Personally, I blame the elections, it brought a ton of undesirable redditors into 4chan.

super pegasus crew reporting in

I remember early Famiclone threads on /vr/ back in the day being quite chill. What the hell happened?
I mean, if you guys want to spice it up, there were also Genesis clones. Dunno if there was any Super Famiclone tho...

>>5777436
This was my first console, actually. If I am not mistaken my mom bought it for me around 2002. It was hard to get games where I lived anyways, then I got a used SNES and PSX.

Any good, cheap famiclones that aren't emulation boxes or NOAC garbage?

>>5777616
Im from... Ohio. I would see these all the time at the mall and then eventually Wal-Mart.

>>5778010
I lost my anal virginity.

>>5782532
Early revisions of Pegasus, but that's PAL stuff. I can't believe I could play in 50Hz back then, I'd rather cut myself doing so nowadays.

I grew up playing on these.
The consoles broke often but they were cheap to replace.
Connected via RF on a small black and white TV.
Many years of fun were had on them.
I'm actually considering buying one again purely out of nostalgia.

>>5783381
„Terminator“ famiclone was my first gaming console. I still have it but it's not working anymore. I have another clone and lots of bootleg cartridges.

>>5777710
You mean this thing? I grew up with the same thing. I still have the box and the second controller (which is for some reason based on a PS1 controller...)

>>5783948
>those fingernails

>>5783948
the fuck cunt

>>5783381
Can you play Famicon or NES cartridges on it? Or does it only supporting these bootleg ones?

>>5777710
It's the one on the right. I had that one too.

>>5784024
I never had original ones, but I read in a thread a while ago that you can play original cartridges on it, tho I wouldn't recommend it.

>>5783948
those fingernails

>>5784069
Why not? It's essentially an NES

>>5784568
I don't know man, some anon said it and I didn't bother to verify his claims but I wanted to say it too just in case.

>>5784626
>has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like

>>5785538
What I said definetly doesn't sound like that.

>>5784024
You can play real carts on most Famiclones, they almost always have 60 pin Famicom connectors, unless they were built for the US market. They work fine, some more advanced games may not work if the NOAC is of a shitty variety.

>>5777452
>Jewish person
get the fuck out

I remember in the 2000s, malls in the states used to sell these particular famiclones. I think it had to do with the fact that Nintendo's patent on the NES expired and were legal to be freely sold in developed countries, not to mention a lot of 'legal', famiclones are rather polished looking, such as the "Famulator". Shame that most famiclones are the shitty NOAC ones and not accurate hardware clones.

>>5785731
Close enough. Lurk moar. Zoom less.

>>5786012
Lurk for what? You think I don't know that old meme post?
Stop assuming shit and play some games.

>>5777436
>zoomers
The best Famiclones are from the early 90s though.

>>5785914
The guy who flooded the market with this things got raked over the coals lol.

Years ago my parents bought cheap dvd player with famiclone built in. Instead of cartridge slot you had to insert cd with roms. It was well in Windows xp era so I've used it once just for curiosity. Company that made made it does not even mention this product on webpage.

>>5786189
I've heard of these things and am always looking twice at ching chongy ass dvd players in thrift stores for pairs of 9 pin ports but I never see them

Did anyone have a "SuperJoy"? It was a controller that plugged right into the TV, and you could plug in another controller (without the integrated system) into it for player 2. Came with the usual 600 or so games in one. It was black I think. Mom bought it for me at a flea market/swap meet cause she knew I liked old games. I broke it one day because I got up too fast and ripped the power cable out of it, fucking cried for a good few minutes

This was years before I learned of emulation. But hey I got to play on our big CRT

>>5786352
>>5785914
Oh fuck me that was it

>>5777436
Had a famiclone with slanted front like in this picture, but I don't remember it having any inscription. Of course at that time nobody knew better and just called them "Nintendo", which could play "Nintendo Cassettes".

>>5786413
also it played NES-sized cartridges, and they came in boxes like this, though we didn't know (and didn't really care) what the hell "SPICA" was

>>5786026
>i'm totally not an underage ESL shitposter
I totally believe you
>let me try really really hard to convince anyone
lol, kek, etc. wew lad

>>5786505
Then believe whatever makes you happy.

>>5786725
Spoken like the underage ESL zoomer that you are.
cringe

>>5786731
Do you have autism?

>>5787864
Nope. But i have a bad case of underage summer zoomers infesting the board

>>5786040
This is the one I have. I never had the really popular titles, that kind of sucked. And my gamepads were really worn out and hurt my thumbs when I pressed down on the buttons. I'm thankful I can emulate NES games using my DualShock 3.

I'm lucky just cause i got what i asked for, a PLAYstation 1 for Christmas. Not the same happened to a bunch of other brazillians though.

>>5786040
My uncle had a 90s famiclone called aaronix, that thing was tough as fuck.

>>5786413
Ooh, this is an interesting clone. How did the cartridge loading mechanism work, did it work similarly to the NES'?

>>5788156

You keep going on about zoomer this, reddit that and yet you are the most inmature faggot in every single thread. Just kys already.

>>5790468
What a fine looking design for a clone console, vibes of the model 1 Genesis.

>>5777436
I never got anything like a Famiclone with a 10,000-in-1 cart or anything like that. I had one with strictly custom games on it. The controller had a steering wheel in the center of it. I think it ran on NES hardware, I know it was made in the early 2000s.

It had an overhead kart game where you jumped over ramps and collected money bags, a whack-a-mole game, a fishing game copied from Panic Restaurant, a single screen platformer with an orange Kirby lookalike with blue shoes who spat pellets and collected keys, a mini-game compilation starring a blue and a pink penguin, and a ton more that I forgot about.

>>5786189
FUUUUUUCK THAT NOSTALGIA, I BEAT MEGAMAN ON THIS SHIT IN MY AUNT HOUSE

>>5790650
You keep being a zoomer redditor in every single thread because there's only one summerfag amirite

>>5786189
Yeah, I remember this one, I only liked the fact that it had a bunch of games on the CDs, mostly were japanese versions tough.

>>5786040
Indeed.
Those were sold as 'the real thing' among us gullible third worlders.

Don't know if it's popular here but if you've seen "dendy chronicles" on youtube, it was pretty much the same, but with these clones instead.

t. 3rd world /fit/izen

>>5782532
Old TXC/Micro Genius stuff, preferably before the mid '90s.

>>5790640
Yeah, it's the same. Insert it and "lock" it down, closing the lid optional. Except in my case often you needed to push the cart just barely (not all the way in) in order to be read correctly, otherwise white screen.

>>5777436
Right here. Auntie bought one just like this at the flea market. The light gun died right away and the second controller died soon after.

>>5777686
He also has no shoulders

>>5782554
bootlegs in mexico only became common in the early 2000s with the Chinese games in a N64 knockoff controller.

We have official Nintendo distributors here.

>>5777710
those were the first one that appear here in mexico.

>>5792504
I meant to reply to this guy >>5777624, but yeah, I rarely went to flea markets when I was younger, and I remember the last game I bought on one for a long time was, embarrassingly enough, Back to the Future 2&3 on NES, yes I didn't knew any better.

But I almost sure never saw bootlegs until the 2000s.

>>5791482
I wonder if the pin connector is interchangeable with the NES one. I am really interested in the NES shaped clones, too bad most of them are in the farthest reaches of the world.

Here's mine, I don't use it anymore since it died.

>>5793453
The box

serb born in 91 reporting in, I grew up on this shit

still have a working one from 1992, it was called "gamega" and has a ton of 8bit games on it, mostly nintendo ones. my kids are now playing with it.

bamp

I'm from Hungary and I had one that looked like an SNES and had the beach menu playing Unchained Melody. It came with a Zapper, too; that was fun.

Funnily enough it didn't play Japanese cartridges, it was a 72 pin.

>>5793453 again
Around the same time, I had a friend in church who had this thing. It had pretty decent build quality and it came with a pretty nice selection of classic games like Pac-Man, Mappy, TwinBee, Xevious, and shit like that.

>>5800878
The box

>>5800252
>I'm from Hungary and I had one that looked like an SNES and had the beach menu playing Unchained Melody.
Do you know if that music track is somewhere online?

>>5800884
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=TFzSAx_vqrQ

>>5800882
>Battle City
of course

>>5800953
comfy as fuck

>>5777631
I thought that my Dendy was 100% pure american-made.
BTW, how did you get interested in Dendy Chronicles?

>>5801018
Dendy was very much not American made; I'm not that guy but I learned about that dude's channel from /vr/.

>>5791384
Did you miss the part where he said cheap or did you miss the part where they sell for more than actual famicoms these days?

>>5800252
I had that same console, mine was called the "Super Megason IV" and looked like pic related.

>>5801001
This little story is so charming.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgNk3gSJte4

I had one of those SNES looking famiclones with 255 games, which were really just 30 or 40 or so with different starting levels or powerups. Adventure Island was totally different when you started with full powerups on each life. It had Tengen Tetris too, which is still what I consider the original. It's the one with the dancing Russians:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yY4xJ1tcAEE

I lost that unit over the years, but luckily I managed to track down one of the same last year. It's weird that I'm hunting down bootleg consoles and carts, they are super rare to come by, and have more value to me than a €400 copy of Panzer Dragoon Saga due to the nostalgia.
I took it apart for dumping but still haven't put it together... the RCA connectors rusted away and barely make contact, so I have to change those, and the poor "ribbon" cable holding the connectors broke to pieces. Haven't had neither the time or the spare money to repair it really.

>>5777710
Circus Charlie was awesome. Fuck you.

>>5777712
oh, I remember that.

>>5802264
another Hungarian here, I had one like that too, but the controllers had shittier d-pads. The turbo A/B were really helpful though.

The machine had a 72-pin cart connector and did not run the yellow cart bootlegs which were really common over here. Internally, it had the built-in games on an actual cartridge, a 60-pin one, soldered on to ribbon cables to a 60-pin cart slot pinout on the motherboard.

Making it have both cart slots available could be a fun project, but it's a PAL machine and I don't really give a shit about any NES games beyond playing the ones on this for nostalgia.

>>5801018
I'm not sure how I ended up watching Dendy Chronicles. Might have been a youtube automated suggestion.

>>5777616
the one in OP's pic was a huge meme in brazil and a bunch of clueless parents ended up buying this trash.

>>5777493
They come here to learn about games they can actually play, 5th-6th gen

>>5803382
What kind of sperg posture is this? ALS?