Twin Famicom & Other Odd Hardware Variants

[Anonymous No.1657696]

TL;DR: I want high res pictures of the insides of a Sharp Twin Famicom. Also discuss other odd hardware variants.
I'm wanting to basically make my own version of the Sharp Twin Famicom, but with a third switch position for NES games. When in either NES or Famicom mode only the corresponding cart connector will be exposed, and when in FDS mode both cart connectors will be blocked.
I want to take a take a good look at the Twin Famicom PCBs so I can have the best starting point for my own PCBs. However my google-fu is not up to the task. If you have high resolution pictures of a Twin Famicom's PCBs, or don't mind taking the pictures yourself if you own the console, I'd appreciate you posting them.
I also think it could be neat to talk about other interesting hardware variants in this thread. Are there any hardware variants you really like?

[Anonymous No.1657704]

>>1657696
the weirder one is the Sharp Titler. It can do video editing, which I think could do stuff like overlay editing onto game footage. Sounds handy for reviewers or TV shows.

[Anonymous No.1657776]

>>1657704
Yeah, that thing is pretty strange. Something interesting about the Sharp Famicom is that there's a version (it's in my OP) with a turbo function for the A & B buttons, making this I think the only officially licensed Nintendo product with a turbo function.

[Anonymous No.1657951]

No help yet, but that's cool, I'll just share another interesting hardware variant. The Sega TeraDrive was designed by Sega and Manufactured by IBM and was essentially a 16-bit PC smashed together with a MegaDrive. Among other things it shipped with DOS, and the PC and MegaDrive were integrated in such a way that you can write or modify games on the PC side and then run them on the MegaDrive, making it a kind of SDK for consumers.

[Anonymous No.1657956]

>>1657951
Now that's way past cool. You know what else is cool? The Panasonic Gamecube that can play DVDs and baller as hell.

[Anonymous No.1657959]

>>1657956
That is a cool hardware variant, but I'm trying to keep it /vr/.

[Anonymous No.1657967]

>>1657959
Oh right, that's not /vr/ enough. There was that one huge sega saturn sound system thing that sounded a little difficult to set up, but seemed like it would be really cool if a person could get it working. Can't the remember the company that produced it, though.

[Anonymous No.1658006]

>>1657967
Sounds neat, do you any more information to go on than that, because I have nothing to do a search on really.

[Anonymous No.1658035]

>>1657967
I think you mean the SKC-1000.

It's neat but it's difficult to find for numerous reasons:
- japan only
- not exactly a retail unit but something sold for karaoke clubs
- original price was over 1 million yen
- weighs something like 20 kilos, so shipping price is insane

Also they boot from a SCSI hard disk, if the drives die the machine can't boot, and they die very often from what I've seen. (granted, not many hard drives can survive 19 years of usage in a club full of smokers)

[Anonymous No.1658171]

>>1658035
you spend that much money on a rare machine and stretch the shit out of the image, what kind of hipster pleb are you?

[Anonymous No.1659862]

I'm surprised there aren't more people at least talking about hardware variants.

The Playstation Net Yaroze is also cool. It was a fully featured SDK marketed towards computer hobbyists in Japan. The console itself had debugging features and no region lock. Programs were written and compiled on a PC and then sent over the serial port to the console. 7 However the Net Yaroze didn't have all the features of the official SDK. It was missing advanced hardware debugging, some software and certain libraries. The amount of RAM present is the same as in the regular Playstation (2MB), but code, run-time libraries, graphics and audio samples were limited to fit in the RAM since Sony didn't want people to be able to use the Net Yaroze to run burned copies of games, which is another limitation the official SDK does not have.

[Anonymous No.1660712]

Well I guess all I really need to know at this point is how the hardware switches between Famicom mode and Disk System mode. Is it just multiplexers on the cart pins or what?

[Anonymous No.1660859]

>>1657776
Hate to burst your bubble, but...

[Anonymous No.1661086]

>>1660859
Derp, I don't know how I forgot the Advantage.

[Anonymous No.1661113]

>>1658035
Dude is that Panasonic a Plasma? How is it for video games? Isn't the input lag even less bearable than the lag on LCDs?

[WKZworks No.1662363]

Let's make a picture thread!

Sharp Famicom Tilter AN-510

[WKZworks No.1662367]

Sharp 68000

[Anonymous No.1662374]

>>1660712
When you put a disk in, it locks shut the cartridge door. When you put a cartridge in, the disk door is locked.

[WKZworks No.1662375]

Aaronix Famicom AX-9900

[WKZworks No.1662387]

Sega PAC

[WKZworks No.1662390]

Bandai/Apple Pippin

[WKZworks No.1662393]

Panasonic 3DO FZ-10

[WKZworks No.1662403]

>>1657956
Panasonic Q Multimedia Console

[WKZworks No.1662430]

ROK-market Samsung Gam*Boy (not really rare, but neat.)

[Anonymous No.1662435]

Sharp SF1
Pretty much what it looks like

[Anonymous No.1662437]

>>1662435

[Anonymous No.1662443]

>>1657776
and

[WKZworks No.1662486]

Hitachi Hi Saturn MMP-1000NV

http://guidesat.free.fr/hardware/hisaturn.htm

[WKZworks No.1662491]

>>1662486
sharper picture

[WKZworks No.1662507]

SunSeibu SGX HSG-0007

"modified Saturn in a steel enclosure hooked up to a coin operated mechanism and a 7 disc CD-ROM changer.
It was manufactured primarily for use in Japanese hotels although a few entrepreneurial types installed them in arcades."

[WKZworks No.1662518]

>>1662507
guts

[Anonymous No.1663090]

>>1662374
Actually the locking mechanism is the switch above the eject lever that also toggles the system mode between Famicom and Disk System. You can't put a disk in if it's in Famicom mode and you can't put a cart in if it's in FDS mode.
I'm refering to how the electronics switch between using the regular cart slot and the FDS RAM "cart".

[Anonymous No.1663149]

>>1658171
>you spend that much money on a rare machine and stretch the shit out of the image, what kind of hipster pleb are you?

I was in the process of repairing the machine and just gotten to the point where I got it to boot games.

>>1661113
>Dude is that Panasonic a Plasma? How is it for video games? Isn't the input lag even less bearable than the lag on LCDs?

I honestly can't tell if it has any lag or not. I can 1cc Keio Flying Squadron on hard mode on this TV, and I have it set to Cinema mode (not Game) pretty much always.

The internal upscaler leave a lot to be desired though. But, one day, I'll get an xrgb.

[Anonymous No.1663156]

>>1662491
>>1662507
I wish someone made a full hardware breakdown on these. Especially the Navi. That and the SKC-1000C are the only fully unique Saturn boards I know of. Everything else just used slightly stock motherboards, even the SGX.

[Anonymous No.1663162]

>>1662375
it looks like a genesis lol

[Anonymous No.1665158]

Hey OP, still want pics of the twins innards? I have one just like in your pic I can take apart.
>pic related, but old. It's from when I bought it.

[Anonymous No.1665195]

>>1663162
genesis? controllers scream pc engine and the buttons on it scream master system.

>no start select
>no mic
worst. famicom. clone. ever.

[WKZworks No.1665762]

Sega Multi Mega (AKA CDX)

[WKZworks No.1665770]

Sega Mega Jet

[WKZworks No.1665779]

Wondermega

[WKZworks No.1665785]

Sony PlayStation/Super Famicom (unreleased, obviously)

[WKZworks No.1665787]

JVC X'Eye

[WKZworks No.1665797]

NEC Super PC engine

[WKZworks No.1665810]

NEC Duo-R

[WKZworks No.1665826]

Not really rare, but forgotten. The NEC PC-FX...

[Anonymous No.1665830]

Dreamcast CHOMP special extra secret version 1.2XABBA

[WKZworks No.1665832]

NEC PC 8801

[Anonymous No.1665837]

>>1665826
Sorry for possibly derailing the thread, but is there an emulator for this?

[Anonymous No.1665838]

>>1665797
Super Grafx

[WKZworks No.1665839]

>>1665830
Dreamcast R7 First print edition (200 made)

[Anonymous No.1665841]

>>1665837
Mednafen.

[WKZworks No.1665842]

Dreamcast Divers 2000 CX-1

>>1665837
Dunno.

[WKZworks No.1665861]

Nintendo Dolphin/Gamecube Devkit

[WKZworks No.1665864]

>>1665861
Sega Pluto (unreleased)

[WKZworks No.1665868]

...and of course, the ultra-rare and greatly lusted after Mnt Dew and Doritos soup.

[Anonymous No.1665879]

This has been posted in my local craigslist. I wish I had the cash, looks pretty neat.

http://dayton.craigslist.org/vgm/4481735896.html

[Anonymous No.1665893]

>>1665864
>pluto
Huh? I know about neptune, but I never heard of this one. By the way it still says Saturn on the case.

[Anonymous No.1665898]

>>1662486
>>1662491

Holy shit, that is fucking amazing.

[Anonymous No.1665910]

>>1665879
I've always wondered how the video quality is on these things. In theory, could it have straight-up RGB for the NES since it's directly embedded into the television?

[WKZworks No.1665912]

>>1665893
It was basically a Saturn with an internal modem. "Pluto" was just an internal codename for it at Sega of America. I think that particular console was just a gutless mockup. If anything, it might have been something like the CDX was compared to the Wondermega. Probably Navi Saturn in a smaller case, if I had to guess. I dunno why it would need a GPS, though.

Slightly off topic, but I think the main idea for the Navi Saturn (Hitachi Hi Saturn MMP-100NV) was just something for the Bippu/Vanning/Trucking zoku car subcultures famous for hanging around Japan's PA's at night.

[Anonymous No.1665913]

Treamcast up in this

[Anonymous No.1665928]

also PC-engine LT

[KyaDash !kDashing02 No.1665960]

>>1665910
I doubt that it would have a PPU capable of doing that. It's likely just composite.

[Anonymous No.1666029]

>>1657951
the keyboard looks like a model M too