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What ever happened to these things? I used to see people at the mall sell them all the time, especially the penguin one, but they all disappeared now for some reason. I realize the build quality on them is atrocious, but I kinda wanted one just to have something cheap to plug into the TV and play Balloon Fight on.

Also, how come a variant with SNES games on it has never been made? Surely technology has advanced far enough by nowfor them to make cheap SOAC chips that can support playing SNES games?

>> No.1725909

>>1725848
that controller looks like ass

>> No.1725914

>>1725909
OP you should just get a good controller for PC and emulate and use an HDMI output to connect to an HD TV

google for "ps3 or 360 fight pad with microswitches"
its what I use for emulation

>> No.1725915

>>1725909
Wait till you play with it, it's the definition of bootleg

>> No.1725936

>>1725915
But it promises super joy!

>> No.1725950
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1725950

>>1725914
That involves either me unplugging my computer from the wall and hauling it all the way to where the TV is every time I want to play games on the TV, or building a separate computer "hobo-build" specifically for emulation. I'm specifically looking to be able to play old games on my TV, I already have picrelated for playing games on the computer.

>> No.1725953
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1725953

I have about four of them. I pick them up whenever I see them for $3 or whatever at a thrift store purely because of the Famicom multicart PCB that's almost always stuck in them. So far all of them are different, but some of them don't have real pirated games on them.

The controller is pretty much shit it's true. The ones where the "analog stick" works are a little better but sometimes it's just glued in there and not attached to anything.

Worst case scenario even if the multicart wasn't worth it is that they're a NOAC PCB that can be reworked into a little Famiclone project like pic related.

>> No.1725959

>>1725953
Can you actually somehow change the games that are on the console? A lot of the ones come with some game mislabeled as "Burgertime", I was thinking that if I end up getting a bootleg NOAC console I'd put actual Burgertime on it

>> No.1725970
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1725970

Oh, also the reason you don't see them sold everywhere anymore is because the FCC made an example out of some dudes and it got the message across to other smelly persians.

>> No.1725982
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1725982

>>1725959
Oh yeah absolutely. Every one I've ever seen has a Famicom slot in it someplace with a bare multicart PCB plugged into it, then usually hidden under a screwed or glued-in cover, sometimes not even. Some of the multicarts are actually in weird little plastic cases but they're always accessible without even taking the thing apart.

>> No.1725990

>>1725982
I think this is one of the wireless ones that just broadcasts on a VHF frequency, in total disregard for US law. All of mine have super shitty battery doors if they even take batteries and that one looks like it has a decent battery pack too. I'd like to find one like that one.

>> No.1725997
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1725997

>>1725970
>Israel

On a side note, I think it's absolutely disgusting how things like this are handled in the states. Instead of trying to get to the bottom of who has been making these things, they instead hunt down just one distributor, give him some crippling fine that they know no one can pay, and try to use his destroyed life to scare off other distributors that are probably much more smarter about it than the guy that they caught.

I did a quick dive into DuckDuckGo, the earliest article I found about this guy was from 2006, and I know for a fact they were still making these at least four years ago because they were still selling the penguin one at the local mall in one of the kiosks, so there must've been some other reason as well...

>> No.1726034

>>1725997
Well the FCC and FTC don't have jurisdiction outside the states so it's something that they can do. They can't exactly declare war on the manufacturers and hit them with cruise missiles.

>> No.1726050

>>1725970
I remember seeing these ads in old game magazines
you would think with those hundreds of thousands they could've made it look a little better

>> No.1726061
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1726061

>>1726034
Can too!

Well... my example applies to software instead of hardware, and in the case of Megaupload it was the other way around (the producer was charged instead of distributors, despite the distributors being truly at fault here since Dotcom wasn't in charge of what was uploaded to his site, technically speaking), but I think it's still a valid comparison.

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1726083

>>1726061
Those MegaUpload guys were in an Alliance of Awesome country though. The Dudes making this shit reside in Gooksylvania.

>> No.1726120

>>1725848
I think it was a case of Nintendo actually pursuing the vendors who were selling them as well as the source where the vendors got'em from.

>> No.1726179

My MKE bros will surely recognize this kind of thing from 7 mile fair.

There's a lot of NES clones floating around there, and I played with that exact thing.

Basically, a hueg flea market. There's at least 8 or 9 places with quite a bit of old game stuff, and a lot of them are just hispanic moms that have like 40 games for the same price, which makes it a goldmine for less serious collectors like myself.

>> No.1727203

>>1725909
pretty sure you ca plug in an external db-9 controller instead.

>> No.1727220
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1727220

Why don't they just make a Nes on a chip that plays games off of an micro SD card? maybe designed to look like pic related?

>> No.1727319

>>1727203
You can... for P2

>>1727220
Because someone would have to author an SD loader program and emulate a bunch of mappers. Just buy an Everdrive N8.

>> No.1727373

>>1725848
Just go thrifting op i see lots of plug and plays and famiclones

>> No.1727379

>>1725953
Is that really real? How hard are those to make?

>> No.1727396

>>1725997
It's pretty much the same as the war on drugs

>> No.1727404

>>1727379
Yes it's real. He just soldered up the connections. Not too hard if you can solder and know a little about electronics. If I were making one I'd probably use a CRT but then it wouldn't fit in a retro tabletop case like that one.

>> No.1727737

>>1725953
ben heckendorn is a complete asshole btw

>> No.1727931

>>1725848
I'm guessing there's less and less people that can't afford "real" consoles nowadays. Bare in mind that bootleg consoles started production in china and korea while the famicom era was in full swing. They made hardware clones at first, but now the noac is the cheapest thing to produce, it wouldn't make sense for them to make snes clones as well.
Famiclones are still made to this day, though. You can find them in Brazil, Russia, China, Korea and some european countries.

>> No.1728842

>>1727404
I can solder, but I'm retarded with electronics like that.