/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.7755974]

Does anyone else know about these things? Or have they only found their way into the eastern european hellhole I'm in? It had lots of yellow cartridge games which were mostly knockoffs of popular games, there was literally a game where Spiderman was green. I just can't make sense of the design, even 19 years later.

[Anonymous No.7755975]

>>7755974
Also this is how it came in the box, it even had a fucking duck hunt knockoff game as well.

[Anonymous No.7756005]

>>7755974
it looks like a piece of shit but cool find

[Anonymous No.7756938]

>>7755974
I have several GLKs and many other kb famiclones. They were fairly common in many 3rd world shitholes. I know a buttload about them. What do you want to know?

[Anonymous No.7756943]

>>7755974
I had a Commodore 64 when I was a kid, Turkish btw. I think they're more well known today in countries bordering or inside Ex-USSR

[Anonymous No.7757126]

God I would love one of these keyboard Famicoms. There's crappy 8-bit knockoff versions of Windows out there too, it would be pretty fun to try and use a Famicom as a productivity machine but even just having it to play bootleg carts on would be rad.

[Anonymous No.7757147]

>>7757126
You mean one of those famiclone laptops where the LCD is a label with a screen shot of a windows desktop?

[Anonymous No.7757190]

>>7756005
Yeah the controllers are insanely low quality, but it's quirky and had loads of games, so we thought this is the true world of videogaming back in 2002
>>7756938
Oh I was just wondering if anyone else had them. where did they even manufacture these things? I remember my parents buying it on the local market but I don't remember much about it, it was so long ago. And also please tell me, did the keyboard part even do anything?

[Anonymous No.7757843]

There were some typing games that would support the keyboard. I only saw a bunch of games shipped with the thing, never games you would buy separately.

They are just dandy on steroids (pegasus in Poland). I think they were manufactured mostly in China and Russia for the Asian and East Europe market. Oh the memories...

[Anonymous No.7757891]

Would actually be cool if it's compatible with cassette decks for saving and loading programs. I doubt it though.

Would be a fun project to mod a famicom or clone into a little 8-bit keyboard computer like the c64.

[Anonymous No.7757917]

>>7757843
There always were some foreign people selling these cartridges for a lot of money, after that people just kept lending these to each other to play. (thats how we got ours, someone lent them to us but somehow they just stayed with us)

[Anonymous No.7757941]

>>7757917
Yeah. In Poland they were all over the place in the late 90s. You could buy them in shops even. They would be mostly available in markets though.

[Anonymous No.7757992]

>>7757190
My friend had one of those. It's just a chinese clone of a Famicom with a keyboard controller. It could play both original famicom cartridges and pirate cartridges, but it also had a very simple version of BASIC (on a separate cartridge) and a couple of type learning "games".

[Anonymous No.7758020]

>>7757917
I have a box full of those at my parents attic
Thanks for reminding me to look for them when I get to visit them

[Anonymous No.7758238]

well kinda, theres a few near-exact things for sale right now on ebay. In russian. i think they're awesome, im trying to find the few made in spanish, but they are hard to find

< heres a pic i pulled from ebay sveral months ago

[Anonymous No.7758259]

>>7757941
Yeah the classic markets, still see them around sometimes.
>>7757992
So it plays originals as well? That's good to know.
>>7758020
No problem, I have this exact machine in the OP pic at my grandparents' house, I might just snatch it the next time I visit them.
>>7758238
They actually made mice for this? What the fuck

Pic rel is Super Battle Tank 1999, one of the cartridges I posted earlier

[Anonymous No.7758371]

>>7758259
>So it plays originals as well? That's good to know.
All famiclones played original famicom games, as far as I know. They never had any copy protection, unlike NES. It's just that we've never even seen an original famicom game back then.

[Anonymous No.7758397]

>>7757891
as far as i know, the keyboard in these clones actually work with family BASIC.

[Anonymous No.7758474]

>>7757190
>where did they even manufacture these things?
China. They were originally made by a company called Subor and even had TV ads with Jacky Chan. It was a ploy to make them look like educational computers instead of toys so parents would be more likely to buy them.

[Anonymous No.7759832]

I am a bit curious, any dumps exist for these games?

>>7756943
Merhaba, any game oddities unique to Turkey that I should keep an eye out for? I'm planning to travel to Istanbul in the fall.

[Anonymous No.7760395]

>>7757190
They were made in China. Mostly the mainland. The keyboard works and there are programs that use it. IIRC your model has a printer port but no floppy. Both of which are features available on other similar devices and actually work.

>>7757891
It's not but there are other models that have a floppy drive. Adding most famiclone features to a Nintendo machine is pretty easy. There are "standards" for these things. I made a printer interface that plugs into and passes through the famicon cartridge slot. The only active parts are an address decoder and a buffer. The floppy interface is only slightly more complicated. In theory you could get the enhanced graphics if you replaced the PPU.

>>7759832
These games are dumps. Literally steaming turds. Nonetheless I've archived everything I've come across. I must have hundreds of copies of that stupid Pikachu platformer.

[Anonymous No.7760652]

>>7755974
I've got one of those back then in the early 2000s. It's fine really and I even have those #-in-1 cartridges but it's basically just a NES knockoff which would bum me as a kid if I knew what a NES was.
The more I think about it, the more I'm baffled as to why they wouldn't add in certain games like Kirby and Punch Out (as far as I know anyway).

[Anonymous No.7760782]

>>7760652
Yeah well good thing we never had internet back then so we had no idea if NES even existed. I'll try to go to my grandparents' place and get the system with all the games, I think we had like 30+ cartridges for it.
>>7758474
>>7760395
Could've guessed it was the chinese, who else. Why would these even have a printer port?

[Anonymous No.7761317]

>>7760782
>Why would these even have a printer port?
To print stuff?
There were few utility programs on carts that were basically text editors, calculator, music making stuff, a fucking notice board, family BASIC compiler and other stuff.
You could use keyboard to write shit and then print it out.

[Anonymous No.7761336]

>>7761317
>To print stuff?
I mean... I just couldn't even imagine printing with these things, good to know.

[Anonymous No.7761370]

>>7761336
Many models had no printer port, but as >>7760395 posted its piss easy to mod in, direct connections to cart socket.
All in all, functionally its better than nothing, but its not some super state of the art stuff, just a bare-bones solution.
It makes me wonder tho just how many usefull utility programs were actually made.
With right cart, I could see such famiclone work as a legit computer for basic computer-related tasks.

[Anonymous No.7761405]

>>7761370
I see, thanks for the info. I wonder how it looks when it's used as an actual computer.

[Anonymous No.7761430]

>>7761405
Pretty bare bones I imagine, a tv, famiclone with a cart, printer and/or floppy drive plugged into it and thats it, not much else needed really.
Pads would see little use in standard computer operation I think.
Then again, if you have printer port, basic compiler and optionally floppy drive, you could write your own programs for other peripherals you could plug into printer port.

[Anonymous No.7761435]

>>7758238
ladies and gentlemen
the console of the future

[Anonymous No.7761439]

>>7760395
They do sound awful, but got a link?

[Anonymous No.7761452]

>>7760395
>that stupid Pikachu platformer.
I have this one, I think, and indeed, its stupid and boring and the single music playing on repeat can drive you insane.
I remember that if you paused the game, you could freely move the pikachu around and skip whole levels.

[Anonymous No.7761491]

>>7757147
there's also this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rM-89XIAxSs although i'm not sure if it was actually bundled with systems