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It is dead! My dear NES is dead! No matter how much or hard I blow, the result is still the same; a grey screen. Sometimes it blinks, but the games won't start. I think one of my friends killed it. He tried to play Track and Field 2 one day. I don't know what horrible thing he did to my machine but it has never worked since. Never again shall I play Ghostbusters 2 and Cobra Triangle. Not even Snake Rattle 'n Roll.

All I have left now... is memories. Like when I first finished Castlevania 3 after three years. And like when me and another friend played Simon's Quest before we took the bus to school when we were 10 years old. Or when I first finished Super Mario Bros. 2, and got to hear the wonderful ending lullaby and see that it was all just Mario's dream. I did it just before lunch, I remember that we had pancakes that day. I ate a lot because I was so proud of myself.

Good-bye, sweet NES. We've had much fun together...

Err, go to a flea market and pick up a new one. It's a shame that such an old one like that died, though.

My condolences. I know your pain. It is hard when old friend dies.

That is a shame. You might want to try to take a damp paper towel and clean out the port in your NES, my friends did that to mine once and it worked so much better after that. Make sure it's not too wet. Can't be good to get water down their. And unplug it.

I on the other hand have two working NES's plus a fair ammount of classic titles. Final Fantasy 1, Megaman 1,3,4,5,6, Master Blaster, Wizards and Warriors, Tetris.

I want River City Ransom. I just beat the rom, and damn that games great.

Although it's not the same thing as playing with the real thing, there are countless NES emulators out there in the net.

Damn, I remember renting Ghostbusters 2 for NES in 1991 or something. I really liked the game and wanted to buy it, but it was not available anywhere...

Playing an emulator CAN be just like the real thing.

As long as you're playing it on THIS

Dooey Jo wrote:

It is dead! My dear NES is dead! No matter how much or hard I blow, the result is still the same; a grey screen. Sometimes it blinks, but the games won't start. I think one of my friends killed it. He tried to play Track and Field 2 one day. I don't know what horrible thing he did to my machine but it has never worked since. Never again shall I play Ghostbusters 2 and Cobra Triangle. Not even Snake Rattle 'n Roll.

All I have left now... is memories. Like when I first finished Castlevania 3 after three years. And like when me and another friend played Simon's Quest before we took the bus to school when we were 10 years old. Or when I first finished Super Mario Bros. 2, and got to hear the wonderful ending lullaby and see that it was all just Mario's dream. I did it just before lunch, I remember that we had pancakes that day. I ate a lot because I was so proud of myself.

Good-bye, sweet NES. We've had much fun together...

I think we had several NES's over a period of 6 years, and I have to say it was the crappiest quality system, the games were good, but I remember the endless blowing (and actually you shouldn't do that, it gets saliva in it, like blowing in a mirror) and the red light flashing on and off, compare it to say a super nintendo or genesis, which for years will always play the game when you turn it on, no trouble at all, not for years, our SNES is almost dead now, but we got it christmas of 91. Not sure where the genesis is.

Blowing into it is one of the worst things you can do. The moisture in your breath will corrode the contacts. However, you can usually buy new headers for it - take out the old one and plug in the new one.

Shrykull wrote: Not sure where the genesis is.

My Mega Drive still works. Although both the transformers are long since toast.

It's currently using the transformer form a Sinclair ZX81.

(The megadrive was an awesome piece of kit for standardised parts. The joypads were Kempston standard, which meant that any Sinclair, Commodore, Amstrad, or Atari computer would recognise them)

Order a Famicom from Japan. 5,000 yen (about 40 bucks) and it comes with an NES cartridge adaptor bundled in.

Iceberg wrote:Order a Famicom from Japan. 5,000 yen (about 40 bucks) and it comes with an NES cartridge adaptor bundled in.

What's the difference between it and the american/regular/whatever nintendo? I remember when I first got it they had a combination game. Duck hunt and something else.

Iceberg wrote:Order a Famicom from Japan. 5,000 yen (about 40 bucks) and it comes with an NES cartridge adaptor bundled in.

Could you name some stores?

SHODAN wrote:

Iceberg wrote:Order a Famicom from Japan. 5,000 yen (about 40 bucks) and it comes with an NES cartridge adaptor bundled in.

Could you name some stores?

No stores in the US stock them, however you can order them from a number of sources online.

Shrykull wrote:

Iceberg wrote:Order a Famicom from Japan. 5,000 yen (about 40 bucks) and it comes with an NES cartridge adaptor bundled in.

What's the difference between it and the american/regular/whatever nintendo? I remember when I first got it they had a combination game. Duck hunt and something else.

The original Famicom was the last video game console with hardwired controllers. The Famicom version 2 (the version produced from 1993-present) is essentially identical to the toploading version of the NES.

Most Famicom purchases in the last five years have been made by Americans seeking to replace broken "toaster" NESs.

Iceberg wrote:No stores in the US stock them, however you can order them from a number of sources online.

Such as?

SHODAN wrote:

Iceberg wrote:No stores in the US stock them, however you can order them from a number of sources online.

Such as?

Well, for starters you can order one from NoJ, but you have to be able to read Japanese writing and have a friend in Japan who can drop it in the mail for you. If that doesn't work out, Buy-Rite has them, but you'll pay through the fuckin' nose for it.

And then there's always eBay.

I'm looking for more sources, I'll get back to you with a full list tonight.

Why the hell would you still play NES for?

You're sick. You were doing the gaming equivalent of humping a corpse.

Nah, seriously, I'm being a hypocrite. I just finished playing King's Quest 1-5 and Space Quest 1-5, and am now embroiled in Leisure Suit Larry 6.

There's something awesome about having to type "take cup" to actually take the cup.

I think you still might be able to send it in to NOA and have them repair it for you.

You know, I saw an article somewhere where a guy had a tutorial about how to replace the loading slot that you plugged the game into, but would have to install it in such a manner that the game goes into the back...it involved using the expansion port on the bottom of it.

::Taps::

Mario2 was just a dream?


Well that certainly does explain all the weirdness.

Iceberg wrote:Well, for starters you can order one from NoJ, but you have to be able to read Japanese writing and have a friend in Japan who can drop it in the mail for you. If that doesn't work out, Buy-Rite has them, but you'll pay through the fuckin' nose for it.

And then there's always eBay.

I'm looking for more sources, I'll get back to you with a full list tonight.

Thank you. NoJ or eBay really are not options for me but I may try Buy-Rite.

You can also order from amazon.co.jp for significantly less than buyrite.

Gah, they really do sell Famicoms in amazon.jp! Crawling through site using babelfish now...

Raxmei wrote:Mario2 was just a dream?


Well that certainly does explain all the weirdness.

Actually, the weirdness is explained by the fact that in Japan, the original Mario 2 game was a Mario 1 clone, so Nintendo bought the rights and source of another game from a failing company and modified it so that their characters were in it.