Hey, that's pretty cool man. Those all look really good! I've never owned a Famicom game, so I was wondering if they have the glossy look to them like on NES games? If they do, do you apply a glossy layer as well?

Also, have you thought about making your own website for people to download? If others had destroyed/missing labels, there may be some interest for them to apply a label so they know what game they have.

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http://robertlbryant.com

They're really rather good. If I have a game with a tatty label, I just ignore it, i'm not too fussed about owning "collectors pieces"

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Very nice work man, well i really don't have the patience nor the time make other labels but since you do graphic designing that won't take all to long,it looks smooth.

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My NES collection so far...

This may be of interest to you then
Family Convertor

No point in needlessly limiting yourself to 60 pin carts if you can have both, am I right? :D

Actually, there are a number of reasons. Not nessicarily great ones, but pressing nonetheless. Significanly different cultural tastes for one(especially at the time of the Famicom/Nes launch. The world is much smaller place these days thanks to teh intarweb)

For another thing, the NES needed to look as much like an all american product as possible, while not looking like a traditional console system. At that point in time, America was very anti-Japan.

There's also the fact that the console was aimed at a significantly different audience in the States: primarily kids, whereas it was more or less a fully fledged computer system in Japan, implying an older audience.

It's also likely America may not have known what to make of the art-style. Anime was only starting to become prevalent - Transformers, for example, and that was actually at least partly western.

Still, it must be said that the Western interpretation art wasn't nessicarily bad. But it was very different. The cart pic on Megaman 2 is striking, even if it's not particuarly accurate. if it's any consolation, the art usually faces the other way when using a Family Convertor anyway :D As for why they changed things like names and the like - particuarly Rockman's... who knows? Sometimes it worked out for the better though. Like with Castlevania over Akumajou Densetsu.

European boxart of Megaman 2.

Well, I can certainly appreciate THAT sentiment. Even if someone felt inclined to, I don't think there are many of us that could afford to collect for EVERY system :D

I'm outside the US as well, but since I'm in Europe, where we recieved the 72pin NES too, that's primarily what I collect, though I've got a few famicom carts which I'll use with a Famiclone I managed to pick up off Ebay, if I ever manage to find a suitable power supply.

Almost every Famicom game I get has surprised me in some fashion. Kid Dracula was the first one I got, and surprised me because of the general look and size of the Famicom cart compared to the NES carts. Sweet Home surprised me just for existing. Rolling Thunder is the first fully boxed Famicom game I ever got, so it was nice to see a Famicom game with packaging intact, whereas Bandit Kings Of Ancient China surprised me again, simply because the cart is much chunkier than standard Famicom carts.

I honestly don't know. There was an adaptor supplied, but it didn't inspire a lot of confidence. It had apparently had three pins, but there was a hole where the top pin should be and the pin itself was INSIDE THE POWER SUPPLY. I don't know if it was damaged in transit, but it seems like a pretty good guess ;)

On top of this, the Famiclone states that it should only be used with an AC Adaptor, but the supplied adaptor was actually a DC model, which means I'm not sure its the original power supply anyway, which means the voltages printed on the PSU are suspect in the first place.

When I get paid in a few days, my plan is to go hunt down an appropriate multi-adaptor and start it off on the lowest setting. Worst comes to worst and I fry it, I suppose I can always rip out the 60 pin connector and solder it to an old NES. Sounds like a fun electronics experiment.

The other problem is that I think it may be an NTSC Famiclone, so I'm not CERTAIN whether it'll be compatible with the TV, though the TV has proven itself to be adaptable to PAL 60hz signals in the past, so I'm hoping for the best.

Hopefully I should have an convertor that will let me use Famicom games in my NES on the way from another Ebay seller anyway, but it's an interesting clone and I'd rather not trash it it's one of those "Family Game" ones that looks very similar to a real Famicom. (Quite similar to this one. The colour scheme is identical, but there's a few differences. The eject slider is a slightly different shape, and so is the hinge covering the cart port, and the joypads are both the same, only with four buttons (A & B and a turbo button for each, plus start and select)).

nice labels really great idea.

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