Pin Converter on Famicom A/V; Incompatible?

Sails · Post by **Sails** » Sat Mar 19, 2011 1:16 pm

Looking around for a 72 pin to 60 pin converter for an hour or so now that is actually obtainable, and I finally came upon this site: http://stoneagegamer.com/nestofamicomco ... 0-pin.aspx

Unfortunately, it says that it doesn't work with Famicom A/V's, which is what I'm looking to buy. I have to wonder just how this even makes sense...Is it a physical block that I'd have to file down? Is there really some region block or system change that stops it? I've found nothing from a few searches.

All ideas and knowledge are helpful, I've been wanting to get a Famicom with good image quality via RCA, and be able to play NES games with the ability to import titles such as Akumajou Densetsu.

3gengames · Post by **3gengames** » Sat Mar 19, 2011 1:28 pm

I'd try to find a gyromite first with one first. And I am not sure what would make it not work on the NES2.

joe1088 · Post by **joe1088** » Sat Mar 19, 2011 1:31 pm

3gengames wrote:I'd try to find a gyromite first with one first. And I am not sure what would make it not work on the NES2.

I believe that's a 60-72 pin converter, not the other way around.

3gengames · Post by **3gengames** » Sat Mar 19, 2011 1:42 pm

Ohhhh, okay. Maybe it's the same reason game genies don't fit? :/

BMF54123 · Post by **BMF54123** » Sun Mar 20, 2011 2:46 am

I have no idea why that converter wouldn't work on certain versions of the Famicom; AFAIK, aside from the lockout chip pins on the NES side and the sound pins on the Famicom side, there weren't any significant differences between the two systems. Did they botch the wiring? -_-

Post by **tepples** » Sun Mar 20, 2011 5:52 am

I seem to remember some clones and some adapters having a problem with routing of the CIRAM enable signal, causing 4-screen games not to work.

Sails · Post by **Sails** » Sun Mar 20, 2011 1:57 pm

It makes me pretty sad that I saw these in abundance so few years ago and never thought to pick one up for fear of availability obscurity. I guess I won't be getting a Famicom A/V any time soon

Thanks for the help guys!

Sails · Post by **Sails** » Wed Feb 15, 2012 3:59 pm

SUPER BUMP
I've finally bought a boxed, manual, original plastic, slightly used, excellent condition Famicom AV with two controllers.

Then I saw this:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/72pin-60pin-Fam ... 1c23887b10

There are "more than 10 available" and I of course already ordered one. If anyone has been looking for pin adapters that are cheap and work with everything, this should be of interest to you.

koitsu · Post by **koitsu** » Wed Feb 15, 2012 10:20 pm

Sails wrote:SUPER BUMP
I've finally bought a boxed, manual, original plastic, slightly used, excellent condition Famicom AV with two controllers.

From where, and for how much (be sure to specify currency too please)? Thanks.

SkinnyV · Post by **SkinnyV** » Thu Feb 16, 2012 4:34 am

I gave the same adapter to someone and he said it was working on his AV Famicom so I suppose the problem might be only with certain game. Also you can mod it to work completely even with the Powerpak: Check out this thread for info:

http://nesdev.com/bbs/viewtopic.php?t=8 ... 795c6614c1

Sails · Post by **Sails** » Sat Feb 18, 2012 11:28 pm

koitsu wrote:
Sails wrote:SUPER BUMP
I've finally bought a boxed, manual, original plastic, slightly used, excellent condition Famicom AV with two controllers.
From where, and for how much (be sure to specify currency too please)? Thanks.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Nintendo-AV-FAM ... 256c756a96

koitsu · Post by **koitsu** » Sun Feb 19, 2012 1:10 am

Wow, that's quite a steal for US$110 + S/H. Usually those things go for multiple hundreds, and for no justified reason (kinda like the NES top loaders do).

Bregalad · Post by **Bregalad** » Sun Feb 19, 2012 3:38 am

You'd have to admit that the toploader NES / AV Famicom design is waaaay prettier than the original Famicom/NES.

I got my toploader NES imported from the US for about $90 with 3 games and two dogbone controllers so it was okay (a bit expensive but I badly wanted one as not only I needed a NTSC machine to test things on but I wanted it for the pretty design and better controllers).

I think it's a bad idea to buy "boxed" items because usually they're more expensive, but once you get it out of the box you have no use for the box anymore and it'll just eat dust in some corner of your house.
However if it's the same price as an unboxed item then yeah it's no problem.