I have an NES again! :)

[c_hernandez32]

The NES was an awesome system. Its wierd playing the PS2 and XBOX and then using the super small Nintendo controller.

The 1st NES was better because you had composite video out and the audio was better than the 2nd top loader. I knew some website that modded NESs to output RGB, but you need a PPU from an old arcade machine.

The one thing that I've never seen is the NES modem. It is real.

[yoda313]

The NES was an awesome system. Its wierd playing the PS2 and XBOX and then using the super small Nintendo controller.

The 1st NES was better because you had composite video out and the audio was better than the 2nd top loader. I knew some website that modded NESs to output RGB, but you need a PPU from an old arcade machine.

The one thing that I've never seen is the NES modem. It is real.

Hello,

Really???

I know the emulators have a net play option. Never did it but saw it in some of them.

Kevin

EDIT - Found it!!!!

http://www.megspace.com/entertainment/neskingdom/special/lottery/

You heard right, there was actually a modem for your NES. The trouble is that it was never released to the public, and was almost forgotten.. until now. Sometime around September 1991, Minnesota State Lottery director George Andersen released to the press that the lottery was going to test using an NES, complete with a modem and cartridge, for lottery players to play online. However, this idea was met with opposition from Minnesota's elected officials, and in October, the lottery announced they had scrapped the experiment.

There's more text on the website. Here's a pic:



Kevin

[Tool Man]

My NES died years ago, but I picked up one of those cheap clone systems, made in China and shaped like a PS1. But it plays all my old NES games fine. And it has RCA composite outs.

What I wouldn't give for a Nomad though, they were never sold here. I have about 6 Mega Drive's, and 3 Mega-CD's. ( aka Genesis and Sega-Cd. Why do Americans rename everything? ).

[yoda313]

Hello,

Why do Americans rename everything? ).

I think it all started with "New" York and just got out of hand after that!

Kevin

---Actually it's not just us.. The NES was called the FAMICOM in Japan (or Family Computer)--

[Tool Man]

The NES was called the FAMICOM in Japan (or Family Computer)--

Yeah, I have one of those. It was NES in UK too, and Super Famicom was Super NES here, but we kept the Mega Drive name, while you changed it to Genesis

[Doramius]

I converted an old NES into a front loader (cartridges go in like a top loader. No funky spring mechanism) using a desktop cube computer case. I sold it to a friend for $40. The thing plays great and uses the case's actual power and reset buttons. I should have kept it and made more of them to sell. My friend has had offers of about $100 for the system. You can make the same type of system for an SNES and N64. The N64 cartridge port would be where the Floppy drive access is and the NES and SNES go in the 5.25 Drive access. The controller ports for the N64 are mounted to the 5.25 plate, and the NES and SNES controller ports are mounted to the floppy plate. You basically gut the inside of the case and have to make your own holes for the risers to hold the console board in place. It's a really nice looking unit to sit on or around your regular PC tower.

[c_hernandez32]

There was a second NES modem. It was called the baton teleplay modem. Four games were planned to be released. Some simple space and ship shooters. SNES and Genesis modems were also planned. The creator poured lots of his own money into the product, but at the last moment his backers and store that promised to carry it pulled out and left him with the bill.

I've seen screen shots, but wonder if you had two, could you get them to work? I've searched for it for about four months on ebay, but nothing has come up.

[LSchafroth]

Hello,

It's in very good shape. It came with Final Fantasy (original version), Dragon Warrior, and a couple others I can't remember right now. I went this morning to EB Games and bought Tetris (doesn't work at the moment), Super Marios Bros/Duck Hunt, Top Gun, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2 - The Arcade Game.

I'm going to check out ebay for more 8bit nintendo games.

Kevin

I play almost all of them on my XBox! They are fun. Sometimes the older stuff is the best. I have a TON of the games on one DVD.


LS

[Invader Bugs]

i still have my NES back from when it came out, it had been in my garage attic for a while, but i found it, brought it out a couple years ago, and it still works great, i got Super Mario Bros, Metroid, Ninja Gaiden, and Stealth, some flying game, they're all fun and work great, i also have the gun controller, and somewhere i have Super Mario Bros/Duck Hunt. its awesome