Play Famicom Carts On Your DS

[skarthebloodchild]

Take all the random crap you can stuff into your DS's GBA slot. Nintendo-related or otherwise. Now pile them all into a hill. Because this King needs a hill to be King of. This is the CYBER Familator Lite. You plug it into your GBA slot, you plug in a Famicom cartridge, and you can play Famicom games on it. No need for wires, no need for Ben Heck, it all just works. Thing's even got a TV-out port, so your whole family can watch you stumble through Japanese Famicom games with little/no idea of what the hell's going on.

sources:
http://www.cybergadget.co.jp/news/topics/tx20071120-1.html
http://www.dsfanboy.com/2007/11/24/famicom...-the-ds-useful/
http://kotaku.com/gaming/nintendo-ds/play-...r-ds-326170.php

 

[Nookadum]

Holy fucking shit, I want one!

 

[Sir VG]

I can now play Akumajou Densetsu without an emulator with proper sound! YESSSSS!!!!!!

 

[DjoeN]

You forgot to mention that you can play NES cartridges to with a proper adapter (Nes to Famicom)

 

[Maikel Steneker]

That's fucking awesome! You made my day!

You forgot to mention that you can play NES cartridges to with a proper adapter (Nes to Famicom)

You just ruined my day

I'll wait for a European version then.

 

[DjoeN]

It's nothing, i like ruining somebody's days once a year (and it aint my wife, cause then i'm f*ck*d)

 

[Mars]

Looks pretty cool, but I think I'll stick to nesDS.

 

[FAST6191]

I recall lik sang also had something like this for the GBA. Wonder if it is the usual "pirate" nes chips retasked though.

 

[jalaneme]

i would rather just stick to my old nes

 

[jsmith45]

I recall lik sang also had something like this for the GBA. Wonder if it is the usual "pirate" nes chips retasked though.

Consider the TV out feature. Clearly the only easy way to support that would be to use a NES system-on-a-chip. However, it is worth noting that it must be running some real DS code to read the buttons, to display the output, and to output the sound. So it is a somewhat more sophisticated than most NES system-on-a-chip applications, but still not ideal. What would be much more interesting is an SNES-on-a-chip system. I'm sure the people here could find a way to hack such a device, to do some useful things. Consider how that would improve SNES emulation. The System-on-a-chip would be emulating the SNES primary processor, leaving the DS's processors to interface with it, and to emulate the special co-processors that some carts use. That would be nice.

 

[myuusmeow]

I can now play Akumajou Densetsu without an emulator with proper sound! YESSSSS!!!!!!

Pretty sure Famiclones suck hard on sound, and on most Castlevania III doesn't work. (Don't know if it is for Famicom or NES makes a difference though, still don't think it'll work)

 

[Nero]

That is pretty cool...

Looks ugly though... That's why we have nesDS.

I guess this won't be making it's way over to the US anytime soon?

~Nero

 

[War]

I wouldn't get this, because I'd have to give up my EZFlash 3-in-1, and I'd have to have actual Fami games.

 

[Rayder]

Well....let's see....I have over 300 NES games on my SCminiSD and no actual NES carts. I have a PC NES emu with like ALL the NES ROMs, so.......

 

[enarky]

I recall lik sang also had something like this for the GBA. Wonder if it is the usual "pirate" nes chips retasked though.

Review and pictures of the GBA version over at NESWorld.

 

[Jaejae]

Cool, albeit useless to me.

 

[Vampant]

It is pretty cool but doesnt it take out the portable side of nesds and ds?

 

[amptor]

how many doraemon games would a wood doraemon doraemon if a wood doraemon could doraemon wood?

useless junk perhaps, FDS system I'm not sure if it is emulated or not tho.. I used to play doki doki panic on FCE Ultra. Weird game.

 

[Railgun]

omg, this thing is realy huge