The $5 Super Famicom Experience
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- Опубликовано: 27 авг 2024
- In this video, we'll take a look at a $5 Super Famicom I got from Hard-Off. Is it worth it to buy untested consoles?
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"Then, I had no choice but to book a flight to Japan"
I unfortunately can't do that in Nick Robinson style... yet :'
@@f4micom as i saw in some mattkc videos, there are a lot of cheap, possibly broken consoles. and hard-off is an amazing name.
@@a_userMUSICgreat music, too
Fun adventure, fascinating and nice to see that you know so much about consoles, disassembling, retrobrighting, the different cables and adapters, games, imports, and the multiple TVs to tinker with, etc... Just nice to see a humble RUclipsr doing these! And also being from Europe, it's nice to see what you did, as every other video seems to be from NA!
3:26 gran turismo music always hits so damn good
Damn your friend has been super nice bringing you it directly from Japan, love that.
Also, great video, hope to see more from you👀
Diamine, ho iniziato a vedere i tuoi video solo 2 giorni fa e lo stile, l'editing, la narrazione e il pacing sono impeccabili. Quello che non mi aspettavo per niente però, era che tu fossi italiana, è fantastico! Continua così, secondo me esploderai in poco tempo
Nice I order pretty much all of my old consoles from japan, can get a bit expensive occasionally when you need things like power supply mods to convert to 240v but still usually ends up cheaper than buying locally + you get 60hz which you wouldn't with a pal console
I remember I bought my Super Famicom console for $80 on eBay!
The console is Very Clean No scratches No damage (And it not looking yellow at all) It look brand new right in the Box and it came with 2 controllers,
And same thing it's from Japan. lol😄
[it used to cost $80 on eBay in 2018, it get high to $120 now]
😁 I guess I'm lucky then.
Enjoyable content! Looking forward to your next video :)
Hard Off, where if you find something rare, it becomes a Hard On
Great video!, Your friend was so nice for bring you the famicon. I want a Gameboy advance sp from Japan but is a little bit expensive for me. I'm from Mexico and I'm trying to make a videogame collection, I hope see more videos from you, are really nice and funny.
Japan has so many places that are just a treasure trove for retro games and consoles. Just in Akihabara, Tokyo alone there are so many great small and big shops where one can find pretty much anything. Got a Copy of Super Donky Kong 2 (DKC2) in Box in near Mint condition when I was there and a few other games for super cheap.
Using NTSC consoles on PAL TV's is generally a mixed bag, sometimes it's just fine, sometimes you get a painful red tint and sometimes you get nothing at all. Never seen black and white since that time i plugged my Wii in my grandma's TV in the wrong way when i was 9 though
Best way to get around this is just using RGB scart cable as that doesn't rely on colour encoding :)
Interessante! E funziona anche bene! E poi la cosa che hai detto del SNES che da noi in Italia è 60€ e più... è vera per tutte le retro console in generale. In Giappone console retro costano così POCO!😍
Che fortuna! Comunque bel video.
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Hey Fami, since you are in Poland, do any of your TVs have SCART inputs? The Super Famicom is fully capable of RGB SCART, which will give you a significantly better image than composite. Good SCART cables are expensive at around £24 but the video quality jump is so noticable I would highly suggest it.
However, the exact quality of the video will depend on what the exact motherboard revision of that Super Famicom. Haveyou taken it apart? I would be interested to know the model number. It's printed on the surface of the pcb below the cartridge port.
Scart cable for £24? They were included with most vcr,tv box,dvd etc so they are inexpensive, they probably don't fit the best but they are fine for most stuff
@@namesurname4666 SCART on one end, SNES AV out on the other end. Not just a plain SCART cable. There are cheap ones, which are junk; second-hand OEM ones, which cost a bit more, but are decent quality; and then really high-end ones with premium-grade video cable, that are being manufactured new for retro gaming enthusiasts. Those are pricey, but it's the best signal quality you can get, short of HDMI mods.
@@nickwallette6201 right, i wonder if it's easy to make or modify an existing cable
@@namesurname4666 No, not really. You could slap a SCART end on a normal composite video cable, but then there's no difference. So you need the RGB outputs from the SNES/SFC to make it worth bothering.
In that case, you're either going to end up buying a complete AV-to-SCART cable, in which case you don't need to DIY anything.
Or you end up with an AV-to-component video cable, which is just as good, assuming your TV has component inputs. If not, then you need a component-to-RGB converter, which requires mixing the colors differently, and that's more than just a DIY cable.
So... basically, no, there's no easy way to make your own. The bespoke AV connector only exists on Nintendo AV cables (or manufactured clones) and needs to have RGB pins wired to use as a SCART cable, which is only ever the case when it's already a SCART cable.
@@nickwallette6201 thanks for the explanation
Yo your channel is amazing
Adoro i tuoi video!!
Bel video
Arrivo da reddit :)
nice! it seems you can actually get some pretty good deals if you buy from Japan. I'm used to wait and wait to save money since I live in Europe too and here the prices are horrible if compared.
I'll buy more stuff for sure now :P
3:26 ay its asuka
do you happen to have rgb scart cables? because I'm curious if using those instead of composite makes it compatible with pal crts
That depends on what you mean by compatible.
Composite video uses a high-frequency chroma signal on top of the B&W luminance signal, and that chroma signal is incompatible between NTSC and PAL. This will cause the color decoding to be wrong, or usually completely absent (so you just get B&W.)
RGB, of course, does not use a chroma signal, it uses dedicated color channels, so there's no problem with the color decoding anymore. Both NTSC and PAL RGB use compatible baseband signals.
The problem you might still have, though, is whether the TV supports NTSC 60Hz refresh rates, rather than PAL 50Hz. This might cause a problem similar to the one shown in the video at ~2:30. There's nothing you can do about that, if your TV doesn't support both, except of course to use a different TV. Whether you use composite or RGB won't make any difference. The more modern the TV, the less likely it will be a problem, but you never know until you try.
@@nickwallette6201 i have TVs that support PAL60, so idk what would be difference from NTSC60 in RGB and PAL60 in RGB
@@TheA_Gamer554 Assuming that's NTSC resolution and 60Hz refresh with a PAL color carrier, then it basically _is_ NTSC RGB, and it should work totally fine.
The other possibility is 60Hz refresh at PAL resolution and color. I dunno if anything ever used this combination, but it's unlikely to be what your TV is expecting, since the bandwidth constraints were similar and NTSC opted for higher refresh while PAL opted for higher resolution. Having both higher refresh and resolution would require more bandwidth, and I don't think that was ever done. But there are a LOT of weird hybrid video standards out there. :-D
@@nickwallette6201 it's weird stuff yeah. for the wii at least PAL 60 makes it run in 480i/240p at 60Hz but with pal colors in composite. using homebrew to switch to NTSC makes the picture be black and white, so only the color is incompatible
I have a PAL Super Nintendo and I can't stand the borders you get at the top and bottom of the screen but I like that we got the Japanese console design
You shouldn't be blowing into the cartridges.
Me gustó tu video, muy entretenido. Me suscribo, saludos desde Chile
Aspetta ma sei italiano/a? l'alimentatore non mente, comunque up per te, bellissimo canale anche se piccolo ed i tuyoi video mi piacciono molto
Anche la lingua su ebay è italiana quindi ...
Sì sono italiana ;; preferisco fare video in inglese in quanto la community retrogaming italiana è abbastanza piccola e in generale preferisco fare video che possano essere visti da un pubblico più ampio (anche semplicemente per permettere a più persone di accedere a certe informazioni/capire una recensione)
@@f4micom Lo capisco benissimo, comunque come li fai tu i video penso che una volta che "l'algoritmo" si accorga di te, hai il potenziale per sfondare
@@ITzTravelInTime Speriamo bene, grazie mille per tutto comunque ^^
Wait why do you have two switch boxes?
I got one for only 2 dollars
I Highly recommend you gett an OEM power supply. You will have video issues with 3rd party power supply.
I actually heard of people having exactly that problem with OEM ones since they seem to be failing after all these years, I have had no issues with this new third party one tho...
@@f4micom If you are just playing on composite video, you may nott see the distortion. but it could doing good
I concur on the OEM Super Fami power supply being extremely volatile. Mine stopped working about 10yrs ago and I live in the States (also an NTSC country).
I bought the most reputable AC adapter I could find on Amazon: Made by Answer Co., Ltd. It was made in China for the Japanese market. Almost 5 years later and absolutely no issues. I highly recommend it!
Your experience will depend on the supply quality and how it was designed.
Really cheap supplies are often terribly noisy (electrically noisy, not necessarily audible), and may or may not be reliable or even safe to use. But, one made from a reputable supplier will be perfectly safe.
If it's a switching supply (which you can tell because it won't be a giant heavy brick), it _might_ be noisy. If you can't see any video noise, then it's nothing you need to worry about. Again, provided it's not a cheap-and-nasty supply, then even if it's noisy, it won't hurt anything, it just won't look as clean as a less noisy supply.
Linear supplies (ones with a larger, heavier transformer) will probably not have a noise issue. They actually have much more ripple, but it's mains-frequency ripple (50/60Hz, or a harmonic of that at 100/120, etc.), which is filtered out pretty well by the linear voltage regulator in the SNES/SFC. High-frequency switching ripple isn't filtered as well by the SNES, hence the video noise.
Finding new linear supplies is a little tougher these days, since switching supplies are cheaper, lighter, smaller, more efficient, run cooler, have better power factor (assuming they're designed right), safer (ditto), and provide more power. Everything recent is designed to run from them, and have adequate high-frequency filtering onboard, so there's little need for the old topology anymore.
You can always repair an original OEM supply, though. There isn't much in them, usually just a transformer, some diodes, and a capacitor. The capacitor is old and has been subject to heat for years, so it's almost always what has failed. Second likely culprit is a fuse, which may be a discrete part, or a thermal trip inside the transformer. The rest of the parts are fairly robust and should last a lifetime. Replace the cap and it should be good as new, if you can get it back together afterwards. They're not meant to be opened, usually, and will require some cutting and subsequent case repair.
Love the console design over the US version, which is so ugly! Can't believe these 25+ year old machines still work.
bro why do you sound like that Jesus Christ
Because he was also Italian, of course.