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Maybe if you're really into mahjong, baseball and pirate junk games. Famicom hasn't been cheap for at least five or six years now in the land of the rising sun.

Ah, I see now that not all of the packages came from Japan, pal52 and terryu27 are in the US. That explains the prices.

Would you mind throwing out some links to the lots you bought on eBay because I (and some of my peers) would be very interested in importing bulk Famicom lots at $2 a cart. On the shipping label pictured, postage was 5200 yen which converts to about 45-50 USD and that seems to be one of the smaller packages. So was that estimate before or after you paid shipping? Even if you paid $200 in postage as a conservative estimation I'd say that was an unusually good deal. Since demand for Famicom stuff is currently white hot in Japan, it seems to me that buying from exporters on eBay would be very convenient, but also a costly proposition. That's just my observation and I would love to be proven wrong.

How much did you pay for all of this?

The Super 8 goes back many years when FPGA consoles (or much of anything else) were pipe dreams. In fact it predates many hardware related solutions taken for granted today such as the Blinking Light Win... There were and still are a ton of NES systems that are cosmetically junk- pulling their processors imbued them with a nobler function in this case.

The AV Famicom and top loading NES both have a very large heatsink on the voltage regulator in the back, which gets the plastic housing noticeably warm. It's normal. I measured mine and others and I don't think the exterior of the system ever hit beyond 80-90F. A switching voltage regulator can be installed in place of the stock 7805, removing the need for the heatsink altogether, and it would run the system considerably cooler.

Bump, changed thread topic, something new to get rid of.

Strongly disagree with this. His time and effort, he should be able to do what he pleases without getting preached at. You can always hire someone to render the files for you and then give them away.

It's still available for pre-order at solarisjapan.com. Actually priced better than it ever has been (Used to be $400, then $350, now it's $311) I would jump on it. Worst case scenario you WILL be able to unload it for what you paid for it, if not more.

What sort of resolution was your LCD display? I've seen a mini-xrgb with RGB modded NES on a 1080p set and it looked 'too good', almost emulator-like.

I wouldn't put absolute faith that the HDMI format will stick around for too long, unfortunately. It took nearly half a century for the cathode ray tube to be supplanted by flat screen technology. Sure there were variations and improvements that cropped up but it was a slow and gradual process, coax, composite/s-video, component, then bam, now everything's digital. And if you look around, the prevailing trend has been one of accelerated obsolescence, particularly as of late. Give us a few decades and there might not even be cables and wiring involved at all. I prefer playing games on CRTs myself. They may be abundant, cheap and generally unwanted now but they will not last forever, particularly not the sets manufactured in the 1990s to 2000s, when manufacturers started to care way less about durability and the use of quality components. That attitude has carried over into the flatscreens of today and gotten worse, a necessity of staying profitable in a monstrously competitive market. Food for thought there. Still, the Framemeister is as good as it gets with LCD televisions and I'll probably be getting one now. I was hoping for the next iteration to come along so the price (and demand) might drop on the XRGB-Mini but that's apparently not going to happen. if anything the value is going to get obscene once supplies are exhausted.

Bump, added NES HDMI system for sale.

SOLD, this is no longer available.

Just buy directly from Krikzz: https://shop.retrogate.com/ With his black friday sale going from Nov. 25 to 27 you save an additional 20% off.

To anyone who might be on the fence, this is a real nice package and priced under the going rate. Some of the cleanest RGB you'll get out of an SNES.

Flybacks tend to go during lightning storms when the set is plugged into an outlet without a surge protector, that's about it as far as my experiences with them go. I feel there's a curve to the availability and eventual scarcity of CRT televisions/monitors, though. Sure there were a lot of them made... and a lot of people are wasteful jerks who don't think twice about throwing something in the dump or storing them in less than ideal conditions. Give it another ten or twenty years.

Goto alibaba.com and search 'crt tv' and 'crt tube'.

Tube tvs are still in widescale use and manufacture in China, and also the consumer market in India. You could in theory have tubes and corresponding chassis boards shipped into the states, or even whole self contained television sets, if you were willing to pay the expense of moving them overseas to wherever you are... but the quality and longevity of such things would be highly questionable because it's made in China... for the mainland Chinese... and cheaply. Anyway that NOS television from 1995 probably looked great because it barely had any hours, while any used sets acquired through Craigslist or the curbside probably had several thousand hours of use, which contributes to softer focus of the cathode tube. Imagine a television that was run all day every day for years. The phosphors eventually deplete with use of the set.The horizontal line can probably be fixed by replacing capacitors in the vertical hold circuit of the chassis (motherboard basically). The busted coaxial fitting is probably from you abusing it. Also replaceable.

Going to agree, acid-free glue sticks are the best for adhering paper to plastic.

Haha, what? I have never seen Atari Jaguar anything at any flea market, ever. Uruguay is a magical place.

RARusk thank you, just that information is very helpful.

Yes, gentlemen, probably the +5 volt line as well, so that would be five contacts used. But that is neither here nor there, I'd prefer pictures instead of speculation.

Anyone got one they want to open up for me and take some pictures of the insides? Also want to know how many pins are in the end that plugs into the snes/n64/gamecube, but I'm guessing just enough for composite, audio and ground (4). Confirmation would be good though.

Yet another purchase from HUNKAPRITZA, super quick shipment, protectively packaged, fair price and everything was as pictured. Once again I'm supremely satisfied!

Guys does anyone still have a 2003 for sale????