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    By the time is was all said and done (keeping in mind it was 3 different lots) I think I paid less than $2 per cart!

     

    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.

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    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.

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    well please do the world a favor and when you tire of selling them consider posting them for use, thanks

     

    nothing against you I just hate it when someone spends all the time doing the work, gets bored of making or selling a thing then its gone forever, so someone else has to reinvent the wheel, by all means protect your IP, but dont let it die on the vine if and when you decide you would rather not do that anymore

     

    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.

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    This figures.. Just when I finally start slowly upgrading all my old consoles for HDTV, I was planning on getting a Framemeister very soon.. The damn thing gets discontinued. I was still holding off due to price but now I wish I'd have gotten one. Looks like I'll still be waiting a while.. Oh well. Guess I'll have to investigate other options but what terrible timing. :(

     

    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.

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    My HD CRT has HDMI so they do exist. Unfortunately mine is upstairs and I can't get it down into my game room as it weighs 245 pounds (its 36"). So I have to use a 20 inch PVM instead.

     

    I considered pulling the trigger on a Framemeister before, but the cost vs other solutions was too high. I had a friend bring his over once (a mini I think) and it looked absolutely terrible on my older LCD. My little 20" PVM with a scart adapter blew it away.

     

    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.

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    I generally do my old school gaming on a CRT, but I am thinking of grabbing a Framemeister in the next couple months. I want to be future proofed given that CRTs are no longer produced and HDMI looks like it's going to be around for a while; given modern tvs are cutting even the component jacks it seems like a decent pickup.

     

    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    I have like 5 tempest games 3 boxed and never pay more than 5 usd for any of them, its quite common to find then on flea markets.

     

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

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