Which NES games have the converter?

[Lauren Tyler]

They say that if it has five screws, it'll have a converter, but in my lifetime I've never seen a cartridge with five screws, at least not to my knowledge. I was thinking maybe Baseball or Pro Wrestling might have them, but I didn't see five screws on them.

 

At any rate, here's what I've heard to be confirmed as games with built-in converters:

 

Gyromite

Stack-Up

Excitebike

 

Any others?

[+Psionic]

They say that if it has five screws, it'll have a converter, but in my lifetime I've never seen a cartridge with five screws, at least not to my knowledge.

Not all five-screw games have the converter. Not even close...only the earliest copies do. I have Stack-Up and Gyromite with converters, but there are others. I believe all copies of Stack-Up have one, whereas Gyromite and any others may not.

[Dr. Morbis]

Do a search at nintendoage.com and you'll find a recent thread that is very informative and shows you the easy/quick way of telling if a cart will have the converter (if the "tooth" sticking out at the end of the contacts is on the edge, it has the converter, if it's in the middle, it doesn't).

[gdement]

Yeah, 5-screws doesn't confirm it - I have a few 5-screw game cartridges and I've never seen a converter. But any game with a converter should also have 5 screws - if it has less then it's obviously too new a cart to have a converter in it.

 

5-screw carts aren't especially rare, but adapters are.

 

I was thinking maybe Baseball or Pro Wrestling might have them, but I didn't see five screws on them

That just means they were newer carts. I'm sure older copies of Baseball probably exist with 5 screws. My copy of Pro Wrestling is 5 screws, but there's no adapter in it (I just double checked). The ROM is dated 8719 on that one. Older copies might well have adapters, I don't know what games are on that list.

[Lauren Tyler]

Do a search at nintendoage.com and you'll find a recent thread that is very informative and shows you the easy/quick way of telling if a cart will have the converter (if the "tooth" sticking out at the end of the contacts is on the edge, it has the converter, if it's in the middle, it doesn't).

 

I just checked, but got no results. Perhaps I'm not using the right keyword.

[Lemmi]

Do a search at nintendoage.com and you'll find a recent thread that is very informative and shows you the easy/quick way of telling if a cart will have the converter (if the "tooth" sticking out at the end of the contacts is on the edge, it has the converter, if it's in the middle, it doesn't).

 

I just checked, but got no results. Perhaps I'm not using the right keyword.

 

dont bother using that search it sucks as it seems to only look for actual games i tried and you would think Converter would pop up if it was mentioned anywhere on the site but it doesnt

 

anyway i found this site instead

http://www.famicomworld.com/Articles/NES_Cart_Converters.htm

 

i still have no idea what to look for just by looking at the pins from his diagram

[BillyTR]

Or alternate route forgo the converter as they are getting hard to find so if you dont have one already can be a lengthly process. My thoughts on playing fami games on the reg nes hop over to retrousb.com and grab a red plastic cartridge and blank boards dump or download the fami roms some soldering required and a eprom writer and make your own homebrew fami to nes cart. If that is not an option dont have the skill or time to do it 2 places to check out that can do it for you for 25 bucks a pop (not to bad considering ebaying the fami cart and finding a converter can cost you more) gamereproductions.com & nesreproductions.com

 

hope that gives you a alt route if you are having problems finding a converter

 

Billy

[Wester]

I've never heard about this! I just checked my games and I have a Gyromite with the converter in it. TOO COOL!!

[Wester]

Is the converter all you need to play Famicom games?

[keilbaca]

Is the converter all you need to play Famicom games?

 

Yep, that's it.

 

The next hard part is to get the famicom game out of the system :-p

[Wester]

Top Loader.

[madhatter667]

Yeah 5 screws are not indicative of a converter. I bought a 5 screw Gyromite (even felt heavier than the other Gyromites) for about a buck.... opened it up... and no converter

I am sure that somewhere out there someone has a 60 to 72 pin aside from ones yanked from early NES carts.