NES FC Yobo Game Console Question

[thegamezmaster]

These are 8 bit nes clones. Anyone have one of these? What are your thoughts or impressions of the system? Are they 100 % compatable with all nes games and accessories? Thanks.

Edited July 5, 2005 by thegamezmaster

[Flack]

I am right in the middle of writing a review of this thing, but I can tell you so far that it's played every game I've tried. Original NES controllers work great with it as well (I have the US Yobo Fami). Seeing as though it's a NOAC (Nintendo on a Chip) and not a real chipset, the colors and sound may be slightly different which may upset you greatly or if you're like me, doesn't matter in the slightest.

 

Personally I think they're a great alternative to blinking toasters and RF-only top-loaders, although I'm quite sure loyalists will disagree.

[SteveW]

Hey Flack, did you win that FC Yobo at OVGE?

[JB]

There's a fairly comprehensive review on the boards that should tell you what you want to know.

http://www.atariage.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=67476

[Flack]

Hey Flack, did you win that FC Yobo at OVGE?

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Yup, that's the one!

 

I think on things like this, I'm not a very good reviewer because I'm not nearly critical enough. That other review talks about the wave third of the sound chip not being 100% accurate or something ... I don't know about all that, all I know is I plugged in Super Mario Brothers 3 and played it for a couple of hours and it worked great.

 

I'm sure that other review is probably correct, some of the colors may not be 100% accurate but then again if you are that worried about 100% accuracy then I agree, don't buy a cheap clone and spend your time and money refurbishng a toaster. I guess if you're blessed with crappy eyes and ears like I am, you'll enjoy the Yobo. It's very compact and cheap, but it also doesn't blink and has A/V outs.

[thegamezmaster]

Thanks for the info everyone. I'm trying to decide whether to get one of these or just get new connectors for my old ones. Problem is I've got at least 8 or 9 nes decks, Thanks again.

[Flojomojo]

I like it well enough for what it is:

 

+ very small, light, and cool-looking

+ accepts all USA NES controllers

+ cartridges plug in label-side-forwards

+ AV output is crisp and clean, no static

+ stock controllers include slow and turbo buttons

 

- some music/channels not quite right (see GH's review, linked above) but it's not bad enough to ruin the experience for me

- the Tengen game I tried (Rolling Thunder) doesn't play at all

- Rad Racer II has messed-up sprites

 

On balance, I think it's certainly worth the small asking price, even with the minor compatibility and sound problems. It definitely looks better than any of the Nintendo NES or Famicom designs IMHO, and cheaper than the still-unreleased Messiah machine.

[NintendoKing]

I own 3 Yobo FC Game Consoles, one in every color available. I know from experience that this system is great working condition and is 5 times better then the cheaply made knock-off Famicoms that the Nintendo company made in the 80's.

[Atari-Jess]

5 times better then the cheaply made knock-off Famicoms that the Nintendo company made in the 80's.

 

That makes NO sense what-so-ever

 

Nintendo cannot "knock-off" their own design. There are only 3 designs, Famicom, NES, NES/Famicom 2. Those are the official ones.

 

Something makes me wonder if you're just acting anti-japanese, which is not acceptable. You've already made a comment on how fantastic the Yobo console was simply because it was Chinese manufactured, and I know that the Chinese do not look favourably on the Japanese so I think I have a valid cause for potential concern.

 

Of course, you may simply have made some sort of mistake, but that stands to be seen, what do you have to say for your comments?

[Atari-Jess]

Well, if I had read your other post more thoroughly I would have seen that you believe that NOA "ripped off" NOJ.

 

That still makes no sense.

 

The NES wasn't "cheaply made" by Mattel, even the original famicom consoles were NOTORIOUS for their cheap quality and were recalled by Nintendo of Japan.

 

Nintendo of America simply made an odd choice in their selection of a cartridge port. Other than this, the NES console is of good manufacturing quality.

[NintendoKing]

Well, if I had read your other post more thoroughly I would have seen that you believe that NOA "ripped off" NOJ.

 

That still makes no sense.

 

The NES wasn't "cheaply made" by Mattel, even the original famicom consoles were NOTORIOUS for their cheap quality and were recalled by Nintendo of Japan.

 

Nintendo of America simply made an odd choice in their selection of a cartridge port. Other than this, the NES console is of good manufacturing quality.

 

 

Nintendo didnt work with Famicom in the 80's. But later in the 90's the two companies merged, or didnt you know that. Famicom is the Family Computer Network Company, not affiliated with Nintendo Of America from the 1980's.

[n8littlefield]

What??? The Famicom was always a Nintendo console IIRC. I really don't understand what you're talking about. I have a Yobo, and if it's five times better than anything, I'd be amazed, the controllers are weak, the console is made of cheap plastic, and the compatibility isn't great.

 

Writing this I'm wondering if I'm feeding a troll...

[NintendoKing]

What??? The Famicom was always a Nintendo console IIRC. I really don't understand what you're talking about. I have a Yobo, and if it's five times better than anything, I'd be amazed, the controllers are weak, the console is made of cheap plastic, and the compatibility isn't great.

 

Writing this I'm wondering if I'm feeding a troll...

 

 

Wrong Nintendo ran off a Famicom IIRC; you got it backwards N8LITTLFIELD... NES was an american remake of the popular Super Famicom upgrade in Japan. Nintendo adapted the tech and added a new feature, a "block chip" thats why the screen goes green everyonce in awhile.

Edited May 31, 2006 by NintendoKing

[JB]

BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!

This is hilarious.

[guitarmas]

BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!

This is hilarious.

 

No JB, this is hilarious.

[guitarmas]

...which I just realized is also in his signature as well.

[z28in82]

Back on topic and *trying to avoid the troll* I like the YOBO we have, plays just about everything I throw at it and while the controllers aren't the greatest the slow and turbo are a nice addition. Plus getting it for less than $30 was a deal so at that price it was well worth it to me

[Flojomojo]

...which I just realized is also in his signature as well.

...which I just realized is also in his signature as well.

It amuses me that even though I've set my preferences to ignore the silly little boy, all 14 lines of his multi-color signature still shine through.

[awace]

...which I just realized is also in his signature as well.

...which I just realized is also in his signature as well.

It amuses me that even though I've set my preferences to ignore the silly little boy, all 14 lines of his multi-color signature still shine through.

hmm I am glad im already a member so i can just log on and reply!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! anyway there is a way around the nintendo flashing chip you can solder two pins on a chip I forget witch one my dad was looking at there patent one day for some other electronic thing i forget but he was only interested in the ©ting of and how the pattent protection worked and i said Atari forgot to remove the nintendo's quality seal witch was tradmarked I went HMM a nother Ploy to control video game market w encrypted crock alerts anyway you just short those two pins then power on holding reset down then let go and it mostly didnt flash its like authing a hacked cable box ( wonce turned on and it works it stays untell you power off and LOSE ) auth.. lame but if its a normal cart then its probably the connectors nintendo was the fkn stupedist company by making a switching cartridge connector that has to be the most dumest design I ever seen you DONT half unconnect a cartridge when its on the switch should have held the reset but no they were so concerned about bootleg witch only helps sales of the original machine like the atari 2600 once it had the mini jr's more sales continued in the US untill they ran it into the gnd thinking ms had competing witch were completly differnt platforms and had no reason to think someone would actually use a atari to run any thing more than a game on or simple things they were soley made for fun and still are!!!!! l,,,

anyway I had and wish i still did a AJ game action replay one of the 1st see threw nintendo game rewinder carts w 6 year battery then i permmantly mounted into nes removed METAL LAME BAR OF CROCK and screwed the game genie into that cartridge and since it was screwed in pushed down farther than normal it never flashed EVER plus my new free settelment connector from TETRIS NINTENDO price fixing settelment based on my serial # being low enough flashed more than the one i bent the pins on !!!! I wish i had had the $ for a top loader famicom back then as nintendo was dumb for not doing that top load w gold connectors in the begining shows how obstenant nintendo actually is changing donkey kong and all the plexiglass marquees along w having © 1983 the © didnt bother me but to change not being able to stand under ladder made the game so lame i didnt want to play eventually any operator who wanted to make $ changed the roms back!!!! but kept the original marquee for them selfs so its like nintendo by mistake makes collectables .. so just permantly mount youre game genie then you should have no problems since the game genies connectors are gold and if that still dont work just do a wire wrap mod to permanltly jumper all connections from game genie to pcb this way it can move all around and who cares!!!!!!!!! hmm i wonder if game genie needs cleaning mine dont work!!! I also just got a bootleg nintendo

so called GAME STATION no words on box exept pictures of shrek and a green 2 complete w princes picture witch has absoultly nothing to do w knock off famicon the sound is the same but someone must have spent hours on pika ( super mario brothers 8bit hacked to look like rabbit they changed bricks and music exept when you can shoot after 2nd flower it sounds same) there were subosed to be 9,999,999 games on it but guy who sold it to me said like 10 it actually only has 3 games on it and a lot of differnt starting points for TRACK AND FEILD

it has pika (super mario hack) same game play then duck hunt then variations skeet shoot starts duck hunt right on skeet shooting then it has high jump long jump all trak and feild start points then i screwed around w jumper and changed it back to say 19 games instead of the 9,999,999 games but i wonder if the chip in the blob on the cart can hold 9,999,9999 or does it just repete them cause i think mabie it at the most probably holds 79 I actually saw a joystick that did hold 79 nintendo games it said 79,999,999 i bet that jumper could be scratched off too so now since it has 60 pins and the japan famicom has 60 pins im on the look out for famicom carts or pinball or a famicom converter finger board!!!! ....

the bad things about game station 1st off its a piece of crap the plastic crumbles if youre to rough on it I bet im going to have to mount cart hole pcb onto a peice of wood just to keep it from breaking and the joysticks are only 2 feet long so as the rca and its MONO ok so is nes the other pin is subosedly RF i never even tried and the gun for sakes sakes is only 2 feet if you get close enough to the tv w the infra red led the game falls off anything and the power pack plug is 2 feet to so unless youre right next to a 13 inch tv youre sol I did however use a set of long rca cords and a extention cord and was able to put onto table im afraid the power pack will pull it down off table it it will crack in half its so brittle im thinking of making my own MAKE type box for it so i can mount the cart connector better If i get a famicom converter I will probably permantly solder it so i can wiggle all i want and it wont screw up .. I do however like the rapid fire sometimes althogh I had to solder reverse the a and b buttons cause YOU JUST CANT UNLEARN 8bit super mario after years of playing the a and b buttons have to be where there subposed to be!!! the mod was easy i just scratched the non gnded a and b buttons off then resoldered them w wires backwards it worked.. I was able to get farther in pika smb1

[awace]

What??? The Famicom was always a Nintendo console IIRC. I really don't understand what you're talking about. I have a Yobo, and if it's five times better than anything, I'd be amazed, the controllers are weak, the console is made of cheap plastic, and the compatibility isn't great.

 

Writing this I'm wondering if I'm feeding a troll...

does a nes to famicom finger board actually work?????????????????? yes i agree the plastic is crap i had to rip the door off and when i opened it as the guy gave it to me he said dont expect mutch from the plastic and said the card pcb would boot w out cart plastic I already scratched the jumper so i had to remelt the cart back anyway,,,... as far as the original nes lock chip it just pissed me off as the swing crock... being that galoobs mail address is stacy mn no wonder they used gold plated pins like NINTENDO should have .. nintendo lost big when they had to give out the replacement conectors what a cheap gesture they shoud have given us famicom's not the remaning stock of crap they wernt going to use any way after we caught them price fixing nes tetris vs the atari tetris and the fact that atari was dumbenough to actully use the seal of quality I smelled crock Atari was big on © in the 1st place just look at asteroids ©1982 vs the original one witch instaboots... it just made all atari tengen® games worth five times more than a Nintendo tetris ok exept for now mabie TERTIS it self might be worth more cause its fun and addictive.

my thing looks like a knock off playstation and sais game station nothing else only cost me $ 10. had to meet some local yokal at gas sataion was a craigs listing I was SACRED the whole time ...

Edited April 20, 2009 by awace

[awace]

What??? The Famicom was always a Nintendo console IIRC. I really don't understand what you're talking about. I have a Yobo, and if it's five times better than anything, I'd be amazed, the controllers are weak, the console is made of cheap plastic, and the compatibility isn't great.

 

Writing this I'm wondering if I'm feeding a troll...

 

 

Wrong Nintendo ran off a Famicom IIRC; you got it backwards N8LITTLFIELD... NES was an american remake of the popular Super Famicom upgrade in Japan. Nintendo adapted the tech and added a new feature, a "block chip" thats why the screen goes green everyonce in awhile.

green mine goes blue or just flashes game start for a couple of secs

[awace]

5 times better then the cheaply made knock-off Famicoms that the Nintendo company made in the 80's.

 

That makes NO sense what-so-ever

 

Nintendo cannot "knock-off" their own design. There are only 3 designs, Famicom, NES, NES/Famicom 2. Those are the official ones.

 

Something makes me wonder if you're just acting anti-japanese, which is not acceptable. You've already made a comment on how fantastic the Yobo console was simply because it was Chinese manufactured, and I know that the Chinese do not look favourably on the Japanese so I think I have a valid cause for potential concern.

 

Of course, you may simply have made some sort of mistake, but that stands to be seen, what do you have to say for your comments?

not acceptable? he is anti nintendo ! youre right famicom just means family computer I agree DID YOU ALL NOW THE TATIO MINI VADER PCB I GOT ON EBAY was to be included with all TATIO arcade jamma cabinets STATED BY LAW mabie all Japanese COIN OP JAMMA CABINETS HAD TO have the TEST device so mabie japanese video game law is super strict in how you come out w a new console for export.... not to offend anyone but the other day i saw a nintendo famicom PONG unit so I am in belief that famicom means familycomputer and is a nintendo word... I always thought it was famicon cause of my dislexia...

[Tom-Lynx]

I bought this FC3 (new) a couple months ago and it sucks. All the games are compatible that I've tried (NES / SNES / Genesis....don't have any G-Factor), but the controllers are proprietary and the screen clarity isn't as good as an original NES or SNES or Genesis using normal RF connectors, much less RCA plugs.

 

Since I own all the original systems I'm planning to just keep using them. This thing feels....dirty....somehow.

[awace]

I bought this FC3 (new) a couple months ago and it sucks. All the games are compatible that I've tried (NES / SNES / Genesis....don't have any G-Factor), but the controllers are proprietary and the screen clarity isn't as good as an original NES or SNES or Genesis using normal RF connectors, much less RCA plugs.

 

Since I own all the original systems I'm planning to just keep using them. This thing feels....dirty....somehow.

whell hacking a nes controler is pretty easy but you might need two wire holes cause you need 9 wires up dn l r a b select start...

on mine i scrathed the non grounded mesh on the board for the a b buttons and used wires to SWAP them then soldered so a and b are normal!! this improved sysytem also did you try a genisis controler to see if it worked?.

I wouldnt expect you to try to ruin a nes controler but mabie the joystick input chip is same as nes just differnt plug if so you could buy used nes on ebay cheap even if its broke and steal joystick connector and add one then you would esentally have a top loader!! ..

[DaytonaUSA]

Well, if I had read your other post more thoroughly I would have seen that you believe that NOA "ripped off" NOJ.

 

That still makes no sense.

 

The NES wasn't "cheaply made" by Mattel, even the original famicom consoles were NOTORIOUS for their cheap quality and were recalled by Nintendo of Japan.

 

Nintendo of America simply made an odd choice in their selection of a cartridge port. Other than this, the NES console is of good manufacturing quality.

 

 

Nintendo didnt work with Famicom in the 80's. But later in the 90's the two companies merged, or didnt you know that. Famicom is the Family Computer Network Company, not affiliated with Nintendo Of America from the 1980's.

 

The Nintendo King..............What more can I say?

 

Zapper Gun Controller, Power Glove, Quickshot Joystick, Arkanoid Knob Controller...

 

You can say that you have no idea what the hell you're talking about. Just because the Famicom doesn't say "Nintendo Entertainment System" on it, doesn't mean that Nintendo didn't create it! Are you honestly that stupid to think that the "Famicom" company made that system, and Nintendo merely ported over the tech to America??? NOA and NOJ are the same company!!!!

 

God what a dolt. Where were you raised/schooled? I don't know what's worse. The fact you're uneducated, or the fact you try to act like you know what you're talking about!

 

 

Sad, for the first time I actually need to block someone.

Edited April 20, 2009 by DaytonaUSA