Chinese Pirate Famicom

[sniperCCJVQ]

Nice site :

http://www.geocities.jp/rinkaku89/pachigame/index_pachi.html

Check this Windows 2000 for NES !

http://www.geocities.jp/rinkaku89/pachigame/19_fc_win2000.html

[rpepper9]

Nice site if you can read Chinese. The Windows 2000 cart is interesting. Looks like someone had way too much time on their hands!

[Volcanon]

The site is Japanese. It's mostly inane comments about what you can discern from the pictures.

That site is great. There are, anog other things (on http://www.geocities.jp/rinkaku89/pachigame/index_pachi.html) , a Fami Chrono Trigger, Fami Naruto RPG, Fami FF7 as seen before, some kind of new zelda, pokemon hacked into 4 arcade games,

This is cool:

http://www.geocities.jp/rinkaku89/pachigame2/55_fc_makai.html

Saga 3 (FF Legend 3) ported from Gameboy with Cloud and the FF7 meteor on the title screen.

Zelda 3 with random anime girls on the cover http://www.geocities.jp/rinkaku89/pachigame2/53_fc_zelda.html SNES -> NES

"Super Panda" with graphics ripped from various games including Megaman 6
http://www.geocities.jp/rinkaku89/pachigame/index_pachi.html

Dragon Quest 8
http://www.geocities.jp/rinkaku89/pachigame2/45_fc_dq8.html

[PentiumMMX]

Windows 2000 for Famicom? Cool...

[Damaniel]

The Windows 2000 cart was my favorite. I was laughing my ass off when I got down to the bottom of the page and saw the command prompt -- it's probably not functional, but it shows the dedication of the company that made this to bringing its end-users a complete and accurate Windows experience! ;)

I wonder if there are any games on there besides solitaire? If not (or even if so, for that matter), I don't understand what the point of a cart that gives you a Windows-like desktop would be. Of course, it doesn't really matter what the point is -- nothing makes sense in the world of Chinese pirate Famicom carts.

[Tootai]

The Windows 2000 cart was my favorite. I was laughing my ass off when I got down to the bottom of the page and saw the command prompt -- it's probably not functional, but it shows the dedication of the company that made this to bringing its end-users a complete and accurate Windows experience! ;)

I wonder if there are any games on there besides solitaire? If not (or even if so, for that matter), I don't understand what the point of a cart that gives you a Windows-like desktop would be. Of course, it doesn't really matter what the point is -- nothing makes sense in the world of Chinese pirate Famicom carts.

Actually the prompt probably works with the right Fami. These things are meant for "educational computers", basically pirate Famicoms with an intergrated keyboards. I have no idea what standard they use and if they would work with the Famicom Basic keyboard.

I got one that came with Word, Excel, Minesweeper and a whole bunch of other windows applications, probably meant for kids to learn basic computer use. There's even a little demo that tells you what different computer parts are. I've always wondered if there's actually a printer for this, as the print option in all the editors just results in a connection error.

[Volcanon]

Why don't they just pirate Apple ]['s? they run on the same processor and they dont have go code a whole fake windows for it.

[Daria]

Why don't they just pirate Apple ]['s? they run on the same processor and they dont have go code a whole fake windows for it.

Because that just wouldn't be as awesome?

[Charlesaway]

Because that just wouldn't be as awesome?

Plus, predictably, the installed base of Famicom clones easily surpasses the installed base of Apple II computers.

[aaron7]

Why don't they just pirate Apple ]['s? they run on the same processor and they dont have go code a whole fake windows for it.

NES: 1.79 MHz Ricoh 6502 NMOS
Apple II: 16 MHz Motorola 68020

:smash:

[rbudrick]

Many places in China used FC-based computers. Iirc, yes they even had printers. The PC Jr. device was one, I believe. No idea on the keyboard differences.

I'd certainly like a chance to mess around or even translate that WIn2k cart!

-Rob

[Volcanon]

NES: 1.79 MHz Ricoh 6502 NMOS
Apple II: 16 MHz Motorola 68020

:smash:

No Sir. You are referring to the Apple Macintosh II.

Wikipedia: The first Apple II computers went on sale on June 5, 1977 with a MOS Technology 6502 microprocessor running at 1 MHz, 4 KB of RAM, an audio cassette interface for loading programs and storing data, and the Integer BASIC programming language built into the ROMs. (Ricoh/MOS are just different brands of the same processor)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_II_series#Apple_II
:smash::smash::smash:

[rbudrick]

And yet we never saw Math Munchers on NES. Shame.

-Rob