NES Gyromite With Famicom Converter?

[wingzrow]

Went on a wild guess earlier at a flea market and bought a copy of gyromite because I remembered you guys talking about some of them having famicom converters in them. Sure enough, after opening it up, it DOES have a famicom converter.

Anyone know how much this would sell for? Also, what other games have these converters?

[GameBoyGeek]

Well personally Ive not heard of them being worth to much if anything at all. I mean...you can go to almost any old school game store and get gyromite for like 2 bucks. Ive got 2 but dont have any famicon games to test them with yet. I may be wrong but i dunno.

[joshnickerson]

I've seen the converters go for $10-$20, depending on the buyer.

As for other games that have them, you'll only find them in early "black box" releases with five screws on the back and a specific pin pattern. You can find out more here...

http://www.classicplastic.net/dvgi/editorials-davidnesconvert.html

[wingzrow]

Ebay took down my listing...Don't see why they took mine down specifically when other people on ebay have theirs listed.

[fahlim003]

I've seen the converters go for $10-$20, depending on the buyer.

As for other games that have them, you'll only find them in early "black box" releases with five screws on the back and a specific pin pattern. You can find out more here...

http://www.classicplastic.net/dvgi/editorials-davidnesconvert.html


Maybe a year ago. Now nobody wants them and if they do I would ask, where the hell were these people 6 months ago.

I would say they aren't worth anything beyond the normal price of Gyromite, so a couple dollars.

[MarioMania]

Alot of people are chaging like $20 for Gyromite with the Converter in it

[GameBoyGeek]

I get my copies of Gyromite with the converter for 1.99 at the movie trading company. Only had make the mistake of 5 bucks 1 time......

[fahlim003]

Alot of people are chaging like $20 for Gyromite with the Converter in it

Something is only worth what someone is willing to pay for it. I had mine listed on this website for a few months at $10 shipped anywhere and my result... nothing. These carts aren't worth anything more than what they used to be. Couple bucks at most.

[MarioMania]

Someone here charging like $50 for a Modded Gyromite Converter

[buzz_n64]

Really? I have extras. I'll make a reasonable sales offer. I'll sell one with a converter inside for $15. PM me if anyone's interested.

[InsaneDavid]

I've seen the converters go for $10-$20, depending on the buyer.

As for other games that have them, you'll only find them in early "black box" releases with five screws on the back and a specific pin pattern. You can find out more here...

http://www.classicplastic.net/dvgi/editorials-davidnesconvert.html

Thanks for linking to my writeup about this subject! :)


Someone here charging like $50 for a Modded Gyromite Converter

That was me too, for a completely reworked cartridge like the one shown on the bottom of my writeup linked above. But as you can see, in my opinion anyway, it was about $50.00 of modification work. The time and engineering to make one of those is actually more than to do a Sega Saturn USA/JPN mod for instance. Saturn mod usually costs a little more though since it takes more parts and I add the cost of the Saturn hardware itself.

For the record I'm sold out of my custom Famicom to NES converters and I no longer have the facilities to make any more. I just have that single first prototype shown in the pictures. I was hoping to make more over the summer but it didn't pan out.

[fahlim003]

Thanks for linking to my writeup about this subject! :)

That was me too, for a completely reworked cartridge like the one shown on the bottom of my writeup linked above. But as you can see, in my opinion anyway, it was about $50.00 of modification work. The time and engineering to make one of those is actually more than to do a Sega Saturn USA/JPN mod for instance. Saturn mod usually costs a little more though since it takes more parts and I add the cost of the Saturn hardware itself.

For the record I'm sold out of my custom Famicom to NES converters and I no longer have the facilities to make any more. I just have that single first prototype shown in the pictures. I was hoping to make more over the summer but it didn't pan out.

That's what I would say. A vanilla Gyromite with converter isn't worth $50 let alone more than $10, but the way you created stand-alone converter cartridges, definitely worth it. I too would say your write-up was a good read the couple years ago when I first heard about it.