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[smork]

I was in a game store in very rural northern Japan yesterday and they had this puppy on display:



It's obviously a SFC mated to a TV. First time I've seen this one. The store had it hooked up and had a pile of games you could pop in and play.

Anybody have one of these?

[Kiddo]

I've seen a few of those on YJA and eBay. Shipping is crazy-expensive.

[TwinThumbs]

Wait...so you didn't even try to stuff it under your jacket and sneak out of the store with it? I'm disappointed...

I've never seen that configuration before. Nice! Thanks for the pic.

[kedawa]

I don't see a pic...

[Ed Oscuro]

Kedawa: Quote and look for the links, they just don't show up on the page for some reason. That said, I couldn't get them to work.

Thoughts: Better be hooked up via RGB internally.

Is the screen grayish or black when turned off? I'd settle for s-vid + a decent CRT before an older non-trinitron (or similar) grayscreen. Actually, I'll settle for something that won't become useless when the display dies - I'd imagine that's the part limiting the lifespan of this unit (aside from audio jacks which go first in my experience).

[smork]

Hmm, I don't know why it's not showing up for people, I'm just using imageshack for this one. Maybe I should put it on my flickr instead?

Here's the imageshack link:
http://img22.imageshack.us/img22/6177/img3709vv.jpg

The screen is grey when off. This one looks like it's seen alot of use so I don't think I would want to buy it anyway, though it would be a pretty cool conversation piece! Besides this store is crazy far from home and crazy crazy far from public transportation (I walked quite a ways to get here).

[smork]

Strangely enough there's one on Yahoo Auctions right now. It's got a starting bid of 300 yen

http://page.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/128097651

[MagicMajenta]

I saw this on ebay a while back from a seller in Hong Kong who had an auction with TONS of systems on it, and he wanted like $100,000 and this was one of them. I believe the seller was lik-sang jr, not sure though. Anyway that and now was the only time I have seen this thing. Anyone know if they did this with any other system where they've fused it with a TV.

[TonyTheTiger]

Actually, I'll settle for something that won't become useless when the display dies - I'd imagine that's the part limiting the lifespan of this unit (aside from audio jacks which go first in my experience).

I figure anybody who's interested in spending the coin for these type of Frankenstein machines is bound to either put in a little elbow grease to fix what problems arise or have "a guy" who can do it.