Your experience with famiclone systems

[somesortofrobot]

I'm looking to buy a Yobo FC Loader system, but I have no idea if the systems are any good. Thus, I wanted to hear your opinions on them.

[wingzrow]

My opinion is they suck purely because they aren't 100% accurate to the original system. Either play your games on an original nes, or emulate on your tv through the wii or an xbox or something similar.

[retroman]

i had a lot of sound probs with mine....

[Frankie_Says_Relax]

I'm looking to buy a Yobo FC Loader system, but I have no idea if the systems are any good. Thus, I wanted to hear your opinions on them.

Want a decent NES/SNES clone?

This is all you need to know:

http://www.digitpress.com/forum/showthread.php?t=114088

[todesengel]

Every modern famiclone I've ever used had sound, graphics and compatibility problems. Sound is off and doesn't sound like it does on the actual hardware, colors are washed out, some games won't load at all or have serious graphical problems. I say stick with a real NES.

[iloveguns]

sounds problem with mine too..

[Ace]

You Yobo FC Game Console owners all have the older version of the system. Last year, Yobo corrected the sound flaws in the FC Game Console just like they corrected the sound flaws in the FC Twin when Yobo put their name on it. In general, though, modern-day Famiclones are never 100% accurate. The most accurate NES sound you can get is from the following clones:

-Yobo FC Game Console Version 2(you need to get a system that comes in a box with the system that's pictured on the front containing RED Power and Reset buttons. If the buttons are GRAY, then it's the inaccurate Version 1)
-RetroBit Retro Entertainment System(it's a rebranded FC Game Console Version 2 - I own this one and love it)
-Yobo FC Twin
-Hyperkin FC Mobile II

There are some modern-day Famiclones that have near-perfect sound, but the general sound output is so distorted it kills the experience, and those are:

-RetroBit's RetroDuo
-Tomee's Retro Twin

Both of these are missing 2 components on the sound circuit to keep the sound from becoming distorted. To get an idea as to what a RetroDuo and Retro Twin sound like unmodified, take a look at these 4 videos I made:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whZ3Id9k0OE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wvcx6-2LEgI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gtzf2CEG0Wo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bv4yMjv8IMU

Now, there are also the classic Famiclones that were illegally made during the NES' heyday, and those have the same sound inaccuracies as the modern-day Famiclones that get the sound pitch all wrong. Since those are full motherboard Famiclones rather than NOAC-based Famiclones like we see today, you can easily fix the bad sound by replacing the cloned CPU with an authentic Ricoh 2A03 CPU. Thing is, those clones usually are only meant to work with Famicom cartridges. So if you're looking for a clone, get either:

-A RetroBit RES(these have none of the sound pitch problems no matter the revision)
-A Hyperkin FC Mobile II
-A Yobo FC Twin
-A modified RetroBit RetroDuo
-A modified Tomee Retro Twin