Famicom Games, Let's talk about your favorites, they're now more accessible with the Retron 5.

[Tanooki]

A couple months back I got my first converter, then I ended up a month maybe before the R5 hit getting a honeybee via a really piss poorly setup ebay auction with a pricey famiclone attached for peanuts. I started to rack up a pretty decent little library of titles.

I've managed to get these so far and can recommend the lot of them to anyone curious.
- 260-in-1 Golden Game (Famicom-Pirate)
- Armadillo
- Bio Miracle Bokutte Upa ("Baby Mario" - Famiclone)
- Choplifter
- Choujikuu Yousai - Macross (Super Dimension Fortress Macross)
- Crisis Force (CI)
- Daiku no Gen San (Hammerin' Harry)
- Family Jockey
- Final Lap
- Joy Mech Fight
- Kyattou Ninden Teyandee (Samurai Pizza Cats)
- Mitsume ga Tooru (Three Eyed One)
- Moon Crystal (Famiclone)
- Parodius Da!
- Rampart
- Splatterhouse Wanpaku Graffiti
- Super Mario Bros. 2 ("Golden Mario" - Famiclone)
- Twinbee
- Twinbee 3: Poko Poko Dai Maou (The Great Demon King Poko Poko)
- Wai Wai World 2: SOS!! Paseri Jou (SOS!! Parsley Castle)
- (The) Wing of Madoola
- Yume Penguin Monogatari (Story of the Dream Penguin)

I know of some other decent games like Holy Diver, Gimmick, Heberke, Mappy Kids, and some others. Do any of you have any preferences? I'm surprised just how damn well these things work on the R5 with all the weird chip variants as I've got most of the Konami VRCs in that list and a Sunsoft and Namco mapper in there too.

[Gameguy]

I have a few multicarts, about the only original cart that I currently remember having is Gradius II. I might have some more around somewhere, the carts I own were all found locally so my collection of famicom games is low.

[Nesmaster]

Adventure Island 4 is probably my favorite in the entire series.

Battle City is a classic and on damn near every pirate.

Gimmick is a given. Hammerin Harry and Ufouria are very fun. Also all available in PAL.

Gradius 2, Crisis Force, Recca.

Exciting Rally: World Rally Championship. Always liked this one for some reason.

There's a lot more I'm forgetting, and probably many more I've never played.

[Tanooki]

You know what, that's just all the more cool. It's hard to find these things locally, even when I was on the west coast I rarely if ever saw a multicart let alone a legit game and that was prime country for it. Gradius II is amazing, that one I have as a retrozone cart along with Kid Dracula so I don't see a need to re-buy those as a famicom cart or I would.

[Ozzy_98]

Goonies.

[Gatucaman]

Gun Nac, Bomberman II, Time Zone, Sweet Home (tough you need to familiarize yourself with what the menus do and the names of the items, cause, i guess i am not sure anymore about sacrificing my untranslated copy of the game for a repro, because of the old chinese EPROMS that had short life cycles and that one repro i almost got was stolen in the mail all the way to my country).

[Einzelherz]

I recently picked up Sanrio Cup Bon Bon Volleyball to go with my set of FF games. I've wanted Crisis Force for forever but the price has spiked considerably on it.

[Tanooki]

Im selling a famiclone of crisis force. It is made with all chips on the board, very early famiclone so its not the cheap easy fail glop top black blob stuff. I had it working fine on real hardware and the retron5. I happened into a legit copy with a manual or Id have kept it.

[StealthLurker]

Maybe judge these for yourself, but worth a look (at least on Youtube):

- Uchuu Keibitai SDF (shmup)
- Taruto Kun 1 & 2
- Spartan X 2 (Kung Fu 2)
- Hi No Torii
- Maten Douji
- Ginga Daisakusen
- Jacky Chan
- Sayuki World part 1 (basically Wonderboy in Monsterworld for famicom)
- Magical Doropie (you probably know, very well known)
- Chojin Sentai Jetman
- Cosmo Police Galvan (This isn't Solbrain)
- Air Fortress (shmup)
- Image Fight (shmup)
- Over Horizon (shmup)
- Moeru Twinbee (shmup)
- Abarenbou Tengu (shmup)
- Daiku no Gen San 2 (Hammerin' Harry 2)
- Fudou Myououden (Demon Sword NES, but japanese version has more stuff and levels)
- Cocoron
- Namcot Star Wars
- PC Genjin (Bonk)
- Kid Niki 2 & 3
- Final Mission (shmup)
- Captain Saver
- Dragon Unit
- Dragon Fighter
- Magic John (Totally Rad NES, but lots of graphics swapped)
- Paman Enban o Torikaese 1 & 2
- Banana Prince (was this only released in EU for the west?)
- Kamen No Ninja Hanamaru
- Ultraman Club: Kaijuu Dai Kessen
- Great Battle Cyber
- Youkai Douchuu-ki
- RAF World
- Parasol Henbee
- Power Blazer
- Konami Motorcross Champion
- Jump Kid
- War Wolf
- Hello Kitty World (like Balloon Fight trip mode)
- Kero Kero Keroppi no daibouken (platformer)
- JuJu Densetsu
- Moai Kun
- Don Dokodon 2
- Genpei Toumaden (Samurai Ghost)
- Metal Figther
- Doki Doki Panic (maybe pirate cart but much rarer than disk version)

[Kitsune Sniper]

*edited*

Forget it.

[GarrettCRW]

- Bio Miracle Bokutte Upa ("Baby Mario" - Famiclone)
- Super Mario Bros. 2 ("Golden Mario" - Famiclone)

It's wonderfully ironic that you're suggesting piracy to play games that if the Retron 5 was even halfway competent would be playable by plugging a Famicom Disk System into the thing. Also, Bio Miracle Bokutte Upa was released officially on cartridge in Japan.

[SparTonberry]

Maybe he's weary of paying money for nearly 30 year old floppy disks (which is a far more fragile media).

Yeah, Upa was released on cart but it's quickly surpassing the limits of what most people would consider acceptable to pay for a single game.

[Tanooki]

I know it's amusing, yeah they're pirates. I have zero interest in ever owning a FDS as they're fragile and the discs are a magnetic ticking time bomb so Spar there is right. And with Upa being like a $125-150 famicom cart being it was nearly one of the very last released that's well beyond what I consider reasonable for a Japanese loose cart. I cap out around $40 on stuff which is why I had a famiclone of Crisis Force but I got the real one for $40 with the manual so it's up for sale. I have a clone of Moon Crystal which the R5 is friendly to, again not interested in paying for a $150 loose cart which is a joke. I would here and there perhaps make an exception like Lickle for around $100~ because $500 for the US version is disgusting.

The R5 with the 1.4 firmware actually is very capable of running most bootleg stand alone Nintendo carts with that auto detecting mapper 0-4 routine. The R5 is well beyond half way competent as really on the whole when you look into what a Trio, Yobo, and the older Retrons will run, it's not suffering for doing worse anymore.

[GarrettCRW]

No FDS support means cutting off a good two years worth of Nintendo releases for the Famicom, and a substantial percentage of Konami's releases in that same period. And with Hyperkin flogging the goal of 100% compatibility, it's going to represent one hell of a substantial gap, no matter your opinion on the reliability of the systems or disks (which, as someone who has owned two FDS units and a Twin over the years, the reliability factor isn't that pronounced-unless you're screwing around with pirated disks).

[calgon]

Where do you guys buy most of your famicom games? Ebay prices have been redonk lately

[Tanooki]

I've picked up almost all of them from ebay, mostly from 3 particular US based large scale famicom sellers who luckily for much of it price under what you'll get from Japan after the crappy shipping and long delay. A few others were just random people on there, just a few from senseiman from famicomworld.com forums, and a couple from dave (tracker) from a checkered forum. The best of it by far was senseiman and the ebay bigger sellers as they post nice stuff along with a heap of common so-so stuff in bulk I think every week or two.

Garrett I don't see the relevance of picking on the R5, it's just not a FDS or a legit famicom, but I agree entirely with your feelings on some unique Konami games and a couple others. Kiseki no Almana and Senshi no Nicol(or whatever it is) are pretty slick, but I've never seen much on there I'd really ever bother with and some that I would came to the US annoyingly with passwords attached. Hyperkin was attempting to achieve 100% compatibility for the systems they support, but they never planned to support the FDS, just the Famicom so it's not really a lie or even an omission of the truth either.

[OrdinaryOtaku]

A couple months back I got my first converter, then I ended up a month maybe before the R5 hit getting a honeybee via a really piss poorly setup ebay auction with a pricey famiclone attached for peanuts. I started to rack up a pretty decent little library of titles.

I've managed to get these so far and can recommend the lot of them to anyone curious.
- 260-in-1 Golden Game (Famicom-Pirate)
- Armadillo
- Bio Miracle Bokutte Upa ("Baby Mario" - Famiclone)
- Choplifter
- Choujikuu Yousai - Macross (Super Dimension Fortress Macross)
- Crisis Force (CI)
- Daiku no Gen San (Hammerin' Harry)
- Family Jockey
- Final Lap
- Joy Mech Fight
- Kyattou Ninden Teyandee (Samurai Pizza Cats)
- Mitsume ga Tooru (Three Eyed One)
- Moon Crystal (Famiclone)
- Parodius Da!
- Rampart
- Splatterhouse Wanpaku Graffiti
- Super Mario Bros. 2 ("Golden Mario" - Famiclone)
- Twinbee
- Twinbee 3: Poko Poko Dai Maou (The Great Demon King Poko Poko)
- Wai Wai World 2: SOS!! Paseri Jou (SOS!! Parsley Castle)
- (The) Wing of Madoola
- Yume Penguin Monogatari (Story of the Dream Penguin)

I know of some other decent games like Holy Diver, Gimmick, Heberke, Mappy Kids, and some others. Do any of you have any preferences? I'm surprised just how damn well these things work on the R5 with all the weird chip variants as I've got most of the Konami VRCs in that list and a Sunsoft and Namco mapper in there too.

My favorites are probably Wrecking Crew and Mario Bros. They better be playable on the R5.

[Satoshi_Matrix]

mapper 0 boards work on it. Hell, mapper 0 boards work on the worst famiclones out there.

[Tanooki]

I only have around 20 famicom games, but a share of them use exotic mappers and they work, so I'd think some launch era mapper 0 stuff would be just fine. At this rate the safe argument would be to say the list of legitimate games, non-pirates, non-multicarts, non-flash pirate carts, and non-homebrew would be a fairly small list and far too much research and work to type up a working list.


...that and I own both those as NES games and they're perfect.

[Little Miss Gloom]

I'm a really, really, really huge fan of Splatterhouse: Naughty Graffiti. That game is so much fun!