Top Loader ?

[Master Chu]

Okay, i just found out ebay is infested with these things...

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...183391858&rd=1

Are these for real at like 20 and 30 dollar price tags ? If they are one would be the answer to my friend's prayers because he's got a bad case of toaster-syndrome, and not enuff money to get an original top-loader like mine.
If anybody here can tell me if these are worth the cash please LMK.

Thanks

[MegaDrive20XX]

what the heck? Looks more like a Fami-clone then a NES system

Looks cool, but I wonder how good it is

[christianscott27]

a good first hand review can be found here

http://atariage.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=67476

[Nebagram]

"dancing in the moonlight..."

...sorry. They do sound good as replacements for NESes but do look a bit wrong on some level. Maybe it's that it's 3rd party, or maybe I'm just over-attached to the lunchbox, I dunno.

[MegaDrive20XX]

Hmm if it can't play CastleVania 3...then It's trash to me

[Cirrus]

Hmm if it can't play CastleVania 3...then It's trash to me

Apparently these games don't work (from the link):

After Burner (semi-playable, many map tiles not displayed)
Bandit Kings of Ancient China
Castlevania III - Dracula's Curse (hangs when you enter a level)
Gauntlet (Licensed or Unlicensed) (wrong map tiles)
Gemfire
L'Empereur
Laser Invasion (extreme graphics glitches)
Nobunaga's Ambition II
Rad Racer II (wrong map tiles)
Romance of the Three Kingdoms II
Uncharted Waters

There are some okay games on here, notably CV III, but otherwise, your friend could probably get by without playing the others. Mike Gedeon (a DP member, I believe) sells these at his store in Cleveland, and he speaks highly of them.

[Sylentwulf]

Don't really see the point. It's $43 including shipping at it's cheapest price. You could easily get a working NES system for less. With a little luck you could easily get a real toploading system with everything for the same price or less.

[MegaDrive20XX]

Hmm if it can't play CastleVania 3...then It's trash to me

Apparently these games don't work (from the link):

After Burner (semi-playable, many map tiles not displayed)
Bandit Kings of Ancient China
Castlevania III - Dracula's Curse (hangs when you enter a level)
Gauntlet (Licensed or Unlicensed) (wrong map tiles)
Gemfire
L'Empereur
Laser Invasion (extreme graphics glitches)
Nobunaga's Ambition II
Rad Racer II (wrong map tiles)
Romance of the Three Kingdoms II
Uncharted Waters

There are some okay games on here, notably CV III, but otherwise, your friend could probably get by without playing the others. Mike Gedeon (a DP member, I believe) sells these at his store in Cleveland, and he speaks highly of them.

Yeah, that's why I said that about CastleVania 3...

But other then that, it's a pretty fair deal. Can it play Famicom carts as well? (Since it stated it does not need any convertor, etc. in the Ebay description)

[jajaja]

You need a converter to play famicom games. 60 pin wont fit to a 72 pin reader or vice verca.

[Maxx]

Looks like trash to me since most of my favorites are Koie titles.

I'm still looking for a copy of Gemfire....

[Cirrus]

You could easily get a working NES system for less. With a little luck you could easily get a real toploading system with everything for the same price or less.

A working NES isn't new, however, and some people just like seeing the game sticking out of the top, I guess. These actually sell pretty well, from what I hear.

And I think it would take a lot of luck to get a top loader with everything for less than 43 dollars.

[Great Hierophant]

I don't like Koei strategy games much, although I own many of them (they use special PCB and I wanted every major PCB Nintendo used.) I may grow to like Unchartered Waters and Gemfire though. As for Castlevania III, well I own its superior Japanese original and a real Famicom on which to run it. I find After Burner, Gauntlet and Rad Racer II to be fun, but they are all unplayable on the clone, After Burner less than the other two. I like Micro Machines, but while the menus are difficult to get working right, when I pay $45 I don't expect anything less than perfection.

However, its the sound that is truly what brings this clone down. I definitely believe that this thing is crap without accurate sound.

[Master Chu]

I don't like Koei strategy games much, although I own many of them (they use special PCB and I wanted every major PCB Nintendo used.) I may grow to like Unchartered Waters and Gemfire though. As for Castlevania III, well I own its superior Japanese original and a real Famicom on which to run it. I find After Burner, Gauntlet and Rad Racer II to be fun, but they are all unplayable on the clone, After Burner less than the other two. I like Micro Machines, but while the menus are difficult to get working right, when I pay $45 I don't expect anything less than perfection.

However, its the sound that is truly what brings this clone down. I definitely believe that this thing is crap without accurate sound.

Well they vary in price on thEBay tho. I saw a couple with $19.95 BIN's on the list when i first discovered them a couple days ago.

And after reading the Atariage write-up i'm thinking more along the lines of hooking my buddy up with a toaster with new pins instead. NES is my thing...and if it dont look, sound, and play exactly the same as the real deal it's sacrelige in my book.

[InsaneDavid]

Don't really see the point. It's $43 including shipping at it's cheapest price. You could easily get a working NES system for less. With a little luck you could easily get a real toploading system with everything for the same price or less.

Just picked up an NES top loader last Tuesday at the local flea market for $5.

And I think it would take a lot of luck to get a top loader with everything for less than 43 dollars.

I was actually more psyched about the vintage pachinko machine from 1972 I picked up for $25 in really good condition five minutes later.