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[Amusing] Official Fake Famicom Thread
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Old Aug 25, 2007, 11:32 PM Local time: Aug 26, 2007, 05:32 AM #1 of 13
Official Fake Famicom Thread

Hello Famicom friends at GFF,

I've recently found .... something << Famicom-related >> in my attic:



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Todays question:

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06:11:47 surasshu: what in the hell is that!

06:11:50 slayer25k: hey! it's got 2 A and B buttons!
06:12:03 slayer25k: it's ... Daiteno!
06:12:07 slayer25k: probably
06:13:29 surasshu: haha
06:13:36 surasshu: you totally need to show people on GFF this thing
06:13:39 surasshu: it's hilarious
06:13:55 slayer25k: i know - but hell .. where does it come from?!
Well - it obviously looks like copyright infringement at its best ... it probably is!

What do you think?
Should I post the content of the "a-bit-in-red-paint-tinctured-box" (which differs a bit from the outside appearance)?

Do you have one too?!

Jam it back in, in the dark.


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Old Aug 26, 2007, 12:02 AM Local time: Aug 26, 2007, 12:02 AM #2 of 13
Wow, they made a Chinese clone of the...Dendy Famicom rip-off.



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Old Aug 26, 2007, 02:37 AM Local time: Aug 26, 2007, 09:37 AM #3 of 13
Is it even Chinese? Cause the text on it is definitely Japanese. Nothing about it would make me think that it's Chinese, aside from the obvious ghetto-ness of it.

Anyway, what the hell is it? Does it have its own awesome games, or is it compatible with the NES? These pirate imitation consoles sure are intriguing.

I wonder what plugs it uses, too...

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.
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Old Aug 26, 2007, 03:13 AM Local time: Aug 26, 2007, 09:13 AM #4 of 13
You should rename the thread title to "[Amusing] Official Famicom Clone Thread". Anyway, nice find. I wish I could find stuff like that in my attic.

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Old Aug 26, 2007, 03:43 AM Local time: Aug 26, 2007, 06:43 PM #5 of 13
Infernal demands you bust that out of its cage and hook it up for action packed action! Does it even have a cartridge slot? The box looks like it's just a slab of blue. Ten thousand years ago when all the cool kids were playing Swords and Serpents, one kid in class got a 'Spiker'.. at least, I think it was called that. Google searching 'Nintendo Spiker' only results in volleyball games. It looked nothing like a NES or Famicom, but it could take official American/PAL cartridges and it had Super Mario Bros. built in. Nothing else!

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Old Aug 26, 2007, 03:58 AM Local time: Aug 26, 2007, 10:58 AM #6 of 13
Is it even Chinese? Cause the text on it is definitely Japanese. Nothing about it would make me think that it's Chinese, aside from the obvious ghetto-ness of it.
Except the Katakana for "Family Computer", all symbols are actually Chinese, since there are no Hiragana (or previously mentioned Katakana) in the descriptive texts. If it was Japanese, that'd be just a random sequence of nouns, which would make no sense at all.

Meh, it would be nice to know whether that thing had any use at all... e.g. whether it played official releases or just cheap home-made pirate games.
I've seen such pirated consoles numerous times in domestic catalogs; and I think there was something that suspiciously resembled the infamous N64 controller. You just plugged that thing into your TV and it had around 100 built-in games. Lame. Thank god I never bought that crap.

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Old Aug 26, 2007, 04:04 AM Local time: Aug 26, 2007, 07:04 PM #7 of 13
I think there was something that suspiciously resembled the infamous N64 controller. You just plugged that thing into your TV and it had around 100 built-in games. Lame. Thank god I never bought that crap.
I did.

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Old Aug 26, 2007, 04:10 AM Local time: Aug 26, 2007, 11:10 AM #8 of 13
That's a pair of very short controller cables

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Old Aug 26, 2007, 05:11 AM Local time: Aug 26, 2007, 06:11 PM #9 of 13
Except the Katakana for "Family Computer", all symbols are actually Chinese, since there are no Hiragana (or previously mentioned Katakana) in the descriptive texts. If it was Japanese, that'd be just a random sequence of nouns, which would make no sense at all.
I did a lookup of those characters and apparently it's the former name of a Chinese company now known as Shenzhen Jeja Electronics Industrial Co. Ltd.

http://www.jeja.cn/

They've come a long way...

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Old Aug 26, 2007, 06:16 AM Local time: Aug 26, 2007, 06:16 AM #10 of 13
I recently saw this posted somewhere else:





The name and looks might be decieving, but inside that fancy and oh-so-colorful box is in fact a famiclone. Note that this was spotted in Mexico though, so the $299 price tag isn't even worth a tenth of that in US dollars.

The "Powerstation" next to it also looks intruiging, but alas, I have no information on what it could possibly be.

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Old Aug 26, 2007, 08:48 AM Local time: Aug 26, 2007, 02:48 PM #11 of 13
Apparently, 八通 (hachitsû) means "eight pieces" (where "通" is a counter for cables, copies etc.), 電子廠 (denshi shou) means "electronics factory". 大天才 (daitensai) means "great genius" and is the clone's name. But, as Bigblah mentioned, it's more likely that 八通電子廠 is the company's name, meaning that the game itself was released in Japan (this explains the usage of Japanese characters) by a Chinese company.

*PHEW*

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Old Aug 26, 2007, 09:32 AM Local time: Aug 26, 2007, 04:32 PM #12 of 13
I had one of those. It was red. The upper A and B are turbo buttons.

It worked like a charm and it could even emulate european NES games.

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Old Aug 28, 2007, 01:29 AM Local time: Aug 28, 2007, 12:29 AM #13 of 13
The name and looks might be decieving, but inside that fancy and oh-so-colorful box is in fact a famiclone. Note that this was spotted in Mexico though, so the $299 price tag isn't even worth a tenth of that in US dollars.

The "Powerstation" next to it also looks intruiging, but alas, I have no information on what it could possibly be.
A Famiclone? I was under the impression that South America was all about the Master System and assorted clones. Still, all it takes is a few Mexican moms with only a vague idea what game system their kids are asking for to make this thing profitable.

Despite being hellishly bootleg, the "Family Computer" is probably every bit as functional as an actual NES. Possibly even moreso - bootleg Famicoms tend not to be region locked, and some of them come pre-loaded with bunches of equally bootlegged games. The beauty of the old Famicom is that, being a relatively simple bit of electronics, there's less to screw up.

As for the text, it's entirely possible that it was just really bad Japanese. These are Chinese bootleggers we're talking about, here. Japanese is hardly immune to being horribly mangled by some guy with a Chinese-Japanese dictionary and no working knowledge of the actual language.

I was speaking idiomatically.
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