Pfft, you don't need to be able to read for SMW and Metroid. This thing wins. :D

wait for the rom carts to come out

Any idea if the mic will work with it?
I say this because I miss haggling with the merchant in Kid Icarus.

@QuickPick: Exactly. One of those "just because you can doesn't make it a great idea" products. I like the novelty of it all, but it would be easier (and most likely cheaper) to simply get a blank cart and load it with emulators. Didn't this come out for the original GBA, too?

Winner for best product name ever. Sounds like what the Asimo's supposed to be.

Any information on weather or not the TV out will also display your DS games?

What about disk system games ? lots of great famicom classics has been released on this format in japan...

Familator? Sounds icky!

Oooo thats fucking spiff!

man, I want one of these for US carts. sweet.

@blacksamurai87: haha I hope the next Asimo has a Famicom slot in his chest :)

All we need is the US Nintendo Club to start giving these away for NES carts and we'll call it even with Japan.

I have to say a NES emulator on an R4 would be a much more convenient option as you don't have to carry that bulky device or the bulky cartridges.

On the subject of the NES emulator for the DS, I noticed in the credits to Contra 4 that the emulated versions of Contra and Super C were using a modified version of the DS NES emulator!

Seeing as how I can't find a goddamn RF switch anywhere in Japan to replace the old one that just crapped out (aside from the internets, where I should be looking), I might just pick this bad boy up. Except that it it probably going to be $46 (5000 yen), which is exactly 10 times the amount I paid for my Famicon in the first place, and more expensive than recent 3rd party systems that play famicon carts. Damnit.

@SAKY: They make adaptors for that, and providing you had some NES gates around you could probably make your own, too.

EPIC WIN!

Now all I need is a DS, this thing and some NES games....

Obligatory comment about having to blow into NES carts.
It does look particularly funky and is an awesome gateway to retro for that box I have in the loft. If only the wifi worked for mad Double Dribble action on the bus.

This thing doesn't look obtrusive at all..

@bluesquareapple:
How many eyes do you have?

The chip for the Famicom and the SNES is the same, just with a different case. So you probably could play all of your SNES games too, unless I am mistaken

very cool indeed. they get all kinds of fun things in japan.

Hahaha, why? No, seriously, isn't the whole point of mobile gaming devices to be small enough to carry around?

Just get an emulator. (PC or DS)

Can I stick an import converter on that and then plug in a US cart? You know, just to keep it low profile.

@Billkwando:
That must cause some nasty finger cramps...

hahaha. those emulator just got a kick in the shins.

if you got the original carts, now you can play anywhere you like, no need to be stuck at your pc, fiddling with emulator software and searching for ROM.

heh.

this rocks!

i had one of these when i had a game boy advance...
it played both nes and famicom games..
although i sold it a long time ago..

It certainly takes the Lite of the portable, but it certainly is something that I'd buy for NES games.

They very much have these for US NES games. I saw one for sale at my local Last Stop CD Shop when I was there over Thanksgiving (I very nearly bought one too).

@nflchampion: I'd buy one for my NES games in a heartbeat. Any idea who makes it?

I think that on the list of ridiculous crap you can get for your portable gaming device, this ranks up there with the "giant magnifying screen/LED light-up/fold-out speakers/joystick D-pad" monstrosity that modified your old GameBoy.

Still, I know that people are gonna buy it and a few might even enjoy it.

Awesome, an emulator with no legal drawbacks!

I'll tell you exactly how this'll work. There'll be a Famicom emulator on board that reads the ROM data from whatever's in the cart slot, so because it uses original data it's in no way associated with illegality! Brilliant!

Nintendo needs to make official things like this.

...or it simply uses the DS as a TV screen...

because of the way the famicom disk system cartridge is shaped, i think it would be difficult to get it to work with this without modification.

Because of this, I suspect FDS compatibility will be spotty at best, or nonexistent at worst.

Yawn.

Call me when it plays SNES games.

I swear that someone made this for game gear a while ago.

It looks that it doesn't use the DS as more than a display device. Not even the speakers are used, the device comes with its own. My best estimation is that it's a NES on a chip device.

@Pisto3: if you find such a beautiful thing, let me know.

. o (I'm gonna go cuddle my box of 30+ game gear games now.)