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Mike A:
What sort of gibberish is that?

pbj:
FYI these are unplayable on a RetroDuo.

pbj:
Tried a couple of mods on the Famicom cartridge.

First I added a Zener diode to the unpopulated spot on the PCB. These traces were not bridged already as they are on other multicarts. No change.

Next I ran a jumper wire from the OE pin of the ram chip to the CHR RD pin (#17 on the cartridge). This scrambled all my graphics but everything booted and "played."

So these mods were both removed and we are back to "stock." Games that didn't work previously still don't work.

Oh well.

pbj:
So this showed up on Saturday:

It was $12.43 shipped. Ordered on March 30, arrived April 22. Obvious searches from usual sellers should turn up many variations of this.

No boot up screen, kicks you directly to a text menu with the games in alphabetical order. Only exception I saw was Mario Bros that they grouped in with SMB 1, 2, and 3 which was a nice touch.

River City Ransom is the USA ROM and in English. I played it about an hour and it seemed 100% working. Perhaps it's just wishful thinking, but it seemed like less character flickering than I remember.

Unfortunately, the games I bought this to play (primarily Final Fantasy 3 and Star Tropics 1 & 2) have annoying issues. All the dialogue text in Final Fantasy 3 is garbled so the game is unplayable. Star Tropics 1 & 2 both go completely silent once you get passed the title screen. Which would be a blessing for many NES games but is annoying for those.

Legend of Zelda seemed to be fine.

So, the non-working ones are a real bummer, but the library on this thing pretty much nails the NES. Between this and a 151 in 1, I feel like I have the system covered.

:cheers:

Howard_Casto:
Multi carts are awesome. They are so cheap I'm tempted to get one of each so we can do a database of which ones have which games and which games are broken ect.....

I never have managed to contact someone about getting a batch of custom carts made.

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