The idea of someone releasing a chiptune album on a Famicom cartridge might seem strange if it hadn't happened once already, but that doesn't make the impending launch of 8bit Music Power Final any ...

If you’ve ever seen an original Famicom cartridge, you probably wondered what those little holes on the top edge were. Were they ventilation holes? Part of the manufacturing process? Something to put ...

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As of now, Sega has not released specific information on where these Famicom Card Cases will be available for purchase. Further details, including a list of participating stores, are expected to be ...

Epilogue’s transparent cartridge reader plays and preserves original SNES and Super Famicom games with Playback-powered ...

11. American Password Paks and Battery Paks were created to replicate the rewritable data feature of the Famicom Disk System. Around the time the NES began making serious inroads in the U.S., Japanese ...

Retrotainment Games, having made their stretch goals during their Kickstarter campaign for sidescrolling action/horror game Haunted Halloween ‘86: The Curse of Possum Hollow, will be releasing a ...

The Nintendo Entertainment System and the Family Computer (or “Famicom“) are technically the same console, capable of playing the same games–aside from regional exclusives and that sort of thing. That ...

Just when you thought it couldn't get any more meta than a full NES clone hacked into an NES controller, somebody goes and mods up an NES cart to play Famicom cartridges. The all-in-one unit includes ...

Finally, a use for all those copies of Super Mario Bros. A brilliant French hacker has come up with an elegant Nintendo mod that's Escher-like in its recursive genius. It's a Famicom clone crammed ...