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Nintendo finally stops support for the Famicom / NES and other consoles
According to ITMedia News (a Japanese site) Nintendo has officially announced it will cease support of a number of their more classic-consoles: the Famicom/NES, the SNES, GameBoy, GameBoy Pocket and Nintendo 64 (N64). Up till now Nintendo was officially still performing repairs and other services for the older consoles. Come 31st of October this support will be no-more.
Over the years Nintendo claims to have sold over 60,000,000 Famicom/NESconsoles, selling this little bugger is what kept the Nintendo company going through the games-industry-crash of 1983. With the Famicom Nintendo created 'the' standard of the cartridge-loading-game-console. When Nintendo was selling their NES/Famicom the competition was busy creating their own versions of new cartridge-loading consoles. But Sega's Master System (SMS) only arrived on the scene in 1986 and that same year Atari produced the ill-faithed Atari 7800. Anyways who can forget Famicom/NES-classics like Super Mario Bros., Duck Hunt, The Legend of Zelda, Metroid and Final Fantasy?
Give this machine some credit! In my opinion this machine should not be missing from any retro-gaming-enthusiast-collection!
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Yeah I have/had the utopia
Yeah I have/had the utopia cd when I owned a DC. Australia was in the sucky position of being in a different region, and our neighbor HK/JP was again a diff region (and ofcourse I had a hong kong/asian dreamcast).
-- Stu --
Indeed, the Utopia bootdisks are excellent for playing imports!
Indeed, the Utopia bootdisks are excellent for playing imports! As a matter of fact it is also possible to create your own homebrew bootable disks with all sorts of utilities on Windows/Linux/OSX that allow you to relive even the Famicom/Nes era by a whole plethora of emulators that excist for the Dreamcast. It is a wonderful homebrew-capable device without the need for modding anything.
Editor / Pixelator - Armchair Arcade, Inc.
Dreamcast
There are utilities that let you run pretty much any games on any Dreamcast.
Some could be bought and some are free like "Utopia".
If you find the latter on the web you can download and burn it onto a CD-R.
To play boot the Dreamcast with Utopia, set some options and then insert the
game GD-ROM to "boot" it.
You may have to experiment with different versions of Utopia (v1.1 and v1.2).
One caveat, though:
Sega at some point switched to GD-ROM drives that couldn't read CD-Rs anymore.
HTH,
Marcus
Famicom/Nes isn't only Mario you know...
@yakumo9275 Yeah it is amazing that Nintendo was actually performing repairs on the old nes/famicoms, actually still is until the end of October.
But to come back to the Nintendo=Mario that I often encounter when people speak about the old Nintendo consoles. Well I can honestly vouch for the fact that there is an enormous amount of non-nintendo software out there for the Nes/Famicom that will not remind you of Mario and Kirby at all.
You'll be surprised of the depth and diversity of the software library of the Nes/Famicom. The more recent consoles like the Snes and the N64 had a far stricter policy for game publishers to be allowed to publish on the platforms resulting in Nintendo having dominion with their Mario, Kirby, Pokemon, etc games. So the Nes/Famicom is a totally different beast when it comes to game-diversity.
Editor / Pixelator - Armchair Arcade, Inc.
Never had a nes/snes growing
Never had a nes/snes growing up. Never had a console growing up. Dont particuarly want one in my collection ;) I never saw the appeal in super mario brothers myself I dont quite know why everyone reveres it so much, its nothing but a basic run+jump platformer , which as a genre never interested me like crpgs or shmups.
Had a gameboy colour and a gameboy advance for a short time and was VERY VERY unimpressed.
I did have a dreamcast for about two weeks which blew me away (soul calibur + doa owned my life at that point) and then I sold it. I still have a bunch of HK game cd's which wont play on a usa dreamcast :(
If ps3 didnt require a new hidef tv, I'd get one I think, but we cant justify that kind of serious cash.
Its a surprise to know nintendo are still supporting such old stuff.
-- Stu --