Any homebrew labels in your collection?

Hey guys!

For sure everybody have found sometimes a cart with a
destroyed label... What do you make? Keep it until
find a new copy of the game to replace the damaged?
Don't get a game when the label is horrible?

But, if the game is a rare piece of treasure? What to do?
Or then a pirate/alternate cart with a ugly taiwan label
for some game you are sure you will never find again?

In my case, I prefer (like most of you I think) to get the
original version of all games. Official releasing.

Also, I don't care too much about box and manual...
Yes, this is true. Boxes take a lot of room to be stored.

However, I go for pirate carts yes too, especially because
I am a FAMICOM (60 pins carts, you know) collector
and there are some NES Games never released in Japan.
Since I don't have a NES 'toaster' or 'toploader', I get
only 60 pins cartridges. USA 72 Pins do not enter in
my house (please, don't get offended!!)

I have few rarities (although pirate copies) in Famicom
60 pins format! To name two: Metroid and Castlevania II.
(Of course I have both in Famicom Disk System format too...)

Finally, my point is, wherever the cart is --- if it has a
damaged or ugly/nonsense label, I replace with ones.
Check it, guys!

Cospefogo.

Castlevania II (Dorakyura II, Noroi no Fuuin)

My 60pins Metroid (english rom inside!)

Back label of my alternate carts.

Ok, ok... the corners are really bad!

The best Tetris ever!

Monsters in my Pocket.

Before 'cut and paste'!

Hey, that's pretty cool man. Those all look really good! I've never owned a Famicom game, so I was wondering if they have the glossy look to them like on NES Games? If they do, do you apply a glossy layer as well?

Also, have you thought about making your own website for people to download? If others had destroyed/missing labels, there may be some interest for them to apply a label so they know what game they have.

Those are some excellent labels. Good stuff.

"Do not drink wine during gameplay, do it after or before"

They're really rather good. If I have a game with a tatty label, I just ignore it, i'm not too fussed about owning "collectors pieces"

Those are awesome dude! I saw your other collection thread, and you have quite a dedication to your games

Very nice work man, well i really don't have the patience nor the time make other labels but since you do graphic designing that won't take all to long,it looks smooth.

Those are really nice labels. At first I just looked at the pics without reading the text and thought it were official labels.
Keep on the good work.

However, I go for pirate carts yes too, especially because
I am a FAMICOM (60 pins carts, you know) collector
and there are some NES Games never released in Japan.
Since I don't have a NES 'toaster' or 'toploader', I get
only 60 pins cartridges. USA 72 Pins do not enter in
my house (please, don't get offended!!)
This may be of interest to you then:

No point in needlessly limiting yourself to 60 pin carts if you can have both, am I right?

Well... Hope to not be crucified for some people here,
but I really feel disgusting what Nintendo of America did
with several NES-USA games, like the horrible labels
for the Rockman series - also - why change the godamn' name?

Why they removed the absolutely brilliant Yoshitaka Amano's artwork in
Final Fantasy I USA version? What about Metroid NES against the
original Famicom Disk Artwork? Just to name a few...

Things like that really do not me feel confortably with
the big NES cartridges.
Just my opinion...

One of the few games I really would like to have the
USA Cart is Star Trek 25th Anniversary. What a piece of
art. (Ok, ok, I'm trakker since childhood!)

Cospefogo.

Actually, there are a number of reasons. Not nessicarily great ones, but pressing nonetheless. Significanly different cultural tastes for one(especially at the time of the Famicom/Nes launch. The world is much smaller place these days thanks to teh intarweb)

For another thing, the NES needed to look as much like an all american product as possible, while not looking like a traditional console system. At that point in time, America was very anti-Japan.

There's also the fact that the console was aimed at a significantly different audience in the States: primarily kids, whereas it was more or less a fully fledged computer system in Japan, implying an older audience.

It's also likely America may not have known what to make of the art-style. Anime was only starting to become prevalent - Transformers, for example, and that was actually at least partly western.

Still, it must be said that the Western interpretation art wasn't nessicarily bad. But it was very different. The cart pic on Megaman 2 is striking, even if it's not particuarly accurate. if it's any consolation, the art usually faces the other way when using a Family Convertor anyway As for why they changed things like names and the like - particuarly Rockman's... who knows? Sometimes it worked out for the better though. Like with Castlevania over Akumajou Densetsu.

But, as I already said, since I am outside USA, I can't collect
all of all systems. Shipping prices are too high, import taxes,
hard to find ebay sellings, etc etc...

So I stick to the Famicom only.
Maybe one day I get a NES Toploader?
Time will tell!

Cheers,
Cospefogo.
Well, I can certainly appreciate THAT sentiment. Even if someone felt inclined to, I don't think there are many of us that could afford to collect for EVERY system

I'm outside the US as well, but since I'm in Europe, where we recieved the 72pin NES too, that's primarily what I collect, though I've got a few famicom carts which I'll use with a Famiclone I managed to pick up off Ebay, if I ever manage to find a suitable POWer supply.

Almost every Famicom game I get has surprised me in some fashion. Kid Dracula was the first one I got, and surprised me because of the general look and size of the Famicom cart compared to the NES carts. Sweet Home surprised me just for existing. Rolling Thunder is the first fully boxed Famicom game I ever got, so it was nice to see a Famicom game with packaging intact, whereas Bandit Kings Of Ancient China surprised me again, simply because the cart is much chunkier than standard Famicom carts.

Hey man...
Did you say you can't play in your Famiclone just because
you don't have a POWer suply? Here in Brazil it's easy to find
a generic one...

Did you Famiclone works with USA POWer suply specifications
or Japan Famicom specifications? (Yes, both POWer chords are
NOT compatible between itselves).

Cospefogo.

I honestly don't know. There was an adaptor supplied, but it didn't inspire a lot of confidence. It had apparently had three pins, but there was a hole where the top pin should be and the pin itself was INSIDE THE POWER SUPPLY. I don't know if it was damaged in transit, but it seems like a pretty good guess

On top of this, the Famiclone states that it should only be used with an AC Adaptor, but the supplied adaptor was actually a DC model, which means I'm not sure its the original POWer supply anyway, which means the voltages printed on the PSU are suspect in the first place.

When I get paid in a few days, my plan is to go hunt down an appropriate multi-adaptor and start it off on the lowest setting. Worst comes to worst and I fry it, I suppose I can always rip out the 60 pin connector and solder it to an old NES. Sounds like a fun electronics experiment.

The other problem is that I think it may be an NTSC Famiclone, so I'm not CERTAIN whether it'll be compatible with the TV, though the TV has proven itself to be adaptable to PAL 60hz signals in the past, so I'm hoping for the best.

Hopefully I should have an convertor that will let me use Famicom games in my NES on the way from another Ebay seller anyway, but it's an interesting clone and I'd rather not trash it it's one of those "Family Game" ones that looks very similar to a real Famicom. (. The colour scheme is identical, but there's a few differences. The eject slider is a slightly different shape, and so is the hinge covering the cart port, and the joypads are both the same, only with four buttons (A & B and a turbo button for each, plus start and select)).

Opa!!

Well, Famicom and Super Famicom use DC and NES and SNES use AC.
Famicom and Super Famicom use the SAME PSU.
Exactly the same for both - DC10V 850ma - Negative inside pin
connector and positive outside.

So, you can search for a PSU with DC10V and
ANY value HIGHER than 850ma. HIGHER or same.
It will work perfectly. Personal experience!

If your Famiclone is a product manufacturated in Asia,
I am almost sure you just need a DC10V adaptor.

Years ago a friend of mine had a Famiclone like
the same one you metioned on the pic, and it used
a PSU exactly as the japanese famicom.

Look, here are my two models of old famicom.
On the left is a autentic japanese unit, and on the
right a Hong Kong unit ---- OFFICIAL NINTENDO, believe me.
I even checked on the main board inside. They are pretty
abandoned since I use a Famicom 1993 AV model to play
all games.

Aah, a neat detail - both were hacked internally to AV output.
I can play normally in televisiosn with MULTI-SYSTEM (Pal/NTSC).

Cheers, man!
Cospefogo.

nice labels really great idea.