Played through Super Mario Bros 3 on mine yesterday. It's still connected with an original NES Advantage joystick.
SamwiseGamgee wrote:
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ConfoundGordon wrote:
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Legend of Zelda (got the golden cartridge!)
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I also have a golden Zelda game, is that special? I thought they were all golden.
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You're correct. I believe only the late re-printed "NES Classics Series" (think "greatest hits," "players' choice," or "million-seller" today) were gray carts.
SabbraCadabra wrote:
For the NES, the golden carts were more common than the gray carts. I'm pretty sure Zelda II is the same way, but I'm not entirely sure.
For the 64, gold carts are slightly less common than grays (but not enough to be worth much money).
For
OoT, the entire first shipment were gold. For
MM, all were gold...but the first shipment had lenticular labels.
SabbraCadabra wrote:
ConfoundGordon wrote:
Although it was a poorly made system to get the frickin game working
, always fun to play.
A properly video-modded top-loading model 2 is the best way to play NES. It still kind of blows my mind that you can pop a game in and it just
works.
I got a like-new top-loader many years ago at a thrift store that looked like it had been professionally-refurbished by Nintendo. The cords even had the original twist ties.
When I noticed how poor the RF output was compared with a standard NES, I looked online and found that most or all top-loaders have this problem with variable severity. There was only preliminary information online for a fix, and I couldn't find any reports of someone completing the modification successfully. I believe there are other mods to add composite A/V, but I didn't want to perform any external modification. It's unfortunate that the US top-loader didn't come with the A/V jacks. It was known as the "Famicom A/V" in Japan!
These days, the value of a top-loader is severely diminished after Chinese counterfeits started showing up.
I've been playing on an old-style NES with a replacement cartridge connector.