Testing the Hong Kong Famicom

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  • Spoilers: It gets a little confusing.
    00:00 External Differences
    04:25 Manual Flip-through
    12:42 Testing It Out
    Originally published to Patreon on Dec 24, 2021
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  • @AkfamilyhomePlus
    @AkfamilyhomePlus  2 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    Let me know if you'd be interested in seeing a continuation where I try disassembling it with barely any experience to get down to the bottom of this lol

    • @Pepperroni_McRoni
      @Pepperroni_McRoni 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Does HongKong even allow you to use youtube or another website that is not from china

    • @AkfamilyhomePlus
      @AkfamilyhomePlus  2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@Pepperroni_McRoni I'm on TH-cam right now take a wild guess

    • @Pepperroni_McRoni
      @Pepperroni_McRoni 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@AkfamilyhomePlus My brain: Just say anything I guess 1 IQ me writing this and typing this: VPN i guess Me: Thinks of jumping of cliff (Also i did look it up)

    • @thepurplemudkip9998
      @thepurplemudkip9998 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      do it do it do it

    • @Pepperroni_McRoni
      @Pepperroni_McRoni 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@thepurplemudkip9998 Do it now just do it ok I'll give you some ice cream

  • @FalKoopa
    @FalKoopa 2 ปีที่แล้ว +35

    I assumed the Normal/Slow switch was going to be a 50Hz/60Hz toggle but I guess more research is needed.

    • @q8mantheretrogamer999
      @q8mantheretrogamer999 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      You are right ... I have one and it work as 50/60 hz

    • @patosomon724
      @patosomon724 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@q8mantheretrogamer999Wow, so cool

    • @give_me_my_nick_back
      @give_me_my_nick_back 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@q8mantheretrogamer999 Lazy nintendo could do it for HK but couldn't for Europe and we ended up getting lame slow games ewen though most of the TVs worked with 60Hz no problem

  • @bastiro03
    @bastiro03 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    My guess: Either you need a HK game, or the system has to be turned off. Or yours is broken. Or any combination of these things.

  • @justanotheryoutubechannel
    @justanotheryoutubechannel 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    It’s interesting how it has a smooth untextured base like a very early famicoms did in Japan, the square button models.

  • @nakamanga5412
    @nakamanga5412 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I always wanted to see type this real rare version of the Famicom on full detail.

  • @Ultradude604
    @Ultradude604 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Back in the 80s, before I moved away from Hong Kong to Canada, as a child, I got a Famicom. The picture on screen was distorted, the sound may have been distorted. Matter of fact, it's very much like the troubles you're having with your famicom. I couldn't figure out why. My Sega Master System played perfectly though. Thanks to this video, I figured out why. I got sold a Japanese Famicom. I remember the unit looked like that, the labels weren't in English, it was in Japanese. I don't recall reading any Chinese/English instruction manual at all. Mystery solved!

  • @snesfan8935
    @snesfan8935 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    That switch is must be for NTSC / PAL game speed.

    • @FrancisLitanofficialJAPINOY
      @FrancisLitanofficialJAPINOY ปีที่แล้ว

      Or Sony Trinitron PAL NTSC multisystem TV also sold in Saudi Arabia with NTSC and PAL switch knob, TV system M (NTSC), B/G, I, D/K (PAL) and 99 channel presets

  • @fulguroboy7739
    @fulguroboy7739 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Big missed opportunity of calling it the "Famikong"

  • @MrRetro90
    @MrRetro90 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The CPU clock speed on that famicom is according to the 60hz standard which controlls the PPU. I read somwhere that the slow mode sends interrupts to the PPU to slow it down to around how much a 50hz clock speed would generate.
    Now the difference between the two "slow modes" is a mystery, couldn't find anything about it on the web.

  • @CebolaBros
    @CebolaBros 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Did you try toggling the switch while the system was turned off, or even restting the game after the fact?

    • @FoxerTails
      @FoxerTails 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yeah, my thoughts exactly. Or a teardown to see if it's even connected to anything to begin with.

  • @KeiMak-3
    @KeiMak-3 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I have a HK SNES and I believe you need to turn it off when switching in order to see the 50/60 hertz switching. Also that (at least in HK SNES), the speed may be fixed, it's the video color (NTSC/PAL) that the switch is really for. But since you have a PVM it just doesn't care/accept all signals you give it to it :)

  • @AWalYT
    @AWalYT 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    A quick online check suggests that the consoles are normally capable of outputting video in multiple formats. The official consoles use an MK5060 attached to a switch to provide video in either NTSC or something that is PAL enough to be displayed on most PAL televisions (This probably explains why there is a "Slow A" and a "Slow B" option, as it probably changes different things about the RF output to make it work on different PAL televisions accordingly). The flickering of color (and the outright color dropout at one point) in the video suggests that there unfortunately might be issues with the RF modulator circuit in this system, and the chip that does the magic might be wigging out.
    In regards to noise in the signal every system does it differently so it's hard to judge, but I have a (RF Only) top loader kicking around here somewhere that has a pretty crummy RF that's not too far off from what you're getting on that television with this console imo.

    • @Pepperroni_McRoni
      @Pepperroni_McRoni 2 ปีที่แล้ว

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    • @yuxuan30
      @yuxuan30 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I have one unit of this got the conversion chip GA030A is that normal .

  • @darkbonnie87fan
    @darkbonnie87fan ปีที่แล้ว

    Let's hope you AK gets a dendy and micro Genius so we can get a spiderman no way home situation

  • @FrancisLitanofficialJAPINOY
    @FrancisLitanofficialJAPINOY ปีที่แล้ว +1

    If use on NTSC only TVs, buy RF TO HDMI, shortest HDMI cable, (USB 5V out included on RF to HDMI), HDMI2AV, RCA cable.
    Set TV system to I and scan some UHF and VHF channels, set color system if possible.

  • @EtherianAmber
    @EtherianAmber 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    how'd you plug it into an outlet? does a converter matter? (i imagine a converter would be expecting a 110v and convert it to 200 or so volts for hong kong, but maybe not)

  • @teachme325
    @teachme325 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I have one I brought from HK to the states. I could never figure out what channel would work. I tried them all and thought it was outside US NTSC range. Can anyone help?

  • @HudsonU
    @HudsonU 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I wonder if the switch only works with honk kong famicom carts

    • @Pepperroni_McRoni
      @Pepperroni_McRoni 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Let's do it right now (BOOM) we'll I just burn a little tiny bit of my town

  • @FrancisLitanofficialJAPINOY
    @FrancisLitanofficialJAPINOY ปีที่แล้ว

    Is Hong Kong FAMICOM uses PAL-I ?
    If yes or not, Try your Sony Trinitron TV if change TV system or Sound system on M (4.5; US/JP/ROK/TW), B/G (5.5; EU, ES, IT), I (6.0; UK, HKG), D/K (6.5; CN, DPRK, RU, KZ, MN)

  • @Pepperroni_McRoni
    @Pepperroni_McRoni 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Has sony ever realise the PS, PS2, PS3, PS4, OR PSP, PSV, PSONE, and PS CLASSIC IN HONGKONG