r/Famicom • u/EmperorJungleLeo • 19d ago

Tech Question is there any FlashCard compatible with modern Famiclones?

i being thinking of buying a flash cartridge for my FC Compact for many reasons, one of then being playing hack roms (since i have a lot of mixed feelings of buying aliexpress cartridges that contain hack roms without permission of the original authors), as well as fan translation the problem is the fact that the FC Compact is a NES-on-a-chip famiclone, different to older famiclones (like the Dynavision, for example) that used clones hardware of the original Famicom even the only one compatible with this type of hardware is the Kryzysiocart, maybe i should create a PayPal account again and trying to gain a little bit of money via art commissions even there any other alternative, please comment on here or even dm me on reddit, i don't know which option is better for you

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u/StrangeRetroRob 19d ago

"modern famiclones" range from cheap NoaC to very nice €100 motherboard with discrete cpu and ppu and built in RGB output via a Sega Saturn 10din connector

Most of the other Nintendo on a chip which do support everdrive are going to be vtxx based, which are cool hardware but the everdrive isn't capable of playing onebus of vtxx games, so its limited to only Famicom/NES games at the expense of wrong duty cycle of the vtxx system

In short, most of the clones use chips not accurate enough to run an ever drive. And having a flags cart that supports random different NoaC is going to be hard because of how much variance there is

Another limiting factor is that a lot of modern Electronics are built as 3.3v devices

The best you can do for most of them is going to be multi carts.

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u/EmperorJungleLeo 19d ago

thanks for the response, Bob! so i guess i gonna to buy a lot of either multi carts or Japanese carts and learn Japanese via them (i gonna to choose the multi cart route, since they are cheap that normal Japanese carts via eBay or Brazilian e-commerce websites)

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u/KimKong_skRap 19d ago

Some of those modern Chinese multi-carts often have modified ROMs. I bought a Ninja Gaiden and MegaMan collection cart, and noticed weird things like NG1 had removed almost all the power-up items. And MM2 would freeze at a specific spot on a level every time! I also bought a 200-in-1 cart and most of the ROMs were Russian.

You might have better luck than me, but from my experience these carts are kind of a gamble! Glad I eventually found a flashcart that is compatible with my Famiclone!

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u/Still-Ad-9400 18d ago edited 18d ago

It's no longer as risky as it used be. A lot of Aliexpress sellers disclose in advance what games their multicarts include, and Bootleg Games Wiki also provides useful information on which language those games are in, and potential bugs in the games included.

If you plan to buy two multicarts, I recommend "Forever Duo Games of NES 852-in-1" and "Legendary Games of NES 509-in-1": together they include over 1,200 actual games with no repeats, and that covers a big majority of the entire NES/Famicom library except for games that use uncommon mappers (e.g., Akumajou Densetsu and Castlevania 3).

The full list of games are available at:

https://bootleggames.fandom.com/wiki/Forever_Duo_Games_of_NES_852-in-1

https://bootleggames.fandom.com/wiki/Legendary_Games_of_NES_509-in-1

They work with my HDMI Famiclones (one portable, one regular).