Comments on: Finding The Best NES Clone or Official Console For You

By: fattyArbuckle

fattyArbuckle — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 01:23:53 +0000

Why hasn’t anyone mentioned the Retro Duo yet? I’ve heard good things in comparisin to the Yobo Twin.. Anyone have any input on it?

By: racketboy

racketboy — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 00:42:07 +0000

Yeah, I probably should update this. I’ll add it to my todo list now

By: Jindo Fox

Jindo Fox — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 13:38:45 +0000

You guys should update this page with some of the more recent clones. I just got last year’s Retro Duo, which plays SNES and NES games but with better compatibility than the FC Twin. There’s also a new Yobo 3-in-1 NES/SNES/Genesis system that looks to be worth a look.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 21:37:29 +0000

The NES connector most certainly did make pin-to-pin contact with the cartridge, otherwise it wouldn’t work. The cartridge is in most cases little more than a ROM on a board with a card edge connector. The original front-load NES had an odd ZIF-like connector so that when the cartridge was raised, the top half of the connector was raised and didn’t make contact, but when the cartridge was locked into place, there was contact. (Try taking one apart so you can see how the cartridge connector actually works. While you’re at it, get a can of tuner cleaner, pull the connector off and clean both the connector and the card edge it connects to on the board. Definitely the oddest card-edge connection I’ve ever seen, but it mostly worked.)

I took one of my old NES’s apart and used tuner cleaner on the connector and it works like new now (though it worked with only minor effort before I cleaned it – the cartridges were more of a problem than the connector on the NES). (I was going to order a new 72-pin gold plated connector and wanted to see how easy it would be to install – in the process I discovered that I don’t really need one, at least not yet – and for as little as I actually play the NES, I may never need one.)

As for the clones fitting too tight, it could be that the plastic on the sides of the connector is making too tight a fit and either the plastic (most likely) in the connector or the sides of the board in the cartridge are wearing down. As long as the sides of the connector don’t crack, it should be ok.

By: ElectroKraft NES Super Synth Sounds Drum Machine

ElectroKraft NES Super Synth Sounds Drum Machine — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 18:11:13 +0000

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By: Billy hannock

Billy hannock — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 14:05:44 +0000

nes/fami clones and cart damage question my answer to this is the orginal nes/fami and its top loader edition had a small metal band around the connector so your carts never actully touched the pins so the connection wasnt made copper to pin. The clones the copper and pin connect to make a much tighter connection This is not bad for the carts at all what you will wear down eventually is the 72 pin connector I have had a yobo for 5 months the carts go in and out with ease after month 1 but that also means the 72 pin connector is wearing down so eventually its your clone that will case to work but at a current 2007 price of 16.40 plus 3.99 for shipping for the yobo and the nex at 49.99 plus 10 dollars for a ship if you get 1 or 2 years out of it it was worth it and ndxt time you have to replace it a much cooler nes/fami clone will problay be out baring that nintendo doesnt decide to renew their patients which expired and has let all these clones come to be