Since Nintendo's patent has dropped on the NES, we're finally seeing all of the Nintendo gear that we could only dream about as kids. The FC Mobile is such a product, bringing a Nintendo Entertainment System into your hands. Reading real cartridges, 8-bit glory can either shine on its 2.4" display or be outputted to a television—all while fueled by classic AA batteries (sure, lithium ion would be more convenient, but it wouldn't capture the battery-burning nostalgia of yore). If you refuse to partake in emulation or your heart yearns for a simpler era, the FC Mobile will run about $40 on eBay. It's a shame the controls aren't just right. [eBay via technabob]
FC Mobile Portable NES, Because One Screen Was Once Enough
11:10 AM on Mon Apr 28 2008
By Mark Wilson
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I would actually buy this if it was designed a smidge better.
@Darrone:
I was thinking the same thing.
The cart are sure easy enough to find.
How are you supposed to hold the B button and hit A to do the fast run jump in Mario Brothers on this?
Needs square edges. For that bruised and dented hand look we all remember.
The A and B buttons are reversed... And it's probably difficult to use ROB on a handheld device. Kind of makes me wish Nintendo stuck with the original 60-pin Famicom cartridge though... You wouldn't have such a huge freakin' cartridge sticking out the top.
@Geisrud: The only memory I DON'T relish. :(
Remember how nice the SNES controller felt by comparison? :)
I guess this beats putting all NES and SNES games on a 16GB Memory Card Pro Duo and playing every game from those consoles PLUS wi-fi, music, internet and oh yeah PSP games all on a PSP.
@liveinvt: Well yeah, but you're talking emulators (psp,iphone,PC,etc..) The difference here is you get to break out your old cartridges.
@kahri: I broke my old cartridges a while ago. :>
My little sister was just a bit too young when we had our NES - she found our original Tetris cart a couple weeks ago and went looking for the NES to play it - great spirit, but the NES broke years ago. An NES clone that works well would be welcomed for those old games - Still have the old NES controllers too.
Now I just have to find a Super Dodge Ball cartage!
Wait, what about two player?
@liveinvt:
NES and SNES emulators always seemed really sluggish to me on the PSP. Of course I recently upgraded my PSP firmware in order to play Final Fantasy: Crisis Core... I hope that doesn't end homebrew for me :c / I was so excited about Final Fantasy I forgot to check.
I have a PSP and Genesis, SNES, NES, and some MAME games run just fine on my psp. I have a slim, BTW.
NES are easily my favorite.
@dragonphyre:
The slim is a 333mhz processor too though right? I'll have to look up the slim now. Megaman and Duck Tales always seemed to run pretty poorly on my PSP (I don't have a slim.. 1st Gen) and the only SNES game I've tried was Mario Kart and it was almost unplayable.
Hopefully they make a better (more ergonomic) handheld in the future... maybe with some on-board memory or support for memory sticks to put ROMS on as well. Also a built in support for ripping your own games off the carts and onto the memory sticks would be sweet. I'd probably buy that for a dollar.
The A and B buttons are reversed and in a painful looking position that would have people hitting the Select button all the time.
Dammit. Call me when they redo the design to do the A and B buttons correctly. B should be on the left! The LEFT! Have they never played an NES before?
Will this work with my Power Glove?
Is the TSX banner spam messing up FireFox?
Ben Heck just said "HECK!"
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