Tuesday, July 2, 2013

Family Circuit/ファミリーサーキット CIB (Collective in Box)

Sorry for not posting this a week earlier, I was at Boy Scout camp all last week and after that I just got lazy. Anyway ~ Woohoo! Greatest deal ever! I can't remember the seller's name but thank them very much! My luck might even be reaching the level  of luck that Famicomblog once had with awesome retrogaming deals. I just got a copy of namco(t)'s Family Circuit collective in box for only like 9 bucks on eBay! Unfortunately, it doesn't work well. I noticed that, unlike my Gundam games, it would exhibit one odd behavior that no other game I've experienced had; whenever I turned the game on, it might go into Mic Mode(my FC games behave differently every time the FC is turned on or hard-resetted, and I give names to the different forms of glitchiness), where the TV would go all staticky with horizontal static lines of B and W and emit a generic blow-into-the-mic noise whenever the 2nd controller's microphone picked up any noise. The weirdest yet most logical part is, the lines get thicker and the static louder as the volume is turned up or more sound is detected. Anyway, here's some pics:


The box is a lot smaller than it looks; I'd say it's the same size as or smaller
than a 3DS XL. Yes, it's seriously that small.

It came with the game, manual, label sticker sheet(all namcot-or
BANDAI-branded Famicom games came with a sticker sheet with 3 stickers:
One with just the game's name written in Japanese, one with the game's logo
and decorative stuff, and a blank one to write your own label. each said "namcot"
at the top.),  namcot misc. advertisement flyer, and letter form addressed to namco.

The back. If you haven't noticed, the front cover has the spine on the right
and vice versa. This is because Japanese books and stuff are read right-to-left.
I'm starting to think that the problem is the RF switch, since both the Famicom and Family Circuit were listed as "tested and working." Since my Famicom deal didn't include an RF switch, I'd just been using the NES' for now. Anyone know where I can get a Famicom RF switch? All the eBay listings are for Super Famicom RF switches, not regular FC ones. Someone please help me get my FC to work...