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According to article: In December 1990, to coincide with the release of the Power Pad floor mat controller, Nintendo released a new Power Set bundle, consisting of the console, the Power Pad, the NES Zapper, two controllers, and a multicart containing Super Mario Bros., Duck Hunt, and World Class Track Meet.
However, my brother and I are certain that our family got the Power Set for Christmas 1988. Does anyone have corroborating evidence for the later date? Moreover, we have found a posting to the Usenet group [ rec.games.video] from June 1989 by a Dartmouth student who stated that one could then still get Super Mario Brothers with the Power Set. Clearly, the December 1990 date is wrong. Rcharman 04:20, 5 November 2006 (UTC)
Further evidence for the dates can be found at [ slider.com] and [ SuperMarioPlanet] and [ everything2.com]. Rcharman 04:36, 5 November 2006 (UTC)
One day, I discovered something odd about my NES. When I stopped playing Super Mario Bros. 2, I wanted to swap games when I noticed that the cartridge was not pressed down. so I took it out and put it back in without pressing it down, and it functioned well. Then I pressed it down while the NES was off and it screwed up! Now it works both ways: pressed down and not pressed down. Does anyone know why this happened? -- Plainnym 21:45, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
I am changing this quote, " complete, playable, and fun. ", to "complete and playable" because the original statement is a personal opinion as to wether or not a game is fun. You can find this quote in the "Sprite limitations" section.-- Psa- 11:47, 20 November 2006 (UTC)
Here is another quote in the "Sprite limitations" section "which was developed by one of the most talented companies in existence.". There are many opinionated statements in this article that are going unnoticed.-- Psa- 11:52, 20 November 2006 (UTC)
Ive noticed this too. Maybe this article should be checked to see if its actually a "Featured Article" material? -- 24.47.193.183 23:45, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
Visited the page in order to find information about the japanese Famicom modem add-on. Couldn't find any, and I think maybe it's important enought to be mentioned, seeing as this makes the NES (as far as I know) the first console able to go online. Sources:
I wouldn't exactaly call the famicom modem full fledged online functionality, it was more of a gimmicky way to do things over telephone lines
metroid was never released on cartridge in japan. I have changed the article to reflect this oversight by the previous editor —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 69.181.159.193 ( talk) 21:31, 21 January 2007 (UTC).
this aricule should have a picture of a normal cartridge El Bean Burrito Mexicali 12:57, 18 March 2007 (UTC)
When trying to start a game with my game genie, it won't work. It gives me a solid color screen that is a different color each time, ranging from greys to blues to greens. Is this a result of the bending connectors? And if there's a source, should it be added to the article? 216.237.235.137 21:23, 23 March 2007 (UTC)
I've removed the statement from the introduction about the original development name of the Famicom being the "Home Video Computer." It seems like, even if it is true, it's trivial enough that it doesn't really belong in the introductory paragraph. More seriously, though, there was no citation for the claim. Yes, the model numbers followed the HVC-* convention, but, then again, the Super Famicom models used SHVC-* (presumably Super Home Video Computer). If the HVC prefix indicated the original name that was changed late in development, why use the same convention for a system released years later? Or, as seems more likely to me, does the HVC moniker reflect something else entirely? If anyone has a reputable source to the contrary, I'm more than willing to be corrected, but the only information I could find on this in a web search was clearly sourced from this article.... – Sean Daugherty (talk) 00:45, 20 May 2007 (UTC)
"Nintendo Co. Ltd. used a series of HVC product codes to catalogue what Family Computer items it produced, including systems, cartridges, and more. "HVC" stands for Home Video Computer."
Has anyone had any thought on changing the game screenshots to something far more accurate to what a television would display (for example, with Nestopia's NTSC emulation)? The current shots appear to be vertically distorted, because they were obviously taken in an emulator displaying raw pixels before the NES' digital-to-analog converter. Pretty much all games were graphically designed with the shape of TVs themselves, not square pixels (and often, properties of NTSC itself like color bleeding, bluriness, etc). An easy-to-spot example of this would be Kirby's Adventure: in most emulators (displaying raw pixels), the beginning animation looks like a tall oval, whereas on a television, the animation looks like a circle; other games like Ghosts 'n Goblins depend on some NTSC properties to display colors that are not in the raw pixels themselves (or Legend of Zelda to make the water look wavy instead of some sparse dots...). -- Mike 20:38, 27 May 2007 (UTC)
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This particular issue has been resolved, but it only begs the question of why we're using a copyrighted image here in the first place. Admittedly, I have to take responsibility for uploading it in the first place, but now that I think about it, there's really no reason why we can't provide a free-licensed replacement for it. The problem there is that we'd need someone with a camera and the cartridge to take the picture. If it makes it any easier, for the purposes of this article, we don't even need a picture of Bible Adventures, per se, merely an unlicensed cartridge that deviates noticeably from the standard "look" of NES Game Paks. Is there anyone who can help with this? – Sean Daugherty (talk) 14:48, 7 June 2007 (UTC)
I plan to build a case for some hardware and thought that I should make it look like a NES. Do someone know where I can find detailed photos/drawings of the NES case? All 6 sides maybe? Thanks 84.177.199.31 22:21, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
My brothers got their NES before I was born, so I really don't know what it is. I mean, I've never seen an NES like the one I have, here:
Anyone want to tell me what it is? You can use it for the article too, if you want. Xihix 22:39, 12 June 2007 (UTC)
Wanna add it to the article? You may use that pic. I have two other ones pics too, if you want them. Xihix 00:01, 13 June 2007 (UTC)
i believe that there should be mentioning about converting the nes controller to work on a pc in full detial about what tools u need, how to do it and what setup u need to do to get it working on the pc. i have found a website which is pretty useful which is http://www.joystiq.com/2004/09/07/how-to-make-a-nintendo-controller-into-a-pc-joystick/ but i hyavent tried it out yet but im going to but i would like to get more information about it before i proceed —Preceding unsigned comment added by Pauldonald86 ( talk • contribs)
Not to mention that they can be purchased online "pre-USB'ed" by searching "nes" and "usb". Vendors sell them either adapted or in "kits" on eBay and on private websites. Also, it requires a special and rare USB controller chip to work. Mtrying to make your own is a waste of time. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.203.251.157 ( talk) 01:24, 24 January 2008 (UTC)
Why does this article say that the NES used a ZIF socket? That really isn't true whatsoever. It was a slot loading thing much like an ISA or PCI card in a PC.
When I was a kid, I never owned an NES (I was a Sega kid) but occasionally rented one or went to friends houses that had them, because I really digged a game called "Baseball Stars". My experience with NES systems are that we would have to give them a "blow job" to get them to work after prolonged use, or even on an old console that has been used for a year or more. What I mean is we would have to blow into the cartridges and into the system, jokingly saying "giving the NES a BJ to make it happy". We would conclude that we were blowing out dust or something in order to get it to work again. It usually worked. I am sure many others experienced this, but I am interested if there is any more details on this and if anything about it can be put in the article.-- Mista-X 00:54, 28 June 2007 (UTC)
The expansion port is mentioned a few times in the article, but it is never stated what it is for, and how many if any games used it, and if any, what it was used for. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 216.10.190.156 ( talk • contribs)
In the article it's claimed that the NES is the best selling game system of all time, but I'm fairly sure that that title belongs to the PS2 (at the very least more PS2's were sold then NES's). —Preceding unsigned comment added by TDS18 ( talk • contribs) 18:23, July 25, 2007 (UTC)
The way it's worded implies that the record has yet to be broken. I'll change it to make it more clear. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 131.252.254.249 ( talk) 00:58, July 26, 2007 (UTC)
This seems to be spill-over from a similar dispute over the PlayStation 2 article, but the statement of the NES being "the most successful gaming console of its time in Asia and North America" has been softened to "best-selling". While I feel the previous wording is actually more appropriate, as the NES fulfills the claim by pretty much every significant criterion (market share, hardware revenue, software revenue, profits, global mind share, effects on the company's market value and influence on the industry, etc.), and the original wording better describes that. Rather than simply revert-warring, I feel the best way to approach the matter is to request some input on adding coverage of those other aspects, perhaps in the History of the Nintendo Entertainment System sub-article. According to WP:WEASEL#Don't hide the important facts, attributable peacock statements can be appropriate as summary statements, "for purposes of establishing a subject's notability in an introductory sentence or paragraph", to be expanded upon in more detail afterward. Can anyone point me to some relevant sources? Dancter 19:54, 22 October 2007 (UTC)
Wouldn't this more accurately be Super Mario Bros./Duck Hunt? It sold far more than the standalone SMB cartridge or SMB/Duck Hunt/WCTM. Phediuk 13:58, 21 September 2007 (UTC)
i was under the impression that blowing in the cartidges actually made a difference, and i think quite a few people believed this. if it isn't true, then a source needs to be cited. 81.168.22.81 22:27, 13 October 2007 (UTC)
From an earlier discussion at SNES: