News: Play NSFs on a Famicom, easily?

November 18, 2004, 09:23 PM

by simoniker, via VORC -
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The rather splendid Hally over at the VORC retro game music/'chiptune' site has posted English-language info about new Japanese homebrew hardware from WeirdDeviceCorp that will allow you to play NSF music files on the real Famicom/NES hardware. Apparently, 'It uses SD memory cards (up to 64MB) for file transfer, and also features [a] 3.5mm audio mini plug'. For more info and pics, you can check out the Japanese-language page for WeirdDeviceCorp's TNS-HFC1, which will be sold at Comiket in December. Though the gadget only supports Mapper 0 tunes, that seems to include most of the tracks on 2a03.org. Therefore, NES music geeks should run, not walk to Comiket if they want to hear NSFs as god (or, at least, Hiroshi Yamauchi) intended.