The Mini Famicom Has Been Announced for Japan, and It Looks Amazing

That looks great too. Does the microphone on the controller work?

Awwww.....
It's adorable!😍

Wow...

Might have to import this one...

I still like the mini NES a bit more, but I guess it wouldn't hurt to have both. 👀

The controller docking... I've never owned a famicom...

This could be tempting

Lol at the people who said Nintendo weren't revealing their next home console until after October.

@Mr_Zurkon It doesn't. At least I really doubt it. The microphone itself looks like just a simple pattern on the plastic, and the volume slider doesn't seem moveable either.

I like how it mimic the old Famicom very well even down to the hardwire controllers. Man they got a better selection of games than us, I want to play River City Ransom and Final Fantasy III as well.

Yeah I want that

That is too cool!

there is a couple games, like River City Ransom, that I wish we got too, but otherwise I like the Classic NES games we are getting. Also, it looks like you can't detach the controllers (like the original famicom) and use the controller in your Wii Remote to play nes virtual console games. Not bad, but I actually like our offering more.

Kind of a double standard, why didn't they dim the image like with VC titles?

I'm so getting both lol

It's cool that they made the controllers to scale since full-size controllers docked to the side of a miniaturized machine would throw the whole thing off. But that said, I wouldn't want to play with that for very long.

(I'm basing this off of my personal perception of the controllers on this thing, which to me look scaled down to match the console. Am I the only one that noticed this, or am I just hallucinating?)

I also was noticing the controller to console size comparison lol

the mini gamecube is coming too?

@Tasuki why not play Asia?

I always use Play Asia

Geez I've been using Play Asia for over 10 years. No problem.

@Tasuki funny I've never had that problem. @Corbs Have you ever had a problem with play Asia ripping you off?

@A01 @DarthNocturnal

Edit, after watching the video it does look like you are able to use it as a save state. It looks like pressing the reset button saves the image of the game which you could then move to one of 4 slots. Not the most convenient system, but able to accomplish what is done in a save state.

Not so far. I usually import the new systems from them. Always been great for me.

Well they are based in Hong Kong so if there ever WERE a problem it might be a pain dealing with them. Luckily my past experiences have all been good so far.

So the controllers are mini too? Think I will prefer the full size NES controllers over these. I'm guessing these are similar to a gameboy micro?

@Corbs Nice to see you again. Loved your writing on NL and NF Magazine.

This is the Nintendo I remember. I have not idea how my parents managed to grab a Famicom here in latam in the 80s but this is the one I got under my christmas tree. Now I'm torn between importing this version or buying a boxy american NES.

I'm impressed. Even if the controllers don't look much bigger than a credit card, the whole system looks cool. I can't imagine they make enough of these, what gamer wouldn't want one?

@Billsama De seguro era un FamiClone. El mío parecía un SNES...

I loved listening to the Japanese announcer saying titles in English XD

@Tamalesyatole No, esos llegaron mucho después. Extrañamente era un Famicom original, todavía lo tengo, pero ya no funciona.

That's awesome. I hope they make the controllers detachable and give them longer cords.

Looks good, seems to confirm that the US version will likely have multiple display settings as well like smoothing or perfect pixel mode.

Finally some video footage! Some questions/concerns of mine got answered:
-Bright colors, and accurate from what I can tell (and remember)
-Custom UI game launcher.
-Sprite flicker and slowdown, yay! (or nay, depending on the person)
-4:3 mode
-"retro" mode complete with wavy RF Coaxial connection artifacts (if it has the "rainbow" effect on grid like pixel patterns, I'll bow down to the emulation team's prowess)
-Pixel Perfect mode (these modes are shown in this order starting at 4:15 in the video: https://youtu.be/3GQ02nXQQiM?t=4m15s)
-Original frame rates and frame pacing is intact (again, based on what I can recall)
-Audio is accurate based on the original game source. Examples, FDS Zelda as mentioned by someone already. Zelda II and Metroid run with all their sound channels intact, etc.

In all, I'm quite satisfied with what I'm seeing/hearing. The experience they're offering is fine for the price, IMO. Not being able to get more games into the thing is a downer but putting that functionality in, either internal memory or cards, would drive up the cost and, more than likely, create a backdoor into the system.

@NESguy94 I'm surprised nobody has pointed this out yet, but it looks like the controllers are wired directly into the system. They're also smaller than an actual Famicom controller, as far as I'm aware (not that I ever owned a Famicom, but they're still proportional to the mini Famicom, unlike the mini NES and its controllers).
It doesn't seem like people will be able to buy separate FC controllers to use for Virtual Console/Famicom Remix.
Edit: I guess one positive thing I can say about this is that the system at least comes with two controllers.

Yeah, but it was always a lot cooler looking compared to the NES. I mean, sure, NES was not ugly but it was rather plain and extra bulky without a good reason. Nostalgia aside, I've considered the Famicom a much nicer design ever since I got to see it years after owning the NES and the internet showing me what we never got.

That gives all the rumour spreaders about Nintendo showing off their next console this month a free Get Out Of Jail card and just by the skin of their teeth. lol

@Billsama @Tamalesyatole Only comments in English or Engrish please.

I'm canceling my pre-order for the NES Mini, I prefer the easier Japanese versions of some of the games and the sharp corners of the old NES controller get very painful after a while. While the smaller controllers on the Mini Famicom do look small I think I can live with that.

I wants both. But how will the controllers play in my large man hands? Also I'll need a long HDMI cord to play from across the romm..

Sold.

Is this a late april fools lol

Oh man, Final Fantasy III is probably one of the only RPGS worth playing on the NES (and possibly Earthbound Zero and some of the Dragon Quest games, but I haven't played them). It's aged surprisingly well, especially considering its predecessors.

I know they'd never sell a fan patched game, but still, the Japanese are so lucky!

That being said, while the get two controllers out of the box, I don't think either of them is a classic controller like with the NES version. Seems like a fair trade off.

Yeah I want this one too now

That sure is pretty! But sometimes they ought to make alterations to the original form for the sake of usability.
The way the wires stick out of the sides of the controllers make it seem awkward to use. It seem the controllers are hardwired to the console as well and they look sooo tiny. Aren't the NES version controllers original size?

@Shugo According to the official US site, the NES Classic Edition comes with an AC adaptor.

@Shugo Yeah, it's dumb Nintendo doesn't provide a power source for its best-selling systems outside of America, like 3DS XL, and now this.

I must not import...
i must not import...
i must not import...
i must not import...

I will be stalking play-asia for one of these.

Strange, the mini-nes I would only buy to stick on a shelf... But this, I'd buy to play.

I don't even know Japanese!!

Are any of these games ones that didn't make it to the US? Asking for a friend (me)

Dude paying money for ROMs LMAO

@Ryu_Niiyama I´ll try that too

Preorders are already close on amiami

http://www.amiami.com/top/detail/detail?scode=GAME-0017100&rank=

Still going for the western one.

But I really thought there would not be a Famicom Mini, because they announced it really late and with the NES Mini on the news for a while.

About de AC Adaptor, the fact it's only included in the US is weird. I thought it was because the NES Mini we'll get in Europe is actually the American one -even some games come with the American title-, but considering the Famicom Mini doesn't get an AC Adaptor either... I'm perplex.

They have two Kunio games. their version is immediately superior to ours...

Help, I'm a European PAL Gamer in the 90's all over again!

Would love a mini N64

Final Fantasy 3 and River City nice

live in japan, and i already preordered it
and the mini nes too!!
november never came too early.

@allav866
I guess I'll have to dig out an extra NES Four-Score and and find some Famicom-mini schematics so I can add NES controller ports.

@-DEMISE- Wait a sec...detachable controllers on the main unit....no optical drive...smells a bit like some patents people were swearing was the NX?

@gcunit Sorry about that

Tiny controllers are tiny wtf

Quality!! I may have too try n get one just for collection item.

Nice!

Well it's got Mario Open Golf, which makes it slightly better than the NES Mini, but this selection is still too action/adventure-y for me to want this.

@Shiryu If they'd thrown in some of the Kunio sports titles, I might've been there with you, haha (actually had to Google that second one because I didn't know what it was). Also the rumors saying that the LoZ on here is the FDS version. Well Nintendo, "Konamic Ice Hockey" was FDS (and, heck, Nintendo Ice Hockey for that matter) too wasn't it?

What's going on with the controllers?

We're getting Bubble Bobble, and I already have "River City Ransom," so I got no qualms. It still looks nice, but unlike our's it looks like the controllers are smaller, and can't be connected to a Wii-mote.

@WiltonRoots ha, that would be awesome if that's what those rumors were actually talking about.

@World Sickness prevent me from writing an article for NL about Kunios 30th anniversary where I would expose all those games that most people aren't probably familiar with.

Ands you are indeed correct, both "Ice Hockey" from Nintendo and "Konami's Ice hockey" (from Konami! wow!) aka "Blades of Steel" where original Famicom Disk system releases converted to cartridge for release in the West with a few minor differences. Both titles are major gaps in both plugin consoles IMO. Two of the finest 2 player games on NES/Famicom for sure.

Dang. I want one of each so I can set them next to each other. So cool.

This looks really awesome!

But my biggest problem with this is that as we're getting 1:1 sized controllers. The Famicom Classic Mini uses much smaller pads so that the controller can slot on the side of this smaller Famicom. I can't imagine that this would be nice to use for extended periods of time.

At least we get to see what the interface could look like for the NES classic Mini.

@Shugo
Zelda no Densetsu - The Hyrule Fantasy doesn't **require** the mic. It just makes beating the Pols Voice stupidly easier. The cartridge version you mention is more or less a re-transaltion of the US version back into Japanese. And the mic works in that if played in an original Famicom that includes the mic controller.

They've been getting the FDS version pretty much every time it's come out on either GBA classics or the Virtual Console. None of those had the ability to use the microphone (I think one or two of them let you hit select to "simulate it" in those certain Pols Voice sections.)

@-DEMISE- I think it is. Someone else pointed that out to me and was laughing about it...the amount of days worth of debating, podcasting, the terabytes of webspace this whole detachable controllers on the side patent takes up online, and in the end it's a mini Famicom.

Where did "Super Tamashito Luo" come from? A mistranslation of Super Contra (which is not listed, but shown in the video)?

@Shugo Isn't the microphone optional in that game? I think it's only used to defeat the Pols Voice enemies, and maybe slows the Digdogger boss. I might be wrong, but I thought they didn't really change anything about this aspect of the game when they released it overseas, you just can't use your voice to get the upper hand against these two guys.