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Play Famicom Cartridges on Your DS With CYBER Familator Lite
Posted by Adrian Covert at 4:07 PM on November 25, 2007
The CYBER Familator Lite is an Akihabara-esque gizmo that snaps onto your DS Lite and lets you play old Famicom cartridges on your DS screen (If you can hunt down an adapter, you can play NES games as well). I think we should forget the Familator Lite is bigger than the DS, and that an emulator can do the same thing, because you get real 8-bit goodness on your DS. It's like drinking Coke in a glass bottle – it just tastes better. The CYBER Familator Lite is expected to surface in Japan next month. [CYBER Gadget via DS Fanboy via Technabob]
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MacAddict21
Posted 2:29 AM 26/11/07
glorious GLORIOUS!
MacAddict21
sugardeath
Posted 2:13 AM 26/11/07
There goes any semblance of portability.
sugardeath
Taime
Posted 12:35 AM 26/11/07
SNES and N64 now please.
Taime
Roflcopter_Down
Posted 12:28 AM 26/11/07
Includes blowing on the cartridges to get them to play. Good times...
Roflcopter_Down
pinchies
Posted 7:04 AM 26/11/07
Its more like the ds snaps onto it.
pinchies
Candall
Posted 8:13 AM 26/11/07
It's true that there are software emulators out there, but none of them for the DS have 100% compatibility, and even ignoring that fact you have to have a medium for loading them on the DS in the first place, though I'll grant that they're inexpensive and easy to find.
Candall
Zagrophyte
Posted 9:48 AM 26/11/07
@cayton: You are thinking of the SUPER Famicom ;)
Zagrophyte
cayton
Posted 9:08 AM 26/11/07
@Taime: the chip for the famicom and the snes is the same, just with a different case. So you probably could play snes with not too much hassle, unless I am mistaken
cayton
dragonphyre
Posted 11:27 AM 26/11/07
@cayton: Silly Decepticon! SNES =! Famicom
dragonphyre