Almost. One more to go. Willow is freaking BEAUTIFUL. I wouldn't doubt Nintendo was inspired to make a Link to the Past based on it. It has to have some of the best visuals on the system as a whole and while they get a little repetative i couldn't help but forget that in war playing an 8 bit console at times. P.S. this is not the review.

Hey Jose, I'm working on a new thread here in Collector's Corner with you in mind.   Hope to post it today still... been a long time in the making.

Wouldn't mind a guest article at all. If it makes the cut you'll also get a portion of the profit relative to the amount of the book you're in. *if* there's a profit that is. I'm actually willing to sell the book at a small loss if there aren't enough buyers....I need to sell a minimum of 250 to break even at print cost of a minimum order @ $39.99 / copy. And those are only estimated costs.

  Can it be? Oddball region stuffs? Dare I even dream of the full *list*

Well I just spent 30 minutes typing it all up and thanks to NA's craptastic non copy/paste allowing my whole thread got deleted.  

:V hey maybe just give me the list and i can make it NA Copy/Paste friendly. Start with the turtles stuff....maybe work out way into Spain and Italy. Take a trip to Brazil....and you know those pesky confusing "Worldwide" things too.

>_>

But seriously next time just format it in OpenOffice/LibreOffice as a table then NA literally accept it the way you formatted it.

Here is what I envision the site to look like...maybe. Used a sketch I made for another version of this website I've been planning for years now. I want to publish my atlases, guides, reviews, gameplay videos, collector data, articles I write, and any interesting news for companies like Nintendo, Sega, Atari, Capcom, Konami...basically the big players back in the day.

Books are p cool! 👌

Minor update: Here's the revised list of Unlicened PAL & Sachen exclusive games I'll be playing. Anything you see missing in the Unlicensed PAL list means it's available in one way or another in the US, and anything you see missing in the Sachen list is available in the US or PAL regions somehow.


Final Brazil list coming soon.

 

Australia	4 in 1 Mindblower Pack
Australia	Arctic Adventure, Penguin & Seal
Australia	Duck Maze
Australia	Jackpot
Australia	Little Red Hood
Australia	Othello
Australia	Pipemania
Australia	Twin Eagle
Spain	Creatom
Spain	El Bloque Magico
Spain	El Destructor
Spain	Gluk the Thunder Warrior
Spain	La Gran Aventura Submarina
Spain	La Guerra del Golfo
Spain	Policeman
Spain	Skate Boy
Spain	Tanque
Sachen	Taiwan Mahjong
Sachen	Middle School English
Sachen	Lucky Bingo
Sachen	Honey Peach
Sachen	Bingo 75
Sachen	Mahjong World, The
Sachen	Pyramid II
Sachen	Millionaire
Sachen	Dancing Blocks
Sachen	Chess Academy
Sachen	Hell Fighter
Sachen	Locksmith
Sachen	Poker Mahjong
Sachen	Great Wall, The
Sachen	Final Combat
Sachen	Tasac
Sachen	Huge Insect
Sachen	Cosmo Cop
Sachen	Tough Cop
Sachen	Taiwan Mahjong II
Sachen	Mahjong School
Sachen	Mahjong Partner
Sachen	Jovial Race
Sachen	Hidden Chinese Chess
Sachen	Mahjong Trap
Sachen	Challenge of the Dragon
Sachen	Poker I
Sachen	Poker II
Sachen	Strategist
Sachen	Olympic I.Q.
Sachen	Happy Pairs
Sachen	Auto-Upturn
Sachen	Magic Cube
Sachen	Chinese Checkers
Sachen	Poker III
Sachen	Super Pang I
Sachen	Super Pang II
Sachen	Po Po Team
Sachen	Rockball
Sachen	Silver Eagle
Sachen	Q-Boy
Sachen	Street Heroes
Sachen	Jurassic Boy
Sachen	Gaiapolis
Sachen	Thunder Blaster Man
Sachen	Super Cartridge Version 2 - 10-in-1
Sachen	Super Cartridge Version 3 - 8-in-1
Sachen	Super Cartridge Version 8 - 4-in-1

So besides the following games, I can't find any unique Brazilian NES games that are 72 pins.

1. Crime Busters
2. Fighting Hero
3. Fire Dragon
4. Futebol

Futebol is a reskin of Ultimate League Soccer using local Brazilian teams, so it qualifies as its own unique game. If anyone has any other information please share! I would love to see any other 72 pin NES games not on my list. So there you have it, as far as I know there are a total of 858 Unique 72-Pin cartridges with unique games on them. All of them will be played, completed, recorded, and reviewed in full.

Now that the list is complete I will have a lot more time to do more gaming!

herd this story before

Well, I'm approaching a crossroads.

My NES collection currently sits at 213 games, not counting the ones I'm avoiding playing since they're AAA fan favorite titles I've got 157 playable NES games for the forseeable future. I just reviewed my 134th game last night, meaning I have 23 games left to play in my physical collection. As much as I want to go for a full set, I don't have the funds or space to give to them, I also want to avoid emulation as much as possible, I also made the decision to review SE instead of WCTM, and locating Mah Jong, the PAL exclusives, HES, Sachen, Brazil, and Gluk games will be nearly impossible to do in a short time too.

Now, I can probably sell items in my collection to fund normal stuff, but then I'm sacrificing my collection and also picking up stuff I don't really want in my collection. OR, I can emulate a lot of stuff and sacrifice the legitimacy of the reviews. I intended to emulate the super expensive stuff anyway (SE, Mah Jong, and other $100+ items) but I'm not sure I am willing to emulate/powerpak the rest of the stuff either.

I wanted to gather your guys opinions (if anyone actually reads these updates) on what I should do here.

This project has been an incredible journey so far and we're only about 15% of the way there! What started as just a way to keep my mind occupied after a tragedy has become a full fledged pleasure. So, in response to you Pete, I don't plan to give up on this project as I've done in the past especially considering I've made this far already, I guess I'm a little more dedicated on this given the fact that I want to dedicate the book to my son and give money from the sales to a charity.

Anyway, I think I'm going to Disneyworld later this month so I think the 23 games I have left *should* be finished by early next month. I'm planning on staying for 2 weeks in Orlando, Miami, and Key West, and I'm not bringing my NES with me.

Realistically an Everdrive/Powerpak is the most feasibility method. I say go for it as it doesn't truly jeopardize the legitimacy of you playing the games. The only difference I and probably the vast majority would see is you aren't playing it on an actual cart but you are using the same technology.

I understand there's some games that don't work on the Everdrive and PowerPak, correct?

There are maybe another 100 games or so I want to add to my final NES collection, but I certainly don't want to go after all 858 unique cartridges plus the additional 60 or so to simply complete the set. I can consider going after the games that aren't compatible. I'm trying to compromise as little as possible on a shoestring budget  

Looking for people who have some knowledge on how to run a twitch channel. I want to figure out how to record my NES without adding lag. I need the ability to play R.O.B. and Zapper games while recording a crispy image for archival purposes and at the same time stream it live.

Maybe some sort of lag free AV splitter? This is posing a real challenge.

Up-to-date Everdrive compatibility list is here:
https://krikzz.com/forum/index.ph...

For the USA & PAL licensed games you plan to cover, I belive it would work for all but this handful of MMC5 cartridges:
Bandit Kings of Ancient China, Gemfire, L'Empereur, Laser Invasion, Nobunaga's Ambition II, Romance of the Three Kingdoms II, and Uncharted Waters.
In my experience, these games run, but ALL the graphical data is being pulled from the wrong locations, so every screen is just visual garbage.

That list only has a handful of unlicensed games on it, so that could be very hit or miss. I really haven't looked into it.
 

Wow, thanks for that  

 

AAAAAAND, Pause.

Yesterday I've dislocated my shoulder while trying to catch my son from flipping over and falling to a major injury, I thankfully saved him but hurt myself in the process (100% worth it though) so I'm going to be unable to play games for the next few weeks. After I heal, we're going to Disneyworld so I won't be playing there either. However, once I return I will be doing some major changes that I've finally decided upon.

Next, I will be adding HKGCC and Brazilian Pirate games to the list, this will add a few hundred titles I think. If anyone finds any other exclusive 72-Pin games then I will also add those to the list as well. I want to complete as many 72-Pin NES games as physically possible, whether they are Licensed, Unlicensed, Pirate, or Competition, Homebrew, or even Test cartridge, they are all part of the games I want to play.

Next, I will be including the games I've previously EXCLUDED. That means I have to play Myriad 6-IN-1 and Caltron 6-IN-1, Stadium Events and World Class Track Meet, Mario and Duck Hunt and SMB/DH and SMB/DH/WCTM. Etc. etc. The only thing I'm excluding now is duplicate licensed PAL games...UNLESS they have different titles, which means I'm playing Probotector and Contra, Heavy Shreddin' and Snowboard Challenge, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles. I will not be playing stuff like 'ArchRivals: A Basketbrawl' vs. 'ArchRivals: Ein Basketbrawl" though since that's just a title translation.

There will also be a Twitch stream now. I want this all to be documented properly and streaming it live will keep up my morale a bit too.

Finally, I will restart from game #1, this time playing games by year, starting with 1985 moving up to 1995 until the list is complete for licensed games. I will also be throwing in a few unlicensed games between then to make sure Licensed/Unlicensed are finished at the same time.

All of these changes will begin when I return from Disneyworld.

So basically, this will never get finished?

It's getting done alright!

Like I mentioned to Pete already, this book is going to be dedicated to my son and if it were for any other reason I might have already gave up. But I have no problems doing at least *this* in memory of my son, he used to love holding controller 2, or the WiiU gamepad while I played NES with him and his twin brother, so everytime I turn on my NES it's a way for me to remember him.

Now, I want to do a stream as well so that way I can prove I actually played these games instead of just watch someone else's longplay/stream and review it based on that. I also can keep the current 134 reviews I've done so far, but that would cut the stream short now, and I want to publish the reviews on a website too, making them a little longer than just a short mini review and a chart like I initially planned. There is a money incentive to it too, but I don't see it being a dependable income seeing as how the "Retro" channel on Twitch gets about 620 viewers per day on average. Not to mention the fact that I'm still going to be donating to charity throughout the entire ordeal as well.

Last, I don't intend on including the extra stuff I'm adding on into the book without increasing the cost of the book, I don't think the content is worth the additional price given the shitty nature of the other stuff. As it sits the books is estimated to be around 492 pages of just reviews thanks to the inflated size of the new reviews, and an additional 240-300 pages of articles and maps. The book will be split into two volumes like I've mentioned in a past update too, so the cost is expected to sit around $35-$40 per copy counting freight, warehousing, packaging, and shipping costs. The book should contain just USA/PAL/Sachen games, not the extra Brazilian and Asian/HK/Korean region stuff, but we'll see how it goes and how low I can broker the price without sacrificing quality.

That being said, the book is no longer on schedule for xmas 2017 because of this. But I'm increasing the overall content for the better. My reviews would have fit 3 on one 9x12 page, now I can only fit 2 on a page, and some with a full page review, and AAA stuff with an even more in depth review than that...or special cases like Action 52 + Cheetahmen 2 getting an entire 30 pages to themselves.

So in short, I have to restart to get three projects done in one stone, a book, a website, and a stream.

I can't let down my son. This is happening.

Edit: Also, after a preliminary lookup on the HKGCC/Brazilian Pirate library listed here on NA, I only have to play less than 80 additional titles based on pure exclusivity. A lot of them are decent games too.

This doesn't make a whole ot of sense. Myriad is literally the exact same as Caltron, with a $600 sticker slapped on the front. If you are emulating/power-pak/everdrive whatever, are you just going to 'pretend' the Everdrive has a $600 sticker on the front? Also, if you are including HES, doesn't that mean you'd also need to play the "Real Player's Pak?" If label variants count, do you need to play both the Metroid label variants? The Untouchables variants? Gold AND Gray Zelda carts? Also, then, do you need to play every Sachen multicart? Hope you like playing Little Red Hood and Double Strike... there are probably 4-6 variants each.

I get it, I'm trying to collect as many 72 pin carts as possible. But I don't need Little Red Hood HES, Litte Red Hood Sachen, Fun Blaster Pak, AND Super Cartridge 3: 8-in-1...

I what wholeheartedly agree with you but I am including them just for the sake of not allowing people to say "I forgot X" after the fact. I actually know a guy locally with a Stadium Events, Myriad, and the Panesians so I'll be able to play them on legitimate cartridges eventually. I believe games are games and cartridges are cartridges and that there's no difference between the game content of Stadium Events and World Class Track Meet besides a title screen and graphic design changes...but again I just want to dispel any naysayers before I have to.

A lot of that seems really unnecessary (playing Myriad and Caltron). Are you also going to play all 3 identical versions of Impossible Mission II, the half dozen different versions of Racermate II, multiple releases of Action 52 and on and on.  Some of those are at least different ROMs and more than a label swap, but still.  You've got to be realistic about this if you are ever going to finish it.

I'm gonna play as much as I physically can. First enough to compile the book, then enough to finish the "Etler" list, then enough to complete exclusive content I might have missed or otherwise enjoyed which includes all known 72-pin games and maybe some 60-pin games. All three projects are related but still independent of each other in a way that allows me to have as much flexibility as possible.

In the stream I might have Throwback Thursday on the stream where I replay games I liked, or even go offbeat and play a Dreamcast game at random

In the website I might even review that dreamcast game as well, but not have it in the book. I might even throw up a random nongaming video on there, or a tutorial on how to setup a twitch account with retro games.

in the book I might list all known major variants and never play them in the stream but make a video about it and throw it on the website.

Hope that clears the air a bit. I don't really know how things will go until they get going...I know I can play NES games through completion in bulk, I know I can make nice graphics and do a book layout. I know I can record video too. But who knows where the project will go. I am setting outlines of where I want to go at the end, but the means of getting there are still not fully determined.

And here's the prototype for the stream.

Can be a lot cleaner, but I think it's good enough to start with. Webcam setup will probably be a faceless setup showing just my hands and the controller, still not decided on that yet.

Streaming rig will be my NES hooked up to a CRT via composite out. Video/Audio will be split directly into my PC and will look like the classic blurry NES. To make everything even more legitimate, all PAL games will be played on a PAL NES, Gluk games I will try to get a Silver Shadow Basic console to play on, Brazilian games I will try to get a Phantom System to play on, and I'm going to have to locate a copy of Mah Jong and an Asian version NES too in order to complete the mission.

I might not ever get to play Stadium Events in NTSC, but there's nothing stopping me from playing a PAL version either. Wonder if I can find someone who'll let me play their copy of NWC one day...and maybe I should reconsider playing all the different PAL "doubles" because how on earth am I going to get my hands on a copy of Phantom Air Mission?