Originally posted by: avlon

I'm on the East coast, and I picked mine up from the Post office this morning. The first game that I tried on it was Paperboy, followed by Castlevania 3, since those tend to give clone consoles a fit.

So far I'm happy with it. Updated to the latest firmware, and all but 2 of my games work. One is Bubble Bobble, which for some reason, won't work on any clone but works great on my original top loader, and I'm OK with that.

The other is Final Fantasy 7, which I'm going to assume is due to the unique mapper that it uses. Game works perfect on my top loader NES, and my Super Retro Trio. Retron 5 craps out (but can run the ROM) , and all my other homebrew runs like a champ on the AVS.

Hopefully, this is something that can be fixed through a firmware update. Here is a video of FF7 running on the AVS, SRT3, and NES.

 

Originally posted by: Kosmic StarDust
  Is FFVII Famicom a bootleg release? I was under the impression there were only three games released on Famicom (and SNES titles which recieved different Roman numeral suffixes than their SFC counterparts).

 

Originally posted by: avlon
 

Yes, it was originally a chinese bootleg that was popular enough that it got a complete English translation.

Thread:  http://www.romhacking.net/forum/index.php?topic=12466.0

It can't be played on an Everdrive, or Powerpak because it uses its own mapper.  Works perfect on the OG NES, and Retro Trio though.  Because of this, I'm hoping to be able to play it on the AVS soon in sweet 720p.

Originally posted by: avlon
 

Yes, it was originally a chinese bootleg that was popular enough that it got a complete English translation.

Thread:  http://www.romhacking.net/forum/index.php?topic=12466.0

It can't be played on an Everdrive, or Powerpak because it uses its own mapper.  Works perfect on the OG NES, and Retro Trio though.  Because of this, I'm hoping to be able to play it on the AVS soon in sweet 720p.

Originally posted by: Kosmic StarDust
  Assuming the game is not too large or the mapper exhibits exotic behavior, it should be possible to write plugins for PowerPak/Everdrive. But if either ROM is larger than 512kbytes, it is a no-go on either flashcart.

Originally posted by: ginoscope
 
I just tried my final fantasy VII and it worked on the AVS.  
 

Originally posted by: neodolphino

FFVII works fine for me on a proto AVS...
 

Originally posted by: Kosmic StarDust

Hey that looks like a proto AVS, unless you like running it with the cover off!  

Originally posted by: KHAN Games

I'm going to play the Madness of Marbles. Just need my darn console to ship.

Originally posted by: xMaGuSx

One of these 4 for the first time properly on an actual NES. Well close enough lol

Metroid
Castlevania
Mega man 2
Ninja gaiden

Originally posted by: ookii_risu
 
Which one did you start with? I popped in my Everdrive and Metroid was the first thing I played.
 

Originally posted by: neodolphino
  XD

Originally posted by: xMaGuSx
  Unfortunately it got shipped to my old address (parents) because i didn't update it! So i am waiting to pick it up this weekend  

But i honestly think it is going to be either castlevania or metroid, or maybe both if i am feeling squirrly. 

Can't wait. 

Originally posted by: Austin

Ninja Gaiden, no doubt.

Originally posted by: Kosmic StarDust
  Score is wiped from memory immediately when you lose final life. Even with Scoreboard, the developers found a way to make life unfair. They must have secretly planned for this feature, even back in the 80s when they first developed it!  

Originally posted by: Tulpa
  Can you pause it as the screen flashes?

 

Originally posted by: neodolphino

FFVII works fine for me on a proto AVS... saves and all... battles... whatever...

Originally posted by: avlon
 

Interesting.  Another user on FB posted with the same issue that I have, and he's also having it on his Nes Pokemon' cart. 

What I find most interesting about this is that my copy works perfectly on my NES and SRT... but of course, with crap video output.