Goodies from Tokyo
Posted 8 months ago
I recently found myself visiting the great country of Japan, to Tokyo specifically. Where did I go to visit whilst there? Akihabara of course!
It didn’t take too long to find some retro shops, my favourite being Super Potato (Will do another post about the shops).
Here is a quick run down of what I got:
Nintendo Super Famicom
SHVC-001
¥200
This was labelled as ‘Junk’, which I guessed meant it didn’t work. Never one to let a little issue like that stop me, I snapped it up figuring that I could at least use the case after a clean. When I got home and plugged it in, it loaded Super Mario RPG up first try, so not sure why it is ‘Junk’.
Nintendo Super Famicom
SHVC-001 + SHVC-005
¥200
This was also labelled as ‘Junk’, but included a controller. This one was A LOT dirtier than the other. When I got home and plugged it in, the LED lit up, but it wouldn’t load any games, the controller worked in the other console though! I will give it a good clean and see if I can get it going at some point.
Nintendo Power SF Memory Cassette
SHVC-MMSA-JPN-1
¥399
This is a flash cart of sorts. Nintendo sold them blank, and you could go to various shops and upload games onto them for a price. They have 7 banks, I assume for 7 games, I think mine has the one game on it. I want to try and see if it is possible to read/write to the Flash Memory.
Nintendo SF Same Game
SHVC-ZS5J-JPN
¥100
Mainly got this for the expansion card. Someone made a comment about trying to read the little BSX expansion carts with the Retrode as the connector was similar to the Virtual Boy connector.
Nintendo SF Super Mario RPG
SHVC-ARWJ-JPN
¥800
Saw this and thought it was worth a buy as it wasn’t much. I don’t speak Japanese, so will be hard to play it through, but it’s a good addition to the collection.
ASCII TurboFile GB Card
ASC-1502C
¥100
Had no idea what this was, but thought I would get it anyway. Turns out it is a card for backing up Game Boy save files on to using the ASCII TurboFile, guess I will have to get one of these now.
Nintendo GBA Wireless Adapter
AGB-A-WA-JPN
¥100
Already have one of these, but you need two of them to actually use them (plus it was only ¥100!).
Nintendo Game Boy Link up lead
DMG-04A
¥280
Can never have too many of these, especially when they are boxed.
Nintendo Mario 8-bit Playing cards
NAP-01
¥800
Wanted a set of these since I saw them mentioned on the Nintendo web ages ago, preferred the 8-bit ones over the later sets.
Nintendo Game Boy Tamagotchi V3. OSUCHI & MESUTCHI
DMG-AOMJ-JPN
¥50
I got this more as an oddity than anything else (plus it was only ¥50!), it’s not often you see a Game Boy game with a speaker and battery in its extended blue case.
